The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1887, Page 2

——=—— — Published every sata st 1109 I street north west, Washington, D.C. ‘“Kntered at the Postoffice at Washington :.U, a8 second<lass mail matter. “+. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ‘Oae copy, per year ~- - ix months - - 2 Three.months = - City subscribers, monthly - ADVERTISING RATES: One inch, one month One column a Special notices 50 cents each. Ten lines oun stitute an inch. We disclaim ny responsibility for state ments expressed by our correspondent velther do we indorse all they say. Correspondence on living topics is solicited but to have attention must be brief. Communications for publication must he accompanied with the writer’s name Not necessarily tor = 31! guarantee of good faith. W. CALVIN CHASE, Eprror. LS A The people’s juurnal is the Brz. Subscribers are requested to pay up. We want and must have 10,000 u becribers. We beg leave to call the atien- tion of the Senate to the extracts from our exchanges on the confir- mation of Mr. Matthews. The editor of the Advocate hes admitted what we said of him was true. Open confession is good for the soul Mr. Cromwell. The learncd editor of the National Monitor suggests that the editor~ ofthe Br and Advocate att-ud reyer meeting, We would Bro. erry, but Boss Cromwe!l has lust his grace and turned an infidel. The colored editors are request- ed to send usa history of them- selves and the paper edited by them torthwith. If it is left to us, we may dothem injustice All editors are included in this re- quest. A BAD PRECEDENT. No doubt by the time the Brg ie published for this weck, the Senate will bave acted on tke nomination of Mr. Mutthews, Should be be vot confirmed, be- cause he is a colored democrat, we can only set it down as a bad pre- cedent should a republican presi- dent be electid in ’88 and the Senate be democratic. Should the republ.can president senda Ne- republican te the Senate to be confirmed, the democrats would have the same right to object to the confirmation of black republi- cans, as the republicans, would to Negro democrats. We know and so do all men, that it a bed precedent to establish. e have nally visited ten republican Sooners in regard to the confir mation of Mr. Matthews aud we have ove yet to say, that the rea- son of the opposition to him is on account of him being a non-resi-~ dent. We find that their objec- tions are based upon him being « Negro democrat, which they cannot understand We would respectfully say to the Senate that so far as the colored vute is con~ we predict, sh uld Mr, Matthews be rejected, all subse. quent claim to th t vote will be cancelled. We area republican and have believed in the principles of that great party, but when we see men, who claim to accord uni- versal liberty to all, irrespective of color, attempt to preveut the free exercise of it, we want noth- ing to do with them. In thieasser- tion we believe that we voice the sentiment of a majority of the colored press throughout the country. ware gentlemen, we warn you in “om Why ~—— N republicans oppose this conhmnsnina? It is because heretofore the republican party ized none but the fussils of the race, young meu of amy bere been iguored and men unfit to represent a herd ot cattle have been given the prefer- ence. A democratic president has found in young men ability and deserving of recognition. This would have been the policy of Mr. Blaine, had he been elected but to say whether any Negro white men would have been rec- ognized we know. In our sup port, as a republican, of Mr. Mat- thews we have done ouly wha! we deemed tq be our duty, with vut @ny solicitation on his part. We believe that he has been un- fairly treated by the party that we have always supported and if he is not confirmed, we are of the opinion that the Senate will re- gret its wetion. PROF. F. L CARDOZO. . HE REVIEWS THE PRESIDENT’S MES~ SAGE. A CLASSIC LETTER FROM OUR EDUCATOR Prof. F. L. Cardozo, frincip:! of the High school in this city, has a letter in the Pioneer Press of West Va, reviewing the Presi dent’s message. The Prof says: The message is an unusually able document The manner in which he has dealt with the tariff, is particularly able. The tariffis a difficult subject at best, but he has made itso clear that those who have never made it uspecial study can easily comprehend it. It seems strange that people should not be allowed to purchase the articles they need in the clieap markets of other countries, but must be made to pay almost twice their price for the purpos- of encouraging theit manufacture n this country, Ween unier- stand the policy of this govern- ment imposing aduty on articles vf foreign mavufacture sor the purpose of raising sufficient reve- uues for its support, but cannot see the wisdom of raising more revenue than is nec ssary tor that purpose. The main arguments of those who support Protection is the encouragement of home man ufucture, and the benefit of the wages of workmen. It cannot be said that this is a party question as some republicans favor Free Trade and o'hers Pr.-tection; and the dem cratic party is similarly situated It is true that a mujori- ty of the republicans favor Pro~ tection and the maiority of the democratis Free ‘T'aude. Those who advocate placing .suffic:ent duties on imports so us to encble the home manufacturer to compete with the foreign, are justified to this extent, and no farther; that it is a desirable thing that this e-untry ehould not be wholly de pendent or any other for the ar- ticles ef necessity, und that suffi cient protectiou should be afforded the home manufacturer xs will enable him to get fuiriy started and compete successfully with his foreign rival; but when the pro- tection is carried bey: nd that point it only enriches the manu- tacturer at tlhe expense of the general public, and is in violation of the axiom of politicsl economy, that the good of the greates' num- ber should always be considered by legislators. * * * In the concluding paragraph of his letter the Professor says, the President has wisely advoca‘ed a gradual Change, so that the inter- ests involved may suffer as littl: as possible Free Trade is what might be called the natural law. Protection is artificial, ot compe- tition, and supply and demand. OUR WEEKLY REVIEW. ELECTION OF SENAT“RS. THE SENATE DISTRICT C/MMITTEE MAKES AN ADVERSE REPORT AGAINST MAT- THEWS. THE COLORED CITIZENS CALL ON MRS. LOGAN AND PRE- SENT HER WITH A COPY OF EN- GROSSED RESOLUTIONS. GENL. SMALLS OPPOSITION TO THE RE- CORDER. The present week is full of polit- ical excitement. The Indiana Leg- islature is in a muddle, the Michi- gan Legislature has left Dady Con- ger at home, where he should have been left yéars ago. Pennsylvania has done its duty, Nebraska, is un- certain and many other states are yet to be heard from. The republi- cans in New York, have an idea that Conkling is net needed and that the country can better do without, than alluw him to have a seat in the great council of the nation. The SENATE DISTRICT COMMITTEE made an adverse report against re- corder Matthews last week, which is in keeping with its former act. The republicans can confirm a@ man against whom it is alleged bung out the bloody shirt, bat cannot confirm a colored man who feels disposed te assert his political would have been recognized is a|convictions. If such isto be the question of conjecture. Young fature policy of the republican party, it is better that it remains where it is than fur it again to come into power. Genl. Robert Smalls, for whom we havethe most profound regard, is, it is reported, opposing the confirmation of Mr. Matthews. Why Genl. Smalls is making such a fight we are una- ble to tell. Genl. Smalls is one of the wisest negro politicians in the south and a man who is respected by his coustituents. Last Tuesday morning a committee of colored citizens called on : MRS. GENL, LOGAN and presented ber with an engross- ed copy of resolutions that were adopted at the citizens memorial meeting in honor of her dead hus- band. A very impressive speech was made by Hon. Joho H. Symth and responded to by Mrs. Logan. The case of WALKER who shot Miller is in progress in the Criminal Court. How it ‘will end, uo one kuows but the jury. The next case ov the docket is that of a JOHN L, WEST wuo is charged with house break- ing and attempt to commit a rape. What his defense is no one knows but his councils Col. Wm. A. Cook and D. W. Cahill. Mr, Wests’ triends are sanguine tiat be wil be acquitted ; that he had no in- tention of committing rape nor did he brake in the lady’s _resi- dence, will be proven to the satis- faction of the court aud jury, itis said. The editor of the PKOPLE’S ADVOCATE virtaally admits what we have charged against him. His asser- tion that Mr. Matthews should have condemned the murder com- mitted by Big Foot Jolson, while he was in Alvany, the te- sponsibility of President Cleve- laud, &c., are his reasons that Mr, Matthews should not be confirmed. If the editor of the Advocate had been successful in obtaining, the Liberian Mission, or obtaining a reinstatement in the 6th Auditors offive he would not have gone back ou his previous endorsement of Mr. Matthews. Oue of the greatest re- presentatives of the race to day is PROF, J. M. LANGSTON. His great work in the Virginia No:mal and Collegiate Institute, in the upbuilding of that institution will be an eveilasting monument tohim. Hissecretary Mr. Scott Wood, is a law and collegiate grad- uate of Howard University who ; bas gained promiuence and infla- ence in the State of Virginia by industiy and perseverance. Mr. Wood, isone of the bright- est young men in the State of Virgivia and ere long we hope to seehimin the foremost ranks of uegro advocates. There ig a great deal of work yet to be done in our HIGH AND NORMAL SCHO.Ls, Trustee Francis is making every effort to give us good schools and it is hoped that our District Com- missioners will give bis recom- mendation for a new High and Normal school favorable consid. eration. Since Dr. Fraucis’ ap- pointment he has made a good and competent trustee. There are some people finding fanlt with our DISCRICT COMMISSIONERS, There are no class men who have given bet- ter satisfaction than our pres- ent board of Commissioners. One thing about our Commissioners, they generally give the citizens a respectable hearing and if right their wishes are granted. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE [From the Editor] Washington, D. C., Jan., 21, 1887 Senaors: The action ofthe Dis- ‘trict c mmittee in the case of Mr. James C. Matthews while consis- tent with its former course is not just or good polit cs and wesin- cerely hope will not receive the sanction of your honorable body The vindicative sp rit manifested against Mr. Matthews since the first mention of his name in con- nection with the position of Re- corder of Decds is almost witheu parallel in American polities All means that could ve pozsibly utilized to injure bis chances of confirmation by your honorable body have been resorted to. Eveu the great Douglass stuod by and eontirmed, by his silence, a lie wh'ch should have caused his cheeks to tinge with shame, The circumstance-, Senators, were these—a committee of colored gentlemen consisting of an ex-sen- ator, a clerk in theSixth Auditors Cffice, a clerk in the Pension office and Hon. Frederick Douglass, all iepublicans, aud waited up n a distinguished member of your body. to enlist him against the of confirmation of Mr, Matthews. All that ingenuity of mind eould suggest to accomplish that end wus brought forward. The cli- max was reached Senators, when the repnblican clerk in the Sixth Auditors office referred to his war record and ended with a p*rora- tiou in which he used the follow- ing: Senators, would you vote to confirm a co'ored man who stood on the street corners iu Albany making rebel speeches and jeering at Union soldiers on their way to the front, while [ sir.was baring my breast to rebel bullet-?” A more infamous lie never escaped the hps of man, for at the per.od referred to Mr. Matthews was 18 years old anda pupil of the Albany district schcol. The dis- tinguished Senator to whom these remarks were addres-ed turned to the venerabfe and respected Frederick Douglass tur light, buc none came, uye worse, for he the great Douglass who had known ithe parents of this much ubusd and outraged young man before he saw the suulight of 1 fe, and who hal listened to the eloqueut pleadings made by this boy orator in 1868 in behalf of Grant and Coltux and who subs: quently -poke from the same platform with him on emancipation day sto. d by and not only confirmed by his silence this infamous le, but added “I don’t want him con- firmed.” The effect of this word assassination was demonstrated in the subs quent action of the Dis- trict commitiee reporting adverse ly upou the confirm tion of Mr. Matthews which was ratified by your honorable body. Thus ended the first Act. Tne securd com- menced with the entree, by ap pointm -ut of President Cieveland of Mr. Matthews upon his official duti s us Recorder of Deeds who without the faintes: suspicion of he meticds ard :gens used other than those instiga‘ed by a ward ;olitician in Albany and that of 1 cal color prejudice, to defe.t him wih mulice towarcs n ne and charity to all extended t» Fred: rick Douglass. the cour- tesy or his private offi e, to use at is plasure aud convenience, furnisting him with a key for that purpose. A closer intimacy with the mun whom he said he “did not want coufirmed” revealed that Le Douglass had been imposed upon by the coterie who visited Senat r and others and in a burst of an honest sense of jus» tce used these words to Mr. Mat- thews, “I have done you injustice, [ have done ycu a wrong which I will 1epsir before I go abroad; you have been misiepres nted to me, you are a dift-rent man from what J have been kd to supy ose ” Mr Douglass, subsequently used the same language on the morning of nis departure to a gentleman well kn-wn in this community aid who holds a responsible po sition in the House «f Represen- tatives. Yet Mr. Douglass with a full knowledge of the weight and effect of his ucts and saying upon the confirmation of Mr. Matthews has given no sign of repairing the injury done the character and reputation of a young man, whose chief sin, in his Douglass’ eyes, is to succeed him. It would in our judgment be in better tase for republ:caus holding offives under a democratic administration to look after their own ‘ fe-.ces,” and nct be aiding and abet ing the destruction of their dem cratic neighbors. Among the so colled representative ¢ lored men quoted by distinguished memb rs of your body as opposing Mr. Matthews confirmation isa gentleman who failed of re-election to the next House of Representative, aud who seks revenge for the wrongs done him by the démoerats in his district by opposing, with al the bitterness of his nature, the con- tirmation of Mr. Matthews. Why this gentleman should select Mr, Mattt.ews as being respousible tor a'l the iniquities of the democratic party is unaccountable. It would have been far more creditable to his head and heart had he selected sume one or more of the many white citizens of the Palmetto state, Whose names came before the Senate for confirmation, as bis victim for pelitical persecution nstead of selecting acvlored gen- tleman who is not a cons'ituent of his or named tor a place in his bailwick The course pursued by some of the so called repres-ntu- tive colored meu in the Mati hews’ case has greatly unsettled their value not only among the republi- ean leaders who are L.ugMiny in their sleeves at the ease in which they succeed. d in brigntening the political fetters upon these so called representative colored men. The guage they measured them by wasenvy and jealousy and they made no mistake as to their men or means. They,.the so called representative colored men have the grim satisfaction of beirg an element of strength without pow er other than to crucify a young colored man whose “success marks a vew era in the’ political future of the Negro. Theyoung, educated and aspiring Negro will at no distant day, resent the ac tion of there sychophantic place hunters, in endeavoring to stran- gle free thought, free speech and free voting by the Negro the same as accorded the whites If the republican majority in your hon- orable body has any regard for the Negro vote we would suggest that they show it.by confirming Mr. Matthews, otherwise we as- sure them, as are publican, that every vote cast against Mr. Mat- thews” cohtirmation, will cost the purty at le st one hundred, and that too in places where they are needed. We know what we are saying when we assert that no question, since the right of suffiage was granted the Negru, has agita- ted that race to the extent of the Matthews’ case. The Negro is watching to see if the republicans in their claim to granting suffrage to the Negro mean universal or party suffrage; also whether mind slavery is to be substituted for slavery of the body. Weare ins formed Senators, that we are not sinvere in our advocacy ot the claims of Mr. Matthews. Permit us to inform you that we can bet ter show you wheo the time ar- rives than we can tell you. We beg leave to call- your attention to the letter of Mr. Seott Wood, of the Virginia bar, and cheirman of the State Independent executive ¢ mmittee and extracts from lead- ing journals edited by colored men that appear in this week’s issue « f the Bez In addressing this letrer to you, Senators, we do so in the interest of the “grand old party,” whose princip'es have been justice and equality to all. “Betore -re- ceiving this letter, no doubt, the Matthews’ case will have been settled. Do us you think best S-nators, but remember the day of retribution. I am with great respect, The Editor. SOUTH WASHINGTON. Misses Mary N. Dowling, Ma- tilda Thornton and Martha Brown ure aguin On the teachers’ list. A CORPSE ON FIRE. A corpse that was lying in the house of John F, Higgins, 327 F st , 8. W., wus burned according to the Catholic faith, that is with candles at the head, and ubout 11:30 p. m, the candle which had burned quite !ow barsted, and the bit of candle fell upon the tace of the corpse, and caught burning ail of the clothing from the corpse, with a bl ze and smoke which, for at least 20 minutes paralyzed the ertire hous hold with excitement. Besides burning the clothes «ff the corpse the floor also caught on fire, burnt through carpet and very s.on the whole house would have been in flames The smell ot smoke from the burning corpse d-ew the attention of allin the house. Mrs. Emma Higgins dis covered that the corpse was on fire. The continued attendance of a large number of young people from this community to the night schools at Liucolu is encouraging. The breukiug away of the very terri-ly hard w ather brightens up the h pes of the working men. Mrs. Mary L. Whales was taken suddenly sivk on Sunday evening last. Mrs.J . M. Tabbs of Anacostia D. C., to the delight of her many friends is rapidly recovering. The thanks of the committee are due to the contractors, Buck- ley and Marphy tor flagging the walks seross the unimproved streets. The tine daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Tignor increases the beauties of a fashio. able household. The many friends of W. C. Costin will deeply regret to learn of bis constant iliness at his resi- dence, No. 200 C st. “Trath has a quiet breast,” says Avon’s bard, but when the breast is racked with a-cough it can not be quiet. Try a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cougtsyrap. Tie cough it | xt will stay, the soreness allay, and you'll bless Dr. Bull for many a day. 25 cents. JUST OUT. GREAT —OF— FRED. DOUGLAsy, The people ot this country who 4 sire to read the tour great speeuic, of Hon. Fred. 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