The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-14
STRANGE STORIES
\, bD1saArroNAL prsCIosuHE
 lCADI IN KENTUCKY.
The Black Republic Said T1at Color cd People Will Try to Capture Country-Afro-American, It is Claimed, are Organising to
 Capture the Haytian
 Government.

A sensational disclosure has been made n Sturgie, Ky, of a national scheme of Vrsamaeuon, having in view the conquest oi the black republic of Hayti by Afro Americans.
 Recently, prominent colored Repub- ncan. reported to be the Kentucky repre- sentauve of the junta, which seems to nave headquarters in Alabama. visited that section and was fin conference with negroes there. returning this week to per- Iecs tne local organization, which is now saiu 70 pc duly constituted and at work.
 70 Tar as can be learned the object is to nave contributions sent from all over tne country to headquarters in the South, tne same to be utilized in the equipment of an army. the purchase or lease of a warship or two, transports, provisions, etc. then to sail for the Caribbean and attack Port au Prince, the capital of the republic that has thus far proved a plague spot among nations in so far as politics and morals are concerned.
 Reaching Acute Stage.
 The promoters claim that the negro question in the United States is ap- pred mans freedom Is but name. and
 his days as political power are rapidly passing. mat no compromise as etween
 the Southern Saxon and the black can ever De reached, and even dangerous state of anarchy or rebellion may ensue
 unless the colored man finds country re-
 moved from the existing conditions. where ne may work out his own destiny under liberal and just laws.
 They are of opinion that no objection or intervention would be presented by the American government if the present rev olutionary scheme as to Hayti were at tempted. but think. on the contrary. both the North and the South would look ia. vorably upon the move ment If shown that
 crisis is approaching and the negro could better his condition in country of his own.
 | The representation says that the Hay. tfan government, if such 1t may be | called, Is controlled by vicious and de
 graded and corrupt adventurers and thai the whole populace is of low and un civilized element, and, being usurpers themselves, have no moral or legal claims to that rich territory.
 Recruits Expected. Contrast the present conditions there. saps this leader. with what the country might become under the wise and bene f1cent administration af man like Book CT T. Washington and other enlightened colored men. The Southern negro espe cially. from which section we hope tt recruit most of our men, is trained tt labor and in agriculture. Given a fai
 field. just laws and equal opportunity | he could make the island one of tn, | wealthiest parts of this hemisphere. The government would. in fact. assum, | benevolent supervision over the who'll republic, and the work of production ant manufacturing would. in a sense. be na | tionalized and directed by wise and ca
 pable heads. The island is right at ou doors. and is not like Liberia, so ia | away as to deter the race from seeking home there. and this point of distance
 has generally been the greatest drawbacl
 to negro colonization schemes for the col
 ored man 1t foath to leave the influenc
 and environments under which he wa
 born and brought up to the status O citizenship
 The new organization has been progress | ing with great secrecy. and this is tn 1 first instance of a public disclosure of tn plans, aims and hopes.
 tThe Advertiser found the above in on l of its exchanges It knows of no suc | organization in Alabama as is mentione l and can find no one who does If ther | is any such organiza tion. it will turn GU
 to be another scheme for robbing negroe
 of their money. They had peter let
 alonel