The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1886, Page 1

Che Eashington Terms. $2.00 Per year. ; "WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST, 7 1886. EVER SUCH BARGAINS Men’s Boys’ and Children’s Clothing 4s are now offered at the GreatSample of Men,Bojs’ and Children’s Clothing Opening at 924 7th St., N.W. Bet. 1 Sr. AND MAsSACHUSETTS AVENUE, Over one thousand Men’s Boy’s and Children’s Suits and Overcoats ofthe best goods. Many of them will be sold at less than the cost of the oods, Say nothing about the naking and the trimmings. Actual bar- wains om come. A sample Suit worth $20 can be bought fur $12. Overcoats very low, and Children and Boy’s Suits at little over half price. Children’s Overcoats at less than you would have to pay for the making. These goods are mostly in single Suits, only one of a kind, and are made of the best English, French and American goods. Prince | CHASE: { | | EDITOR OF THE WASHINGTON BEE, | CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON SOUTHERN OUTRAGES, DELIVER- ED IN ATLANTIC CITY AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CONVEN- TIoN, The committee on “Southern Outrages” submit the following: In taking a retrospective view | of the states lately iv rebellion, it |is observed that during the past | ten years and since the collapse of ‘republican state goverument in ‘Albert Coats sold for $15 now $g, Seits that sold for $12 to $20 at less | the south there has been a conspic- han two-thirds of the cost. There are no better goods made, many of | them superior to the best ordered work. Men’s Suits start at $5 and go! up to $16; Boys’ suits $5 to $10; Children’s Suits $2.50 to $6, and Over- | coats for Men, Boys’ and Children from $2. 50 up. You can secure the | vest bargains of your life in any of these goods you can get fitted in. We | ea lot of Children’s Suits—54 in all—the price of them was $6.50, $7, Jand $10, ages, 4 to3. Just think of it. You can have your choice | s lot for $3.9 Little Overcoats for half price. Men’s Pants 75c., ¢1. $1.50, $2 up to $6, We have alot of Prince Albert Coats, Black Cloth | formerly sold for $18, $20, $22—your choice to day for $12. uous absence of that organized system of violence which existed to such slarming extent from the cl se of the rebellion through the administration of Grant. It is not necessary in this report to re- count the murders and whippings and reign of terror which were the | natural products of that once pow- \, wonld be impossible to enumerate the thousands of good things in erful organization known as the ©jothing for Men, Boys’ and Children. Come and see for yourself | Ku-Klux. The shocked and civi at the great sale of sample Suits at 924 7th St. N. W., bet. I St. and} lized world knows the history by Mass. Ave. Look for the signs. nd Children’s Clothing. ING at 10 0°clock, Sample Suits and all styles of men’s Salecommences TUESDAY JOHN FEF. ELLIS & CO, 937 PENN. AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. EXTENSIVE DEALERS IN SN VOUO SONVId MUSIC AND MUSICAL MERCHANDISE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION le agents for the Weber Behring, Vose, Guild, Mason and Hamlin Behr Bros. RPITANOS! {ASON AND IIAMLIN, SMITH AMERICAN. GEO. WOODS PACKARD, CILASE ORGANS! $2.50 DOUBLE STITCHED SHOES, $1.50. CALF-SKIN BROAD BOLTOM. S1-5O GAFBUTTON LAGE & CONGRESS GAITERS, ELECTRIC, FLEXIBLE & SOFT 34 00 HAND SEWED GAITERS for Ladies and Gentlemen. Wo. Low Quarter Shoes, IN GREAT VARIETY. 7 ya TOD N C's. 2 ith St., HETLBRUN’S Old Stand. Look for the old lady in Wind heart; investigation committees MORN- j have been sent to the late insur rectionary states to make a report of the personal violence and polit- ical wrongs suffered by the colored people of the south at the hands of the enemies of the colored race, and as a result of their inves'iga- tions a mountain of evidence is filed in the archives of the Con- gressional library asa standing re- ouke to the inju-tice and wicked-| ness of Southern democracy. The state goverument of all the Southern states. having be-n wrenched from the grasp of Re- publicans by the d mocracy of the South it would naturally follow that the end having been secured the exercise of the means would cease, So that inste.d of killing offand terrifying republican voters with the bullet, the knife and the lash, the new expedient is tu vioy late the sanctity of the ballot b..x by ballot box stuffing and false returns, A tree ballot and a fair count is unknown in the South and there is no assurance given by those who. have possession of the state governments in the South that there is likely to be a change from this state ot things: Indeed, the spasmodic out breaks of | vio- lence is now resorted to whenever it appears necessary to p:omote the ends of the demo-ra-y in the complete subingation of the Ne- gro politically and otherwise. The Hamburg massacres and the butcheries of Couchatta and Danville and Copish and Carroli- ton stand as bloody witne-s:s to the savagery of the Neg: o’s oppres cor in the land of bis birth. When ev ~ the colored people otf the *. athern states kuowing their .ghts dure to assert and ma ntain them it will be at the peril of their lives now as beretofure. Alluding to the attitude of the colored citizen in Southern poli- tics in the palmy days of repu: li- ‘a rule after reconstruction, the | ADDRESS OF W. CALVIN) tional Convention of colored men, COPYRIGHTED 1877 Tywsroock ea eaneaer® t Ulustrated by the nse of a Buggy mad : ft trate s le by T. T. Haydock. which is not only the Lead! » Busey in this picture, bul RHE LEADING BUGGY DF AMERICA, Het HAY DOCH BU aes ee Wheel. Rag! you dealer for the T. T. Life is insecure-riding over any Other. wee apy 83 SS This me will be furnished em @ large card, printed in elegant strie, to anyone who will agree to frame i) seine 2. SLATS DOC, 0 2 he rer Price List. Cor. Plum and Twelfth Sts., CINCINNATI, 0. SCENTS WANTED WHERE WE HAVE NONE! NO INVESTMENT 80 PROFITABLE, INSTALMENT HOUSE, 921&92 v <NTW STREET; = Sh > HEALERUNS Oia Sined. Wook for the od ted yin Wind “THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME.” minority report of the congression- al Ku-klux committee took the ground that one or the other ree must have atl or none of the po.it ical power and that the polit-eil power of the Negro in the South will last only as lung as the power of the Repablican party shall last and no longer, “But whenever that party shall go down, as gy down it wiil at some time not long in the future, it will be the end ot the political power of the Negro among white men on this ¢ onti- nent.” “Men in the frenzy of po- litical passion may shut their eyes to this fuct now but it will come at any time when the Negro will crave to be a party necessity tu the country.” It is a dark picture tor the Negro and the exercise of | his constitutional right of citiz :n- ship. The ou’cropping of the vilest | forms of barbarism is seen in the common ocenrrence or cx: cution of lynch law in various parts of the Sou h where inn cence by an | influential riot is as apt to be pun- lished as guilt. Itis a travesty | upon justice and should be frown- ;ed upon by the press of the coun- jtry. When Fred Douglass in his memorable address before the Na- which met at Louisville in Sep- tember 1883, referring to this class of outrage said: In many places where the commission of crime is alleged against one of our color, e ordinary process2se of the law are set a-ide as too slow for the impetuous justice of the infuriated populace. They take the law into their own bloody hands. and } ro- ceed to whip, stab, shoot, hang or burn the alleged culprit with ont the introduction of court, counsel, judge, jury or witnesses. In such cases it is not the business of the accuser to prove the guilt, but ir is for the accused to prove his in- noceuce——a_ thing bard todo even in a court of law, and utter- these infernal lynch ¢ -urte. A man accused, suppressed, frightened and captured by a mot- ly crowd, dragged with a rope about his neck in midnight dark- hess to the nearest tree and told in the coarsest terms of profanity to prepare for death would be more than human ifhe did not, in ;his terror stricken appearance, more | confirm suspicion of guilt than the contrary; worse still in the presence of such hell black outrages the pal- pit is usually dumb and the press in the neighborhood is -silent or openly takes sides with the mob. There are occasional caves in which white men are lynched but one sparrow does not make a summer. Every one knows that which is call- ed Lynch law is peculiarly the law for colored people and nobody else.” Iu this connection your commit tee would advert to the judiciary ot the Southern States. In most | of the courts a colored juror. is sel- | dom found in the jury box. And in the great majority of cases the ; jury to be contronted and to try criminal cases as well as civil cases, | is composed of white mem who are antagonistic to the welfare of the | colored man. The courts of the South form a peculiar species of terror to those who may be so an- fortunate as to be entagled in their meshes. The Star Chamber pro ceedings in the earlier history of England or the Spanish Inquisition was not more keenly dreaded thau the local tribune in the South by the colored people there who confronts one enemy on the bench and twelve in the jury box} to adjudicate his cause. It may be said to the credit of the race that considering the population and sur- roundings of the colored people a very few figure in the calendar of) eriines and misdemeanors. And it | should be the duty of the press to discourage what remains of a dis- position to violate the laws ot the land. In the year 1881 A State conven- | tion of colored men was beld in} Goldsboro, N. C., to petition the | legislation for redress of grievences | among which was the studied eva- | sious of therights of the colored men to seton the jaries in the} State courts. No attention has been paid to their appeal. A key to the Southern — situation | with reference to political outrages | is to be found in the late suppres sion by wob violence, of free speech in the town of Birmingham, Alaba- ma, It was flashed over the wires by the associated press July. “Atter the Republican Siate con- | mittee had nominated a ticket the | ‘}eandidates in a public meeting were delivering speeches in accept- | ance of the positions tendered them | as candidates when the meeting | was broken up by a mob of ruffians and the democrats took possession | of the stump and Ex-Congressman | declared in his speech that whatever | number of republican votes may be | cast in the coming election, the | Democrats will hold the State at) all hazards. | The peace that reigns in sections | of the South now is the result of} that oppression which makes it im- | possible for serfdom to assert the | natural rights of man in the pre-| sence of a landed aristocracy in- | trenched behind the legislative ex- | AMUSEMENTS. ed to ride in second class jim crow | cars with their families and be ex-| ‘posed to the ruffianism and vulgar- | ESISEDE ity of negro haters and the fumes | A GRAND of offensive tobacco, to say nothing | of the refussal of the proprietors of | eating houses along the line of). railways throughout the south to |’ sell to colored travellers even a | meal of victuals outside the kiteh- | en, This class of outrages experi- enced by the colored traveller does : not inspire him with an access sym- BY THE pathy and love for those who thas |: insult his manhood and gentility, | Ww. > Cada and his love of country and by the li aa gton et Stars aud stripes which float over | Cor ps, itis by no means intensified by this proscription and caste which | meets. him at every turn as if he TO were a leper and an alien. our committee has rap FREDERICK, Md. ly impossible for him todo in/ed to find a remedy for injustice and ‘“‘man’s inhumanity to man” in the south as shown in | the treatment of colored people. We find the legislature refusing to do their part, the executive offi- | cers are in the late Carrollton mas- | THURSDAY, AUG., 12th. 1886. == (4) t{——(o)— sacre, failing to act and the state) The people of Frederick, Md., courts controlled by public opinion and __ prejudiced | a diseased | will celebrate the Emancipation ot grand juries unwilling to right the | the state on the above date, assist- wrongs perpetrated upon the race. | ed by the Baltimore Rifles, the The law of retaliation if exercis- | ed by the colored people would on- Monumental Guard, the Baltimore ly add fuel tothe flames and a} City Guard, and the Garfield Me- scene of carnge and bloodshed | would result to the detriment of ™orial Guard of Baltimore City, both races. In view of all the cir- cumstanees we would recommend | Md.; and the Butler Zouaves, Cap- that in the more densely colored | ital City Guard and ourselves populated sections of the south and where political where civil rights are denied where labor is unrewarded and where en— couragement is not given to life, liberty and the persuit of happi- ness and the exercise of the natur- al and constitutional rights of citizenship, the peopleshould va- cate those sections and remove to other parts of the country in the great open countries of the west and northwest where more ample facilities are afforded for thrift and enterprise and where constitution- al liberty is recognized as the ina- lienable right of every American citizen. Respectfully submitted, W. C. CHASE, CHAIRMAN. See SS ees ATLANTIC CITY. MELTING OF THE PRESS CONVENTION, COLORED JOURNALISTS “IN TOWN. WHO ARE HERE. (Special to the BEE.) Atlantic City, N. J. Ang., 3rd, 8g. The city is crowded witb visitors. The excursion that arrived from Washington aud Baltimore Sun day morning made it lively here for a few hours. Colored journal- ists have commenced to arrive. The Clinton cottage, Havalow and Coats’ Grand Paret have begun to look very cheerful. There are quite @ namber of Washingtonians at these houses enjoying themselves, At the Clinton cottage are Misses: Eva A. Chase, Eunice Wormley, Messrs: Wm. Cole, W. Calvin Chase, Col. A. W. Anderson of the intolerance reigns | | from Washington D. C., together | with Iccal organizations and from the a:ljacent county. Street pa- rade, Orations, Music, Dress _pa- | rades, Exhibition Drill, Fireworks and various amusements, Train I aves Balto.; & Ohio de- pot, New Jersey Ave, & C Sts., | N. W., Thursday morning August | 12, 1886, at 10 o’clock. Returning leaves Frederick on Thuorsday night, August 12, 1886, at-eleven \O'vleek.* _ Tickets For Round Trip —‘$1.50. For sale at the depot on morn- mg of the excursion. Major C. A. Fleetwood and Adjt. Judson Malvin, Managers | WELL SAID. As a sentinel upon the outer wall, Tue Sun, true tothe interests and. welfure of the people, wiil ev- er be fou: d sounding the alarm- bell whenever danger is imminent. ‘Unless the mothers and fathers in this aud other cities look well af- ter their young, sweet and harm- less daughters, woe and sorrow inexpressible will ere long be theirs. We refer to parents allow- ing their daughters to attend dances where disreputable charac- ters of all kinds are present in large numbers. Although our daughters may be pure, sweet and harmless, yet if they are allowed War Dept., and wife, Dr. Atwood, |to wallow in the dirt they will of the Surg. Gen’s. office. Mrs.| undoubtedly get some of it on James, Miss Pet Kiger, Mr. Reu-/'their garments. Tue Sun can see ben Swith, Mr. C. Perry and wife} but one result for young ladies areat the Havalow. Mr. Price Williams and others are at Coats’ P&ret. At this writing there are but few editors in the city. The convention is expected to be live- ly and everyone is looking for great things from the brainy blacks. Sunday was very warm. There must have been 5000 in bathing Sunday. Mrs. Clinton is the only colored person who has a place on the beach to accommodate excursion— ists and visitors. None of the white bath houses wiilrent bathing suits to colored people. Miss Ki- ger wasin bathing Sanday. Dr. Atwood says he hardly recognized her as Miss Pet, owing to her youthful appearance. Mrs. Clinton and daughters are who stay out all night in the pres- ence of unprincipled and disrepu- table men, and thxt is ruin, deg— radation and hell itself. Mothers and fathers, look well to your daughters while they are young and pure, at which time they can be easily persuaded by the machi- vations of paper collar, spider ieg hell hounds, to commit heinous crimes that will bring upon your heads woe avd sorrow inexpressi- ble—The Sun. a THANKS. The office of the Bee is one of the finest equipped in the city. It is a hive of industry.—Correspon- ecative and judicial powers of the | very congenial people. The young! geyt Phila. Sentinel. State government, aud the public | ladies are very sedate and accom opinion which it would grove. |modating. The Clinton Cottage It is the fear of mob violence or | js on one of the most popular ; of being singled out for persecution | streets here. | Townsend, a well known é rlor~ and the subject of daily reproach | |ed man, delivered an anti-Prohi- or driven frum the ordinary ocea- | bition speech at Win regis? a pations of life by the combination | Price, Williams is setting wires| few nights ago, and was killed the ofemployes that ameek submiss on | . A next day by unknown parties and a refusal tuexercise the orat-| for the boys. He has been to ev-| ‘whild Caidina in bis we: Te nary rights to eitizensbip is‘forced. | ety uewspaper office in the city. dult-cvar the. Hiquée:quaetlen-te The rights of accommodation de- | Fortune is expected today. very bitter at Winona, and it is nied common carriers in the many ; z h fie that Téwneetidi-eaataiaai states in the south where the color-| Prof. Simmons of the American | thoug the Pronibidacet ed bishop aud ladies and gen | Baptist is being pushed for the| dered by t rohibitionists.— tleman of the eolored raeé are fore- presidency of the convention. Cairo Gazette. CONVENTION NOTES.