People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18
THE COLOR LINE.
A Wonderful Knack Of Changing After
Election.

Election.
a short time ago our interest was
aroused by the fact that the Democrat
ic ladies of Georgia withdrew from the
Press club because they had ascertained
that colored women were members OF
the association up north. This action
left the color line in orthodox shape.
and we felt that the country was res-
sonably safe. But now comes Gov.
O'Ferrall of the good old state Of Vir-
GINA, and puts the fat in the fire
again. In moment Of undue expan-
sion and impulsiveness yhe democratic
chief magistrate of the old dominion
invited delegation of the Massachu-
sets legislature to call at the execu-
tive mansion and to partake Of the
Inequalities OF him, the said Gov.
O'Ferrall. Now it just so happened that
there was negro in this delegation OF
invited guests. 0'FeTall may not have
secured a satisfactory toe-holt upon
this stubborn fact at the tin,o he issued
his invitation, but he certainly knew
the negro was lin it" when the delega-
tion came prancing into the mansion.
The name Of said negro is Teamoh-
said name having been invented by said
negro, in all probability, in fit Of in
spiration just after Emancipation. Any
how, there he was-Teamoh-as big as
life, and as realistic in tout ensemble,
and other necessary adjuncts, as it was
possible to be- 0'Ferrall the hign- born,
0Ferrall the naughty, had to smooth
his troubled front with all the glory
of an official smile, as he shook hands
with Teamoh, made him welcome to
his home, and invited him to sit upon
the sofa and imbibe the joys Of an old
fashioned Virginia welcome. O'Ferrall
being regular prince (the pride Of the
F. F. Vs. couldn't think of extending
a hospitality which did not include a
little something to drink, and likewise
a little something to eat. Hence 1t
quite naturally happened that upon
this suspicious occasion" delicate re-
past was served up for the Massachu-
sets visitors, and that the white Re-
publicans, the white Democrats, and
the colored representative all stretched
companionable legs under the same ma
hogany, and forgot the tolls Of political
war in feast of brotherly love. Tea
mob was there in great shape. He
drank with the proudest, ate with the
most select, and wiped his distin-
guished lips with 0'Ferrall's napkins
just as if he had been at it all his life.
Whether Teamoh felt any more at home
than Fred Douglass and his wife did
at Cleveland's wedding reception we
can only guess; but as this full-bloOded
negro sat at his ease in the executive
mansion Of old Notwithstanding
bread with a Democratic governor,
drinking wine out Of his glasses, and
cracking nuts and jokes with the high
bred 0'Ferrall-he, the negro, must
have felt in regard to his race as CALI
leo did in reference to the world-"it
moves, nevertheless"
But the color line has become badly
tangled, almost as much so as when
Cleveland appointed Taylor, the ne
gro, as minister to a white country, b.
livia. OF course Gov. 0'Ferrall will say
that his action in entertaining Teamoh
was purely official and not personal.
But the answer to this is that when
the governor eats, 0'Ferrall eats; when
the governor drinks, 0'Ferrall tipples.
Distinctions are convenient things, but
the can't be carried too far. You can't
get the governor drunk without get
ting 0'Ferrall into a scrape. You
can't feed 0'Ferrall on something that
produces collie without giving pain to
the governor. Fact is fact, you know,
and We guess the truth about the case
will have to be that 0'Ferrall has in
vited negro into his house, dined
with him AT his tahlp hpSfowed unon
him the usual courtesies Of southern
hospitality, and sent him forth to her
aid to the world the great discovery
that white supremacy" like all the
balance of Democratic campaign goods,
has a wonderful knack of changing
color after the election.-People's Party
Paper.