The Denver star., 1916-04-22
UNCLE ABE AT 1T AGAIN.

That silly shally political circular
which originated with that illustrious
virate has given them much agitation
and disappointment because it proved
to be boomerang-it did not get a
chance to pull on its political bouts
before it was dead-dead-dead In
any city where there are as many
Colored voters as there are in Denver,
they would not allow any set of men
who would lead, to profit by the
wrongs the white people heap upon
the race. What would you think OF
the Colored people of st. Louis If
they would now vote for any man on
the republican ticket in that city, who,
had taken an active part in having
the Jim Crow law passed? Do you
know that the same kind of white men
are here in Denver and have been
circulating on the quiet, petitions in
East Denver, along Franklin street,
getting signers among white property
owners to present to the Council after
| the election, If the Booth-Nisbet
| Amendment carries to keep colored
people from renting or buying prop
erty in that part of the city? How
| long will it take that sentiment to
spread over the whole city? If Mis-
|
Council the Colored people will have
no protection against the efforts to
segregate them. Certainly no appeal
from the Colored people would be
needed by Nisbet and his crowd. Then,
you know his record, he votes against
our rights when appealed to for JUS
tlce.
| Don't you remember that Nisbets
| n 6ar ri loI ha ,t-hin hnl
meetings in "Old Colony Hail." to in
timidate and drive Doctor McClain
and family from their home? You
know that that mob did not cease to
bull-doze Doctor McClain and his fam
| lily until the Colored people held a
Mass meeting at Scotts church and
defied the mob. and offered to defend
| McClain and his family in their right
to live any place they choose. Not
till that showing was made by the
Colored people did Nisbet's under
sheriff withdraw at the head of his
mob, saying: If McClain lives there
he won't have any good luck" Where
were Sheriff Nisbet, the Chief Peace
Officer of the County, when his under
sheriff was violating the law and head
ing a mob to injure a citizen who had
committed no wrong except to pro-
vide a respectable home for his fami-
ly! Why did he not protect McClain?
Why did he not call off his under
sheriff ana tell him to keep the peace?
His actions there are consistent with
his actions since. when he issued the
black and tan order" and when he
voted to insult the Colored voters to
allow the Birth of a Nation, over the
protests of the best men and women of
the city, including the ministers. Had
he known he would so soon need the
Colored vote of Denver, he might have
acted differently. The Messengers
and members of the "Office Seekers
Union are now trying to induce the
Colored voters to pocket the repeated
| insults to the race by Nisbet and vote
! for the Booth Nisbet Amendment.
| Those men know when they make the
appeal that those who vote for Speer
and Democrats that they are only ap-
| plying the party lash. They know the
Colored voters are usually republicans
hence the cry of party. This Is
non partisan election. No party has a
ticket in the field, but If the republi-
| can party had a ticket in the field
which would be as abnoxious as the
one with Nesbit on it, the Colored
| Voters would do then as they will do
next month-vote against all the Ne
gro hating republicans and teach them
how to treat the consistent element OF
the republican party You can't
scratch the name OF Nesbit or any
other name from the Booth-Nesbit
Amendment. To defeat Nesbit you
will have to vote for the Speer Amend.
ment. Let us all do that cheerfully
on election day to win womanhood
and manhood its rights. The issue is
one of race preservation. race advance
ment and not one of party.-B. T. w.