The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1895, Page 1

— PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. J. FIRESIDE COMPANION, NT It is true if you see it in rs | THE BEE. BORROW THIS PAPER WASHIN' sere ad CTON “Ne GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM. TRY rT: jou want THE BEE! vol. IV. WASHINGTON, D.C.,SATURDAY, AUGUST 24. 1895. COL, J. W. DOUGLASS. he most distinguished men nissioner of the District of Co- Col. John W. Douglass, ssioner of the District of a under the Harrison adminis- Douglass, while he was Com- ner, Was criticised because he to remove democrats from He always maintained that the GZ tS s were equally divided, and al- ) the republicans of the District lumbia reported Col. Douglass ident Harrison and the National mmiittee, he still maintained that the es were equally divided. Long ex-Commissioner M: M. Parker ude Commissioner he joined in e republicans and declared that democrats were holding office epublicans. Parker was always regarded a friend of the negro, but the mo- ewas made Commissioner he only retained democrats, but he moved colored and white republi- and said he was compelled to 1 place for Gen. E. W. Whitaker the displacement of a colored re- blican for a white republican, whom id was in need of a place. Col. Parker has always maintained t it was his intention to find a better ace for the colored republican, but prevented from doing so by the ed republican’s resignation. ol. Parker informed the editor of Bee that he was under the impres- I Col. Douglass was wrong, ce he had been appointed Com- ioner he found out that he was in wrong. One thing about Col. Par- he would always admit when he s in the wrong. Col. Douglass has always been right. ic was one of the best friends the re- an party had on the board of mmissioners. He was a stern, hon- est and a positive man. The republi- ns lost a good and stern friend when ; defeated for reappointment. good and sound republican, his | strnds unimpeached, AsCom- ner of the District of Columbia, equal have never been on the board. ere is an exception in the case of Ross. democrat Col. Ross is as great a an as Col, Douglass is a republican. utter what the enemies of Col. glass may Commissioner of Internal Reve- nder Gen. Grant, Col. Douglass iwith the republicans when E cannot say too much for ilian and soldier. ionor is too great for the repub- to bestow on Col. John W. o matter what his politi- emies say of him, he is honest © to his friends. —— A KICKER. \NY JOHNSON AGAIN TO THE FRONT. W. Johnsoa, who some time ago r sale a medicine called the Seal or some kind of seal, is icking in the traces. Johnson ne time a republican, and when removed from the State com- 1e joined the democratic party. now kicking against the civil ill and the mover of that bill, rles W. Anderson. Johnson is il born kicker, especially when rats have a barrel in sight. ares that everything is | at bill, simply because it | otect the negroes of New is a deposed negro republi- 10w he finds fault with every- y republican leaders. “Mr. An- old wheel- > District, and support of all That > none |. ay, he is a man among | LOOK. ‘HON. JOHN R. LYNCH GIVES HIS VIEWS. Hon. John R. Lynch, ex-Third Au- ditor of the Treasury Department, was seen by a representative of the BEE on on the political outlook. Mr. Lynch, who is a good, sound talker, was asked what he thought of the campaign of 1896. Mr. Lynch said: “‘Every indication points to a grand republican victory in 1896. The mis- take of 1892 will not be repeated. The present generation has not lived under any other than a protective tariff. Democratic victory in 1894 did not have any material effect upon the industries of the country for three reasons.” The BEE. What are they? “First. The result was so close and doubtful that it was not accepted by either yarty as a change in the public sentiment of the country with regard to the fiscal policy of the government. ““Second. While the democratic party had control of the executive de- partments of the government, the re- publicans practically controlled the legislative department. “Third. The democratic party, through the influence of Samuel J. Randall, was less pronounced in favor of free trade in 1884 than it was in 1892. The platform and the candidates of 1892 being so pronounced in favor of free trade, a majority of the American people thought they would try the ex- periment of a change, under the mis- taken notion that it Would do no harm even if it should do no good. It is un- necessary to say they don’t feel that way now. And yet the democrats have done very little in the direction of free trade.” The Ber. What do you think of the democratic tariff legislation? “The tariff bill they passed is but a slight modification of the McKinley bill. The disaster to the country, therefore, is not the result of what they have done, but it is because the elec- tions of 1892 gave them the power to do what they declared they would do. Having the power to do what they said they would do, the country took it for granted that they meant what they said, and disaster therefore followed. j If it could have been foreseen that, in | spite of the democratic victory of 1892 there would be no material change in the fiscal policy of the government, |Cleveland’s second election would have been as harmless upon the indus- tries of the country as was his first. The country is now beginning to get back upon a solid basis, not on account of anything the democrats have done, but because the elections of 1894 have destroyed their power for further mis- chief. But with Southern republicans the tariff as well as the financial ques- tion must necessarily be secondary and subordinate. The paramount question or issue with them is human rights and manhood sufirage,”’ The BEE. What about ‘the Southern republicans? “Southern republicans are living under a despotic and tyrannical oligar- chy. Our votes are suppressed by vi- olence, neutralized by fraud, and de- stroyed through legal tricks and dis- honest constitutional evasions. It is therefore useless for Southern republi- | canns to consider and discuss the tariff, the financial question, or any other question pertaining to the policy of the government until we have the right to pass judgment upon them at the ballot box. It is only to the republican party we can look for relief. It is the party of justice, fair play and equal rights. It has not done for the cause of justice and equal rights all that it could have done and should have done, but it has done all that has been done. While the great mass of Southern republi- | cans are in accord with the republicans | of the country upon the tariff and the | financial questions, those who are not jin accord with it upon these questions | will nevertheless loyally support it lin 1896, because it is sound upon what |to them is the paramount question or |issue before the American people—hu- |man rights and manhood suffrage ; |free, fair and honest elections North, | South, East and West; and that every | man, whether he be black or white, shall have one vote at each and every election, and that that vote shall be counted for the man and the party for whom it i 1 ! There was a pleasant gathering at | he residence of Mr. and Mrs. Alexan- {der Savoy, 415 street, northeast, on last Wednesday evening. The occa- sion was the forty-eighth annivers of the birth of Mrs. Sidney Savoy few of the young associates: of Miss Georgia, the only daughter,:who is a amiable young lady, were present. Savoy is’a very attractive ‘lady, ‘o ohe would take Het'to be forty- THE REPUBLICAN OUT.| | Wednesday, and had a talk with him | HON. JOHN SHERMAN. The king of financiers in this country | is Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio. There isno man in this country who has a more comprehensive knowledge of the finances of this country than the distin- | guished Senator from the State of Ohio. Senator Sherman isa firm friend and associate of the Hon. Wm. McKinley, jr. Senator Sherman is authority on finances. Ata time when the country was on the eve of a financial crisis, while he was Secretary of the Treasury, he} so manipulated the financial question | that he was called the Nestor of the Senate on this great money question. Senator Sherman should have been nominated for President of the United States at the time the late Jame A. Gar- field was nominated and elected, but through the treachery of his so-called friends he was sold out. Again, Sena- tor Sherman came to the front and this time he was sold out by Republican} | delegates from the South. There is no man who has the confi- dence and respect of the people of the United States more than Senator Sher- | man. There is one thing certain that he is asafe man, and if there is any dark horses to bring up at the next Republi- can convention the BEE knows of no better man on whom the delegates ENCE. EXTRACTS FROM POLITICAL FIRE- WORKS. | To the Editor of the Bee. |ing up so much of your time and space. | ‘*Calvin’s enemies are passing the bulk | of the resolutions,’ and the senatorial | head-standing feat will be performed jat Columbus, Ohio, rather than at | Frankfort, Ky. Joe won’t reverse his jattitude. ‘‘He makes himself a law {unto himself.”” Standing on his head is not in it. Hokey comes up smiling to “the ad- | ministration pie-counter.”” Hope he will be a good boy and stay with the old Lady after she goes out of business in March, 1897. “‘Among the things that were and are no more, the free-silver craze will be numbered.’’ says a Virginian. This {comes from the false statements that | silver is dying in the West and South. But when they bury free American sil- | ver the “‘ gold-bug ”’ will be in his hole close by the twining woodbine. “Hoke Smith doesn’t see anything | inconsistent in having beena silver man |2 few years ago.”’ Perhaps this is so, | and perhaps ‘*a good many people will |agree with him before the next elec- tion.”” But he will not find them among |the Grand Army men, their sons, or | friends, if they see him first. | Most of the old ex-Confederates are too old to admire the double turning a | “A new leadership is the watch-word ‘of the hour. ‘‘No matter what shape Jin Shee could concentrate than Senator Sher- man. He may be advanced in years, but his views are just as new and his power of speech as vigorous as any man in the Senate. He has always advocated the claims of the Negroes and they have always found in him a friend and a defender. He is the strongest man in the State of Ohio to-day, and the philosopher of the Senate on finance. In. future ages, when this country will be the most ad- vanced and the most civilized, John Sherman’s name will stand before the world as the true defender of liberty and the prince of financiers. ALABAMA NOTES. TusKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, Tuskegee, Ala., Aug. 20, 1895. Mrs. B. T. Washington arrived here on the roth inst. She has been absent since school closed ona short vacation. Tuskegee’s base ball team met and dafeated the Montgomery Blues, of Montgomery, Ala., recently. Tuske- gee now holds the championship of the State. Work on our new science hall is now being pushed forward with vigor. Our boys have a new yell for Tuske- gee. Itis, “Rah! Rah! Rah! Wah! Wah! We! T-s-k-e-g-e-e—Tuskegee— Ah-h!” : A number of our industrial depart- ments opened on the 15th. J. FIsHER. SCOTT ACQUITTED. Charles Scott, the Anacostia politi- cian who was charged with an assault on John A. Moss, a lawyer, was acquit- ted by ajury in Judge Mills court Wed- nesday¥ afternoon. : Lawyers Jones and Langston defend ed Mr.. Scott. —$<—$___—_ » Subscribe to the BEE. the revolution takes,”’ there will hardly be Negroes enough disfranchised to stem the bimetallic tide. ‘* So-called ‘leaders’ among his own race”’ should get “‘in the front rank of the opposition to ballot reform ”’ in the South. It means no good to the Negro in the South. They have been “ fool- ishly advised.” Writing aboutsilver dollars, says one: “The Government can make them, but it can’t make them circulate.””, Why? How? Where? Why all the money | we do see in circulation is either silver z paper, and much of it is in silver cer- tificates, fifty-cent paper dollars; fifty- | cent paper dollars that will buy just as {much bread and meat as a hundred- cent gold dollar. We have now onthe market 9,162,750 of these fifty-cent paper dollars. It is they with the noble Bland standard dol- jar that are doing the internal exchange of our country, especially in the West and South. All that is required is to legalize our silver dollar, let overboard that two hundred and eleven million Jonah, and the world will follow Uncle Sam or get left. They tell us if we stop the circulation of two hundred and eleven millions of ruin us, because there will be only nine hundred and fifty millions of dollars i left in the other monies of the country. What would have happened had they stopped the circulation of five hundred millions in United States notes? How many dollars in current money would {have been left? Are one billion one ;hundred and sixty-one million dollars |more secure in the hands and under (the control of cerporations than in the jhands of the general Government? | Who will answer? Yet a fellow in Vir- ginia says : ‘‘ Letthe Government * * * } go out of the banking business, leaving } ithe people free to establish their own banks and make loans among them- | selves. We want honest, sound jmoney.’”’ Here we have that ‘‘ honest sound’’ again—tells such a lie on its ‘face and in itself. Who are the people ‘but the Government? What’s more honest than the money of the whole people? Yours truly, J. O. BUTLER. Congressman George W. Murray will speak at the Vermont Avenue Bap- tist Church next Wednesday night. | OUR CINCINNATI CORRESPOND-| Sir :—I owe you an apology for :tak- | dollars in National bank notes it will; |\HE HAS A ROUGH PASSAGE, BUT i MEETS WITH NO MISHAP. Challenges Crosses the Ocean in 22 Days | ® Hours From Gourock, Scotland—She 1s @ White-Halled Craft of Great Power and Enormous Beam— Said to be 15 Minates Faster Than Britannia Over a | | Forty-Mile Course—Apparently Larger Than Defender or Vigilant—To be Dry- docked and Fitted for Racing. New York, Aug. 1.—Lord Dunraven’s shallenger for the America’s cup, the racht Valkyrie, arrived here last even- mg after a voyage of 22 days, 9 hours, 7 minutes. She was sighted off Fire island a little after three o’clock yester- lay afternoon, and was then sailing un- jer mainsail, tepsail, jib, staysail and ligger. She was making great headway am the stiff north-west breeze that was dlowing. When twenty miles this side of Fire Island she took a line from a sow, which brought her safely into Quarantine shortly before ten o'clock. Her tender, the City of Bridgeport, with Mr. Arthur Glennie, Lord Dun- ‘aven’s friend, on board, went out to neet her as soon as she was reported, tnd escorted her up the bay. The Valkyrie looked remarkably well ifter her journey across the Atlantic tnd the only signs of any bad weather :xperienced were a few scratches on the white paint on her bow. As she came along she seemed to go through the water very easily, made a very small 20wW wave and pounded very little. She seemed to be a remarkably powerful waft and looked much bigger than the Defender. Her bow is long and fine and cuts the water easily. Her counter is low, and when she heels will greatiy mcrease her ength, giving her more sail-carrying dower, She is a very beamy boat, and appeared to be fully twenty-six feet wide amidship. She looked rather odd m her cruising rig. The bowsprit is sutboard about three feet. The main nast is a fair-sized one, and from its oeak fluttered Lord Dunraven’s blue ind yellow private signal, while from the jigger flew the English ensign. Capt. Cranfield had all told forty-two men and a dog on board, and the men ire a fine looking lot. Capt. Cranfield talked freely about the yacht and the wip over. He said: “The voyage has deen uneventful We hed head winds und light weather for a good part of the vay, which made it somewhat fedicons. fhe crew enjoyed splendid health and 10 damage was done to the yacht. We VALKYRIE II SAFE IN PORT. | ‘eft Gourock at 2.38 p. m. on July 27. “The tug Vanguard took us as far as Malin Head, and there we began our voyage. On Sunday, the filth, we sight- 2d Cape Race and have made the 1,000 niles from there in just a week. Our dest day’s run was 250 miles and our worst 60 miles. We shall get the boat n racing trim as soon as possible and in ess than a week will be sailing ‘tuning ap’ for the big race.” < “How much better do you think the Valkyrie is than the Britannia over a thirty-mile course?” “We beat the Britannia nineteen min- ates in a fifty-mile race, and the Val- «yrie was not in trim then. I think she S at least fifteen minutes faster than the Prince of Wales’ boat over the America cup course. The Britannia is going much faster this season that she ‘ver went. After her first race several tons of led were put on, which very much fmproved her stability.” Capt Cranfiekd then asked about the Defender, and seemd pleased that she aad not shown herself to be faster than she has. There was a merry twinkle n his eyes when he was asked if Val- kyrie would win. He qutetly replied: ‘We'll try hard to.” As soon as the Valkyrie was taken in tow the crew got to work and unbent all her cruising sails. out. The English yacht was towed up aels and reached Quarantine at 9.40 y’elock. The doctor soon passed her, and then she was taken up to Liberty {sland and anchored there for the night. sort, anchored by her side, and Arthur | Glennie, Lord Dunraven’s friend, went iboard at once and congratulated Capt. This morning her spars will be taken | shrough the Gedney and Swash chan- | ‘The yacht’s tender, the City of Bridge- | 224 oranfield on his successful trip. : Valkyrie’s white hull suggests that | of the Defender, with its sharp prow | and immense overhanging aft; but) imidships the great beam suggested the | Vigilant’s Mines. Valkyrie appeared to | aave less freeboard than either Vigilant | or Defender. A narrow gold band re-| ieved the plain whiteness of her sides. | Her deck was Mke that of Defender, | jush and without break. There is no” 2ockpit forward of the tiller, and the aouse amidships is very small. A cleat runs along the deck on each side for the sailors to brace their feet against when the boat is doing wind- ward work. The Defender was the first sup racer to show this innovation. The Valkyrie has a temporary wheel rigged :o her tiller, but this will be replaced by | the regulation English stick for racing. Her passage from Malin Head, where she dropped her tug, on the other side, to Sandy Hook, 2,870 nautical miles, took her 21-days, 9 hours and 30 min- ates, an average of 129 miles a day. The Vigilant, last Aprii, made 2,934 miles, from The Lizard to Sandy Hook, in 18 days, 1 hour and 45 minutes, a, Jaily average of 168 miles, but the V ont had more favorable weather than Valkyrie Il]. has experienced. The | Dunraven cutter made the voy- age without serious mishap, and, though her time breaks no record, sho nas made a remarkable trip. Lord Dunraven will sail lenger in the cup races. the ct DE. DANIEL H. WILLIAMS. The new surgeon in chief of the Freedman’s Hospital is Dr. Daniel H. Williams, of Chicago, Ill. He is a young man of practical ex- perience and ability. Some have said ‘that he was appointed as a colored democrat. He is no politician, nor does he profess to be a party man. His profession is that of physician and surgeon, and because he was appoint- ed by a democrat it is not sufficient to to presume that he is a democrat ora republican. If he is a democrat, there are republicans who are willing and and ready to serve under him, and have been gladjtoZ take slices"of his demo- cratic pies. , He has$made several improvements and changes at the hospital, especially the displacement of ignorant and un- kind nurses who had charge of the sick and appointed in their stead cultured, refined, and educated young colored ladies. He has recommended, in his annual report, a new building to cost not less than $75,000."4If there ever was need for a new building, ithis now at the Freedman’s Hospital. This is a move ingthe right direction, and if Dr. Williams} succeeds in securing this amount he will have erected a monu- ment to the colored ‘people in this country. Dr. Williams may have views differ- ent from those who doesjnot agree with him, but he never fails to:look out for the interest} of thoseZin ?the hospital and the young medicalfstudent who is seriving to obtain an education. The system that he has established enables the young medical student to be more experienced in the different classes of diseases. After a youngZman graduates from the medicalj department of Howard University he is appointed as one of the interns... He remains inj the hos- pital one} year, and while; there he comes in contact with-all classes of cases. This is commendable on the part of Dr.3Williams. He is a positive character, and when he makes up his mind to doa thing he does it whether it pleases or displeases his friends. He dislikes deception, and he is not slow to show it. No one can tell what he intends jto do until it is done. He has established an ambulance system, which is quite an acquisition to the hospital. The system thatghe has established at the hospital is {practical and like clock-werk.2|A\visit to the hospital will satisfy the most prejudiced mind. COLLAPSE OF A CHURCH AT DETROM One Man Killed and Three Others Hart t Falling Walls. A 17.—A wind storm cause a Taal decedent at the United Presbyter jan Church, which is a Twelfth street and Grand ef avenut ‘When the squall came portions of the fror and ‘walls Ce several me bel led from ders and scaffold Frank pe 5 cab tek: Ovi layer, jen ou dead, his body being trignifully mangle Chria Johnson, foreman of bricklayer: and Jesse North, bricklayer, were dug ou of the cellar and Frederick Dekorst, le borer, was carried down the cellar, Theil injuries were not serious. FELL UNDER THE WHEELS. James McGinnis, of Richmond, Mass. Killed by the Cars Near Chatham. Chatham, Aug. 19.—James McGinnis whose father resides at Richmond Mass., fell from an east-bound freigh train three miles east of this statio: yesterday morning and his right foo and left hand were crushed, A west bound train brought him to this statio: and he was aken to the County Alms house at Ghent. His foot and arm wer amputated, but as the loss of blood ha been s0 great before assistance came he survived the operaton but a few mo ments. McGinnis was noticed to be rid ing on the bumpers and spparentl asleep as the train passed through thi) village, and there being a curve wher the accident happened, it is suppose« that he was thrown from the train whil asleep. poe SSeS) os Ss es OHIO DEMOCRATS MEET TO-MORROW. Kilbourne Follows Campbell and Refuse to be a Candidate. Springfield, O., Aug. 19.—The silve: and anti-silver men opened their re spective headquarters to-day for the Democratic State Convention to-mor: row. The lines have been drawn ever in the local reception,committee, whicl divided into campaign parties in the work. Kilbourne to-day in a letter forbids the use of his name in the Democratic State Convention as a candidate for overnor.- ——* MEE. = ex