The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-24
TAMMANY INSULT.
An Outrageous Slur at the Colored
Voter and How it is Reacting on the
New York Democracy.


The negroes all over the city from the
Bronx to Staten Island are up in arms
over the attempt of Mr. Croker to get
control of the colored vote. After the
meeting of colored folks at Lyric hall.
f, the other night, waen Mr.. Croker. made
a speech, one of the Tammany leaders
was heard to remark:
We've got the money this year. and
therefore, the coons are all with us.
You can't get a nigger's vote unless you
buy it, anyway, so we decided to make
the investment
The remark was overheard by a. eroun
of colored men who had attended the
meeting, and they promptly repeated it,
by this time the esteem in which Tam
many Hall holds the colored voters is
known to a large number of the colored
citizens of the city. For the past two
or three days colored voters from all
over the city have called at the head
quarters of the republican county com
nittee TO say to the managers that this
remark of the Tammany man has raj
! lied the negroes to the support of Col
Roosevelt as nothing else could have
done, and that, after the votes are
counted, Tammany Hall will realize
| that the colored vote is not for sale.
The immediate result of this state
ment of Tammany's opinion of the ne
groes was the effort of the colored cler-
| gymen throughout the city to rally
their parishioners, not only to the re-
| publican standard, but in defence of
their manhood and self-respect. The
| Rev. DR.. Ernest Lyon, who was chair
man of the colored republican national
| committee in 1896, assisted by the Rev.
P. Butler Thompkins, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church at 219
] West Thirty second street; the Rev J.
| M. Henderson, pastor of the Bethel
Methodist Episcopal Church in West
Twenty fifth street. and the Rev. r. D.
Wynn of the Abyssinian Baptist
i Church, 166 Waverley place, got to
| work to organize the negroes. They re-
lported what they intended to do to the
| venerable Bishop w B. Derrick of the
/ African Methodist Episcopal Church
\ said to be the most influential man in
the United States among the colored
race, and he Immediately gave it his
unqualified approval and support Bish-
op Derrick has already addressed one
large meeting at Bethel Church in the
interest Of Col. Roosevelt
i A headquarters was established at
Crystal hall, 352 West Thirty fifth
street, and nightly meetings were held
there. Beginning tomorrow the preach
ers will start their campaign in earnest
all over Greater New York. Two meet
ings will be held tomorrow night, one al
the Bethel Church in Twenty fifth
street. just west of Eighth avenue, and
the other in Zion A. M. E. Church in
Flushing. The meeting in Bethel Church
will be addressed by the Rev. Dr. Gran
vile Hunt of Mount Vernon the Rev
DR.. Lyon, the Rev. Mr.. Henderson, pas
tor of the church; Charles N. Butler
| chairman c0l0rp6 1,a11I1l1l ino =
county committee, and the Rev. r. ID
Wynn. The Flushing meeting will be
addressed by the pastor of the church
in which the meeting is held, the Rev
j. J. Taylor, by DR.. Lyon and the Rev
A. Butler Thompkins.
On Tuesday a big mass meeting will
be held by the Colored Voters League
of the borough of Queens at Astoria
Schutzen park, Broadway and Steinway
avenue, Long Island City. Among the
speakers will be the Rev. Dr. A. ]
Warner, once the republican candidate
for governor of Alabama. On Wednes.
day night the colored voters of the up.
per part of the city will have a rally al
the Day Star Baptist Church, sol Yves
157th street. The pastor of the church
the Rev. ]. w. Scott, and the Rev. R
d. Wynn, will speak. On Thursday
night a colored mass meeting will b.
held at hobart hall, Douglass street
Jamaica. The Rev. DIR. j. A. Warner
and the Revs. Francis F. Giles, c. M
Mcdaniel, f. w. Tapley and Simon P
w. Drew will speak.
The Rev. DR.. Lyon, speaking of the
attempt of Tammany to secure the
negro vote yesterday afternoon said
There are between 81, 900 and 40, 900 col
ored voters in Greater New York 1t il
an exceptionally liberal estimate wher
| say that possibly 5000 Of this number
: will vote the democratic ticket The
: negro race is not dead to all manhood
: and I doubt if 5000 colored votes are
cast for the Taynnany ticket"