People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-08-27

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awaking and bringing into action the
tender sympathy of the world.
My Republican friend, during all
these years that you have admins
tered the government you were not
only bound to enforce this law by res
son of your political relation to the
colOred man, he having been a great
aid and factor in keeping you in
power, in fact, your true friend, you
were sOlemnly bound by your oath
made before high heaven to do it.
Have you done it? You have not.
Seven states lately ia rebellion would
have long since been reduced to terri
tOrial government had you not been
unfaithful to your friend and be.
trayed his trust. You have been
silent, not so much as Offering a re-
monstrance officially while your col
ored friends were being put to death
at the stake and otherwise brutally
murdered, not only in those but other
states.
During Mr.. HarrisOn's last admins.
tratiOn when you had majorities in
both houses, mob of 10000 "nigger-
haters" assembled to approve of and
witness the execution of poor devil,
who was executed without authority
or license of law, put to death in a
manner that would shock the sensi-
bilities of Sax or an Apache Indian.
If the execution was truly reported,
the victim was placed on a scaffold
prepared for the occasion when literal
fire was applied to his different ex-
tremities while iron bolts were being
heated to Inject into him; after having
thus been tortured until life was near
ly extinct, his body was saturated
with highly cOmbustible oil and set
on fire. This produced such agony
that his struggles were, if possible,
superhuman, and he was about to es-
cape from the platform of execution
when the executiOners with poles and
sticks pushed and otherwise held him
on the platform until life expired.
Such is the report of case of tor
ture that occurred in the state Of
Texas and another in Arkansas nearly
as bad during Mr.. Harrison's admin
iStration.
If you ever, as officers of the gov
ernment, made any effort to bring the
perpetrators of these heinOus cruel
ties to justice, l demand of you t
, produce the record.
> In talk with some of my Republican
friends about these na tiers they havl
Z excused the party, saying it could moi
prevent or interfere, that these cases
were OF state jurisdiction and coulC
not be otherwise reached. You ar,
wrong again. Read (43) section 5, tn,
, same article Of the constitution:
1.-THE Congress shall have power t,
+ enforce by appropriate legislation the
provisions Of this article"
My friend, when you say that tn
party could do nothing In these cases
at the same time running the govern
9 ment, with majorities In both houses
you not onlybelittle Republican states
. manship, but you dishOnor the char
acter of your government.
In this regard you are far behint
the Democratic administration unde
o Mr.. Cleveland, for during his admin
istration six negroes were brutal,
murdered in Tennessee and wha
! seemed to be honest prosecutions wer
! instituted. A large number of whit
men were arrested, two OF the person
6 against whom charges were made re
! ceiving penitentiary sentences by du
course of law. As to whether tn
! courts of Tennessee were influences
by the administration I can not say
o but that is immaterial. The facts re
o main the same. That is, that GU
colored citizeDs have come nearer gel
ting their equal rights and gettiu
A protection under the law while tn
Democrats were In the saddle tina
!. when the Republicans were riding.
!. FOURTH CHARGE.
U The Republican party has been III
e faithful to the soldiers Of the War {
: the Rebellion 1851.
J. First Specitication-In that the R,
d publican party was administering th
9 government, with clear majOrities /
both houses Of Congress, and a Reput
e lican executive (Mr. Harrison) to al
e prove bills from the election of NJ
h v mber, 1892, to the 4th day of Marcel
!, 1893, it having been decided an
Il known in early November, 1892, b
t election returns that the Republica
= party had been defeated and that NJ
t Cleveland, a Democrat, had bee
n elected and that the next Congress
e elect was Democratic, and that bot
1t Mr.. Cleveland and the Congress wei