Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-09-26
THE COLORED VOTERS,
HERETOFORE INDEPENDENT, CANNOT
SWALLOW cAM2BELL'S RECORD.

Tue Same May Be Said of the Louisiana
outrages-Rsason Why the Proposed
Convention of Independent Colored
Voters Was Not Held in Toledo Last
Week.
There has been considerable comment
in some OF the Democratic newspapers
over the withdrawal of the call for an
independent colored convention which
was to have been held at Toledo last
week, the call having been withdrawn
by James johnson, chairman and w.
G. Bray, secretary, and the committee
making the same. At the time of the
withdrawal no cause was stated for it.
The committee simply stating that the
call was withdrawn by hose making it.
Mr.. James johnson, chairman of the
committee, stated to those who inquired
of him that the reason that it had been
decided not to hold an independent col
ored mans convention would be stated
in his paper, The Toledo independent,
on Saturday.
The Democrats who nominated Camp
bell, and have been trying to decere
colored Republicans and seduce them
from their allegiance to the Republican
party, will find some interesting read
ing in Mr.. Johnson's paper, which has
heretofore been independent and by the
Democrats considered as a Democratic
colored mans organ.
The following from Mr.. Johnson's
paper, The Toledo IndeDenent, of last
Saturday indicates that the Democrats
have not been successful in deceiving
any colored men:
While we have been bitterly Independent
in the past, we shall be no less fearless in
the defense of our race in the future In
the past we have advocated a division OF
our vote But when the Democratic party
made James E. Campbell their standard
bearer, a man whose record in congress, so
far as our interests were concerned voted
upon the inter state commerce bill to make
the wives and daughters of our race in the
south, so many cattle, and the bill says as
much, we weaken.
Mr.. Campbell. just now, would have US
believe that he is friend to our race, but
how does he explain that vote? That vote
Mr.. Campbell his way, that he would have
Jim Crow cars on every railroad in the
United States This dose then is one that
no enlightened negro can swallow and have
any race respect left. Colored men then,
who are Democrats, if they are true to their
manhood, for Campbelrs insulting vote,
will have to scratch the head of the ticket.
The Democrats south are still doing their
murderous work Negroes are bing
slaughtered for pastime Oh Godl the day
of retribution is close at hand. The bloody
work at Gouldsboro, La, Sunday, Sept. 1,
is awful to contemplate. Innocent excur-
sionists shot down like brutes, by the ad-
vocates of the "Jim Crow car. Weak
women and little children are moved
down by the leaden hail of these dirty
brutes. Just heavensl it is a calamity that
God himself will crush sooner or later. And
while this develish work is 60
ing on the Democrats have the hardi-
hood to bid for our votes. 'Tis
folly. Until you cease these brutal murders,
dering that the race is above party.
We could not conscieutiously support
James. E. Campbell. The Independent
could not, would not. nay, it dare not, sup
port a man of Campbelps stamp, be ne Dem
ocrat or Republican. Any man that is
against our race, we are opposed to him, and
'don't you forget it,"