The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-18
BLACK MANS DUTY.
An Influential Topeka Colored
Pastor
breaches a Somewhat Sensation
al Sermon Sunday Night.
GRAVE MISTAKE MADE
In Indiscriminately Giving the
Negro the Franchise,
Says Rev. G. D. Olden to His
Congregation.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Held Responsible for the Muir
ders in the South.

Rev. G. D. Olden had some things to
say last evening on ''The Negro, Pol
itical Tool" and he said them in his SER
mon at the First street Baptist church,
colored
Rev. Mr.. Olden is particularly bright
colored man. He thinks we'll and his
delivery is very good. His language is
all right and he has travelled and read a
great deal.
Mr.. Olden said: 81 am going to say
some things here this evening that
great many of you will not like. If you
don't like them you can get up and go
out. l am going to say them any way.
81 am for the colored man help
ing the colored man. The
Irishman helps the Irishman, the Jew
helps the Jew, and the German helps the
German. They look at it in this light:
When one of their nationality goes up in
America they go up with him. | feel
the same way. If a Negro goes up go
up with him. l never allow party pre-
judice to bother me when there is good
colored man up for office. I vote for
him whether l like him personally or
not
voted with the 6. o. P. used to think
it was treason for the Negro to vote any
other way. That was anything else than
right l have learned better since.
81 detest above anything else politi-
cal boss. And the colored men have
always been bossed They have been
LED as sheep to the slaughter by the
Rep9biicrtn white man.
"The Negro has been stepping stone
has then put his heel on him till he
wanted to use him again, <and then he
gave him few cigars and little beer
and the Negro became the white mans
stepping stone again.
"The colored man has been the tool OF
| the white man, and that's a fact
81 saw it ten years ago. and said so.
THE republican party made the great
est mistake of its life when it gave the
! Negro indiscriminately the right to vote.
| "They did it to get control in the south
by the aid of the colored vote and when
the white man had feathered his own
nesthe left the 100000 of Negroesther
at the mercy of their former masters.
| That's the cause of these murders down
! there. The white man of the south hates
the Negro who was once his slave.
"The Republican party is as guilty in
the sight of God as the man who drew
the blood. These are plain facts.
''The white man of the Republican
party asks the Negroes vote to help him
into Office, but is not willing TO recipro
cate.
81 do not want office myself. l have
never asked for it, but l do want the
Negro advanced and l ask that and have
asked it. We have worked for the Re-
4 publican party but what did we get?
have made speeches for the Republican:
for years but l got nothing"
In connection with an anecdote Mr.
Olden mentioned the Roman Catholic
church. ''And that is a very good church
to belong to-" he said E'The Catholics
help each other as the Negroes should.
'In my town in southern Illinois afte
great deal of hard work we succeeded
in getting d colored policeman by threat
ening to withdraw our vote. But ther,
was trouble anyway, for the white mel
. said they wouldn't be arrested by hin
and we had to go and tell him not to ar
rest any white man. He would hav
been killed. We felt exalted then for w
had man that could arrest colored meu
This was said with sarcastic expires
l sIOn.)
"All along we have had to put so
white men in office to get one colore
spittoon cleaner policeman. We hav
no representative office
"Oh, we are so easily satisfied.
! 4 ''After the war in the south tn
northern white man that saw hi
: opportunity and staid there, held the oi
= flee that the colored man had been elec
ed to, and robbed the office that the co
: ored man was responsible for. Aud the
he ran away and left the colored ma
1 down there to be hung. The white ma
Is for the white man the world owe
Don't think because we are in the mort
that the same blood does not flo
l through the same veins.
"And now the remedy. Throw off tt
. yoke Stand together as one man r
gardless of party or prejudice. Stan
> by some good man and say to the part
Give US this man or you can't have OIL
VOTE
'.fne trouble with the colored man
that he cannot agree on a good ma
Each man wants the place. So long
q we are divided we can accomplish not
ing. A race divided against itself CT
never stand.
II "We want positions with some digni
= in them Not mere menial ones
= which we are allowed to sweep the flo
" and black some white mans boots.
"What all the parties need is facts al
if some Negro is not man enough
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