Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-22
NO NEGROES NEED APPLY.

The colored men who are seeking to
 secure representation for their race in
 General Harrison's cabinet are engaged
 in laudable but hopeless task The
 republican party has no use for the col
 ored men once they have got their votes,
 and when it comes to looking for office
 unless perhapsit be the scullionships that
 white men would scorn to take, they are
 met with the very emphatic declaration
 that no negroes need apply. Never
 theless, the colored republicans are not
 disposed to let their claims go by de-
 fault, and they are raising clamor
 about the ears of General Harrison that
 may be ominous of future trouble when
 their demands shall have been disre-
 garded, as they are certain to be-
 General Mahone's assertion that the
 white republicans of the south are not
 favorable to colored recognition seems
 to fairly represent the sentiment of the southern people. In so far as the dis
 tribution of patronage is concerned the
 whites of the south, whether they be republicans or democrats, are unit that the black man must be kept down. Their idea seems to favor the Birming- ham plan which proposes the division of offices on the basis of the protection prin- ciple, and they prefer that white dem- ocrats who believe in protection be chosen for administration favors rather than colored republicans. They are op- posed, tooth and nail, to any recognition of the colored race. And the indica- tions, ill so far as they appear from the meagre utterances of General Harrison himself, seem to point to such a course on the part of the next administration. That this policy and the sentiment that the time has not yet come for cabinet preferment for the negroes is distasteful to them is promptly proclaimed by the Freeman, an organ of the colored race published at Indianapolis, which prints an editorial right on the heels of General Mahone's utterance in which it says 6 Has any colored journal or citizen ad- vanced a single reason why a colored man should not receive the honor we ask for our race? Not one that is not based upon selfish personal interests or the timid. puerile cry too soon.' Be it | said to the credit of our people that they made masterly stubborn fight for re l publican success in the last contest. and had it not been for their unswervino | loyalty to the party the democrats would l now be jollifying over the election. It | is never too soon for any race or peon1e | to ask for that which is their own maid | for by their blood and years of toll: if is not too soon to march side by side in civil life with the party whose life was nurtured by your sacrifice upon the mil tary field. It is not too soon for you to 10 anything that any other American 1oes, or to aspire to any position that other men aspire to. And above all if his cry of too soon must be raised let | t be confined to the ranks of the white people and not raised by ourselves. If he colored people stand together in his matter and give the republican party 70 understand why they ask it. they can nave seat in Mir Harrison's cabinet Such result Is an impossibility though. f our race continues to cut its throat by questioning the advisability of such a hing and by expressing willingness to 'e satisfied with whatever the powers nay accord us. We are not interested Il the success of any one man, We named 5. K. Bruce because he seemed O us to combine the necessary auaIifi- ations and was one on whom the race would unquestionably unite. There is 10 dearth of material"
 It will be always too soon for the