The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-21
THE NEGROES.

The very best evidence that could be haG
of the slowness of the growth of intel
igence among the negroes is found in the
blind tenacity with which the blacks cling
to the Republican party. Except in certain
| sections of the country where the colored
people are insignificant in number the
black man vino essays to work with the
| Democrats takes his life in his hand. He
is ostracised by his race, and is in constant
danger of maltreatment and assassination
at the hands of the fanatic blacks who
! think it is an objectionable crime for a
negro to be anything else than Replb-
lican.
And yet the Republicans are far less
considerate and Thoughtful of the personal
and political rights of the colored
people than are the white Democrats.
The northern Republicans insist upon
it that the negroes in the south shall
have everything. This is not because
the northerners love the blacks, but be-
cause they hate the southern whites
When it comes to advancing the negroes in
the south, it is an entirely different mat
ter. Then there is no Republican affection,
and no consideration. Every election
proves this. The votes of the blacks are
counted and expected, but let a negro ask
for the votes of white Republicans and see
how he will be answered. Notwithstand
ing this twenty years of snubs and denials
the poor, ignorant negroes herd in the
Republican ranks as closely as they did
at the first election after their enfran-
chisement When one with a little more
intelligence than his fellows sees the folly
of ever being political slaves and tools
to the ungrateful, and advises his race
to be independent and give common
sense a chance, he is looked upon as
traitor, and therefore to be avoided as one
bent on betraying his fellows.
The other day there was a school cleo
ton in indianapolis, the negroes in which
city last November carried the state for
HARRISON. An intelligent, educated black,
a Republican worker of prominence, asked
the nomination to one of the school COM
missionerships, with the view to assisting
the children of his race to their rights in
the common schools. The request was de-
MED as matter of course, the Repubi-
cans nominating white man. The negroes
thereupon nominated their man. The
Democrats put no ticket in the field and re-
Trained from voting. 4 correct tally was
kept, which showed that not single white
Republican voted for the negro, and that
every vote he received was that OF negro.
The black candidate was defeated,
but at the next election all the
negroes viii be expected to vote the Re
publican ticket, and they will not disap-
point expectations.
An exchange reports that at meeting of
negro preachers in Baltimore the other
day, one of the speakers said: "Our people
have been used by mean, unprincipled
liabolical, designing politicians as cats
paws" But it is doubted that that preacher |
mas the courage or intelligence to openly |
vote the Democratic ticket, and thus prove
hat he is unwilling to be longer treated as
4 catspaw by INSCRIPTIONS politicians.
WILLIAM COPELAND, a colored man, a |
member Of the Ohio legislature, and a Re- |
publican as matter of course, saws:
Governor FORAKER has done less for the |
Of his state than was done for them
~ his Democratic predecessor"
Notwithstanding all this truth the
go on doing the bidding of the Re
,ublicans and getting their pay in base in
gratitude. When the blacks learn that
whatever may be said of the Democratic
,arty, the Republicans are the friends Of the
only so far as they can use him with
,ut compensation, they will show that they
ire advancing in intelligence and political
wisdom. In two decades they have given
10 evidence Of having acquired such knowl-
EDGE. How much longer will it take them
10 learnt