Evening journal., 1890-08-27

EVEN THE WORM WILL TURN.
The evidences Of the disintegration Of
the Republican party are beginning to
be nlsrked even among the negroes.
Heretofore we have remarked those
evidences only among the manufacturers
of the New England states, whom the
tariff laws were denying cheap material
and among the farmers Of the Northwest
whom the same laws confined to the
'home market" Now, however. the
negroes are feeling the injustice Of bear
ing so many party burdens and sharing
so few rewards.
There are %, 900 negro voters in New
York and no negro ofhce-holders. In
Ohio there are so, 900 negro voters who
are treated in the same manner. In In
diana, Illinois and Missouri the negroes
give such material assistance to the
Republican tickets that they would be
universally defeated but for negro sup
port For this political service they do
not get even thanks.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
negroes outnumber the q. A. r. in these
states they get no pensions, they have no
consideration, they share no spoils, they
get absolutely no rewards for doing even
q greater service than the Grand Army
does for the Republican party. They
are despised and ignored while the Grand
Army is Toasted and honored.
In the Southern states the Republican
party is practically negro party. The
treatment they have received from the
Republican party is VIGOROUSLY, neglect
full and ignominious. In the matter of
the tariff alone the negroes have borne
the heat and burden Of the day in
having to exchange cotton and their
ether farm products, for the
high-priced protected goods of the tariff.
robbing manufacturers The millions of
negroes who depend on cotton growing
for living have to sell that cotton at
Liverpool prices and buy prints and
cloth at Philadelphia prices an average
duty Of 90 per cent. added In the tariff
laws they were not even considered. In
the proposition to make sugar free the
Louisiana negroes who grow sugar were
not worthy Of the notice Of those Repub-
hcan statesmen who concccted the Nc
Kinley bill.
SIN the matter Of political education
they are left to their own devices. Speak
ers are never sent among the negroes
Their political and economic knowledge
comes from intuitive superstition, from
political preachers Of their own race
more or less incompetent, and by the
nature Of things dishonest, and from
the corrupt carpst.bagger.
The latest protest comes from North
Carolina. The negroes met in Raleigh
yesterday and in calling the convention
to order James H. Young said that its
purpose was neither childs play nor the
disruption Of the Republican party but
to make all men from the President to the
smallest office-holder understand that the
negroes demand the rights and privileges
to which they are entitled and from which
scheming white Republicans have SO
long debarred them. The negroes, he
said, meet now as the real Republican
party Of North Carolina and will never
get any recognition until they thus de-
mand it. Their purpose is not to draw
the color Hae-the white Republicans
did this some time ago-but to demand
in plain language that the negro must be
recognized in the distribution Of patron
age.
Heretofore the negroes have been
bound hand and foot to the Republican
spoils-bearing chariot and they Shave
frequently drawn the conouerors
through the streets while the populace
shouted triumphantly, but they have
been excluded from the feasts and
denied all Of the spoils This meeting at
Raleigh is another indication that they
are awakening to see how they have been
deceived.
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