The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1889, Page 2

“published every Suturday at 1109 I stree north west, Washington, D. C. ntered at the Post Office at Washington D.C., as Second Ciass mail matter. HON. WM. E. CHANDLER. We assume that there is no man in Washington so narrow minded so infinitesimally small intellectually as to envy Senator Chandler the tribute which thou- sands of our colored fellow citi- zens turned out on last Wednes- day night to hia honor paid with grateful and sincere hearte. It was an outpouring of the populace which while remembering that he has not put off the armor, has not forgotten that he wears it worth- ily and is a brave and generous of our common enemy the Bourbon Democratic Party He has entered the campaign against Democratic brutality and raacality with a fixed aud deter- niined purpose te push ‘the battle to the gates and he will be ably seconded in his crusade by the great Republican party of which the Negroes of the South have always been faithful and loyal al- lies. He is on God’s side in this irrepressible conflict and where God ie right will surely prevail though the heavens fall. The Negroes case is still in equity and there ie a reasonable and well grounded faith within us that the verdict will be in tavor of the defendant Mr. Chandler makes a strong point against thestrict construction of the constitution when he de- clares that if Congress has power to enforce the 13th Amendment, it has power also to enforce the 15th Amendment. He has sound. ed the keynote and its reverbara- tions will be heard around the world. Mr. Chandler is a worthy suc- cessor of Charles Sumner, in him the black men of the United Ftates bave a friend as loyal and as true as he is good ard great, A friend who believes that labor for man because he is man, is man’s noblest work. We pray God to prolong the number of his years that he may see the end of the beginning of the work to which he bes devoted his life, his great ability, and his money—All honor to New Hamp- shire’s favorite son and the Ne- groes’ fuithful earnest and devoted friend. EX-PRESIDENT CLEVE- LAND. In this week’s issue of the Ber appears the report from the Balii- more Sun of the serenade recently tendered to. Senator Chandler. the correspondent stated that we called on the President with a delegation asking for an office, not for ourself but for some one else and that the President pulled from his pocket a copy of the Brg, and called our attention to arti- cle in condemnatory of Mr. Cleve~ land avd the democratic party. We desire to say that we did call at the Executive Mansion when Cleveland was President, and requested him to review the emancipation day parade, which is always customary to do, and not for an office for uny one. We beg leave to inform the Washington correspondent of that paper that the citizens in conven- tion assembled, elected us, spokesman of the delegation to request Mr. Cleveland to review the procession and not for any other purpose. The President did present to us a copy of the Brg containing an article agaiust the democratic par- ty aud the fraudulent manner in which Mr. Cleveland was elected over Mr. Blaive, the present, Sec- retary of State. We informed Mr. Cleveland that we did write the article and bad enothing to retract, and many of the race journals published at that time, denounced us because we declared war against Clevelund and the fraudulent methods ef the demo~ cratic party to carry elections in the South. We still adbere to the declara- tion made by us at-the time the article appeared Nov. 14, ’84, we never apologized to Mr. Cleveland for having published the article, nor did we ask any favors at the hands of the democratic admini- stration, nor did we ask for a reinstatement after our discharge from the government by the di- rection of Mr. Cleveland. The Bre lived and reigned through the whole democratic ad- ministration and opposed honors to vnmerited gain. a WORTHY MEN, Among the worthy colored men in the District office who should be promoted or given some cor- sideration are Mr. W. H. Jackson, who was removed by the last democratic commissioners and put a white democrat in his place, and was subsequently reinstated as an assistant to the man who didn’t know anything about his]. business. Mr, Jackson is a competent man and should be given his old place back again. He has a bet- ter knowledge of the work than the man who was placed over him. Mr. Jackson was born a slave in Virginia, and by industry and perseverance he has been able to elevate himself, and hus become one of the most valuable men in the engineers’ department. Mr. C. H. Marshall who does four men’s work should certainly be given a promotion. Mr. Mar- shall has one of the largest fol- lowings in thie city and if there were suffrage to-day there is no man in South Washington to de- teat him, It is hoped that Commissioner Douglass and Hines will consider the claims of these men. - RATHER CHEEKY. We are of the opinion that it ts rather cheeky on the part of Mr. Douglass to arrogate to himself the power to monopolize all of the appointments that are to go to the colored people under this adminis- tration. He has been appointed minister to Hayti which position he must be satisfied with, as he has accepted it. He now wante Mr. Morris to go to Liberiaand Mr. Wormly re- corder of deeds. Are there no other places Mr. Douglass wants tor his family and triends? It is surprising to us that he basn’t recommended some one for Regis~ ter of the Treasury. Our advice to Mr. Douglass is to sail tor Hayti as soon as possible as his services are needed there very much; they are certainly not wauted here, had they been, he would not have been sent to the black republic. =—_——_—— NOT TRUE. A report was circulated last week to the effect that Ex-Senator B. K. Bruce called to see the Pres ident with Mr. Douglass to urge the appointment of Mr. W. H. Wormley for Recorder of Deeds for this District, and another re- port was that Mr. Howard Wil liams had a petition in circulation in the intereat of Mr. Bruce for the Recordership. We desire to say that Mr. Bruce is not a candi- date for the Recordership nor did he call with Mr. Douglass to urge the appointment of Mr. Wormley for that office that Mr. Douglass called with Mr. Wormley and urged his appoint- ment for the Recurdership. Senator Bruce has not indorsed any one for that office and the person who circulated such a re- port did it with au evil intent. THE HAYTIAN MISSION. Elsewhere in this paper will be found some of the opinions of the press concerning the appointment ot Mr. Douglass to Hayti. We have endeavored to be just in re- producing the clippings from the press by publishing those that are favorable and those that are not favorable to his appointment. Personally we admire Mr. Doug- lass, but, politically we know that he has blundered, which has made him unpopular with his people. In the late contest for fappoint- ment of Collector ef Internal Revenue tor the 4th District of North Csrolina, Mr. Cheatham made one of the most brilliant and untiring efforts for Mr. Young, ever made by any Con-~ gressman from the eld North State. His constituents certainly have no room to complain; they are to be congratulated upon the selection of such a worthy repre- sentative. We suspected that Mr. Cheat- ham would be very much dissat- isfied about the appointment of Mr. White, feeling as here that Mr. Young would have done more for his colored constituents than any other applicant, but to the contrary he turned up after a short visit to his district, with his jolly as ever. It 1s true however, usual smiles and apparently a3 While he protested aguinst the appointment of any one but Mr. Young, the President thuught differently and appointed Mr, A. E. White, which appoint ment Mr. Cheatham now accepts, supposing that the President is the better judge of the situation. This clearly shows that Mr. Cheatham means business and that he is for the success of the party at all times and under all circumstances. J. M. TOWNSEND. THE NEW RECORDER OF THE LAND OFFICE. President Harrison knows a gentleman, and he has picked out a great number of them to fill the offices at his disposal. In the selection of Dr. J. M. Townsend of Indiana, to be Recorder of the Land office, the President as usu-~ al, selected a gentleman of high character and intelligence in the persou of the distinguished Negro whose vame heads this article. No appointee of the President, has a better reputation or charac- ter than Dr. Townsend; that the race should feel proud of such a man, is not be wondered at. His elevation tothe office he dignifies and honors bas neihter turned his head or corrupted his manners, He isthe same plain, matter of fact man of culture and refined mauners that he was when he presided over the financial des- tinies ot the A.M. E. Church. His manag2ment of the office which he holds evidences the fact that he understands his business and the further fact that ite duties will be faithfully and intelligently performed. He is not a loud mouthed reformer, but an_ insis- tent, persisteut end methodical worker who has made up his mwa to undo as far as itlay in his power the work of his Democratic predecessor, who did the bidding of his party in order to make room for the hungry bourbous, who were dying to get a whack at the cash box of Uncle Sam. Mr. Townsend has made a great many changes in his office with a view to systematizing the work. Aud he may be sufely re- lied on to bring the office up to the required standard and _ to place it among the best in the Land of- fice. President Harrison made no mistake in this appointment, a more houest and conscientious public servant than Dr. Towns- end could not have been selected. The Bex extends its best wishes to Recorder Townshend for sucx cess in his new field of labor. Mr. Townsend is reorganizing his entire office and our briet talk with him has convinced us that he will make a brilliant record, not only for himeelf, but for the race to which he is identified. He has been in charge of his office but a few weeks and his gentlemanly deportment and strict enforcement of the rules that he has adopted, have won the respect and confi- Stone, but of, the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Nobles. We clip Domain: in Recorder Townsend, and to his strict and personal attention to the details of the work is due very largely, the satisfactory results ac- complished. Every clerk has his work to do, and he must do it. There is no loafing or waiting tor something to do, but new work is snpplied as soon as the clerk fin~ ishes his particular task. Mr. Townsend has shown great apti- tude for his important duties, and if the other divisions of the office get ss intelligent and earnest chiefs as the Recorder, the office wili have reason to congratulate itself. We have received the Sentinal, a bright and newsy weekly jour- nal and the Paris Home Journal a weekly, edited in Paris Texas. We welcome to our exchange list the Howard’s Negro American Magizine, a mouthly journal devot- ed toall questions pertaining to the education, religious, social and political advancement of the race. —___ Now coMEs the report that President Har- rison will allow Recorder of Deeds Trotter and Register of Wills Claggett to serve out the balence of th: ir terms—about one year apiece. He will do this, it is said, because he is embarrassed. by the candidates, one of whom is Seeretary Blaine’s brother.—“Cleve- lIsnd Gazette.’” Well, Brother Smith, you know how it is. Mr. Harrison is Pres- ident and no doubt knows what dence of, not only Commissioner the following from the WNational Mr. Stone bas an able assistant he is Going. The wheels of the gods grind slow. The democratic governors of the South nave certainly played the bully act and made a farce of their pretended observance of law and order, These would be pretenders of justice and fair play issued proc- lamations to stop a prize fight which they didn’t mean, but will allow innocent colored citizens to be shot down in a court house of justice and permit other diabolical crimes against our colored citi~ zens, without making any attempt to bring the guilty parties to just- ice. Let these saints of hades give us a rest. o_O SUITS AGAINST THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN. Messrs. W. C. Martin of Washington and Ford and Ford of this city, have instituted suits for $8,000 against the Norfolk and West- ern railioad for Nelson Smith, colored, who was injureé o; Elkhorn, and for the »dmini- stration of James Anderson, killed at the same place. Lyuchburg (Va.) “Advance,’’ June 23, Mr. Martin is a promising and reliable young lawyer and mem~< ber of the District bar, and is senior counsel in the above meu- tioned suits. The associate coun- sel John P. Ford and H. M. Ferd, late judge 4th Jadicial Cireuit of Va., are amoag the ablest and best known attorneys in Lynch- burg. The cases will be heard in the Circuit Court of that city. SENATOR CHANDLER SERE~ NADED. HIS SPEECH TO TWO COLORED CLUBS. THE EDITOR OF THE “BEE” AGAIN BUSY IN POLITICS—AN INCIDENT WHICH RECALLS AN EPISODE OF THE CLEVELAND ADMINISTRATION {Special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] WASHINGTON, July 4.--Last night Senator Chandler was tor a time “‘o’er all the ills of lite victorious. His pulled ear no longer tingled with pain, and he was quite forget- tul of how recently Senator Faulk- ner had convicted him of misstating the exciting episode in the commit- tee rvom, Pho vvvasion of this wave of happiness was a serenade tendered the New Hampshire statesman by the Chaudler and John Sherman Clubs, two organi- zations of colored men of the Dis- trict, who was .marshaled by Mr. Calvin Chase, editor of the “Bee,” the organ of the race at the capital. A caretully-prepared address and resolutions, congrati latory, compli- mentary and fraternal, were read, whereupon the New Hampshire Senator culled from his ‘‘Outrage” pigeon-hole the freshest newspaper clippings of bloodcurdling scenes in the South, and proceeded to make a characteristic harangue which was calculated to influence the worse passions of the colored people, and to encourage them to regard their white fellow-citizens as their ever-aggressive enemies. This deplorable exhibition had a most fitting and rebukeful anticex dent on an occasion when the same Mr. Calvin Chase with other color- ed men visited Mr. Cleveland at the White House, not to congratu- late him ou his election, but to commend the retention in or ap- pointment to office of one or more of their race. During the Blaine and Cleveland campaign the ‘*Bee” contained a most violent and blood- thirsty editorial, revolutionary in sentiment, full ot race antagonism, and quite outdoing Mr. Chandler’s speech of last evening. When the colored delegation was ushered into the presence of Mr. Cleveland, and Mr, Calvin Chase was identified as the editor ot the ‘‘Bee,” Mr. Cleve- land drew from his pocket a copy of the organ containing Mr. Chase’s editorial assailing the democratic party, the Southern whites and ery- ing for a war of the races; and this editorial the President read wiih deliberate unction to the embar- rassed group, and like the California sciettist who, during a geological debate, was strack in the stomach with a specimen of old red sand- stone, “the subsequent proceedings interested them no more.” The very feelings of race antagonism and hatred and revenge which President Cleveland depreciated aud discouraged, were what Mr. Chandler endeavored last night to revive and intensify. The New Hampshire Senator appealed to his record for his sincerity, and a refer ence to the congressional proceed- ings of 1887 and 1888 will justify him, for he introduced several bills having for their object placing un- der federal control ,the election machinery of not all the states of the Union, but those which hap- pened to have awakened this little man’s animosity. This determined and persistent demagoguery, its narrowness of spirit and lack of broad statesmanship are exempli-| fied in his bill, December 11, 1887, | for ‘making regulations prescrib-| * ing the times, places and manner for holding elections tor Represen- tatives in the Congress of the United States in certain states,”| i, e., Florida, South Carolina, Mis-| sissippi and Louisiana, In this stage of the reformatory and rebabilitating period of the “more perfect Union” of the States, it is not likely that Congress will exercise the power conferred by article 1, section 4, of the constitu- tion, at the bidding of a Chandler and -pass- any act special in its application, signalling out certain States and their people as lawless and not to be trusted with the same rights as their sister States enjoy. Any act looking to federal coutrol in State elections would have to be general in order to be acceptable to the American people. Still as the constitutional provision affords Mr. Chandler the opporta— nity for agitation, it is likely that he will continue to call up old bills or introduce uew ones wheneyer the outrage mill needs a fresh sup- ply of fuel. Not the least of Mr. Cuaudler’s remarkable utterances last night was his presumptuous pledge tor the Fifty-first Congress, which he rather drafted than en~ listed under his flag. Instead of his having either authority or reason for asserting that the re- publicans in the next Congress will legislate on the Southern and colored question in accordance with his radical views, there are good grounds for saying that iu tke National Legislature, especially in the House, Mr. Chandler’s the~ ory, policy, joint resolutions and bills, looking to federal interference in State elections, will not receive the enthusiastic reception and support which he so confidently predicts. T. K. Richardson, ...- PRACTICAL TAILOR..... 430 7th Street, Northwest, Wash. D. C. 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