Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-13
TIE RACE QUESTION.
To the Editor of the Register.
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and speakers for the solution of the
Race question and remarkable to re-
late ex-senator John j. ingalls,. the
great Republican leader, publicly de-
clared within the last year that the con-
dltlon Of the negro is worse than it was
prior to their emancipation from slav-
cry, and he openly advised the use Of
ire arms by them for the maintainencg
| OF their rights guaranteed by the con-
stltutlonal amendments.
TO prevent negro supremacy in the
south, statutes Of questionable consti-
nationality have been enacted by the
democracy, while on the other hand,
the present administration has appoint
ed to important positions in the post
ONCE department negroes in Mississip-
pi and other Southern States with a full
knowledge that the feeling against such
appolntes has almost invariably led
to bloodshed and assassination. Can
any sane man with a single honest
impulse deny that such an appoint
ment in the light of history is not
| equivalent to placing a political friend
in the position of target to be riddled
with bullets, and in view Of that fact is
| not the President, from moral stand
point, criminally guilty Of death with
| malice aforethought, for the express
and only purpose of solidifying the
| colored votes in the doubtful States
where they hold the balance Of power.
1t can do no good for the Republican
party in the Southern States, but in
finite harm, in as much as it always ag-
gravates the i'll feeling and prejudice
against the colored man, and increases
the effort to disfranchise him. If not
done clearly for party purposes why
are negro postmasterS found only in
the States south of Mason and DiXon's
line, and especially in those that are
reliably Democratic under all circum-
stances. In every Republican State
State convention negro delegates take
the floor and mortify their pretended
friends by declaring that they will and
do demand recognition for their party
services which they vehemently declare
has not been given them, but despite
these contentious since the State has
been landed in the Republican column
no negro has been found to I'LL an I'M
portant post Office or other position OF
emolument: yet the love for the color
ed gentlemen was SO pronounced by
the Republican members of the legis-
lature of 1867 that they refused in a
body to attend a banquet given In
| honor Of that assembly because the
name of one Mr. Payne (coloredD rep
resentative from Fayette county was
not found on the list Of invited guests,
and aspiring editors like Charles Bur
dette Hart, now Minister to Columbia,
was so indignant at the conduct OF the
| invitation committee that he sent
wall out through the columns or the
Wheeling Intelligencer that should
have secured him a ministry to Haytl
| or the Fiji Islands as just reward lot
| his undying devotion to the cause on
| negro social equality. 1t seems TO pc
! the aim of the administration to 90 all
| it can for the promotion OF the aglta-
i tors of race troubles, one Of the assas-
| sinators of a negro post master VINO
| turned States evidence was coddled, ca
| ioled and taken to Washington by a
| DEPUTY United States Marshal upon the
pretext of safety, and after his arrival
there he was placed in a lucrative po-
sition in one of the Federal depart
ments under the Presidents nose.
A mighty howl goes UP and the news
is heralded throughout the Union II
negro is shot in the South, but strange
to say the Republican Governor OF IL
| linois called out an armed force and
| had shot down like dogs the negro
| miners that came into that State, and
| Governor Tanner will be renominated
| by his party A negro post master Is
! all right in the South, but negro coal
miner can not displace white labor un-
| der the regium of Governor Tanner.
| From all that has been done in the
| direction of promotions, ETC., or the
negro, according to the authority of ex-
| Senator ingalls,, there has been no
practical result for the advancement or
| the colored race accomplished.
| The remedy we have to suggest, so
| far as we know, has never been Of
| fered from the press or rostrum, and
we candidly believe if carried out will
| be an absolute and final solution OF the
race question and forever close the
mouths Of the inscriptions and preten-
! tious advocates of negro advancement
on political lines. In the event of the
election Of William ]. Bryan, which we
| confidently believe will occur in 1900,
| let him in the State of Pennsylvania,
| the New England States, possibly
| Iowa, in all the States which have
| large Republican majorities, appoint
| from the crossroads postoffice to the
Philadelphia postoffice, as we'll as all
mail carriers, internal revenue collec-
tors, marshals, pension examiners, rail
way clerks, etc, in fact, every federal
| officer from the highest to the lowest,
should be filled by negroes; the only
preference should be based upon color,
| the blacker the candidate the surer his
! chances of an office. Continue this
| policy through one administration, and
| it is not likely that q second dose Of
| their own medicine would be necessary
| for the fellows who, in their platforms,
| pirate for a free vote and fair count,
which is only intended to reflect on the
South and engender race prejudice, but
not to correct Hannaism. In the
| event of further application of this pre-
| scription should be necessary, leave
| the removal of the colored incumbents
| in Office to their pretentious political
| friends, and when ordered out by them
| it will create such revolution in poll
tics that the negro will not be further
used as a voting machine, but will be
| independent The political poltroon
| who shoots at long range with his foul
breath the people Of the South because
J their tastes from cultivation revolt at
negro supremacy, will die from self
| inflicted stings. The Mason and Dixon
| line will be forever obliteTated and
| new line will be drawn by a transfer Of