THE IRONY OF IT.
•There is..some thing ontcaisoly ironical about the fate df the' Reipublica.il candidates for tins United Spates Brc'sidtenc'y depending upon.- the votes of a Ihundred negroes. The "blacks" have too voifee in the affairs of Stat?, other than tio vclbe at the Convention. They are despfised and (rejected, kicked from ipil'lar to past, ciunsed, spat upon and Otherwise ihuimiKated. But at the prokmi momerit they are living like inghting-cocks. The .whole fate of tu* Presidency depend* upon them. And ifheir- ..simile will dtittbtlees go dwvru to ■ posSter'iity as one of the nicst intense satisfaction.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10661, 17 June 1912, Page 4
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97THE IRONY OF IT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10661, 17 June 1912, Page 4
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