St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-19
NO NEGRO NEED APPLY.
A Scathing Review of Some Re-
cent Events

A Scathing Review of Some Re-
cent Events.
The new corporation attorney of the
city OF st. Paul has been duly indicted
into office. He has appointed his three
assistants, and f. l.. McGhee-isn't one
of them.
Frederick seems to be getting 1t right
and left (mostly lefD from the e. o. p,
which fought, bled and died to 'free
us"-especially since the war - yet
hasn't enough spunk left in its spinal
column to give party co-worker of adj
mitted fitness even third assistant city
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS he is black.
Well, L don't know but that it serves
Frederick right (not Frederick +.
Wright. When the e. o. p. bounced
him from the electoral ticket last au-
tumn, thereby insulting every black
voter in the state, we (colored indie
pendents) advised him to strike back,
and we would stand behind him, and
let the g. o. p. see that we could get
along without it, if it could get along
without us. But no, McGhee was baited
with honeyed promises, coaxed back
into harness-till after the November
electiOn-and then dropped like hot
potato; every pledge of PREPARATION for
past insults forgotten.
Then his party associates led him to
believe that he could have one of the
assistant attorneyShipS, and, in spite of
the damnable hypocrisy and treachery
which the partyls constantly practicing
on the negro, McGhee trusted till the
mask was thrown Otf-tO be resumed
again just prior to the next election.
Now what has all this cant and pre-
Ne, f.
and brother" amounted to? Just this:
That third assistant city attorneyShip
is an Office TOO exalted for a black man
to aspire to; that, no matter what his
abilities may be, no matter how honor
able he may be, nor how much of the
esteem of honorable men he may have,
the Republican party-in state and city
declares that for any Office of honor or
emOlument within its gift, no negro
need apply. Does Mr.. &lcGhee want
house to fall on him before he can
'tumble?"
d AS an exhibition of party ingrattude,
the rejection of McGhee surpasses all
previous performances. After the cleo
tOral episode last autumn he overlooked
the slight put upon him for the sake of
harmony In the party, snd, at the Solic
itation of the managers, took off his coat
of the whole ticket.
How has be been rewarded? His fit
ness for office uuqueStoned, his services
TO the party admitted, he has not only
been rejected but he has seen-what?
A man retained for first assistant at
tOrney who held the office for years
under Democratic administrations, dur
ing which time he could render his
party no servce-lf, indeed, he belonged
to one party more than another He
has seen man made second assistant
as a sop to the ProhibitionistS, while for
THIRD assistant man was chosen who,
because he could not get from his party
something which he desired, refused to
render assistance when asked, saying
he "w0uld not leave his office during
the campaign"-and he didn't. He has
seen all this while he, an efficient party
worker, is told, You are good enough
to work, but when it comes to sharing
the hOnOrS which attend victory-eX-
cuse US, there are white men enough;
no negro need apply"
In one way McGhee deserves Just
what he-didn't get. His colored friends
would have followed him out of the
party, had he taken their advice and
gone out last autumn, Many of them
went out without him. Will he stay in
and continue to take his medicine?''
1t has furthermore been stated upon
good authority that Mr.. Chamberlain
assigned as a reason for not appointing
McGhee that "he could not afford to do
SO because the Irish people would never
forgive him Ii he appointed a colored
lawyer to prosecute them in the police
courts"
How is that, fellow Irish citizens?
How do you like the intimiation that
the prosecutors Office it maintained for
your especial benefit. How do you like the
intimatiOn that having COMMEMORATIVE
or your parents-to America in search
of larger liberty, you are ready to deny
equal rights and opportunities to fellow
citizens of another class? If Irishmen
do not resent this slanderous assertion,
they deserve that it should be believed;
and if black men do not resent the in
suit to their most representative man,
then they deserve nothing better than to
continue to be the catspaws of the Re
publican party that they have always
been. JUSTICE.