The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-09

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course in cruelty in the south invented
IN these later wears when the Republican
| administration has plainly relaxed it;
! purpose to install the negro IN every
public right and has conceded TO the
/ southern sentiment that. while ali should
| be allowed To vote, no one, black Oh
white, should. if ignorant or unworthy.
be placed in office or power over any
| people north or south
The very act Of the north in thus
moderatlng its feelings after the war
and in counseiing the negroes trst Il
! qualify themselves for citizenship anu Il
| seek only such places as they are quail
| fed TO fill. and the action OF the patient
| negroes themselves IN conforming tC
| this position, instead Of making more
gentle and humane the treatment OF the
negroes in the south, seemed to intensity
and multiply the wrongs and cruelties on
their defenSeless heads.
While no one pretends to excuse
ignorance or crime through ignorance,
and while every intelligent person
knows the danger and menace of mass
of ignorant voters, and while the intel
Iigent people of the north have svmpa-
thized with the southern people In theI
contests with the vast Smount Of HIT
eraCy among black and white people
alike, the south has taken sym
patty as a license for 1t 10 stain
the history of America with re
Deated atrocities on negroes, guilty aud
innocent alike, for whom their courts
afforded means of punishment, quick,
ample aud sure
That a Republican president-when
the south, neither in its press nor by any
public utterance of its people, condemns
such cruelties-should, IN selecting a
supreme judge from the south, choose
man who represents such cruelty to
the negro, and that he should do 1t on
the very day after a negro had been
burned alive and tortured with the pas
sive consent of state and local authOri-
ties in a southern state makes 1t stranger
and both more uuaccountable and more
to be condemned. In the south were
United States Judges on the circuit
bench peers of Jackson in Judicial ability
and record, and with personal records so
fair that not even the most malignant
southerner would have challenged their
honor.
whether this act of President Harri-
son, the greatest solecism IN party poll
tics ever committed by any president,
and the first instance since the founda-
ton Of the Republic of president selec-
ting for the supreme court man of the
opposite political party, was done in per-
sOnal pique over his own defeat, or from
whatever nature OF cause, the Repubi-
can senate owes to the party of Lincoln,
Grant and Blaine to condemn it. To &C.
. Il 10 to
Republcanism a sham and all its glori-
Gus principles canting hypOcrlsies. For
any senator of the Republican faith to
vote for it Is to stultify himself and his
party as much as if he had voted for
Cleveland in November.
.'If Democrats and unrecanted believ-
ers in secession and states rights, free
trade, and hatred of Union soldiers
may be appointed to the supreme
bench by a Republican president
and confirmed by Republican
senate, there would seem to
have come a time when there Is no need
for a Republican to live at all. There
NAV be and is, and long will be, an
honest difference of opinion as to the
Negroes right to citizenship and office
holding. Although the Republican party
is bound by every covenant of honor TO
uphold his manhood and finally estab-
fish his citizenship, of the recOil of con-
science against the unspeakable cruelty
toward the black race, now so rife IN the
south, there can be no question in any
American home where either honor or
unity abides. The Negroes right as hui
man being finds defense in our Christian
ity as a people, if not Ill our politics as a
nation.
after the enemies of his common
rights to untortured existence, or to kind
treatment even as an animal, have come
into possession of the presidency and the
congress they might well have been left
to give of themselves end by the peo-
pies consent the one last thing, the SD
preme court.
"If a states rights man OF southern
and unrecanted secession ideas must be
on the supreme bench, and be In the end
the final one to give it a Democratic
majority, the Republican senate ought
not to be a party to- it. Let such an APP
pointment wait to be made by a state )
rights, anti-negro, anti-pension, anti
tariff, anti Republican, anti-natlonal
president and senate. The Republican
party, which is still living, and which IS
to rule again in the nation despite any
mans disappointment, may well be
saved from the present reproach and
the historical disnonor Of such an act OF
parfdy and wrong becoming an accom-
plished fact"