The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-10
A COLORED REPUBLICAN OUT
WITH SOME GOOD AND
SOUND ADVICE.
GIVES HIS BROTHERS some LOGIC.
That They Can Get to Help Them
and Shows the Mutual
Profit Thercfrom.

Ennis, Tex, Sept. 3.-(Special.) The
, following from colorcd voter was given
the press today:
Being colored man and friend of
| the coored race, | can not refrain from
sounding note of warning 10 my peo-
pie who desire to know the ruth and
act intelligently. We are Just now
going into state campaign, and for the
first time in the history of Texas the
colored man has an opportunity to dis
tinguish himself and do his state per-
manent and lasting good. Never before
since the negro got his freedom has he
been able to pay the republican party
the debt of gratitude he owes it for his
| freedom, which ii obtained for him. L
know if he is informed how to do it
he will embrace the opportunity eagerly
and will stand to his guns. The object
most desired is to carry the state for
Mckinley and Hobart. 1t has ncvcr
gone republican since the war and il
would be. the greatest piece of political
history that has ever been made in the
state. You say, but can it be doney
Yes, il can be done rs sure as the sun
shines. How? Wen, this way The
republican party wants to carry the state
for Mckinley, and it can only be dome,
by getting some other party 10 help Us.
Who can we get? Well, the populists
want 10 elect their state ticket this year.
but they can not elect it without help
With us they can. What objections nave
we TO them! We don't agree with them.
on national politics, but they are not in
question in state matters. They have
put out Il ticket composed of safe, con-
sentative and honest men. If they are
placed in control of the state government
it will be honestly administered for II
change. Besides they are lighting IL
common cnemy-the state democratic
ring at Austin. The democrats have
abused, insulted, villified and outraged
the populst party in this state and IN
the nation. Mr.. Bryan has never even
accepted their nomination of him, and
practically says: If you won't take
Bryan and Sewall, thereby lowing us
| to swallow your party UP, we have no
use for you and wont have you. We
don't propose to recognize such gang
of hoodlums as you, even though we are
standing on the platform we stole from
you Then in this state the populists
made n proposition to divide electors with
them, but the democrats apat upon
them and referred them TO Il 'lunatic
asylum. SO it is hardly reasonable to-
suppose they will feel very kindly to-
wards the democrats nationally or in the
state either. We can make it possible
to elect the Kearby ticket if they Will
vote for Mckinley and Hobart electors.
If they don't see fit to do this they will
not win anything, either national or
state, and the populist party will be de-
stroyed forever. With our help it is
possible for them to win all they ever
hoped for in Texas, namely, the state
ticket and the county ticket in maag
some districts, and it will only cost them
their vote for our electors, which vote Is
useless to them, as they have no national
ticket, or at least have no chance to win
Now we. as republicans, should stand
ready to vote their ticket il they will
vote ours. If the state is carried for
Mckinley, il can only be done by the
colorcd men standing together along that
line. | understand that there are some
of the colored leaders in Texas who have
been bought up by the state administers
ton and that they have got their pay
to go to the Fort Worth convention and
oppose anything like fusion, and will adj
vocate turning the republicans loose so
that we, will be easy prey for them. II
you VIII Wulcn tne convention you VIII
see them bob up. They will pose there
as the friend of the colored man. and
will then try to deliver them like sheep
to the democrats They are men who
make their living by political tricks, and
they make enough money during cam
paign to last them till the next. IL is
clearly the duty of every colored man, in
Texas to help carry this state for Me-
kinley, and to do anything tonest that
is necessary to do it, 1t would make
Texas the most popular state in the.
Union and would place crown of glory
instead of 'thorns' upon the head of the
colored man. Mckinley is, and has al
ways been, the friend of the colored man.
He fought that you might be free and
has guarded your interests ever since
Now, will you be his friend? If you
will. beware of the wolves in Sleeps
clothing at the state convention. Very
respectfully. ~ F. ELLIOTvT.n