The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-10-05

Comes now the report from Geor-
gia, the home Of the venerable
Bishop Turner, the noted African
Methodist divine, who has made up
his mind to aid in the election Of the
Democratic mouthpiece, William
Jennings Bryan, to the presidency
Of the United States, owing, Of
course, to the brilliant inducements
he and his party hold out to better
the conditions of the Negro in the
South and other sections Of this
country, that the Georgia Democrats
having charge of the convict camps
Of that state make no hesitancy in
capturing innocent colored men and
women and pressing them into con-
vict service and keeping them there
for years. When the word "inno-
cent is referred to in this connec-
ton it does not mean the hundreds
of accused Negroes who go through
with a mock trial as the Negroes are
given by the Southern Democrats
in every state south Or The Mason
and Dixon line, but colored men,
women and children are cap
tured in highways and herded into
those miserable bullpens and doomed
to life imprisonment, and not one
word Of objection is heard from the
authorities Little girls and boys are
pressed into service who do not ex-
ceed 10 years in age, and there
doomed to a life Of convict impris-
Onment, on no other charge than
that they are Negroes. This is being
done by those selfsame Democrats
who are shouting for the release Of
the Filipinos from a humane stand
point Right here in America inno-
cent people are captured from their
farms and homes and driven off to
slavery because they are black peo-
pie, and the Democratic party being
in power in those states where such
IS perpetrated, the law offers no re-
sistance. That's the kind Of cattle
that Bishop Turner is supporting
for the presidency Of the United
States and declaring that they will
do more toward elevating the Amer
lean Negro than President McKin-
ley and his associates. While Presi-
dent Mckinley is appointing Ne
groes to leading positions Of honor
and trust in the state Of Georgia, the
Democrats are in other sections of
the state chasing colored men,
women and children from their
homes without cause or justification,
and on capturing them eonsign them
to convict life imprisonment with
out the form of a trial. It ought to
be an easy matter for Bishop Turner
and all other colored folk in the
North to see who is the friend Of
the Negro. Can water rise higher
than its level? If it cannot, then
how in heavens name can any more
be expected Of Bryan as president
Of the United States than from the
men who are responsible for him
being there? The Democrats all
over the South are doing all in their
power to strike down the Negro;
those Democrats in the North do not
fail to render their Southern breth-
rem all the assistance in the form Of
national legislation or attempted
legislation to carry out their nefari-
Gus plans; hence the Northern
Negro, whose manhood and public
rights are zealously guarded by the
Republican party, has a perfect right
to do all in his power to defeat the
party that is holding his head under
the water If there is a leading
cOlored man in the United States
that should be commended for his
good political judgment (?) that
man is the good Bishop Turner, who
is advising the Northern Negroes,
the only Negroes in the United
States that enjoy the elective fran
chise, to vote for the party that is
yearly disfranchising every Negro
that it possibly can.