The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-06
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The Board of Trade Of Chicago has determined
TO prosecute such Of its members as advertise
Get-rleh-quiok schemes At a meeting Of the
board some days ago a resolution was adopted
declaring that
Advertisements inserted or caused to be in
serted IN public journals by members Of this
board, pretending to predict the course of the
markets or describing plans or schemes more
or less plausible and sensational by which money
can be made, arc devoid of any commercial char
acter whatever and arc injurious 20 The good
name and dignity Of the association
The course adopted by tho Chicago board Of
trade ought, says the Charleston News and
Courier, to be followed by all other commercial
boards in this country having any regard Tor
their own reputation, any concern for the
welfare of the people.
The New Bedford (Mass.) Standard dis
cussing the proposed all-white republican move
ment IN the South, has this to say:
At the moment the republican party all over
the country seems obiyious OF the attempt TO
make a travcrsty OF tho party at the South but
when the members Of that party como 10 realize
It. and ind If they do hud. that there is a dis
position 70 sanction it at the North then the
republican party will go TO pieces II car not
survive any such denial Of its traditions and its
original purposes. The Southern republicans
may be pushing the movement 10 its Legitimate
conclusion, as The Post SAYS. without the small
est reference TO outside opinion or 10 any con
s,iderauon Of oxpcdiency The legitimate con
cluslon, II i is persisted in, in the end viii he q
condition where there will be no republican party
at all
The intimation in the above extracts, replies
the Montgomery Advertiser. that the traditions
and original purposes of the republican party
were TO and exploit negro suffrage is
probably going too far. The original purpose of
the old abolitionist organization upon which the
present republican party was founded was to
free the negroes We doubt If the most extreme
radical among them would have looked with apv
favor on project for universal suffrage among
the eolored people. They might have looked on
that as the ultimate outcome of freedom, but we
do not believe that wholesale acknowledgements of
the race would have received favorable consid
GRAFTON from those who founded what was in the
ante-war days known as the black republican
party. Unlimited negro suffrage was one of the
results Of the bitter feelings engendered bv the
war was partly intended as punishment on
the rebels for their four years OF resistance 70
the Entertainments Of the enemies Of their ;nss-
tutions, and partly as a means OF perpetuating
the rule Of their party, To put the ballot into
the hands Of the ignorant blacks aud REQUIRE
them TO vote the republican ticket was looked
on by IT'S originators as a means by, which they
could vent their hatred and malice against the
Southerners and also as sure means OF keeping
the party in power forever.
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The psrading the promotion of Clerk Virgins
by Pension Commissioner Ware, has, saws the
Washington Post, made stir, and big one
Clerks who had been promoted on merit but
without bulletin, were indignant at this dis
tnetion. Clerks who had not been promoted
because their careers differed so from Mr.. Wig.
gins, rebelled at the idea of resting preferment
on such basis. Clerks who had taken air the
leave they could get, and serupulously abstained
from reaching for more, which they knew thew
couldn't, wondered why few should be praised
for throwing away the gifts the gods had drop-
ped into his lap. Clerks who had spent good
money for doctors certificates to pave the way
for sick leave declared this promotion merely
reward OF parsi-money; and so it went"
Nashville American: State Treasurer Carlisle
Of Mississippi has resigned because the RESPONSE
biity Of the Office is too great and the salary
too small. The legislature he says, refused 70
pass laws TO prevent the treasury from becoming
and at one time this year he had
100000 on hand. The responsibility for the
proper care of such large sums OF money out.
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