Show I THE COLOR LINE c The DKMOCKAT will print tomorrow in open letter from General Master L I Workman Powderly of the K L which he wrote to counteract the construction placed upon his selection of colored workman work-man Farrell to introduce him Powder to the Convention Mr Powderly with one stroke of his pen now disarms ani I criticism by saying he did not know until un-til after he had been in Richmond several r days that colored men were not allowed to enter theatres and other public places save it was in parts of the building assigned J as-signed to their race and now that the L DEMOCRAT is aware that Mr Powderly I I was ignorant of this fact and that there t was in a sense social ostracism for colored I col-ored people in all large Southern cities it certainlyfeels that it should not have attributed the mistake of calling the Convention Con-vention in Richmond to that gentleman But who would believe that such a keen I intellect as that of the General Master I Workman of the K of L could be so blind to what is so well known all over I the land The waving of the bloody 1 I shirt and negro outrages has been I the stock in trade of Republican politicians politi-cians for twenty years past and all they ever had to bank on for the outrages I was the very naturalwhether judicious or notdislike which is born in the pres I eat grown generation 01 Southern people to admit the colored race to an equality in social standing with them So far as the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constu F tion can work the equality of the colored I man before the law he has been recognized recog-nized as equal but a mans house is his castle into which the law has no right to intrude when not violated and Southern I South-ern or Northern men have a perfect right to regulate their social intercourse to suit themtelves without regard for the law so that they in no manner infringe its commands The DEMOCRAT holds that Powderly did right in selecting f whom he pleased to introduce him but 1 thinks I the action was an unwise one as it was fraught with trouble to the Order and likely to interfere with a smooth working of the business before the Convention Con-vention For this reason it was a mistake mis-take no matter how it was done For the third time the DKMOCKVT agrees with 1owilerlys action as a matter of law and I l1 gilt iiuu claims that Farrell could obtain damages from the owners P of the Richmond theatre if he pressed his case had he been ejected j hut these things are foreign to the welfare wel-fare of the K of L and should never have been brought up at this inauspicious I time It is possible that no paper j eve P assailed Powderly for what they assumed i I I was wrong in his actsave some cranky t or hotheaded fireeater of a country editor I I edi-tor but for what was manifestly injudicious I injudi-cious at this time as the K of L is not m in the business of adjusting so cial questions I ques-tions in the South but of adjusting the labor question all over the land |