People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-08-27
ny ValedictOry to the Republican
Party.

ny Valedictory to the Republican
Party.
SECOND CHARGE-NEGLECT OF DUTY.
First Specification-In that the Re-
publican party administered the gov
eminent twenty-eight years out of
the last thirty-Six years, often with
clear majorities in both houses of Con.
gresS, having at all times a Republi-
can executive, it could and should
have enacted all laws necessary to
guard against an influx of undesira-
BILE foreigners, which, however, it re-
fused aud failed to do.
This charge and specification is so
VIGOROUSLY known aud conceded to be
true that during all these years of
Republican administration there has
been continuously a filthy stream of
foreigners pouring into this country,
embracing in the main European pau
pers OF the most ignorant and danger.
Gus character, knowing perhaps less
of civil liberty than pan or dog rib
Indian (sOcialistic free lovers, carri-
ers Of concealed daggers, disturbers of
the public peace, makers and throwers
of dynamite bOmbs), with which our
factories and mines have been filled,
displacing American laborers, and
that this influx Of dirty foreigners is
to the discredit of Republican states
manship, and to the disadvantage of
American labor and a menace to our
institutions. Having often been
charged and never having been de-
MED, l withhold argument until the
accused plead not guilty.
THIRD CHARGE.
The Republican party has betrayed
the trust imposed in it by our colored
citizens to the extent that it has
failed and refused to enforce its
amendments to the constitution: and
further, the Republican party has
stood off with the whole reins and
power Of this great government in its
hands and refused to interfere while
our colored American citizens we're
being executed without authority or
license 0f law in the most barbarous
and tOrturous way that enlightened
minds could conceive of.
First Specifcation-In that the Re-
publican party administered the gov
eminent twenty-eight OF the last
thirty'six years and permitted the
former masters to enact laws in diff
ferent states lately in rebellion dis
eliminating between cOIored and
white citizens, it has betrayed the
trust Of its friend, the cOlOred man.
Second SpecifcatiOn-In that the
Republican party, administering the
government Of the United States with
the millions Of true and brave men,
ready and willing to back it, with all
the money and resources of this great
nation at its back, and the world de.
sirOus of approving its action, 1t
failed and refused to interfere when
our cOlOred citizens its wards were
being tortured to death in the most
bar0arous manner.
| 1884, - u, section |, OF the con.
stitution provides that: "All persons
born or naturalized in the United
States and subject to the Jurisdiction
thereof are citizens of the United
States and OF the state wherein they
reside. No state shall make any law
which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens Of the United
States, nor shall any state deprive
any person Of life, liberty or property
without due process Of law, nor deny
to any person within its Jurisdiction
the equal protection OF the law
Such is the fourteenth amendment
asrelates to these specifications. Such
was the action Of the Republican par
t.. When 1t stood against the storm
OF arrogant masters, when it as the
fearless and bold exponent of human
rights in the days Of Lincoln, when
laundering justice rolled from the