Show GOV MOUNT AND NEGRO indiana draws the color lines in in its militia in reply to the colored officers who recently waited upon gov mount in behalf of having the two colored militia companies of indianapolis assigned to regiments he refused point blank to accede to their request colored american editor cooper arrit arnt you yon aware of the fact that gov mount is a red hot member of the grand old party and arnt you also aware of the fact that eighty per cent of the negro vote voters re of indiana supported him for governor during the election of 1896 and in perusing the columns of your paper you voa endeavor to convey the idea and the impression arm ion that you are the only and the greatest advocate and the champion of the ue negroes groes rights in ie this country if this is true then why in the world do you not turn your yaw batteries upon the great rj republican governor of indiana for insulting every respectable negro throughout that state and we feel confident that if gov mount was a member of the democratic party tw that I 1 you and editor knox of the i indianapolis freeman W and editor fortune of the new york age and U of the other negro republican editorial writers throughout the country would have written long editorials in denouncing a democratic sUa governor for jus ams dra drawing wing taso the color lioe line there is another fact which we desire to call conr attention to toj namely that illinois was under republican rule role fur for thirty years and during that time all the republican governors professed to be the best the only and the warmest friends of the negro race and when governor fifer better known as fighting joe became governor of that state he informed all the negroes that he served in the war faithe for the purpose of liberating them from bondage and that he believed that a respectable agro or any organization of respectable negroes ought to be permitted to enjoy all the rights and privileges which were enjoyed by the members of the opposite raw race but when hon J C buckner and several other members of the ath battalion bat waited u upon ion gov fifer and a informed his el excellency ellenby lency that their company desired to become con connected meted with the uri illinois adl s national guards the governor replied by saying that her he would wa permit the negro soldiers to become connected with ith the illinoia I 1 national guards shortly arm after that major J C j buckser and sad the other members of his comm committee 4 waited upon apon that great gmt democratic gent gentleman lemm and friend of the negro and all humanity the hojohn ho hon john P altow who was vas a 6 candidate for governor govera oron on the he democratic ticket and he promised them that in caw case he be caage governor 0 E illinois he would permit them to become members lot the ahe ole titio tj tio skor shortly as a tater T arned oberto v J r at je U ji redeemed ciuch to tak the negroes x t jw i th honored members of 0 the illinois national guard so it will thus be seen brother cooper that a democratic governor proved himself to be a far greater and better friend to the negro than fighting a joe fifer or grov gov mount of indiana |