The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-18
BLACKS AND WHITES.
A Possible Split Over Southern
Patronage.
"A HOUSE OF REFUGE FOR SAILORS,
The Bear Going to Establish lt-Aeeplhg the
Gates Ajar-WOrk While the Day
Light Lasts

kES5oecial TO THE HERALD. --ExamlheE-D lSpalch'
gAsHINGToN, April IA storm IS
brewing among the friends Of the colorcd
people which threatens to swell INTO
hurricane, unless the policy Of the admin
istration towards them is quickly changed
The cause is the preference which is beng
steadily given to the whites over the Oi2cA'
in the southern appointments.
IT Is REPORTED
that the President is undertaking the task
of building up white Republican parry
in the south, and that in pursuance OF UAl'
nlan Colonel ClarksOu, the first assistant
ostmaster-general, IS giving the prefer
ence TO whites even in naming the IOuftn-
class postmasters The amazement with
which the idea is received by the WHITE
friends of the colored race, as well as by
the blacks themselves, IS unmeaSured.
A southern Republican who some years
AGO was man of national prominence, SAID,
last night, that such poncy meant hoI
simply the ruin of President harrison per
sonaIiy. but the ruin OF the RepuDncan
marty oWhy.n said he ''if the President
persists in the idea of ignoring the negro
and building up a white mans party IN the
south. he will not only throw away the last
SnSdoyy of a chance of holding single
southern district, but
WILL ALLEVIATE THE NEGROES
of the north: and their friends, the old time
%anlitionists will throw every doubtful
Gorthern state into Democratic hands, and
Give the Democrats the control OF the next
Congress by forty majority, and make I'M
nossible the election of any Republican 10
the presidency in 1852. a..
srThree-ti ftns of the white voters OF the
II. on
without the aid of the negroes carry New
York Connecticut, Indiana, California, or
even Ohio. To drive the negroes out OF
the party by denying them their talr snare
Of recogIition in distributing the offices
would be the maddest folly. General Har-
rison owes his election to the Dlack race;
and the Republican party, when elected
him, was formed for their protecIloa.:, IN
some districts of the north, to say nothing
of the south, they turn the scale IN favor OF
the Republican candidate for Congress,
and if the idea goes out that they are be
ing Systematically ignored 1t VIII De
THE END OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
y CIT seems amusing that this man. who,
when he sat in the Senate, Out-heroded
, Herod in his professed devotion to the
black race. should even think OF such a
TIan as that ascribed to him. Similar eX-
nressions from other active Republicans,
of the north as well as OF the south, lndl-
cate that they are a good deal alarmed at
the administrations programme.
The black district in places like New
York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati can al
E1,sbe relied on TO cast heavy Republican
~i4AIorities, and the idea OF having them
broken into is not pleasing to the northern
politicians as building up, by means OF
patronage, a high tariff party in the south
ern states made up mainly of whites. 1t
excited unbounded ridicule even among
those who value patronage the most. A
Republican party in the south without the
colored race for its backbone IS, they say:
a moro absured conception than the play OF
Hamlet with Hamlet left out.