The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-07-15
INDlGNANiIT
lFs he Colspipsapls over Al Editorial
Published Ii the News.

The colored people of this city
held an Indignation meeting at
the court house Monday night.
which was largely, attended by
the colored populace of the
city. William Wilkinson acted
as chairman and W. D. Dean as
secretary. Speeches we're made
by Prof. Guss, Rev. Watson and
Others, strongly condemning the
writer of the following editorial,
which appeared in the columns
of the Clarksburg Ne,cs July 1st
1.-The Republicans of Kanawha
county have nominated u black
Aberdeen steer for the House of
Delegates. AS the county is
strongly Republican the next
delegation will be Enthusiastically
ornated with an image Of God in
tar. The requirements of a leg
islatureman now are stomach
which can digest gravel and n
clothes-pin to fit over the nose.
The negro should not be mis-
treated. Fayette county has al.
ready left a black splotch on its
history by electing one Christie
pher Columbus Payne to the
House of Delegates. Every man
whose heart beats sympathetic
throb for humanity is opposed to
cruelty to animals. But there is
line beyond which forbearance
ceases to be avirtue. Such hypo.
critical and semi.idiotic 'recog-
milton" of the negro is like doct-
oring a pimple and leaving the
cancer untouched, or watering
exotic in the parlor and neglect
ing the weeds in the garden.
The negro should be given his
rights, but to send him to our
capitol as a lawmaker is like
sending a skunk to a hymeneal
feast. The sixty-tive million
blue-eyed Saxons Of the United
States are the ones who by nature
and ability should make our
laws and their common sense will
decree that the black hands Of no
negro shall lay hold of the helm
of the ship ofState. and as a So
Ion he must forever be content
with back seat. AS it is, he is
no more than an obnoxious NUS
ance; but with the destiny of
nation placed in his care and
keeping he Becomes a dangerous
enemy to the happiness and we'll
fare Of the whole people. To put
him in such position is more
dangerous than placing a lunatic
in charge of a locomotive. But
to elect him to Office is not the
only object Of nominating him.
1t as a miserable bid on the part
of a certain political party for
his vote. Without its African in
fusion the Republican party
could not carry ten States in the
Union. Mark Hanna was a pee
wee who flew to the white house
on black wings.
Historians have always re-
corded the idiocy of the Roman
Emperor. Caligula. for browning
his horse, Incitatus, as Emperor
of Rome, and of Charles the
First for making surloin a mem
Der Of the Council of Deputies,
and now to complete the histori-
Zeal anomalies the Republican
party must make the negro a leg
islator.
lit is to be hoped that many
colored regiments will be sent to
Cuba, and ere long Southern wo-
men will not have 70 leave their
doors accompanied with shot
gun and a brace of pessimistic
bulldogs.
"Ihe negro is all right in his
place, but out Of his place he is
an'intolerable stencil in the nos.
trils Of every respectable man,
and there are thousands who are
willing to swear that he is always
out of his place"
The following resolutions in
reference to the above article,
which were adopted Mt the meet
ing at the court house Monday
night, not only voice the senti-
ments of the colored people, but
the respectable element Of the
white people, irrespective of
party.
( CLARKsBuRG,