The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-05

Editor Advertiser: i want TO make lnls
expression public before Monday night,
AID, therefore, / can not wait for the
next issue Of the Star.
In Saturday nights Star there is an
article, headed IAN Appeal to the Negro;
Anti-Slavery Leaders Urge Bryan's Elec-
for the New Republican Party a Matter
of Complexion
The appeal calls upon colored voters ".
the States to defeat Mckinley because
OF the trouble in the Philippines and is
signed by Colone, Higginson, ex-Govern-
or Boutwell,, and William Lloyd Garri-
son.
1 can not imagine the motive behind
the publication of this article by the Star,
but il Is very strange that 1t appears here
in Republican paper at this time, when
Democrats are trying to impress Hawaii
an voters with the very sentiments car
ried in the article headed IAN Appeal to
the Negro" 1t does seem very strange
that when our battle here is hottest, an
ally from our own side suddenly appears
in the ranks of the enemy giving them
aid and trying to defeat US.
MEN WHO WROTE 1T.
1 know the men who sign this Appeal
to the Negro" Young Garrison has
been a Democrat since 1884. His father
was foremost among the friends of the
colored people, but the son is too small
a man in every respect for the great
name he bears. 1t does not fit him. Bout
well has never been conspicuous as a
friend of the colored people. In sense,
he is a cipher, and he has no reason to
pose in that capacity. But it is different
with Colonel Higginson. He has been a
great friend, but his aloha for us has
not been very great since We refused to
follow him in 1872, think, with the Dem
ocratic party and support Horace Greedy
for President against General L. S. Grant,
and also since 1884, when we again refus-
ed to follow him into the Democratic par
ty and support Grover Cleveland for Pres
ident against James G. Blaine.
Events since then have shown that God
guided the colored mans feet and lighted
his path. Bear in mind that there are
enough colored votes in the Northern
States to turn the election in favor of
either party. In New York, for example.
there are about 10000 colored votes. In
1892 thousands of colored men followed our
friend Colonel Higginson and voted for
Grover Cleveland for President, carried
the doubtful States of the North and
elected him.
COLOR LINE DRAWN
sands of them were thrown out of work
by the hard times which prevailed during
Cleveland's administration; thousands of
cclored men lost their positions under the
Government. They were discharged from
custom houses, postoffices and other
places by the wholesale, and white DEM
ocrats took their places. Why Southern
Democratic clerks refused to sit in the
same room with dark-skinned clerks, and
the colored man and woman had to put
on their hats and get out. No line was
drawn anywhere. Dark-skinned clerks,
half-white clerks, three-quarter-white
clerks (for the colored people are made
up of all these different colors)-all had
| to go by the thousands. 1t was a public
scandal, and a shame and disgrace to
the Democratic party. The colored voters
got sick of following Colonel Higginson
and in 1896 they let him go his way; they
voted for Mckinley and against Bryan
and elected him. What is the result
Colored men and white men-American:
one and all have enjoyed more prosperi
| ty than ever before in American history
ard since Mckinley became President 26,
900 colored persons-dark, brown, half
white, ee-puarter-white-have been ap
pointed to office, many of them being re
stored to places from which they wer,
discharged under Cleveland's administra
ton. These colored officeholders draw
y
over six million dollars. The Democrat!
cut them down to a paltry few hundred
thousand dollars. The colored people re
member what they got for following Col
onel Higginson's lead, and they will pa!
nc more attention to his present appea
than the fisherman does to the man II
the moon, or than the Hawaiian voters d.
to McClanahan's imperialism The.
are all Democrats together.
SUPPORTING MKINIEY
The colored voters are supporting tn
Republican party almost solidly. Thei
200 newspapers are leading them. Evel
some of their bishops are publicly sayinj
a word for Mckinley, and there ar
thousands of colored preachers, teacher
} and professional and business men, WIN
are leading the colored voters in the op
posite direction to that pointed out b,
Colonel Higginson. The colored peopl
are more united today than they hay
been since 1872. and they are forced t
stand together with the Republican part,
from the very facts which Colonel Hig
ginson states in his appeal. He says
among other things: "In >other days tina
party Republican) freed the slaves an,
passed amendments to the United State
Constitution for the protection of thos
who had been slaves. These amendment
are now being steadily set aside, and tn
Republican party shows no sign fof rails
ihb hilStr IN their ueIenSc. There nav
been lar more outrages on the American
negro during one term of Mckinley thai
during two terms of Cleveland"
DEMOCRATS ADMIT 1T
Here Is an admission from Democrat
THAT THE AMENDMENTS TO TIL
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITEI
STATES, WHICH ARE AGAINST SLA
NERY AND IN FAVOR OF EQUAL
N ZIG TO ALI. MEN. ARE BEING
NULLIFIED BY DEMOCRATS; and tina
more crimes against dark-skinned peopl
nave been committed by Democrats Il
TOUR years under Mckinley than in eigh
ears under Cleveland. Think of II, And
yet, these Massachusetts Democrats ad
wise colored men to vote for the Demo
cratic party. and Republican paper pub
iishes their appeal, presumably with tn
nope OF helping the Democrats here /
dark-skinned man should follow tn
democratic party under present condi
tons, he would be like man who woul