The colored American., 1902-07-05

vate life and resurrected Grover Cleve- |
land, who is again beaming upon the
Democratic party and saying things
more or less significant. Said Senator
Kellogg:
when the smoke has cleared away,
study the returns from places where
the colored vote is strong. You Will
find that the cOlored vote has become
Indifferent and has staid away from
the polls, or worse yet, has voted the
Democratic ticket. I have seen this
thing for weeks. Defeat stared the
Republican party in the face from the
time that President Harrison formu-
lated his idea for southern refor-
nation. He has departed from Repub-
lican platforms and Republican theor-
les in attempting to build up a white
mans party at the South. The three
most suspicious things in the world
are a mouse, capital, and the Negro.
The Negro is ignorant and unlettered.
He doesn't tell what he knows, but
he is no fool. He has ways Of COM
munication we whites know nothing
about. How was it that for years the
Negroes Of Louisiana carried the State
by $4,000 majority? They had no
newspapers. 1 heard from ignorant
Negroes 1000 miles from Washington
that President Harrison had dis
charged his colOred employees. The
negroes who told me the story neither
read nor write. How did they learn?
The President has excited their sus-
picion. No southern State can be car
ried by the Republican party during
this administration because the Negro
fears that it will not protect him in
his rights. This is the result OF the
appointment OF ex-Confederates and
Protection Democrats who will never
vote the Republican ticket, to Office.
When the colored man stops voting
the Republican ticket, where is the Re
publican party? Three-ffths d. OF the
white vote OF America is Democratic.
without the Negro vote the Republi
can party is dead. The Negro con-
trolls the balance of power in FIVE
northern States, and twenty northern
congressional districts. Where will
the policy of alienation stop?"
These things as seen by ex-Gov. Kel-
logg in 1889 may in no less a degree
be applied to the political situation
today. The Negro is pleased with
President Roosevelt. but has little
faith in the disposition Of the party
managers to do anything to aid him
in either a political or business way.
They decline to even so much as in
veStigate the outrages against his bal
lot, from which abuse the party itself
is at a disadvantage at every general
election. The Negro is growing indif-
ferent in the States where his vote
is powerful. Will the political prece-
dent outlined by Governor Kellogg re-
peat itself, with Grover Cleveland or
some one else as an indirect benef1c-
iary?
Grover Cleveland has made a 'big
speech The dedication Of the Tilden
Club in New York on the 10Th afforded
him signal opportunity to make his
attitude upon political issues clear to
the nation. He was equal to the emer-
gency, and made a plea for Democratic
harmony that has electrified the coun-
try and drawn a strict line Of denmark
alton between the Demo-Populists OF
the William Jennings Bryan school
and the conservatives like Olney
Whitney, Pattison and German, who
believe in a return to the old-lien poll
cies for which Tilden, Hendricks, Nc
Donald and Randall stood. A battle is
on. and the spectators aue wondering
what is up. Is Cleveland in the run
ming for a fourth nomination? While
the Tilden demonstration was presum
ably for the purpose OF placing David
B. Hin's candidacy in the center ot
the Democratic stage. Cleveland turned
out TO be the bright and particular
star OF the occasion and reAped tn;
usufruct thereof. Whether the Demo