Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-28
THE COLOR LINE.
The white Republicans Cutting Loose
from Their Colored Brethren.
The Latest Wrinkle in the Grand old
Party in Texas.

When the white members OF lne ice
publican party in Tarrant county met
in the Office of Messrs. Morton q Whar-
ton in this city on the heels OF the late
Republican convention and organized
the nucleus of new party to be COM
posed of white Republicans, almost
everyone, except the originators of the
movement, supposed they were merely
Giving vent To their dissatisfaction al
the result of that convention. But
subs eouent events prove they were In
earnest and 1t was found that In other
sections of the state the same feeling
existed, II not in 50 pronounced form
Apsper, calling for support OF the
n ewmovement was extensively slgntu
by the white Republicans Of this city,
and at last this movement has taken
definite shape through the following
address issued by the white Republi-
can club of Tarrant county, through It's
chairman, +. w. Morten:
To the White Republicans OF the state
Why the necessity to form in the south "a
| Republican party 10 be controlled by " niue
men only? Why should white men wn9 na are
have been Union soldiers In the war oetWeen
the states-these men who risked their lives
and all that was dear to them to the end
that the Union of the states be preserved, as
aconsequence and result OF which the coiored
people were released from bondage--men
| many of whom have stood with the Repupli-
can forces in the South, and suffered loss
OF property and social ostTacism, whle
contending for laws giving rights OF euu r
| colored cltizens--thcse white men VINO
, have in the past affiliated with ana met
with colored men In conventions, o, Mepmo, ,,,
,,.l,t ,Chn hay
the colored element OF the party ana refuse
10 recognize them as entitled TO control the
marty? We answer that Tor all this labor ex-
pended: it is true that some degree OF intelli'
repce has been affair ed by some oil the col
ored race, yet as a class and people they de
not appreciate what has been done for them
but are determined that numbers, not intel
| ligence shall control, and that the color OF
Y race line shall be drawn; and claiming tna
F. | Republican vote of the South, therefore they
I should control. If the colored men had IL
the past proven themse,yes reliable a
| counties and districts where they
| outnumber the whites two or three to one
would elt ct Republicans to ONCE y they ha i
! litical MAJ iet, ana been firm and consistent
d then the white Rep blicans would cheerful.
q accord to them the right to manage tn
n party and elect men. of their own color 7
|, u Office and the necessity for n division of tn
:. Republican party would not have occurred
y But now. after nearly twenty years OF tria
and effort to build up n Republican part
with the colored element as the nucleus
- utter and disastrous failure has been the re
p suit and we are convinced that afiiliato
o with the colored voter is detrimental to tn
interests of Republicans, both white an
| co ored The c, lored voter has ever bee
used in the south by federal ofiice-holders t
bolster themselves in the offices IN the gil
II of the government, and to create faction
II in the party to the end that the Iart
ar Glght not increase in numbers an
ei power but CO ntinue just large enough this
TO these unprincipled white men might I'LL III
.tti.a ,na nf RannllIcnn
eminent administrations TO confer An
now when the col ,red mau has learned
wed the theory of"what are we here for
not for the offices" and no higher sentime,
or principle can prevail than me llaves an
When any party has no higher avn INA
IL office, no broader patriotism than to dra
their living from the public crib no print,
hi and Shall control the party N
N has majority In Texas ,, OF III
u. votes of electing any officer In the state, nj
is 80 crippled by what we have heretofo
ra mentioned that lis increase and growth
ie' power Is impossible, then the time has con
TO erect anew the platform OF good soul
,ct timber, one upon which good men of all p'
Wv ties can sand, party In whose honesty
purposes and patrio ism all may believe, a
colored men as well as white rally to It's ~
- port. With luminosity to none, but wi
NJ firm purpose, the white Republlcans
Tarr ant county are organizing themselN
in this county upon the platform OF the
on tional Republican party of equality OF all I
- der the laws, education 10 the masses
low protection to the American laborer. And
Ire. ask the help and cooperation of those
,au adopt our views and that organizations
formed in ali counties of the slate Eve
reason argues that state convention shot
>yf, | he called 10 meet early in the fall and pl
form erected and iuil state Ticket MOI
mated. Il. w. MoRTEN,
county, Tex.