Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-06
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1888
Tha Nepro Party-Again.

We showed yesterday that the Repub-
lican party's only hope Of success in the
November election is based upon the
assumption that the negro voters in New
York, Indiana, New Jersey, and Connec-
ticut will support HARRISON and MORTON.
New York has twenty thousand negro
votes Indiana has ten thousand New
Jersey has ten thousand, and Connectl-
cut has three thousand five hundred.
Notwithstanding, however, the large
number Of negro voters in proportion to
population in each Of those States, the
Democrats confidently expect to carry
all Of them for CLEVELAND.
We have several times spoken OF the
absolute contempt with which the people
of the northern States treat the negroes
who reside in their section. Not one
congressman do the New York Republi-
cans allow to the twenty thousand negro
voters in that State. Congressman, IN
deed We doubt that there is single
member Of the State Legislature who Is
a Republican. We don't think the New
York negroes we're permitted to send
even one delegate to the Chicago Con-
yention. We notice that an i'm
pudent mulatto by the name OF
DERRICK, who went TO Now York
city from this State, is occasionally
mentioned in the papers Of that city as
q Republican csmpaigner amongst the
negroes but we have never heard that
there was any prospect OF his election to
Congress, or TO the State Legislature, or
even to the City Council DERRICK,
however, was initiated into politics IN
the South, and not in the North. There
are but few negroes born and reared In
the North who DO not "accept the situa-
ton and expect no recognition at the
hands of their white neighbors.
We have said that the Democrats con-
fdently expect to carry New York State
next November, even against solid ne
gro vote for the Republican nominee.
And vet it is not absolutely certain that
they will carry it. But the negro voters
could render it certain il they would.
They have strength enough to remove
all doubt as to the result there provided
they use that strength on the Democratic
side. In other words, the negro voters in
New York have it within their power to
give her thirty-six electoral votes to
CLEVELAND and THURMAN.
Now, we do not expect the negroes OF
New York to vote the Democratic ticket
in order to benefit the Democratic party,
nor indeed to vote it at all. They are
blind to their own interests. But if they
were fit to be voters. they would not all
vote the Republican ticket. They would
divide their votes. Indeed, they would
necessarily divide into two parties just as
the whites have done if they were rs
well qualified to be voters as the whites
are. And now is their opportunity.
Now they can dictate terms to the Re-
publican party. 1t will be matter of
their own altogether; or, rather, be-
tween them and the Republicans. They
need nobody's permission to do so If
they choose TO cast their votes for their
distinguished fellow-citizen GROVER
CLEVELAND.
The negroes we're made voters in order
to perpetnate the rule of the Republican
party. They have faithfully performed
the service expected of them. Without
their votes the Republican party would
not have a ghost of a chance of electing
HARRISON. That wicked, unpatriotic,
selfish. sectional party owes its present
existence to its alliance with the
inferior race. The white Democratic vo-
ters outnumber the white Repub-
lican voters in this country by about one
million. And yet Republican speakers
and papers are not ashamed to charge
the Democrats of the South with " sup
pressing" votes. 1t is startling fact
that the Empire State OF New York. with
its eleven hundred thousand white voters,
should by the policy of the Republican
party have been so circumstanced as that
twenty thousand negro voters have it
within their power to dictate terms to
that party. The Democratic party is
independent of them. 1t can safely DEFY
the whole army OF negro voters