Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-22

votes, but all de white men also want
ed all de Offices. Dey has kept us
climbin de tree to shake down de coon,
but dey has eaten de meat and sold de
pelt when de coon fell. (Agitation
| verging ON the cyclonic)
"Ebery man in desc United Stats
owes duty to his kentry. It's to help
lift her UP when de bad times come,
shove her along when de good times
abound an fight fur her an die fur her
when her life am at stake. Gigantic
and long continued applause) De culPd
man has done his duty in dis respect
as well as de white. CHE has.'o He's
bin boostin her UP an pushin her along
an dyin fur her till de pages of his
tory hev giben him chapter arter chap
ter fur fucher ginerations to read.
(Tornado of enthusiasm.) He's Armed
his name, his place an his rights, an
he's gwine 10 stick right to his job an
keep doin. But a change am gwine to
take place-a change dat am gwine to
rattle de shingles on de roof and skeer
de cat out from under de bed. Shouts
Of GLORY, glory!") De black man am
gwine to keep right on bein an Ameri-
can an patriot an good citizen, an
. he am also gwine to keep right on pay
in 'tenshun to politics. Whar de
change as gwine to come in will be in
his votin. Heretofo' he has bin led up
to de polls to vote hisself. (Vociferous
and soul stirring shouts, yells and
cheers, ending in the whole crowd sing
ing My Country" in seven different
keys and upsetting the pail of hard
cider provided for the orator.
"Freemen of a free land. patriots
who ar taking yor fust breath of liber-
ty, I'm looking at dat stuff possum
which we hev adopted as our sacred
embelem an arter which we hev taken
our name ITyphonic yells.1 Oar has
eber bin bond of sympathy between
de Guild man an de poSSum. Dey
hev both had to lay low and bide DER
time Dey haven't had show wild
de big game. Dey has had to keep
still till folks look upon EN- as dead.
tSighs and groans and repressed agi-
tation1 Howeber. it's gwine to aston
ish hull continent-de way dat pos
sum will let go and drap down into
de row and demand an fight fur his
sheer of de spiles. [Whirlwind OF ap-
plause, during which the stove fell
over unheeded,]. Up to dis date no
body has eber axed de black man what
he wanted in payment fur being SOL
dier. citizen and an elector. 1t was
calkerlated dat what was left ODER
was god huff fri him. an de white
man has taken mighty good keer dat
muffin was left ODER which 1t was
gwine 10 bodder anybody to kerry of
in his coattail pocket. tGroans OF as
sent.) But we amt waitin to be aXed
We am standin up in Paradise hall to-
night to say we want thus an so, am
gwine to hev it or kick ODER de bee
hive (Unearthly whoops and yells
from all parts OF the hall) We amt
skulkin' up to candydates an conven-
shuns an Begin fur crumbs, but we
am walkin' up to de bakery shoulder
to shoulder an demandin a far count
of de loaves. (Rising temperature,
followed by eXplosions.)
- Yo' jest git out yor pencils an fig
ger a mint. Dere's ober 100000
black men in dis kentry who am en-
titled to walk up to de polls on lee
ton day an cast a vote. If dey but
hang togeder, yo' can't count on 'em
out nor keep 'em back. Dem 3,000,-
600 votes am gwine to be cast fur
principle, but doan' yo' make no mis-
take bout principle. We used TO
think dat it meant votin on sartin
lines an dat George Washington.
Abraham Lincoln, de constitushun of
de United Stats and seberal otacr
things was mixed up wild it. an we
walked up an put in our votes as if
each ar cherry one was gwtne to save