Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-14
NEGROES breaking AWAY
FROM THEIR BLIND AND LOYAL
ALLEGIANCE TO THE REPUB-
LICAN PARTY.
THE YOUNGER MT
Organized a Club, and Asserts
Its independence of the Party in
StroAg Resolutions Officials
Chosen at a Meeting Held Last
Night-.The Immortal Thirteen"
in Evidence.

The negro di~saffection from the Re-
publican party in Ohio county, dating
back to the memorable Clay district
suggestion meeting and even prior to
that time, which has been pooh-poohed
by Dovener and others, appears to be
gaining strength. 1t has eliminated
IN the formation of an independent
negro organization, which STARTS off
with a membership Of forty. The Sec
ond melting of the club was held last
night in McLain's hall, and the most
important business transacted was the
adoption of resolutions, as follows:
Whereas. The colored voters of this
county have always been loyal to the
support of the Republican party, to such
an extent that the said Republican party
has closed its eyes TO every considera-
ton OF justice to the colored voters, we
believe that this loyalty on the part of
the negro has to a great extent blinded
him to the true situation, as regards
his political progress. 1t has also led
the Republican party to believe that
any kind of treatment was good enough
for the negro. Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the members of this club
that h negro voters of this country
have long since discharged every obi
cation in so far as they were indebted
to the Republican party, for the part it
took in the liberation and freedom OF
the race, be it further
Resolved, That to relieve ourselves
from further political servitude, and to
assume a freer and more manly atti-
tude of American citizenship, we have
met and formed an organization for
free speech and the enjoyment of the
rights and every privilege guaranteed to
every citizen of the United States,
without regard to race, or previous con-
dition of servitude. We desire that
every man have the right to exercise
such rights as are guaranteed by the
Constitution. We also denounce any
abridgement of these rights by any par
ty or individuals who would sacrifice
the principles upon which the govern
ment rests, and from which it has grown
to be the greatest and grandest repub-
lie in the history of the world. Be it
further
Resolved, That we denounce the
infringement of the right of the colored
voters to participate in the selection of
delegates to the last Congressional con-
%vention; and we call upon all race low
ing, free American citizens and voters,
to stamp their disapproval upon such
outrageous, law-defying conduct as
characterized the farce suggestion meet
in Clay district. Be it further
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
club that such an outrage upon the
rights of the colored voters of Clay
district cannot be remedied unless the
negro voters in this city, and especially
in Clay district, exercise their God-given
rights by rebuking at the polls on the
9Th day of November the party that toll
crates and perpetuates such fragrant vi
olations of the law II outrages upon
the right of the negro voters of Ohio
county. We pledge ourselves to not
only denounce, but to cast our ballots
against every candidate directly or in
directly connected with such violations
and outrages and failures, as has char
acterized the conduct of the Republi-
can party in this county.
In opening the meeting, Mr.. G. W.
Brunswick delivered a short address,
in which he dwelt upon the necessity
for an Independent movement. Mr..
Booker also made a short address. A
committee to nominate officers for, per-
manent organization consisted of Stan
ley Barnet. George Booker mad Scott
Taylor. The committees report was
adopted, and the officers chosen were as
follows, namely:
President, G. w. Brunswick.
Vice President, Stanley Barnett.
Secretary, Scott n. Taylor.
Corresponding Secretary, NJ. B.
Gaines.
Treasurer, d. B. Buckner.
Advisory Board, Charles Moxley, D..
B.. Buckner, Elias Rolls, Harry Smith,
l.. Monkey Gray and Edward Jones.
The name chosen for the organization
was Young Mems Independent Polit-
ical Club" 1t starts off with forty mem
bers.
| have Just returned from Paris and