The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-10-23

tho Democrats. I moan mpiuly those q
the South aud they are the body W Ga
Democratic party. the North being ga
t1u or course. the tail never ways Ga
dog The south furnishes two thirds q
the vote necessary to elect the Prcsidcn
aud two thirds OF the Congressman. ThUl
attitude towards dark skin IL well know
They have no use for them. and tibet
spirit Is cropping out here. Ordinarily
do not notice newspaper scurrllity. but tn
on last Saturday night rca
so much like a paper from the back wood
OF Alabama that | was compelled TO re
sent vicious and indecent attack mad
upon Mr.. Achi and myself, and sen
them this letter:
LETTER TO INDEPENDENT
Editor Independent-Your scurril-
Gus paragraph in Saturday nights
issue, referring to me as "a niger
and to w. c. Achi as "a Chinaman,'
makes me smile to think that n gem
tleman of Testa's character and
culture should furnish the money to
print such blackguardism as runs
through your article-stuff that
could come from the tongue or pen
only of cad or of a man who is not
always responsible for what he says,
and what he writes.
Now. Mr.. Editor, If you personally
wrote the paragraph in question, l
do not believe that anything of the
kind was ever said. You represent
your friend as saying, when mig
ger CT. Nc, ants steward and
Chinaman CIV. g. AchD take the
stump for Republicans, | say, pass,
and my time has come to become
Democrat" Either such man is
myth. or If any man made such
remark, his brain has been softened
by too much rum, or he is born
ignoramus. Instead of printing such
stuff, Mr.. Editor, you should have
said to your friend something like
this, why, man, you are "a fool.
Where do you come from? Ameri-
cans of intelligence and character
say Negroes. Only low bred Ameri-
cans say 'niggers.' But using your
own words, you must remember
that such "niggers" as Fred Doug
lass, one of the greatest of Ameri-
can orators, and John Nj. Langston,
Henry Highland Garnett, and other
"niggers" took the stump in 1856 for
John <. Fremont, the first nominee
of the Republican party for Presi-
dent, and these ''niggers' helped to
elect Abraham Lincoln in 1860 as the
=
United States. why, my friend,
from the campaign of Ulysses S.
Grant down to the present cam
paign for Mckinley, the niggers,'
like b. X. Bruce and John C. Lynch,
have been among the best Republic
can campaign speakers: and in 1896,
that "nigger," T. McCants Stewart
took the stump in New York for
Mckinley and spoke with Theodore
Roosevelt and other such Republi-
cans.
You should have told your friend,
Mr.. Editor. that a "nigger," Lynch,
presided over the Republican con-
vention which nominated Garfield,
that niger" Bruce, presided
over the United States Senate, and
that a "ngger," John =. Green,
was president pro TEN and presided
over the Senate of the State of
Ohio. You should have reminded
your friend that before your party,
the Democratic party, shot and
murdered "nigger' voters and office
holders, and passed laws taking the
ballot from them, "niggers" We're
Governors Senators, Secretaries
and Treasurers of States, and a
"niGger," John NJ. Langston, was
candidate before the convention for
Vice President of the United States
at the first nomination of Harrison.
Instead of degrading yourself and
your paper by printing your friends
backguardism, you should have
told him to go slow; that this is not
a safe place in which to call people
''niggers;" that Prince Cupid, that
manly scion of a noble house,
knocked a man down here for call
ing him a "nigger' and that low
bred men, like your friend, have
called our police officers "niggers''
50 much that it is a wonder some
of them have not had their heads
knocked off. Men from the slums of
the States, like your friend, when
they think it is safe to do So call
all dark-skinned people "niggers."
To such men the brown man, the
Malay, black man, the half-white,
all are "niggers." Your friend repre-
sents a class of fellows who, when
D'Israeli went to the front in Eng
lish politics, called him nothing
but n Jew" who sneerinEly call
General Campos, the Spanish leader,
a 'nigger," because of his African
blood; who call Croker, IAN Irish
paddy" who call Italians, "Da-