The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 8, 1887, Page 1

10,000 SUBSCRIBERS Wanted. THE LEADING NEGRO ORGAN. daa shurgton Ae ADVERTISE In This Paper. IT WILL PAY. > CoLORED POPULATION 80,000. Terms. $2.00 Per ye ; 5 cents per copy. : VOL. V- WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1887. \EVER SUCH BARGAINS ee oan - Men’s Boys’ and Children’s Clothing av are now offered at the Great Sample and Children’s Clothing Opening at 9 BET. 1 St. AnD MAsSAcHUSETTS AVENUE. Over one thousand Men’s Boy’s and Children’s Suits and Overcoats of the best goods. Many of them will be sold at less than the cost of the goods, say nothing about the making and the trimmings. Actual bar- rains seldom come. A sample Suit worth $20 can be bought for $12. Ov ercoats very low, and Children and Boy’s Suits at little over half- Children’s Overeoats at less than you would have to pay for the These goods are mostly in single Suits, only one of a kind, and are made of the best English, French and American goods. Prince Alpert Coats sold for $15 now $6, Suits that sold for $12 to $20 at less than 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 ny 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 we st bargains of your life in any of these goods you can get fitted in. We have a lot of Children’s Suits—54 in all—the price of them was $6.50, $7, &. syand $10, ages, 4 to 5. Just think of it. You can have your choice of this jot for $3.90. Little Overcoats for halfprice. Men’s Pants 75c., $1. $1.50, $2 up to $6, We have a lot of Prince Albert Coats, Black Cloth formerly sold tor $18, $20, $22—your choice to day for $12. : It would be impossible to enumerate the thousands of good things in Clothing for Men, Boys’ and Children. — Come and see for yourself at the great sale of sample Suits at 924 7th St. N. W., bet. I St. and Mass. Ave. Look for the signs. Sample Suits and all styles of men’s Boy’s,and Children’s Clothing. Salecommences TUESDAY MORN- ING at 10 o'clock. price. making. JOHN FEF. ELLIS & CO., 937 PENN. AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. EXTENSIVE DEALERS IN No. 32. | | failure to convict him? Mr. Crom- well now calls upon the colored | press to condemn the President THE EDITOR OF THE ADVOCATE RE-| which he failed to do at the time VIEWED. HIS INcONSISTANCY. the murder was committed. Is Mr. WHY HE SUPPORTED MR, CLEVE-| CROMWELL CONSISTANT? LAND AND WHY HE ‘CONDEMNS| While in office, prior to the in- HIM. BIG FOOT JOHNSON NOT THE | auguration of Mr. Cleveland, he QUESTION AT ISSUE. MR, FOoR-| brought a suit against one of the | TUNE AND THE PRESS AS‘7— “team boats, that run to Norfolk, | TION. ~__.4der the civil rights act, for re- | fushing him a sleeping berth and | called upon the colored citizens to assist bim with his suit; and the moment the democratic party | came into power Mr. Cromwell | said no more about hissuit. Ifthe editor of the Advocate has the in- | terest of the race so much at heart, why did he not put himself! up as a sacrifice? | If Mr. Symthe, said to Mr. | Cromwell, what he published last | week, he is not, any more, entitled to the respect of Mr. Matthews than Mr. Cromwell is en-} titled to the respect of well thiuk- ing people. We have the utter-| most contempt and disrespect for a knave or a man who ftawns upon | another for favors. So far as we are concerned, there are men in the democratic party as well as the republican party for whom we have OUR WEEKLY REVIEW. Our worthy editor ot the Advo-| cate, Mr. Cromwell, has certainly | demonstrated his inconsistany in his opposition to Mr. Matthews. Prior toMr, Cromwell’s discharge from the 6th auditors office he wrote complimentary editorials in favor of a gentleman in authority | and even went so far as to insert | his cut in his paper. This gentle- man is a democrat, he also compli- | mented the democratic administra- | tion and criticised all others who | did not-think as he did; he allow-, ed his manager Mr. Lemar, and few other gentlemen to visit a certain | democratic representative for the | purpose of having himself reinstat- ed in the 6th auditor office and while these gentlemen were urging his | reinstatement would write articles | weekly complimentary of the ad-, the greatest contempt, bat when ministration, which his files will| we find men, honest, siucere and show; he criticised other republican | just, be they democrats or repub- Journals for not endorsing the first | licans, we shall give them our nomination of Mr. Matthews for | hearty support. | the office of recorder of deeds and MR. FORTUNE | he complimented himself for being | of the Freeman, who has been a | the first colored editor to endorse the | standing candidate for the presi- | nomination of Mr. Matthews. |dency of the Press Association, In an editorial in the Advocate | given the chairman of the associa- last week, Mr. Cromwell says: Is the | tion a just rebuke. Mr. Fortune, MUSIC eo) en @ > Z PD AND MUSICAL MERCHANDISE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Sole agents for the Weber Behring, Vose, Guild, Mason and Hamlin Behr Bros. PIANOS! MASON AND HAMLIN, SMITH AMERICAN. GEO. WOOD PACKARD, CHASE ORGANS! EXPLOSION in CLOTHING. Prices Knocked to Pieces. Go to the Great Executors Consignment of Clothing At——— Bib F STREET = N.W, Oppose United States Patent Office Men’s Suits by the 1000. Did you ever buy an all Wool suit for $3.90. Did you ever buy anall Wool Double Breasted Suit for $5.60. Your choice of a thonsand pair of men’s pants at 65c., 75c., $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.90. Elegant Dress Suits at $6.40, 7.50, 7.80, 8.40, and 9 dollars. Boys’ Suits from 12 to 17 years 2.65, 2.75 and 3 dollars. “~ DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN EXECUTORS SALE IS; We wit TELL You—A big firm breaks up on account of the Death of one of the partners, and to settle the estate the above sale is ordered. The stock is consigned to leading clothiers in different cities and sold re- gardless of cost or manufacture, in order to make a settlement with the remaining partners. THIS WILL LAST FOR 15 to 20 DAYS only J 816 F Street, n: w, (Opposite United States Patent Office,) Between 8th and 9th Sts. IMeziden, Conn, SOLE MANUFACTURER, 5B, RICE G C0'S, Solid Comfort Suckboands and Spindle Wagons, single and double seated, WF Riding qualities unsurpassed. No jar to the feet, Dursble and stylish. Prices reason- “ble. Shipments singly or by carload to all parts of the United States. Responsible Agent wanted in every town. Send for Price List and descriptive Catalogue. orrespondence earnestly solicited. e G ‘ N. B_ Every person acting as Agent for our Wagons, will have his name with advertise- f Wagons advertised in the leading paper of the county or town where Agent resides, tis for six months. voice of Mr. Matthews ever heard | was a candidate for the presidency |in the denunciation of thedemo- | of the association from its organi- | cratic party for its crimes against | zation and at each meeting he has | the Negro? Is the voice or pen of been defeated and acted like a | Mr. Matthews ever exerted in any | thrashed child or a baby that has | demand upon the democratic party | lost its bottle. Mr. H. Price Wil- | for a full recognition of the Negro | liams, Rev. Simmons and the ven- | asa voter and as a citizen in such | erable nectar of the conservatar | districts as represented by Robert | Mr. Clark, are to blame for the | Smalls? No, his laborsare against | selection of Mr. Fortune.. When | the party that extended suffrage! his name was presented to the as- jand made us citizens and for the | sociation, at Atlantic city for the a republican legislature had rati- \fied the Fifteenth Amendment, |rescinded that ratification. No ;colored democrat dare stand up and demand justice for the Negro | from his party. | Does not the editor of the Advo- jcate know that, he himself, while in office, failed to denounce outrag- |es against the Negro? Is_ it not a fact that our republican adminis- | trations failed to protect the negro against these outrages and that the republican Senate would al- ways order an investigation with no result? Again the editor says: Right here in the city of Wash- ington an outrage has been per- petrated upon the colored citizens of this District by the President of the United States in pardoning a murderer, who, in cold blood and without the slightest provocation shot down an inoffensive colored man on one of our public streets. Dare Mr. Matthews, or any other colored democrat, denounce this action of the democratic President which isa premium upon crime against the Negro? Dare he say aught above his breath against that devilish spirit of the demo- cratic party which prompts such leniency to slayers of colored men, asis evinced by this pardon of “Big Foot” Johnson? Who, tried by a jury composed of white men entirely, was eonvicted of man- slaughter, when all the evidence pointed to murder alone. The verdict was a wicked one. The court gave the murderer the full sentence of the law; the dem- ocratic President, friend and pa- tron of J. C. Matthews, (colored democrat and denouncer of the trickery of the republi- | can party) comes in and sets free | theman who “‘only killed a nigger.” | The republican party gave freedom | to the patriotic colored man; the | democratic President sets free the | Negro slayer. Docolored demo- | crats acquiesce in this action of the democratic President? It they do not have they the manhood to speak out against it? Is it nota fact Mr. Cromwell that party which, in his own state, after | chairmanship of the executive | committee, after his defeat for the | presidency, we objected, upon the | ground that he was unworthy for the position and uot asafe man to | be placed at the head of such an | important committee, there upon we nominated Mr. Alexander Clark, | who declined by saying that he had assurances from this body that he would accept. Mr. Williams, who left Washington, for the pur- pose of opposing Mr. Fortune for any and everything, was the first to favor Mr. Fortune’s retention on the committee and gave assurances that he would accept also did Mr. Simmons. Mr. Fortune has given them a rebuke which is very grati- fying to us. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. (From the editor.) Washington, D. C., Jan. 1, ’87. Senators: We send you our best New Years’ greeting saddened only by the loss of the great Lo- gan. Senators, many changes have taken place during the year just closed, politically and other- wise, and reading the times aright as representing the party of pro- gress and universal freedom of thought and action, by voting against a colored man, because he chooses to act with the democratic party. Republican Senaters, do you propose to discipline every white man by ostracising him, who votes other than you think he ought? If you do, abundant material may be tound in the re- publican ranks in the states of New Jersey, Connecticut, Califor- nia, Minnesota and Indiana, as the recent election in those states will attest, without offering up as a sacrifice a colored man to ap- pease the political appetite of those who can stand “Crow” when served at the republican feasts, but revolt against it when placed upon the democratic festive board. We respectfully ask you in the Matthews’ case, not to do violence to your sense of justice to a wor- thy colored man because he hap pens to be the choice of a demo- cratic President, through whom he indicates to the Americ:n veople his desire to elevate the colored race. The President ad- ministered a good dose of soothing syrup. Senators, with his renom- ination of Mr. Matthews, which should be efficacious in its effect in ameliorating the Senatorial malady known as “Senatorial eti- quette.” Ifthe apptication should be successtul the patient will ceuse to be a “bigger man than Grant,” and quickly fallin and swell to the extent of one more the already large army of office holders. If however, your honorabie body should regard the dose inadequate to the emergency, and refuse the medicine and signify your purpose by making a “mountain out of a mole hill” by rejecting Mr Mat» thews, there is no telling the etlect upon the gevtleman of Jacksonian proclivities who occupies the White House. The President; Sevatore—met you more than half way in condescension in his mes- sage which accompanied the re- nomivation of Mr. Matthews. Can so august a body as the United States Senate permit itself to be less gracious than the execu- tive head of the nation? Mr. Matthews will, if this thing cons tinues, b: a big card for the dem- ocrats in the next presiden'ial campaign, already he has received letters by the hundreds from col- ored republicans throughout the country expressing friendship and sympathy tor him in his fight tor just recognition, as Gov. Pinch- back happily expressed it, “in and out of the democratic party.” The danger Senators is not in the c n- firmation of Mr. Matthews, but his rejection, for disguise it as you may, and call it “. ffensive parti- sunship,” “non-residence,” “Sena- torial etiquette” or any other vex neering, the idea has entered the Negroes’ head that the republican majority in the United States nas yielded to color prejudice in Mr. Matthews’ case, as engineered by social and local influence and nothing less than his confirmation will remove it, Senators, in thus addressing you we hope that we have not transgressed the rules of others of equal importance and effect are pending. ‘The year just ended Senators contained many political surprises fur both repub- licans and democrats. States heretofore relied upon for solid republican majorities wavered in their allegiance and broke the heretofore invincible republican phalanx of the north and west “Old Virginia” and other sections south broke away from the solid democratic party sought place again within the republican party lines. The year past, never again to return recorded an epoch in the politics otf America which if treated in the spirit of fairness is calculated to remove the color) ‘the murder was committed under | {a republican admiministration? | If Mr. Cleveland is to be condemn- | |for pardoning Johnson, what | blame must be attached to the re-| | publican administration for its | failure to convict Johnson of mur- | der? Then again, what has the kill- question us the be ot contention from the body politic. We refer to the uc ion ofa dem cratic Pres- ident Mr. Cleveland in nominating a colored man and scholar, Mr. James C. Matthews, for the posi- tion of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. We regret | “Senatorial etiquette,” it we have please ascribe it to ignorance, for it can hardly be expected ofa race recently keld in servitude to be posted in court manners. It is stated however that the Negroes are an imitative race, if such be the case, they will in the parlance ot the “gallery gods,” “get there all the same.” Wishing you a Happy New Year, supplemented with the hope that tne year 1887 will record no backward step by the grand old republican party of Lincoln, Graat, Sumner, Stevens, Lovejoy, Wilson, Davis, Andrews, and last but not least the great big hearted and loyal Loga, in [ rotecting and advancing the in- | terest of the Negro, whether in or out of party lives. Iam With respect &e., The Editor. “A merry heart goes all the day;” but who can merry be, when rack- ed and tormented with a hateful MATTHEW’S CONFIRMATION. THE COLORED PRESS’ SHARP CRITI- CISM. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN DANGER. THE BEE ENDORSED ac. Jacksonville, (Fla.) Southern Lea- der: THE renomination of Mr. Mat- thews to be Recorder of Deeds at Washington, is another challenge to the Republican Senate. Ifhe be again rejected, it will weaken the Republican party and strengthen the Administration among all thinking colored men. If Republi- can leaders, like Ingalls, are really opposed to the negro’s political freedom, the sooner we know this fact, the better. —Little Rock, (Ark) Sun: The Sun indorses every word that the Bee utters in favor of re— publican senators voting for J.C. Matthews for recorder of deeds. They shouldn’t vote for white dem- ocrats. Let every colored paper in the land open their mouths and speak out upon this question. A negro has the same right to bea democrat that a white man has, Mr. Ingalls to the contrary not- withstanding. —Wilmington, Witness. Some of our contemporaries are are fluttering in the atmosphere of intelligance, exhibiting signs of dismay and expressing disappoint- ment —others are engaged in prog- nostication. One of the leading topics they seem to be hooting at is the “Cleveland-Matthews” ques- tion. Wesympathize with some of these unfortunate creatures who so lamentably expatiate at random on this subject. What does it mat- ter to intelligent citizens and men of sound brains if The Delawarean does think the “District of Colum- bia and Senate” are both insulted ? We supposed the little Delawarean is insulted, but what is the differ- ence? It has the whole forest to bark at yet. Mr. Matthews may never hear asound of its feeble organs. This kind ot a conception of *‘Domonica,” as expressed above should include New York, and Mr. Matthews also, as he has been a consistent Democrat for years, we fail to see its point in that, There is but one thing troubling this “Prophet” that is made known when it defines its idea of Domoni ca, and claims Mr. Cleveland has ignored the idea of self government by importing a mulatto to so Inera- tive an office, as it thinks to secare negro votes, while it must roam, the sand-bar plantation with bare feet by day, and roost in the wild- erness with owls at night. Mr. Delawarean be you a man or @ mouse, your only objections to Mr. Matthews is his color. Then why do you censure Mr. Cleveland for going beyond the district for his nominee? He has a perfect right to insist on the Senate to confirm a compe tent, tested and a well qualified gentleman, while it stands for you to contradict the President’s pre- rogative in this matter, and pro- duce proofs of precedence, as to when and how many times the Re- corder of Deeds office has been fill ed by aresident of the District. We submit for your gratification that the time was when the crack ing of the Presidential lash was potent. We propose to submit the tact that the walls of Jericho tell at the sound of ram’s horns in days agone. But tney don’t put a new song in Cleveland’s mouth now all the same. (Del.) People’s - —_.12e. If you want aiive paper read the Baz or ro We want 10,000 subscribers by the middle of next year. “+e The colored teachers should or- gauize a teachers’ relief fund. It is absolutely necessary. ee It you want first class job work pat-onize the National Printing Co, 1109 I st., pn. w. am ee that the same year which recorded | cough. Be wise, and try Dr. Bul.’s ‘confirmation of Mr. Matthews? that historical fact also noted the| Congh Syrup. It releaves at once, |wen did he have to do with the/ #ction of a republican Senate mar | cures promptly, and costs but republican administration for its! ring its heretofore spotless record, | twenty-five cents a bottle. jing of Johnson to do with the) P A new party is what the coun- try wants. Ben Butler at the head of it will sait us.