The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1887, Page 1

3 io 10.000 | pe SUBSCRIBERS ; ' Wanted. — t : THE | LEADING NEGRO ORGAN. | ashingt ‘ADVERTISE . fa * IT WILE PYY. | CoLorep Popuation | 80,000. Terms. $2.00 Per year. — ‘Semis per 7 a VOL. Neue sp -aur ths bas : WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1887, a ae ~_ ii . sie i antes . oO. 11717 ‘ “THE NEW DISPENSATION.”| AN OPEN LETTER TO THE|that bulwark of (iS eee ~\] 2 ulwark of strength, ho; bli \ EV ER SUCH B ARG AINS, UNITED STATES SENATE. |and their future ailvatton) the The tina has coal Male ipso ——Tk—— Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing : As are now offered at the Great Sample of MEN, BOYS’ and CHILDREN’S Clothing Opening at 924 7th St. p. w. BET. 1 ST. AND MAsSAcHUSETTS AVENUE. 4 Over one thousand Men’s Boy’s and Children’s Suits and Overeoats of the best goods. Many of them will be sold at less than the cost of the goods, say nothing aboutthe making and the trimmings. Actual bar- vain seldom come. A sample Suit worth $20 can be bought for $12. Overcoats very low, and Children and Boy’s Suits at little over half- Children’s Overcoats 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 ‘Aloert Coats sold for $15 now $, Suits that sold for $12 to $20 at less than two-thirds of the cost. There are no better goods made, many of tuem 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 best 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, 8. Yand $10, ages, 4toS. Just think of it. You can have your choice of this lot for $3.90. Little Overcoats for half price. Men’s Pants 75c., $1. $1.50, $2 up to $6, We have alot of Prince Albert Coats, Blaek Cloth formerly sold for $15, $20, $22—your choiee 40 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 sigus. Sample Suits and all styles of men’s oy’s,and Children’s Clothing. Salecommences TUESDAY MORN- ’ NG at 10 o’clock. pr ce. making. JOHNE. ELLIS & CO,, AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. EXTENSIVE DEALERS IN 937 PENN. SONVId SNVOUO 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 ORGANRNS! EX PLOSION:in CLOTHING. Prices Knocked to Pieces. ———Go to the Great Executors Consignment of Clothing At———. Ob F STREET NN. W. Opposite United States Patent Office Men’s Suits by the 3( Did you ever buy an all Wool suit for $3.90. Vid 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; \Ve wiLt 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 816 EF Street, n: w, (Opposite United States Patent Offive,) Between 8th and 9th Sts, WW. Ge BRA DELAY, — Meriden, Conn. SOLE MANUFACTUBER, $,H, RICEG COS. Solid Comfort Buckoands and Spindle Wagons, single and doable seated Riding qualities unsurpassed. No jar tothe feet, Durs! ®ble. Shipments singly or by carload ‘to Responsible Agent wanted ol every town. ondence earnestly solicit y e iad 3. Every person acting a8 Agent for-Sur Wagons, will have his name with advertice- Wagont Pivertioed Tee leading paper of the county or town where Agent resides, T Six months: AKE YOUROWN TERMS ~—-0Nwes c « FURNITURE CARPETS AND STOVES AT HOUSE & HERRMANS Instalment House. 921 923 7h st. n. w, FOR THE BEE. BY SAMUEL ADAMS WIGGIN. There in the midst afallen woman crouched With half-arerted face of shame; Sinful perhaps, yet penitent and meek,— Crushed to earth her once fair tame. “Stone her to death, according ta. our law! Stone her to death, the creature’ vile! She’s all unfit to live, polluted thing; What say'st thon, Master without guile?” The Master stooped, and musing, wrote, ected full well the hearts of al; The sobbing woman, prostrate at his feet,— The woman outcast by her fall. “Say, Prophet wise; say, Teacher, good and pure, What is thy will; thou knowest the law? He lifted himself erect in - virtue’s might, They, listening, stood with fear and awe. “He that is spotless, he that hath no sin, Let him alone cast the first stone. Come, Pharisee, thou spotless one within, Shall she for her vile crime atone !” Ah, conscience whispered to each haughty soul, He knows thy secret, guilty heart; Thou art not sinless ; false, poluted, stained, Hide thy proud faces and depart. “Daughter of Israel, who accuseth Whe Om “Dear Lord and Master, none are here.” He looked, and with a gracious smile, Bade her look up without a fear. And then from out the lips that spake no guile, The pitying words of comfort fell: ‘Neither do [condemn thee, frail and weak, Go sin no more, shall be well. with thee it “Go sin no more, and in my king- dom wide, For thee a mansion beauteous and grand, A house not made with hands, a spirit home, Where all is peace——the sum- mer-land. “Go sin no more, for thee a robe and crown ; Go, daughter, sin, oh, sin no more; Uplift thy striken head, wipe off thy tears ; Thy night of anguish now is o’er.” So the dear Master calleth now to thee, Thou precious, wandering soul astray ; Thy sin in His atoning blood: is lost, His Gospel opes the Gates to Day. Ab wounded spirits, soiled and saddened souls, Where’er ye wander from thy early home, Go sin nomore, returu and live again ; Christ loveth thee,——no longer roam, Let Pharisees and haughty souls despise, Reproach and bid thee to atone ; The gentle Saviour’s test will si- lence all, “Who hath not sinned, first cast a stone.” Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain, as an anodyne has no equal in the market. It kills paiu every time Price 25 cents. a as Why sit doubled up like an old man, wy boy! What’s rheumatism ! Take the good the gods provide thee, and send twenty-five cents around the corner for a bottle of Salvation Oil and you'll ride your Bicycie to-morrow. The latest riddle out: Why was my baby’s last attack of croup like this paragraph? Becauseit was very short and ended with that wonderfal cure, Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup. Price twenty-five cents. [From the Editor.] Washington, D, C., Jan. 28, 1887. Senators: We have received and are re- printing as fast as the allotted space of our columns will admit, editorial responses from nearly all of the 150 colored newspapers pub- lished in the United States relative to the confirmation of Mr. James C. Matthews for Recorder of Deeds for the District of Colum~ bia; and we are proud toannounce that fully ninety five per cent of the articles referred to, warmly, strongly and unqualifiedly favor his confirmation. There is no disguising the sentiment or feeling of the colored people on this ques- tion, they read, think and ponder. They read and learn of nothin, detrimental to Mr. Matthews’ character or ability to conduct the office in a manner creditable to all parties concerned. They have read the long list of his non-resi- dent predeces:ors and naturally concluded that his non-residence is no barrier, especially since your honorable body has contirmed several non-residents for positions in the territories, even as late as last week, Hon. Samuel McGinness, of Ohio was confirmed as Judge for Mon‘ana. Thusthey are brought to face the one re- maining disqualification, color, and regret it as much 1s they may, they are constrained to ac- cept the only alternative to wit, that the representatives of the grand old republican party (a party whose deeds, illumine some ofthe brightest pages in the world’s his- tory) in the Senate of the United Rtatag hows ance a bles a 0) chet record by deferring, at the dictum of social and other influences, to color prejudice in the District of Columbia, for the purpose of de- feating a worthy honest,and com- petent man because his cre- utor identified him with a race, whose chief and unpardonable sin is the color of their skin. Sena- tors: Does it ever occur to you that the. Negro is out of short clothes, that he is no longer a child, that he is as capable of im- parting as he is receiving; that he carries the electric light of knowl- edge into places where Egyptian darkness formerly prevailed; that instead of one Douglass the woods are full of them; that the young Negroes are self reliant, self sus- taining and self confident; that no sophistry or subterfuge can divert their minds from the fact that a promising young Negro who had struggled through the environs of American color prejudice, and at- tained through personal merit and honest worth an honorable recog- nition frem a democratic President of the United States was estopped from reaping the benefits ot his perseverance and pluck because God, and not himself was reapon- sible for not giving him a shade of complexion agreeable to the as- thetic taste of the majority of your honorable body? Tue young edu- cated and ardent Negroes are sen- sitive and jealous of their political rights and the sign of the times point clearly that they will have them in the purty where their pre- delections lead if not in some other. The intelligence of the Negro causes him to put his thinking cap on when he beats of hundreds of thousands of dollars being expended anavaly and the best brain of the republican party utilized to keep whie men into the party fold, while he the Ne- gro is not even allowed to think vloud, of changing bis vote, with- out being branded an “‘ingrate” ora “monstrosity.” The Negro is past the juck kuife period to be c-rrie(| around in the pocket of a few distinguished (?) and repre- sentative (?) colored men. ‘Ihe samples, per face, of these distin- guished (2) political drummers muy be fair, and cheap, but they can’t deliver the goods, the New groes sre not sold by sample any more, they speak for themselves in tones of thunder through their own press, through the pulpit and school house, and through | ofa stalwart vruning knife may young educated Negro. These are the elements of Negro strength developed by ‘the Matthews’ con- troversy and the Negro owes President -Clevelanda. debt of gratitude for the opportunity of proving to the American people that the Negro is selt réspecting aud that he will not tamely stand by and sco the pucssiblilues uf Lie race crushed out without a manly protest. The republican leaders in their speeches delight to refer to a certain class of democrats as “moss backs,” ‘old Bourbons,” ete, does it ever occur to them ourselves and not allow others to act for us. We have always been trae to those who have been true to’ us aud have opposed those who op- posed us. If we have been false to é OUR TRUST iN Supporting the great principles of the republican ty, wi } likb for. our traducers to watet ot and inctautt> editor of the A with others edited the Itdianapolis Lea- der under a republican administra- tion and at the same time held big offices. But as soon as it was known that, Mr. Cleveland, a democratic président was elected, the Leader, the possibility of their having and nou:ishing a like specie? The action of the republican majority so far, in the Matthews’ case, indi- cates that it has considerable root, and unless given soon. the beuetit succeed in strangli_g the pare and undefiled. Senators, of republican faith you should have confirmed Mr. Matthews promptly when his name was first sent in and because you then did him injustice is no reason for persisting in it. The local opposition to Mr. Matthews was invited by the chairman of the Senate committee who day after day aud week aud was reported in the press, as ask- ing the citizens of Washington to file their objections to Mr. Mat- thews, something heretofore uns heard of in connection with a local office in the District of Columbia. No doubt Senators, many, if not all of you have studied Hebrew in ove form or another, but we ven- ture to ussert you never studied Simon Wolf, the mvdest, he who when Recorder of Deeds was so conscience stricken in receiv-| auy 1 rece fiuus hes tu $19,000 per annum that he wrote long, tearful and pleading letters to have a change made wherein he could he forced to give up the fil- thy lucre. Ob! for a few hours of Shylock so as to enable, him to instruct this modest Hebrew, Si- mon Wolf, into the mysteries of a pound of gold for a pound of flesh. Truly the milenniam is coming when a Jew refuses money. Very respectfully, he Editor. OUR WEEKLY REVIEW. “d which.was- conducted by these po-” litical demagogues, suspended, The now editor of the -Argus Ben D. Bagby, a political octopus, was discharged from the mailservice as antuscruplous republican tumler: He presameded by the suspen- sion of the Leader, wonld hide his idenity with the republican party. Others who were closely ‘related tw him) and who were also associated with him on the Leader have not su touchedand. will not resign thir government. positions . until they are removed.. We. have too much respect. -for the gentlemen to attempt to do them any injury, as we believe them to be gentlemen of honor. After the election of a DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT what did the colored politician ex- spect from the administration? Did the colored voters of radical proeli- vities contribute any'thing to the Bul of the democratic party? Dill the colored republican politi- cians aid ivany way to~put the democratic party where it is to y? We fell a victim to the dem- ocratie axe, but our sense of duty and, race pride would not permit us to be ungrateful. We saw in President Cleveland somg eldmouts thav woul ji . vvivicu race and, for iat reason we banished self and gave his ad- ministration our hearty suppert. We have not as yet seen cause to do otherwise, As a matter of fact, he has given the DISTRICT PEOPLE more recognition than_ all other presidents. While the colored pol- iticians have suffered in the states, we are of the opinion that others less radical are receiving reeogni- tion. Mr. Douglass admitted him- self that he was treated with great- er respect by Mr. Cleveland than he was by republican presidents. Can it be said that, Mr. Lemar, Sec- FIGHTING BEHIND THE SCENE. OUR DEFENSE. NEGROES INGRATITUDE. WHAT WAS EXSPECTED FROM THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION. RE- PUBLICAN OFFICE HOLDERS. A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. It matters not what one may do for those who are attempting to reach the latter of fame, with but a few exceptions, ingratitude often shows itself. Under the caption of “assology and Donkeyism,”’ the Indianapolis Argus in a longe wind- ed satire attacks the Bee and other journals edited by colored men be- cause they see fit to advocate the confirmation of Mr. Matthews. Eve- idently tue article was written by a gentleman whose many faults have been covered up by the Bee. Because we refuse to be lead blind- ly into the many dark ‘cavern of the republican party and’advo- cate those repub.icdus who have been inimical to the interests of the race, we, as well as others, haye been characterized as fools. We claim, outside’ 6f Gent. Lo- gan, the negroes have ‘no’'friends aud the soouer they cease to be lead blindly by ambitious republi- can leaders aud would be negto party mean by LIBERTY? negro he has been the ward of the Since the Emancipation of the} over by Wasbi retary Witney, Post Master Vilas, Public Printe: Benedict, have not been favorably dispposed toward the colored employes of their offices ? We have nothing to ask of the administration, but . when we see men who have heretofore been known to be inimical to our inter- ests, show some disposition to be fair, it would be in bad taste, to demonstrate any opposition to them. We have-been” grateful to the REPUBLICAN PARTY. We have been more magnani- mous toward that party than it has been towards us. Because we see fit to speak our convictions, we are characterized as being ungrate- fal or practicing donkeyism. AMOSEMENTS. Grand QOriote! given under theauspices of the JUNIOR,, EXSELSION BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION, MAT NA BETHELHALL From pies sy Maroh, 25th’ We propose . that this entertain- representatatives of the race the | ment shall far excel. anything ever quicker the colored’ voters of thix/ given Uy tha above Associatiog nd country will receive recognition’} thar of itself is a sufficient ‘guardn- from those who have’ heretofore’! tee that évery oné who attends will been kuowu to oppose their inter: | have a'pleasant’ time. There will ests. What does the republican |be 25 booths comprising every ‘kind of articles_ that will. be most pleasing to the eye and will amply Satisfy thé inherman. (Presided ngton’s fairest. and most mplished Ladies.) There republican party and its leaders. | will be different kinds’ ot Fabriés, While we areaware of the-fact that | Mechanical, and. Musical. -Instra- @ great number in the democratic will also assert that party is not what it was several years ago. The negro is a free American citizen and we want it uudersteod’ that the ties that once held him tothe | ments to be, disposed of at most party will oppose the success and| reasonable rates competitions fin the advancement of the negro, we | voting on articles that will ‘please the tancy of any one, ; MUSICEACH EVENING. : GENERAL ADMISSION - 10 cta. Season Tickets, - 60 cts,