The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-10
NOT TRUE

WHICH Jllc EAfOhlA NEWS uoccIbS
hat this paper Is started Tin
ltters falsehood. No colOred man
in the state has been truer to, or
worked harder for the republican |
party than the editor of this paper.
But when republican is nominated
in a community where there are two /
thousand republican majority and
beaten because he is black, when all |
the rest of the nominees are elected, |
we do not propose to say amen" TO |
the act, to please the EslPoRIA NEWS
or any body else. 1t matters not how
many colOred men there are here in
Office, the party knew that before it
Curtin, and il it was the in
tentiOn to defeat him, then he should
have been beaten at the primaries. AS
to our loyalty to the republican party
we are willing to compare records with
the editor of THE News or any other
republican editor in Kansas or else
where. For ten gears, we have in ODE
dience to the request of the republican
state central committee, made can
vass of this state, in the interest Of the
republican party free, while our wife
was at home supporting the children
with the needle, the committee having
established a rule to pay only travelling
expenses and board. Now, If the edit
or of THE NEWS has done or can do
any more for our party than that we
would be pleased to met him half way.
In the meantime we propose to strike
from the shoulder for the rights of
black as well as the white re-
publicans. We have had ample
and flatteriug opportunities to affiliate
with the democrats, but in our soul we
are a republican, but this does not in
dictate that we will laud the party for
the defeat of a colored republican,
when it has the votes to elect him.
Mark that. We do not complain that
we have worked all these ten years at
our own expense, TO aid such men as
the editor Of the NEWS, but we do con-
tend, that in the face of such fact,
that we have the right to call the at
tention of the party to the wrong done
to one of its most loyal elements. Nor
do we intend to permit the editor of
the NEWS TO brand US as democrat"
without protest, especially when he
Ike knows he writes an infamous SLAM
der, and falseh OOd.-American Citizen.
If the author of the above effusiOn is
not democrat nor working in the ''in-
terests Of the democracy" he should
pull in his sign and not use such demo-
cratic arguments as he does. There is
a great similarity of style in his answer
and the one made by Voorhees, few
days ago to Mr.. Ingalls,. But, if our
cOlored editor is not a democrat, he
will know that among thinking people
the mere calling Of an opponent falsi-
fer does not answer solid facts.
AS to loyalty to party, the editor of
THE NEWS has not claimed any for
himself, although he did for some time
carry a gun in the republican, ranks
during the great democratic rebellion,
and has never, SO far in his life, voted
any other than the straight republican
ticket. He is free to state, however,
that if the republican party puts a bad
man on its ticket he will not vote for
him.
He is also free to state that he thinks
but very little of a man, be he black or
white, whose loyalty to the republican
party in Kansas is so much stronger
than his loyalty to his wife, that he
leaves her to make a living by her needle
while he galavants around state in the
interests of a party that has as large an
assured majority as the republican
party in Kansas has.
If our colOred brother editor would
prate less about loyalty to party anC
about being republican in his soul
and be more consistent, let him qui
trying to stir up dissensiOns by draw
ing the color line in his party. VIII,
ever heard of a convention of white re
publicans? Who ever was at a repuh
lican convention where the black maj
was not on an equal footing with hi
white brother? Indeed, 50 far as mum
bers are concerned, the black man gen
orally has more to say in proportion t
his representation than the white does
If our colored brother claims to b
} aggrieved at the color line, let him nc
!, be one of the most active in definin
the line by being an editor of eco
ored" paper and a caller of ''colored
conventions. There would be q
! much sense in the editor of thi
} paper calling a Scotch convention
and asking all Scotchmen to DO
+ the republican party because, forsootl
) Scotchmyn was candidate on
. republican ticket and was defeated /
| an Englishman or an Irishman or
= colored man.
@ Again, it does not speak well for IL
! integrity of the editor of the Americs
Citizen for him to puoli;'y stat
Z through his own columns, as abov
1--WE have had ample and flatterir
opportunities to affiliate with Il
democrats, but in our soul we are
republican"
/ "Where there is much smoke the
le is-generally some fire." is an old a
~ age, and when bribery is offered the
n is generally some induCement throw
is out. An honest man is not oft
ID tempted by ''flattering Opportunitie
re to become traitor.
O. Let the editor of the Citizen GEL
Is little more republicanism in his DO
to and not quite so much in his soul, a
: the possibilities are that be "
- stay at home and earn living for
family, instead of trotting around t
o. state hugging the fond delusiOn to
= breast that the party with which
- happens to be affiliated can not Ii
without his energetic aid, even thou
> his wife and children starve.
|
q REBEL PRISONS.
= For fifteen years DR.. J. Will