Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-07
COLoRED CANDIDATE
Lights Into the Court House
Ring In Control.

To my colOred friends OF Christian
county:
Not that ] desire to Slight my
white Republican friends in the
least, wrote to you last week.
This week | desire to address my
remarks to the colored exclusively,
with no intention whatever of in
fringing upon the feelings of the
white man.
My colored friends, you are con-
tinually saying that you have no
recognition in office. That is true
and the reason why is because you
won't recognize yourselves. When a
/ colored man comes out and asks for
on office you turn him down and
vote for the very man who has been
picking up the persimmons as fast as
you would shake them down. They
claim that the longest pole gets the
persimmons, but | tell you the negro
has been the pole and the white man
getting the fruit, and the pie. So if
you want your own race to share
with those you have put silver
spoons in the mouths of for
more than forty years, come out
and support your own color in No
vember. am a colored man and
one whom you all know. | have
lived in your midst for many years
and have tried to live an honor to
myself and race. Therefore, ! deem
it your duty as we'll as your privilege
to come out to the polls in Novem-
Der next and without money and
without price support me. If you
ever expect to elect one of your race
to Office, you yourselves will have to
vote for him, and you had just as
well commence on me as any one.
So let me beg of You to come now
and let us work together and divide
the sweets and the sours alike.
Don't sell your votes for peck of
-four, bushel of meal or dollar,
but be honest one election and let
us break up the band of big | and
little you. Around about the tenn
pie where justice ought to and
should be, it is ridiculous attitude
to find ourselves in, for little band
of eight or ten moguls to enter the
secret chamber and say whom the
county of Christian shall serve, who
are no better than we, and no more
competent to fill the various offices
than we, or many of us at least.
So l say again come out and let us,
if we can't win ourselves, have a
change and let the old bloaters who
have fattened themselves and their
posterity on our property for many
years retire, and try a new team.
Now please don't mistake me for a
Democrat because am asking you
to help me retire these old rots, be-
cause if you want a child to love you,
correct it when it gets unruly, even
if you have to whip it. So likewise
the only way to get good, pure and
clean county government is to clean
out these old nest eggs and put in
new ones, and the only way to do it
is through the ballot box. So my
colored friends come out and let us
go together in one body and one
time, at least, and assist in bringing
about change by tearing down the
strongholds and moving out the
stale and impure atmosphere and
cesspools of political corruption now
existing round about the temple of
where justice ought to be. Come
one, come all and vote for me and
against the entire ring or clique that
is now and has been demoralizing
the rights of the people and robbing
the voters Of Christian county out OF
their rights and privileges under the
constitution Of this great common
wealth, and when you have done this