The colored American., 1902-03-29

Negro domination, antl-lmperlai1Sm,
anti-protection, anti-everything are the
slogans that are being tried, but the
invalid party fails to rally Bryan, Hill,
German, Olney, Harrison, Johnson,
Mclean, Boies and others who rattle
around in the togas once filled by tleve-
land, Hendricks, Thurman, Randall and
Tilden, are all at "loggerheads" as to
what will give the hungry ones another
whack at the pie counter. The South,
always for any policy that gets it by"
is preparing to drop POpulism for an
Eastern alliance, and the West is trying
to unload the Bryan deadweight. North
ern Democrats would make an effort to
divide the Negro vote in the doubtful
States, if the South would stop defeat
ing their plans by its foolish utterances
on race topics 1t is none of our bust
ness, perhaps, but if the Democratic
party has an ounce of mother wit, and
wants to make a respectable showing III
the electoral column in 1904, they will
get together and nominate one Grover
Cleveland, of New Jersey, and WhOOp
EN- up right. There is another run IN
Grover-he is only 65. He might not
beat Roosevelt, but when that eminent
Rough Rider diSmOunts after the race
he will feel slightly out of breath for
several minutes.
Chickens are coming home to roost to
that class of politicians who reserve all
their thunder against Negro disfran-
chisement for the stump at home, when
seeking denomination by tickling their
colored hearers and getting red in the
face denouncing Southern outrages. If
they are so alfred indignant, why don't
they hurl these heated anathemas at
their foes upon the floor of Congress,
and take from the pigeOn-holes some of
the measures designed to break up jim
crow cars, rebuke fraudulent elections
and to guarantee the right of ajOritieS
to rule. If the Morrell bill, the Crum-
packer resolution or any deal for re
duction are introduced in good faith,
why don't these gentlemen, whose hearts
bleed for us when out in their districts,
utilize their oratory in the Senate and
House to enact these propositions into
law? If there are signs of a hippodrome,
some members with jelly-hsh backbones
will be left at home this fall
w. T. Green, prominent Afro-Amer-
lean, is a candidate for nomination as
justice of the peace in Milwaukee, Wis,
and is securing considerable support
from Negro Republicans as a rebuke to
the Republican leaders who haven't
treated their colored adherents fairly
He is in the race as a nOn-partisan, but
will accept the nomination at the hands
OF the Republican convention if it is
rendered him.
Mr.. Green is the author and secured
the passage of the Wisconsin civil rights
bill. He, with Assemblyman McCabe,
defeated the Cady bill, which, if passed,
would have prevented the marriage of
whites and blacks. He is a thirty-second
degree Mason and past grand lodge Of
hccr of the grand lodge of Illinois, He
holds the rank of past grand chancellor
in the Knights of Pythias and is the
only colored man in the State holding
such an honor. Besides he is a LAWYER
of ten years standing, a graduate from
the law school of the University of Wis
consin.
The RefOrmer, of Richmond. Va, is
in a frame of mind" over the shabby
treatment accorded the colored people of
Virginia IN the matter of official patron
age. 1t says it has been Republican to
the core when others have been luke
warm, but when the time comes for the
division of rewards, the door is always
slammed in the black mans face. Vir-
gina has SlXty-five appointments in the
Census Office only one of whom. Mrs.
Julia H. Hayes, is colored-and Park
Agnew, Republican dispenser of