The Washington bee., 1888-02-11
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age man ofsense that the great hue
and cry raised by the opponents OF
the late convention, was not with.
out its accompanying motive. That
motive was made manifest when the
said opponent discovered that he
was defeated of election by those
whom he was please to character
ize as ''a disgraceful mob" The
Inconsistencies entering into the
puerile efforts of the select few who
would make it appear that they
represent the negroes of Washing
Ington and are authorized to spead
tor them are quite amusing. If
these kid gloved gentlemen wanted
kid glOved representatives at Chica-
go, why didn't they take off their
coats and go into the primaries and
elect such men as they thought ca
pable, and worthy to represent
them? Why did they stand aloof
from the people and let "the mobn
rule? No, they thought themselves
too high and respectable socially
and Intellectually and they imagine
that the ''negro mob" whom they
think less of than the average white
man does, would be foolish enough
to let them ride over their heads
into places and power as they have
too often done in the past.
The miserable subter-fuge-the
last resort of disappointed ambition.
The great pretention of interest i'm
the well-being of the negroes of
this District, expressed at the re.
cent meeting called by an eminent,
but misguided gentleman, the pro-
ceedings of which were decidedly
unilateral. 1t will not be accepted by
the masses with confidence, or in
gooc faith. The question will nat
urally arise, where were these pa
triots when in the Souther States a
few years ago, negroes were being
bulldozed and shot down for opin-
ions sake, by the Democrats of
that section? What did they do or
say or suggest, to certify to their
love for the man and brother, OF to
evince their displeasure at the
wrongs endured by the toiling mil
lions at the south? Did not the
leading satellite in the galaxy of
distinguished respectables accept
place and power under republican
administration which was the result
of diabolical compromise at the
expense of those for whom he and
his followers now profess such
intense love and consideration d?
Look to the record for answer.
We worship no man or set of
men and we assail only the public
acts of those who believe themselves
to be leaders, and who consider
themselves ABOVE those they pro-.
tess to lead. The day has passed
long since when the common peo-
pie who make and unmake leaders
were willing to be hoodwinked by
distinguished gentlemen who re-
gard them only as a means to an
and who have arrived to great dis
tinction and honor, on account of
the accident of birth and fortuit-
Gus circumstances.
The negroes of this country have
furnished the trimmers in politics,
and the chronic office seeker both
of high and low degree, white and
black, many advantages which they
have not been slow to Sieze hold of
and by which many shameless
compromises have been effected.
But times are changing and men
are changing; what man did for
ty or fifty years ago for his own
preservation cannot be offered as a
good reason why he should be car
ried along by those who were in the
same boatas himself, and who bull
ed for the shore as vigorously as he
left it without accomplishing the
same result. We don't disparage
the commendable efforts of those
who struggled amidst poverty and
slavery and its concommittant evils
and who, many of them are now
enjoying competence and care and
universal freedom, with the rest of
us. But we do not see anything in
the past condition of this element
OF society which would warrant the
belief that they have right to
burden the race with the load they
threw off yesterday and expect, it
not only to carry the load but, to
carry them as well. 1t will not be
done however, reasonable as the |
refusal to do so may seem.