The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-18
THRAPROAMERlCANS
Hold a Mass Meeting and March
Out of the Liberal Party.
BULLDOzERs TRY TO BREAK IT UP
The Tribune Calls Their Women Wenches,
and Barnes Makes Them Battle
In the Black Hole"

The first Republican meeting OF AFRO
Americans in Utah, was held at the federal
courtroom yesterday evening.
An effort was made to break 1t up but
that was frustrated by the chairman, F. H.
Grice, who ruled over the deliberations OIL
the meeting with Tom Reed tactics, ruling
the distrrbers out of the meeting. w. A.
Smith acted as secretary. z. B. Critch-
ow, Marshal Parsons, Arthur Pratt, John
Devine, H. r Wstrous, ]. H. Ward and
Mic Treweek were present to tell the
coiored man what mighty things the g. o. p.
had done for the race.
James Devine said that Republican prin-
ciples were broad enough for white and
colored men to serve on the same com
mittees, ana he did not think it best for the
colored men to organize club Of their own,
but to join the regular Republican clubs.
This was acquiesced in.
E. b. Critchlow claimed that it was the
colored men, such as Bruce, who had IA
vored the restoration Of the franchise to
their masters who had denied it 70 them.
Speaking Of local policies. he said: "All
that has been done for Utah by the Liberal
club, yea, more too. can be done by the Re
pub lican party"
X. V. johnson, q half and half negro
with the air Of tin horn gambler, sporting
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light diamond and other Franklin avenue
embellishments, who had been hired to
raise q rumpus and break up the meeting,
got up and began spreading himself on q
Liberal speech. But Chairman Gree was
quick to see that a job had been put up and
he brought the gavel down with knock
out, saying:
"You win stop right here. you are out of
order, this is no Liberal meeting" There
was an uproar sustaining the chair and
johnson skunk into his seat and at the first
chance joined bis white pals in the rear.
This raised Golfer who after observing
''dat dis vas Q Publican meeting" raised
his Ebeneezer for the e. o. p, winding up
with this panesyric: "De Publican party
buried de handouts Of damnation," which
sentiment Critchlow and Marshal Parsons
approved by stamping the dust out Of the
floor.
j. Fl. Ward made a speech reviewing the
WORK of organizing the Republican party
Throughout the territory.
Benjamin Buchanan Nesbitt, colored
barber, said: "Thero are Democrats in
the Liberal party that II they had their
way would chain you again. When Louis
Hyams presented my name for policeman
the mayor said that ii would be disgrace
10 give u colored man a position where a
white man would have to serve under him.
When was On the police force Chief Stan
ton snatched Ely badge from me instead OF
allowing me Q chance to resign az he would
if had been q white man. That's the way
they treat the colored man. II we want 10
take bath il the Warm springs owned by
| the city, Hank Barnes will not allow Us 10
20 in with the white man, but sends
us to the black hole That's what they
think Of US. And yet they ask Us to vote
them into Office. When the country was
broke, dead broke ana didn't have cent,
and whisky 40 cents a gallon, the Repub-
lican party came to its rescue and saved
the country. That is the party for us.
| We HAD a colored man who died from ex
posture while wading through the mud,
and the Liberals would not give him de-
cent burial. When q white man died, they
got out the band"
This was too much for Powers, Chief
Stanton and jake Greenwaid, who were
present, and they decamped.
The platform adopted enumerates the
love of the Republican party for the black
man in six Wnereases and five Resolves,
pledging the colored gentlemen to vote the
1 straight Republican ticket