Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-10
UNB0TTLED ELOQUENCE.
THE COLORED BROILES CLUB
LISTENS SPELL-BOUND
While Orator Hayes Tells Them of Their
Wrongs and How to Right
the Same.

A colored political meeting was held Tues
day night at about S: 30 at the corner O
Twelfth and Calhoun streets. The oil
speaker of the occasion was colored politj
clan named R. H. Hayes.
He started in by saying that he had moth
ing to say against B, B. Paddock for h
| didn't doubt but that he was a fine man
but that Mr.. Paddock represented too mucl
| OF the bon ton element to suit his taste, an,
| that BrolleS was the coming mayor if tht
negroes would all unite and support him.
Just at this juncture a small negro boy
that had been assigned to the pleasant tasl
of beating big bass drum that had beer
provided to call the assembly to ordel
| hammered the head nearly out of it re
CARELESS of the yells of the speaker to stor
that drum. After awhile the youngstel
| was stopped in his ardent demonstrations
on the drum and the speaking went on,
| Hayes extolled the virtues of DR.. Broiles
in the highest manner.
He said, = tell you he is in the ashes
with US; he is down right here with US and
| Is one of US, and will eat jerked beef and
| salt junk with u.s."
DR.. Broiles, he said, had been prosecuted
by a remorseless council when he was
mayor, and they bounded the poor man I'M
vi ne was miserable, and would have Quit
his JOB If it had not been for the salary.
paddock never sheered the bitter pangs
OF sorrow with the negro, but Broiles has. -
Some one in the crowd lust aboIt this
time yelled ''Hurrah for Paddock. % which
rlled Hayes considerably, and he remarked
Jnat TINS was a BroileS meeting and that
they were paying for coal oil for a Broiles
meeting, and if the party emitting the howl
for Paddock wanted to start a little meet
ing all to himself let HIM get some coal oil
OF ms own and start his meeting, and not
infringe on theirs.
Again the little neoro rot in bie ,-o.l- -,
the bass drum.
Hayes claims that he is neither Repub-
hcau or Democrat, but is Independent
and wants third panty in the field that
Will split both thu Democrats and Republi-
cans IN half and make things interesting In
Texas II he was in the calaboose neither
party would get him out. The trouble
with most of the negroes was. SO he
asserted, that they thought it was all
for the white man and nothing
Tor the negro. The Democrats in Texas
had ignored the negro and the Republicans
had quilted them and bled them
He then gave Paddock another rub or
Two. 1T was said that Paddock built
railroad all by his lonesome self, and that
he could bring Eastern money to Texas,
but Texas had better sell out entirely to
the East and quit, for the East owned two
thirds of it now"
''None of the rich people ever had invited
negro TO drive with them, because he
smelt too bad.i
He let up on the Democrats for while
and began to eulogize Alderman White
whom he claimed he succeeded in having
nominated and did much towards his cleo
ton. White would be such a
big angel when he died, that
his wings would stick out of the windows
OF heaven, because he had befriended the
negro faithfully. He then put in nomina- 1
hon for alderman Of the Third ward ]. p.
Moore, and prophesied that if elected he |
would also wear one of those pairs of pro- |
truding wings.
Mayor Smith came in for share of the |
roasting, and Hayes wished to know why |
us honor would not permit the negroes of |
he city 10 work on the new waterworlxs |
and also why in Gods name West Seventh |
aad never been opened up
The small boy with the bass drum, who'll
lad ialIen asleep woke up at this and wore 7
tut the drum-head while the crowd dis
)ersed.