The sun., 1900-03-20

TWENTY years ago there was a vote
that was incorruptible; it was the negro
vote. Today there is no more corrupt
vote than the negro vote. This is an un-
pleasant truth, but it is told with the
same purpose that the surgeon probes an
ugly sore. If the colored man reads bis
tory Alright, he " ill find in it a motive
that should impel him to guard the fran
chise as his most sacred possession.-
News and Advertiser.
There is no more certain proof OF a
wavering in loyalty to Republican prin'
ciples in politics than distrust and abuse
OF the colored Republican voters. We
have known a number of men who, from
being Union men and Republicans, be-
came rebels during the war, and Demo-
Gratis afterward, because they were too
good (?) to remain in the Republican
party and vote with the negro.
The Anti-Addicksites are manifesting
these symptoms. Having entered into
a compact with the Delaware Democrats
to 4sfeat the Republican party, they
have committed themselves TO Demo-
cratic hatred and persecution OF the col
ored Republicans.
Just now the colored vote of this
State is alike the bug. bear CT the Demo-
grassland the Anti-Addicksites They
hate and distrust it for the same reason
its LOYALTY to the Union Republican
parry. That is the negroes offending.
The negro vote in Delaware is not any
more corrupt than the white vote, Is
not any more corrupt than the Demo-
cratic vote. 1t has not been sustained
by public plunder. 1t has not been
made party to the political outrages
by which this State has been
kept in the Democratic line. The
coiored Republicans of the State
were not in any great degree
party to the reasonable compact by
which the Republican party OF this State
was defeated in 1896. Those who help
ed do that, did it because the leaders
whom they trusted deceived them. We
do not believe they were paid for it. We
are sure that the colored voters who re-
manned true to the party, and voted the
Union Republican ticket, were not paid
for heir votes. To say that they were is
fals4. 1t is worse than that. II is mean
and cowardly.
That is Democratic political trick,
and an old one at that. While Demo
cratic Office holders were corruptine
Democratic votes by the thousand, were
robbing the county treasures of this
State to do it, they were bowling them
selves hoarse about the danger to the
State from negro ignorance and corrup
ton; were telling the people that the
Republicans, the friends and party as
sociates OF the editor of the News and
Advertiser, were not to be trusted in
State affairs because that meant negro
dominance. Republican success in this
State neyes speant that; and the negro
vote is not now, and never has beer
dangerous element in its poll
tics. 1t is false to say SO. II
is cowardly to make the negro the scape'
goat to carry away the political sins ol
the people who have abused him with
out cause, and of the people who, if the
negro vote has gone wrong led it astray
l. is not wrong, not proof of political
corruption, for the negro voter to be q
Republican. 1t would be wrong, and
suggestive Of corruption, for him to be
Democrat, and an imputation upon his
good sense if he helped the traitors tc
his party to defeat it.
1t is because he refuses to do this that
Anti.Addicksites and Democrats are now
abusing him. The negro's franchise is in