Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-07

Here is something from Indiana, the
home Of Benjamin Harrison, where two
of his delegates are deprived of their
liberty because they could not pay their
fare back to Dixie and sought to kill
the conductor who demanded it.
Had the incident occurred in this State
the New York Tribune would have an
nounced it as another "Southern out
rage" and the Morning Ne,OS would
have blackguarded the judge who pro-
nounced Judgment on the jury who
would have found tine delegates guilty.
1t might have given Senator Higgins
another opportunity to invade and
overthrow the criminal justice of the
State by writ of error to the Supreme
Court. But, as it is, it may only show
rejecting men one kind of material of
which the convention of the Republican
party is composed, and one kind of men
who are empowered to select their Presi-
dental candidate.
PROBLEM FOR NORTHERN NEGROES.
| Chicago Herald, June 49,
There is something peculiarly suggestive
| though not necessarily characteristic-in
the shadow of trouble which envelops the
two negro delegates to Minneapolis now
in prison at Michigan City, Ind. They
tried to beat" their way home. and when
a conductor attempted to put them off the
train they resisted so savagely that q
charge of murderous assault was preferred
against them, and proved OH trial They
were condemned to two years at hard
labor, and have already begun serving the
sentence.
little while ago these men were chosen
to represent their section of the Republl-
can party south at the Minneapolis con
yeation. The conclusion seems reasonable
that they were us good or better than the
average of their constituents. They
shouted for Harrison in season and out oi
season all the way from Dixie to the FALL
of St. Anthony. They marched and yclleC
and drank aud Woodland saw the full
iillment of their desires. Harrison wa
named.
Meantime colored men ut the nortl
} were opposing the President because IN
did not protect the race at the south. A
the moment when these northern freemeI
were frowning disguised ut the indiana
I mans selection, the southern freeman, hi
pockets lined his soul ecstatic was tread
ing high i'll Minneapolis and coutemplat
ing the glorles of triumphant return to hi
: | home,
But lie must have dallied by the waysid
somewhere Maybe he stopped in Chicas
and permitted the northern freeman I
punish him by winning his money at tn
n cruel game Of craps. Anyway he eXhaustc
e all his resources and then tried the wiz
II ming effect of bluff on railway train, II
d reached Peru, Ind, after some days Of il
4 glorious struggle and then wcpt tears
delegate never should know as he sat in
e cell and pOndered the charge Of felonior
d assault There could be no grand recel
ton ut his southern home. Tie dream
q professions and bands and speeches an
attendant glories OF Il grateful kind-th
dream was shattered BY the chilly rOusil
n OF an Indiana jury.
:. President Harrison may secure pardo
for Them and so repay again their labo
lie in his behalf; but they have written Il
,s moral and the country has read it. +,
y while they are waiting executive Clement
u the northern freeman is wondering il til
,e sort of colored Republican voter III Il
south can be protected by any President
4 under any law.
lie The foolish man finds pitfalls co
l. stantly,