Show republican JUDGES OF KENTUCKY DECLARE THE SEPARATE LAW constitutional I 1 apropos to the recent decision of the court of appeals de declaring blaring I 1 the separate coach law to be constitutional it is evident that the decision has not been accepted with 1 favor by our people the fact that this dc decision ision was waa lj prepared repard by a republican judge and was endorsed by the other two members of that court s shows bows that no reli relief ef cau can be expected from that source the argument that has been advanced adva for the election of another republican judge of this court proves useless in the face of uch such a record as those elected have made it mav may have been a question instead of a political conf but when political parties make these nominations and the men nominated are elected by colored votes and array themselves against the inhere interests 8 t 8 of the race it seems 9 ee ms but fair under these conditions to let them be elected without the colored vote what have colored men 0 o expect from an additional republican judge in the court of appeals if the past is to be ac cepter as an index fr the future there seems to be but little hope for any improvement A republican senator made the passage of the separate coach law possible and republican judges of our court of appeals has fastened it upon us with fetters of steel there may be a remedy but that remedy does not seem to be the election of another republican judge of the court of appeals american baptist it is almost unnecessary unnecessary to comment upon the above article for it simply verifies all the statements which we have heretofore put forth in relation to the republicans and the negro and at this time we I 1 again desire to call the attention af f our republican friends to the fact that so far the most odious measures which have ever been enacted or placed upon the statute book in reference to the negro have been declared constitutional by the united states supreme court composed of republicans and at the same game time the highest court in our land has decided that the civil rights bill was class legislation there therefore foreit it was unconstitutional but the same republican gentlemen have decided that the jim crow car or the separate parate le coach law is not class clan legislation and is constitutional we will not at tempt attempt to analyze these two propositions const out but we wm will leave that to president mckinley who proclaimed to the world that he h e cc would not appoint a colored I 1 man to say any POS position in thearty the army higher than second lieutenant lien tenant or oi P perhaps p if james G blame BlAine 46 the plumed knight of staffie rhode jhb de hegoro bw were pere R living vi ng he J tronald V enlighten the minds io odthe 1 7 g I 1 q ahe jn proposition we behare r hair r 3 SK S i L J i f fi re xer i C 8 ti cannot rf refrain from reminding the gb g b ls A I 1 15 n r ra isbit S sa i 9 saga Sag 3 fead 1 si et celm b ehor K arm 2 and cringing lave islava of the republican party it is again our painful duty to call the attention of editor E E cooper T thomas fortune geo L knox hons john R lynch judson W lyons and the na numerous erin other republican leaders who shoulder the responsibility 1 upon themselves of speaking out for the race that they are perfectly silent or at least we have so far failed to observe wherein they have uttered one word of protestation or condemnation dem nation of the actions of the dle republican publican judges of the supreme court of kentucky I 1 |