| Show I A NATIONAL STRAW There is no political straw indulging j ust now in more suggestive movements than the colored straw This straw is being upheld and borne along by a Democratic Dem-ocratic breeze Before a strong and beneficient Democratic impetus the colored straw is moving steadily on to take its important and appointed place in the great sheaf of National unity Evidences of this abound The colored editor of the San Francisco Eletatglthus voices his colored readers y Now should the Democratic National convention nomination him Cleveland for President its triumph is assured The color line is broken wherever intelligence prevails am on cst the members of the colored race They have been duped by apolitical a-political tyranny which they are determined to shake off The colored people have been duped by a political tyranny which they are determined de-termined to shake off says this exponent ex-ponent of the colored < < sentiment of the Pacific Slope And truly has the connection of the Republican Re-publican party with the colored people been that of political tyranny t Not only on the Pacific Slope has this political tyranny ty-ranny obtained The oppression has been and still is national Wherever I Republicanism has fastened on the colored vote it has proved a yoke most I galling and tyrannical The colored peo have been made the political hewers of of wood and drawers of water for the Republican Re-publican party The only privilege of the colored Republican has been to vote for his white political brothers Ills duty has been to obey He has been made the political slave As he once wore the chains of physical slavery so there has now been imposed the gyves of party servitude His condition has been made far more deplorable than it was in the ant bellum days The Southern South-ern slaveholder constrained the body The political slaveholder constrains the mind This mental slavery is aggravated by the advance of the colored man in intelligence in-telligence by the prompt and efficient advantage he has taken of educational facilities The Southern slaveholder dealt with a race of only physical development develop-ment The Republican slaveholder oppresses I presses a race intellectually strong The treatment of the colored race by the Republican party is one of the signs of the decadence of hat party It is an evidence of Republican blindness the blindness which prevents the party from seeing the many fatal pitfalls in the broad path of destruction upon which it has entered The Republican party has failed to appreciate ap-preciate the colored power Wantonly cruel it has trampled upon colored rights Blindly arrogant it has grossly insulted colored intelligence It has sowned the seed It is now reaping the harvest Tho colored race has revolted The colored vote is alenialed forever from the Republican party The colored man is no longer a Republican Emancipating himself from the shackles of party certitude the colored citizen of the United States has become a citizen indeed He is of the people at last He claims his share of popular rights He demands that colored capacity and colored col-ored intelligence shall be recognized He sees broad and open before him the path leading to such recognitionthe path which leads the deserving to fame and honor irrespective of race or colorand he has become a Democrat It was but the other day that the Right Rev T W Hood Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America publicly declared that God had a purpose to serve in the election of Cleveland as he had in Josephs going into Egypt The Right Rev Bishops expression is a good one It is pertinent opportune and to the point Democratic principles arc the salvation of the colored man The Democratic party is the Providence of the colored race |
