The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 25, 1897, Page 1

7 PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. | [ FIRESIDE COMPANION. =| 8 Sa ae waiS It is true if you see it in a ey y GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM. THE BEE. | : Bis. ve yun ERE TE! ‘earless race advocate? Do you wa Read you want a want col THE BEE! | porwr BORROW THIS PAPER ‘and advertise tn — you =vti.. hTERT SOS y r Ss 4 q Kec é A ), ) » ry IETS JeCy Coie We ee) a G we) DAVE ) .- \ “A s S & « t ra) R ‘A. ~— Ss J w< AN YS @)) NY ae Nee eno, cA Fe ICE. FAAQWRSSISSESRSSSE IN SSS fe cs —s of SS A CY JC oo LEG, QL ARSE RTO. Ca HONOR TO DEMAS. —<—_—> 9 THE BLACK PRINCE OF THE SOUTH, WELCOMED. THE GRAND ARMY HALL CROWDED. From The New Orleans Republican, What should be called a monster overflow meeting was the assemblage of regular republicans at the G. A. R. hall on the 13th inst., to honor the re- turn of Hon. Henry Demas, recently appointed Naval Officer for the port of New Orleans. SS CAL. SS It was an enthusiastic, distinctly re- publican meeting, and all things con- nected therewith were carried on at a corresponding lively gait. The hall had received the artistic touch of the hand of the decorator, and ‘‘Old Glo- ry” fell in graceful folds above the speaker’s platform. The scene was cheerfully brightened and enlivened by the festoons of gray moss and gayly colored lanterns suspended in the air and a brass band. Long before 8 o’clock the hall was hterally packed like sardines in a box with a vociferous crowd of old and young republicaas and battle-scared warriors, eager to pay their tribute of respect and honor to their leader and champion of the race. Honorable and Comrade Henry Demas, who for the past six months continuously had been in Washington battling to maintain and preserve the principles of true re- publicanism, as against the onslaughts of his enemies, who would have the Grand Old Party amend its fundamen- tal platform with a plank of race prejudice. At the hour fixed for calling the meeting to order, Hon. Alexander “(Continued on sthpage] SSS Ce ess CAL Xe <—LG SS SH eS > I i) rae — Cn SG SSN SK SS 7 a K ADS = yo DIED aT C= ek TENS a gig SSS CIC ~ Yer = r me Ge & ———— —% CC SWALILSILAG DODOLFDaALC—IG SSG DCLG 2 —s+ yD AS WETS SS © i.) @ y CON QR, Zi: g 7 DADS 59 YSPC] —_— sini ia Sa Sa" Ais (SED eC = cin EO \z af: | CNS 2 ) A ee 3 K wy: PEL SSS SD ERISA SND BIEN NS URLS DES a) aX tN