The daily critic., 1890-10-07
TT 1T WAS 4 PUTLAN
0pIC MOVEMENT.

10, Of cb.a,ers. au Of
specimen bricks that lovely
rH typical Republican leaders.
TrI and QUAY
TIL imam LINDSEY ori i-in8fad iheiIg1
,i shipping into Indiana 10000 ne.
rr.cs-littlo negroes and big negroes.
men nd women-in the belief that ia
That number there would be enough
l.aro voters TO make the Uoosier state
q sure for The Republican party. Iia
prop 1sCd TO take 5000 .r bi. c5icre ]
.gss 90 West Virginia, ami rc.
,ir,d IN order from QUAY 20 ship 2O)
being about I 900 souls-to q
Republican firm that was willing to
receive them G. O. d. lie set apart
5000 for Connecticut
Then LINDSEY went to QUAY and
made a bargain. For The purposes of
this scheme he was promised at first
500, 600 TO $4,000. afferward less. and
finally got from QUAY an order on DuD.
LEY. Of the Republican National Com
mittec for $1,000 90 bc paid ont Of the
committee funds Represented the order
and was Informed that the committee
treasury was empty
Now comes DUDLEY saving II didn't
know that there was any politics in
LNDsEy's colonization scheme. He
pretended 20 be q philanthropist and
bothered me. ] presume he bothered
QuAY on the same subject and QUAY,
as a matter Of course, also mistook him
for phiianthroplst as | did. Every
one who knows QUAY will 40 once 90.
serve that he of on men would not sus.
pcct that there was any politics In
suggestion 10 furnish homes for South.
crn negroes in such States as Indiana,
West Virginia and Connecticut Well.
90 u-t LINDSEY got from QrAY. the
,laIuar of tbc National Republican
t,uuiuDc. % note. addressed 90 tine
as uWuryr Of that committee. to the
Df.,ttlu ii he committee bad plenty
of money itmigbthe well To- give him
$1,000 But QUAY knew that the com.
n iJiec wus without funds. He gave the
note 90 LINDSEY for the purpose of
getting ril of hlm
Now, here Is O man who knows and
every body knows that he knew aud
that QUAY knew, that LINDSEY was ut.
tempting TO coloniZe negroes iu North
ern States for voting purposes, and yet
he denies IL an and seems 10 be indis
rant In viriuous way. over the charge.
And be admits, too. that QUAY knew
that the committee was without cash
when be gave 20 LINDSEY the order for
S10Oo-that Quay gave his check upon
a bank in which he knew be had no
money!
Take, as another specimen brick, the
Treasurer Of the United States. Mr..
HUsToS Of Indiana, a Republican Of
the Republicans; one Of the kind that
says. Don't and winks "Do a..
He, too, was approached by LINDSEY,
and was delighted He wanted LIND
sEY's negroes without delay be would
talk 10 the President on the subject, and
he would commune with Attorney.
General MILLER, but be did not expect
much from him because he had never
tsken much part IN practical politics.
But there was an exposure Of the
The scheme, and Huston became viz
tuous in the twinkling Of an eye.
Why, he exclaimed, who would
have believed that LINDSEY had a po-
litieal purpose under his phllanthrOpic
professions ! did not II that sus
picion had entered my mind ] would
have sat down on LINDSEY and his
scheme instanieF
And then be declared that when be
told LINDSEY that he would talk with
The President about his scheme, he
u cant The president of a club and not
tie President Of the United States
il must be that HUsTOS Is a fool.
Ard uow comes other specimen bricks
cf ibe Republican party like CLAREsoS
all d,nyiug that they had any know
ledge Of LNDsEY's purpose 10 ship
negro voters 10 the Northern States.
They 81 know that, for philanthroplc
reasons, LINDSEY was anxious 10 get
negroes 70 emigrate from North Caro-
lima 10 certain States Of doubtful polI-
tics and they were an anxious 10 help
him anxious f0T Philanthr0pic reasons,
but not one Of them even dreamed thar
there was a partisan purpose In the
movement
A more palpable lie than this he that
these practical Republican politicians
are telling never was told before, aud
never 8lu be told hereafter.