The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-16
MILLER ROASTED BY MURRAY.
THE PALMETTO STATE NEGROES
SINGING MUD.

The Congressman bitterly AssniIed
by Some of His Race In south Caro-
lima For Failing to Carry Out His
Threat to Protest Against tho
Counting of the Vote of His stats
In the Electoral College.
Washington. Feb 15.-Representativa
Murray. the colored congressman irons
South Carolina, who last week threatens
ed TO stop the electoral count, and theis
baked when the hour for springing his
sensation arrived, Is in more trouble. Ea
has been bitterly assailed by some OF his
colored brethren In the Palmetto state for
neglecting his duty to the colored race and
lacking the courage of his convictions. His
most formidable assailant is ex-Represen~
tative Thomas Miller who is now the press
ident of a colored college. They are po>
ntcal rivals and they hurl some choices
Afro-American epithets at each other.
Representative Murray is probably bad
ly wounded by some Of AIiler's cunnin4
and aggravating rhetoric, for he attempts
to get back at his antagonist. tonight
IN the following authorized interview pre-
pared on blood-red stationary. There is
duel or a buttlng match in every sem
tence of the enraged colored member fron1
South carolina. He says:
yes, have seen Tom Miler's diatribe.
but knowing the party interviewed as &
do' would wholly ignore his inalevolen1
remarks which rank with the utterances
for which Ananias and Sapphra suffered
the penalty of sudden death and whose re-
ward he would now be sharing in the tolls
of the lower regions, did God in these lat.
ter days deal with and make example oe
liars and hypOcrifae fo.y,,ari., ,.,a,.a g.
not TO undeceive honest men, whom ha
seeks to deceive by such false and mali-
ciOus statements.
Were II not that he is either totally igs
noPant Of the law Of 1887, and the establish.
ed prccedents in counting the electoral
vote which preclude the possibility Of re-
Jecting the vote of any state, or devoid OF
honesty, such expressions would never
have escaped his mouth
Occupying an office, (the presidency OF
the colored A. and NJ school, which Is th8
price or trcachery to an outraged race,
like his prototypes Judas Iscariot and
Benedict Arnold, he should seek the shades
of oblivion and remain as quiet as possi-
Bile.
with apparent bitterness he ostenta>
tiously opposed the possessors of his re-
ward in the construction of the constitu>
ton of 1885, by which 10000 negroes ara
deprived of the right of suffrage during
the convention and Immediately after the
adjournment of which. to reconcile him
self to them, and thereby secure his pres-
ent position, Travelled AN over the state.
irresponsible and unappreciative audi
| euces on The Blessings Of the New Con-
! stitution,' which he refused to sign. Ha
may have picked up a few scraps of law.
which enables him to pompously pose as
lawyer in the eyes Of novices, bur
every intelligent person acquainted with
him, knows him to be educationally and
morally incompetent and unfit for the po-
sition he occupies, whose occupancy in
jures a poor and struggling race.
This miserable vampire who secured
his present position by trucking to tho
democratic party, accuses me of not per-
forming my duty. In order to properly
understand the matter and expose his du-
plicity, II Is only necessary to examine the
act of 1887.
This act only provides for protest and
refusal to count the vote Of a state where
there are two sets of returns. 1t is an act
under which no proceedings have ever
been had and when the subject was first
mentioned, the best lawyers in both
branches Of congress were in doubt as 10
what could be done.
"lt was finally determined by leading
republican lawyers that the necessary
basis mad not been laid in the South Caro-
lima board of canvass. In order 10 re-
II here, the contest from South Carolina,
must be certified up with the electoral re-
turns sent to the Vice President. Mr.
Miller as a lawyer, must have full knOwl-
election contests, why did he not taks
some action himself? II was as much his
duty as mine.
Il have done my fun duty along this
only apparently practical line by which
the subject can be considered. In intro
ducing a resolution In congress to appoins
a committee with power to examine per
sons and papers and pass upon the grave
constitutional question. with the dignity
and due deliberaton which 1t deserves"