Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-24
THE CORY GARMENT
Very Vigorously Flung to the Breeze
by Headsman ClarksOn.
NEGRO VOTES MUST BE COUNTED.
The Republican Party to Go Into the South
With a Strong Hand.
CIVIL SERVICE AND THE CHANGERS

| master 6encrai Olatkbou WAS Tue principal
speaker at the banquet Of the Norfolk Club
this evening. Among other things he said:
"a curious figure sits at the door of one
the Departments in Washington. He is q
black man, but stamped with Gods own
evidences of manhood and courage. He is
piteous with the marks Of mans brutality.
He was for 20 years a school teacher in
South Carolina, and lived an honest life.
He is now MANNED and disfgured. One leg
is broken, and healed at right angles. One
arm has been broken, and il now paralyzed.
Whenever hear Of the chivalry Of South
ern men, when hear of the glory of our
superior Caucasian race, think of this
poor man with his injuries. About a
year ago he was appointed postmaster
at Abbeville. That night 16 mem
bers of our superior Caucasian
race, booted and armed, went to his home,
dragged him from bed, stripped him, beat
him with whips made of barbed wire,
jumped on him one after another, breaking
one of his arms and one of his legs. They
wore no masks; the poor man knew them all.
| His offense was that he was Republican,
and that he had been appointed under Re-
publican administration to q postofice,
| which they were determined he should never
hold. 1t was an unequal contest-16 of the
superior Saxon race, armed, to one poor
member of the African race, unarmed. After
J this work declination of the Office was
forged in his name and sent to Washington,
and another man appointed. AS soon as he
| was able he came to Washington on his
crutches to tell the story of his wrongs. All
that could be done was to place him as
doorkeeper.
ONLY ONE OF MANY.
"This is but one of the many instances in
the South where Republicans are not al
lowed to hold office. Every sort of terror
ism is invoked to prevent it. First there is
the peaceful terrorism to prevent any
one from going on their bonds Next there
is the terrorism of notaries and
county clerks, or officers with seals to pre-
vent them from certifying to the suficiency
| of the bonds. If these means fail, then
open and overt methods are invoked to pre-
vent a Republican from holding Office
in Democratic community. There
are hundreds of communities in the
South wherein no Republican of any Kind is
| permitted to hold Office. There are thou
sands of communities where Republican,
| if he happen to be blsck, dare not take an
office if appointed to it. A Democrat may
cast his vote in peace anywhere in this land.
In thousands of places Republican, solely
because be is Republican, NAV not vote at
all, or else not have his vote counted. A Re
publican may be arrested and tried in any
| community in any State. In hundreds of
communities in the South Democrat can
not even be arrested, much less tried and
convicted, for any political crime. Not only
| is there this Republican bill of wrongs to
| plead now, but the Democratic defiance OF
law and authority gees still farther. The
courts of the United States are also made
| outlaws In certain States and denied their
authority and abridged Of their power, and
their judges left to sit helpless in their seats.
unable to enforce law or their own processes,
or even to protect the witnesses called before
them. IF the first duties of government are
to insure human liberty and protect human
| life, then these are the largest questions now
| before the American people. So come to
this traditional fountain of American intel
| ligence and courage to ask why an American
who is a Republican has fewer rights than
an American who is Democrat"
A DEMAND FOR FAIR PLAY.
"It is time to set up the standards of fair
play all over this Republic. The nation
has waited patiently ever since the war for
the South to settle this problem. 1t has now
been % years, and the problem is still un-
solved. One mistake was that the United
States did not settle this question immedi-
ately at the close Of the war. For the war
changed all the conditions of citizenship.
Before that time citizenship was matter of
the State, and only incidentally OF the ma
tion. The verdict of that conflict changed
the condition, amended the Constitution, and
made the supreme allegiance of the voter
due to the United States. The nation is
now face to face with the duty whether in its
sovereign power it shall allow Georgia,
South Carolina, or any State to prevent the
American citizen from exercising his con-
stitutional right to vote. Let the States
rule their own affairs. The North can con-
cede that to the South. But in all elections
affecting the United States-of Congressman
or United States Senators or President-it
is the duty of the United States, and clearly
within its power, to set such safeguards about
the voter that he shall be allowed to cast his
vote in peace and have it faithfully counted.
With the Republican party having full
power-Congress ana the executive depart.
ments-it will be as false to posterity as to
itself If it does not exercise its power under
the Constitution to make American citizen
ship equal and complete in all parts of the
Republic. There is a larger question in
this than that of politics There is the ques-
tion of humanity and duty to God. When
Mr.. Grady came to Boston, and, with a
speech as sweet as the music that came from
David's harp, asked the North to shut its
eyes and scar its conscience and let the
South do as it pleased. he asked great deal
more than the North could grant.
THE TARIFF AND THE WEST.
"In Boston a stranger may not come to
discuss the tariff. 1t is product of New
England. 1 can only report from a new
portion of the Republic of the growing
strength of this fidelity to American inter
ests. Twenty-Five years ago there was not
protection paper printed in the State of
Iowa; they were all practically for Tree
trade. We have learned wisdom; and to-
day the manufacturing products of Iowa
equal half in value the agricultural prod
ucts We nave our own interests to protect |
now in adhering to protection. The claim
of the Northwest for free trade is not true.
In the last Republican National Conven- |
tion the East said that the West |
must stand a strong protection plank. |
The West accepted it, and in the
campaign and at the election stood by it |
better than the manufacturing centers of the |
East stood by their own faith. The best |
protectionist in the United States to-day is |
the Western farmer. He is also the best |
posted man in politics. He reads many |
newspapers and discusses them with his |
family, and knows both his patriotic duty |
and his selfinterest. Free trade has sought |
audaciously to set up its empire in the |
Northwest but it will fail. It has tried to |
take advantage Of the temporary hard times |
to convert the farmer to its notions. As a |
Western man I resent the pity bestowed |
upon the Western farmer. He is passing |
through temporary depression, but he is |
meeting it bravely, and he will come out of |
it by his strength and wisdom. He knows
that he is suffering from oyer-nroduction