The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1901, Page 1

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. 7 <7" COMPANION, I tin Qa ra sections, collectivly and separately, Ir) jare in violation of the fourteenth L{ amendment of the constitution of the | United States. — THE BAPTIST UNION wilh THEY CLA IS AIMED ENTIRELY AT THES The Metropole Young Men Comdemned The Baptist Ministers Union held a | other things considered was the newly Educational a ad Property Qualificas - . x, . Q organized Metropole Social Unconstitutional |; Most representive men in the United States. The Baptist Ministers Union Ireans, La things and condemn that which test the constitutionality of | 20¢3,8t concern it. The Star ub of Lauitives ak, speaker of the occasion was Rey. eas ice wena aie te Walter H. Brooks who seemed to be : ae 7) ene ae chagrined benause this clubis organ- ized for a strictly social purpose Kev. Brooks it will be remembered idamus proceeding | was acandidate afew years ago for tear of uoters ant ciel delegate, from this city, tothe Na- | tional Republican Convention and was r is.a native born defeated. The question is, is it any the United States and more charm for representative mento of Louisiana; that he is | 2®ize @ social club that it was for ars of age; that he is| Rev. Brooks toruna game of chance ithe Akin ‘ace cad of being defeated for delegate? Can 2 ovand mathe et ae the Baptist Ministers Union, as a body ts were of African the afford, to condemn anything that will was bern a the state tend to correct the morals of this 2 in the year 1841, but community? Are those gentlemen in ed to this state, and | Position to condemn men who are actual se ddeat ef ike their superiors in every particular? siania and the city of Doesn't this same body white wash sate torrantedie. sace (Cm charge that is made nage if Mee nh. x84 vs gree against many of its members. What Sige verte daee in has the Baptist Ministers Union done ste and parish, and has actually to condemn the morals ofits own t pel se ae eek ee members, since its organization? The irty years or thereabouts, | YOU8S man who] was attacked this jolatar Wie ee specifically week stands above reproach is this thathe has been an actual bones |e and there can be nothing resident fae ataleetar saaue \said against him, so far as his morals two years; of the parish of Or- ¢ r morethan one year, and of th precinct ofthe eleventh ward | 1 and illiterate Ryanes, a poor a t ised his asmuch? Suppose the light were turned on many of those who took aid parish of Orleans for more occasion to condemn this club? What mnuike x would the comunity say? The Metro pole Club is strictly a social institution r relator further allegesthat he | . a ible toread anu write; that he a of which any city would feel t own any property assessed to ipon whch any taxes are, or eS ee » be paid; that on the 1st day A CONSPICIOUS FIGURE ary, 1867, and prior thereto, he esident of the state and parish + 1, and was not then entitled to | iler the constitution and laws be state of Louisiana, and that A most conspicous member of the uer his father nor grandfather| Washington Bar is lawyer James M entitle] to vote under the con-| Ricks, tully six feet in height with 1 and laws of the state where | broad shoulders and of atheletic built, en resided on the rst day ef} jet black in complexion, with scanty 17, OF at any date prior | locks, close shaven save a heavy gray et si mustache, always attired in fault A Bachelor and a Prospective Benedict yur re 1oOW Specia leges | less len and clothes of a jaunty cut, at on fj ind his figure is sure to attract ‘atten 5S € t t , ie t tion anywh voters f h Orle He first the light under the H J M. Gleason, who is|shadow of one of the mountain spurs of So thwest, Va., about the ume when our nation wa {/the memorable political which the Mexican war awakens rem yr-| iniscences. The Civil war found him i well grown lad, large enough to be ally alleges that ; quite a valuable assct inthe hands of f voters, defendant he man who, according to tne law of refused toregister the plaintif, | the land, claimed to own him : Even your relator could and did| iu these days his daring and initiative y with the requirements and pre- ed him into an experience that at one of article 1 ime threatened to put an end to sas) idst ruggle ir relat registrar ¢ 7 of the constitu- the stateef Louisiana adopted | mortal existence. i bh day of May, 1898, and of Pretending to act under federal au- fthe general assembly of| thority, young Ricks had the temerity | assed inorder to carry out|to lead a raid on some of the farm-| visions ofsaid article of the| crs in this out of the way section. For | ition, iwhile they had everything their own | lator now specially alleges | way until their capture. Their tria e action of said registrar of | aad been fixed, their condemnation refusing to register him is ordered, and the sentence was about} without proper constitu. | lO be carried out w hen one of his capt: | and auth rity; that said re-| ors, Conrad Trigg, who represented | ister is bat a step and is| his District in Congress saved Ricks} to a complete denial of | and his comrades from being shot, itor’s right to vote as your He attended the freedman’s school | vote without being | of Wythville, in 1867 taught by Mrs. A your relator will be| P. Spencer of this city and _ her friend, next elections, | the wite of the late Rev. Alex Ellis of essional, to be | Savannah, ¢ in tee intervals of clauses of the federal| these days. On the occasion of the ed to! visit of Charles Sumner the excellent y manner in which he recited not only )w specially alleges | merited the approval of the Bay State nt registrar in his said | Statesman, but found the subject of € pr tended authority | our sketch the lucky possessor ofa 5 of article No. 197 bright five dollar gold piece. , state constitution of} For five years Mr. Kicks taught in tions 5, 6and 7 of act| the public schools in Virginia with assembly of 1898,| great success. In 1879 he bade good yeftect the pro-| bye to virginia and entered the Theo- | ce No. 197 of the! logical Department of Howard Uni- | versity. Judging from the serious im- itor now specially alleges | pressions made by some of his ser- tions ;and 5 ofartucle mons, he gave the promise of a suc- © consuution of 1898, and | cessful career in the pulpit. 5, 6and 7 of said act No, But his vizws changed and he enter- certified copies ot which | edon the study of law and graduated lerein and made a part) in 1886 in the same Ciass with James iny otherlaw or lawscarry-| F. Bundy, member of the Board of provisions of said articie | Education. ‘ | nstitution of 1898are illegal | In 1887 on the motion of his friend i, and cannot, and should| and former instructor, Mr. J. W. vrced for the tullowing Cromwell, he was admitted to pract- wit ice before ail the Courts of the Dis- s said article 197 of the| trict of Columbia, having previously id said sections 3. 4 and | passed an examination admitting him well as the act of the | to practice in Virginia. passed in pursuance there- He atonce hung out hs shingle, | consutute one unkaw-| mindiul of President Garfield’s advice ifirage qualification based | to the law clags-at Howard one month nination on account of prior to the assassination—“‘go out In- © previous condi.ious of to the world and capture your places lis, therefore, in viola-| Mr. Ricks was not long in’ finding teenth anvendments of|clients and in keeping them. He suglitution. steadily won his ways so that today he | ! said article 197 of isin the enjoyment of a handsome | tion and the various | practice worth not less than two thou- | edf, as well as the sections | sand do lars annually. tis books are 199 of 1898, were intended sotkept that he cin readily tell the} (poor amd ignorant -negroes | source of ali hig business, as. well as and actually disfranchises on!y the kinds aid classes of cases which and ignorant negnpes, situated|he tries. An examination discloses | othe relator herein, therby | the tact :hit one-tourth of the cases) ‘ng to sad poor and ignorant! and two-thirds of the fees received | es the equal protection of the| during the last twelve months came) WS to ad thereby subj uC ° er re the said article andthe said! With the success that has been his) She Be | GRERY ADVERTISING MEDIUM. = as Do 4 le news? Do you ta Searless race advocate? Do you want colored trade? Kead and advertise in THE BEE! eh: FA Dg eor fon ipa ep ren nia WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY JULY itis evident that he enjoys the re-}jng; whatwas I playing, why was spect and confidence both of the bench | playing; wha and the bar, Itis also true that i 20, 1901. t did | laugh about, what | surance companies inthis state to dis- I making it a penalty for the life in- DO 11 ~~ UG WOR |meeting onlast Tue-day and among loves his freedoni too much, composed of some of the leading and | him to choose and refuse until now he |an organization that will wink at some| or several years he cared for his | re; are concerned. Can his traducers say | }ered about him with inquiries; he said which they are entitled, and, | from his white clients. \a other attorney whose specialty is! why wasIsad jcriminal practice has more friends | did dislike; why, who, what, where among the police officers. His native} fore I replica t , i untill thought my hair shrewdness, tact and knowledge of | whichis very dark, would turn perfect human nature enables him : ive as deep legal learning is before judges in appellate courts. Mr. Ricks hasnever married. : t to hand!le/jy whiteor that my cranium would Club Criticlsed—Reputable | them in guch a way as to be as effect-| present a surface like that of Bill Nye. i; whom did I like, whom! of color orrace. He assisted Bishop -| Arnett in repealing the ‘‘Black laws’’ , of the state. He has held prominent Harrison and McKinley which positions he fill- ed with! igh credit to himself and racc® Hehas been recently z inted i 5 i | <4=as a re y appointed On tlé pointing Got to Be a Regular Mania | event and circumstance which had or| State Republican oye He} probably would happen in my life; mittee. He is eninently qualified for an@ his | even when and how! breathe the free|the position -| positions under President was actually expected to tell every Executive Com- and will give general extreme caution born of his experi-/ air. Had | had the eloquence | would | Satisfaction. His appointment came deems in midsummer madness to/play upon this pipe? Why, look you ; place his neck in hymen’s halter. | now y did for a parent. His heart and his Club | ence with frail humanity has caused | have turned to my inveterate tormen-|to him unsolicited and at the sugges- | tor and inquired as Ham'et, ‘Will you| tion of General Chas. Dick, and Gen- 1) eralGeo. K. Nash. Mr. Brown will how unworthy a thing you make }take up his new duties at once with f ©u would play upon me; you aged mether as tenderly as man ever; would seem to know my stops; you | would pluck out the heart of my mys- the best wishes of the Standard. pocket-book are open to the appeals | tery; you would soind me fron my of the distressed and needy, though at | lowest no! | times he can be obdurate and deaf to} and there entreaty as astony-hearted judg-. He has frequently been appealed) you make it speak blood? to by politicians to shy his caston in! think J am easier to be the polit cal ring, especially in the 9th | than a pipe? Call me what instrument | Congressional! District of Virginia in| you will, though you can fret me yet which he is widely known and highly / you cannot play upon me.” ; to the top of my compass; is much music, excellent | voice, in this little organ; yet cannot Do you played upon | The Comforts of Home, Church—Have you a cosy corner in your house? Gotham—Oh, yes; my wife has ar- ranged two of them. esteemed by both races. Thus far he| Curiosity as wise and useful investi-| day’s work.” has said, ‘‘get behind me, Satan;”’ but | gation is commendable; but petty per-| “Enjoy nothing! The cat has one EX-CO JGRES iMAN THORP, Wao will lead the Kepublican forces in the State of Virginia. is he has positive views on the ne-| sistent prying into glect and indifferance of the republi-| -pambers of a human life, is vain. -an party resp-cting the elective fran-/ ‘‘Gotake the murmuring sea shell chise of the Negro in the South, there! from the shore—you have its shape, s no assurance that these appeals will | its color—and no more. It ilways be unheeded. Jone of those vast JOHN W. CROMWELL — not the very inmost tells not mysteries that lie beneath the surface ofthe sea. Think You've seen beneath the surface CURIOS TY of the waves, where lie our ship- wrecks and coral caves.” Have you ever noticed men and wo- nen with their heads pushed forward isiftrying to form an interrogation BRUTISH CRIME OF NEGRO WILLIAMS t less he is duly | school sessions he assisted his father! point? 1 have frequently observed | , a le edema eee t said refusal, therefore, | by working on the farm and heiping | this ludicrous pose The neck is ; ent upon your relator’s | him in the blacksmith shop. Mr. | stretched like a wire at snapping ten- (he horrible crime committed last ivileees asa citizen of| Ricks made rapid advancement and] sjon, the head pushed forwacd appar-| Taursday evening at Nineteenth and tne United States; | subsequently entered the Hampton Ln- | ently to form the curve of the punctu-, Woodland by worthless and brutish vill be deprived of | stitute and graduated in 1873. Booker! ,tion point and the facial expression | Negroes, wherein a white girl and her erred upon him’ by| ‘. Washington was a student there in| is what I call the expansion curiosity ‘esc or. were O itrageously treated and h. The eyes are expande! as if assaulted, surpasses anything of the d with belladonus, the nostrijs | sort that has happened in this vicinity. ike a race horse nearing the goal, even! I'he guilty partics represent the vilest he mouth is sometimes stre:ched as a | eleme of human kind and the most rreedy hound viewing steak, depraved of the Negro race, and ” Curiosity is like many other faults sould be punished to the fulliest ex- that “flesh is heir to; beneficial in| ent of the law ; sme cases, but ca'umuious in others.’ THe SON urges the strongest possi Ifthe innately curious could observe | ble condemnation of such findish out- the Greek maxim, ‘‘Moderation in|rage, and thatthe strong arm of the all things,’ they would be less ridicu- Jaw rid the community of such char lous and in many instances less meri-| acters. torious of contempt. | ie The Greeks held that diseases andj evils came into the world through} Pandora’s curiosity and in modern times there are as many Pandoras as| the Greeks had plagues. Thesetare| The appointment of Hon. J. A. turning evils into life’s journey day by , Brown of Cleveland, Ohie, meets the day \ hearty approval of the Standard. Mr. A great dea! of amusement may be| Brown is one of the Substantial influ- derived from curious people. I heard| ential men of our race. You may rest of a man who availed himself of an op-| assured that the interests of the col- portunity which curiosity afforded. | ored voters of Ohio will be ably and faking out his watch he stood before} well taken care of under the watchful the statue of a lion, and, fixing hiseyes | eye of our genial statesman from the intently upon it waited, a crowd gath-| Forest city. di A GOOD MAN; he Columbus, Ohio, Standard he was waiting to see the lion wag bis | tail at a certaia hour : Sore HON. JERE A. BROWN. e I had a strange experience with a | picisithe*Chlvinbus, Of Stameaal curious person, who soughtand made 2 inquiries into my present, past and fu-|, The su ject of our sketch was born ture. No-convict under sentere+' of in Pittsburg, Pa. His parents moved death ever passed a more rigi! exami- j with him éarly in lité in Canada where nation. Every artic.ce.in, my possess- | Ae SORE his bey-heeddays, From ion went through the same straight, |@ boy he was studious and ird :str.ous, crosswise.and otherwise examination. | ip lis early life he recognized the fact In the presence of my personifie | cu- | that diligence and indusustry are the riosity I was forced to reply to quest- hands of fortune. By trade he is ions fired like hot shot from an ‘ene-|a carpenter which when properly used my’sgun. There was no rest. HH Ijis a fortune toapy man. He was.a spoke to anotherperson | was asked | letter-carrier for years in Cleveland \\what I had said; if] remained in one| where his fidelity and’ aftability won er s in; if Iwent out,|tor him the highest esteem. He was oe aa 4 ‘hy. did 1 i whom | elected to the sixty-seyenth and sixty- id I see, what did they say, what did| eight assemblies l say; why did I sing, what was! sing-!county, and is author of the law no} did Lery about; why was I cheerful, | criminate against persons on account | Strange Feats of a Pointer Whe Knew a Thing or Two. | with Him Until Everything That ] Wore Feathers Attracted His Atiention. “Talking about man with the s! seat of the trolle logs,” said the eye, in the rear ear-eand nobody, | suggests the Washington Star, had | a I 5 eaten said a word about bird dogs or any other kind of dog: remarkable bird dog that ever hap- i pened, 1 guess, when I was livi out jin Santa Barbara, Cal., in 95. I don't | s’pose there ever wil] be the likes of that dog on this earth again. I raised him from a pup. He was a pointer —“I had the most | “You must enjoy them after a hard | from away back, It was just as natural for that dog to flop on to his haunches d point at a b&d a is |and my wife’s dog oceupies the | for us humans to eat things that don’t | “How old are you, Frau Pleichin- ger?” “Has Frau von Wiesinger given her your honor?” “Certainly.” | “Very well—then put me down as two years younger than she!”—Der Floh. ag | ARTISTC PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD Guide to Wahington. | The Passenger Department of the | Baltimore & Ohio R. R. have issued a Guide to Washington, which in | many respects excels all other guides and careful discription of points of int {terestin the Capital City. The fron cover of the book is embellished with a | handsome steel engraved portrait of the ‘Stuart’? Washington, The re verse cover bears an American flag in | the grasp ofaneagle. The inside pages eentain recent photographs of all of | (the Government Buildings with cor- |rect imformation coacerning them- together with other interesting features | of the city, and the very latest map. Copies will be sold at the principal Cickets Offices of the Baltimore & Jhio R. R. for ten (10) cents cash, or vill be mailed to any address on re ifteen (15) cents in stamps on appli ation to the undersigned. “REASONS WHY **Reasons Why”’ is a forty-two page vamphiet giving in condensed form he important facts concerning the Zaltimore & Ohio R. R. It is an irgument setting forth the claims of | he railroad for public consideration. Chis artistic booklet contains many ialf-tones and drawings illustrating he history, scenic charms, the de | velopment and progress of the rail road, and the superior service afforded | o patrons. Single copies can be ob= tained of Tickets Agents, or will be) nailed to any address on receipt of wo (2) cents in postage stamps on ipplication to the undersigned. D. B. MARTIN, Manazer Passenger Traffic, | published, both in artistic appearance | agree with us. “He began to point before he had {shed his milk teeth. I took him out | for a walk one day when he was only about two months old, and it took us about four hours to get over four miles of ground, for that dog would sit down and poin at a bird about every ten feet of our progress. It did not make any sort of diff e what kind of a bird it was that he pointed at. | He'd point at any old kind of a bird. | rer If a little bunch of English sparrows | would settle down in the middle of the | street he'd just sit down and point at them, and it was all I could do to ae him to come along with me. He’ }point at a robin sitting on top of a cottonwood tree, and he'd point at a | Brahmin rooster clawing up a flower | bed in a front yard. Any old thing | that had feathers on it that dog of mine v ould point at. Had him out one afternoon when a bald-headed eagle to soar around above Santa about three miles up in the that dog di med f the noble b la down and point at it until I had POINTING AT A FURNITURE VAN. him with a club to induce him t along with me. “On » come ay I had an aching tooth, Baltimore & Ohio R. R, led to go to a dentist and have Baltimore, Md,| ‘he miserable molar yanked out. I j ’ felt so bad I took that pointer i LLY ® alor me for company on t 4 SPECIAL EXCURSIONS TO PAN-| my way to thedentist’s office,and when Wits AMERICAN EXPOSITION »¢ got to the door he slipped into the ;: | me. Next thir I knew Re JURING JULY. VIA BALTIMORE pup af mine as g Ue Ae & OHIO RAILROAD. on his quarters ng at a si Excursion tickets will be sold to Buf- shag 4 alo, via Royal Blue Line, Philadel sige ae »yhia & Reading Ry., and Lehigh (3 Valley Route at the Low Rate of eee $10.00 forthe Round Trip from Wash- 1 ngton, Baltimore. Washington and for re ntermediate stations on July 2, 11, | « ft t riif 117, 25, and 30 for train leaving Wash 1 pois t ais ngton a.m,, Baltimore k } e t n., Newark, Del., 6.20 a m., . bout a year a. % nington 9.39 a.m., arriving ia ‘ : f HEL BES alo 9 20 p.m : stoi » a Tickets will also be sold. aticorres.| FO" OF. OE Pe Bed pondingly low rates from Frederick, | ©“ one. ‘One oF the 44 Pale dagerstown, Martinsburg, Strasburg | broken at the s and a lot of feath- gt j junction, and intermediate points, for | ¢rs escaped dog of mine saw jany train on day previous to above) the flying feathers and blame me if | dates in order that passengras may| he didn’t sit down and point at that | be enabled to make connections with train name. | All tickets limited for return to | seven (7) days, inciwding date of sale, on all trains execpt “Black Diamond txpaess’’ and ‘!Royal Limited” Cajl on Agents Baltimore & Ohio R. R. for tickets, Pullman car space, nd full information, furniture van. Fact. “But that wasn’t the cutest thing he ever did. The cutest thing he did was one afternoon when I him down to the a Barbs for a walk on the sand. I ha sooner got him down to the beach than he sat down and began to point out to sea. I couldn't for the life of me make a beach "Lany a “ a out what he was pointing at. There SUMMER TOURS VIA BALTIMORE} anit ary @ bird, notewné fe ul, & OHIO RAILROAD. Tickets now on sale to all principal summer resorts east of the Ohio River. Special excursion tickets to Buffalo, account Pan American Exposition, and to Niagara Falls now on sale. For further information appiy to offices Nos. 707 15th street, 619 Pa. Pa. ‘Ave.; and Depot, N. J. ave. & C street, re garding time of trains, routes and rates. M-4-4t. B. &O. WEEK END COUNTRY | TRIPS. Tickets sold Saturdays and Sundays | for return until following Monday, «at reduced rates, from Washington to Charlestown, Frederick, Annapolis ' 4A. 31. in sight. But he kept right on squat- ting there at the verge of the sea and inting out over the water, and if man was puzzled then I - was. I calculated that he migha be mistaking the crests of the waves for: feathers, no, a little refiection convinced me that he wasn’t aay sueh # fool dog as to do a thing tike,that., Then. I) noticed that. he was. pointing directly at a white ship tha: lay out in tae harbor, I pulled out, my fie! es, and took a, look at the sbip, then the mystery was, made clear.,The ship he. was pointing at was the Un ed States man-o’-war ,Petre!,). and then the man with the shifty eye ex, ecuted a sudden leap and escaped from the car before his wrat)ful listeners from Guyahoga Juaction and intermediate points.—| could hor on kim and mscerats bim