The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-09
A COLORED DEMOCRAT.
He Was an Alternate from Kansas and
Entertained a Mob of Delegates.


Lindell hotel this afternoon by mob OF
half-craZy Southern and Western delegates
and borne almost in their arms to the great
corridor, set up on table and urged on for
nearly half an hour by tempest Of applause
in which the frantic 'H-yi-yi" of Tam
many mingled with the hOarse roar of the
'Wrow, wrow-awp of Indiana, and the
weird, demoniac, thrilling, blood-curdling
confederate veil of the SOuthernerS, and
finally, after being bombarded with silver
dollars, was publicly and heartily embraced,
amid the approving roar of hundreds of
democrats, by George Parker, leading
democratic lawyer Of Robinson, Crawford
county, Ill. For a democratic mob at a
democratic convention, it was an incident
unique, picturesque, and unprecedented, and
it all came about through the negroes amaz-
ing vocabulary of abusive and vituperative
language.
During the afternoon Taylor, who is SO
years old, short and distinctlvely negro in
every feature, strolled into the rooms of
the Ohio delegation. lie wore sleek,
black frOck coat, the badge of an alternate
from the state of Kansas, and spectacles.
With a few more years and less presentable
clothing, he would have been a good imita-
ton of the ideal Uncle RaStusn of the
caricaturists. An Indiana bowler had an
Ohio delegate backed up against the wall,
and was excitedly declaring:
There amt no civil service monkey
business about Gray. No, sir. Why there
amt man that works for him, if he don't
get no more than p cents a day, but what
has to be democrat, OF he don't get the
job
A throng surrounded the pair. laughing
and shouting Taylor stood by the table
moment, and then III stentorlan voice
roared:
Excuse me, gentlemen, for interrupting
you, but am Charles H. j. Taylor, and
was a good enough democrat for President
Cleveland to send me to be minister to
LIBERIA
This drew attention away from the
Indiana man and his Ohio victim, and
Taylor went on telling crowd to which the
rich roar of the negroes voice drew add
| tiOns every moment, that he had been a
democrat ever since he was 20 years old {;
that he had been shot in Beach Island, Ga. -,
| by republican negroes on account of his
politics, and that he had given up a $4,000
| year place in Liberia in order to come to
| this country to work among his fellows for
| the cause of democracy.
The small room would not hold all who
wanted to get in, and cries of Come out
side" Come out into the hall, 4" were heard.
| These finally became so loud as to interfere
with his speaking, and he was hustled along
| toward the door. He was received there
| with yells of delight, and, surrounded by a
| cheering crowd, was hurried and almost
carried bodily out into the large square
hall, from which open out the dining-room
| and the parlorS, in which are the state
| headquarters. In an instant willing hands
boosted him to the top of large table and
shouted to him to go on. The noise had ex-
cited attention all through the place, and
| curious mon came pouring in from all sides
| until the hall was packed with several hun
| dred good democrats, chiefly from the
| south and west, Indiana, Kentucky, Hi
nois, North Carolina, Alabama and Della
ware being among the States whose head
quarters were within the sound of his voice.
| He had begun to tell what bad party the
republican party was, and, encouraged by
| the approval of the mob, he continued it in
an even more reckless and excited strain.
There can hardly be greater master of
| vituperation in the world than this negro,
and i'll describing the party and its leading
men he piled adjective on adjective and
| epithet on epithet, and capped the whole
1 with some clever and usually original eX-
| preston that set his excited audience wild.
| Senator ingalls, was "a narrow, bony
| SHINY misbegotten, disreputable, ptery-
| dactylic relic of enmity and venom" The
| carpet baggeAs were "hat-headed chumps,
| wiful, abominable, rascally, rotten liars
| and robbers Of the negroes whom they mis-
| led.n Every negro who knew how to read
and write and to cipher as far as long
division was travelling the sure road to the
democratic party. Only miserable, illiterate
| idiots and imbecileS remained with the
| republicans"
''To - with the NEGRO that votes the
republican ticket he reared, and the wild
throng, yelling and shrieking its approval,
pushed and crowded to get nearer to seize
1 l, 10, NNf oh ha do
| back and forth, as excited himself as the
| mob The perspiration streamed from his
| face, and his arms waved frantically as he
poured out an uninterrupted torrent of Ian
guage that was the very perfection of
vituperation. He showed signs of stopping
but the mob would not have it, and yelled
| fiercey for him to 90 on.
| At last the inspiration began to leave
him, and canny thoughts of what he was
there for took its place. He cleverly led
the talk to himself and his own work.
| Incidentally he mentioned that he was
| printing q paper, "the only democratic
negro paper in the country" Then he
pictured the republican degradation some
more, incidentally again Re mentioned that
| he wanted to circulate his paper as widely
as possible among his fellows and more
picturesque description of abyss of repub-
lican inquiry followed. Once more, incident
| ally, he approached his climax. He limited
that the subscription price of the Public
| Education was only one dollar year
| They might have said, "Oh, hades," but
they didn't; they were too excited for that
Here's dollar for me-" yelled one tall
fellow with Tsmmany badge on his coat,
| pressing forward.
81 thank you, sab. | want all can get,
for Pm never going to quit until all my fell
low negroes come to see the miserable base
ness and deception of the republican party
ana JON the grand old democratic party,
Where all the Intelligence and all the wealth
and all the honor of the country is stu
ated."
Here's another for me-" cried a man
with the broad brmmed hat of a planter
and the badge of an Alabama delegate.
"GiYe us your hand" cried a dozen at
once, reaching out toward him. Here,
take this money" Put me down for a
year" Take this and do what you can
with it,n Here's mine" Somebody hand
him this for me, ;" and similar cries went up
from all around generally. II was silver
dollar that accompanied each cry
The negro lost his head even more com
pletely tuen his hearers had lost theirs.
Sudden wealth doomed w before him, and
he was frantic at his inability TO grasp it all
at once. All that he could reach ne took,
and tho coins, with a mellow clink, dropped
one after another into a pocket that was
rapidly becoming distended. But there were
many that could not get near him.
taIyp down thnee uaDnns y ba