Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-23
A POWERFUL APPEAL.
A Leading Colored Man of KansG S
Speaks to his People.
G. II. J. Taylor, Secretary of tho
COlOred State Central Commits
Tee of Kansas. Advises all
COlOred Men That the
Time has Come for
Intelligent Indc-
pcndenCc.
From the Kansas City Times.

KANSAS CITY, KAN, Oct. 11.-Co'
ored men, like those of the same sex
and blood without the ''color;" have
commenced to think, to draw conclu-
siOns and to form opinions on all ques-
tiOns claiming the attention of enli9h ht-
ened minds. Among the many ques-
tioEs about which they are thinking the
duty of the cOlored people at the polls
this fall is the chief and most impor-
tant. Notwithstanding the fact that
have been reared under the influence Of
republican teachers and have been en-
gagged in their state canvasses for votes,
and even as late as 1884, vet would be
false to myself as man, to my people
and to the best interests OF this state "a
well as to the country at large, did L
allow certain assertions made by prom
inent republican orators to go unan-
swered-assertiOns made tor no other
purpose than TO mislead. AS secretary
of the colOred state central committee
it is my duty to express what believe
to be for the best interest of our peo-
pie, and what seems to Inc to be their
duty at the coming election Hon.
John j. Ingalls, on the 9TH of October,
said in the course of his remarks, these
words: ''lf the colored people are so
unconscious of the men that freed them
of their shackles as to vote for Kelly,
they don't deserve their freedom"
These are the exact words taken down
by the writer as they fell from his lips.
l will Gas colored man who has al
ways affiliated heretofore with the re-
publican party state and nationally
say, that the language quoted is calcu-
lated to drive every intelligent negro
from Martin and Mccarthy TO Moon
light and Kelly, and should as rebuke
and injustice bear that fruit. Ingalls,
would say by that language that we
were only freed to vote the republican
| ticket, regardless of the men Oh the
ticket Or the platform of the party.
Had curbstone politician or man
only of local note thus expressed him
self l would not have thought of an
swering it, but when brilliant, classic
statesman, who is talked of as candi-
date for the ice-presidency, thus ex-
presses himself, am compelled to say
something. Such man with power
might indeed inaugurate in the "north-
ern states" the same process of intimi
dation which they howl so much about
as being carried on in the south, until
it would become more dangerous for a
negro to vote the democratic ticket
north than what they claim it is for
them to vote the republican ticket
south. He further claims that "every
negro who votes for Kelly will be a
traitor to his race" l can only say to
the distinguished gentleman that II
voting for Kelly makes traitors, the
woods are full of them, and they will
all answer at the polls OH election day
and the reasons will now be given. We
went to Topeka July 4, three days be-
fore the republican convention; we re-
member with Photographic distiDctness
how our energies worked to have the
cOlored man and sO-caled brother re-
cOgnized by having his name on the
ticket. Fearing that our quiet work
would do no good we asked through
the Capital, the official organ of the
state, that the party who claimed to
have done all for us that has been done
/ would please not leave us out in the
cold. But how we remember the hyp-
Ocritical action in the convention on the
part of the white republicans, men who
were elected from home to the conven
ton for nothing else but to down the
negro. Men who assembled in Wichita
during the G. a. II. reunion and
pledged themselves to the adjutant gen
eral to vote for Tim Mccarthy or any
one else in preference to voting for q
''nigger." The adjutant general was
doing the bidding of the man who ap,
pointed him. John A. Martin. 1t is
claimed that he said that ''the only bad
and disagreeable thing about the state
administration was that the highest of
ticer in the state had to receive his pay
from a nigger." Blanche X. Bruce LETT
more lasting impression on money
than McCabe. Still, have the frs;
time to hear of even a southern demo-
crat refusing to receive money on that
account. Colored men are too sensible
to swallow their talk about s.the Brown
and McCabe factions fighting each
other and preventing the naming of a
colored man Oh the ticket" tor they
| know that ont of the four hundred and
more delegates in said convention there
We're only colOred men to fight about
who should go on the ticket. There
fore, by no combination could have
controlled one way or the other nomi-
nations i'll that convention. | do not
want to be understood as blaming Me-
Carthy for accepting the nomina ion,
Notwithstanding that he was demo-
crat until 1854, at which time he voted
for Martin; but | do not censure and
denounce the so-called friends of our
race for leaving us out on the "barreu
hilf' for a renegade from the demo-
cratic party. l have nothing to say
against Mccarthy Oh account OF his
nationality. only wish sincerely from
my heart that my ''race" had the same
amount of political sense. 1t Is plain
to be seen that he is nominated alone
because he is an lrishman and to yet
Irish votes from the democratic party
Yet when the democrats nominate "a
colored man of ability because he is in
every way fit (anu to get cOlored votes
II they want So to state lt) the rcpubli-
| cans do not want to hear of the colored
voters voting for democrats. If one
dares TO say he will, he from that day
becomes "a traitor to his race and
doesn't deserve his freedom" Sol
Miller of the Troy Chief goes wild and
foams at the mouth as though he had
been bitten by mad dog and had the
hydrophobia; and by his expressions
makes decent people disgusted to see
the old man descend to the gutter to
get abusive epithets to apply to Mr..
Kelly and all the cOlored men that dare
support him, calling all such not only
"niggers" but "coons." All republ-
cans that think that these insults will
not be resented at the baIlot-boX by
thousands of colored votes for Moon
light and Kelly are worse than niggers
and cOons, for they are a mixture of
depraved nincompoops and flatheaded
chumps. Why doesn't Sol Miller call
the white candidates abusive names !?
Poor colOred men; it is almost crime
to be black. Italians, Chinese, every
thing better than we. If the demo-
Gratis in Kansas say we are worth more
politically than what the republicans
believe us to be, we should be too
grateful to them to vote only for Kelly,
but should vote for Moonlight and
Kelly together. Every preacher and
school teacher in the state belonging to
my race should teach the republican
party that it can not afford 10 throw
the negro out of the "house" without
political food or raiment This year is
the test. If the republicans elect their
whole ticket or elect without their ma
jority being reduced below 5000, you
will never see another colored man
on their ticket. Clip this out and see
w hpf her If will NOT no trun Thnv (tho