The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-20


he VIII never be able To get ou' again. am
truly sorry for Governor brown ana sorry
Tor iayself Tor my objort was 10 touch good
man like him only every four years, put,
poor fellow, he is 80 wrapped up IA that pin,e
q. q. ID. daily that guess am knocked out
am tRs tak 80 sr %ny Ss the he puScston ~ Of my pr
vate correspondence by 'the only Republican
daily In the only Republican capital In Ne
publican Statef" Here II Is ia simple; III IL
we'll planned conspiracy ON the part OF some
hhode Island white Republicans Win some
minor white trash" 10 drive the only negro
journal from their midst. Many OF the letters
published in THE NEWS are letters that were
never received by Mrs Maude Il. Barrows,
my manager. TO whom they we're addressod'
yet they reached THE NEWS for publication.
Again, have several times sent money loosely
IN envelopes TO the acting manager OF Inc
probably never WILL unless do some good
detective work. OF course am doing nothing
now but wrifing-these matters VIII be at
tended 20 later. On With this conspired story
OF combination 10 down the only negro
journal. have proof that The NEWS ana
The Torchlight have been rivals 50 Tar as
money hunting among Rhode Island Republi-
cans Is concerned have the names OF several
Republicans who have given siOO check 10
keep this Z: o. ID. plate from being strand.
cd And these same Republicans are regular
patrons OF the Providence Journal and not
IHE News. In some instances, II not many.
Ihe Torchlight man would be Just aheao OF
THE NEWS man in getting on the good side OF
this Republican individual and inducing him
20 sign a good size check for the good OF tho
1f o Sen. sans hsndsr
son has just been here and J gave him some
thing for The Torchhght: Hence, the en-.
deavor, the conspiracy 10 Kill The Torchlight
and drive the editor into non-existence. But
what puzzels me is 10 know what hand did
Governor Brown, whom have always consid-
cred "A friend and good Christian gentleman,
play in this white Republican anti-negro con.
spiracyy Has he an owners voice IN The
NEwsS Did he sanction this pupiication
| III so, why III not, why was II published In
his paper? 4 am in receipt of long letter
from dear white Republican friend OF mine
in Rhode Island, whose name 1 shall not
mention, and he Is of the opinion that II was
caucused plan for Governor Browns he.
publican paper TO dig grave for me and my
sweetest, dearest IDOL The Torchhght once
had dream that would. in some future
| day, take unto myself some sweet, dear
| American girl and call her what Adam called
| Eve--wife. But fear that from the appalling
| size OF my pocket book (which never had)
| and for the want Of proper time that the
New England Torchlight will ever be my
| dearest and only welded. sad indeed, es-
| pecially when / think OF all the good women
| in this country and how would like TO own
one OF them: But to be se.ious. ask you;
| conscience :hearted man, conscience hearted
woman, conscience hearted saint and sinner,
| is it not too bad that IL go must and IL die
the TSrehlsht must, Is y not TOO sad h sss sss
| conspirators, Providence kepubncans the
grave diggers Providence Reprplicsns the paii s
only negro Republican journal in their
midstf But as sad the thing appears ~
will not be while my blood is hot. i Will not
| go and The Torchlight will not die and these
| pale-faced, negro-hating devil catchers can
not accomplish their endeavor. i have
| brndle of inside history concerning the dirty
work OF IL Providence white hepuDncans
| whose dirty deeds and names / shall give
when time calls for them and shall not give
| thom without illustrations, either. AS TOT
| Governor Lipptt am told that he Is one OF
those milliOnaires who ls always poor, that no
4 is as cold TO negro as Is December frost, or
as stiff as a post oak SILL and that a negro
pnl lIgt In frln Un NIL
reach him and that then this same negro
must pray with him and preach with him ana
| ask him for $1,000 in order to get $40. know
a certain white Republican who gave $1,000
| Just merely 10 "help the cause OF white
republican newspaper along. or course ne
has also given The 1orchlight five or six
dollars in four or five years. That's not here
| nor there. Here's my point: This political
money scheming and money hunting business
is Rhode Island fad and, OF course, caught
| on to the fad and like IL pretty well 4 have
| not caught en- to this hhode Island clam
eating but IL Is said that keep neck TO neck
| with white rivals when 100 cents of honest
| Republican money are shining in the distance.
| l don't believe II, but only wish IL was So
| one thing do know. however, am better
| Republican than the managing editor OF the
| Providence NEWS, Z. y. ID. plate daily. Il
| have done more in six months fer Rhode
| Island Republicanism than this managing ed
itor Of Republican c. O. ID. plate daily has
| done in six years. Read history and you VIII
| say that this assertion Is true rather than
| braggadocio.
| Again. this managing editor Of the only Re-
! publican G. q. ID. plate daily in Providence
| refers sarcastically to my genius III ~ ginger
| cakes TO peanuts that my worst pictures are
| finer than this plate editors best; and II
| aid not possess more genius in the back part
| of my fat heels than this g. o. ID. plate editor
| does in his head, l would quit talking. quit
| writing, quit speechmaking, and adjourn to
| the woods and there write about my penni-
! less and miserable condition, TO sing with the
| Joy birds and muse with the ocean until the
| white mingled eagle from above bids me TO
| take my flight upwards. i want IL dis
| tinctly understood that don't fear nor care
1 any more for an unprincipled white man than
| principled men be Governor Brown and his
! hirelings, then they, like others must be vic
TINS Of my contempt and donunciatlon
| Whether The Torchlipht is published in Jeri-
| cho or edited in Halifax and circulated every
whore il will 20 on while i live, and God
| wills it and in the future as in the past
| fearless warfare shall be waged against the
| enemies OF justice and fair play.
| am sorry that j have been compelled TO
waste two cents worth OF paper on less than
two cents worth of men and thus leave my
self with three cents-iust enough to mail
| this article and not enough TO shine my shoes.
| AS TO that coupon business, know nothing
OF its origin and IL was some white trash
compositor rathat slipped in those names and
numbers unknown to my manager. 1 know
that IL could not be right and was not. But
whether those names ard numbers were right
or wrong what has Governor Browns Repub-
lican paper TO do with II
Look out, negro hating, palefaced devil
catchers. / am coming with my "black slouch
| hat and mournful countenanco," " and the pub
| lie will soon know something Of your dirty
| motives.