Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-06-09


demoralizing. It is time colored men
were building up political strength for
themselves, and that they can do only by
striving for new emancipation and be-
coming free voters Kansas City Times.
How generous the free air of that
first sentence! The second sentence
contains a proposition which the
WORLD endorses, and we are glad to
be able to tell the Times that, as a
rule, the colored people are doing
the sensible thing by dealing in the
only logical way with the questions
now at issue. From the next SEN
tence, it is to be inferred that it is
a great evil for a race which was
freed by party to exercise the in
stinct Of self preservation. Great evil
that! It is degrading and democrat
izing, of course, or the Times, in the
next sentence, would not say so.
The last sentence takes the political
bum. We admit cheerfully that
ut IS time the colored men ,oere build
ing up political strength for them
selves, and that they can do only by
striving for aeso emancipation and
becoming free voters."
Now, we are going to let the Wa
Keeney Tribune-a Democratic pa
per, edited by facile writer, who
has seen much of the South-tell
the Times why this "new emancipa-
ton" has not arrived. We are go
ing to let the Times hear from a
Democratic organ which, unlike
itself, treats this question with can
dor. The Times understands this
question just as the Tribune does,
but policy, me boy, policy leads
the metropolitan organ to "beat
around the BUSH" The Tribune,
early in April last, said:
From the Worlds comments upon an
article that appeared in the Abilene Ga
sette last week, we gather an idea that
makes the cold chiIls run up and down
our back. It is that the balance of power
in this glorious country of ours, is held
by the ignorant and illiterate ex-slaves of
the South. More than that: that the Re-
publican party will continue to wave the
BLOODY SHIRT until by the entire surrender
of the sunny South, into the hands of the
negro population, it is evidenced that
this balance of power, is exercising it's
prerogatives without fear or molestation.
The argument seems to run thusly: "The
negroes are in the majority-but the ne
groes are all Repubicans-therefore
Cleveland is president by fraud" But
this argument carries with itself terrible
and overwhelming consequences. It
means that every southern state should
be represented in the Congress of the
United States by negro congressman and
senators; and that their Legislatures and
every state and county officer from gov
ernor down should be a negro. This
means poverty legislating for wealth, and
ignorance and illiteracy lording it over
intelligence and culture. May the good
Lord preserve the South from such fate.
The French trevanche' is puny in vindic-
tiveness when compared with this idea.
But, thank God, this is mere buncombe
for political effect. We know Brother
Tilton pretty well, and we think that he,
like ourselves, believes in white mans
country, governed by white men, for
white men. We wonder how tue de-
scendants of the New England slave deal
ers would like to try an experiment of
that kind in q state or two.
The Tribune, it will be perceived,
admits all that we ever have charged
upon the Southern Democracy for
swindling the colored people out Of
their votes. Its attempt to shame us
ont Of our position does not count.
We do not admit that the free ex-
ercise Of the ballot by the colored
people Of the Southern states would
result in all the Offices being held by
them. This was not the case at any
time during the several years when
they did vote freely and generally.
But we do say, and mean, that the ex-
ercise Of legitimate free government
in any form in those Southern states
is greatly to be preferred to the pres
emit creation Of gaping wounds in
the constitution of our country,
with the prospect that the wounds
are to increase, through this chan
mel, until they will permeate every
fibre of that fundamental document
of this theoretically-free govern
mani