The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-09-28

WHICH ulCd1S IuIu W Tile CO1OI6Q 1O1k
throughout this country. It looks
as though the good bishop reasons
thusly with the Democrats: FYou
have succeeded in eliminating the
colored vote in the South, and you
Southerners having no influence
in the North, [ will go thither, and
by false representations succeed in
getting the colored folk in the North
and West to vote for their own
elimination in those states, and
thus settle for all time to come
the Negro as a voter. Just fur
nish me with the necessary "where-
with" and trust to me, and, I assure
you, I'll quite succeed. / am the
senior bishop Of the great African
Methodist Episcopal church, and
will use my religious cloak to make
the undertaking the more certain"
Perhaps the reader remembers
that it was but a few months ago |
when the good Bishop Turner de-
nounced the wholesale murder of a
number of colored persons in a small |
town near Atlanta in such vigorous
terms that he was forced to not hold |
one Of his annual conferences in that
neighborhood, which had already
been set, because the Democratic
citizens of that locality threatened
to lynch him for speaking as he did
1t has been but a few months ago
when Bishop Turner fell paralyzed
at a railroad station in Georgia, and
he was refused admission to the
sleeping car to Atlanta on account
of his color, and was compelled to
ride some 800 miles to his home in
Jim crow" car, though he was sick
nigh unto death. His Democratic
friends are responsible for that also.
1t has been but a few months ago
that the good bishop witnessed the
burning Of a colored man at the
stake in neighboring Georgia town
for crime that the woman after
ward admitted was never committed
nor attempted, but her husband and
the Negro disputed over debt. All
)f these Outrages were committed by
the Democrats and the very men
who will be the most instrumental in
the election Of Bryan if he is ever
elected at all, but Bishop Turner
counts them for naught.
Doubtless the good bishop, who is
so anxious to see Bryan elected pres
dent and the Bourbon bulldozing
Democratic party installed into
power in the nation, has forgotten
that it was but yesterday, compara-
lively speaking, that the Democrats
lisfranchised nearly a hundred thou
sand colored voters in North Caro-
lima, and yet did not disifsnchise
single white voter. Regardless Of
the fact that the colored folk should
have voted on the question, as they
we're not at the time disfranchised,
Bishop Turner doubtless has over
looked the fact that the redshirts,
with the liberal use of the shotgun,
midnight raids and the lynchers'
limb in colored communities so in
timidated them that they did not
1are to go to the polls, and thus
completely driven from the polls.
they were compelled to stand about
N the bushes in hiding and see
every vestige Of rights as citizens
n their native state swept away from
them by the Democrats, those "aw-
fully good men, Bishop Turner
wants to see put into power. When
ever Bishop Turner and his family
want to act as American citizens
hey take good pains to enter a Jim
crow car and come North, and then
1enounce the Republican party,
which Will not stand for Jim crow
:arism, political disfranchisement
Of any race, class or kind of voters
COr not Kissing his big toe.
The colored folk Of Atlanta, Ca,
know thing or two about the good
bishops devotion to the cause of the
Negro themselves, if they were only
permitted to express an opinion.
But few months ago the city coun-
I'll Of Atlanta passed an ordinance
the white and colored pas
sengers travelling on the street cars
of that city. 1t was public out
age, and the colored folk rose in
heir might and declared that if they
had to be Disseminated against on
the street cars they would not ride +
on them at all, and so instituted a
genuine boycott on the cars. What
lid Bishop Turner do in this case?
He pronounced it the height of folly