The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 3, 1886, Page 1

he Washington Be WASHINGTON, D. C., SAT! y | ance, Boston and Baptist Advo rprtys. $2.00 Per year. i oust a! YEVER ‘SUCH BARGAIN s | Nee OUR WEEKLY REVIEW. cates, Virginia Critic, Knights of a « - . _..., Wise men are reliable papers. THE COLORED PRESS, SOME OF THE ‘These papers are well edited and if FOLLIES. WHY NEWSPAPERS EDI- | they were properly supported by TED BY NEGROES DON’T SUCCEED.| the people, it would enable the PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION. | editors to improve them. The Ohio WHY THE NATIONAL ERA FAILED | Falls, Express, is edited by an DOUGLASS’ NORTH STAR. THE egotist Dr. Fitz John Butler. Mr. SOUTH AHEAD IN JOURNALISM.| Butler made a visit to this city sev- WEST INDIAN writer. &e. | eral years ago and for fear he would ;not be known, he remarked, that | his.»asce was Dr. Fitz John Batler, In our last weeks review we took | editor and proprietor of the Ouio occasion to briefly consider news- | Falls. Express. “I am a practicing papers edited by colored men in the | Physic:an, said he, in the state of United States; this week’s review | Kentucky.” Butler we understand will be devoted to thesame topic} has several allies. Negroes like all and in discussing the Colored Press, | Other nationalities must have their we desire’ to consider first its Clown. Why not the colored press? foilies. There are a number of ovr | There is more prejudice among journals that have no fixed princi-| Colored newspaper men than, ples, which tend to operate against | there is among the most illiterate the colored pressot this country, | of the south. We have had some The reason of that is, since the | good men to retire from the field Emancipation of slaves, and while | of journalism, namely, Recorder a majority of our editors were hold- | Fred Douglass, A. G. Lenard, Jos- ing public positions, they were by |eph T. Wilson and others. - When the bleudishments of official power. | Mr. Douglass edited the North Star, compelled to submit to outrages | the Negroes in this country were against the race that they would | suffering under the masters lash. notdo under other cireumstances |The North Star paved the field of have tolerated. | journalism. Mr. Phillip A. Bell with Again there were other editors who | his Elevator, did not do much good did all in their power to get in, by | and during 22 years of its exis- catering to the republican party ;/ tance it stands in the same old rat thus shutting their eyes against |to day as it did then. With noim- every indignity that might be heap- | provements. Notwithstanding he ed upon the unfortunate brother in | is the veteran jourualist. black. While we admire | Although the Virgima Lancet is ‘ sniall in size, it is edited as well as a majority of our papers. The ed- for its brilliency, the editor ofthat. itress is a smart lady, Miss Bragg. paper, after having supported the! The admission of the lady in the republican candidates tu ‘St, be- | fidld of journalism isan advance came a strong applicant for the Re-| step. Reverting to Mr. corder of Deeds for the District of Columbia and would have accepted, had he been fortunate enough to) subsequent to the death of the have secured the place. The Bee North Star, the National Era was that had defended the republicans | oftablished. This paper was a and endeavored to be turned down power in the country. The death by the presideut, was boldly sec-| of this paper was caused by jeal- onded by the editor of the Freeman | ousy and prejudice. The writers who declared that the existance of were men of ability, but, who had the BEE depended on the posi-| their own self aggrandizement iu tion the editor held at that time, as | yiew rather than the success of the i paper. Generals cilive, War Department.) ‘Phe Freedman’s Bureau, under Under such circumstances, ihe white} Gen]. O.O. Howard, purchased press would have taken different) weekly from 4 to 10 thousand copies view of matters had it been a white | of it, but, beeause Mr. Douglass did journal. This was a weakness | pot cater to the }-apriciousness of a on the part of Mr. Fortune, as well | few demagouges, who were at that as predjudice. The Ber was as/ time connected with the institution, ready to denounce outrages under a | a conspiracy was instigated and Mr. republican adimnistration re under a democratic one. The edi the Freedman’s Bureau. The ex- tor of the Freeman has been more) minister to Hayti bas been charged ready to accept an ollice than the) with playing a conspicious part in S yen's Boys’? and Children’s Clothing ered at the GreatSample of Men, Boys’ g are mow gren's Clothing Opening at 924 7th St., N.W. au pet. 1 St. AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. y's Boy’s and Children’s Suits and Overcoats 4 noes eg) at will be sold at less than the cost of the d ety ~g about the aking and the trimmings. Actual bar- yin 4 sample Suit worth $20 can be bought for $12. . jildren and Boy’s er} = little cides ~~ - - ee Qvercoats at less than you would have to pay for the Children ied pcan in single Suits, only one of a kind, deer Aig HSE ish, French and American goods. Prince Suits that sold for $12 to $20 at less here are no better goods made, many of Men's Suits start at $5 and go ym come. reoats very low, and € king. nd are made of the best Eng Albert Coats sold for $ jan two-thirds of the cost. : ey om superior to the best ordered work. 4 . aici ee hem supe Bors suits $5 to $10; Children iits $2.50 to $6, and Over- oe sf a Bove’ and Children from $2.50 up. You ean secure the s for Me 2 £ your life in any of these goods you can get fitted in. We . DE orl jidren’s Suits—54 in all—the price of them was $6.50, $7, Sete _4tos. Just think of it. You can have your choice Little Overcoats for half price. Men’s Pants T5c., We have alot of Prince Albert Coats, Black Cloth your choice to day for $12. d be impossible to enumerate the thousands of good things in. for Men, Boys and Children. Come and see for yourself le of sample Suits at 924 7th St. N. W., bet. I St. and Sample Suits and all styles, of men’s Salecommences TUESDAY MORN- nd $10, 2 up te sold for $15, oth e great Sa ; MI = (ve. Look for the signs. and Children’s Clothing. 0 o'clock. JOHN F. ELLIS & ©.>, 937 PEXN. AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. EXTENSIVE DEALERS IN THE FREEMAN DOUGLASS SNV9UO MUSIC AND) MUSICAL MERCHANDISE OF EVERY agents for the Weber Behring, Vose, Guild, Mason and Hamlin |a first class clerkin the Adjutant DESCRIPTION hr Bros. PIANOS! MASON AND HAMLIN, SMITIL AMERICAN. GEO. WOODS ACKARD, CHASE ORGANS! ‘1.50 DOUBLE STITCHED SHOES $1.50, —MADE OF— *\LF-SKIN BROAD BOTTOM. 5-H) THUEBUTTON LACE ACONGRESS GAITERS, ELECTAIG, FLENIBLE & SOFT hold one. In cases of LIBEL SUITS | Era. deavoring to play acard in Virgin ¥ ried : ia politics, the Negro press is far behind the prejudice feeling against the old age. There area very few Negro) sage of Anacostia. Jealousy is the editors, who know how to appreci- | cause of it, but the day will never editors when they are under an in- Douglass’ The place. National » 4.00 HAND SEWED GAITERS for Ladies and Gentlemen. ow Quarter Shoes, IN GREAT VARIETY. You NG's. Me Sth St., HETLBRUN’S Old Stand. Look for the old lady in Window “THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME.” (COPYRIGHTED 1877 an attack is made against it. do not mean in such editor of the CLEVELAND GAZETTE who has attempted to black mail the editor of the Cleveland Globe, and who employs an ex penitenti- ary convict’ to aid him in his nafe- | rious onslaught ou his brother edi- cases as the inform you who were Rev(?) Geo. W. ed journalisin. tors. Negro editors must conduct Ptyry te E thsir papers as white papers are) ECILOES FROM TILE TOMB. conducted. White editors criticise each other, but, how is it done? A privcipal is attacked and not the T personal character of the man. Tue editor of the Se CARAIAS ES ron aces * ‘oR. PLue ete Men “most every bo ly ls AMERICAN BAPTIST of pirasant ard days perhaps, the most judicious in his +7 ™. than any in the colored press a torgttion. The Ciarles ton R-cordis a well coducted paper and it it improves 22 weeks of its ¢ have cause to feel proud of it. The) new girls. phetic soul —— ade by T. T. Haydock, which is not onl Hluctrated by the use of a B 7 fe uy "ni m chis picture, pia ock’s Safety King Bolt and Fifth Wheel, Ack you desier for the We oe ¥DOCK BUGGY, with the Haydock Safety King Bolt and Fith Wheel, the Leadi: E LEADING BUGGY OF AMERICA, Hae ®S | Douglass was deprived of serving editor of the Ber was anxious to | this conspiracy to overthrow the The gentleman, who isen- entertains the same ate them, ordeal with their brother | gome when he will be able to take dictment. Libel suits ave instituted | Jj-3 had brains enough in it, it daily against editors of white papers, | did not want printing material, it bat they are differently cousidered | paq everything that was necessa- by white contemporaries. The du-| yy to make a good newspaper. We ty of the press is to be united when cannot review the Era as we desire We | this week, but in our next we shall connected with the paper, their motives, the scheme of the Commoner edited by Williams, the re- jecied minister to Hayti and the celebrated ( ?) historian of the Negro jrace; the decline and rise of color- Cresd the Bre regularly, as e does when they can get it, and the memory fulsome nights comes to crowd my pro- I gladly miss the emanations from the old) girls— Clara and Louise—anl peru-e with sit has in the. better satisfucion the more care- istance, we may | fully prepared utterances of the Those old girls were Je dissatistied’ parties, if such there | gun to realize their political value, were, and was never put fo any | and the “bosses” will have a hard serious inconvenience. They Say That Iam to return to Wasiington sometime in Au- | | time to change the Negroes’ de- termination. Miss Ida B. Wells, bet'er known gust to try my fortunes among | as “Ivla” one of our city school the followers of Blackstone and | teachers, and your humble servant other 1 nd-sharks, but it is not | have been invited to prepare arti- detinite'y decided as yet. It would | cles fur the columns of the A M. prove a matter of genuine surprise | E Church Review. There can be an | revelation to my many friends | no doubt of the interest eduess that in the City of Magnificent Dis-| will characterize Misa Wells’ arti~ tar.ces—-904 miles from this place-- | c'e, whatever the subj ct may be. to gaz: upon my magnificent form | We will allow some one else to once more pacing the asphalt pav-| blow our horn. We occupy ovr -dstree s of the political Jerusalem. | time by practicing law, assisting Some of “the bhoys” would get} to edit a paper, saying political gloriously full and attempt to car- | conduits and wires, fishin » Writ- miniz: the municipali y, while|ing letters, and whittling. All others would turn green with en-| good lawyers whitt'e, at least they I would ask the management | do down here. To see a court as a favor personal to postpone all | house table one would think there en‘ertainments until the auspicious alias George W. Jackson, says I have no bird in Washiugtom, [) bave always considered him to be | areal smart man, and now I am fully convinced. What George does not know would mike a very small book He is what we call down here iu these parts a “Jim | D ndy,” and, a3 the boys say | down here, “I have got his bird right here.” There is a certain} class of people who ure much given to paying atteation to other peo- | ple’s birds —in the night time— bat I had supposed George had | enough of this world’s chattels to | let chicken roosts utone, esp cially | when tley belonged to other pvo- ple. “No poaching on theve pre- | se ves” is gently insinuated to this. young man of the per:d. A| ge:tleman writes me that “Father | Hubbard,” Mr. A. F. Hiiyer, con- templa‘es the fatal step of matri- | meny. ‘Ihe name of the lady meutioned in connect on with that of the gifted Minnes staan was not the oue [ had expected. In perusing some paper I read that the Amateur Glee Club was re U.J, Lydecker, at Senator Palmer’s recep ion, but the director, H. Chester Turleigh, gently informed him that the members did not kuow it, What is it the boys dou’t know? Tue public has a “dead sinch” on anything those young men kou’t know or sing. It is with pain and dissatisfaction that I read of the continued lop- ping of the beads of competent c»lored guve nment officials. A prominebt dim cratic senator told me not long since, by letter. or otherwise, wnich, it makes no dif- ference, that the beginning of the uext year would not find a single Negro republican in office credited to pis state, So the boys had - best fix their feet for travelling. Iam here. Th re seems to be a fixed determination ou the purt of the colored man and brother jn these perts, where I find myself, to pull out from hackneyed white repu’- lican leaders and make their own bargains and deals. We hive an elcctiin in August fur state su- premec vurt judges, county judges, cleiks of courts, registers of deeds, were none but good lawyers ever event signaliziung my arrival, as| about the place, from the looks of I can “just die waltzing” now.|the aforesaid table hereinbefore My old friend, Lynn C. Dayle, | meutioned. Eemsec. Memphis, Tenn , June 26, ’86. PRESS COMMENTS. LETS AMEND IT How would Judge Gresham and ex-Reeorder Douglass sound in ,88? | Georgia Sentinel. a YOU ARE RIGHT. If Mr. Clarke and his friends feel offended at his removal beesuse of politics, it must be remembered that Mr. Clarke carried it in the schvol and the School Board is on- ly taking it out.—American Bapt- ist, WANT OF SENSE. | [cannot understand the carping, severe und unjust eriteism some of the editors of colored newspa- pers indulge in when speaking of our prominent colored men.— Washington Correspondent, Mem- quested to sing “Dixie” by Major |24és Watchman. em HIS VIEW OF IT. Tue so-called master Powderly says “I believe that every mau should be free from all slavery, whether the slavery appears in shape of monopoly, usuary or in- temperenee.” So far this is good But if he had added “or oath bound secret society” it would be better,—Living Way. IT WILL BE LATE. The Washington Gas Company seem to be getting the worst of the hatha, samen before Congress. It may be that we shall in the near tuture be relesed from the toils of this monopoly. —The C aflsman. ee tet WISE MEN CHANGE FOOLS NEVER. Mr. Cleveland, in his letter of acceptance, aud also in his inaugu- ral address, repeatedly aud ex- plicitly asserted that colored citi- und sheriffs, and in this [Shelby] county we have colored aspiran's for the offices of Criminal Court clerk, C.reait Court clerk aud county Kegister. The office of Register, similar to the office now held by the “Sage of Anucostia,” is the only one that a colore 1 man has ever neld, as the white repub- lican leaders have heretofore only allowed the brother in black one place on the ticket, that ot Regis- ter, but he has shaken off the mantel! of dependence and donned e is insecure riding over any other. icture will be aoe ‘cord, printed in elegant strie, to anyone who will agree to frame it.) E STAMP. J] 2 SAY DOS, 0 Prie Cor. Plum and Twelfth Sts., CINCINNATI, 0. ANTED WHERE WE HAVE NONE! NO INVESTMENT 80 PROFITABLE, most eratic editors of the colored | caleulated press are Martinett, of the Louis ana Standard, Fred. Parker, of the | Pacific Appeal, and Arneaux of the New York Eaterprise. Parker | would do better in the dining room slinging hash, than in the tield of journalism. His ever presence bebind | white peope takes from him the to get any therefrom will b: more palatable. lessuess as a writer. clown in Dan Rices’ ete tempts to discuss sul.jects unkuewn jr, to science. The RICHMOND PLANET is a bold and fearlessly edited paper that raised anything 1ke sheol darcd not su of public policy ; the Atlanta Defi-) presence. respec- table ed.tor into trouble by their silly gossip, and now that you have an entire new crew of girls in the kitchen the edibles iesuing us d to b: some little dis- uisf.ction with my pet hobby— dignity of an editor and that fear- | The They Say zclumn— ba‘, as The editor of my real name was always at the the Enterpiise reminds us of the |e sumand of the dissatisfied, noth- heat- ing very serious ever grew out of I never hear! of but one man over my alleged humor, bat he gzest anything of a and is always consistant on matters | USugreeable uature in my august I was always “in” to the habilimeuts of independence and proposes to have three of the places on the ticket, or make a deal with an organization that wil give him two of them. The Watchman, of which I have the honor to oc.upy on its staff the place of Associate Editor, has bristled witu stirring appeals to | the iutelligence and manhood of! Qleveland Gazette, was arrested the colored brother, and it has set | them to thiuking and it will be) \,im with feloniously secreting an next fo au impossibility to run a! embezzling a letter addressed to zena would, nnder Democratic tule, be protected in every right guaranteed them by the laws of the c untry.— Alabama Herald. THE LIBEL CASES. The State vs. Harry C, Smith and Earnest Osborne, editers Cleveland Gazette for criminal libel continued by the request of defendents came up f:r hearing on the 23rd instant whereupon at- torneys for the defense demanded trial by the jury, which was grant- ed by his Honor Judge Hutchins. The case is set for June 30th. Ceveland Globe. EMBEZZLEMENT. Upon information of L. W. Pa- lies, Harry C. Smith, editor of the on the 24 upon a warrent cherging republican ticket unless there are the eli o ofthe CLEVELAND GLoBE county is nine tentus of the repub- lean party and thvey have just be- “a whole lot of nigye:s on the! also with a design of obstracung ticket.” The colored voter in the | correspondence wn! prying into \the business of sanother.—Cleve- raat Globe.