The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-21
THEODORE E. BURTON
BY SAVOHARD.

give a hundred examples, but single
one viii suffice. When the Fifty-ninth
congress YVES convened the Republican
party was worse split up over the rate
bill than the Democratic party had
been over the silver question when the
F'ffty-third congress convened. Inc
Democratic party went all to flinders
over silver; the Republican party got
together on rates-except Foraker,
Sam Mccall and two or three others.
X X X
But there is faction in the Repupll-
can ranks out in Ohio, and Burton is
In IT UP TO the elbow. The colored man
and brother is in it, too, and our grad
uate of Oberlin is by no means ia
vorite with the graduates OF Xenia- 1t
seems that the negro soldiers or the
Twenty-fifth United States infantry
amused themselves last August by
shooting up the town of Brownsville,
Tex. 1t is true that they denied 1t;
but there is not a man in the United
States who has the faintest conception
of the negro character who does not
know that those negro soldiers shot up
that town and then conspired to con-
eeal the fact. President Roosevelt very
properly had the soldiers in the con-
spiracy discharged, and the pity OF II
is that there was not a summary way
to cashier some of the white commits
stoned officers, who have put them
selves in ever a worse attitude tnan
the colored privates.
Senator Foraker became the cham
pion of the negro ruffians and abused
the senate's patience and affronted its
intelligence in numerous elaborate ad-
dresses, designed to paint the dis
charged rioters as lambs sent to the
slaughter by Theodore Roosevelt and
To thing iG he
come a matter Of fractional politics in
the Republican party Of Ohio, where
there are some $4,000 negro voters,
though the state constitution of Ohio
is the only one in the Union from
which the word white has not been
expunged from it's suffrage clause. L
wonder if Senator Foraker is acqualnt-
ed with the experience Senator sum-
ner of Massachusetts had with Senator
Revels of Mississippi, and there is ira
dition, whether fact of fiction, that
Senator Sumner perceptibly cooled in
his zeal as a fanatic after he got the
treatment Revels melted out to him in
the caucus that depoSed Sumner from
the Craftsmanship of foreign relations.
We know Sumner voted the Democrat
ic ticket in 1872.
The Afro-American council met in
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manifesto that amounts to general or
ders to the Republican party. 1t con-
demned William H. Taft and Henry
Cabot Lodge to political death and
sought to mobilize the negro vote into
a separate organization TO levy polit-
ical blackmail on the G. o. P 1t Will
not work. Your white Republican of
the north is in no better temper TO
take orders from the negro than is
NJ nn south
| all the negroes of the north fall in with
| this idea, promulgated by this Afro
/ American council, and persist in IL, the
year 1920 will see the fifteenth amend
ment of the federal constitution as
much of a dead letter in Ohio and In
diana as it is in Alabama and Missis-
sippi. The G. o. p. would be glad to
see negro rule at the south, but it does
not intend to have ii at home. SEN
ator Forakers Speech to Wilberforce
university was a demand for negro
rule in at least three southern states.
The first answer to it was the beating
! up of a negro in the United States
| treasury department. in this town, and
| the second was the general order OF the
! Afro American council, assuming COM
mand of the Republican party
| throughout the Union.
That is the kettle of fish Senator
| Foraker mas cooked lot MS party III
| Ohio. The negroes of that state have
marked Taft and Burton for slaughter.
1t is not a Democratic row, and every
| Democrat can contemplate the melee
with EXTREMIST satisfaction.
! Burton is as able a man as Foraker,
\ though by no means as effective an
orator in congress or on the stump.
! Nor is he the ViTile leader Foraker is.
! Foraker did not hesitate to challenge
! Theodore Roosevelt in the senate and
out of it, and in that behalf he deliv-
cred himself Of preachments that no
man can, controveTt. and did it in a
way to extort the admiration of enemy
as well as of friend. Burton is as hos
| tile to the present eXtOTtiOnate tariff
as Foraker was to the rate bill; but
Burton allowed the tariff reform con-
tingent on the Republican side OF the
house of representatives to drift as
aimlessly as a straw in a tickle wind.
If Foraker had been as impOtent in the
senate the outrage of joint statehood
| for Arizona and New Mexico would
have been perpetrated. AS Lucan said
| of his brother-in-iaw, Cardigan, who
| led the charge of the Light Brigade
and whom he hated with all the rancOr
Of his stern nature, so it can be said
of Foraker: Yes, he is brave; d-n
| him, he is brave.
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Cui bono? The Republican party will
reform the tariff about the time the
brewers bring about total abstinence.
Parson Brownlow said he would be a
/ Democrat when Queen Victoria was
| content to be divorced from the prince
consort by decree Of a county court in
the then territory Of Kansas, and the
Republican party will begin TO think
seriously of tariff reform some quarter
of a century after Ben Tiilman shall
deliver the Grafton at the unwilling of
a monument to Collector Crum, erected
by the white folks of Charleston, n.
lie. There was in 1860 more sentiment
for the emancipation Of the slaves in
the eleven states that seeded than
there is sentiment for tariff reform in
the Republican party in 1907. There
were emancipationists at the south
thousands of them brave soldiers in
the confederate army, and there are
tariff reformers in the Republican par
ty-they call themselves tariff revis-
ionists." No two of them agree, and II
! all of them agreed the standpatters