The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-05
McCIanahan's Imperialism Raked BY
7. McCants Stewart.
REPUBLICAN, LAWYER EXPOSES THE
WLES OF THE NEGRO tATERS
He Shows That the Slave Party Is the Natural Enemy Of the
iawaians and Alliance With 1t Means
Death

skinned people. wherever they could. I'm
der Mckinley over 26, COO colored men have
been given office and asked to help carry
en- the Government. Because they have
accepted offices, Democrats have murder
ed them, often their families, and at
times an infant in arms. as they did in
the case of Postmaster Baker, near
Charleston, in the State of South Caro-
lima, where the Democrat Governor Till
man lives-the man whom Hawaiian DEM
ocrats, led by McClanahan, cheered for
over five minutes when he rose in the
Democratic National Convention to read
the Democratic platform.
OPPOSE COLORED PEOPLE.
/ have said repeatedly in my speeches
that Democrats do not want the Philip
pine Islands because the inhabitants are
dark-skinned people 1 find that this
Higginson appeal sustains me when it
says: THE VERY FACT OF THEIR
CrHE DEMOCRATS) UNWILLINGNESS
TO GIVE EQUAL POLITICAL RIGHTS
TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO MAKES
THEM UNWILLING TO UNDERTAKE
THE GOVERNMENT OF TEN MIL
LIONS MORE BELONGING TO THE
COLORED RACE. This is seen, for in
stance, in the fact that these very SOL
d.ers, in writing home letters from the
seat of war, describe the inhabitants OF
the Philippines more and more constantly
as 'niggers,' thus giving a new lease of
life to word which was previously dying
out among u.s.
After reading the Star last night in
stead of going out to make speeches, /
sat down and mapped out this reply to
Colonel Higginson's appeal. In looking
over some papers jus. from the States,
came across an editorial from the De-
fender, published in New York city, the
ablest colored Republican paper in the
North. The editorial is written by a col
nra6 xxyhn
a soldier in the war to save the
Union and abolish slavery, and since the
war he has been one of the most promi
nent colored men in public life. Among
other things, the editorial Declares
J Whether in the Philippines or in China,
the rights of our Government must be
maintained. A would-be President, who
has not the courage and patriotism to do
this Is not worthy of the leadership of
great nation. The blood of our soldiers
that is being split in the Philippines must
ever rest upon the heads of Mr. Bryan and
} his friends. The wicked deception that is
being practiced for election purposes, to
delude these poor people by the state
ment that they will be given their indie
pendence If they fight on until the cleo
ticn, is wicked, when Mr.. Bryan knows
full well that when the election is over,
ii he should be elected. that the lines
will be drawn tighter and that Southern
bloodhounds will be put upon the track of
Aguinaldo, and he and his Generals will
be lynched and murdered in every con-
ceivable way to make place for his South
ern political friends. The friends of the
Filipinos should show them that the best
road to prosperity is by accepting Ameri-
can civilization and like the Porto Ricans
settle down peaceably and rule and gov
ern their own country under Republican
and liberal laws. We will admit that If
the Democrats get hold of the Philippines
fhn
Carolina, Louisiana and Georgia will pre-
vail there. Tillman or Hamburg Butler
and Wade Hampton, or some other South
ern Confederate, will be the Governor
General, and then for the reign of terror
upon the poor people of that far off coun-
try-civilization win shudder at the out
come. If here, under the shadow of the
nations capital, because of ambiguous
State laws, the Constitution is annulled
end citizens are murdered and burned by
the mob, what will become of the poor de-
luded Filipinos when Bryan becomes Pres
ident?'
VIEWS HELD BY THEM.
Now that editorial represents the views
held by the colored people of the States.
, l. the Star, as a Republican paper, want
ed material to help the cause of Repub-
Ecanism, l could have accommodated the
paper with good Republican matter such
as the following statement of Imperial
18Th ny Den.
FROM TILLMAN'S KANSAS CITY
PLATFORM.
, I'VE declare that all governments insti-
, tuted among men derive their powers from
, the consent of the governed; that any
, government not based upon the consent
OF the governed is a tyranny and that
to impose upon any people a government
OF force is to substitute the methods OF
imperialism for those of a republic
, FROM TILLMAN'S SPEECH.
, I'VE took away the government We
stuffed the ballot boxes We shot them
: We are not ashamed of it. With that
, system-force, tissue ballots etc.-we got
tired ourselves. So we called a constitu.
tional convention, and we eliminated. as
, l have said, all of the colored people
, whom we could under the fourteenth and
, fifteenth amendments"
Knowing the colored people as l do.
am sure that they will not be humbugged
into following advice given them by such
an unknown quantity Boutwell,; such
young fellow, who is too small for his
big name, like Garrison, and even such
) friend as Colonel Higginson, who in
1892 led them into birthstone and fire by
! deluding them into the support of the
: Democratic party. which. after ii got the
, colored vote bit the colored people like
, serpent and stung them like an adder
, The only part of this appeal the colored
people will heed is in these words, which
apply to the Democratic party: 1--WE
WARN YOU THAT THE AMERICAN
NEGRO MUST HENCEFORTH THINK
FOR HIMSELF, AND MUST CUT
} ADRIFT FROM EVERY ORGANIZA.
: TON WHICH WAR ON DARKER
: RACES AS SUCH AND BEGIN TIC
TALK AGAIN OF THE NATURAL SU.
t PREMACY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON.' >
And it may be well for Hawaiians. who
I though Polynesians, are a dark-skinned
people. to remember these things; and
/, when McClanahan comes around to
: talk" they should cry aloud with one
voice, Breakers ahead!'
T. MCANTS STEWART.
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