Show THE GEORGIA ELECTION IN 1872 twenty four years ago garles charles sumner whose remain remains have crumbled into dust and have become a part of the monumental elements of the universe traveled and lectured throughout the north and the south to the colored people urging and advising them to divide on party lium lines and not to allow themselves to become the slaves of either of the great political parties but during all of the intervening years the great majority of the members of our race have disregarded the advice of senator sumner who was iras one of our very best friends and when he passed away in 1875 the negroes could not comprehend the fact that their only real friend belonging to the great republican P party arty had disappeared below the hb horizon and from 1865 to june 1896 the great majority of the ram race had bad come to the con 1 aclus clus elusion 0 n that the party of greed and gold had a right to own all of them body and soul but since the colored people of geo georgia agia and of the other southern bouthern ou thern states have witnessed the mighty MOTe movements ments of ahe the white re be party of the north and donth 4 large number of them have decided to vote the democratic ticket they tul abiu remember the treatment which they received from the sixty five members of the lilly whites of Ted tennessee aeo vhey bey still ve remember member taz bot that AU of those men who withdrew amra the he be publican state convention of ten depee aply baase ahei their dark skinned brethren z desired to take i a the were the WE r w cond conducted feted the Fre freed edmans mana savings bank which failed without assets and they still remember that our poor brothers lost over three hundred thousand dollars when that bank closed its doors the negroes of georgia and of all the other southern states have also seen the leaders of the great lilly white party not only of the south but also of the north mingling together in the great republican ci city ty of st louis during the present year and they and all of the other members of the race who are scattered throughout the civilized world wold are I 1 now willing to admit that the lilly white leaders of the party of lincoln and sumner did not desire to become contaminated with those sony som of ham who were delegates to that great lilly white convention and when the colored gentlemen realized the fact that the lilly whites did not wish to associate with them any longer A lar large P number of them decided to follow the advice of that eminent statesman of massachusetts who walked and talked with them twenty four years ago and we believe that if mr sumner could revisit this earth again that he would shed tears of joy and delight if he could only mingle with the forty thousand members of the downtrodden race who worked and voted for that matchless and fearless statesman william Y atkinson the present governor of the great state of georgia |