The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-27
TO CATCH ooLoRED GUDGEoNs.

The Journal is in possession of circular
addressed to colored voters, issued by the
s'National Independent Colored Political
Union" the chairman of which. pretends to
hold out at the city of Washington. The or
ganization establishes its duplicity in this the
first address issued to the colored people of
this country, in the fact that while pretend
ing to be Independent there is no pretense of
independence after the opening line, which is
the title of the alleged organization, is passed
There is not hint of independence from that
to the close Of the circular the entire purpose
being to win the support of colored voters to
the Democratic party. This independent"
organization is Endorsed by such well-known
Independent voters as William S. Holman,
Gov. Isaac P. Gray, Lycurgus Dalton, c. G.
Matson and William R. Myers. In the body
of the address the colored voters are assured
that they will do much to deliver themselves
from the thralldom of the party that freed the
colored man by following "such patriotic
leaders as Mcdonald, Of Indiana; Barbour, Of
Virginia; McMillin, of Tennessee; Hampton,
of South Carolina; Maxey, of Texas; Carlisle,
of Kentucky; German, of Maryland; Brown,
of Georgia; Crane of Texas; Sadier, of Ala
bama; Whitthorne, of Tennessee, and others
who are bright and shining lights in
the party" Of course this would be
altogether too bald to catch even
the stupidest voter in the United States, so
the dose is sugar-coated by the addition of a
few names that have not the stencil of rebel
lion and human slavery upon their garments.
The names of very few patriots are sprinkled
through the mass of treason to give it charac-
ter, but every man in the list is rank Demo
crat, and not few Of them have records
that do not commend them to lovers of
their country. No one will be deceived by
this dishonest circular. Tho men behind it
are schemers to a man, and are intent on buy
ing their way to some place of profit at the
hands of the Democratic party by attempting
to deliver the colored voters to that organiza-
ton. whose record has ever been one of hos
tility to and contempt for the colored man,
both when he was slave and since the Re-
publican party has wrenched him from Demo
cratic hands to make him freeman and voter.
The colored men of this country know too
we'll that had it been left to the Democratic
party and these same patriotic leaders," they
would never have been delivered from the
thralldom Of unrequited servtude. They
know that had the Democratic party had its
way they would not to-day be voters. Had
Mr.. Mcdonald and the other men commended
in this address had their way about it, there
would be no need Of an appeal to the "inde-
pendent" colored voters, nor to any other kind
of colored voters, for not colored man in all
this broad land would have a word to say
about the laws and usages Of this Nation.
These petty schemers would like again to get
their more honest brethren into the Democratic
shambles, where they can be traded on not a
whit less UNANIMOUSLY than they were up to the
time that the Republican party came to their
deliverance through storms of shot and shell
directed against them by the Democrats of the
South, aided and abetted by the patriotic"
Democrats Of the North. The mon who are
at the head of this contemplate scheme to
traffic in colored voters are in the pay, present
or prospective, Of the Democratic leaders, and
do not mean what they say when they, parrot
like, repeat the words put into their mouths
by their co conspirators. When the fight is
over it will be found that these fellows are in
the enjoyment of their reward for their per-
fdy, while those who may allow themselves
to be duped by their specious words will have
nothing but shame and humiliation for their
portion. Honest colored men will not allow
themselves to be deceived by this trick to
ALLEVIATE them from the only friends they
have ever had in all the bitter struggle
against these desperate men who would gladly
have kept them in slavery, and who, failing
in that, would have kept them out of the
privileges of citizenship, without which they
would not now be able to have word in any
of the great questions that affect their in
innate interests. The bosses of this 'inie-
pendent" colored political union will have to
work hard to earn the pay promised for their
perfdy, as few will be deceived by their dis
honest arguments.
IT would be great mistake to change the