The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-30
Founder" Bradley's Case.

"Founder" Bradley's Case.
BRADLEY OF Asbury Park does not de
serve to get the votes Of the colored Repub
licans there and thereabout in his candl
dacy for the New Jersey State Senate. Th
colored voters are able to defeat him, ant
they are bound In honor to do it.
They need not care rap about his often
sive conduct toward them last summer. o.
about his prohibiting them from prone
nading on the board walk which he reserved
for the use Of white folks, or about the biz
25-foot placard which he stuck up near the
choicest OF his sea-beach pavilions: "Col
ored persons are requested not to occupy
this pavilion" or about any Of the Other
things which stirred up their anger against
| him last July. He kept within the law wher
| he made the rules for visitors to his sum.
| mer resort: and. II the colored people die
not like his rules. they could stay away
from his place.
They ought to vote against him. and
knock him out at the polls. because Of his
conduct siEce he became a candidate for
political office. 1t has been grossly insult
ing to them. In trying to win them over
to his support he has treated them like
that are an insult to their moral nature.
Let them consider his actions during the
past week. On Tuesday he called a meet
ing OF the colored voters at Red Bank.
and the posters which he stuck up gave
notice that it was "for colored voters
only" At that meeting-now listen to
this. colored Americans The provided for
the attendants. what2 Why. brethren! he
provided an outraged He tried to get them
to forget his conduct of last summer. by
furnishing the colored voters with ".refresh-
ments." Was not this bribery? Was 1t not
an attempt to win them over by unlawful
means2 Was 1t not too thin? We should
think that they must have felt the insult.
II decent white voters had been approached
In that way. they would have smashed
the tables upon which the corrupting re-
freshments were set. and flung them to the
dogs. They would have done nothing less
than this II they were honorable men. The
refreshments consisted Of sliced ham. beef
sandwiches. and sundry other things: we
don't ccre what they were. They were not
meant to lead colored voters to form calm
and unpreiudiced judgment upon BRAD
LEY's political pretensions. Some white
citizens went to the meeting; they were
ordered to find seats In the galleries. That
was right.
At the meeting Candidate BRADLEY made
speech; but before he began 1t he gave
orders for the entertainment Of the colored
voters in a way that some colored folks may
like. He had hired colored string orches-
ira. colored cornet band. and a colored
baritone vocalist. The string orchestra
played seductive melodies; the cornet band
gave voice to heroic aspirations; the bari
tone vocalist aroused the tenderest emo
tions OF the soul. Everything thus far was
colored. excepting the white men up In the
galleries.
Is not BRADLEY acute? Physical refresh
ments and musical refreshment for the col
ored voters. while yet he himself kept still
as mouse.
At last the mellow tones OF the colored
baritone singer ceased. BRADLEY was on
the stage. What speech he made! 1t was
enough to turn every self-respecting col
ored voter against him. He declared In a
plaintive voice that he was not an enemy OF
the colored people; that he had often aided
colored persons; that he had helped to build
Il colored church in Asbury Park: that he
had set up an aged Ethiopian in business
that he raised SIS for u colored institution
years ago by singing at n jubilee concert;
that he attended colored meetings in his
that upon one occasion he sung
a hymnin the company OF colored woman;
that he was once on intimate terms with
his colored coachman; that he had be-
friended poor colored brushmaker; that
he had never called his old colored Jehu a
g niger" and that the colored voters OF
the Senate district ought to rally around
him in solid body.
Now. then, fellow citizens Of color In As |
bury Park. does not this kind OF talk make |
you Sick, even when preceded by music and |
followed by refreshments Can you ever |
send to the New Jersey State Senate man |
who talks TO you in that way. and must |
think you are FOOLS
While BRADLEY was making this speech |
rom the stage. there sat near him two lit |
tle daikies in knickerbockers. to whom he
for confirmation OF the truth OF
his remarks. and n colored man and woman
'panglcd like clowns who were devoted to
him; he had also colored touters in the
audience to answer his questions. Did you
aver hear OF the like?
BRADLEY tried to clear up his record of
asst summer lie said he mad to keep the
,olored people off the board walk because
,he white people wanted it he had to pro-
libit them from entering the pavilion be-
cause the whites objected to their presence:
md he had to put up the offensive pacard
rs means OF pleasing tho white patrons OF
MS hotels and bounding houses. in which
Y, 800 COO had been invested. II WAS thus
hat Founder BRADLEY tried to apologize
% the o"'pred voters whose support he is
'n%, ~ 10 get as II candidate for Office. We
'ay again, 1t is too thin
The dcspaLcn,s from Asbury Park which