The Washington bee., 1889-04-13

The uneeemly naeCe WHICH
some of our contemporaries have
shown in criticising the President
for not appointing coIored men of
prominenceto to Lucrative positions
is, in our judgement, as unwise
as it is unfair The President has
gone upon record and he will
either stand or fall by that record.
His public utterances both before
and since his elevation to the
presidency, contain assurances in
respect to his administration Of
his high office which must be ac-
cepted as the sincere utterances of
an honest man. Until proven to be
otherwise. Up to to day the presi-
dent has been in Office forty three
days. He has been confronted by
grave and weighty questions pre-
sented by the dissatisfied, hungry
and dlscordant elements of his
party which have required not
only the wisest craftsmanship but
the greatest diplomacy to salts
factorily dispose of.
And these questions originate
in a section of our country from
which he received but little if any
practical support. Men, who
rendered him the least assistance,
are now clammoring and fuming
because he does not appoint every
pot house politician who aspires
to recognition. Men, who object
under different circumstances and
conditions to raising the color
line, have raised it from Texas to
Washington and attached it to
the iron fence of the executive
mansion. ! he President in his
inaugural address very clearly and
very emphatically outlined his
policy in regard to southern affairs
when be declared that he would
have no distinctive policy for any
section of the country. His ut
terances in respect TO the unjust
election laws at the south were
statesmanlike and, as we believe,
honest and sincere. We see no
occasion, certainly no just reason,
for the assumption that colored
citizens will be frozen out by this
administration. We believe that
they will get their fair and equit-
able proportion of the patronage,
and we base onr belief upon the
fact that the President has full
knowledge and information re-
garding southern affairs, and that
as an able lawyer and honorable
gentleman. he will equitably dis
charge the obligation which the
negro voters Of the country have
placed him under, to their entire
satisfaction. 1t must not be for
gotten by those who raise line
and cry over the appointment of
Irishmen aud democrats to pvsi-
tions of trust and responsibility
that the republican party accepted
their votes last November upon
the same conditions that the vote
of the negro was accepted.
In time of war when men are
needed to defend a principle with
their life's blood if necessary, it is
not of much concern what their
nationality is SO long as they are
patriotic enough to maintain,
defend and uphold the honor OF
be nation. The principle involv-
ed IN the last campaign was the
ariff, ostensibly-the bloody shirt
In reality. At all events the
Irishmen and democrats who could
not swallow the Mills Bill, became
a part OF the great republican
phalanx and by their influence
aud votes helped to elect Harrison
and Morton, ss did the negro.
In the Presidents own state there
are something over 10000 negro
voters had they voted the other
wav or not voted at all there
would have been trouble in the
camp. Connecticut with more
than $500 negro votes; Ohio with
nearly 10000; Illinois with be
tween $4,000 and $4,000; Penn.
with $4,000 or $4,000. and New
York with a solid negro vote of
10000, presents a formidable ar
ray of negro voters which even
the chief magistrate of this great
country will not deign to ignore
when be has accepted tneir votes
and secured his office by their
aid. President Harrison is not
ignorant of the fact that the ne
groes of these states while In the
ILL AL