The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-24
CoLoRED VOTE o MKINLEY.
Ex-senator Boyd Thinks 1t VIII Be
Solid for the Republican Candidate.

Ex-senator Thomas f. Boyd, of Mobiles
vile, was in the city yesterday and freely
discussed politics. Among other things he
said: II notice, in the Journal this morn
ing the following paragraph: "Iley" Tom
Tom Taggart) is at his old tricks again.
The mayor has laid a plot to lead away the
colored vote this campaign. and he pro-
poses to start the stampede in a very in
genious way. 1t is the plan of the mayor
and some of his faithful colored Democratic
friends to capture the National Afro
American Council, which meets in this city
on Aug. g. Mr.. Boyd than added that
he was of opinion that colored men read
the indianapolis Sentinel of Aug. 3. 1900, in
which it declared on the first page that a
great victory had been won i'm South
Carolina, using these headlines:
BITTER FIGHT ENDED.
Contest Results in Supremacy of the
Whites.
Negro Vote is Practically Disfran-
chised."
1T isn't possible that the colored man
will for a moment" said Mr.. Boyd. "vote
with a party that has always and so con-
stantly been against the colored people,
against the fifteenth amendment-for hui
man slavery-against the education of the
colored people"
Mr.. Boyd gave it as his opinion that the
colored vote would be nearer solid for
President Mckinley for President than it
had been at any time since the war. and
added: Since July 1 last / have visited
more than one hundred towns and cities in
the State of Indiana, and everywhere found
the advance guards of the Republican party
on the picket line. The agriculturist, the
laboring man, the business man, the mer-
chants, the manufacturers were never so
-nrra nf hfa 50 4h2
campaign as they are just now. The uni
versal expression is, times are good
enough. we want 10 change now.
Charles B. Lands, our representative in
Congress from the Ninth congressional dis
trict, will be elected by an Overwhelming
majority; scores of Democrats give all
kinds of reasons why they won't support
Allen. Some of the alleged reasons why he
should not be elected to Congress nave not
been published. and perhaps never will be.
Colonel Durbin will run ahead of his ticket,
in many places, and is a very popular can
didate| know of more than fifty families
who have put up Republican pictures in
their windows for the first time in their
lives; the old soldiers are i'm line. This
pine islands has aroused a spirit of patriot
ism among the soldiers of the State. which
will overcome every kind of opposition
Mr.. Boyd has just returned from Or
leans, Ind, where a two days soldiers re-
union was held. He declared 1t was the best
meeting of the kind he ever attended. Both
Of the candidates for Congress from that
district were there. and both made excel
lent speeches. He said the meeting was
full of feeling, patriotism and comradeship
tina made the old hills in that part of the
State look like the garden of Paradise. He
said that the spirit of Milligan and Bowles
had long since practically departed from
southern Indiana, and that young De-
mocracy, n large per cent. OF IL. were de-
Claring themselves i'm favor of the
supremacy of the flag wherever
IL was planted by the valor and
heroism of American troops. He said that
before the campaign was over Democracy
would want the so-called imperialism out
of the issues. worse than rs TO I. and that in
his Judgment they would not have a plank
to stand on on the 1st OF November.