The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-30
A 2DEMOCRATIG SPEECH
BY a colored Man in the St.
AIphonsus Church.
1T CAUSE S INDIGNATION
Denounced by Democrats AS well as
Republicans as an Unhcard Of
Indecent ThIng-Demasogy
and False Prctcnses.

Dr.. J. T. whitson, Of Cincinnati, lee
.ured last night in the basement Of the
81. Alphonsus Catholic church, his sub
iect being 1.-THE Progress of Catholicism
among the Colored race" DR.. Whitson
is himself colored man, and he is here
as the business representative of the
american Catholic Tribune, published at
Cincinnati, in the interests OF the Ca
tholic people of that race. His lecture
here was announced as sort Of a
"boom" for the paper, in which, by
the way, he has no proprietary interest,
being merely the soliciting agent
The church was well filled, the large
audience being, however, mostly white,
there being but ten colored men and six
women. The proportion OF Protestants
was almost as small.
DR.. Whitson was introduced by Rev.
NIonsignor Sullivan, who with Rev.
Father McElligott occupied seats on the
platform with the lecturer. The Fathers
in charge OF st. Alphonsus occupied
seats in the body Of the church.
cArHoLlcIsM's CLAIMS.
Dir Whitson started out in consider.
alton OF the claims OF the Catholic
church upon his people, speaking OF the
fair treatment the colored man had al
ways received at the hands OF that
church, and comparing this with some
instances OF different treatment by Pro
testants, which he cited. He said the
colored man had always been the equal
OF the white man before the altar of the
Catholic church; that while there were
senarate Catholic churches OF colored
people, yet one Of that rice was always
welcome in any church. There is one
colored bishop, one colored priest, five
Young men studying for the ministry
and two sisterhoods for Colored women
lie reviewed the progress OF the Joseph,
lie Fathers OF Baltimore in educational
work among the race in Virginia. Then
he referred to the Presbyterian Assem-
bly in Philadelphia, where some diff
Guilty, he said, had been experienced IN
reference to the relations OF the two
races, and to the Episcopal Conference
OF South Carolina, n rector OF which
wrote to the Bishop to know what
shonld be done with the colored people
Then he reviewed the teachings oftht
church, and told why he was Catholic
saving that the sooner the colored race
divided and ceased to be almost solidly
Protestant, the better for them.
A DEMOCRATIC STUMP SPEECH.
The colored race, SAID DR.. Whitson
ought also to split upon political lines
and he branched of and devoted the re
mainder of his "lecture" to stereo
typed Democratic campaign argument
SO plainly made in the interests OF the
Democracy that it suggested at once the
idea that he is in the employ OF the
leaders OF 4hat party. Ii so, however
they have made as serious n mistake ~
Tlom Dallah did in his Chinese exploit
for numerous Democratic Catholics were
heard last night to denounce the polite
nj portion OF the lecture as an Outrage
on good taste and IN insult to religion.
II is doubtful if a single Catholic heard
it who was not disguised.
DR.. Whitson said he thought the col
ored voters ought to support Grover
Cleveland. Mr.. Cleveland has made
wise, prudent and honest executive.
cLEvELAND's VIRTUES.
He is n Just and worthy man-just the
man TO administer the Government fol
the best interests OF the largest number
II has been his conscientious effort to dc
90. and he has succeeded. He has treat.
cd the colored people with fairness, and
recognized them even generously in the
distribution Of offices. Go through the
Departments at Washington and you
will find as many colored clerks in pro.
portion rs white ones. The President
has strictly adhered to the Civil Service
rules, and where Colored man was
proven competent and deserving, he
stood an equal show with any man. He
had given Colored men, also, other i'm.
portGnt appointments, US an instance Of
which he referred to the appointment Of
Matthews rs Recorder OF Deeds, his re-
appointment, and the subsequent nomi'
nation OF another Colored man.
The time has come, said the Doctor
for the colored people to divide up. The
Republicans seem to think they own the
rice, body and soul. The sooner the
colored people repudiate this owner
ship and assert their, political in
dependence. the better for them and fol
the country.
TALK TO TIE IRISH VOTERS.
There was another class, the Doctor
said, to whom he desired to present the
claims Of Clevand and the Demo
cracy, and that was the Irish.
They, above all others, ought to adhere
TO Cleveland. He has given them more
consideration than any former President
In allIevents they ought not to adhere
TO Harrison. Harrison has said
TINT the Irish furnish most OF the in
mates OF the penitcntiaries and aims
houses, and that they are only fit tc
shovel dirt and build railroads.
OF course this statement rests on DR.
Wilson's own authority. Nobody eyer
heard before that Harrison was ever
charged with delivering such an utter
ance, and OF course the lecturers hearers
knew as well rs he did that Gen. Har,
rison never said anything OF the kind
Az ARGUMENT PROM PEDIGREE.
The Doctor went on in his demogogiC
departure from the ostensible purpose o.
his lecture, to say that when General
Harrison was nominated the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette had come out and
given his pedigree, going back not only
10 his grandfather, who signed the
Declaration OF Independence ESQ said
the Doctor he was slightly mixed sew
eral times but to Oliver Cromwell
Now, the Irish who are familiar with
history know what n monster Oliver
Cromwell was; how when his soldiers
were marching through the principal
streets Of Ireland, he allowed them tc
snatch the innocent babes from theil
mothers arms and throw them into the
mir, catching them on their bayonets as
they fell,
This cry about the tariff, he said, was
all a scare. A high tariff, he said, does
not benefit the workinginen; it enables
the capitalist to get enormous prices
and thus accumulatev astsums OF money,
Having done this, he becomes tyranniCal
and tries to compel workingmen to labor
Eor What In rhnOgpS IN nav them md