Evening journal., 1891-04-04
couRTINe THE NEGRO voTE.

couRTING THE NEGRO VOTE.
Referring to the negro colonization
scheme published by our bright young
man at Dover yesterday The Morning
News says
We have known In dim sort OF way
for some time that plane were being con
sidered for festive gathering of Della
ware negroes at Dover. The scheme
seemed to us TO be so preposterous and,
In political sense suicidal, that we
have fancied that it would come to
nothing All the addenda of this eorre-
spoudent In regard to Virginia, Maryland
and Pennsylvania negroes are mere
fiction-falsehood is perhaps the word to
convey the exact idea--and are the nat.
ural and spontaneous method by which
/ the Democrats seek to make
political capital for themselves out
Of the proposed affair. We did
not think 1t likely that the Democrats
would try, in characteristic fashion. to
make capital out Of the proposed affair
before It came of, although we knt
that they would do so sooner or later
At that game-as between what the
Republicans gain by courting the negro
vote and what the Democrats gain by
absurd, but still effective prophesies OF
negro rule in this state-we believe that
the msior advantage lies with the Demo-
Gratis. II therefore seems TO us to be q
foolish game to play.
In the above the News admits and de
nies, then admits again and pailiates the
scheme Of negro colonization.
II the News had q dim idea that q
plan was being concocted for an innocent
festive gathering" why not publish
what news 1t hadl 1t scarcely ever mani
tests any sort Of knowledge except in q
''dim sort Of way so that there would
have been nothing unusual If the dim
ness had been thick enough to cut with a
knife in this case.
But why did not the News publish
what it admits 10 knew. There Is only
one reason obvious. namely, that the
publication wonld jeopsrdizs the success
of the Republican gain by courting
the negro vote There Is no other
reason why the announcement of a
negro festival should be suppressed
OF course the editor Of the News de
clares that the EVENING JOURNAL cor
respondent is not reliable. That is ex-
pected. when he discovers and tells an
unweloome truth which those interested
In have been suppressing We expect
attacks Of that sort, and yet this plucky
and reliable little paper has never been
compelled to deny piece OF news during
its career. We have told some startling
stories, too. We have always told them
first and stuck TO them till the evidence
was iucontrovertible IF you see it in
the EVENING JOURNAL It's 50, is as true
Of this story OF negro colonization as
we're the stories of Cummins, Swiggett,
Pierce, Cotton and others chat we bave
been the first Co tell. often before our
duh contemporaries knew them even in
'dim sort of way
Tho editor Of the News is not admitted
into the schemes of his party managers
They may sometimes permit him to gain
a "dim sort" Of knowledge TO tickle his
vanity and preserve his loyalty, but they
have not trusted him heretofore and they
do not impart any more than dim"
knowledge now. They consider him
leaky, pettulant and generally impru
dent.
Hence according TO the News the
story stands pat, and admitted in part.
but exaggerated. The fact that the Re.
publicans play "at the game" Of court
ing the negro vote is admitted and con-
frmed. though the News palliaJes its
admission by the deprecatory and inef-
fectivs philosophy, TO be forgotten before
election, that, sit seems to us foolish
game TO play"
The chief objection to tue Republican
party In the South is that il becomes
simply negro party. Why does not the
News use its efforts to induce it's leaders
to stop the game Of negro courting2i
Why mildly deprecate it when there Is
no election to condone and profit by II
at electloni
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