Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-04
A COlored Mans View.


IRONToN, March 30th. 1899.
| Ed. Register.-Sir: I have read and re.
read, with great interest, your truthful dis
sertaton, in the REGISTER of a recent date
upon the hypocrisy of the Republican par
| ty.
| Every time read the article, I could but
more and more, appreciate the noble SEN
timent, and the manly truths which it con-
| tains.
| If what you say is not so, why, this crush
of worlds, and wreck of matter, in the Re-
publican ranks, when the name of a negro is
mentioned, in connection with political Of
fieeY The "Truth" you know, is said to be,
stranger than fiction." 1t Is true that the
negro is Republican of the most original
type. 1t is true that he is the first cause of
the existence of the Republican party: but
not. l calm, of modernized Republicanism.
1t is true as you say, that the political eXis-
tence of the Republican party, depends to a
great extent, upon the fonding patronage
of the negro, at the ballot box. o yes, they
claim to have freed the negro, and then to
have championed his cause, but that, has
been % years ago! Did they do more than
their duty:
1t is also true that the negro fought side
by side with his white brethren, for the
maintenance of the Union, for his life and
his liberty. 1t is a truth, established beyond
a reasonable doubt, that the negro is eligi-
BILE to any office in the gift of the nation,
from the Ironton post-ottce to the Presi-
denoy OF the United States. 1t is an indis-
putable fact that there are men connected
with this unfortunate race who are fully
capable of presiding over the nation with
dignity and honor. 1t is douDly true that
the Republican party Is under special obli-
cations to recognize and patronize the negro
IN the distribution of the various offices
WHICH they have at their disposal Yet, it is
lamentahly true, that the party does not
give the negro his share of the spoils; that
they use the negro as mere cats-paw to
further political ends. Why does the negro
allow himself to be thus used? Is it because
he is dull of apprehension? Is it because he
has no manly aspiration and does not feel
and feel keenly the snubs and insults he gets
from the party with whom he afhliates as
imam and a brother" during campaign.
Affiliates as ''man and a brother" during
a campaign, did say: Yes, then and then
only, has Uncle Tom and Professor Cat Paw
anything that the moguls OF ltepnhlicanism
are bound to respect. Take the ballot from
the negro, and he will. be wholly ignored by
his best friends, so called.
How long, Q We hypocrites, will ye abuse
the Negroes confidence: To what extent will
your unbrided assumption herald itself:
Do you not know that the time will come
when forbearance will cease to be L virtuet
Can you not see the Handwriting on the
WALTZ" There is already in the political sky
cloud much larger than mans hand,
which is fast becoming surcharged with a
sentiment as potent as that which caused
that grand old patriot of Virginia to exclaim,
"Give me liberty or give me death" Lib
erty for the negro from political tyranny.
The negro is demanding now, at the hands
of the Republican party, political equality,
which will show its genuineness by his
nomination, and square-toed support at the
ballot box and induction into the offices of
honor and trust. Insulted, because the
name of negro who is stauneh Republic
can and fully capable, was mentioned as a