The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1887, Page 2

- . Published every saci at 1109 I street D.C. northwest, Wesbington, Entered at the Postoffice at Washington “. @@ second-class mail matter. SS A AN ES Mr. Jobn E. Bruce, formerly edi- tor of the ‘“‘Maryland Common- THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH. It is a question of serious consid- eration, whether the votes of the colored men in the south are to be fairly counted at ail State and National electious, or are they to be subjected to the unfairness of the democratic party? It is no use to attempt to deny the fact, that the Colored people in the South are not being mistreated, and the Federal administration, as it always has been, even under re- wealth,” has been added to the edi- torial ‘st ff of the Bee. Mr. Bruce isa wide awake man and a good writer. The National committee decided to hold the next republican conven- tion in Chicago June 19th 88. The committee also decided to allow the District Central committee to call convention for the election of del- egates in this city. Among the active working Re- pabdlicans in this country is Capt. A. P. Cunningham. This gentle- man can do more solid work than any fifty men in the party. We congratulate Capt. Cunningham on the success he is making to unite the Republican element of this country. It is rumored that the learned (?) C.H.J. Taylor who took his pen and murdered the Kings Eng- lish a few weeks ago, will start a democratic paper in a few weeks and that it wil) be the; greatest Negro organ in the world. We shali take up the gaunlet with this wind bag, the “first of the year with a semi-weekly BEE. eae TAYLOR SIZED UP. Mr. Frank J. Carpenter, the Washington correspondent of the New Yew “World,” in his corres- pondence of Dec., 14th, says the following : The Liberian Mission is _ stil! practically vacant. The salary is $5,000 a year and it will not long go begging. I saw Taylor, the present incumbent, who has either resigned or been recalled, in the Senate Chamber yesteaday. He is a short, beefy, gross looking man, with a bead like a cannon ball and entirely devoid of expression or intellectual character. His color is gingerbread yellow and he has tew of the outward characteristics of the higher class colored mau of to-day. GENL. BEAL. x wrawored that General Beal, president.ot the National Republi- can League, will be urged as a del- ite from this city, to the Nation- Republican Convention. We don’t know ef any man who would better represent the republicans than thie distinguished re- publican. General Bealis in ta- vor of sufferage for the District ot Columbia, and if he is sent, he will make au effort to have a sufferage clause put in the republican plat- form, to over 200,000 disfran- chised citizens. We want honest and respectuble men to represent the District in ‘he next republican convention, and we are of the opinion that such men will be sent from this city. The Convention of 88, will pot be a repetition of the convention of ’84; and it is hoped, that the republicans throughout the city will see to it, that good men will be elected from the 22nd districts. The Central Republican com- mittee will convene in a few daya, and anew election of delegates will be ordered,and said commit- tee will order a convention in'con- formity with the call of the nati- onal committee. TODYISM. In the address of Mr. Douglass delivered at the reception tender- ed to Messrs. Arthur O’cvonner and Thos. H G. Exmonds, members of the British Parliament at the Ma- sonic Temple on Wednesday night, he concluded his speeeh by @eying, “That Iam not going to spexk avy longer, I thank you for letting me sit on the p!atform with these white people.” A more humiliating utterance could not have been msde by an English serf or an American slave. We would like to ask Mr. Douglass | school, and several in the Jeffersou pared intellectually and financially whether he thought it an honour to be among a class of irishmen who have no love forthe Negro? The irish people have no love for the) light, hence they naturally have a terior Department and told Clem- oppressed negro, and before long 2 ren people will be anes] fronted with this qeustion. Ameri-| ca is making England her enemy) by adbearing to a policy which | selves and ask if a certain physi- | much alarmed about the civil rights | will tend to the distraction of the|cian’s children are pupils in the | fair, as itis said they are. American republic. publican rule, powerless to pro- tectthem. Itis, therefore a ques- tion to be wisely considered by both political parties, whether the suppression of the colored vote is to be continued or whether the eolored man is to exercise the elec- tive franchise guaranteed by the Constitution. We know there are negroes who are the emissaries of the dem ocratic party for self aggandize- ment, and we are confident that alter they have been used, the: are disregarded & mistreated. No honest democrat has auy respect for a negro who declares that a thing 18 right when they know it is wrong, although it is to his in- terest. A negro who will sacrifice his people for self interest, 1s a kuaveand atrai‘or. There is but One question to be considered and that is, the colored people of the South. The very law that would have protected the negro in the south, was defeated by Mr, James G. Blain, who called upon the ne- groes of thesouthto aid him in 1884, but were powerless to do so because Mr. Blaine defeated the very law that would have enabled the colored people to hive elected him president of the United S:ates. The Democratic party has been and is opposed to the colored peo- ple; the Republican party has been derelict in its duty, but of the two evils the colored people should take the lesser. If Mr. Blaine is to be nomiuated ean he be elected? The Colored people are divided on Mr. Blaine, the Southern color- ed man does not want him, and neither is he in love with the democratic party. We hope that the republican convention will not make any mistake. A man should be nominated who will relieve the suffering Negroes in the South. The billof Hon. W. E. Chandler is just the thing to force fair elections in the South and it is hoped that Congress _ will take immediate actign on_ it COLOR PREJUDICE. We had occasion to speak briet ly last week in regard to the civil rights case of Mr. E. M. Hewlett, and while we are in sympathy with him, we are opposed tu his modus operandi, when there are 80 many colored people wo _prac- tice the very thing which Mr, Hew~ lettis endeavering to elimiuate. There is a certaiu class of colored people in this community who car ry their prejudice iu the ehurch the pulpit, the school and sccia circie. We know cases to have? existed where ministers were too black for the congregation; school” teachers too dark for others to as- sociate with, and pupils of colored parents t00 light to go to a colored school. Colored barbers, who con- duct shops especially for white} men, will not have any of this amalgamated cluss, for fear it will terd to injure their bus- iness. There are some black men, who have become disgusted with fe- males of their own coior and have married some common or second class white women, simply _be- cause theyare white. Every day there are cases‘of negroes whe are endeavering to leave the race, | because they want to ally them- selves with some second class white person The masses of the |colored people are adhearirg to| | their racesidentity, while a few) others are attempting to hide their |race identity. ‘The moment a ne- | gto does that, he loses the respect | ofthe people. We kuow of cases- | bow, where there are colored chil | dren going to white schools, but | | they are so near white that you cannot distinguish them from) | White children, There are two colored children in the Franklin | | school in South Washington. The | | fact of the matter is, that the pa-| |rentsofthose children are quite! dislike for colored children and colored schools. We don’t ask you totake this statement on its! face, but visit these schools your | Franklin school and the children | same room with poor white people of another gentleman, an employe at the Supreme Court, is not in the Jetferson school? There are bur. ber shops in West Washington, Capital Hill and intact throughout the city, kept bycolored men who refuse to shave their -own color. We also call the attention of the colored people to establishments kept by white people, who refuse to employ our girls and boys as salesmen, and printing offices, who refuse to employ a colored man as a printer, bat still the col- ored people continne to patronize them. Now if they were to pa- tronize their own establishmeuts, this prejudice would be eliminated. This would be doing something practical, and for the race’s benefit. But there can be nothing derived from eating houses by entering suits against the proprietors, we only satisfying the stomach, whereas on the other hand, if we would boycott these places on 7th street and Pennsylvania avenue, and support our own _ in- Y | stitutions, we would be putting money in our pockets, which would enable the raga. to advance and strengthen individuals financi- ally. Let us be more independent; let us withdraw our support from those who don’t want us, and sup- port ourselves, and you will find out that this will be the best civil rights law that can be enacted. So far as mixed schools are con- cern, the masses of the people are opposed to them. ns There is only one thing needed to make our schools equal with the white, so far as convenience is concerned, and that is, place all of the schools under one superinten- dent with an assistant, and we don’t know of a better man to place in charge of all the schools thaa Mr. Powell, the present su-~ perintendent. First, brake down the barrier which is up held by us, and then ask the courts to eliminate this discrimination practiced by the whites, THEY SAY THAT The young men will win in the next convention. ‘ 5 varton M. Holland read a great paper Thursday night before the Philomanthean. Alphabetical Taylor on Africa next Tuesday night. is to be accom- panied with Webster’s unabridged Dictionary aud Harvey’s English Grammar. His “‘qualities is sufficient to hold his own.” Taylor. He is to study grammar and es- pecially construction of sentences, by the next presidential election to enable him to be a diplomat. He told the President that Jim Matthews could not draw. Taylor can draw more ungramat- ical sentences than Matthews can draw negro democratic votes. Dr. Thomas Upshaw of the Pen- sion Office will lead to the altar a lady who has won his affections,- She has a tongue that can out general the Dr. Otherwise the Dr. would have changed. The Dr. is one of the jolly boys, and will succeed wherever he goes. The board of school trustees is a little Fishy on Mary Hall. Have your New Year visiting cards printed at the Bex office. The enforcement of the present law only seryes to create race an- tagonism. There are plenty of wealthy ne- groes in Washington who if they would, could open first class lunch and bar rooms for the benefft of the aggrieved. Eating at the same table in the doesn’t solve the Negro problem by any means. A few negroes who are slightly identified with the negro race are making more fuss beeanse white people won’t take the balance of their blood, than the honey-banded, flat-footed, kiuky-haired Sambo. When the Negro proper is pre- to get what belongs to him, he will getitin the natural order of things. Dr. Sunderland called at the In mons that if he wanted his marriage certificate, he would have to call at his residence and get it. The real colored people ain’t so | A great many people hanker after the Bee with a hankering truly wonderful, and who would faint the faint of the mortified if the Editor saw them reading bis pabulum, ‘vhings are not what they seem. The aristocrat of to-day with all that belongs with the title, beef- steak, broadcloth, and fast teams becomes a pauper of to-morrow with salt, having salt boss and a dry good box to roost in. The aristocracy of nature, lays catfish aristocracy way in tbe shade, that dollars don’t make blood ind never a gentleman or a lady. The BEE is holding its own in this community and contains more news to the square inch than any similar publication in the District. OUR WEEKLY REVIEW. THE BOARD OF SCHUOL TRUSTEES’ REBUKE’ TO COLORED CITIZENS. A REFUSAL TO RENT THE MILLER BUILDING, THE DUTY OF THE CITI- ZENS AND PARENTS. LET US PRO- TEST. SHALL THE PEOPLE SUBMIT TO THEIR SERVANTS? PRINCIPAL BROWN, &c., &e. The board of school trustees that met on last Tuesday evening, con sidered the protest of the citizens against the renting of the Mary Hall building inan indirect manner. That is, the protest that came from the citizen’s meeting, and carried to the Commissioners and transmitted to the School Board by them, was indirectly brought up in the school board on motion of Dr. Francis, with no reference to the petition of the citizens. The board, by a ma jority vote, decided to rent the Mary Hall building against the protest of the people. We think that it is about time for the people to give these public servants to understand that they cannot act contrary to the wishes of the people, in renting a house for school par- poses in a disreputable part of the city. The action of the school board 1s an insult to the people and a rebuke to the petition. There is but one thing for the citizens todo, and that is to carry their appeal TO CONGRESS and call upon parents not to allow their children to go to the Mary: Hall building. Letit be understood that the people are above the Com- missioners and the board of school trustees; that they cannot place respectable colored chiléren in a disreputable part of the city, sur- rounded by harlots and rum mills. It is hoped that every minister in the city will urge the parents of colored children, not to allow their children to go to this building. The voard uf schuul tiustccs Way Have the power.to rent a disreputable place for the colored children, but the colored people have the author- ity to prevent their children from attending, which they will do until Congress or some one will releave the people. The people expected better treatment from Messrs. Dar- lington and Ross, but didn’t expect anything else from Mr. Fish, who scems to be controlled by prejadice and the protest of a few uarrow minded white people in the vacinity of the Miller building. Let there bea monster mass meeting called and have an appropriate committee appointed to lay this matter before Congress. {n the suspension of Principal Brown, the school board acted like alot of children. For the length of time Mr. Brown was out, he had better been let alone, and not been suspended at all. The time is almost at hand for the calling of the Central Republi- can Committee. We don’t know of a man more qualified for the Chairmanship of that Committee, than Mr. E. W. Whitaker. Holmes iiouse. RESTAURANT & LADIES DIN ING PARLOR, Fine Wines, Choice Brandies, And Old Whiskies. OYSTERS IN EVERY STYLE Meals served to Orer, J. O. HOLMES, Proprizror, 333 Va. Ave., Southwest. Mooney 1'O Loan ON SHORT NOTICE, IN SUMS TO SUIT ON REAL ESTATE From 5 to 6 per cent. Houses for sale on easy terms, Apply at BLE OFFICE. SAMUEL HOWARD Private and Public Caterer calls the atten- tention of the public to the fact that he can serve them with Oysters in every style. 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