The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-08
A CoLoRED PRESIDENTIAL
 TTrKET

else. There are always people who are not satisfied with any one of the old par ties, especially the two which dominate the politics of the country. At least once in four years enough of these harmon izc on some question, or some series or questions and put forth Presidential l platform and ticket Then those who | have some real or alleged grievance against the old parties vote for the new one. It is a harmless diversion.
 Now we are told that the colored poli- l ticians of the Northwest are going to | get together and put out Presidential l ticket of their own. They know that they 1 have nothing to expect in the way of offices from Democrats. and are begin ming to learn that there is little to be expected from Republicans. That Party | has been industriously and profitably us- I ing the negro for well on to forty years. | He is expected to line up on election day and vote the ticket cheerfuliy, unani- | mously. and as frequently as is allow | able. Mas .Linkum freed de niggers' you see, and it is periodically impressed oa them that they must continue to vote with Lincoln's party-not that they are l to be benefited by it, but that they must show their gratitude.
 I required some little time after the colored men became voters to get them properly trained. Forty acres and a mule" proved pretty fair bait, and other attractive methods were used to bring them into the fold And they went All that was necessary was to teach them to recognize the only true and genuine Republican ticket, and they swallowed it without salt or other sauce than sort of imponderabIe promise that there was something in it for them. Sometimes there was as much as two dollars per l head.
 | But the colored brother Is becoming 1 tired of pulling out chestnuts for the white Republican office-grabbers. He used to be satisfied with plain bill of fare. but now he is becoming more fas- | tidious. and wants helping of pie when 1 it Is being distributed. The negro is fond of pie. De provisions of de bill'' means | something good to eat, and he gets but little of it from those who are kept in power mainly through his voting pro- clivities. MT. Roosevelt occasionally Il hands out a small slice. but his Repub- lican allies doubtless look on it as waste Of good things What need to give of fees to the negroes when they will vote the ticket anyhow? is about the argument
 
 fectual.
 Of late there has been growing discon- tent among the colored voters over the way the rewards fall to come. Now they are seriously proposing to get together at St. Louis, we believe, and nominate ticket of their own color and for their own good, as they look at it. They will nominate a colored man for President, and we presume they intend to put out full electoral tickets in all the States. l Why not? It will get no electoral vote, but what of it? In the Presidential cleo tion of 1900 there were eight candidates voted for. Only two of them got any | electoral votes, and the aggregate vote for the six tickets in opposition to the Democrats and Republicans was less than 100000 in the whole country.
 If this colored aggregation gets no electoral vote, they may get lots of fun out of the venture. There will be much speaking and exploitation and ante-elec- tion jubilation. Some man will be able in the future to boast that he was once a candidate for President. He will tell his children what a great honor once de- scended and settled on their fathers head, and will tell them that but for lack 1 of appreciation, or votes, or something else, he would have become a second 1 Toussant L'Ouverture and been President l of a Republic. Others will tell of the time when they were on the Presidential electoral ticket way down in Alabama, " or way up in Kalamazoo. There will be lots of good fun in the experiment.
 But suppose by some means the col ored vote of tne Union could be lineG up in solid phalanx, or something of the sort and all of them vote for their ticket wouldn't it be joke on somebody ! Such a result woTld knock the Repu5li- | car. party tOlu dS q WSuSSs III AllOiS lilhLi one State of the North and West, such a solid vote would defeat the white Re publican ticket. They could do no harm l ih the South, because only a small mi nority of them can vote in the States where they have large population. But in the North and West where suffrage is open they would chaNge things very decidedly. They might change the com pexion of Congress- both figuratively and literally, and hold the balance of power, for 1t is reasonable. to suppose that if they put out and vote for colored cleo tors they would also vote for Congress- man and thus change the color of the lower House. That would be going back ward with a vengeance.
 After all, such a ticket and such a vote would only be paying the Repub- Hcans a debt long overdue: The colored vote has been one of the most profitable and valuable assets of that party The old fable of Actaeon and his hounds might be repeated in real life, and the power which has done so much to build up and support the Republican Party might thus be the means of pulling it down. Ii would be a righteous retrbution.
 WORSE THAN SAVAGES. . There has been so much of apparently