The Colorado statesman., 1924-02-02
(Lincoln News service.)


Washington, Feb. 1, 1924.-FOllow-
ing in the wake of the meeting of the
Democratic national committee, which
successfully auctioned the national
convention to the New York bidders,
comes colored bishop, who, failing to
profit by the mistakes made by the
late and lamented Bishop Alexander
Walters, issues an appeal to the voters
of our group to desert the Republican
party at the coming national election.
Unlike the modest and learned Bishop
Walters, whose splendid church work
in the A. NJ E. Zion organization gave
him the respect, the good will and the
following of thousands of colGred peO-
pie, this new Democratic torchbearer,
Bishop George Alexander Mcguire, of
the African Orthodox Church, nearly
four years old and with nearly two
thousand members, decorates himself
with the regalia of his office, large
cross of gold and red rabbi, attends
the sessions of the nullifiers of the Fif
teenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, and, after the
show is over has the droll effrontery
to give out a statement to the effect
that 1.-THE Democratic party's platform
always has been broad enough for our
feet" and that there never has been
time since we came into possession
a. &c ,t-hA
not have entered its portals and found
warrant for doing So"
Having directed his attention more
to spiritual than to political affairs,
the good bishop has failed to familiar
ize himself with the national policies
of the party for which he is beating
cymbals, and it is the general opinion
that our clever but misguided Demo-
cratic friend of Indianapolis has in
fluenced the bishop of the projection
on a sensitized plate of an enlarged
image of Negro Democrat welding
national pOwer-the same optical illu-
sion that broke the heart of Bishop
Walters, nearly destroyed Maj. Patter-
sons usefulness to his race, and made
misanthropes out of other ambitious
and intelligent race men, who, in their
eagerness to be of service, overlooked
the important fact that whenever the
Democratic party is in power it is
ruled with an iron hand by the NE
gro-baiters" of the "Solid South" But
whether in or out of power, this con-
trolling element of the national DEM
ocratic organization, with utter disre-
gard for party success or for the ad-
vice of northern leaders, breaches the
doctrine of hate on all occasions and
further emphasizes its deep-seated
prejudice by the Introduction in Con-
gress of bills, the enactment of which
would retard our progress and make
us serfs in this land of our birth,
whose institutions we love.
Bishop Mcguire, whose name Is
slightly misleading, should have made
a trip through the South, either with
or without his cross of gold, before is
suing his appeal. He should not have
assumed that conditions in New York
or Chicago are typical of those obtain
ing in other sections of the country
and while in Washington he should
have secured copies of some of the Of
fensive bills that have been intro
duced by his Democratic friends.
Equipped with such information it is
reasonable to believe that the hypno-
tized bishop would come out of his
trance and confine his Democratic ac-
tivities to local Tammany affairs. Par