Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-13
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THE RAUL ISsUE IN OnbAhO1hA'
The people of the United States
are likely to be treated to a strong
object lesson on the race problem
by the way affairs are shaping them
selves in the territory of Oklahoma.
The newspapers of Topeka, Kansas
City and st. Louis are full of re-
ports of race antagonisms and dis
turbances between the whites and
blacks of that territory, which, for
some reason or other, do not find
their way into the associated press,
The condition of affairs represented,
however, can not be false or exag-
gerated, because it is mostly in the
republican papers the reports are to
be found. According to these re-
ports the negroes have organized
and are organizing with view to
controlling the territory and run
ming the white people out. The Or
ganization is known as the 'First
Grand Independent Brotherhood,
and had its origin about year ago
in negro settlement called Nicode-
mas, ia Graham county, Kansas.
The members take an oath declaring
eternal enmity to the white race and
bind themselves to aid politically
only those who are of negro blood.
They bind themselves to aid each
other in the courts against any of
the white race by false swearing.
Since it's organization the society
has reached out and opened Offices
in Topeka, Kansas City, Leaven-
worth and the 'tBlack Jack" region
of Oklahoma. The brotherhood has
organized an immigration bureau at
Washington in charge of E. P. Nc
Cabe, the negro ex-auditor of Kan
sas, who is candidate for governor
of Oklahoma. The association is
engaged in every way possible in
trying to induce negroes to immi-
CRATE to the territory like they did
Ito Kansas a few years ago, by writ
ing basketfuls of letters to negro
preachers and school teachers in the
Southern states and by sending out
circulars. The result is that from
two to ten negro families are said to
be found occupying the same quar-
ter section awaiting a chance to
| jump claim or awaiting the open
ing of the Cherokee strip. There
are at present no less than twenty
two thousand negroes massed in the
northwestern portion Of the terrific
ry and the ''F. G. L. B." say they
expect to have at least fifty thous-
and before six months longer. The
president of the brotherhood has
boldly declared among other objects
and aims of the First Grand hide
pendent Brotherhood that: "We
do not propose to permit white
man to be elected to any Office what
ever. We will rule" The white
people have already become exasper-
ated at the bold, proscriptive and
high-handed aims of the colored
people. and the Topeka papers IN
der flaming headlines give an ac-
count of how the white people have
arisen and drove several colored
people off their claims and declared
their firm determination not to let
them return. These colored people
are now in Oklahoma City awaiting
federal intervention. The majority
of the white people in Oklahoma
Territory are from the Northern and
Western States, and are republicans
in politics, besides, but they are so
intensely wrought up on the color
question that it is freely and conf
IDENTIFY predicted that if McCabe, the
negro, is appointed governor of the
territory he will be assassinated
within week after his entry. 1t will
be quite interesting, says the Times
Democrat, to watch the progress of
this movement to found and estab-
fish a second Hayti within the limits
of Uncle Sans domain.