The Washington Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1901, Page 4

The Bee. PUBLISHED ATSH NO. 1109. "‘I"" STREET. WASHINGTON D.C W.CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at gtoa, SDC as second-class mai! matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy jer year. Six months. Three months. «tee City subscibers, mont ily... Sectionalism with a Vengence. There is a great deal of jealously rising among the negroes in office which will prove to their detriment. This same feeling was inaugurated, among ceitiin northern negroes, under the Harrison Administration which resulted in retiring a good man, Dr. J. M. ‘Townsend, who was Recorder of the Land office. Invitations have been issued, THe Bera his” one, to be present at a banquet this eveninz in which our esteemed made and townsman, Hon. John P. Green, is the guest of honor. The invitation etates that a number of colored man from the North, Eistand West will meet in banquet “looking to the formation of a p-rmanent association for the of the material in- terest of its members,’’ Just why the representa‘ives of the South should be ignored, the promoters have failed to state. Should not the] material interest of the negroes South be looked after teriil interestof the negroas North, East West? What does it mean? Is it an attempt to inform the that it negroes from the sections named to the exclusion of the poor negroes South, who have advancement as wellas the ma-| anl Iministration must look ar the demonstrited greater _ political sagacity than the negroes from the sections named? This kind of politics should cease and Tae Beg would suggest that the administra- tion pay atlention to a few| office holders, who claim to repre- sent a cons'ituency that does'nt exist, thus throwing discord among intelligent voters who don’t ask to be represented or express imaginary grievances, A similiar augurated no movement was in- under the Harrison administration. A few Northern negroes got together ani resolved, ! among themselves, that Dr. J. M Townsend should have a better place than Recorder of the Land office. Hon. E. P. McCabe was the spokesman of this Northern mutual administration society and this man, | with a few other cffic- holder, lead Dr. Townsend to believe that he should have a better place. Prvsi- | dent Harrisoa asked the committee | was not Dr. Townsend satisfied? No Sir: What Mr. Harrison. Well, said the Said the spokesman, | does he spokesman, Mr. Townsend wants either the R:- corderehip of the District of Col- umbia or Register of the Treasury. He can't have either, said Mr. | Harrison. ! Well said the spokesm in, he will resign. Well, let him resign, said Mr. Harrison. The committee returned t» Dr. ewnsend and in‘orméed him of what the President had said. few wecks thereafter Dr. Townsend yesigned. Mr. MeCabe, who wanted te be Gevernor of Oklahomy, and a few others were soon retired, The yast time Dr. Townsend was heard rm, he was preaching and the others have not been heard of since, The Southera negroes continued to be appointed to good positions while some of them who knew it al!, ad- vised the mosses of the negro voters to support the democratic purty. Some of them supported the demo -| cratic party and the moment that| periy got in power it commenced to! disfranchise the {nezro and it has| i Vance | prodaced want? remarked |; j attempt Al jnegro North, East or West, negro South in the embarrassing position whie': he is in to day. Here is a banquet to take place thi; even- ing, so the invitation stages, look- ing to the ame'ioration of the con- dition of the negroes, North, East, and West. The Southern negro is not invited to join in with his brethern in the sections named, and why ? ls the negro South en- vied? If no’, why is he notin- vited? While the absence of THE Bek will not stop the banquet, it has too much respect and regard for the struggling Southern negro to attend The greatest and most successful negroes have come from the South. Because the southern negro is de- prived of his vote is no fault of his and President McKinley has a Jib- eral spirit toward the depressed negroin the South and for men who elaim that they want to advance the progress of the negro to dis- criminate agaiast the south-rn west. Have these men who claim to want to advance the interest of the negro North, East and West,c m= stituer ices ? Have they been author- said coustitu- were a democratic nothing would be heard of such a movement. These office holders would remain in their holes and be glad tod» it if they not What have their ized to represent ? IE this administration molested. they to ad- selfish It is not the disposition were interest save own interest ? of Tue Bex to criticise any assem- bly of peop! wha Bee is right and jast. g Bat, The the South the greatest and most successful in the United States, What has the North, East and Western negro done that he will siy that has negroes should arogate superiority over the southera negro? Is not the south- ern negro a geutleman, Every negro representative that has been in our National Congress, at any time, has come from the South, Has the negro North, East or West ever been represented in our National Congress ? “Has it come to this? ’” Has the negro North, East and West decended to the level coward that he is afraid to his brethren south bim? There among of a invite to feast with is too ibe western negro. is there suflicient much selfishness northern, eastern and In no state norta concentration of the suffrages of the negro to dem- onstrate his power. It has been fully shown thai he isa subject and must obey the command of the white man, The North, Ea-t and West have produced no great neg- roes. History is repeating itself, President McKinley has done and of everything, sectionalism. He is is doiig with the entire his administration to obliterate force | endeavoring to blot outevery vestige of disaffection among his country- men, to enable the blue and the gray, the North and the South, the East and the West and all classes of poopie to live in union and brotherly love. The negro is the last one to to discriminate against his poor and bleeding black broth- er south, who is struggling for ex- istence and praying to God, who rules the destiny of nations, to de- liver him from the tyrants’ clutches, Away with such subterfuge and jwith such demagoguery. No self respecting negro, who has any love jfor his race or the negro south will respect such a movement, Notwithstanding the oppression of the southern negro and the impedi- ments with which he has toencoun- ter, his progress is greaterthan the No sectionalism for us, but let us have one President and one coun- try. never ceased. There ig no reason why the Southera negro should} have been ignored. Tue Bre has| great respect forthe Southern negro, He has been strugzling ever since, his emancipation, an1 ‘it was! through the ch‘canery ofthe North-| ern politicians that placed the poo ! OUR WOMEN. From the March Arena. . ' Tae Negro womanand Negro girl, juiged by civilized standards, are toa large extent immoral. .[t' is almost impossible to rear a girl under pres- ent conditions and avoid this result, The:e is not yet develop :d in the race, 2s a whole, ap in and honor for its women. First savages, then slaves, with the women im the position as negro is an evidence of their in-| sincerity of the material advance-| ment of the negro, North, East and | dc cause they demand | beasts of burden and bearers of fu- ture slaves, and with scarcely forty years intervening, the result is inevit- labless¢ The Negro woman of the | lower type still recognizes her subser- |vience to the white man and yields herself quite as readily now as then. | Precicents and habits of association ‘are powerful factors in directing the action ofthese women. There are few occupations, aside from domestic ser- _ viee open t> them, and prostitutes are recruited from this class.’ Continuing this same question Prof. Kellor, in speaking of position of the white women of tie south, he says: “The attitude of the white woman is conducive to Negro immorality, for they are generally indifferent to the relations of their husbands and broth- ers with Negroes—where a northern white woman of equal standing would not be. This is unquestionably due to the practices in vogue during slavery.’ The great trouble with some negro men, is they don’t respect their women. ‘hey are too quick to suspicion every woman who may bespoken well of or may have ele- vated herself and the higher wal<s of life. There are some noble and good women’ in this country and if, they are bad, they have been made so by corrupt Colored women are not sur- }rounded with the inviroments wi:h ; men. |which some white women are sur-, rounded. Some colored men have no respect for a decent colored | woman and if he gives one any as- sistance he comes to the conclusion that he owns boast of what he hus given her. If colored men had more respect for theic women, and protect them more there would be less immorality among them. Every avenue is closed against our worthy colored women and girls. Thsy have no \large stores in which they can go to be employed, |with means offer no inducements for our girls and There wag atime, that a respectable col- ored girl could not be employed in a public office, without comment, while the young white girl and woman were respected and encour- aged. Let the men protect their women and there will be less morality among them. A negro will enter a white man’s office and see a white girl or wo- man and he willsnatch his hat off, but he enters a colored man’s office and sees one of the most refiacd }and highly educa‘ed colored ladies, he will ask her all kinds of ques- tions. The first thing that he wants to kuow is, how much money she is getting, where docs she live, do you want to take din- ner. She can’t be polite because negro men will net permit her. When negro men leara how to re-| spect their women then and not un- til then will there be less immora!- ity among them, What Is The Difference ? From the St, Louis R her and loves to Colored men women, im- adical. There should n't be a very exalted! opinion placed on a negro journal that | will spell the word ‘‘Negro”’ and use a} lower-case n. The Washington Bee does this. What difference Joes it make if the word negro is spelled with a lower-case n? This is an advanced age and races are weighed by their weight, advancement and progres- siveness. ‘There are fools wno have diplomas and there are wise men who have more. Big names count for nothing as wellas big men. Small men sometimes have greater minds than large men. When the negror ace reaches that degree of progress, honesty and progressiveneas as other nationalities, then it will be time enough to spell negro with a big N. See? The negro has a poor opinion any way of his own journ- als. If he had a better opinion, negro editors would cease appeal- ing to the white people to support their jeurnals. See? Still Out. There are hundreds of negro re- publicans walking the streets while their places gre being retained by negro democrats. In every branch {of the government can be found negro democrats who are circulat- ing stories against repubtican of- fisial who ere and have been more than fricndly disposed toward the negro. There can be noreason ad-| vanced why colored republicans should be made to walk the streets while their political enemies are holding their jobs in the several} department of the government, progressed in‘ ja candidate for N RE 0 DER H. P, CHEATHAM, He is Reappointed fur Four Years—Gives @ new Bond, etc. order of Deeds, Henry P. Cheat" mori given a new bond as Recor” der of Deeds for the District oF Cola bia. Mr. Cheatham has filled the office very acceptably for four years Pp. CHEATHAM. Hon. H. and has commanded the re: pect of the entire bar association and citizens generally. He has in his employment a large force of efficient clerks who have the respect and confidence of the Recorder, Mr. Cheatham is one of the most accomplished representatives in the negro race as well as having the respect and confidence of the ad- ministration. He is a thoraugh race manand he never looses an opportun- ity to do all in his power for the worthy andneedy. ‘he reappointment of Mr. Cheatham by the President is an evi- d nce of the esteem in which he is held by the administration and the re- publican party. HAWLEY AND THE NEGROES. . From the Dallas Texas World. Will any N be appointec io Federal position?is a question that is being asked daily. This isa hard nut to erack. Last year, when we were making the campaign for delegates, to the National convention, who favored fc Yational committee- man with liberal and broad views on this very question, those who now seem to be in darkness upon this ques- tion essayed to have much light on the question then lost much rest, night and day, attempting to convence the Negro that if he would cast his vote for Mr. Hawley and elect hii to the position of National committeeman, such positions as Collectors, Deputy- ships and large paying Clerkships would,be given to the negro, and an epoch of good times would be in store for them all. This political clap-trap was promu'gated by Negro men of supposed intelligence and influence. Through the perfidy of Mr. Hawley and the d sgraceful acts of his cohorts and by the good grace of a more de- signing National committee Mr. Haw- ley was forced on the people of Texas as their leader with powerto fill the functions of such a position. No soon- er than this man Hawley was given temporary power he assumed a hos- tile attitude toward all Negroes. He joins inthe mad and insane clamor to put the Negro in the back ground and not allow him to hold off This is the reward that Texas Negroes get for electing Mr. Hawley to Congress twice and makiag condition such as to give the National committee a chance to make him their National committee-, man in Texas. In any other person this would be regarded as the basest and worst sort of ingratitude. The Wor!d has in all ages regarded ingrati- tude as the basest of all crimes, and whether there be a god in every star that shines, gratitude is a virtue. There must come a _ reckoning day and thetrusting Negro will awake to find out that every man who proclaims sincere friendship, is in fact no friend atall. Such will come of Mr. Haw- ley’s duplicity, and what will he do when he cannot fool the Negro any longer. Already Mr. Hawley has sent it down the line that he will not en- dorse asingle Negro for a responsible office in Texas, soit is whispered around, yet there are Negroes in Tex- as stupid enough to prescribe fealty to his leadership. The time has come in the life of the Negro that he must stand with those who stand with him and stand against those who stand against him, regardless of whom they way regarding the situation in Wash- pp ba ee a political point of view, as to whether Negroes are enjoying any particular political: honors er not io having been successful in securing two members of the School Board, a few Negro policemen and one or two Negro firemen, we don’t know which, “ one” or * two,” when they number somewhere near the ninety thousandth mark. ne There are two many “ false alasm politicians connected with the pres- ent city administration for the Negroes to expect anything in St. Joseph ; still we think Mayor Combe, being the Republican candidate and electea by the Negro vote, he might have gone a step further and appointed a member of the raceto some other place than that of janitor. Perhaps the politic- ians’ presence is only a natural result of a municipial campaign and they’re only a bad effect caused by the cor- ruption of politics, but the above facts do not make their poorishness any the less oppressive. They'll do anything. Now, which is it ‘‘ good”’ for, St. Joseph, Topeka or Washington ? Let us be thankful for small favors. There may be a few falsa alarm politicians connected with the adminis ration, but they are gool men and have climbed to the topmost round of the Jadder by hard work, The outs generally call the ins corrupt and when the ins succeed the outs begin to kick. Yes we have a man at the head of the police department in this city who, no doubt will give the negro achance. In the opinion of THE Bee. 8S: Joseph, Topeka and Washington are doing well, Don’t dis,ise the day of small things. Respect Your Place. There are several places in this icity kept by colorel! men where ladies and gentlemen may go with- re A is vectable by people acting jout xan traint. place mad? re dee:nt and where respec*able peo- There is |ple are permitted to go. n> cause for the colored people not patronizing their own places if they they can ob- tain the same service. Colored so- ciety has not reached that point in life, that gives it a license to go to a place where a sample room is attached, There are three classes of people or more who visit such places. The refined lady doesn’t care to come in contac! with the sporting woman, A sporting woman wants her wines and bear, This is dis‘astful to the refined lady, who likes to go out fora quite evening to a first class supper but who doesn’t like wines. Then there is the drink- ing man, who does’t care what he says inthe presenca of a retined lady. He doesn’t know the rules of polite society, hense he doesn’t care what he says or does in the pres- ence of ladies. There is notenough of the respectable people so called to support a first class place, but still there are several first class col- ored places in this city where ladies are protected if they go. Let pa- trons learn how to respect these places in which they go and they will contiane t» be respectable. are treated well and Our Migh School Cadets. The citizens and the friends of the High School Cadets should nc t fail to attend the drill Friday May 31. Prof. R. H. Terrell of the High School has made eve-y neces- may be or what party they represent. Taere is no need to kick now. When yoa had Cuney on the National Committee representing Texas, }01 were dissatisfied and kicked him off. No sooner was this done, than yon commenced to grieve over it. ‘ There are some negroes in the south who are never satiafied unless a white man leads them, Whose fault is it that Mr. Hawley is on the National Com- mittee ? You had no faith in your negro represeutative. Coase grum- bling and go to work and hoe corn and pick cotton, because you will make better success at that than you will in polities, secu i as aa Sree MAY BE; MAY T BE « GooD.” The Districtof Columbia has three colored members on the School Board, a few Negro policemen, one or two Negro firemen. Now that we have anew fire chief perhaps we may have a few more in the fire de- partment. Good times are coming.— Washington Bee. From the St. Joseph's Radical. _Metaphorically speaking the eupho- nious language, we regret that we are so obtuse as to seize the mean- ing of the remarks of the astute editor of the Washington Bee, but! if the learned gentleman of the capi- tal city makes any reference to St. Joseph when he says * good,” we re- fuse to agree with him, but as to To- peka we can, because it has about Se The Northern negro has begun to make faces at the negro Seuth, | ‘4 the same voting population as St; sary arrangements to have one of the finest exhibitions that has ever takeu place in this city. It wil take place at the Base Ball grounds 14th street and Florida ave, north- east, Mrs. Bonnie ‘relieved the detec tive force. areca a a ‘he theory of detec ive Lacy and Brown was the right one at first If there is no unity among negro professional men, how can you ex- pect to find any among tie poor and needy? ETRE The Board of Kducation has settled the principal of the Indus- trial School eae ee ee, The democrats of Maryland will no doubt Leconvineed that honesty is the best policy.» a A Every negro who imagine that he amounts to Something should have himself desected, The best solution of the negro question is for the negroto compete with the white man in all the walks of life. Saean E E e Sonsior Qaay is no doubt the most successfal politiean in the Joseph and about one-sixth that of Washington, as we understand. We are unable to speak in an intéeliigent ‘country. a he | It is best, always, to think well Why negro democrats successful in holdj republicans are in s jobs is aquestion tha understood. the citizens lib2rally to the cal! of sufferers. Cashier ), of the Capital s 3 send agood sum from the pople who have been asked the suffers. DAVID R. FRANCIS Noted Missouri Preside Expos AN Elect t of the Gre: i. St. Louis Former Gov has just the Louisiana P 1903, was one moters of that Francis, like tinguished Kentuckian. fifty-second } St. Louis, v D: so 1 men He ington univer tering commerci: was democratic in 1885 he conventic was elec HON. DAVID h (President of the I E Louis, defeating | nent, who four yea received a maj The new mayor politically that he nomination for few candidates f had a more following. In the c! last Cleveland Francis the in united was ap ior, ¢ ident McKin! the democrati silver in with issue the sound mone has re edt ever sin He as a presidential po Fortune A seven r Peter Greenhalg arésident of Ver bought an old dollars. and paper mon¢ Int A German Citys Three years t Tan, the Ge poor fishing } of electric light works, hote The Roman roads, accord importance, were from ciz feet in width. Florida will contin at least to lease its conv highest bidders. The price paid for hemp has brought great prosper People of that land. A bill which has just beco: ef New York makes the fur penses of a deceased perso from his estate before debts. Argentine republic is p send a team to compete in the ! national rifle match in New Jer next summer. The Evanston (Ill.) Golf c! championship hole of States. It is 580 yar it will be hard to make wit and a putt. A fine specimen of the per mus family, a species of fis Supposed to be confined strict!) Africen waters, was recently cave! near Fernandina, Fla. bhasth t CURTAIN CALLS. London is threatened wit ie production of Oscar ‘ tic story, “The Pic Grey.” James K. Hackett may + lia in the summer of 19 that effect having bee: by J. C. Williamson. Paris critics have treate version of “Quo Vadis” hostility, asserting that giarism from the elder )) and Chateaubriand’s “Ma: Charles Hawtrey, country next season Wi lish reputation to back ! appear in New York Message from Mars.