Show MUST WE BE SLAVES our oar advice to the colored people to abandon the republican ticket in the present campaign and support the candidates dates upon the liberty union ticket a majority of whom are the fusion candidates is meeting with the opposition we expected froni from the colored politicians of the cowardly and selfish sort like all politicians who have no real principles or issue to assert they are resorting to falsehoods and personal abuse instead of argument to counteract the agitation begun by the men and women who are brave enough to put a ticket of their own in the field this brings about a situation under which we propose to make some comparisons of the things for which these respective forces are contending supporters of the ticket are fighting for better treatment at the hands of all the politicians and all the parties they charge that the republican managers in colorado have persistently and wrongfully denied the colored people the political patronage to which they are entitled that for the loyal and self sacrificing support su P of the colored people in the last national campaign they have received nothing in the whole state but four paltry janitor ships that for far less service white have been beed given fat offices while traitors have been re warded for coming back into the fold we charge that the colored voters of the state are being held down crowded back and made political slaves by the republican managers we contend that those managers and their candidates deserve defeat at the hands of the colored voters and that such defeat will redon redound nd to our credit and political advancement on all sides now what are the claims of the political slaves who oppose the independent movement and for what benefits are they contending they cannot deny that our complaints comola ints are true tor for they have likewise complained between camp campaigns aiges i and have themselves been kicked abused abased aud insulted by the bol bosses sea of the party why do they kiss the hand that mites smites theatt ahm they that it is a crime to vote rote abr fora a democrat but dare they assert that we are am inviting greater evils than tha n we now endure im I 1 J senator wolcott claims that the silver fusionist hide their heads in the tale sand and refuse to see that the ill skies a are re hue blue and that the sur sun is shining but what whai are the colored people doing akina with a mona tain load of present ins ills upon non them e V iv i their braina brains andall their political cat possibilities bilici es althe aies e al anat andare anse ivr avid new ai duesi A n th na v ark co con f avi a af 1 t e t gaeir ysais yS awS f tot Tote sand id ast tt ys mo jsn k E ts WirO turn for si battes fc it i t T 4 uzi wit albies for tt artst vii I 1 nahe w s si a ji a a CT wit e 0 xa i L M s r at A tafv yes ar A r a r ward s ly slave of political masters let him expect the evils of the present to continue and his sun of pros and political manhood to refuse to shine the statesman denver col hon edwin H hackley the writer of the above editorial is one of the bright iest and brainiest brai niest members of our race in the united states and he is to be commended for the noble stand which he has taken against the leaders of the republican party of colorado and for endeavoring to rend the bands under asunder as which have heretofore bound the entire negro race hand and foot to the republican party brother hackley the broad ax is i with you heart and soul in the great work of trying to infuse liberal political ideas into the mind ot the negro i |