The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1888, Page 2

: | : . Published every one Wasnt, mg x § at 1109 I street niend at the Postcfice at Washington + #® Keccnd-cleet ral! matter. JAMES G. BLAINE. The letter of Mr. Blaine found in another cuiumn of this paper seemingly declining to allow bis name to be presented before the National Republican Convention, is what the politicians call a feeler. Let it be what it may, whether he means what his letie: infers, or not, Mr. Blaine, if nom- inated cannot be elected, and if the Republican party wants an- other Waterloo then uominate James G. Blaine. If the Repub- lican party cares anything for the colored. vote in this country some other man than Blaine should be nomisated. The relation between the colored people of this c»untry and Mr. Blaine is as far apart as the Atlantic is from the Pacific and any attempt to thrust the Maine Statesman on the colored vote will prove dieasterous to the Republi- can party. Mr. Blaine never has been sound on the Negro question and history fails to record ene thing that he has done in the interest of our people. What would his policy be if he were elected Pres- dent of the United States? His first step would be an alliance with the Irish vo'e to the exclusion of the Negro. His foreign policy wou'd ultimately lead to a war for which the country is not prepared and one in which the white man would attempt to force the Negro to play an important part, while he wvuld look on and give orders, Mr. Blaine’s book entitled “twen- ty years in Congress,” is the best recommendation fur him on the! Negro question. While it is true that he compliments a few colured men, there is not one act shown whereby a Negro has been recom- mended by him for any important trust under s republican adminis. tration. While Sceretary of State, under the Garfield Administra- tion, he didall in his power to in- fluence Mr. Garfie'd to overthrow the Re-a:/juster party in the State of Virginia which was the only par- tythat recognized the merits of the colored man Blaine is not wanted, and if nom nated, he will be defeated; and so fer as the colored vote is concerned it can be better seen when the contest takes place and his letter is a “political mush pot.” LANGSTON FOR CONGRESS. Hon. John Mercer Langston Stands to-daygune of the greate-t}. Negroes in America. His tidetity to his people and the cau:e im which he hus been engaged while. in Virginia demonstrates the fuct that, if he is sent to Congress, ne will be the peer of any man io defence of a race which has been so long oppressed.. He bows to no man when te ie in the right and he is one of the few men who conducts an office as a man chould. He is never influenced by posiiion or the association of dignitaries, nor is hea man to forget those Who serve him. Asa diplomat his equals bave never yet been found; as an orator he is the equal of any mar; and as a scholar und a teacher Mr. Langston bas never been found wanting. The race is in need of sucha man in Congress; the people of Virginia could look with pride and admiration upon swch a man to rep'esent them in Congress. It is in the power of the colored voters in the State of Virginia to send one of their represenatives and honored sons to the great leg- islative halls of the Nation and a man the world will respect. The elevation of one of our represena- tives is our advancement and it is hoped that theleadersin Mr. Lang- ston’s district wili throw away personal ambition and support him for Congress.. We hope that such men as Messrs. Batte, Harrie, Stevens and others, will show to those who have here- tofore prevented a colored man from coming to Congress, will use all honorable means to have a col- ored man to represent them in Congress. The time has come for us all to look out for ourselves and the race which has been 80 oppressed and we shall do all in our power to Congress, We would suggest that| point at issue,” pomponsly replied organized Langston Clubs be throughout the district, let every man, Woman and child who has a chance to judge for ourselves ; don’t voice commence the great work The columns of the Brg are open to correspondents, and those who have not subscribed for the Brg In this will please do so at once. contest we arefor Langston and the colored peopie. Begin at once and organize and show tc the world that there is unity among the colored people and an appre- ciation for such leaders as Lang- We shall not only use our ston, paper, but we shall come in the District. SENTOR BRUCE BEFORE HEIDELBERG COLLEGE. The Tiffin Daily Tribune referning to the lecture of Hon. B.K Bruce before Heidelberg College Tiffin Ohio Says: Ex-Senator Blanche K. Bruce, of Miesissippi, delivered his lecture entitlel “The Race Problem” at the College Chapel last evening before one of the largest audiences in the Y. M. C. A. course. Mr. Brnee showed himself to be an able champion ot his race, and the audience was rape pleased with the lecture. e made astrong plea for the education of the colored people of South, and said that the solution of the race probiem, in the Umted States, would be found mm one word--Americanization, Mr. Bruce is fluent speaker, has a pleasing address and impresses the listener as a man who is not only well informed concerning his subject, but as being thoroughly in earnest. The lecture by Hon. B K, Broce last night was a decided success, and every-body went away well pleased. Should Mr. Broce return to this city, we guar- antee a large and once will greet him. He is a logical and pointed speaker, taking bis points in such 8 way as to sustain them: eee A MOUTHY NEGRO KNOCKED OUT. A CHICAGO EMINENT + PHYSICIAN ENDORSED. 4 LE3S0N To MEN WHO ATTEMPT TO PRACTICE FRAUD UPoN THE PEOPLE. . (From Chicago Inter Ocean.) There was a real pleasant meeting m the little lodge-room on the top floor of No 130 South Clark street yesterday afternoon. It was pro- fusely pheasant for everybody but the maa who anticipated the most merriment, who brought about the meeting, and by the meeting was brought about, so sharply it made his head swim. The gentleman’s name is John @. Jones, one of the handsomest, most dignified and cultured colored men inthe city. Heis an attorney by profession, and by way of recre- ation wears the regalias of a large number of secret societies. And when anyone assaults secret socie- ties or speuks disparagingly of the colored race, he strikes the most tender spot in Mr. Jones’ anatomy. A few weeks ago Dr. D. L. Wil- liams, the leading colored physician of Chicago, in the course of a long interview with a reporter, used the words: “The great mistake which j white people make is to judge the whole colored race by the sleeping- car porter(who is not half so black as he has been painted), by the newsboys and roustabouts.” the interview he said: ‘The color- ed people are particularly fund of secret societies and bright regalias.” When Mr. Jones read those re- marks of Dr. Williams his ire was kindled. He saw in them an insult to the sleeping-car porter and se- ¢ret societies, and he determined to resent it. He had a lot of little dodgers headed with big type scattered broadcast over the city, inviting all members of secret soci eties, sleeping-car porters, and hotel waiters to meet at No. 180 South Clark street and show Dr. Williams where he was wrong. At 2:30 o'clock about fifty color- ed men bad assembled at the ball. Mr. Jones elected himeelf chairman, and immediately opened his batter- ies upon Mr. Williams. From two newspapers he read two short ex- traets of Dr. Williams’ remarks, the ones heretofore referred to. In sesquipedalian words Mr. Jones M to street-car perter, the hotel waiter, the secret societies, and de- pounced Dr. Williams. He was in the midst of his wild, unbounded eloquence when a colored brother cried out : “Why = don’ persuade the good people of the| somefin” what modifies it.” old Domixivn to send Langston to “I read all that relates to the °} in northen communities as agents, you read all dat speech of de Doctor, widout pickin’) out one sentence; maybe he said) THE CADETS FAIR. In antoher column wil be found an elaborate advertisement of the Fair for the benefit of the Wash- ington Cadet Corps, to be opened on the 22nd inst., and closed on the 9th of March. This deseryed- ly popular organization, ranking first among the colored militia of the District, both as to member- ship and proficiency in drill, has gained for the colored citizen sold- ier, a recognition ia military circles not accorded him previous to the National Drill held in this city last May. The only colored orgau- ization in the District having the temerity to enter the great Nation- alcontest in which were engaged the best drilled soldiers in the United States, to their everlasting credit be it said, that by their gentlemanly deportment in camp and their soldierly bearirg and proficiency in drill on the field, they earned for themsleves and their race an honorable position in Mr. Jones. “No, that won’t do; give us a misrepresent any man.” “J don’t,” indignantly answered Mr. Jones. “If you think I didn’t read it right, read it yourself.” “Til do it, said Morris Bowman, the famed colored attorney, and taking the paper he read all the interview with Dr. Williams. When the whole was read it was found that instead of reviling secret soci- eties or speaking disparagingly of his own rice, Dr. Williams had complimented, upheld, and spoken most sensibly and calmly of them. Instantly there wasa revulsion of feeling in theaudience. Instead of raking Dr. Williams over the coals, the audience wanted to roast Mr. Jones. And they did it. Mor- ris Bowman told him he thought it san outrage to villify a man with- out cause, and behind his back, too.” Mr. Jones insisted that Dr. Wil- liams had insulted the whole color- 2 = = ed race and demanded the passage | the list of contestants that fur- of a long list of resolutions con- | Dishes another link in the constant- demuing Dr. Williamg in.severest|!y increasing chain of evidence terms: tending to show the possibilities of the Negro race. The citizens of “J move that the resolations be ‘ laid on the table,” cried one man Washington have reason to feel as soon as Mr. Jones had finished | Proud of ‘Our Cadets” and their popular commander Maj. Fleet- reading them. “J second the motion,” yelled} Wood; not alone because they everybody in the house but Mr.| bave organized and maintained an Jones. exceptionally good military comp- any, but because in their own Then Mr. Hulitt said: “I move i She that we unanimously endorse every struggle for existence they have never turned a deaf ear to the cry word of Dr. Williams said in the u 5 interviews published in the papers.” | for assistance coming to them “Second the motion,” yelled the from an ey ee ees i lapping their hi nd e@ Metropolitan stree audience, clapping ands a Baptist, Shiloh, Plym cath Joke stamping their feet. Mr. Jones looked tired. His res-| Wesley, 4th Baptist and other churches will all bear willing test- olutions had been kicked out and imony to the valuble scr -ives rend ut to be, metaphoricall : Se : he was abo y P! ol Gredee thent by the Washington oeePat, ne motion! put the mo-|Ca@det Corps. The simple an- tion !” cried several voices, as Mr. Peete that the Cadets will Jones hesitated. old a Fair should, of itself, be suf- “Oh, you needn’t be afraid; I ficient to fill their hall every night won't put it,” he said, with the echerbenraess acti ae Histecsie sickest kind ofa smile. “Yes Pll 3 put it,” “I'll put it,” he continued.|%4ve everythiug arranged and managed on a scale to suit the “Then do it,” commanded half a a : dozen persons, walking toward bim. | #8tes of all. The goods on sale There was no help for it; Mr. will consist generally of usefull Jones had to swallow the gall. “All| articles and the price wil be mark- who are in favor of indorsing what|€4 down so as to be within the reach of all. In fact it, is the pur- Dr. Williams said say aye,” he painfally announced at last. pose of the management to open a “ Aye! aye!” cried the whole | !arge retail Bazar at wholesale audience, except Jones. prices. Our advice to the public “Contrary, no,” called out Mr.| is, do not neglect the rare oppor- tunity of securing usefull articles Jones, 0 A dead silence followed. below market prices. Go and see «Our Cadets.” ‘Move we adjourn,” said Bow- man. The motion was not second- ed. There was no need of it. Chairman Jones had fied; withhis resolutions, through the keyhole. JOE BUNKERS BUDGET. MORTGAGED BY THE BEE. ——— NO NEGRO EXODUS. The courteous and affable mes- senger to the warm haired, and equally as courteous acting Land Commissioner of the Luterior Department has been accused of being the person who was flailed a week or more ago in these col- ums for being a “uigger” despite the fact that he bas every 0;)pors tunity to be something more when his colored bretheren call} around, to gaze on and interview my uncle’s commissioner of Pat- ents. The neat colored African referred to, aust not be meutioned on the same breath with the dap- per little gentleman who does the honors at the docr of the Land Commissioner. There is no com- parison, except that one is Hy- periou and the other Satyr one is a thoroughly organized and well equipped ‘-Nigger’’, and the other a most accomplished and versatile gentleman, who attends to his own business and treats every body alike. I suppose that the bill for the relief of the Depositors in the late “Freedman’s” Stealing and Bust Company will be passed during the present session of Con- gress. If the Republicans dont pass a bill the Democrats should do so, as there is no good reason why our people should be robbed by and with the sanction of Con- gress. Mr. Sherman’s bill is a good one and [ hope it will pass muster. Let the colored people through out the country, get up petitions praying. Congress to take one of the few bills now on the calender and pass it Iam so dumfounded on account of the withdrawal of Blaine from the presidential contest, that I cannot write any more s> that when you come to this place stop. EX-SENATOR BRUCE WANTS THB COLONIZATION SCHEME ABANDONED. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb, 13.— Ex- Senator Blanche K. Bruce, tormerly of Mississippi, but who is now a resident of this city, was | to-day asked by a reporter his | cpinion of the proposed negro exodus to South America and ) Liberia, The ex-senator replied, | “Oh, there isn’t anything in the | So-called excdus either to South | America or to any other foreing jland. The scheme originated | with two classes—one composed |ofa few$ honest, simple minded \ men, without experience and without the remotest conception H of the magnitdue of the venture; | the other is composed of sharpers, who think they see in the proposed Movement an opportunity to advance there personal fortunes. i Some of the latter class, I am informed, have recently appeared soliciting money to hurry forward the work. To encourage such men is to put a premium on fraud, and in the estimation of the public will do an incalculable injury to the colored people of this country.” The ex-senator added that about & year ago a prominent official in Venezuela informed him that while that government would welcome immigration, it desired only such as would be eelf- sustaining for one year as a guarantee againts the possibility of becominga public charge. In conclusion Mr. Bruce said: “We may as well abandon, once for all, the impracticable scheme of colonization and devote our en- ergies to the work of disciplining and informing the’ negroes, intellectually and morally, that they may be armed for the battle of life at home.” Carry your children to the Cadets grand fair Sherman for president is the war cry of to day, The new City Postmaster isa good man. Langton for Congess. Go to the Cadets grand fair. | Dr. Francis’s resolutions on In- dustrial Education will appear in next weeks issue. | dive us suffrage in the District ‘of Columbia. THEY SAY Sour grapes are always eaten by the disappointed. There is a differnce between the discontinuence of a subscription to @ paper and stopping its publica- tion. That accounts for the non-publi- cation of the NATIONAL ERA under Fred. Douglass. A dead man’s birthday is celebra- ted to keep in the mind of the peo- ple, or to reconcile his defeat in a scheme that was a disappointment to his political ambition. The Bees’ seventh Anniversary will be celebrated next June. A certain professor prepared Stewarts resolutions for him. Some ofthe words used wold breake Stewarts’ jaw-bone to pro- nounce. Both the professor and Stewart had better come to a halt before a bomb is bursted. Facts are dangerous when they are related in order. The sage of Cedar Hill will no doubt find comfort i: his birth-day celebration. There is certainly none in the bee-hive for him nor will there ever be. Blaine has retired from the field. Perry will not vote for “Jemes” G. Blaine. Sherman is the manto elect President of the United States. A few months agoa certain re. tired officer of the Bethel Literary saw no good in the sage of Cedar Hill. To-day he is preparing to cele- brate his birth-day. He who fawns on man and after- wards bugs him. is a knave. It is well for men to be what they are and not what they pretend to be. A pretender is as dangerous as an asp. Now that Blaine has retired trom the field, Perry and Andy will have a@ condolence meeting. Dyson wear the Sherman hat. Milton M. Holland is better than all of them. He is what he seems to be—an honest man. A man that can’t look you in the face is dangerous. The people’s Literary is the Phil- omathean. Be honest and fear no man. Perry’s dead now sure, Some respectable old funerals (political) woulddo Washington a power of good. “Jeemes” G. Blaine will not re- sign himself to his fate until after the Convention says so. The withdrawal business is a part of the scheme to secure the nomination and to make Blaine stock go up. “Jeemes” G. knows where to find the weak spots about the average politician and he hits em right. He confidently expects the ex- pected to happen as the result of this unexpected(?) withdrawal from the fight. He cannot be elected if nomina- ted, as he will be by some cranks in Chieago, in June next and as he opes to be. The Cadets Fair will }, ea bas ? Fair. It will. be opened irom yup 22nd to Mareh 9th. om ———_____ CHIPS. When sauce boils from the side of the pan, the flour or conn-star.) is done. Always put a little soda in milk that is to be boiled, as an acid is fromed by boilding. A tablespponful of turpenting boiled with white clothe greatly aid the whitening pu will To stone ra‘sias easily, pour boiling water over them and drain it off. This loosens them and they come out with ease. To mend small holes in plaster. img, useone pert plaster of Paris and three parts fine sand. Mix with cold water andapply with a case knife. The little red ants which are so trouble-some in the house, may be caught in sponges into which sugar has been sprinkled, Then drop the sponge jy boiling water, aad kill the ants, Javelle water, used to remove teaand coffee, grass and stains from linen, is made thas Mix well in an earthen vessel one pound of sal soda, five cents’ worth of chloride of lime and two quarts of soit water. Fresh meats and game shoul: always be kept iu adry,cool place; bat not in a place where milk and butter are kept; the latter, being rapid absorbents, will svon be injured in flavor if allowed to res main iv the same small enclosure with meat or vegetables. The cleanest and most p ly polished floors have no water used on them. They are simply rubbel off every morning with a large flannel cloth, which is soaked in kerosene oil once in two or three week. Take the cloth, and with a rubbing brush or stubby broom, 3 go rapidly up and dowu the plan! (not across them). After a few rubbings the floor will assumes polished appearance thai is not easily defaced You had better not misz the Ca- dets’ Fair, -~-——GREAT BARGAINS for this month at 8, W. Augenstein 817, 819 and 821 7th Street, n. w. READ! READ! Half dozen new shape cups and saucers 39 cts. Colored stand lamps complete 38 cents Decorated tea sets ae dinner sets Washbowl pitchers e $10,00 decorated chamber set o1- ly 6.98. 50 ets. Majolia pitchers only 23 cts. Mixed candy lb. Special prices to fairs, huree* and Festivals. Wm. H, HL Hart ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LW. Offices 490 La. ave., n, w., Rooms 5 and 6 2nd floor Barbour Building. s Residence, 1130 15th st., n. w- Will practice in all the courts o es THE ASS AND THE FOX, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE ‘*R ESPECTABLES”’ IN DISTRICT POLI~ Tics, One day, as an Ass was jourreying along toward a rich meadow, £0 chancel upon a Fox who was quietly sitting by the roadside. “Ah, friend Fox,” said he, “I was just looking tor you. I am gving to Feed in yonder meadow.” “Bat,” answered the Fox, “You can not get in; that meadow is reserved for animals of Beauty,” “Exactly,” said the Ass, “but I have a beamtiful Voice. Listen—” And he brayed loud and long. When the hast echo bad died away, turning to the Fox, he ask:d: “Now, friend Fox, you have heard it. What does thatShow?” “It shows,” said the Fox, quietly,as he took up his cane and spriug over-coat, “that you are an Ass.” _ Moral.—This fable teaches that | % $25 per day ad rire there is always more than one way | aot required. Some have m4 of looking at a thing.—Puck, this District and before the (ou mittees of Congress. Special atteation given to drawing Wills, Certificates of incorporation. Deeds and other legal inst Orchestral music for Balls, P" vate parties, Soirees, Recep(i00* Weddings, ete. Special ments and low terms to Clubs & ing @ number of entertainmen's during the season. FP. Kravts®, 621 S. C. Ave., 88 ROBT, HOLIDA), GROCERY & PRO’ Islos STORE. AJl kinds of Groceries and !’ ions, Fresh and salt Meats. Mackerel, &c. . louh Street eteuded SEA WONDERS exists in thous! ” of forms, but are surpasse:! by vels of invention. Those who 4" of profitable work that can be living at home should at once * ty address to Hallet & Co., Porthin, and receive free, full inform either sex, of all ages, can ¢% they live, Youare started fre im asingle day at this work. A“