The Colorado statesman., 1908-08-22

His motto now was, "Half loaf is
better than no bread" And so they
doled him out only g.. Well,
that is some information | shall re
serve for another occasion. But it
was enough to make him be good.
You know it don t take much after
all. Poor preach poor pay" " Any
way, right then and there this
champion of the rights of the race
quilted. He lay down because he
got his price. He had received his
part of the fund to round up the
Negroes and make them vote right.
And so this modern Saul of Tarsus
having now seen great light no
longer continued to breathe threat
enings and slaughter against the
party. He is now converted. Ac-
cordingly ON October 5, 1906, his
malignant denunciations of the
party for the first time in two years
give place to praise of itself and
nominees. His wounds were
soothed. The wrongs of the race
had been avenged. 1t had come
into its own. That race was No. l,
known as G. A. Franklin, editor.
But in his gratuitous three col
umn editorial attack on me so So
fictitious is he that he must not be
regarded as only veneered Demo-
crat and no Republican at all, he
says, "But certainly Colorado Re-
publicans do not deserve to be
called -Whites,' nor do they
"Jim Grow" Negroes. Who called
them "Lily-Whites % Why this
same editor is the only man in Col
orado that ever called the party by
that name. His editorials and open
letter when he was fighting the
party to make it "cough up" are
replete with this epithet, as | have
quoted and shown above. He stig-
matized the party's methods to-
ward the race as "Jim Crow" in
1904 when McCants Stewart of
Honolulu came here to speak and
had tc be persuaded to do so by the
writer, because he refused on ac-
count of the segregation this
"1eader" had inaugurated. How
little gold not only warps the con-
science but produces unaccountable
lapses Of memory 1t is no lapse
of memory, however. He thinks
people have forgotten. He has now
learned another lesson in practical
politics, viz, that the evil record of
mercenary politician confronts
him when he least thinks of it.
In my article on Bogus Leader
ship, 1 merely asked the question
whether the party had become
Lilly White" and answered it in
the negative, giving good reasons.
But | showed that ''our leader
was trying to fix that stigma on it
by his methods. And / now repeat
that he and you, Mr.. Editor Frank
lin, o. account of your greed for
money are Introducing Jim Crow
politics in this state, unknown be-
fore your pernicious activity. You
are an authority on what Jim
Crowism is. You rebuked it in
1904. You indorsed it in 1906 be-
cause it paid you. You want it
in 1908 because it will bring you a
little more money unearned. And
thus the peoples rights are com
promised by two cheap politicians:
Oh, but it is waste of time and
space further to trace the political
career of our friend through its
sinuous course. This is diversion
from my purpose in writing these
articles. | again renew my ques-
tions to Mr.. j. w. Jackson, "the
leader"
First. Why is it that for twenty
years when we had no leader the
race was always accorded posi-
ton on the legislative ticket, but
the moment you assumed a bogus
leadership during the past four