The evening times., 1897-07-20
Thomas T. Fortune Says They
Must Stand Together.
EUMBUGGED BY WHITE MEN
rut Four Positions, He Declares.
Have Been Given to Afro-Amers-
cans by This Administration
Threatens to Defeat Mckinley in
New York as He Defeated Blaine.

gelller we cOOiO MAKE Aiaih Aasdiih anu
William Mckinley tremble in their boots
The speaker was Mr.. 7. T. Fortune, the
eoored editor of the New York Age, and
regular contributor to the New York sun
aud other heading papers, and he was de-
liverlng an address on ''our Future iR Pol
itics'' TO a large audience at Metropolitan
NE. Church. South Washington, last night
the same being under the auspices OF Ohe
Epworth League of that church The
speaker lad been introduced by former
Recorder of Deeds c. II. j. Taylor, who SAID
that Mr.. Fortune was one of the bravest
and brightest men m America
AR. Fortune said that ii amused him TO
SEE A man like Col william A. Pledger, VINO
was so intensely Republican that he was
blue in both eyes, and d man Ike Hon L
II. J. TAYLOR. who was so intensely Demo
cratic that he was white in both eyes,
sittogether on the same platform sufeiyH
was a case of the lamb and the liOn lying
down together, and he could but believe
that the race was making progress
Politics politics futile, politics past
and politics present" said Mr.. Fortune. Il
am compelled TO smile when think OF the
past and present. and what OF the future:
A black man OF a yellow man ON the Po-
tomac River who feels that he is not 10 an
equal extent responsible for the outrages
committed ia other lands sleeps on fools
Ted and win wake up and find himself
lynched on some future occasion. i can't
say an ything about our future lila politics,
but the past aad present show that every
thing good Uhe white man gets, and 20 make
sure that he won't miss anything he gratis
I'm th,. dalk for what he does not see.
Our future in politics depeads upon some
one who viii stay awake all the time and
never go to sleep; someone who viii keep
a faithful aud constant watch. 1 love my
race, and 1 say that any race that cannot
trust itself Y III never succeed White men
want youl vote, hut they also want the
offices aad they get them. Dear Brother
Buck has gone to Japan at $4,000 a
year and left the colored man behind to
look cut FOR himself Colored mea from
other states have been treated the same.
There is nc future in politics FOR us unless
we deal with the whites in louisiana just
a. they deal with usfn New York. Why.
the colCied mGH can't get anything ia
New YORK. not even a chew OF tobacco.
This mag .be said to be drawing the color
line Who ever neard of a colored man
drawing the color line? Let us treat the
whites just as they treat US Am i not
right?''
There ere many who answered yes"
AMI then the speaker continued,
An eye for an eve. Deal with them
just as they deal with us. Am / in poll
tics for my healtho Well. euess not.
What 10 want Ia raise children fol. TO
loaf around New York when the weather
is hot enough tG bite while politiCians are
off ea iOying the sea bre ezes? They
want 1T all, and they usually get it. Mr..
Mckinley can create all lhe white PARTY
he wants, but ia the next elect ion In New
York If he needs l 500 votes he won't
get item. { VIII help to kill him. did
ii for Mir. Rlaine when he needed ! zee
and l can DO it again.
I'VE have 1900 600 votes. and yet
there have only been -four colored appoint
nients. Our future in politics? IL does
make Iae tired. Why not a coored man
in the CaIinet? Have we not earned the
right to Cabinet place with over ,5OO,-
0oe votes in the Republican Administrs-
ton. Was not Fred Douglass erninently
qualified m every way to fin il? The
Republicans talked differently nine months
ago. / have come to the conclusion that
fl the Republican party has grown SO
fast that it does not need us, then isn't
il time we let il alone? I, for one, will
make my living. Don't you fret about
that.
Your Postmaster General a Maryland
Reputlican? God save the marki Give
me a New York Democrat, every time.
Judson Lyon, an original Administration
man. turned down by this man, who said
he could not appoint him on account OF
his color; that ne would he obnoxious TO
the people OF Augusta who sold
their children. cotten under the common
law, 20 pay debts; / have a supreme con
tempt for the manner in which such men
deal with MS White men now are lynch
ing colored men for the same crime they
coEndtted for wears IL the white man
had not shinnied on my side by force, 1
woHld have heen as black as midnight
't YOU people would stand together
we could make Mark Hanna and William
Mckinley tremhle in their boots. But
YOU won't stand together. You'll vote
with tie whites every time. I've win
tered and summeed with you too long
Siill. lots OF you have agonized and starved
around here for months, while tie very
white men YOU put forward have walked
off with the Offices 1 hope every man
who is dancing attendance on this Admin
istratiOn, hoping for a Job, VIII have TO
dance until his heels wear ont No white
rnan br.cs- -,
trying to 90 there I have no future in
politics, save the temple OF Zion. IN
give white man just as much as he gives
me. and III give him no morei. DO unto
the white man as he does unto you.'
Mr.. Fortune spoke at some length and
was repeatedly cheered. He is easy. fluent
and forceful, and throws his whole soul
into his subject. Before MI Fortune began
his address former Recorder Taylor intro
duced Col. William A. Pledger, the rec
ognized oolored Republican leader in
Georgia, who made a short but stirring
talk.
Among the prominent colored men present
were noticed W. j. Rrnkley. president
Afro-AmeTjcan League OF the District OF
Columbia; John Duke, vice president of
the Cleveland League OF the State OF New
York; Jason W. Tilley, of Cleveland, Ohio,
VINO had the shortspat with Senator Hanna
a few days ago: DIR. ChildS of the District;
j. p. Turner, OF Indiana, who was almost
moblred to death while making Democratic
speeches in his State. The arrangements
for the meeting Were under the super
vision or Wylie g. Overton, of BIeokiyn.
n. Y.