Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-30

HOW is TIP

EDITOR RRaIsTER:-I have seen a great
deal, the past week or two, about the love
the democrats have for the colored man. in
the Intelligencer. Ii it thinks SO much of him
what does it mean by letting some writer say
in the same number which expresses SO much
sympathy for us. the following words:
Lexington Is blessed by having a very ex-
tensive cannery, owned and ran by Mr.. J. Il.
Silver, who puts up an Immense amount OF
fruit and vegetables. and works in the run
ming season from two to three hundred
hands. Boys, girls, young men and young
ladies all make good wages for their labor and
get ready cash for their pay. This Is a grand
this large establishment not q negro is work.
ed: all white, that is right. Mr.. Silver, give
your own race the preference"
How is il? Can you tell me? Of course
every colored man knows the democrats are
not his friends as truly as the republicans, and
those unkind words about the canning factory
prove it. Is the man who wrote the letter u
Democrat! Is Mr.. Silver, who employs three
hundred hands. with not even one of them
colored, a democrat? Yes, he is. This looks
like the democrats employ the colored men.
A COLORED VOTER.
If Colored Voter is a colored voter
and not a white republican masquerade
ing under a dusky TOM de plume, we
have a word or two to say to him in a
friendly way, without any demagoging
with him tor his vote.
The letter complained of was not
written by a democrat, and Colored
Voter should know that an editor is
not responsible for the views of cor
respondents or the correctness of their
news items.
Upon inquiry we find that instead of
havingins no negro employed in o n
nectIon with his cannery Mr.. Silver has
about fifty his teamster bein g a colored
man, who receives good wages.
Colored Voter has only emphasized
the fact that it is the democrats who
''employ the colored men," How little
reciprocity there is in the matter, if
Colored Voter is at all o%bservant, he
knows as well as we do. His people
will not even come out to hear what
democratic orators have to say, be they
ever so honorable and eloquent, pre-
ferring their abject slavery to the re-
publican party to independence and
freedom of thought. They will accept
every favor from a democrat, the very
means OF existence itself, and then vote
against the financial interests of the
man who puts them in the way of earn
ing their bread, and thus against their
own interests. Every argument upon
a live question like the tariff or the
public lands melts from their minds
like snow upon a green sward IN June.
if some demagogue gets up before them
and appeals to passions of the long
dead past; and, with too manyof them,
whisky and beer have more power of
persuasion than logic and sense. This
may be said of many whites, too, but
of whomsoever it car be truly averred
it is a pity that it should be 80.
The interests of the colored man of
Lafayette county are the same as are
those of the white man. Most of the
latter who have property and a per-
manent stake in the county are demo-
Gratis, largely for their substantial in
t~erests, which they feel are safer in the
hands of that party. Why should tho
colorsd man vote against them? With
out his vote where would the repub-
lican party be? What has that party
done for him in return? Yes, but
what has the democratic party done,
you will say? Exactly! But before
you can ask a favor at its hands you
must show yourself its friend. After
all, with nc hope of reward, the demo
cratic party has done much for the me-
gro. 1t has been liberal to Lincoln In
stitute. 1t has given him a chance fol
education in the common schools. To
day the democrats Of St. Louis county
have a negro on their county ticket, the
republicans have none. How many
have the republicans in Lafayette coun.
ty? Mr.. Cleveland is the friend of the
colOred race; so would his entire party
be if it was permitted to be so. The
democratic party was elevated to power
without the negro vote; it can very
likely maintain its ascendancy without
it; yet it extends to the negro the olive
branch, and asks him to join hands
with it and see if it will not be more
his friend than the monopolistic, aristo
cratic republican party, which has by
its legislation created such extremes o.
wealth and poverty in this country a:
were never known before it's advent tc
power.