Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-18
10! THE POOR COLORED MAN.

the Harrison administration has decreed that the colored man must go. That Is to say not even one of them is to be allowed to remain in the service of the family at the white house. It is repre- sented that the dainty individual who has been made president through the colored vote cannot bear the sight of negro servants and has determined to replace them all by white help, most of the latter being English. The colored man is recognized as good enough to vote for Benjamin Harrison, but not to black his boots, or wait on his table, or sweep the white house. He isn't "English you know"
 During the campaign of last fall the country heard good deal ahout the English leanings of the Cleveland administration, although Mir Cleveland hadn't made an English man his private secretary, hadn't gone to the British embassy for house servants and hadn't considered cockney antece- dents an indispensable recommendation l for popularity with 1t. It heard, too, a good deal about Cleveland's antipathy for the negro, although he never tried to keep the black man down by building up white mems party in the south and albeit he honored the race in the person of several of it's most distinguished representatives. But it was never ex- pected that a party which pretended to be the special guardian of the colored man, and whose title to power has been read by the votes of the black men, should develop a leader who would not think them good enough even to be domestics in the white house. It was never expected that the colored man would not be regarded good enough to hew wood and draw water for repub' lican administration. That it has proved to be so is but another indication that the colored mans vote is the most at tractive thing about him in the eyes of the republican party. Once that is secured he can 'hump for himself" republican party has no use for him.
 But perhaps the colored man may have something to say about this con, tinued contempt for him after election. There are not wanting indications that the colored brothers are growing restless under the studied insults of the men whom they have helped to place in power, and it is not likely that the white house incident will tend to allay their upeasiness. The colored men, es pecially of the north, are not quite sc blind to their rights as they were wont to be, and they are not disposed to brook the indifference and insulting tyranny with which they are being treated by the republican party. The time is coming, and there are signs that it is not far away, when il will not be safe for a republican attorney general to insult a delegation of repre- sentative colored men by failing to keel an engagement, or a republican presi dent to turn away colored servants as unfit to do the menial work of the house hold. There is a point even in the negro nature beyond which endurance ceases to be virtue and the Harrison admin istration may find that it has reached that point.
 When the black man thoroughly re alizes the position he holds under thi. administration and resolves to have care of his rights it will be we'll for him
 It will require heroic treatment to secure small share of his rights from tn, godly individual whose shoes the col ored man is not deemed worthy to loose