The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-28
THEBRYAN ALVATION
To Be Administered to Northern
Colored Voters.
BY THE VENERABLE BISHOP
As a 'Panacea for Their Aches and PaineS
Superinduced by Democratic
Doctors.

Bishop Henry Mcneil Turner, Of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, has decided to support
Bryan in the present presidential
contest. Bishop Turner halls from
Atlanta Georgia, where he and the
other colored voters of that state
have been practically disfranchised
for the past twenty years or more by
the Democratic party, hence he has
good and sufficient reasons for want
ing to see a Democrat elected presi-
dent of the United States. The
good bishop assigns as a reason
for his supporting the Bryan Demo
cratic ticket is that the Mckinley
administration has not been out
spoken enough on the lynching
question, and that he is opposed to
the holding Of the Philippine ISL
ands. Bishop Turner admits that
all that has ever been done for the
Negro in this country in the way Of
giving him the partial rights of an
American citizen has been done by
the Republican party, but because
he is not in full sympathy with the
Republican party on the Philippine
question he is going to support the
Democratic party, which, as party
and as individuals, has done every
thing in its power to prevent the
Negro from attaining the rights of
citizenship on American soil. In
proof of this. there is r-zcra state in
the Union where the Democrats are.
in power, but that the Negro voters
are either practically or legally dis
franchised, while, on the other hand
there is not a state in the Union
where the Republicans are in power
but that the Negro has practically
all of the rights of any other Ameri-
can citizen. To illustrate this point
more fully, Bishop Turner is
Southerner, and is living in the
South. where the great majority of
the Negro voters and citizens are to-
be found. Many Of the Southern
states having more colored folk in
them than whites, and yet he pro-
poses to leave those states, where so
many Negro voters are located, and
come North and West to do Demo
cratic PROSECUTING among the Ne
groes in those states where the Ne
gro vote will not average one per
cent of the entire vote. Does it not
seem but natural that the bishop
would use a bit of consistency and
begin his work at home? Why leave
for a foreign land to look for the
same thing that is found in pro-
fusion right at your very door? No.
the very men and the very party
that Bishop Turner is coming North
and West to aid in electing a presi-
dent, by the free use Of the shotgun
and bogus ballots have so complete
ly disfranchised the six million Ne
groes in the South that the bishop
need not worry himself about their
vote, for they will not vote at all.
Not content with this, the good bis
hop wants to come North and West
and help the Democrats complete
their work Of disfranchisement, that
the Negroes in those states will be
in similar condition Of those in the
South. And the good bishop by thi
still declares that he is working for
the material good Of "my peoplep'
Perhaps he is, but the Negroes in the
North and West think he has a darn
poor way of showing it.
But few years ago Bishop Tur-
ner was African-emigratior mad.
There was no elixir for the Ameri-
can Negro but to emigrate to Afri-
ca, as he saw it. He did succeed in
inducing some Of them to leave thei
happy homes and 60 to his new ell
dorado, but the most Of them have
returned, and were it not for the re-
spect they have for the laws of this
country Bishop Turner's hide would
not hold shucks, so displeased are
they at him for so deceiving them.
The general supposition is that the
good bishop was in some way mixed
up with transportation company,
and that he was getting handsome
"rake off" from the scheme. He
took good pains to never announce
HIS intention of making his home in
Africa, though he had charge of the
work Of his church in that far away
land. Owing to the good bishops
eleventh hour conversion to party
that has done nothing but disfran-
chise, lynch, murder, burn at the
stake and enslave the race to which
he unfortunately belongs, it am
presses the average reader with the
idea that the bishop has run up
against another good and sufficient
financial reason for doing thing