The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 23, 1898, Page 4

fHE WASHINGTON BEE. ery SATURDAY ed 1109 I Stree Northwest, WasHinGTon, D. C. Entered at the Post Office at Washington cond class mail anatter.| W. CALVIN CHASE, Eprror. eer eee ee See TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year..... esicosnenee ix months. .... Three months....... Bik City subscribers,monthly....... 00 00 60) +20 ——————_—_———_ &# SPECIAL NOTICE. There are regular Authorized Col-| lectors in the employ of THE BEE| Printing Co., and when they call to see | delinguent subscrihers they are re- yuested to pay them and not give the excuse that “they wilt see the Editor.” The Editor has no time to see the sub- scribers, and it is oped that his friends and the patrons of THE BEE MAJOR SYLVESTER. In the appointment of Richard | Sylvester as Chief of Police, the! Commissioners have shown marked wisdom and justice, In the first place, Mr. Sylvester is the logical successor to Major Moore, for the reason that as the chief clerk to the major, he has become thoroughly familiar with the routine as well as the personel of the Police depart- ment and is therefore, more than any other man qualified to take up the administration of the police department where Major Moore left off, without producing unfavorable friction. In the next place, Mr. Sylvester is a gentleman of culture and refine- ment, without prejudice, while he possesses large business and execu- tive capacity. ‘Che peculiar con stitution of Washington public, where there are over 80,000 colored AGRIEVOUS MISTAKE. The failure of Congress to pass the bill authorizing the enlistment of 25,000 colored troops was a grievous mistake. In the first place, it was an indication of the unwisdom of allowing race preju- dice to enter into the consideration of the proper defenses of the nation. President McKinley recom- mended the measure and it must have been endorsed by his military and other wise and influential ad- visors and therefore must have been a wise measure. In the next place,the military necessities would seem to have justified the wisdom of the President’s course. How- ever we may seek to disguise it, the fact remains that the troops who are now in Cuba are totally unfitted to combat the climate to which they are so utterly unaccus- tomed,. It is more than probable that the causalities have resulted from want of acclimatization and the rumor is ripe that even now yellow fever has begun its deadly work. Had the country seen the wisdom of the President’s recommendation much less loss of life would have been the result for the reason that there are thousands of colored people who reside in the Gulf States, who are practically im- muned from the attacks of yellow fever and who could have stood the climate quite as well as any Cuban or acclimated Spamard. Moreover the wisdom of the Presi- dent would have been emphasized in more than in respect to success in arms. It would have been an expression of the gradual welding together of the whole composite people, more or less disposed, American people anda rebuke to NORMAL ADMISSIONS, Dr. George H. Richardson, school trustee of the 11th school division, is to be congratulated and thanked for the manly fight he made for the admission of the deserving High Sshool graduates to the Nor- mal School. The trustees should investigate the rejection of those graduates to the Normal School and see whose fault it is. The pupils as well as the parents feel grateful to Dr. Richardson. INDEPENDENT NEGROES. The Republicans of Virginia have formed a strong organization, their purpose being to place a col— ored man’s ticket in every Congres sional District in the State. CAPT. JOHN M. McDONALD. THE COLORED VOTE UNITED—GOULD DENOUNCED—PAID NEGROES DE- NOUNCED. Glen Echo, Md., July 16, 1898,— There was 2 Gould meeting held here last Saturday evening.in Jones House near Cabin John’s Bridge.. E. E.| Cooper, was presiding officer. There} were about 35 colored republicans | present most of them were Capt McDonald supporters. When The BEE! man arrived, a white man was extoll-|} ing the virtues of Mr. Gould and after he had concluded he asked the ques-| tion if any one wanted to ask him any | questions. Mr. Chase, who is sup-} porting Capt. McDonald, read two} affidavits, from_two colored repubii | cans in Mr. Gould’s district, who swore that Mr. Gould asserted in "96, | during the McKinley Campaign, that | the republican party would not be} classed as a negro party, ifthe negroes were let alone, or words to that ef-| fect. That Mr. Gould knew of num- ber of young democrats who would join the party. The white man who was asked to antagonized and maltreated on tose lower instincts which more account of color, makes it a inant: become Spaniards than Americans. ter of supreme satisfaction that | Beside it would have been a great the Police department will be con-| Political stroke and ube which ducted with absolute justice to all |would allay apprehension on the without regard to race, color or | part ofcolored people touching the previous condition of servitude. |sincerity of republicans. It may be While as a whole the Police depart- | tht the measure was defeated : by ment under Maj. Moore, consisted |democrats, but unless we are im- of men who possessed a sense of | properly advised, this is not the case. honorand duty which precluded ty-| There are grounds for belief that ranny and race discrimination, yet |70t all of the influential republi- there are numerous policemen who | C08 favor colored enlistments. should be instructed that recordscan | ‘hese men are not of the stripe of not be made simply according to the the President and are doing all they number of colored arrests made|¢an to disaffect the great masses without regard to the character of |Of cvlored people who now have the offense or the welfare of the | faith in the friendship of Mr. Mc- community. In hundreds of cases which come before the Police Court, there has been no evidence of moral turpitude, yet the colored people are branded and a stigma fixed which affects their future pros- perity. Innocent amusement is natural and proper among all young people and when such amusement is not in violating a police regulation, it ought to be encouraged rather than condemned. In many cases where simple amusement was being indulged in by colored boys, policemen have made arrests on the ground that there was distubance of the peace while just across the street per- haps there were white boys engaged in the very same amusement, yet were allowed to continue. If Mr. Sylvester will only insist upon a strict performance of duty and en- join absolute impartiality in his department, the Police Court rec- ord would not be such as to reflect discredit upon the colored people. In this respect as well as in all others where injustice is apparent we are confident that Mr. Sylyester will make needed reforms. Unless all signs fail, we have now a model Chief of Police and we felicitate hii and the public upon his ap- pointment, The moment the war is over, we/ can then see where the colored brother stands. It is nut the man who does the most barking that we should always Kinley. The proper thing for the President to do is to make the call and thus disarm his specious adver- saries and make their vauntings faise. What we shall see, we shall see. NOT ALIKE. The controversy which is going the rounds of the press relative to whether Prof. Miller is a willing coadjutor of Prof. Washington, ought to stop at once. The two gentlemen are pursuing entirely different lines of thought and action. If the public have come to | the conclusion that they are both pandering to -he sentiment which opposes race advancement—so well and good. The people cannot all he deceived all the time. IJhere will be an awakening, and the col- ored man or men who have truly sold their birthright for plunder or ie “mess of pottage,’’ had better stand from under. OPPOSED TO MR. GOULD. In another column of this paper can be found an article from Edivor Cooper of the Colored American, in favor of the re-election of Capt. McDonald. Editor Coopcr is op- posed to any man who is opposed to Capt. McDonald. Aman who would support two candidates, in the estimation of Editor Cooper, is ascoundrel. He has no respect |}for a man who declares in favor of one man today and another tomor- row. Such a man is a traitor, says Editor Cooper. We agree with our contemporary fear. The silent man is the most dangerous man. The meeting of league clubs at Omaha, @ success. republican in everything it said about Capt. McDonald. Some of Judge Kimball’s deci- mosquito’s head, Tr I Hi ill u raw = Hinge Ms Jens We answer the affidavits could not do so. be nominated for Congress to rep-| Mr. F. E. Cooper, wh> has recently 81 ig-|come to this city from Indiana, de-| sen cue Congres aad! JUE clared that Mr. Chase was sent to trict. Mr, Jones is an eloquent) break up the meeting. Mr. Chase in| i t|reply to Mr. Cooper’s charge, said} and logical speaker and no doub thawlie. (Cooper) had beell paid: By he will be elected when nominated. | Capt. McDonald and to his surprise he Notwithstanding the disposition on the part of the white press not to give our colored troops their hard earned meed of praise, the Euro- pean papers and officials know where to give credit when credit is due. Itisa sad commentay on American justice and patriotism when American heroes can receive deserved commendation only from foreigners. When will the Ameri- can white man learn to be fair? The Congressional Committee is doing a rushing business just now, and the colored brother is politely invited to ‘‘walk in.’” Dewey seems to be the only one who seems to be making any sub stantial headway, Perhaps it is}had gone overto Gould; eae it is i claimed, has also paid him. Cooper WEEAIE he is go far from home that in an excited eines declared that he his head eannot be swelled by un-| was paid 50 cents euine ee Mc- 7 Donald. Just what wanted you to deserved landation. admit, said Mr. Chase, that makes it worse. Cooper’s attention was called to his own article in the interest of Capt. McDonald and also the article in the interest of a Gould Supporting rhe New Y. both men for the same office. pF oeeep area creer retes In the McDonald article he tells why The colored man, barred from so Capt. McDonald should be returned many avenues of making a living in] to Congress and in another article he civil life, owing to popular prejudice, | tells why Gould should be elected. finds he is discriminated against in the] When this charge was made against | making up of the army, and he pro-] Editor Cooper, his guns _were silenced | tests against such treatment. In the} fora while and Editor Chase was al-| regular army of 27,000 there are only |jowed to proceed until Gould himself | 2,000 of his color. In the summoning of nterrupted the speaker. Mr. Chase 200,000 more to crush Spain the colored | would not yield until he had conclud- men have considerable less than 2,000] ed and distributing several copies of The quota of the southern States,| The Bee among those whom Gould something like 50,000, was made up thought intend to vote forhim. Mr. | white men, as the colored were not]Gould took the platform and de- accepted. : ; nounced The BEE for its complimen- | Of the 72,000,000 inhabitants of the] tary remarks about him, but it had no republic 9,000,000 are colored. If the | effect on the voters. latter had their proportion in the call] Mr. for troops they would have contri-|hour. Mr, Robert H. Terrell of buted 25,000. There are _especiai Washington was introduced and de-} reasons why colored men should be]clared that he was opposed to every Capt. John MeDonald. | COLORED TROOPS. Gould was explaining fully an | right of every citizen to exercise his | tained by the exposition committee on freely enlisted in these allotments. They are accustomed to hot weather in the south and in a summer cam- paign in Cuba would be able to stand the climate better than the white men of the north. They are at home under a tropical sky and proof against the miasma and fevers that will work havoc with our soldiers before cool weather comes in October. The black makes an excellent soldier, as the four regiments among the regulars attest. The men are large and power- ful in build, skillful shooters and brave toa fault. The colored marks- man, with a gaping wound in his thigh at La Quasina, when reminded of it, coolly replied: ‘‘That’s all right; that’s been there some time!’ and kept right on shooting at the Spaniards. Such heroism proclaims better than words the valor of our American men of color. Now there is a bill before Congress directing the President to provide aux- iliary volunteers for the occupation and defense of any tslands that may come under our control to be compos- ed exclusively of colored men. This will give those now discriminated against, a chance to prove their pa- triotism. They should be allowed to enroll until 25,000 are mustered in Such a formidable body would bed more than a match fora like number of Spaniards—indeed, one colored warrior is worth two of the bull-fight- er variety. We believe the petition to Congress will be granted and by fall a_well-dis- ciplined and brave army of blacks will be a part of fighting forces against the contemptible Castilian, This is taken from the New York Globe: expresses the merits of the colored people while it out- lines a just and equitable policy for the government. Considering the uniform fidelity of the colored people to all that is American, it s-ems hard that the irenious senti- ment which prevails against the man who was opposed to Mr. Gould. His speech was as much in favor of Capt. McDonald as it was in favor of Mr Gould. Mr. Terrell admitted that i the republican party had not done all of its duty toward the negro, but with such a man as Mr. Gould in Congress, the negres of Maryland would get their rights. The meeting adjourned and when The Bee polled the votes Capt. McDonald had fcur-fifths. WHAT MAKES A GENTLEMAN. THE YOUNG MAN SHOULD BE GUIDED BY HIS OWN BEST INSTINCT “Common-sense rules in dress and manners, the same as in any phase of our lives, and this our young men should learn and understand,” writes! Edward Bok of ‘What Makes a Gen- | tlemin,” in the July Ladies Home Journat. ‘‘A man’s manners are not exterior: they eminates from within, from himself. Experience and obser- | vation are the only teachers he can seek and use. Etiquette books are| useless tohim. A young man’s pro-| gress and favor in the eyes cf others does not depend upon his being « sten- tatiously ‘correct’ in manner, move- ment and speech. His strongest and most lasting hold upon the respect and confidence of people comes from some- thing deeper. He must not be boor- ish, nor slovenly, nor heedless of the feeling of others. It is his duty to carry himself well according to his best instincts, and not by rules laid down in etiquette books. So with a young man’s dress. At twenty we do not expect our young men to devote somuch time to their clothes that they shall be correctly dressed upon every occasion. Such useless knowl- edge, is at that time of life, acquired at the expense of far more important matters, The taste of good dressing, and its knowledge, so far as it is nec- essary, Comes to all of us as we pro- gress. The right sort of a young man dresses in in the neatest and best manner he can, and as well acknowledgemert of their rights | should receive the sanction of the! President. Ifrace prejudice and | hate were wiped from administra- | tive methods, the country would be better off and the influence upon other governments would be more salitary. ‘I'he best argument was quite/sions are harder to desect than a jin favor of rightisthefact of being wears, but h right. as his his income permits. That is always good dressing. To overdress one's station in the world is always’ poor taste and invariably makes a bad impression. I never yet saw a young man who either hired or borrowed an evening suit for a special occasion who did not loudly proclaim the self evi- dent fact. Whena young man wears clothes beyond his means he invaria- bly shows it, and he never fails to make a fool of himself. This rule is invariable. It is not what a man ow he wears it, that tells the story.” . | has stoodby Mrs. Brown, who has |; but few of our leadin: THE CONGRESSION SITUATION. SUMMER RESO THE RTs From the Frederick, (Md.,) Guide, The disinclination of Mr. Besilnta| A. Richmond, of Alleghany County to enter the contest, is we think from a! conscious feeling of right belonging | to the Hon. John McDonald to succeed | himself. nes McDonald may not ossess the veneering of an orato rye ares Ear his level-headedness in casting hig = Strictly First-Clas vote ie ene and justice. his attitude. Spend a pleasant day in ; on all pablic questions, the life he had ie the patriotism to risk for his country | Meals and Lonches s, in its hour of need, leaves no donbt in at all hours, the minds of some of his constituents rs : that he can be trusted for a second, MR. MOSES JON ES, Pr term in Congress and that there are) ba more things than eratic oratory that| enable a man’s public life to scour be- | ‘ H 4 fore the people’s gaze. Now the! uM i i "8 Hon. Jel MeDonald is pata b entitled to renomination and we do When y ven not know the temper of the people if| sities want this qu he does not get their support. He is answered Satisfacto; one of the few men, who when the , DANIZL sPaigg GLEN ECHo, battles of his country were fought to a successful finish, went into retired! life, ““a_farmer”’ until our people of the ; Sixth Congressional District recog- nized his sterling qualities called him forth to represent them by a majority of nearly three thousand votes. In battle he wes valiant for his country and in pee he honored his profes- sion. In Congress attentive to his duties and the people’s approval in the sixth he will suerely get. The few republicans of Frederick city or county who have been in the city of Baltimore ‘‘discussing politics” who have been unsparing in their crit- icisms of Judge Motter’s friends in dragging him into a political contest, are very inconsistent and nonsensical. Judge Motter has the inalienable SALOO 236 Third Street, s Ww A full line of best Wines Liquors and Cigars on hand. TONSORIAL ARTisr. 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The great Trans-Mississppi and International Exposition will be in full blast at that time and all who attend the convention will be enter- PERSONAL ADVOCATES. Headquarters of the National Person- al Liberty League: and gentlemen with fi AND TOBACCO THE DELMO- public comfort. The chairman of each State and District league will see that each State and District convention is called in ample time. Where there are no organization of the Personal Liberty League, any well known col- ored man that believes in personal liberty may calla meeting to select delegates to said convention. The following States will be entitled to the following number of delegates. Alabama, 10, Arkansas, to, Califor- nia, 20, Connecticut, 5, Delaware, 3, District of Columbia, 10, Georgia, 20, Illinois, 20, Indiana, 10, Iowa, 10, Kansas, 20, Kentucky, to, Missouri, 20, Minnessota, 10, Michigan, ro, Ne- braska, 10, New York, 20, Ohio, 20, Colorada,, 6, Pennsylvania, 30, Wis- consin, 5, Massachusetts, 10, W. Va. to, Rhode Islaud, 5, South Carolina, 20, North Carolina, Texas, 20, Va., Hampshire, 4, Florida, 10, New Jersey, 10, Louisiana, 20, Tennessee, 20. All of the Southern States are cor- dially invited, each will be allowed 20 delegates. A list of the delegates must be sent to the secretary of the colored National Personal Liberty League. 30 days before the day of the convention in order that arrangements may be made for their allotment to be made. By order of the president, H. Clay Hawkins, Branchcombe, Secretary. Charles C. Curtis, oganizer. Cafe: . cream Manufacturers. ( Water Ices. | ., wholesale Oysters, Cream, go Banquet Hall.—Telephon: Style, Fit and Workmanship GUARANTEED, ULES 2. Tt, Merchant Tai Fine Repairing at Lowest «+e. Specialty 1755 L Street, N. W., New Vermont, 5, NATIONAL ENCA‘ G. A. R Of Cincinnati, Ohio—Septer toth, 1898. Baltimore road. 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It seems that men can be relied upon to treat their own women right when a white woman is involved in the case—they will side with the white woman, and against the Negro woman every time, it matters not how just the cause of the colored woman may be. We trust that The Bee may keep at this case until Mrs. Brown gets justice. We must give white men and Negro fawners upon white women to understand that they cannot trample upon the rights of Negro Dr. Williams of t! women with impunity. i é ‘ hospital will disappoint thos are trying to traduce ROUND BAY. The attention of the citizens Wash- ington, societies, churches and other organizations, is called to the opening of Round Bay, the Palasades of the Chesapeake Bay. In another column of this paper will be seen the adver- tisement of this popular summer re- sort. This beautiful place, will be un der a new management this year. Rev. S. R. Hughes, of Baltimore, Md., will have full charge of arranging foz picnics and excursions. 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