The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1887, Page 1

a ORGAN, nome a CelCy 7 3 Cy, ine vIn SUBSCRIBERS | This Paper, =The Mashington Bee“ THE LEADING nEGHO : + on POPULATION ' $0,000. Terms. $2.00 Per year. a 5 cents per copy. TOL. V a “WASHINGTON, D. G, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1887. —= ix—+t Men’s Boys’ and Children’s Clothing As are now offered at the Great Sample of MEN, BOYS’ane CHILDREN’S Clothing Opening at 924 7th St. n. w. Bet, | St. AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, » thousand Men’s Boy’s and Children’s Suits and Overcoats Many of them will be sold at less than the cost of the Over one best goods. < say nothing aboutthe making and the trimmings. Actual bar- ol good ‘dom come. A sample Suit worth $20 can be bought for $12. Fcerenth very low, and Children and Boy’s Suits at little over half. evs jldren’s Overcoats at less than you would have to pay for the price. 4 These oods are mostly in single Suits, only one of a kind, making. ade of the best English, French and American goods. 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Parcel proprie- tor at the Park or 1406 Pa. Ave., |n. w. John W. Freeman Agent, 420 N. J. Ave., n, w. - IN RESPONSE to the | prominent citizens of Washington, request made by the, ‘The —— Jr. Excelsiors Will give their first LANTERN |; EXCURSION to the beautiful resort RIVER VIEW, JULY 15ru 1887. Boats leave wharf foot of 7th st., {10 a.m. and 5:30 p, m. Tickets | 50 Cents Children under 12 years | 25 cents, All tickets sold at the | boat, (The above also will give their 2nd excursion in Sept. ET OUR WEEKLY REVIEW, | JAKE SHARP. JOHN SHERMAN TO BE THE STANDARD BEARER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. MR. BLAINE NOT A CANDIDATE. CONK NEGROES SOUTH. ORGANIZING IN THE Although the city of New York is considered one of the worst cities in the Union there is one thing that is done by the Courts and that is to convict all men who attempt to rob the people, be they great or small the courts will endeavor to }convict. The people of New York | have suffered enough at the hands of these so called great men like Boss Tweed and Jake Sharp. The District of Culumbia can’t say any- j thing about New York juries. We have never known a big govern- ment official in this city to be convicted yet. | The jury has been more or less |tampered with. Jake Sharp is charged with one of the most no- torious crimes known in criminal annals. He is charged with having jconspired to defraud the people jand any man who could be guilty of such a thing should suffer the greatest penalty. It is conceded that HON, JOHN SHERMAN will be the standard bearer of the republican party in ‘88 and Mr. Cleveland willlead thedemocratic | ticket. Mr. Sherman is a good man and one the country can trust. Mr. Conkling, it is reported, has been consulted and has given his con- sent to support the ticket provid- eda certain New Yok man is placed on the ticket as vice pres- ident. While on the other hand Mr. Cleveland will have the opposi- tion of the spoilsmen in the demo- cratic party, who are opposed to his renominrtion. So far as Mr. LING TO ENTER THE CANVASS. |}. Cleveland, himself, is concerned the colored people are not a- fraid to trust him; but there are certain men in his party who are opposed to the negro. At one time we had the most implicit faith in the secretary of the In- terior, but when he allows his prejudice and weakness to over balance his better judgment by consenting to the discharge of competent colored men we have |no faith in him. While other papers were criticising him, we deemed it more than fair to allow him a chance. That chance has been granted and to the detriment of worthy col- ored men. The democratic party has done some good we will admit. It has turned a large number of colored men out of office which bas forced them to go into business on a legitimate basis. It has made better men out of them from a business point of view, while a few | bave been too lazy to do anything | but bunt for an office. The COLORED PEOPLE. | throughout the South are organi- zing. They have come to the con- clusion that white men bave done enough, for them to protect them selves since the States fail. They propose to stop this whole- | sale lynching of colored men. by | white bandits ; and to do that they have come to the conclusion to] The colored men of the South are organize. _Do they do any harm to their white fellow citizens? Then wehy are they continually haunted ta death? The colored people need protection and fair treatment. -if the government fails to protect them they must protect themselves. What is a government that is powerless to protect its citizen? We would suggest to the colored people to join the labor elton party. We believe that they will be better treated vp aither one of those parties than in the democratic or repub- lican_ party. os NEGRO NIGHTS OF LABOR. THE ORDER SPREADING AMONG THE COLORED MEN OF THE SOUTH, At Least 60,000 Men Enrolled in Assemblies Composed En-’ tlrely of Blacks-Unly One Col- ored Assembly in New York- The Colored Knights Almost All Georgia Men. (From the New York Sun.) Within the last two years the knights of Labor have spread among the colored population of the South, until now it is estimat- ed that half the colored popula- tion of the cities belong to the order. In the country it is growing among the colored population, but not so fast as in the cities. In New York the colored population is small in comparison to the num- bers in the South, and in few employments is the majority of the workmen colored, bat one colored assembly has been in ex- istence for three years, and there are some 3,000 colored Kuights of Labor scattered around in the crganizations of their respective trades. The laws of the Knights of La- bor make no distinction between White and colored workmen, and the leaders of the Knights does hot encourage the formation of assembles on tbe color line. In the South it has been unavoida- ble, as many occupations are so largely in the hands of colored men that in forming assembles on the trade basis some are compos- ed entired of colored men. In Virginia these colored assein- blies are numerous and _ strong, some local assemblies having a membership of thousands. Rich- mond, Norfolk, Petersburg, and Portsmouth, are strong Knights of Labor cities. New Orleans is an- other city where the Knights of Labor are well organized. The organization is extending to Ala- bama, Mississippi, and Georgia. The cities of Tennessee and Ken- tucky were organized among the first. No statistics have been compiled yet on the color line by any of the local Knights of Labor, but Mr. Frank Ferrell, who knows as much as apy one, made an esti- mate that there are over 400 local assemblies composed entire- ly of colored men, and, taking 150 asthe average membership of an assembly, the number of men inthe entire black aseem blies would amount to 60,000. There are two-thirds as many more colored men in trade assem- blies in the Northern States and ia Semblies in which white men are also members. It would not be far from right it the whole number of colored men in Knights were estimated at 90,000 or 95,000 and they are growing at a rate out of proportion to the increase of white members. The system of organization and procedure of the Knights of La- bor is better adapted to the col- ored men in certain ways than to white men, who are fitted for the higher organization of trades union. The secrecy of the Knights the mystic names, the ceremonies, the vows, and the obedience re- quired all suit the colored men in aud they come in flocks to be initiated. They had no previous organization, and they like to be known as Knight, while a white member of an old trades union is less willing to go into something new. It is different in this respect between the colored men of the South and of the North. The col- ored men of the North which works with the white men in their trades join the trades unions, and_ whenever they join the Knights of Labor they go with it. less often found in skilled trades, and very seldom in a_ trades union. That there are hundreds of colored ssemblies of Knights of Labor in the South and only one of 150 or 200 members in New York shows the difference. In some of the Southern States the organization of the colored men as Knights of Labor has been opposed by the white and the organizations have been driv- en away. South Carolina has been made inhospitable for the Knights. It is not where the working pop ulation is almost exclusively color- ed that the most colored Knights of Labor are found, but where the white and colored men work side by side. The further North, the more the labor is organized. There seems to be a superiority in the Virginia, Maryland, or Kentucky colored man over the Florida or South Carolina negro in adap- tability and capacity for organi- zation. Oue trouble has been found with colored Kuights, and that is that they are uot prompt in paying up their dues. The further South the assembly isthe more reluc- tance is shown in paying dues. The honor of joining and being a@ Knight is fine, but to have to pay for every week -is unpleasant. The Northern colored men are not so reluctant in paying. The South- ern Knights want to do something assoon as they are organized. They think that by virtue of their knightly titled they suddenly become something big. The Rossmore Association, as the only colored association in New York is called, bas been running for three years, and has about 175 members. It meets in Cooperative Hall, on Seventh avenue. The members are chiefly waiters and coachmen. Edward Davis, a waiter, who resembles Frank Ferrell iu height, color and appearance, is one of the most prominent meu in the assem- bly. He was oue of the colored lead- ers in the Georgia canvass last fall, and is a Mason and Odd Fellow, well known in colored circles. Other prominent colored men in the assembly are Frank Wilkeson, a@ salesman, Thomas ‘Faylor, a waiter and Ed. Thomas. a waiter and musician in a saloon, Almost all the Knights of Labor are Georgia men. They are strong- est in the Seventh, Eleventh, Thir- teenth, and Fifteenth Assembly districts, Frank Ferrell, engineer in an apartment house near Union square, is as prominent as any colored Knightof Labor. He is a member of the assembly made up of eccentric engineers, and has been their deligate to the Central Labor Union and to the National Convention of the Knights of La- bor. He was born in Richmond forty years ago, is 5 feet 9 inches tall, well built, and has a curly black moustache. There are other col- ored menin the Eccentric Engi- neers, still more are members of the Eccentric Firemen, and quite a@pumber are found among the tobacco workers. —_———_+oo———— PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, HIS VIEWS ON THE NEGRO, ABO- LITION OF THE COLOR LINE IN POLITICS. THE COLOURED MAN NOT INCAPABLE. (From Ft. Worth, Texas Gazette.) That President Cleveland is most sincere in his endeavor to serve the country and his party to the very best interests of both, is apparent from what he said to me on Satur day of last week. Not knowing that he was inthe midst of arrange- ments for the greatest event of his life, I went to the White House that day. accompanied by a well known democratic congressman. | We were not office seekers, we had a perfectly legitimate errand ; and after it had been done, the conver- where he sees his interests lie and less where heis told to vote by others who want his vote for selfish ends. As for me, I cannot see any Negro question in our national af- fairs. it has ever been my am- bition to be the executive of all the people of the South and North a- like, of the black as well as the white mau. The laws do not rec- ognize any distinetion, and I do not see that ove who has Sworn to execute these laws can recognize auy distinction either. I see that considerable discussion has been going on of late over what shall be done with the colored man, but I wish to enter my protest against this parcelling of him as though he were a distinct element in our body- Politics. He is au American, ard as long as [ have any influence with this administration, to borrow the phrase of my i!lustrious predecess- or, ‘she must have every right, his legal due.” If there was any good result reverting to the colored man from the accession to power of the democratic party, lam determined he shall have it to the fullest ex- tent. In my opinion it is yet tco early to judge the colored race either one way or the other. We certainly cannot say the colored man is incapable ot further pro- gress, and tosay that arace is to be condemned because it has not achieved perfection in seventeen years after having been in slavery for more than two centuries is man- ifestly unjust. Ithas been more than that number of years since the close of the war, but it should be borne in mind that the thirteenth amendment to the constitution, ratified in 1865, confers only free- dom to the colored race. The fourteenth amendment, ratified in 1866, goes a step further, and makes the colorea man a citizen, but even it allows the states to withhold the righé of Suffrage, at least it does net probibit its doing so. It was not until 1869, only seveuteeu years ago, that the col- ored man became the political and civil equal of the white man in all the states. I believe that the bal- lot in the hands of the black man has been a great educator. It has been a costly education in more ways than one, but the country has paid for it, and it is ours; now both races in the South should be given a chance. Humanity in gen- eral and in the abstract has little ag yet to boast of. There are vicious elements in the North, in the West and in the South. In every state, however, persons of all races should be treated as absolute equals be- fore the law. We should have pure ballots in every state and in every city. On thatalone depends the measure of success of popular government. The Negro is now free aud the equal of the white man in respect to his civil and po~ litical rights. He must make his own contest for position and power. By bis own conduct and success he will be judged. It will be unforta- nate for him if he shall rely upon political sympathy for position rather than upon duties well and intelligently discharged. Every- where the white man should help him, but his main reliance should be upon himself. In that way, and given a reasonable time, the color- ed race will be able to blot out the race forever. Until then we must educate him and have patience, > ++ Eclectic, Ala., Oct, 20, 1886, Dr. A. T. Shallenberger, Rochester, Pa. Dear Sir, Last February I received from you a bottle of your Anti- dote for Malaria, and gave it to a young lady attending school here, but who had not been well enough togo for several weeks and wes quite broken down in health. Ina few days after taking the medi- cine she was back in school agaiv, and has not lost aday the entiresummer. I think it is the best medicine I ever knew, Yours very truly W.C. Williams, DOUGLASS TO BE ENTER. TAINED. A MOVEMENT ON FOOT TO WELCOME HIM HOME. There is a movement on foot to welcome Ex-Recorder Fred. Doug- lass to the Capital of the nation. He is expected to arrive in the city sation turned, at my suggestion, | upon the condition and needs of) sometime in the early part of Sep- tember. Mr. Douglass has had a the colored race. Here is what the | pleasant time abroad, and wherever President said upon the subject: he has goue, he has zie ee oF am told by representatives of | ed as an American ayes he bes both political parties that the ad | cep:ion to be tendere oe y his vent of the democratic party to people , will be a just tribute to one power has, toa great extent, oblit-| who is recogniz d as great man. Tals (lt also that Uraeoksced aan | foal tn ay hen be domed Sad no I am told also that the colored man | dea E is becoming yearly more a party | doubt all will be pleased to ghear man ; aad he is beginning to vote| him. te 4 i,