Evening journal., 1890-11-03
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Preacher RiddIcL and Campaign hood

NfeaSA@F htuuAch anu Nhh2pAikn ndoakes
regret having to condescend 10 reply
to cowardly campaign circular issued
yesterday by DR.. % ]. Hudson Riddick.
be came here six months ago against bit
ter protest of members OF Ezion Church.
Riddick has repeatedly made untruthful
statements concerning me and my busi-
ness. There is not another negro in the
state that would make them. He does
not express the sentiments of the Advis-
oEy Council. Some OF the respectable
members have already resigned, because
he has disgraced it's name. If the Demo
erat party had offered him money he
would now be urging colored
men 30 vote against the
Republicans. Preacher Riddick is not q
citizen of Delaware, and the colored
voters ought not TO rely on his statement.
He has no interests In our welfare
There are colored ministers here who
have the races interest at heart why do
they not speRk2 They have been dis
graced by associating with him in get
ting up an organization and trying to
drag them into politics to meet his per-
sonal ends. | refuse to support the Re.
| publicans because they robbed our people
OF $l2 600 school money two years ago.
Even the men guilty of the crime dare
not say they did not defeat that bill.
DR.. Riddiek is the last negro to speak
| of manhood against money. He planned
| TO disgrace another church week before
last by having political speech delivered
la his church. Riddick gave free tickets
to doubtful voters. The parties giving
the entertainment complained, and he
compromised by not taking Ell the money
from the net procesSs which they were
to pay for the use of the church Last
Wednesday night he paid the trustees Of
his church $40, which he said the parties
had given him according to contract.
This was mos true and was
blind way to hide Just
what makes him SO interested in
| politics Where did Riddick get that SIT?
When ministers of the gospel come down
/ TO that kind of work, they are pretty
low. 1T takes rogue TO catch one,' p
so says old adage. De has found a seat
in the public school for his children,
while colored tax payers children cannot
get inside He raised flag on Howard
School Building last week In his cireu-
lar he says: "Colored people need q
common school education Since Rid
dick come to town and made friends with
the supposed high school teacher, he has
endeavored to discourage high school
education for negro children and caused
our people to be satisfied without it, ]
want Riddick 10 understand that his
tricks are visible.
We want a high school and no flag will
induce rs ts lose signt of IL. The people
of Wilmington are willing, the Demo
cratic City Council appropriases money
to pay for 1t and the Republicans are re
sponsible for there not being one. Il
Riddick persists In putting his mug il
my way he must expect to get it smashed
, His circular says: IAN this talk about
special mention Of the negro in the Dove
platform is but one OF the tricks of tn,
Democrats TO get our votes. We do no
approve Of or ask for mixed schools Thl
Delaware Twilight is neither the organ
of the "Crlored Mems Advisory Council,
nor the colored people of this state. Ad
I wise all colored men who respect thei
: manhood to discard the sentiments o
( this paper as expressed in its editorials
0 The paper as now conducted is detri
d mental to our race, therefore, cannot b
: endorsed by us as Republicans
d This is but the expression Of brain
d less fool. No person else win say that
9 have ever urged or asked for mike
d schools. II DR.. t0 J. Hudson Riddle
: means to say that have been bribed b
t the Democratic party he is a maliciou
q liar.
8 A. WoRTHINGToE BRINcKLEY,
5 No. 720 Shipley street, Wilmington
! Del, November 3. 1890