The Delawarean., 1900-09-08
COM M MUNICATED.
Editor The Delawarean.

Editor The Delawarean.
Sir:-Bryan not only contends fol
the rights of the Anglo-Saxon race
in his fight against imperialism; but
he is striking fatal blow at consti-
tutional infringement at home. as
well as abroad. While Bryan is a
Democrat of the Democrats, he is a
man absolutely honest unterrified and
undismayed by the calumny of the
financial plutocracy or the malignant
Ehreats of the commercial obligarchy.
His speech to the Notification Commit
tee at indianapolis stands unanswered
and unanswerable. In comparison
with President McKinley's speech to
the Notification Committee on my
front porch at Canton lis like com
pairing to New England granite, or
mole hill to Chimborazo looming high
above tine perpetual SHOWS of the lofty
Andes. Bryan is the modern Leonidas
Standing at the Thermopylae of our
Holitfcal liberties. For the laboring
and middle classes to desert him, in
his fight for their political and indus
trial liberties, would prove their un-
fitness for self-go government in a re
public, irrespective of races. The
present campaign is by far the most
interesting and far-reaching in it's
consequences than any in which the
negro has been called on to partici-
pate. With the inalienaible rights of
the Flilipinos at stake in the peaceful
Pacific, with the Porto Ricans Subiu-
gated in the boisterous Atlantic, with |
absolute slavery in the Sulu Islands,
and the attempt to override the con-
stitutional rights of all the peoples;
forces the rights of the negro i'm the
United States also to the fore. If the
negro fails to grasp the opportunity
presented to him, ito emancipate him
self from party slavery, he runs the
fearful chance of being disfranchised
the Union. But if he be
politic, and aid in the warding off of
imperialism, and THE subjugation of
he teeming millions in the isles of the
'eas, Democrat and Republican, north
urTf11 11., n.
Zach other in seeing to it that the
legro is ceded his rights under the
constitution. The real trbuble with
he race in question lis! That it has
lever been forced before the bar of :
,ublic opinions, for IAN equitable ad-
ustment, nor will it be until the more
LOFTY and self-preserving issues are
ettled by the American people. Let
he negroes address themselves ito the
ssues as they arise and their turn
viii come i'm the course of events.
1t does mot better the condition of
he negro in the south to contend, as ]
ne Republican State Convention did
q New York, on the 4th inst. by reso- !
ltions on the disfranchisement of the
egro; that is not AN tissue in this
ampaign, and it is therefore, begging I
1e question and throwing sand i'm the
legro's eyes. Let all intelligent $
egroes follow the example of their
7orthy bishops Grant and {
urner, and a great deal of the preiu-
zee against the race will fold up its
'nIts and silently steal away. Z
Let het negroes help elect BRYAN. am
onest man, who contends for the
shts or all the peoples, and we shall
ave saved from despotism the great
't republic on the face of the globe; 4
len We shall be able ITO tread the
arth in brotherhood and political
luality under the constitution a last
g temple of liberty unshadowed by
tyrant's palace! n
Thrice is he armed that hath his y
quarrel just; gi
nd he but walked, though locked up G.
in steel, in
~, fol
whose conscience with injustice is I'M
corrupted iin iin
wv. Fl. BANKS. e,
Dover Del, September z, 1900. sid