The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-07-28

continent, the equal of it in location,
for beauty. ] thought l was entering
college grounds when l started from
YOUR electric cars to the ofica ,
the general passenger .oen,
The Sedalia people are y. .,aouh,s sI'
happy at the taste disr. .,.ved Nv tho:
who have built VI YOUR citv. You
court house is one Of the most com
modlous and splendidly situated
have ever SEEN"
"What do you think Of the Negroe'
n this place."
81 have not had a chance to see a!
!, much of them as I desire, but truth
compels me to say that they make az
excellent showing. Quite a number
"a 9 Z Il own their own homes. 1t i
said that many of them are doing
their own thinking, and this 1 believe
from the treatment which l have re.
ceived at their hands. Their teachers,
Jones and Lane, as well as their lead.
ing preachers Revs. j. Will jackson,
Howell and Wright, have been more
than friendly to me in my work here.
l have not only been given the best
TO eat which your market affords, but
l have been given a room in which to
sleep, the picture Of neatness."
Do many of the Negroes read your
paper' "Oh yes, about eighty or
ninety. Some Of them are heard to
complain when they hear that l, am a
tariff reformer and . democrat, but
their objections are easily argued
away. The sensible and progressive
black men subscribe for the paper
whenever an opportunity is presented.
They say that they want to know
both sides. 1t may sound strange TO
you but it is true. There are in this
country nearly 5000 tariff reformers
enrolled as such, each of whom can
read and write. In fact, l never talk
politics with a man of my race, ex-
peciing to win him over, unless he
can at least read and write. If you
meet a Negro able to read and write,
able to solve q problem in short
division, you fiod him liberal and will
ling to hear both sides Of question.
The Uncle lips of my race, if they
vote the democratic ticket, while on
earth they stay, l shall be surprised.
The intelligent negro is the one that
the democrats must hope to influence.
Of course here and there an ignorant
one may vote for you out Of friend
ship but the great body
of them will remain until
they die steadfast to the Republican
party. When that party dies, which
it will in a few years, the old litter
ates fellows. to whom l refer. will be
found standing in line like sheep still
to vote the ticket and will leave the
polls broken hearted because nobody
brought them a publican ticket. 1t
makes no difference whose name is on
that ticket so it is called a publican
ticket The educated and tsxpaying
Negro however is a very different
creature. He regards white man as
q white man without regard to the
political party with which he affiliates
and this kind of a Negro will be found
voting more for man than for party.
In other words the blackman is rap
idly learning white folks sense.
Douglass, Bruce, Lynch, Langston
and other Negroes who have been kept
IN fat offices for the purpose of turn
ing over the Negro vote will be found
in the future to have lost their
power.
"What do you think Of the Alliance
and the Industrial Unions?" These
organizations like oilers Of
the same kind though
known by other names will
soon be u thing of
the past. There can only be two great
parties. A party to be perpetual
must be incubated, formed on other
bases than that upon which the tar.
mers movement is based in order 10
live. In theory Henry George and
other reformers are all right but in
practice they are at sea with leak
ing ship, nor can they find life boats
or life preservers. There are a few
demands asked by these people that
democrats have always favored, even
if they have not so expressed and
those demands the democrats will con.
tend for and obtain on behalf of the
people. The democratic party is
really the party of the poor man, the
same time it is not the enemy of any
honest man whatever his calling may
be. On he other hand the republi-
can partJ is the home of the classes
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