The Washington Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1888, Page 2

THE “BLACK DISTRICT” ELECTION The New York @RIBUNE is vigorously demanding action on the Smalis—Eilio: contest fora seat ln the House of Rep- reseatatiyes from the *‘Black Distric:”’ of this State. and in support of its claim that the declared result of the election should not pe aliowed to tand, quotes an article publishel in the GREENVILLE News just after election, two years ago. in that article we expressed the belief that the election was unfair, tiat Smalls was entitled to the scat and that the democrats of this State and the United Stetes should relieve themselves of re- sponsi »ility for the conduct of the elec- tion, The News and Courter, of Charles- ton, in reply to the TRIBUNE, alludes to its “queer heedlessness” and says this newspaper “*h=s had time to learu that it spoke in ignorance of the facts, So much of cur Charleston contem- pory’s statement is true. We have had ample time to learn that we “spoke in ignorance of the facts,” but the oppor- tunity has not been improved. We have not learned that we spoke in ignorance of the facts, and noone has undertaken to teach us that we did. What we said was the result of the be- lief that the official returns and evidence will show that by fatlure to open the polls and other methods, many hundreds of men who would have voted for Smalls were deprivad of the opportunity to vote, and we bold that beliet and will contin- ue to hold it and to stick tothe declara- tions an@ expressions based on it until authenticated and direct facts and figures shall show tothe contrary. The face of the returns make a strong presumption of fraud and throw the burden of proof on the defense. Tne GREENVILLE NEws does not be- ieve in dough-faced methods of hypocrit- ical avoidance of facts. We always have held and will hold that whatever meth- ods are n cessary to preserve the life of the Stataand defend the lives an prop- erty of the people and the safety of our women and children from the Radical Negro rule ought to be used and boldly defended on the resistless plea of self- preservation, But it was not necessary for the democrats to have the representa- sive from the ~‘Black District.” That District was cut off, against the protest of many good democrats, to make six sure democratic ard one certain republi- can District. There was repeated an- bouncement that it would be left for the colored people and would give them rep- Fesentation. There was no sense of jus- tice in interfering with it. Greenville is at one end of the State and the Black District is at the other, and we have no direct interest in the af- fairs of that District. But we are trying hard to build and develop the State; we are using every possible effort to attract immigrants and capital, particularly from the Northern States, and we wish it to be understood far and wide that proceed- ings like those indicated by the returns frow the Seventh District do not receive the approval of the mass of the white people, and that public sentiment does not demand that the democratic party of the country should shoulder any such load. —Greenville News, April 21. The Greenvitte News, a south- ern democaatic paper , in the above article admits that Genl. Robt. penealin tet ort atstrict” Ur South Carolina. The democratic party in Congress, especially the uorthern democrats, cannot afford to deprive Genl. Smalls of his seat in Congress. The NEWS admits that the better class of white democrats in the State don’t agree with that class that cheated a fairly elected representative out of his seat. Will the democrats do the fair thing, anc teat Genl. Smalls? Gentlemen the people are watching you ; they are watching every move that you make for human rights aud political liberty. COLOKED DEMOCKATS. We have been handed a circu- lar of a so called democratic organization, styled the National Independant Colored Political Un- ion, Iu this circular they ask 1st—What the condition was in which the colord people were Jeft after emancipation by the Republican party. To this ques- tion we would say, that the repub- licans recuguized the Negro as freemen, who had been formerly held as beasts and sold as such by the party whose cause this organization is epdeavoring to es 2ud—They say, the decision of the supreme court virtually denies all rights to citizenship to us, excepting that to vote under the preseut administration, we are as secure in our rights as under any former administration, &c. The republicans continue to wave tae vloody shirt, &c, Do these men remember a few months ago several colored men were shot down in a court house, a cvlored woman assassinated while testifying against a white beast who had outraged her per- son? that Hon. Robert Smalls was unjustly counted out in his Dis- trict? These impudent men fur- ther assert, that before the war the negroes were held in physical slavery and after the war iu political slavery. We would like to ask which is worse, physical or political slav- ery? The former binds the body while the latter only restrains our votes. It is claimed that the re~ publican party is responsible for the failure of the Freedmans bank. It was a class of scheming white and colored men who were respon sible for the failure of that insti-~ tution and while we are free to admit that the republican party had its faults, all that the negro has to-day it was given by the republican party and he knows that no honest democrat has any respect for a cless of negro rene- grades who would be so ungrate- fal as to utter such sentemenuts as these. Who are these men who make these declarations? Does the democratic party respect them or does that party want them? L. C. Moore a messenger in the Tuterior Department beads the circular, he is the chuirmad; James Gaither, Wm. H. Harrison, James Forest, Isaac Dozier, R. M. Dorsey, president of the Union, R. E. Gilchrist, secretary. This same men Gilchrist is an unedu- cated durkey ard a few m nhs ego he was a republican contestant delegate from the 17th South Washington, District. Moore the chairman of the executive Committee, is an uned- ucated negro, and passes as a democrat. He isan office demo~ crat none of them are any good to the republican party and less to the democratic party. All of them had better take a pick and shovel and go to work. We understand that a tew of these individuals have succeeded in deceiving a certain secretary to the ex'ent of getting money by claiming that they have a large organizition. Prof. John M. Langston is in the fi ld for Congress, and those who know him most intimately declare he is more for Cleyeland than Blaine, Sherman, or the long line of aspirants on that side; and besides, he is for Negro emancipa- tion and divisi n ulways. He may, should he get to the Congress, be counted for the administration and the Negroes’ right to vote for less protection and less soliicitude from old friends (?) Washington Correspoud-vt, CARO Ga- ZETTE. Prof. Langston is for the Negro and the republican party, ard will be sent to Congress from Virginia. Editor Chase of the BEE is a recent covvert to human progress—his mother and sisters intelilgent women, belong to the National Suffrage Association, and I hear he advocates the cause. He is in aquandary, Tam told, as to whether after all Cleveland is such a bugbear as his (Chase’s) party an¢ be tad thought him to be, as the great and, [ trust, good brother Jasper says: “ihe Sun do wove.’’—CAIRO GAZETTE We dont fear Cleveland, but it is the majority in the democratic party. We believe that Mr. Cleve- Rams tno, = We have just received with the compliments of Rev. J. A. Simons, lay delegate to general conferance ot the A. M. E Church, a copy of the quadrennial report, with a fine cut of Bishop J. M, Brown, the report is compiled by Rev. B. W. Arnett ,D, C. OUR WEEKLY REVIEW. BLAINE AND THE POPE OF ROMu. WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF THIS COUNTRY? THE CRISIS OF THE REPUBLIv. Whether Mr. Blaine expects the nomination or not, he will not be nominated, and the question bas been put to us, that we are in error in opposing bis nomination; that if nominated he will be elected; that we can’t hope to get an office, we. &c. To these questions, we would say that we want no office under Mr. Blaine, we are looking for no office and if nominated the Trish, Dutch, German and the like will monopolize the federal patron- age and those, whoever they may be, who opposed Mr. Blaines nom- ination can hope for nothing. The colored voters hope tor noth- ing and expect nothing under Mr. Blaine and the best evidence of that was demonstrated under the Garfield administration. Mr. Blaine would first consult THE POPE OF ROME before he made any American ap- pointments, and ouradvice to the American people is beware of the Pope of Rome. What is the CONDITION of our country today? It is on the eve ofa great political revolution and the final crisis will come if James G. Blaine is nominated on the republican ticket as the can- didate of that party. No negro with any respect for those who suf- fered under the Blaine REGIME, can support the nomination of this presidential aspirant. Indeed, no republic is threatened with imme- diate distruction more than Amer- ica; no government is so badly con- ducted as this; and no people are more ill treated than the negroes of the South. What then are our hopes? What must we do? Cries appeals of the Irish for home rule while thousands of colored people are suffering in this country and demanding equality before the law. Let Ireland and home rule stop iu the parliament of Great Britain and let Americans turn their attention to the appeals of those in the South. Every measure looking towards the emancipation of the oppressed col- ored man has been opposed by Mr. Blaine and yet he would have every one to vote for his nomination in the next convention. The people would rather have Cleveland and his Free Trade, than Blaine and the Pope of Rome. While we love the principles of the republican party, we have no sympathy for the man who lead us in 84, to des- traction. Sherman is the peoples first choice, Gressham second and Harrison third. But by all means let us nominate Sherman and save the republic. HON. JOHN M. LANGSTON has been elected one of the dele- gates to the Chicago conven tion from Virginia. Mr. Wise should now fall in line and submit to the wiil of the majority. Mahone has fairly won and the minority must yield. We are informed from the best men in Virginia that Langston willbe the next representative in Congress from the 4th Virginia dis- trict. No man wonld honor the po- sition more than this distinguished citizen. T. LAYTON. Dear John:— In reply to a com- munication bearing dute of May 17, 1888, to which your name was signed. I have to say that almost at the very beginning, you show the weakuess of your case by using nearly two columns of the “BEE” to reply to my “school boy compo- sitiov.” In my article published in the Beg May 12th, I stated that you had been asked to sing and refused because the beneficiaries had not assisted you; that your refusal looked to me like a desire to “get even” and that “retaliation” and not ‘consistency” was the proper word to use. Now John, in your communication (I beg parden) the communication to which your name was signed, you admit that you did refuse when you were asked to sing, that you refused for the reasons stated by me. difference between consistency and retaliation. But for the fact that you persist in honeriug me with the authorship of the editorial commenting apon my letter there would be nothing for me to reply to, The Ellitor of the Bex told you that be wrote the article aud’ as- sumed all responsibility for its publication. Itold your “man Friday,” whom doubtless you sent to me, that Idid not write if, but you pretend not to believe either of us, thinking perhaps it is safer to write me a “stinging reply” than it would be the Elitor ‘of the Bez. It is therefore your criticisms of this editorial in which you vainly attempt to knock out the manof straw you have set up that I must*feebly attack” in order that you may “smile” while reading it. Now my deur John, in speaking of my services to your concert you have either said too much or too little. Your memory seems to have been “all at sea’ when giving intormation on this subject. How have you managed to torget so many things during a single year? Allow me to refresh your memory by calling your attention to a few facts you seem to have entirely lost sight of Don’t you remember caliing at my place of business in April 1887 and telling me that you, not Dr, Upshaw, but you, were getting up a benefit and asking me to help come daily from the oppressed col- ored man in the South and indeed throughoat the country, appealing to the government for protection. Bat our attention is turned to the you? Don’t you remember I said to you that I could not do much as I was soliciting subscriptions to support the company about to enter the National Driil and that all my etforts were directed to their success? 1ou then asked me how you should go to work to get upa benefit, I advised you to prepare a letter tendering you a testimo nial, have that signed by anumber of prominent peuple avd then have the letter, together with your reply naming the time and place, pub- lished in the Bee and Advocate. You said you thought the church and choir would give you hearty support and I then suggest- ed that yoa have them form a committee of mapagament using only such names as would give strevgth to the movement. You then asked me to prepare the two letters for you and secure for you the consent of certain gentlemen By these admissions it is al- Loo plain thyt oH ,agknaslie| how I could spare thetime to do as you wished me to and 80 informed you. You renewed your request and offered, as an inducement, to pay me for my services. Itold you I did not wish, nor would I accept any com- pensation for my services. “I wish you to succeed” I said “and I will do all I can for you willing- ly and freely” I finally agreed to prepare the matter for you and this I did during my lunch bour of the same day youcailed. After office hours I showed the rough draft 1 bad made to Maj. Fleet- wood for his criticism. He sug- gested one change which [ made. I then went to the office of the Bre and while there told Mr. Chase that you would have about a column of matter for publication and asked him to favor you if he could and he promised that he would, I saw the gentlemen you wished me toand obtained from them the desired coneent. The following day as per agree- ment you again came to my place of business and brought a list of names to be appended to the le‘ter among which were those of the officers and pastor uf the Metro- politan church. During the day I made clean copies of the two letters and also prepared a circular for general distribution. In the after- noon I met you on Pa. ave. by appointment and in the presence of Maj Fleetwood handed yoa two copies of each letter and one copy of the circular, all of which you read and expressed your-elf as being highly pleased. You asked me then if I would not write something for the papers in support of the concert and compli- mentary to you. That week I wrote an editorial comment on the proposed testimonial and did the same thing each week while the concert was in course of prep- aration, Again don’t you remember say- ing to me the week before your coucert that you wanted to reach the ministers and get them inter- ested and wished me to fix up something for you? The next day I wrote a circular letter and a fellow clerk in the office made eight copies of it and I made s'x, fourteen in all. These IL handed you on Pa. ave. in front of Mil- burn’s drugstore. You read one aloud and said “that will cateh them.” Maj. Fleetwood. who wee rus at sai yes duayiuu there is plenty of taffy in that.” Then you emied John. Indeed iff remember correctly we all smiled that day. It is true John that you did give me twenty five tickets to sell for you, but don’t you remember I told you at the time that I could not sell them because I was soliciting funds for the men who would enter the drill? [ told you that those men had to make history for the race aud their success was of the great- est importance to us all. You said “nomattsr take them, yo: may meet some one who will buy atick- et.” Tue day following your con- cert I met you in front of the “Star Office and congratulated. you on your success. You grasped my hand with both of yours and said. “Tompkins, I will never forget you for what you have done for me’ in this matter and whenever I can help you in anyway call on me and I will doit, for you have proven yourself to be a true friend to me.” You again spoke of compensation and I again declined. You said “well anyhow Vl bave you up to my room and we’ll open a bottle of wine.” Itis needless to say that the bottle of wine never material- ized. (AIl of this happened before You were inflated.) Ou this ocea- siou I made my return of tickets held. I told you that I had sold four and used two and therefore owed you one and a half dollars. You said that the tickets used were mine by virtue of having sung in| the concert and it would have been small compensation for my services had I used a dozen. You told me to keep the dollar as your contribution to the support of the menin camp andI entered ou my subscription book “J. T. Lay- ton $1 Paid, and then gave you nineteen tickets. How this world is given to—— but no matter. John, you have a wretched memory. I wonder how you even remembered to sign your name to the article that appeared in the BEE last week. In neitner the article I wrote nor the editorial I did not write was it stated that either your passive or active opposition bad any effect on the concert. Your assumption therefore that your passiveness did cffect the weal or| woe ot the concert is a trifle egotistic. Another man of straw. Now dear John, though I know th statement I am abvut to make will grieve you, yet in the interest of truth and justice it must be told. The concert was nct mis- was managed well. For a4 I ean claim but little if any credit, for a lady, whorn we are all proud to honor, was the lite and soul of the whole affair. To her un- tiring eflorts the success we met with is mainly due. It will also pain you to learn John that the concert was nota financial failure. The bills have all been paid, and we will bave something to give the ladies; not so much as wehoped for, but still enough to compensate them for their trouble {[ am atraid Joho when you spoke of the financial failure ofthe enterprise the wish was father to the thought. I am truly sorry to be forced to “kovuck out” this man of straw too, but “truth is mighty and will prevail,” By the way John, do you remember when I met you at 9th and F streets, and asked you to sing for us how reluctantly you declined? When you gave your final no, your voice was husky with emotion and there was & suspicious moisture in your innocent eyes as you said, “I feel under many obligations to you for the assistance you gave me and if this benefit was for you, 7 Sherman will be nominate W. H. Black is very sick. Layton’s reply to Tompkins , ted a riffle last week. Thompkins closeted hin, make a reply. rea No necessity for that. R. \\ r. can get there when he gety re, The BEE is the peoples pay The Editor received a bani|s Dasket of flowers last week some one unknown to him. There is one who loves t}; anyway. If Dr. Coox succeeds Dp what then? If Dr. Franeis preeedes by. ( what then? Dr. Purvis will be no lone geon in charge of the hos} Everybody me Tead the Bur would take off my coat and go to work with a will.” I suppose the sense of obligatiou and desire to serve me all arose from the fact that I had given away two tickets that you had entrusted to me to sell. I tremble John, when I think of what would have been the con- dition of your feelings had I given away four instead of two. Refer- ring to the reasons assigned by the ladies for not singing, 1 trast you will not feel offended if I accept their statement of the affair in preferance to yours. You have such a wretched memory you know that I fear you may have forgotten just what they did say. In this connection permit me to ask you John, why you could not be “consistent” in yonr statement ? After having stated your true reason for not singing viz: that you wanted to get even with the Jadies for not singing for you, why did you tell one of them that your only reason for not assisting her was because the concert to be given for the public schools demanded your entire attention? When the affairs of your con cert were settled, the secretary of your committee, acting, I suppose, under your instrnctions, sent me a letter, which I still have, thank- ing me for my services and en- alaning ~ rtetamant shawing tha amount realized ; so Lhave already been ‘enabled to discover how much cash you received.” 1 am very sorcy John that you over- looked so many important facts in having your statement of the case made, because there are people in the world who would not besitate to say yon did this with “malice aforethoughv’ and without the fear of God before your eyes;that your mind is anfettered by the four corners of hard matter of fact. Bat thank Heaven, John, Iam one ot these. I know you area christian because you say so. I know that you have long since served your probatiouary term and have been received into full fellowship with the charch. I know that you attend class-meetings and love-feasts, and Ihave no donbt that your hearty “amens” have often inspired with a religious fervor many weak-need bretheren who were inclined to falter. I know that once each month following the time-honored easton of your church, you “hay- ing truly repented of your sins” and ‘having made your humble confessions” devoutly kneel and receive the most holy sacrament of the Lord’s supper.’ Thig being true John, you would not bear false witness against your neighbor. It must be then that these omissions are due to one of those strange cases of a complete suspension of the memory, during which the person affected loses all recollection of past events. Fearing that you think that I too suffer from a dis- ordered memory I will state that the original pencil draft of your letter isin my desk at the office and the manuscript from which the publication was made is in the office of the BEE. A few words of advice John and I willbe done with you. Write your own letters in the future. It will help your memory and thus enadle yqu to State more facts. It is not in good taste to introduce foreign words when writing a composition in English , therefore the use of the words “ipse dixit” does not look well. While it may be true that| you area good latin scholar and/| fully understand the meaning of such words as those used, there are many of us who are not so fa- miliar with the dead languages as you appear to be and cannot com- prebend your meaning. Goodbye John Yours &e., R. W. ToMPKINS. ——_—X—X—X_—_ No one will be left May 30th. on week. If you want all the news re BEE. Letter writing is becom vg popular iu this city. A new superintendant of th he col ored schools will be appointed. ud the very The man who works against bim self is a fool. This city has many fools beyond all doubt. Free notices, free pul <, Xv. \ave been dispensed with. All personal commun must be paid for strictly in a at the rate of L5cts per line. We often desert a friend in pros perity and look him wp iu sity. Never listen to public op when you are in the right. The prejadices of a few otten cause persons to desert their best friends. When you can be used as a cats paw to pull chestnuts out of the fire for other people, you are%a jolly good fellow. Mr. Fred Douglass will join the A. M, E. Conuection. What does this mean? A fallen man will ecateh on ¢ anything to be saved. Blaine will not be nominated Sherman is a friend to humavit So called colored democrats coming to the front. They formerly belonged to the republican party. They want an office. Women should have their riziits No man should be given any more power than a woman. A woman has the same right to be protected in her property est as a man. The Cadets will go to Harpers Ferry May 30. Mr. Douglass will stani )y ler. Johnson. No doubt of it. Wonder who will stand )y Mr. Douglass? Americans should be on’ gui. Beware of Blaine and the Px of Rome. Thousands of ‘Negroes are « fering in the South. Subscribers will please eall pay their bills as the have made several calls. How many dead beats bor: their neighbors paper last week’ Did you purchase the Bar lust week? It is not so, because Mrs. Jo es Saw you reading Mrs. Joliuso paper. Persons desiring the Bax sent to them will send in names to the offize. _No honest person will bo his neighbors Ber. collectors Dici you receive an invitation to Jerry Robinson’s and Pred Co marriage? It is now Jerry and Fred. Persons desiring to eongrat Mr. Layton will please sign ' hames. Anonymous comumii tions are uot noticed. DR. W. S. LOFTON, DENTIST, OEFICE 1543 MSt., N. W. Washington D. ©- WANTED:—Two or three lectors and Agents at this of to use their names, I did not ace managed. On the Contrary it the Cadets excursion to Harpers Ferry. al percentage paid on all bills : Call at once between the hours of Y 4" 12 o cloek, a. m and m,