San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-03
The Daily Eight.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1889.
DIVIDE OR DIE.

wash Jon eS, tneBaSCrOp UreenDd
or, in giving his views on the negro
question recently remarked, "The
negro must divide or die" If this
language means anything it means
they must become part democrat and
cease as u race to have any distinctive
political place or suffer humiliation
at the hands of the whites. Com
menting on this question of race the
Waco Day says:
1.-THE Day has a comprehensive
plan of adjusting the negroes to our
political system, one feature of which
is that while every individual among
them votes and has ballot fairly
counted, the result is practically an
nulled as far as their votes are con-
cerned, if the contest has been one of
race and not of political issues"
This conclusion of the Day is in
line with the aphorism OF Ex-gover-
nor Jones. Both mean the same
thing. The Day does not say so as
broadly as Jones but it means the
same In the end, 1t means that IN
less the cOlored voters will divide
their strength between the demo-
cratic and republican parties they
will be denied rights of suffrage and
gradually crowded to the wall until
they are politically dead. In re-
publican form of government, when
this condition is arrived at the dis
trnction OF the race is forgone con-
clusion. Does the Day understand
the sophistry of its position on this
question? According to the Day the
negro must cease to vote as colored
man and vote as citizen, and
until he consents to do this
he must be DISTINGUISHED. This
is just what the negro is doing today.
He does not vote and cannot vote as a
race against any other race. There is
no race contest at the polls and there
can be none in this country, because
it is not a question who shall hold
office, the whites or the blacks, and
never has been. The colored voter
votes as politician on political issues.
The issue today is between the repub-
lIcans and the democrats, and what
ever antagonlsm of political princi-
pies exists between these political
PAL bIcS cAISUS III Ulc COIolCu
voter as for the white voter. Does
the Day mean that because the colored
voters agree most and affiliate more
closely with the republican party
therefore their voting is on a race
platform and basis and that they can
never demonstrate their voting on a
political issue until they vote the
democratic ticket. If this is not what
hn nnx hot
mean? Divide or die is the watch
word of the democratic party, but it
may not be so easy to destroy the
franchise right given under constitu-
tional amendments as it may appear.
Congress is the judge of the qualitica-
tions Of its own members and the pO-
litical Acknowledgement of colored
voters must cease ere long under the
operation of laws certain 10 be enacted
by congress for it's own protection.
The colored man will vote the demo-
cratic ticket when his political princi-
pies and ideas are more in harmony
with democratic principles and ideas
than they are with those of the repub
lican party. To compel the colored
voter to become a democrat to save
himself from political disfranchise-
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