Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1893-05-11
AGAINST "lllY.WHITEs. !"
From .SHn Of Nay 3.

members of the republican party
was declared last night ut a meeting
of the Monumental Colored Liter,
AIRY and Scientific Association oi
Grace Presbyterian Church. Harry
). Cummings, the colored ex-City
Councilman from the eleventh ward,
m2de an address on Our Side oil
the Lily-White Republican Move.
ment.' The Literary as the Is.
scciation ispopularly known, isno,
4 political orgauizatiou andd doe
hos olslhsarisss - ssl;.;oI: s,rs.
blems, but the recent action Of the
slily-whites' has so aroused the
wrath OF its members that some ac-
ton on its part was considered
necessary.
Ex-Councilmam Cummings ad-
dress was too conservative to suit
the majority of his hearers, who
denounced the 'whitewashed states
men, and latter-day saints in the
most vigorous terms, aud promised
to slaughter them politically when
ever they had the chance.
The distinctive name 'lily-whites'
was obtained at the Minneapolis
republican convention last year, and
was given to distinguish a certain
element in the convention whose an. /.
ti-negro sentiments were pronounc-
ed. The ex-Councilman claimed
that the effort of this element to
eliminate from the republican party
its bone and sinew' was unprece-
dented, and that il was bold effort
of the minority to mold the major
ity to its will. He did not believe
the movement had the Endorsement
OF the republican party, but said it
was the work of 'whitewashed states
men, whose hatred and antagoism
to the colored man was stronger
than their loyalty to the party
LAWYER CUMMINGS Is AMUSED.
The address issued by the lily
white republicans calling for VOL
unteers to swell their number was
to me- Lawyer Cummings continu-
ed, an amusing document. 1t was,
indeed as amusing as the movement
itself has been from its inception.
Despite the fact that no energy has
been spared on the part of those
interested, they have as yet failed to
bring within the fold any part OF
the republican organization or any
of those republicans who are liberal
in their donations for republican
success.
The movement as it grows, OF
rather is talked about, still shows
that deep at its foundation turks a
prejudice against the colored voter
and a constant fear and dread that
his numbers in the party will even
tually bring him success. The
movement is an attempt to stop the
onward march of the progressive
negro in politics. 1t started by a
resolution introduced by white
republican residing in the eleventh
ward, but a member of the Eutav
Republican Club. The aspiration
of colored men for positions oi
honor and trust in the party and
their success in that direction tC
some extent, their demand for re
presentation, their battles for theiI
rights within the lines of the party
have caused this small band o.
patriots, who despise a colored man
however able and capable, to attempI
to drive from the party a loyal anC
faithful element.
In their address they say among
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other things that 'the republican
party liberated the colored man anC
gave him his suffrage The par
that the colored man played in th'
history of this country Immediately
preceding his emancipation and hi
enjoyment of the right of suffrag,
the battles in which he fought
the blood he split for the feedom o
this country from disruption anC
destruction-makes whatever b,
may have gotten a well-deserveC
gift.
'Our duty with reference to th,
movement is to take no action unit
the representative republicans of tn
city and State have taken some &C
ton in the matter. In the mean
| time / think it not an unwise polio,
to show by words how unwise, AM
indeed how suicidal to the interest
of the party, is this attempt to per