The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-20
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THE lNTELLIGENCER.
wurnLrNc, 0eroErn 90, 1907.


The negro ticket movement which Is
being worked from the Democratic head
quarters in Ohio is not meeting with
great success among the intelligent col
ored voters OF Ohio. They are realizing
everywhere that the few colored men
who have been induced to enter the
movement are simply playing into the
hands OF the Democratic campaign man
ayers, and that the whole scheme is
backed by Democratic money.
That the negroes are thoroughly alive
to the meaning of the scheme is evident
from theafact that the petitions cireu-
lated to have the negro ticket placed on
the official ballot were signed by very
few colored voters, but by very many
white Democrats. In some instances
not single colored mans name was on
the petitions, all the signatures being
those of white Democrats or free silver
Republicans. These facts have been
duly exposed by the Republican press Of
Ohio and the whole dastardly business
laid bare.
An example of how the more intelll-
gent colored leaders and those who have
resisted the corrupt influences of the
Bryanite managers regard this move
ment, is afforded by the letter recently
made public from Nelson T. Cant. Cant
is not only one Of the best known and
most popular colored mer in the state of
Ohio, but is respected citizen of Zanes-
VILE, and an influential leader OF his
race.
on October Q letter was addressed to
Mr. Cant from the chairman and secre-
tary of the so-called afro American
Republican Club League" Democratic
annex, asking him If he held Governor
Bushnell to blame for the Urbana lynch
ing, and II he would not join in the effort
TO defeat him Mr.. Giants reply is
blow delivered straight from the Shout
der at the betrayers of their party, and
one which expresses. the sentiments of
every honest and Intelligent coiored
voter Of the state of Ohio. It is as fol-
lows:
GAINESVILLE, o., Oct. Z, 1897.
]. j. Lee, Chairman, etc, Columbus, o.
sIR:-I am in receipt Of your circular
letter of October 2, and in reply to your
first question will answer: / do not hold
that Governor Bushnell is to blame at all
in the Urhana affair.
In reply to your second question viii
a. t.ly an ~ "a
effort to defeat Governor Bushnell; on
the other hand, / will do all in my power
to elect him to the position for which my
party has nominated him.
To your third question Will say: / am
not informed that the sheriff and city
officials and people Of the city Of Urbana
are candidates for reelection. II they
are. / think they should be defeated.
may state further that / possibly
have given the whole Urbana matter
more attention and Investigation than
many so-called Republicans who pro-
pose. by their actions. to defeat Governor
Bushnell and thereby defeat the party
that has been the only real political
friend my race ever had in this country.
Besides. find by impartial investigation
that Governor Bushnell has all his life
been a real friend tn my kind. from the
time when the underground railroad, OF
which he was a part was the only way
we had to liberty; also that he has been
one of the few white men In this great
country that has stood by my kind, CIV
ing them equal chance with the whites
TO earn a livelihood by employing them
In his workshops.
No. gentlemen. would be ungrnteful
TO the party that you say you are not
fighting, ungrateful TO my Creator, I'M
grateful TO my race and would deserve
the severest condemnation that my kind
could put upon me. God forbid that
should so much as turn by hand over to
defeat our real friends.
May say further that when you gem
tlemen play into the hands OF our enc
mics. as take 1t you are doing, you are
fighting me, you are lnaicting injury
upon yourselves and upon yous race.
Let me beg Of you tn cease your effort or
you will see the day you Will REGRET It.
Yours IN JustIce.
N. Y. CANT.
This Is singing rebuke to the men
who have permitted themselves to be-
come the tools of the POpocratIc man
ayers who, having found that their free
silver arguments have lost the popularl-
~ they enjoyed In Ohio last year, and
that the tide Of prosperity has rendered
tnoceuous their whole platform, have TO-
sorted 10 SANDER wlllhcation and deceit,
as the only weapons with which they can
hope to accomplish results. II Ia pleas
Ing to note. however, that these weapons
arc simply performing the service Of
boOmerangs,