Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-05-05
WANT TO BE DELEGATES.

delegate to the Chicago convention.
A good many colored men are asking
these honors as well as many white
men who have not been heard of since
they lost their Federal offices. Men
who are not known in their own towns
to be republicans are wanting to be
elected delegates. Men who have
never been known to lose an
hour or spend dollar for the party,
arc wanting the honors of the party.
When it comes to electing delegates,
the services and claims Of men should
not be forgotten. The men who have
given their time and money are the
men who should receive the honors of
the party. Men who are afraid and
ashamc to go among the people and
too stingy and mean to help support
the party should be allowed to remain
at home. The white republicans who
do not think colored men entitled to
respect and who refuse to support
colored enterprises, are not entitled
to the support of the party, inasmuch
as the party is made up largely of
colored voters.
There is also class Of colored men
for whom we can say but little. Those
colored men who have been honored
by our people to places of trust and
profit, and yet do not appreciate
colored enterprises, are not worthy of
the respect or support of the masses.
We have often wondered why it is
that certain prominent colored men
claim so much for themselves and the
race, yet when they want to do some
thing for some mans newspaper or
other enterprise they look up some
white man who neither wants nor
expects their aid. If there is no merit
in those colored organs why don't
these leading colored men assist in
bringing them up to a higher standard.
They can write for white mems papers
Then when those colored papers re-
fuse to endorse these men whenever
they are "up for something" the
papers are considered disloyal to the
race or favoring unworthy parties.
The men who run colored newspapers
are not all fools. They have not
failed to notice number ofprominent
colorcd men who take the field to can
vass for white republican papers-and
especially those republican papers
most disrespectful to colored men and
their democratic Christian friends.
Colored men can make as much
money and do their race and them
selves much more good, by canyassing
for colored paper than for a white
paper. If the five prominent colored
men we have in mind now who are
canvassing for certain white paper
were to all do the same for one of
our colored organs, that organ would
soon be one of the most powerful
journals in the country. In this list
of men we can count State senators,
executors, lawyers, &C. Among them
also are aspirants for Chicago and
Congressional honors. They have
the cheek to call themselves big men,
but are actually SO small and have so
little confidence in themselves that as
soon as they want something they 60
cringing after men who are. their in
feriors in intellect, morals and in
everything that goes to make up a
man. In fact, these white men
sought after are nothing but what
these colored men make them.
We will not personate just now,
Blu. believe the time is now when
certain leading men should be singled
out and shown up and receive the
just condemnation they deserve from
our people. The democrats Of the
South are taking up Mr.. Blaine's
motto: "America for Americans, "
which we do not understand to mean
America should specially oppose other
nations, but America should first en-
dcayor to help Americans In the