The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-23

hot words The men who are leading this
white mems movement claim that they
do not want to harm the negroes, but
they do not want them TO hold office.
The high chief Of the colored people is
/ c. p. McCabe. He was formerly state
auditor in Kansas and he is conceded to
be bright and aggressive.
When asked today: What do you
think of this movement of the Democratic
party in Guthrie TO re-district the city
in order to prevent colored men getting
office, Mr.. McCabe said:
The pauper class of democrats do not,
nor never have taken kindly to the negro
per so; and TO my mind, when they have
forged to the fore men of the type Of
Gill, Gladish, and Sampsell, whose genius
evolved the resolution referred to; 1t
strikes me that if the betterment of a
city is TO grow out of statements from
such a source, that the future is question
able
Their views. as expressed in their re-
solution. is TO create what they term
Niger town." quite in contradistinction
to the argument used by the business
men of this city ! wish to state thar
either the Democratic City convention in
their resolution wilfully lied, or that the
Board of Trade of the City of Guthrie in
their enunication or upon the back of
their map which they publish (and at
whose head is a democrat) depated from
the path when they state these facts:
This is a good place in which TO like.
You can certainly afford TO visit this
n hrriIt in nd
to stay" 1t must be remembered that
this city has from its inception been po
pulated by a goodly share of negroes and
if, as l said above, all this progress has
been with their presence here; either the
democratic resolution is a lie, or else the
Board of Trades enunications are lie.
Il wish to state that municipal i'm
provements are achieved through and by
the popular vote Of a community and a
cursory glance will disclose to the most
skeptical that without, the negro vote
on the water-works proposition, or on the
High school proposition neither would
have existed. The redistricting of the
city can in no sens eleminate the negro
vote. If his vote has aided the city to
his present states his holding office can
history has the country been without
negro voters"
The Democrats claim that they are go
ing to push this thing to a finish and
that When their county convention meets
resolutions in favor of disbaring the
colored men from office viii be made
even stronger IMAM those of the mass
meeting
When seen today Mayor Barns said
that he did not want to talk about the
action of the Democratic party. He said
there was an effort being made to put
Guthrie in the light of a negro town
when in fact the census showed that Ok
lahoma City had more colored populat ton
than Guthrie. He said ii was true that
they had recognized the colored voters
by giving them representations on the
republican ticket both in the city coun-
ell and the school board. He said they
had nominated a colored man for county
clerk ana the white people had elected
him. Further than that he did not wish
to speak at this time.
Norfolk. Va, March 22.-D. Paul Bur
gcs. secretary of the DesqueDe Mining
company. shot himself through the head
on shore OF Malone Lake today. He is