New-York tribune., 1900-10-01
right than Russia If commercial interests, lib
eral designs and general standard Of civilization
are to be taken into the account
CHAIRsAY JONES AND THE NEGRO.

CHAIRMAN JONES AND THE NEGRO.
Chairman Jones of the Democratic National
Committee has found time to give a little at
tention TO the negro voter, and has produced
some interesting observations on the subject.
Mr.. Jones is rarely uninteresting. He can make
palpably absurd political statements as solemn
ly as David B. Hill can make untrue ones and
apparently he is always sincere about them.
He does not mean to hurt his own cause with
sardonic advocacy of it. Mr. Joness absurd
tiles are the outpouring of simple and in
genuous nature, somewhat imaginative and en-
tirely lacking in a sense of humor. If this
were not so he would never in good faith an
nounce that the Democratic committee con-
fidently expected the votes of more negroes
than ever supported Democratic ticket before,
and say, 1--WE will reach them In the same man
"ner as we reach white men, with convincing
facts and figures. / think 1t almost an insult
ito them to consider the citizenship Of colored
'men thing apart from the body polite"
Listen to that, Tillman. of South Carolina
You who read so feelingIy the Kansas, City
platforms talk about equal rights" with your
brutal glori1cation IN the Senate of negro dis
franchisement by shotguns fresh in every
body's memory! Listen to that North Carolina
Red Shirts" you who have just shown your
devotion to the consent Of the governed doc
trine by shutting out from the privileges of
citizenship at the end of a campaign of ter
rorism the bulk of the colored men in your
State, and subjected them to government
without their consent! Listen to that, Demo
Gratis Of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
Georgia, Virginia and elsewhere who have for
years been shouting for white supremacy and
proclaiming that the negro must be put apart
from the body polite. Listen to that, Mr..
Bryan, you, who have never found courage,
with all your glib tongue, to say one straight
forward word about the position Of the colored
man in American politics, and have lodged all
questions about his disfranchsement with the
most barefaced quibbles! Know that it is an
insult to the great body of colored men who
are focking to the Democratic party to con-
Slder them as thing apart from the body
polite. No longer must Democrats give "whole-
some discipline" to ''impudent young bucks"
who imagine they are part of the body polite
just like other men. No longer may the Tam
many police of New-York treat negroes as less
entitled to protection from mob law than the
rest of the body polite Any Democrat who
henceforth insults negro by treating him as
different from a white man will be insulting
Chairman Jones, who stands up and declares to
all Arkansas and North Carolina that the Demo
cratic doctrine of equal rights" and the "con-
American black man as to the Asiatic brown
man.
So let the negroes Of North Carolina and
other States who want to be restored to their
place in the body polite take heart and not
mind Mr.. Bryan's refusal to say that the Con-
stituton and the Declaration of Independence
are as applicable to the original thirteen States
as to newly acquired territory; and if they vote
the Democratic ticket, trusting in Mr.. Jones's
assurances, only to find that the Tillmans and
the "Red Shirts" have no more accurate concep-
ton of the meaning of true Democracy, they
must not blame Mr. Jones overmuch. The cam
paign he is set to manage is built from begin
ming to end on pretence and fraud and irrecon-
ciable contradictions. and, considering his en-
barrassments, he is honest as he can afford
to be. cleverer man might not call atten-
tion to his party's weak spots, but to Mr. JOness
credit it is to be said that If he were less absurd
he would be less honest. Poor negroes! How 1t
must pain Mr.. Jones to think how they have
been insulted through all these years till now
by the party that wanted to keep them apart
from the rest of the body polite. first as slaves
and then as 'impudent niggers," for daring to
vote in land Of white supremacy!