The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-01
FIGHT DEMOCRATS,
ADVICE To NEGRO
Delaware Preacher Says
They Are Menace to Race.
BRINGS MESSAGE FROM GOD
Declares German and Tillman Scum of
Nation and Unworthy of an
Altar in He'll.
BRINGS MESSAGE FROM GOD

WILMINGTON. Del, Feb. before
a congregation of negroes that packed
Bethel A. NJ. +. Church, Rev. Montrose
w Thornton. the pastor. who obtained
much notoriety right after the lynching
OF George White by delivering a sensa-
uonaf sermon. preached what he called
a message from God" on the suggested
disfranchisement of the negro voters in
Delaware
Chief of Police George Black occupied
a front seat in the church to prevent
any outbreak or incendiary utterances
by the clergyman. There was nothing.
however. to which the authorities took
exception, as the talk of the preacher
resolved Itself into mixture of mac
curacies about the recent Democratic
League meeting and a fierce onslaught
upon the Democratic party. declaring
that all men who voted for this niger
hating party" should have their arms
cut off and exhibited in saloons. as was
done with the skull OF George White,
who was burned at the stake
Moloch Of Democracy.
THE Moloch OF Negro Disfranchise-
ment Rev Thornton announced as the
subject of his discourse. He said, in
part:
During the forty years of your fran
chise the Moloch 81 Democracy, the
Bourbon Democracy. the fiend of negro
hate. has. through constitutional and
legislative subterfuge, robbed you of
your blood-bought liberties until there is
hardly Southern State that respects
the victories of nations battles. the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
so dear and precious to the wounded and
bleeding negro. This serpent of perdi-
ton has crossed the Mason and Dixon
line and Is now splitting it's slime and
poking Its scorpion head upon the shores
OF Delaware.
THE tocsin has been sounded. Cor
man and his negotiating crowd are
trying to force upon that State the same
Bourbon prescription OF Democratic per-
ndy. IL has now crossed the line ami
the negroes OF Delaware must meet and
challenge this monster. The Democrats
Of Delaware would disfranchise the So
called venal colored voters, but wher
they Will once have gotten the ball roll
ing II means the negro regardless. Of
state or condition, AS obtains In the
they mean TO copy II they can steal the
chance for its inauguration
Dragons and Scorpions.
They talk OF the 'venal negro and
his bartering votes What about the We
ltdls DaTltTl-B white man w nat - worse
than the venhl. bartering man who is
allowed TO offer and distribute the bar
ter? Yet they are citizens OF high
sanding, and the creatures who are 20
receive the real benefits OF the barter
i1gs- There are States in the Union
where bakers dozen of negroes do not
reside, and yet this same bartering goes
on. The same is true of Montana, Penn
sylvania, and New York and Vermont.
yet the venal white man is not disfran-
chised."
The preacher, said the Democrats are
and always have been the dragons and
scorpions OF the country's woes. He
continued: --,.-
ter men than a German. Tiliman. VAR
daman, Marvel, and their stamp, the
scum In thought and principle OF the
ness and is not worthy Of an altar in
the Tuning regions OF the lower world.
There law, been negroes betrayed into
supporting Hose Molochs, and even now
these will \ ave few tears TO shed at
my words But they are not worthy
of respectable mention, and the sooner
they are cast from the pinnacle Of our
trust and confidence. the sooner VIII
the race obtain vantage ground Of their
security and strength. My prescription
for all such traitors and rebels is that
anyone that has or is so base as to cast
a vote for this nigger-hating hound OF a
party should have his right hand cut OF
close TO the shoulder, and, as the skull
OF George White. placed IN saloons as
exhibits OF his perhdy.