St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-08
Frederick L. McGhee, the Col
ored Lawyer,Was Crowd
ed Off the Ticket.
A Meeting Of Colored Men Ap-
points a Committee of
Investigation.
Fillmore Republicans Failed
to Deliver All Their Goods
at Austin.

no end of sympathy for the cOlored peo-
pie i'll the South, vino, they allege, are
not allowed to cast their votes and have
them counted. In their platforms they
demand that this shall be changed. and
their speakers on the stump are able to
find no language too violent or too
strong with which to denounce' this So
called color discrimination.
But this sympathy is all for the negro
in the South; for the colored man in
Minnesota the Republicans have only
contempt, and no possible time for him
except at election time. The Repub-
licans of Minnesota want tne negro to
rule in the South, but In Minnesota
they will not allow him to run for Il
purely honorary Office even after he has
been fairly nominated.
The action of the late Republican
state convention III placing Prof. Car
SON. of st. Peter, on the Republican
electoral ticket in place of Frederick l..
McGhee. the colOred attorney of this
city, who was nominated at the previ-
Gus convention, completed one or the
most unfair and cowardly transactions
i'll the history of state politics. MI.
McGhee did not resign his place on the
electoral ticket. He was crowded off
to make place for man of certain
nationality, which the leaders were
foolish enough to believe so un-Ameri-
can as to gulp down this bait.
Naturally enough the treatment of
Mr.. McGhee has aroused the cOlored
people the Twin Cities, and they are
up in arms about 1T. About forty of
the representative colOred men of ST.
nj r CIV
day afternoon to discuss the matter.
After talking some time a committee
was appointed to wait upon Mr. Nc
Ghee and learn his position. If he will
consent to appear at a public meeting.
one will be called to denounce the &C
ton of the Republican leaders. This
committee is made up of the following:
G.. G.. Allen, s. E. Hardy, j. II. LOOmlS,
j. Henry, r. Anderson, Z. f. Williams
and F. ID. Parker. The real facts in
the case were stated in this weeks
Negro World. Mr.. McGhee tried to get
before the Republican state committee
Saturday. but was given no satisfac-
ton. When he was asked in regard to
the matter he said:
IL did not resign the nomination, and
/ am here to see what the members of
the committee propose to do about it.
the courts will"
Beyond this the colored attorney
would say nothing, but his version of
the matter is given very clearly in the
following from the Negro World:
The shameful treatment that f.
L. McGhee, the c0lored electOr at large,
has received at the hands of the Repub-
lican party of Minnesota, if not resented
at the polls by the negroes of this state,
will stigmatlze them as the willing vic
tins of the party. who by one full stroke,
would nullify their enfranchlsement.
A representative of the Negro World
made an investigation of the facts sur
rounding the case, and were found to be
substantially as follows: Mr.. McGhee
was met by one Lamb Ca wolf in sleeps
clothing), assistant secretary of the Re
publican state convention, that met in
May and nominated presidential elect
ors, and demand was made for $50, re-
quired by law, to satisfy the expenses
of printing his name on the tickets. In
this conversation, that occurred several
days after the aforesaid convention, Mr..
McGhee declared that he could not. pay
the money at that time and meet other
pecuniary obligations, but he said that
he would pay it before the expiration
of the time required by law, which is
twenty-eight days before the election.
Lamb eXacted written statement from
McGhee to that effect, which he readily
gave. A few days afterwards McGhee
noticed a statement in daily paper, in
connection with the report of the state
central committee, that he had de-
clined to serve as an eiector. There
upon, McGhee penned communication
to Mr.. BiXby, secretary of the commit
tee, denying the statement in positive
terms, stating that in ample time the
$50 that he was required to pay would
be forthcoming. This communication
was not acted upon by the committee
until one day last week. Before the
meeting of the committee, during the
day, McGhee met the chairman of the
Republican committee, and explained
everything to his satisfaction, and was
assured that no act of the committee
would invalidate his position as the
legal elector Oh the Republican ticket.
However, he was requested to be pres
ent at the meeting or the committee,
which he promised to do. but circum-
stances over which he had 10 control
prevented him from being present. Nc
Ghee's letter to the secretary of the
committee was read before that body.
but in the face of the positive assurance
that he would meet all the obligations
required by law as Republican elector,
that was the terms of the aforesaid
letter to the secretary, the only official
statement from him that the committee
could act upon, he was chopped Off the
ticket. and his name was substituted
for that of Swede, whether an alien
or an American citizen. the committee
did not stop to consider in its hurry to
unload the negro in accordance with
Ben HarriSon'S idea of establishing a
white mans Republican party north as
well as south OF Mason and Dixon's
line.