The Washington bee., 1911-05-06
NEGRO DEMOCRATS
Very Sadly Disappointed
Negro Democrats Not FaTing Well
in Washington, D. c.

IN WdSnlnSIO TON, -. -.
West Virginia Mcdonald Ilmes.)
Those Negroes who were deluded
into thinking that he had succeeded
in migrating himself into the Demo-
cratic party and ingratiating himself
into their good favor find this to be a
sad mistake when it comes time to
hand around the good things.
They were promised everything
short of the Presidency and be-
ing Cabinet Member, and when
the showdown comes the very
best they get IS to be Gus
pidor washer around Washington.
There are today in and around Wash
ington scores of Negroes VINO sup
ported the Democratic party and they
ere there asking that they be taken
care of, and " hle they are waiting
don get l. Ill your mind that they
are living on flowery beds of ease,
for this will be about the greatest
mistake you ever made in your life.
! IOu may further put this down as a
safe and sane proposition that about
one out of every two hundred Will
get something to do and when he gets
it, It will be such a position as the
common ordinary Negro who belong
Cd to the Republican party when II
was in power IN Congress would have
Scorned. Could there be greater
proof of the fact of what the Dem
ocrats in this State intend TO do as
soon as they get a chance? What
figure does the wish OF any partlcu-
lar Democrat cut when he gets on the
floor of the House and IS bound by
the planks in the platform of his
party? He might like to give Jim
a good berth but the Democratic
party says you just let Jim stay
where he is, this IS not "JIm's' party,
and you may put ii down that Jim"
will stay there The Bee of Washing
ton says the requisites that must ap-
pear on the part OF Negro Democrat
seeking position are:
First. In what State, district and
county he voted last?
Second For whom did he vote?
Third How long has he been a
Negro Democrat, and further cites
one instance of a Negro Democrat
from West Virginia hunting a job.
We don't doubt brother Chase's word
on this, but if he will take the trou-
bic to investigate, it is dollars to
doughnuts that this gentleman who
wea IS the liV1r. = the burning sun
has self constituted and self delegated
himself as coming from this State,
and when the truth Is asCertained it
will in all probability be found that
he came from way down yOndO' in
the cOrnhelds Of Mississippi" We
had few over here who went off
after strange gods, but they have SO
seriously and solemnly repented that
we feel that there will be no further
trouble along that line. The Demo-
cratic party in power in the lower
House in Washington IN order to
make a show at economy and at the
same time to have some excuse for
not placing their newly acquired Ne
gro constituents abolished $I82, 900
worth of places that had been pre-
viously held by Negroes. Did we
say abolished, perhaps transferred
might be better, for white men, young
white men, young white Democrats
are being daily appointed to the so
called abolished positions and yet
there are some Negroes foolish
enough to try to argue themselves
into frenzy about what the Repub-
Hcan party will not do for them and
what the Democratic party does for
them. The Times IS not "bridled, -
nor is it blindly following any party,
but if anybody on the other side can
see anything the Democratic party
does ior the Negro to induce him to
JOIN their ranks we yield in such d
ones favor, and ii he can show us We
Will take back ali we have said, but
until this is done we are from Mis-
souri,.