The Washington Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1898, Page 4

Published every SATURDAY at 1109 1 Stree ‘Northwest, WasnincTon, D. ee Entered at the Post Office at Washington econd class mail matter.) EMANCIPATION DAY CEL-|and nething more, simply because EBRATION. he is objectionable to the lily white — republicans in the State of Louis- There is no disposition to dis-|!@nia, backed up by those who W. CALVIN CHASE, Eprror. | Credit the’commendable disposition falsely supported Speaker Reed. If ___________|on the part of the colored people | Mr- Demas is defeated they think TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. |f Washington to celebrate the that it will excuse them to the event of the emancipation of the \ftiends of Mr. Reed who took his gece slaves in the District of Columbia. | Money and pocketed it, instead of -60| On the contrary we believe that it is using it. Their pretense is that -?°| the duty of all lovers of liberty to they used this money to elect Reed emphasize their appreciation of all | 2¢/egstes, when in fact these con- movements looking toward univer- spirators put it into their pockets. sal emancipation in the most forci- | Mt. Reed ought to know this. There are regular Authorized Col- ble and appropriate manner. It mat dectors in the employ of THE BEE | ters not whether emancipation was Printing Co., and when they call to see) the result of barter and sale or not One copy per year....-+.- Six months. ..... Three mouths. ........ City subscribers,monthly. t#@ SPECIAL NOTICE. #2 MUTUAL AID & PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION, LAST OF THE HOME GUARD ! HON, BLANCHE K: BRUCE 1S DEAD! Scene at His Bedside---His Faithful Friends and Noble Wife Weep--- A Noble Man is Gone---Dr, Fran- cis With Him Until Death, Ex-Senator Blanche K. Bruce, Reg- ister of the Treasury, died at his home delinquent subscrihers they are re- quested to pay them, and not give the the mere fact of emancipation as a No. 2010 R Street, at 8:15 o’clock Thurs- day morning. Death was due to a complication of New Orleans, La. Mar. 5, 1898. Hon. Henry Demas, Washington, D. C. excuse that “they wilt see the Editor.” |means mental and physical disen-| 1)... ci, e itor has no time to see thé suo- aliment is sufficient to commani en you a few lines to expres: The Editor has no time to see the sub-|thallment is sufficient t a] Tpen y Dresa ary scribers, and it is oped that his\our respect and gratitude. But| highest appreciation for you for the friends and the patrons of THE BEE . P 8 ticele manly stand and fight you have made ill pay the Coll: gon ke call: there is an appropriate way of cel-)for the party. Yourself and Capt. ——eeeeeeeeerr | priate way. To engage in a form Gaal Capa at the ante and o yy : . : 4 we ieel con ent of success an trust FALSE PATRIOTISM. of j hilarity é and jollification in} thatyou may return Boe joe art which the spirit of proper freedom | all the honors of the Administration. To those who are professing such |i8 ignored and were the lower in- COTS VELY) ree tips ardent patriotism and indulging in|stinct of the race is given full such blooming newspaper cor-|Place to the deaparagement and respondence, ought at least mani- disgrace of those higher and nobler fest that medium of modesty be-|instincts of which the race is pos- coming persons of such high pre- sessed, is not only out of place but tentions. The fact is, that there| bordering on the criminal. ‘The ca 4 d 5 ons ° jan y has been no disposition manifested | horde of the scum of the alleys and Shouten; iciory aT shaver abiding on the part of those preparing for|Tag-tag and bobtail who take Ea an)thateanaet admirable of men the war to unite the colored broth-|part in out street demonstrations Senstor Haune: Thess aaa er to assist them in subjugating|can be of little profit in assuring exsist you are with as muck bitter- . “ : ay: ness and acrimony against him. The Spain. The metropolitan journals 223 white brother that we are mak- fight is on. Grass you both. We have been teeming with articles|ing progress along those lines] are a ee Hope you have re- boasting of the bravery and patriot- which are calculated to determine Sey eur aiaion down, ism of the Americans of the Anglo-| our position in the scale of civili- Saxon descent, but nota word of|zation. At this remote distance encouragement or compliment to|from the period of our emancipa-] CHARLES CLEAVES COLE. the Americans of the African de-| tion, it is time for the race todoubt| Ong oF THE JUSTICES OF THE SU- j i PREME COURT OF DISTRICT OF CO- scent. Moreover if the conduct of |such Pere a SAAS ee LUMBIA—A PROGRESSIVE LAWYER, A leading Americans who run things|emancipation as well display the} successFwL PROSECUTING ATTOR- in the South are to be a marker by | highest degree of appreciation and] NEY, A BRILLIANT JUDGE AND A which to measure our acceptability | bring out the best possible results. : as soldiers, citizens or patriots we|Street parades in which promis- New Orleans, Mar. 4, 1 My dear Senator: oe We still believe you a winner. hearts know no failure. Still strong and confident in your ultimate tri- umph. The opposition is shaking glad Barnes. Justice Charles Cleaves Cole, a na- tive of Hiram, Oxford county, Maine, need be in no doubt in the matter. |cuity is the distinguishing feature | is no doubt one of the most successful | on Mississippi Levees, and a member of men in this country. He was edu- cated at Fryeburg Academy and the Maine Weslyan pemilaty: where he completed the course in May, 1862. He subsequently went to Harvard Col- lege, the leading educational institu- tion in the United States, while there, the late war of the rebellion brok out. This brilliant young student The uniform barbarity practiced |are far from being appropriate, es— upon law abiding colored citizens | pecially when other means more em in the South, ought to be a strong] phatic and respectable are at hand. reminder that at least in that sec-| Instead of squandering money in tion, the colored brother has no|senseless parade, we opine that reason to claim this as his country | appropriate exercises at the various consequently cannot or ought not|churches or in some large public] country were more uttermost in his enthuse as American patriots. The| hall would be far preferable. Let} heart than the profession that he was = i; cnteliipent a j_ | Pursuing at the time; abandoned his -murder of Baker and his in-|the more intelligent and appreci—| studies at Harvard and enlisted Au- nocent family expresses sufficient |ative meet, invite the whole people | gust 4, 1862, in Company I, 17th Maine 73 z meen 5 5 Infantry, April 21, 1864, he was com- proof of this. The nation though | to join in appropriate exercises end)! vencaleecondilisatenanteh Gone i i air|thus show to the world that the] pany E 17th Maine Infantry, and Oc- itt = er rag aa ee + ss : al tober 20, 1864, was promoted to first dealing, of protection to its citi-|leadership of jim-crowism and |fieutenant of the same company; Jan- zens, seems either powerless or in—|cornfield buffoonery has passed | wary 25, 1865, he was made captain of disposed to make its boasting true where the colored citizen is con- cerned. And until this country old company. History relates in from among us never to return. Leased y is able, or shows a disposition to language most positive that Capt. Cole was a brave soldier and encountered prove to the world that it is the true many dangerous hostilitics, never at any time did he show cowardice. He was in all of the battles of the army of the Potomac from the battle of Fred- ericksburg, Va., the Cedars, Chancel- BLANCHE K. BRUCE,—DEAD. Thursday morning at 8:15 stomach troubles, from which he had suffered for two weeks. Roscoe Conk- ling Bruce, the only son, who has been at Exeter College, preparatory to en- tering Harvard, arrived Wednesday. Mr. H. C. Bruce, a brother, was also present. Mr. Bruce has seven broth- ers and one sister, who will be present at the funeral, Mr. Blanche K. Bruce was born in Prince Edward County, Va., Mar. 1 1841, of slave parents. The family to which he belonged moved to Missouri, where Mr. Bruce lived until the begin- ning of the war. He had been taught to read and write, and shortly after the beginning of the war he attended school at Ober- lin College, but on account of poor health was compelled to abandon his studies. Henry Ward Beecher urged him to study theology, and to become a Congregationalist. He felt that the profession did not suit him. To supply some of his educational deficiencies he employed professors for years to give him private instructions. At the close of the war he moved to Mississippi, and entered actively into politics. In 1870 he was elected ser- geant-at-arms of the State senate; in 1871 he was appointed assessor of Bol- ivar County; in 1872 he was elected sheriff, and two years after he was re- elected to the same office. Almost simultaneously he was elected United States Senator for the full term of six years. During his senatorial term he was chairman of the committee to in- vestigate the affairs of Freedmen’s Bank, and, under a bill introduced by him, the affairs of that institution were closed up and the bank building sold to the Government for $200,000. *H quasoides om se Aue 0} pajrew ‘1vaA avo 10) 90g ey] pue ff YOM padjuvins SLNAV o8'e$ AINO ‘9 'q ‘uo Zuryse Ay “M *U y@0I}8 | Gor ‘AuedMOD Bunuig 20g 94D *ssouppe you jt pauinjos Aouow ‘uad plo3 yutod puoweip pros v 394 pue oS-zg aou0 ye pues *"NAd B puL Jeet auo 1OJ dag BY], 105 JUDGE STRAKER’S NEW BOOK. The Trustees of the Howard Uni- versity haye recently been presented with a law book, entitled, ‘‘Circuit Court Commissioners Guide, Law and Practice.” Written by Judge D. Au- gustus Straker, one of the most emi- nent and successful negro jurists in America. The book covers the entire He was chairman of the committee the Committees on Pensions and Man- ufactures. On various occasions, in the absence of the Vice President, he presided over the Senate. At the close of his senatorial term in 1881, President Garfield appointed him Register of the Treasury, which office he held for four years. President Harrison appointed him whose patriotism and love for his] Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, which office he also held for four years. He was a professional lecturer, and during two years of President Cleve- land’s Administration was on the plat- ferm, and traveled from ocean te ocean. He was a popular orator, and took an active part in every National campaign since the war. Last year he was engaged in cotton planting at his home in Mississippi, and suffered severely by the March floods, which inundated the country in which he was operating. He was appointed Register of the Treasury by President McKinley, Dec- ember 2, last. ‘The appointment was not much of a surprise to politicians. He had an unblemished record. honest champion of human|0’clock, the spirit of Hon. B. K.|lorsville, (Gettysburg,) | Wapping} The most recent service of Mr. an d the sis f h = Bruce, the last of the trio of! Heights, | Manassas Gap, Auburn | Bruce was inthe Ohio campaign. He rights and the rights of her own > Mills, Kelly’s Ford, Mine Run, Lo-] was familiar with Ohio people and pol- citizens, the colored brother shows but slavish diposition to rush for- ward to prove his fidelity. The fidelity of the colored people has been fully tested. They have been true under all circumstances and at all times. It was shown in their manly defense of the Union when assaulted by traitors. It was shown on the plantation while their mothers were in the field battling for continual enslavement. But fidelity is at times an expression of race weakness especially when it is regarded by the erstwhile benefi- ciaries as a species of groveding sycophancy. And, judging from our general treatment, that is about the size of it. Hence while we may be loyal and patriotic, while our blood may boil for re- venge upon those Spanish brutes who have spared neither woman nor child even in their diabolical butchery, yet common sense and ex perience ought to teach that severe silence becomes us. When we shall have been treated as men and ac- corded the rights for which we voted and fought, when we can! consistently claim the right us free American citizens to demand the emancipation of others in bondage, then can we afford to publish our loyalty, then can we make hatse to prove that we possess our full share of patriotism. It is inconsistent for practical slaves to fight for the free dom of others when abrave stand colured leaders, took its flight to join the majority in the world beyond. In his private life, Sen- ator Bruce was an ideal husband and father and his public life was characterized by fidelity to friends, sincerity as to motives and an abiding faith in the ultimate equal- ity of the race. As an active worker in school affairs, Senator Bruce was untiring and zealous. As a politician he was astute, mag- nanimous and intrepid. As a Statesman he possessed wisdom, sagacity, broad culture ard wide experience. As a friend he was truce, as a foe he was generous, The nation will mourn the loss of B. K. Rruce and the colored race will miss his wise counsel and heroic offorts. He has builded a monument for himself in the hearts of the race, which will endure long after the brass and marble which may be in future erected in his ed away. For the family, The Bre condolence which is but one of the pray for balm to sooth their sad hearts. ALL FOR DEMAS. From the Augusta, (Ga.,) Union. . The Washington Bre insists that Henry Demas ought to be confirmed as naval officer at New Orleans, to dent last summer. The Bez is right, is necessary in order to procure liberty for themselves. Wisdom dictates silence in this case. Loud boasting will catch no fish. Don’t forget to dies Dr. L. H, Harris’; one of the t known drug- gist in South Washington. representatives. ing opposed because he isa negro\ and we hope the enemy will not defeat the ‘Senator’ The entire negro press of the country will resent the insult that certain white republicans in the Senate has offered to one of its Mr. Demas is be- honorshall have crumbled and pass | united in marriage to a most amiable extends its sincere expression on of | most noble lady enjoyed, when death thousands who feel the loss and | whois said to be a most accomplished which he was appointed by the Presi-| student and no doubt one the most aenue n. w., is where you can satisfy. nner man. Everything first-clas cust Grove, Wilderness, “Brock and] itics, hayin i Plank Road,” Po River, Spottsylvania | State rad fences hae i naa Court House and Hancock’s, charge every Presidential campaign. on the salient (Bloody Angle,) Freder-}_ He was a man that was true to eyery icksburg Road, Taylor’s Bridge, To-| trust. lopotomy Creek, North Anna, Cold] Mrs. Bruce was constantly at his Harbor, Assault before Petersburg,| bedside until she was Ganesicg to Hare House, Strawberry Plains and|take her bed. So great was the strain equally as many more celebrated en-| upon her that Dr. Francis ordered a gagements. Thus it can be seen that|trained nurse. When Roseoe arrived his record asa soldier stands preem-| he was led directly to his father’s bed inent. ....,. |¢hamber by Mr. Terrill. His father When the war closed this distin-| was semi-conscious but immediately guished soldier resumed his studies in | recognized his only boy, who was the law at Harvard College and after two pride of his life. Young Roscoe did years of hard study, he was graduated | not break down but was very much irom the law department of the col-|effected. The funeral will take place lege in July 1867, but in October 1866,!Monday, from the Metropolitan before he graduated he was admitted] church, M street between 15th and to the bar at Portland, Maine. After] 16th streets N. W. Messrs. Robert H finishing his studies at Harvard heleft| Terrell and Geo. C. Smith have full for West Union, West Va., where he| charge of the funeral arrangements practiced three years. .__| Mr. James H. Dabney the well known In 1868, he was selected prosecuting | colored funeral director, will have full attorney of the county of Doddridge, charge of the funeral. Hundreds of and two years later removed to Park-| people and letters are being received ersburg, where he served two years by the bereaved family, offering their as city collector, (1876-77,) at the| heartfelt sympathy and condolence same time conducting his legal prac-| Mesdames H. C. Bruce, M. C. Terrill, tice. February 1878, he located in| Dr. J. R. Francis, M. M. Holland and this city and by push and his profound others are at the residence with Mrs fast ee of law socnt brought him] Bruce ; into popularity, which commanded 5 5 the attention of the legal profession. Git ence bse A aaa aS growing legal practice soon gain-| it was not until that hour that he had ed for him the appointment of prose-} given up all hopes. At 8:15 Thursday cuting attorney, March 3, 1891. : : TnWfaritiaty! 1860) Gapiain Cole was | Morning, Mr. Bruce breathed his last. lady, Miss Fannie Chisler. Seven years of happiness was all that this | STATE OF Ox10, Crtv oF ToLEpo, } LUCAS COUNTY. ss FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of FRANK J. CHENEY & Co., doing busi- ness in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that the said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS foreach and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL’s CaTaRrH CurE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to Detore me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day - ember, A. D. 1886. ye Dee [SZAL.] A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is faked aan claimed her, but in January, 1887, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Settle, lady and one possessed with much sympathy for those in distressed. No man in the legal profession is better known than Captain Cole. His last official recognition as well as the United States District attorneyship, was made by President Harrison, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, which position he now holds. His decisions are very seldom reversed by the superior courts. He is a hard learned judges in this country. field of practice before circuit court commissioners; and very greatly sim- lifies and facilitates it. Judge Stra- er’s experience upon the bench for four years, as circuit court commis- sioner, for Wayne county Michigan, has enabled him to write this much needed book, as none other is extant dealing with this class of practice. Detroit most eminent lawyers and supreme court judges have endorsed his book, and speak in the highest manner of his very timely and ably edited work. All the leading mem- bers of the Detroit Bar Association, have subscribed for it, several hun- dred copies have been sold through- out the State of Michigan. The work has a two-fold merit. It facilitates the practice before the cir- cuit court commissioners, by exhibit- ing in an abbreviated form of exact expression, the substance of every form of cases, with references and ci- tations, coming under its jurisdiction; thereby saving much time and labor to the practitioner from searching through numberless other works on general practice. And it is also in- valuable to the student of law as a text book and an introduction to the law and practice of the State of Mich- igan. Judge Straker has achieved an en- viable reputation as a lawyer and ju- rist in Michigan. His clientile is from among the people ofall races in De- troit and many of the leading business men in the city retain him in their litigations as counsel. Eminent in law, he is no less distin- guished as a lecturer and thinker, and stands high in the estimation of the people of Michigan, asa man of un- usual ability and integrity. Occasion- ally he is heard in lectures to his own people upon political economy and morals and always advising them to husband their resources, save money, get education and branch out into the business and commercial world. His influerice among the white peo- ple in Detroit has also been exerted to the elevation of his race to official po- sitions and he has recorded several appointments in the various depart- ments of the city government for young colored men. Judge Stiaker is an alumnus of the Howard University Law School and his @/ma matir, should not neglect to confer upon her distinguished son the degree of Doctor of Laws, which he has so triumphantly earned, by his career of success and usefulness in the Southland crowned by his splendid achievements in the North among the “wolverines.”” DEMAS THEIR CHOICE, THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE STATE. For the benefit of the many thous- and readers of the Bez and the Sen- ate of the United States, the BEE takes the liberty to print a few of the many hundred letters sent to Mr. De- mas by the leading citizens in the State of Louisina. Notwithstanding the fight that his conspirators are making against him, the people are still loyal to their leader. Do you want fine produce? If so to V. S. Moton who has been establish ed since 1866. Stands 199, 200 and zor ‘enter Market. You can get all you wantin fresh vegetables, and de- livered to all parts of the city. nally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for Gas Ge F. J. CHE? & CO., Toled ("Sold by all Druggists: yo ee While in South Washin: » The Boston Market, 1711-1713 Penfn| fail to call im and see Edward Ei = Harmony lodge, K.P. He isa great boy and will entertain you well, Heis a positive man, but willing always to recede when he is convinced that he isin error. He is close in his rulings, confining counsel strictly to therules of pleading and rules of evidence. You all know Mr. J. D. Donnelly 14th and I streets northwest. One of the Lar noms business houses in the city. nything you want f ~ ble can be found aa his store. —e ee Yes there is another house i i city who make all kinds floral } Pome tions. Davidson and Walker, If you want to be accommodated give them acall, 1710 Penn. avenue northwest Cl ved Rasogg — The Chesapea Company is aj Pure ek oF, ization chartered 4). laws of Virginia ¢, a the PUrChaag suitable pro pe onduet Buckroe Beach Onthe Ches: ant—about the electric car fr Comfort, Va. There is no more attrac Atlantic Coa: tojoin this scribing to its Shares only te each. Payable $2 er month on eac iberal discount on stock. 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