The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-06
WALLER IS OUT.
Famous COlored Kansas Orator
Is For Bryan.
Writes a Letter From Cuba
Announcing Change.
THE 'sBURNING ISSUES"
Filipinos Have as Much Right
to independence as Cubans.
Says Porto Rico Tariff is an In
justice.
Opposes Maintenance Of Large
Standing Army.
THE "BURNING ISSUES

Captain John L. Waller, the noted Kan
sas negro, Republican, now in Cuba, has
renounced Republicanism and appeals to
his people to support w J. Bryan for
president.
The announcement of Mr.. Walters flop
comes in letter to Colonel E. c. Little.
of Abilene The letter follows:
No. 80 Basilio Gale.
Santiago de Cuba, June Is, 1900
Bishop Walters, of the A. NJ. E. church,
advises the Afro-American to divide his
vote between the several political parties,
but 1 go further still and advise those
who are contemplating changing their
Bryan for the presidency this year.
Mr Bryan is against the trusts, imper-
ialism and a large standing army He is
opposed, also, to imposing any taxation on
Porto Rico that he would not require New
Mexico, Alaska or Oklahoma to pay. He
is the advocate of Cuban and Philippine
independence, under a carefully arranged
American protectorate-
neve that if Cuba is entitled to independ-
ence, the Philippine are none the less SO.
peace on these terms Gould have have been been
made more than year ago with the Fill
bloodshed and rendered the large standing
army which we now have ten thousand
miles from home-the first time in our
national history-unnecessary
Such peace would have been honor
soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in
that far-away archipelago would nown be
{
The gallant Lawton, young John A Lo-
gan and the son of General Howard would
still be living. am one of those who be-
lieve that ours is too great a people and
a government to longer harass and shoot
to death a small nation of colored people
who have so long contended for what our
revolutionary fathers pledged their lives
and most sacred honor, for liberty and in
dependence, which gained after eight
years of hard fighting against the mother
country.
We should not blame the FTlipinos for
making a
they simply emulate the American people.
why should they surrender to us?
1 am for VIM Bryan, because he is op-
and obliteration of the nationality of these
How dare America attempt to censure
Great Britain in her war against the
Beers, while she is at the self-same mo-
rnent engaged in war far more repre-
home against a. much weaker nation?
Great Britain is fighting an equal, so far
intelligence and blood and the knOWl-
edge of artillery and firearms go.
Our government has army of $1,000
the navy lighting small and weak ma
tion of semi-savages, whose sole desire is
to be free and Independent.
How are the mighty fallen" 1t can
not now be urged that colored men can
not support Mr.; Bryan, because if elected
The record will show that no president
will go further in this particular instance
than the present national executive While
/ do not question the right of the presi-
dent to place as many of these people to
sitions as he may wish, I do insist that
it should longer be assigned as a rea-
son why colored men should support the
Republican party.
While can not agree with Mr.. Bryan
in his ZIG to T. theory on the money ques-
tion yet / regard the formerly mentioned
questions of far greater Importance, as
upon them depends the vitality and life
The Afro-American has Jared badly un-
der the present administration in the Gu
Haf, mi nff1fr a,1fE in a
in this island, not a colored American has
been appointed-the same is true in all
in Cuba, though a large proportion of the
population here is colored men,
I am not informed whether or not you
If you are, it would give me great pleas
position Within the gift Of the state. 80
A letter from ,l,,iI my SON. who Is cor cor
ppea1 ppe Vet "a having hard MARCHES and doing
good deal of campaign work
IslgG am very faithfully 1SzN H0qr s. friend
OF Mr. Waller, Colonel Little said to a
State Journal reporter:
Captain Waller has had a peculiar his
tory Born a slave. he managed to se-
cure an excellent education. became a
as aLsw a Republican orator. probably more SO
than any other co1ored man west of the
Harrisop as Consul to Madagascar for
four years. Then he secured from the
queen OF Madagascar a cOnceSSon OF nun
dreds of square leagues of land, all Won
derfully fertile, and much of it a forest of
trees that produce rubber. He was ar
ranging for railroad and the develop
ment of his property. which would have
made him one of the richest men on earth.
The French seized Madagascar and sent
him to Marseilles In chains. Cleveland
was then threatening to go to war with
England to protect c. P HuntingtOn'S s
interests in Venezuela. but wouldn't raise
a finger for poor man like Waller. Wall
Ter was a captain in the Twenty-third
Kansas and remained in Santiago He IS
a thoroughly honest, intelligent and able
man and / am glad to see that Waller and
so many colored men are showing so much
independence of thought and action. 1t 5
a good sign for the race.
Il wrote Waller on receipt of his letter
and asked if he cared to have it printed
and he writes me, reaffirming his Dosition-
saws he is not afraid to have his stand
known, to go ahead and print It is a
manly and courageous stand and Waller
will be great acquisition to the national
committee, if they can get him to come
home from Cuba and go on the stump