The People's friend., 1894-08-24
COLORED MEN IN POLITICS.

1t is said in this state m1S92 taht 4
500 colored voters left the republican
party and voted the popnlisl ticket
whether this is true or nOt true. is the
question, we believe that all colored
man are Republicans at heart, they
may have voted the POpulist ticket for
revenge. but away down in the bottom
or their hearts every one is like the
writer, they are Republicans; and
when cOlOred man says he is populist
or democrat YOU know he lying.
What reason has colored men being
a populist? What has the populist
party offered tor the good of the peoplep
Let us tell YOU the difference between
the republican party and the populist.
The pOpulist party believes in co1ed-
GRAFTON. or in other words. state soy
ereignty, while the republican believes
this is anatiOn one and indlvisible. There
is the difference. Every man who
tried tear the old flag out Heaven is to-
day a poplist. The men who wrote
the ordinance Of session if they were
living to-day, would vote the populist
ticket. Every man that ebelled against
his government, the keepers of Ander-
sonvill and Libby prison. if they could |
would raise their skeleton hands and de- !
+ bnn ind fa Tft bn 1;ct
party. All the anarchist, if all the law
breakers. all the puglist. ali the plug
uglies are populist to-day. and to turn
this government over to such refOrmers
as this would intimldate in to revolut-
ion. bloodshed and destruction of prop
erty. We have too much confidence in
the patriotism and the integrity of the
cOlored voters IN this state to believe
that they will form an alliance with
any such party. The populist party is
in favor of uniting the West with the :
South, those fifteen corrupt southern
states, that have fOstered and encouag-
ed lynching and using the stiletto, and y.
hat believe that Il cOlored man has no
lights that a white man is bound to re-
'pect. Only short Mttlii,e tgo II the
tate of Arkansas amid the joy and
aughter Of 10000 people, a colored
nan was burned to handful of cin-
Iels. Georgia is the best state in the
Outh. In that state criminals are rent /
d out to taSkmakers. They have t
over them. they shoot them C
own, they have absolute power of life T.
nd death; thev chain men and women Il
ogether. 1t ought tn be stopped. 1t 81
) an outrage on public decency, and Il
'e believe it is the mission of the Re- h
uqlican party to do it. We say GeOr- ST
ia is the best state in the south; her e
OndS sell for the most, and to unite the &c
|est with fifteen old corrupt and dis a
raced southern states is out of the tO
uestiOn. For this reason we ask the ht
,lored voters to 90 to the polls in No pl
ember aud enter their solemn protest n
sainst the populist party. to
In 1892 Gov. Lewclling was elected tn
,vernor ;nthis state. The busy wheel -
industry was heard throughout the
ate, the wage earners was fairly and
operlv paid, the farmers received a
4dy market for their produce, but to-
Y the busy wheel of industry is as
Il AS midnight. the wage earners g.,
We been discharged or put on limited
le, and to the shame and disgrace of r,
5 state, women and children are beg VI
Ig meat and bread. We say in or
: to restore confidence we must vote
populist party down. The Call.