The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1890-01-22
THE NEGRO.
Republican Love for the Negro---The
Negro as Factor in Politics.
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Negro as Factor in Politics.
Central City Herald.l
While the Muhlenbers county Repub-
licans are so exercised about Joshua
Helstley refusing to accept the negro
guager, they might look to New Or
leans where there is large nze row
because the department commander Of
the G.. A. II. has organized negro post.
The whites threaten to disband their
post and leave the order. This order is
composed almost exclusively of Repub-
licans, but we have never heard of a
negro post being organized in thisc oun-
ty, nor has Rum Robinson, Adam Mar
tin, or any colored soldier, however
battle scared, been admitted to the
Central City, Greenville, or any post in
the county, and should one make appli-
cation he would be Indignantly refused.
Republican love for the negro is con-
fined to large chunks of sympathy about
election time. The Republican voters
in this county are over one-third ne
groes, yet the party has never nominal
ed one for the legislature, although
there are numbers in the county more
competent than the last member sent by
the Republicans. They never nominate
them for county office, though there are
negroes in the county who could fill
most of the Offices.
Why don't they do it?
Just because the negro is useful to
the Republican party as q voter only.
Now, when the Republicans of this
county admit a negro to one of their
Grand Army Posts and divide the nom
nations for county Offices with them.
we will believe they are in earnest
about their sympathy for the negro.
We do not say this Extensively or to
cast contumely on any Republican or
party, but because we speak simple
facts, and the only logical deductions
to be made from them.
We are free to say we do not see any
thing improper in the right kind OF a
negro, if competent, guaging whisky at
distillery. They cook and wash for
MS, work on the farms and in tobacco
factories, and we repeat, we see no
reason why the proper kind of a negro
should not guage whisky. That, how
ever, is a matter for individual deter
mination.
In the North the negro is barred
from the work shop and the farm, and
has to pick up his living as best he can.
Were it not for the Democratic South
the negro would starve TO death, or
have to he supported as wards of the
nation as the Indians are. Here they
are engaged in all kinds of employment
and receive the same wages as other Ia
borers. At Greenville they work in the
tobacco factories, while at Marion, ILL
nois, the home of John A. Logan, once
Republican candidate for vice-Presi-
dent, only last spring a large row and
strike occurred because some negroes
wanted work in tobacco factory aud
they had to leave. That was in Repub-
lican Illinois, but the negro is better
treated in Democratic Kentucky and all
through the South. And so long as he
behaves he stands just as good a chance
10 make money as other persons of the
same means.
The negro as factor in politics, has
always stood like brick wall 10 the
Republican party. II he is to be elevat-
ed to office he should look to the Re-
publican party to do il. If the Demo-
cratic party was SO inclined it would
certainly expect the negro to join the
church before taking the sacrament.
They would have to prove they were
Democrats first of all things. They are
Republicans now, and If the party is
consistent with the doctrine il breaches,
common justice demands that they ad-
NIT negroes to their army posts and
nominate them on their county tickets.
Until they do this, they have no
right to jump up, crack their heels to-
gether and ''holler" Josh Heltsley to
the Democratic party in this county.
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