The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-30
COLORED PEOPLE IN LINE
MAJORITY OF THEM FOR DEMO-
CRAT-CITIZENS' TICKET
Stirring Addresses Made at a Meet
ing in the EndicOtt Arcade-E.
l.. McGhee, the Orator From the
Eighth, Lauds DR.. Schifmann as
Friend of the COlOred Race
Replies to II. III. Lyles.

| Colored voters to the number Of $50
met last night at the rooms OF the
Democrat-CitiZenS' city committee.
| Several stirring speeches were made
| and the candidacy of DR.. Schiffmann
and the ticket Endorsed.
7. L. De Lyons presided, and Samuel
Amber acted as secretary.
Edward Jackson strongly urged the
colored people of ST. Paul to vote the
Democrat-Citizens' ticket, and F. L.
McGhee followed along the same line
Mr.. McGhee said in part:
| I would have you be not deceived; strange
| things are happening these days. Men to
whom we have been wont to look for guild
| ance in times when the interest of the race
| need be served are now stubbornly trying
the front, and the live question of the day
| purposely kept back so that passion might
sway the mind and intelligent thought pre-
vented. Who are these men who tell you
| our interest is alone served by loyalty to
the Republican party? T. H. Lyles. who for
two years has been telling the white man
the negro has all he is entitled to. He says
| the present administration is the best the
city has ever had, despite the fact of its
rottenness, condemned by it's own conven-
! ton in kissing the name Of the present
| mayor.
ssMen who are in the calling of leading
men in the ways of TRUTH and teaching
| brotherly love, are now teaching things as
false as false can be, advocating and in
| cast odium on the men who dare think on
| the issues Of today. and act such thought;
how can it be truthfully said that the col
| ored man who votes for the Democrat
Citizens ticket is thereby voting against his
| friends and for his enemies? False is such a
| declaration made only to deceive. Shame on
the man who would declare thing so false.
| Doubly shame when it is known to be false.
How, my brethren. can it be said you vote
against your friends and for your enemies
when you vote for DR.. Schiffmann? Better
| rio fhn ho1
| to whom is personally due the credit of our
two colored school teachers. is enemy
of the race
"Dr. Schifmann has proved what his DO
| sit1on Is as regards our race not only in
securing place for the colored girl to
| teach school, but by having the colored
brother Identified with his campaign. Not
so with Col. Kiefer. No negro is worthy to
be connected with his candidacy. The best
| he has cone is to send flowers to two colored
children whose father is feeding at the pub
was word said of his regard for the colored
voters. cheap lot of race men are these
The meeting In the kitchen of Market hall
| did and does not represent my races man
hood and intelligence. No sentiment express
| ed was honest. How these men can claim
to represent the race none but themselves
/ can tell. refuse to believe my race will
vote for Horst, who has ever refused to rent
| his houses to colored people, as against NC
Nance, through whose efforts Miss Farr
tempted to let her out.
| |. for one, believe preachers should
take part In all movements wherein the
the things whereof they speak. SO they do not
mislead the people, do not advocate false
theories. There is today no place held by a
colored man but the opening was first made
| by the Democratic party. The best friends
| the leading colored men have in the business
walks of life are Democrats. The old and
musty claim Of who freed you no longer
serves. except among the back numbers ana
uninformed. The negroes war record is too
| glorious to admit of any question but that
he fought, bled and died for his own free
! dom.
The negro is alive to the living issues of
the day, to the things that tend to build
up the city. He knows full we'll his success
depends on the general prosperity of the
city. He knows that the man who does good
for the whole people is not the man who
is ever seeking office. from the people. is
| Col. Kiefer, but Is the man whom the peo-
pie seek to hold Office. For the good Of the
city, then, as well as to pay an honorable
| debt of gratitude at this our first opportun-
ity. appeal to you to vote for DR.. Schiff-
mann and the Democrat-Citizens' ticket