The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-09-18
AFRlcAN BISHOPS. REASON
Why he will Support Mr.. Bryan for
the Presidency.

AOLt tA SOIAC VI lAC iCdSOuo VI OAoAOP
Turner of the African M. E. church
which was given in letter to the
democratic national committee
stating why he had left the repub-
lican party and wonld support
Mr.. Bryan. he says:
Lincoln never harbOred trust.
He never believed in governing
without. the consent of the gov
erned. He never believed in grind
ing down the rights and privile'
ges of the common people. He
never failed to accord honor where
honor was due. Now how can any
one reconcile the party principles
of Lincoln with the party princl-
Piles of Hanna and Roosevelt7
In its treatment of the cOlored
man the republican party has al
ways masqueraded as a wolf IN
sleeps clothing. Since that time
that party claims to have freed the
slaves its managers have constantly
lied to the colored man. When
Lincoln died, republican honesty
to the colored race was inferred
with his bones, and an era of re-
publican moral degeneracy began.
We are told that we were emancl-
pated for humanity's sake. Yes,
and believe Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippine islands were fleed
from the same incentive. Oh, hu-'
manity. what crimes are commit
ed in thy namei
THE republicans have lied to us
about our freedom and our citizen
ship. Our freedom was a war ne
| cessity and was dearly bought
with colored arms, 200. 900 strong,
and our citizenship is replica of
serfdom.
After the war, the republicans,
seeking to retain themselves in
power, inaugurated the journey
man government system in the
South. which is not only blot on
our national escutcheon, but the
secret of all of the American col
ored mans social troubles today.
They thrust the unsuspecting neg
roes' hands into the fire to snatch
out their chestnuts.
Contrary to the emotional idea
that the republican party has an
unlimited mortgage on the suffer
ages of the colored man, / say thai
that organization should be ever
lastingly grateful to the colorec
race. The republican party is The
child of that race. Through Lin
coins honest championship of thu
enslaved people that party was
born. Through the colored mans
gratitude it was bred. The blacl
man behind the gun turned th'
tide of the rebellion, thus insurinG
the power of the party. The blacl
man was used as a political tool il
the South during the carpetbag
regime, and temporarily sacrificed
his social safety. For thirty year
he has delivered his vote to tn,
republican party like a poor maj
gives his pound of flesh to a Shy
lock.
Now we have the spectacle o
: a thin soldier, a fiash-light hero
whose pen is mightier than hi
) sword, who conceived the idea o
/ a Rough Rider regiment becaus
, he had seen Buffalo Bills Wild
: West circus. He is saved from
: death in Cuba by the colored sol
diers who rush to the rescue of hi
| three sheet troopers. He re
| turns to the states and poses fo
] emolument and the camera ant
r writes for the magazines of hov
he forced the black soldiers t.
keep the front at the point of hi
! pistol.
? Black men ON the battlefield
have always been brave. In ever.
war our nation has waged the col
ored man has shed his blood will
r ingly.
In the war of the Revolution
Crispus Attucks, a colored mai
} was the first to die on Boston
E Common. During the war 0
3 1872, General Andrew jackson
praised the valor of the men O
! color at the battle of New Orleans
2 Fifty thousand colored men mad