The Topeka state journal., 1898-12-23
STAB HIM."
COlOred Men at Washington
Madly Shouted
When President Mckinley Was
Fiercely Denounced
BY A COLORED ORATOR
Fiery Invective Hurled at the
Chief Executive.
Pouring Forth His Bitterness
Without Restraint.
BY A COLORED ORATOR

Washington, D. c., Dec. 23-There was
held in this city last night a meeting of
what is denominated the National Racial
Protective association, composed of repre-
sentative colered men from the several
states Resolutions were adopted criti-
cising President Mckinley for not taking
cognizance in his message of 1.-The killing
of prominent Republicans on the eve OF
election in North and South Carolina
The sensation of the meeting was a
speech by Mr.. T. Thomas Fortune of New
York. He said he was glad the gentle
man who had asked Divine blessing on the
meeting had gone out of the beaten path
to ask Gods blessing on William McKin-
ley, for if ever a man had wandered fur
ther away from the faith than the presi-
dent of the United States he would like to
know it He did not, he said, care for
any man who did not care for him. He
referred to General Wheeler as the side
partner or the president on MS trip TO the
south. If, said he, the Republican party
wants to unload the cOlored voters, the
colored voters Of New York want to know
1or by the national government ne want
ed the Confederate widows and orphans
then there ought, he said. to be erected a
monument to Benedict Arnold.
If all the black and yellow people stood
on the same ground as himself, there
would have been no 80 colored men killed
in Wilmington unless there were 30 white
If the colored, people did. not have Win
while the whites were killing the blacks
should have been burning. The negroes
they stand up for them The worst or
ganzation which ever existed was the
result we have ESQ coo mullatoes in this
country Why, the very men killed at
grandsons Of the men who killed them.
He despised Rutherford B. Hayes, who,
ra zee for a mess of pottage. He had the
utmost respect for the presidential office
to the present president who, he believ-
ed as he had been unfai ithful TO his trust,
GER he exclaimed, land H. c. Corbin
likewise. They have given US 16 first
diers who saved the day at Santiago. and
but for whom the American troops would
Il came down here he said, Ito fight
the president. He has gong back on US
night for me. and if he doesn't, I, feel like
stabbing him" (At this several persons
1--WE have not reached the period of am
ity stated by President Mckinley. There
was not a cOlOred man on any of the COM
mittees appointed to receive him in any
of the cities, although the colored people
The Speaker EXPRESSED the Utmost con
tempt for the supreme court. because Of
laws. He asserted that Grover Cleveland
Mr.. Mckinley in his whole back He Sc
verely scored Governor Tanner OF Illinois
for his course in the recent mining trou-
bles. In conclusion he urged the support
of the coIored people for the advancement
of the objects of the association, and said
it was necessary because the president had
''Queered'' the whole situation, as far
the colored people of the nation are con-
cerned.
IF the Republican party" he said, '.is
and say so, and not act like sneak.
Il feel that. the time will come when
mobocracy will be done away with.
There is nothing purer and grander in
all the world, than the white womanhood
women do not measure up to the same
standard 1t is because of the lasciyiou3
white men who have had their way there
for more than 200 years.
He believed, he said. in mixed schools.
mixed marriages, mixed churches and
fair deal in everything, and entreated that
the association make no compromise with
those who opposed them in getting their
rights.