rWFlSl feMwjirf V m 1 f S IS T F1 ft- 7 f 11 I l i T ma ei r i l il e btj a If fjliii m i 111 i i i i T V WHEN MKINLEY DOTH SPEAK Will the AggrleYEd Afro Americans Forglye Sins of tt e Past Because of Here words TTliat Ih to Follow ttie Presidents Fob Ic Condemnation ot lynchliiB Talk Brlnjjs Absolution Clevelands Manly Pantlments Suonld Redeem the Democracy Government Warmly Arraigned for Fallnre to Protect Its Own Citizens The Aegro Putting on Ills Armor PInin Speecli from a Brilliant Western Attorney St Paul Minn Special All e agreed that the present administration and chief executive of the nation have failed signally to discharge its duty to ward the Negro citizens and many loud deep profound and we trust earnest have been the protests entered by our people throughout the land against such failure while all the time supporters and apologists for the President and the administration have been urging what to them seemed was sufficient excuse for this failure With practical unanmity it is also agreed that the silence steadily main tained by the President in the face of all the outrages committed upon the Negro citizen of onr nation ia an out rage or at leaBt all agree that he should have at least spoken and expressed what must be the highest conscientious sentiment ot the country condemning such attrocities The colored people of Massachusetts very pointedly call the President to task for his silence in their open letter to him calling attention to the heinous ness of the many lynchings in Georgia and the Carollnas It a3kcd Did you break this shameful silence of shame ful months with so much as a whisper of a whisper against the deep damna tion of such defiance of all law human and divine such revulsions of men into beasts and relapses of communities into barbarism in the various centers of tlia rpTMihlin Anrl nmiri frhft tfimnlfi fit American liberty Itself Page 90pen letter President McKin ley by C P of MJ Again comes the pecial counsellors for the administration and the Presi dent and urge explain and excuse again and insist with seeming full soul earnestness that the Presidents heart is in the right place and he will yet prove himself worthy of the trust and show himself the friend nay more our own stalwart champion and with much eclat and confidence it is urged we have but to turn to the Presidents inaugural address and there we will find where Mr McKlnley stands Read it they say and thou wilt drink of the stream of pure water that will refresh thee and restore thy buoyancy and make again strong thy lailh even as strong as ours be notwithstanding that we have a monthlydraughtof political pap that makes and keeps our faith strength ened Bead again his words at his inauguration and Tell me how canst thou doubt even in the least The President will speak again we are told Yes he will and how thank ful we are that the days are so few when he will speak when throughout our loved land we will read other words of hi Words spoken in manly manner with splendid diction formed into sentences that will tempt many to commit ihem to memory aud treasure them as we treasure words that we heard iu the long ago like the treas ured words our mother apoke when she held i s on her knees but what then when he has spoken Will we for the simple spoakiug forgive all for get all The writer recalls the former speaK mg of Mclunley and was told of a man who upon going into his house out of the cold inueh depressed with the many cares of other peoples troubles when his wife sprang upon a chair and demanded three hearty cheers for President McKinley Cheers for what he asked Listen here here hero she said as she read from a newspaper she held in her hands With hands uplifted to heaven and in a clear fall meaning voice and expres sion the President said the constituted authorities must be cheerfully and vigorously upheld Lynchings muBt not be tolerated in a great and civi lized country like the United States courts not mobs must execute the penalties of the law the preservation of public order the right of discussion the integrity of courts and the orderly administration of justice must continue forever the rock of safety upon which government securely rests Ah well we had better not rejoice too much just yet said the man of cares Let us wait and see just how much the Preildent will do to enforce his declaration how far he will go to bring about that which he insists must be The man of cares Is waiting yet and so are all of us Now then can we ex pect else but to wait on again after he has spoken this second time It will be answeredthere was nothing the President could have done He has no authority to interfere in matters that are the concern of the state such as the protection of life and the preservation of the peaoe of the people and so since he can be charged with no act of omission except that he was silent we are not justified in turning against him and in turning against him turn against our best friends Wrong Sup pose we grant it true though I do not that Mr McKinley s attorney general was and is right in saying that the case of Hose has no federal aspect Is this true of the Baker case Will any of the eminent gentlemen of the counsel for the defense urge that there was no power m the President to have acted in the Baker case and furnish federal protection to him If there be and was such power then the President is chargeable with a failing and neglect to perform a duty by law imposed upon him and such failures and neglect i3 nothing short ot a crime That was a single case we are told and being the first he is not chargeable to any great extent Wrong again Verily the Scriptures do teach He that is guilty ot the least is guilty of the whole Remembering this will we let bygones be bygones simply because he speaks The President will speak and the President will recommend but why will he He has been forced yes against his will forced to speaE He sees now as he never saw before that the Negro ha begun to move in his own interest The Negro ha3 discovered by profoundly conferring together first in Washington in December 1893 and again in Chicago In August last dis covered the power he has within him self to right his wrong He has heard how Prof Booker T Washington has asked Is it not worth our while to consider the question of a division of our vote He has heard His Grace Bishop Alexander Walters say and how his words were repeated through out the IaDd The time has come when we must divide our vote He has be come recolleclive and remembers how Benjamin Harrison was bolted and de feated because he was false to the trust tne Negro reposed in him And be cause he will recommend that ap propriate legislation be passed by the forth coming Congress making lynch ing a crime shall we give him full absolution without attaching any penance Shame shame upon us if we do Our own Edward EBrown oi Boston has takeu the initiative Congressman White noble representative of a loyal and noble people stands ready to pre sent the measure This Mr McKinley should have done AH things are now made ready for Congressional action He who speaks no w but becomes one of a great and mighty chorus Tis he who leads when others halt when there are none ady ollow that is due great praise He who joins in when all bave Btarted but takes the piaoe of an humble follower Must we now pen up all our indigna tion silence every voice in protest withdraw every demand cancel every claim and ba content because Mr Mc Kinley speaks or mus he still answer for the wrongs chargeable to him In a word shall we support him for re election Four months ago yon would not have gotten up a torch light procession of Negro youngsters to whoop em up for McKinley Ah then Negroes were thoroughly aroused They were saying Had we but have known him in No vember 1896 as we do now he would not have had ou vote How much better will he be after December the 4th than he now i Divide says His Grace Bishop Walters No divide never is choed back by press pulpit and pen Divide and you go to your worst enemies they say Are our friends to be judged alone by what they say Then let me ask you hear again these words and by the same judgment you judge Mr Mc Kinley and his party judge the parly to which belong the the man who ut tered this In the administration of a govern ment pledged to do equal and exact justice to all men there should be no pretext for anxiety touching the pro tection of the freedmen in their rights or their security in the enjoyment of their privileges under the constitution and its amendments All discussion as to their fitnes3 for the place accorded to them as American citizens is idle and unprofitable except as it suggests the necessity for their Improvement The fact they are citizens entitles tbem to all the rights due to that relation and charges them with all its duties obli gations and responsibilities First innaugural address of Grover Cleve land Messages and papers of the Presi dents vol 8 pageS02 Braver words said our -dear old man Frederick Douglass have never been said Douglass spoke a truth then It is none the less a truth now so again I urge if the re publican party and Mr McKinley i3 to receive absolution for speaking brave words the democratic party is entitled to the same kind of sauce Verily of a truth I venture to say if we will now become lully reconciled to the administration and give it our sup port to the end that we have four more years of McKinley and the policy and things for which he stands and repre sents we will and truly deserve the position we will then find ourselves in cast overboard by the republican party without a friend to throw us a life line Let us then manly face the position truthfully and on our con sciences answer What when he speaks Will we then be fully satisfied Fbedebick h McGhee COLORED AMERICAN WASHINGTON O SEMD US ONE DOLLAR Cut thH ad oat and send to us wlih tl00 ana we will send jou this 5EITIJIF0TEDiCHKUtE3PlKL0S0EtUSbyreichtC0 DtobJett 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