Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-08-19
COLORED REPUBLICANS.

/ BY force of circumstances, owe
+ which they had no control, tn
d negroes of the South became Re
l. publicans at the same time they be
@ came freedmen and voters. Twer
y ty years have elapsed since then
@ and during the time many change
Y have occurred. The necessity TO
: a colored man to be Republican
{ no longer exists, and instead o
: his being 4 freedman he is free
f man to all intcnts and purposes
, A freeman acknowledges no master
, and exercises his own free will IL
, politics. The Republican party
has been politically dead IN Tcxa:
, since 1876. A so-callcd Rcpubli
, can organization has been main
tanned IN Washington and other
counties by officc-sceking RcpublI,
cans, not as n matter of political
principle, but for the sake of office
only. The leaders arc RcpubIi-
cans for revenue only. The Re-
publican party in this county has
now dwindled down 10 about SIN.
eight or ten white mon, who AFRO
gate TO themselves the position OF
leaders, and who again want 10 get
control of the county administra-
ton. Every voter in this county
knows or ought to know the con-
dition the county was IN financially
when the very same Republicans,
who now want to get back into
Office, were in. They collected
taxes promptly, but at the same
time managed to keep the county
in debt, and during all the time
they held ofice-about fourteen
years-county scrip was at a dis
count, selling at various times for
forty to ninety cents on the dollar
during this time the roads were in
extremely bad condition and most
of the bridges were down or in
such bad repair as to be danger
Gus: five Judge by the past, we
may justly expect similar con-
dition of affairs in the future, if
the same men are restored to office.
The Republican party proper, In
this county, is composed of about
ninety per cent of coIored men
great many of whom are able to
read and who are we'll aware of
the condition of the county when
the Republicans were in power.
AT the last election, the good citi-
zens of the county, white and
black, and without any regard 10
politics met and put out ticket
for county officers, all of whom,
with one exception, tax assessor,
were elected. Since the present
administration has been in office
The county is out of debt, with the
exception of the courthouse bonds,
! part of which have been paid be-
lore maturity, and county scrip is
paid in cash on presentation to the
The Republican party
IAN find no fault with the county
ADMINISTRATION; the laws have been
executed, and the bus I
ness of the county has been con-
iucted on business principles, and t
lboVe all, we have one hundred '
school cammHnIties in
he county, ffty-threo of WHICH
ire colored, and which in itself is t
nipple praof that the administra-
ion Is not only able and willing, 7
'ut is doing its full part by the i
olorcd people in educating their f
children. The only ground that /
he Republican ofice-seekers have
or asking oiiice IS that they are s
ut, and are hungry and want to
ct back to fatten at the expense a
+ the tax payers of the county, {
nd in order to do 60 they are try \
ng to make the colored voters be, +,
eve that they are in duty bound
S true Republicans to vote for :,
hem. The coiored voters have too :;
lHch intelligence to be caught by ~
UGH q fimsy preteKt, =