Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-06-09

strictly n test one ana tnat tney are
stronger. Some sentiment was aroused.
they say, by the fact that the New
Workers as whole asked for IL In the
following letter;
To Members Of the Republican National Com
mittee
Gentcmcn--we the undersigned. respect.
fully submit j. Sloat Fassctt to he made ten.
porary chairman Thomas C. platt. Chnuncey
NJ Dcpcw, Warner Miller, Frank Hiscock
John Dwight, who held Mr.. Fassett's
proxy, put him in nomination. The
most effective speech was made by Fcs-
sender, who said that Fassctt was a re-
publican worker who had taken the
gubernatorial nomination and sacri-
feed himself for the country.
A resolution was adopted urging that
Gen. Malone be placed on the national
executive committee.
The following have been selected
officers of the convention;
Temporary secretaries Charles W johnson.
Minneapolis William Arthur Polk Onto Car.
don Lake, New York; Gen Lee, san Francis.
co; Joseph q. brown, Pennsylvania, W y
Brownlow, Tennesseei A. S. Clark Massaohu
sets
Assistant sccrotarics-T + simons, Califor.
mia; u o. Churchmln, Delaware, Aaron Brad.
shaw, District Of Columbia; Charles Hopkins,
Ohio; a. W. Monroe, Maryland. G. s. Morris,
Kentucky. j. w. Dmmick, Alabama; James
Blaine Walker, Montana Il V. McAllister,
Mississippi; Otto Grammo, Wyoming
Reading clerks-C. r. Hancy, Minneapolis:
J. II Stone, Michigan; John s Kenyon New
York! H. s. Oliver, Ohio. Charles Curtiss
Kansas; Charles Partridge, Illinois, Thomas
u. Miels, Wisconsin, w. E. Riley Kentucky.
onicial stenographers Theodore C. Rose,
~ II ~
THE CoLoRED PEOPLE.
The movement started In Chicago
having for its object the protection OF
negroes in the south from violence and
lawlessness and in their right to vote,
has come In Minneapolis to u point
where IL seems TO figure in the politi.
cal fight over the nomination for presi.
dent.
The movement now has the support
of j. NJ. Langston, of Virginia, while
ex-Senators Bruce and Lynch, who rep,
resent the other wing of the negro ele,
ment, are opposed To the scheme. Lang,
ston, in an interview yesterday, said
that the negoes proposed TO push the
matter. lie said:
The feeling Of the colored people in one word
| spect to the position OF the white and colored
| voters Of the south should be secured through
| the agency OF the republican party OF the
| United States. II there Ia no need for loglsla
tion It ia the feeling OF the colored people ant
their friends that the laws heretofore enacted
| should be promptly and erectualy enforced
| These laws, calculated to enforce the docNincl
| and principles OF the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments have been entirely ignored nnt
| left neglected and unonforced by the presen
| administration Of the general government i
Is generally felt by the coored people tina
| Attorney General Miller is man Wa.
| ing in legal knowledge and dlspc,,itiop :,
enforce the laws upon tho basis OF rcconstrnc
iion In the south, that he will In fact do no,h
| ing as Encouragement 10 this end The coInrc,
men feel that with Attornoy.G General Milo
again In the cabinet OF the president, no chang,
| could be expected In the administration OF IN,
| department OF justice and we would be left II
the Same condition that we are to-day win
murder lynching and other deeds goina ,inpun
ished. We desire change and change whlcl
| may benefit the southern section of our countr,
| through the influence OF laws WISE y naintnIno,
and enforced We mcas to organize and To 90
from the national convention u high brave pa
| trlotic uttcranco on the subject Of tho protec
| tion OF the negroes In the south
Auditor Lynch, Of the treasury, sale
that he has not heard of any organized
movement and announced himself al
opposed to IT, lie said that the colore,
men expected Of the republican party
and would secure Of il, recognition o
their rights. What they wanted ant
would ask was that the party shoult
put in its platform II plank guarantee
ing TO the colorcd men the right 10 vot,
and TO b. free from intimidation. The,
| wanted "a law passed for the fndern
control of elections wherever righ
was denied to them, but he again re
marked that he would not take part II
such movement us the present seemed
| to be.