Nevada County picayune., 1889-10-09
How Ansley Tells the Truth.

tempted justification of the Repubh- can't. l.. P.'s electing two negroes to office in the municipal election here last April; also again advocates negroes for office, as its editor did just before the town election. We copy this from the last Dispatch:
 As to our action in our last municipal election, we only followed the precedent of our Democratic brethren who were first to elect a colored man as alderman. Phil Ded- man was the first colored man to sit in our city council and he was elected on the Dem ocratc ticket. Our city population IS large ly color-d Many of them own property. IL is n great satisfaction tO them to have an eye on the inside workings of the city council. In thus keeping down prcjudces and sur misngs all parties are greatly benefited.
 Now, for the true facts: It was in April, 1885, Phil Dedman was acci- dentlv elected as councilman here, and from our paper of April 9th, '85, we see that besides him, there were fifteen white men running for alder men, to-wit: George Christopher, W. J. Blake, Jas. NJ. Montgomery, H. C.. Brooks, Brad Mulholland, T. $. Bryan, Moses Winter. Alex Vaughn, NJ. Mcintyre, Joe Bryan, w. F. Evans, J. B. Higgins, John Milburn, P. Cassidy and T. F.. Burns. There were three candidates for Mayor: Lee Glow, F. NJ. Smyth, and l.. r. Ross. There were no nominations or party action at all, and Lee Glow, Republican, was elected Mayor, while majority of the councilmen elected were Demo- crats. Phil Dedman received only S2 votes; no one thought he would be elected: but the vote WAS so split up between the fifteen others, and he. receiving the almost solid vote of the negroes, was accidently elected. !
 He was ,singl-shoted' and there being more than S2 colored voters in town, i needed no white votes to elect hm. 1 Two or three white democrats and as many grecnbackers, might have No- ted for him. though we know noth- ling of this save from here say, but that dldn't make it the action of any party who elected him by any
 means, IS charged by Capt. Ansley. 1 1t is not true that Phil Dedman was i elected on the Democratic ticket, V as stated by Capt. Ansley. No nom- minatious were made by any party it was a regular scramble fight. And it is not true that "our city popula- ton is largely colored, as is said above, but to the direct contrary, the white population largely exceeds the colored. This is how Capt. Ansley tells the truth.
 It was quite different from this with Capt. A. and the L. l.. P.-Re- pubicans, last April. They openly favored negroes for office before the election, and in joint mass meeting, so-called Citizens Meeting, " nominated two of them for municipal office, and then elected them, over two good, competent white men.
 In closing we say, the Anglo-Saxon race stands far above all other races of men, and history proves that il never has allowed any other race, yellow, red or black, to even equal ize with it, not to mention domina- ton. The whites conquered this country and drove the Red man back; and onl ly q year or two ago the entrance of the yellow man Chinese into this country was absolutely pro- hibited by Congress, in direct viola ton of treaty relations. Notwith- standing all this, the Dispatch and Republican-U. l.. F. leaders want to place negroes over white men in our town and county, where the white voters outnumber the black voters by nearly three to one. Shame on them, Our people already feel deep ly the disgrace they have brought on our town, by electing two negroes to municipal office, in preference to two 1 comnetent white men, who were run