Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-10-13
FEDERAL ELECTION LAW.
A Tale Of "Two Races as Told by
Hon. Champ Clark, Of Missouri.


Hon. Champ Clark, Of Missouri.
The most effective speech, perhaps,
and that which contained more home
ly logic and ruggid eloquence than
any other address made in the House
of Congress during the pendency of
the Tucker repeal bill, was that by
Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, and
which is said to have been largely re-
sponsible for the magnificent Demo
cratic victory on the Federal election
repeal bill. After a mastery array of
facts and figures, Mr.. Clark stirred the
hearts of his hearers to their depths,
both of feeling and sentiment, with
the following words;
The poor negrol The Republican
heart is always bleeding for the poor
negro-at long range. Laughtcr)
Two of the most beautiful lines in
all literature are these, from Camp
BELLS pleasures of Hope"
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Just so with the colored man and
the Republicans. Distance lends en-.
chantment to him in their eyes, and
the greater the distance the greater
the enchsntment. [Laughter.] Up
in the regions of the aurora borealis
they lie awake at nights bemoaning
his sad fate and shedding copious
tears over his fancied wrongs; but
down in his habitat, where he really
lives, and where, to borrow an astron-
omical phrase, they are brought into
iuxtaposition with him, their sympa-
thy ceases, their philantrophy dies,
the fountain of their tears dries up,
they wipe their weeping eyes, and,
like the Levitc described in Holy
Scripture, pass by on the other side.
| Applause on the Democratic side.l
Speaking for the people Of kentucky,
among whom | was born, as well as
those Of Missouri, among whom l
live, and understanding the full inn
port of my language, | say that we
who were reared among the negroes,
who played with them in childhood
and whose children are nursed by
them now, are at heart better friends
to the negroes than all the Republi-
cans who ever apotheosized old John
Brown or walked beneath the light Of
the North Star. Laughter and ap-
plause on the Democratic side.
For political reasons they are very
particular to. speak of him as negro;
from force of habit we call him plain
"nigger." They feed hlm taffy; we
give him the creature comforts of this
life They build for him magnificent
"castles in Spain," which he can never
inhabit; we erect for him unpreten-
tious cabins and bid HIM be happy
with his wife and pickaninnies.
! ILaughter.l They stuff his head with
aesthetic philosophy; we furnish
school-houses for his children and en-
ploy teachers for their education.
They give him allopathic doses OF
sympathy in magazines, newspapers
and public speeches. We minister to
his wants in sickness, in distress and
in every time of trouble. They urge
him to break into the best society of
the South, which he can never do; we
give him employment whereby to earn
an honest living. They stir up his
heart to mutiny and rage by incen-
diary appeals to his love of political
supremacy; we take him kindly by the
hand and in words of truth and sober
ness say to him: "My brother in
black, we are in the same boat, inhab-
itants of the same locality, confronted
by the same dangers, surrounded by
the same difficulties, menaced by the
same perils, travelling to the same
destiny. Our fortunes are inextrlca-
bly, bound up with yours; our prosper
ity is your prosperity; our adversely
is your adversely. Come, let us rea-
son together; live in peace, make the
best of a bad situation, for which
neither of us is responsible, and with
malice toward none and charity for
all, solve, if solve we may, the most
difficult problem ever considered by
the children of Adam" And in all
these things we are the negro's best
friend.
One whole year out of every two
and 1854 days out Of the second year
the white Republican has no sort OF
use for the negro. 1t is only the
three hundred and sixty-ffth day OF
the second year, which is the day OF
the general election, that he falls on
Sambo's neck and weeps out his love
and gratitude to him, The affection
of Damon and Pythias, or that oI
David and Jonathan, is not circum-
stance IN the love of the white Repub.