The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 9, 1902, Page 4

Trae Bee. I STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C W. CALVIN CHASE EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D,C as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1882. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy rer year. $2.00} Six months Three months... City subscibers, monthly... Addicks, the Proper Man. It is a great misfortune that the State of Daleware should be with- out senatorial representation in the United States Congress, especi- ally since the whole affair of non- representation hinges on the matter of personal likes and dislikes. From | a local point of view the principal contestant for Senatorial honors Mr. Addicks seems clearly entitled toa full term in the Senate. He is an intensely ardent republican in great standing, has demonatrated unusual organizing and executive ability, has advanced to a very high degree the materi‘! interests of Delaware and is in line with the principles and policy of the Repub- lican party. The worst that can be said of Mr. Addicks is.that he is persistant and favors no compro- mises. He ia seeking the office as he has a perfect right todo and is encouraged and appointed by a majority of the leading republicans of the State, All sorts of offers have been tendered to those opps- ing Mr. Addicks, notably, one sug- gesting that as a concession for electing Mr. Addicks, the majority will abide by the suggestions of the minority, giving them one Senator and other offices of importance. In view of the customs of parties, this is a most liberal offer and should be accepted by these concerned. Bui the outcome is still in doubt, The few are still holding out against the many simply because of the peculiar conditions in the legiala- ture. There are many reasons why Mr. Addicks should be elected. In} the'first place, he is the choice of the majority of the republicans of the state. He is a thorough party man abd possesses large business experience. Again he should be elected for the moral effectit would have on the party in the State, his election demonstrating that not withstanding personal piques and | ambitions, party organization can be kept in tact and the rule of the majority maintained. Moreover there are interests peculiarly affeet- ing Delaware which should be look- ed sfter, whilethe republican force in the Senate should be straight- ened by every legitimate aecession in order that measures may be pass— ed the Senate for which the repub- lican party may receivesoleand ful} credit. Much has been eaid about the short comings of colored citi- zens, but this failure on the part of republicans in Delaware to elect two Senators when they have the orgarization and quite sufficient votes to secure them. We hope that the colored people of Delaware will demand the election of Addicks and the aceeptance of such favora- ble arrangements as will seoure s good, sound, liberal-minded asso— ciate to serve with him. The coun- try is looking for some sort of solu- tion of the embroglio «and it is hoped that Addiekaand the regular or-j ganizition will be-successfal. A Just Rebuke, ‘ The town seems all agog over‘@n incident which occured within, the sacred precincts of Oyater...Bay, New York, a few daysago. Ic seems thet a few publie-spirited colored gentlemen, of abnormal orania! development, assayed to take unto themselves, unauthorized, the char) acter of representatives of eighty odd thousand colored citizens of this city, The object it seems of the mission of these gentlemen was to put in crystallized and pleasiog form the wishes of these eighty Hypocricy. — From the Atlanta Age. The enemies of Mr. Booker T. fect a selection of Commissioner to succeed the late lamented John W. Ross, But little was heard of the matter until the wise gentlemen re turned from Oyster Bay, when it leaked out thatsaid representatives had made their little speeches on the cars and along the public high ways, but when near the sanctum of the sage of Oyster Bay. they were told that only invited guests need apply with any hope of suc- cess, with the suggestion that said tourists had better return whence they came and mind their own bus iness until specially invited to at tend to that of other folks. Wedo not vouch for every thing we have heard; but if we are to accept re- sults as an indication, we opine that there is some truth in the rumors. It bas ever been thus with some swell heads. They presume to be foremost and smartest and best and without any sort of credentials and demonstrating the least modioum of common sense they push the se!ves, forward as the ‘only people” and presume to speak for those who if consulted would have laughed at their presumptuousness and ad ministered a sound rebuke. It is becoming nauseous and disgusting. It indicates bad breeding and re flects no credit upon the race but rather stamps us a8 a superficial if not impudsnt people. Had the peo ple selected these men to represent them, some common sense would have been shown in arranging a meeting with the President. Had the delegates then been snubbed, it would probably have been regard | ed asan insult to the race. But when self constituted social and political leaders presume to force themselves upon the President with bogus credentials or no credentials at all, we certainlycan not taket e treatment as an insult; but applaud the President and congratulate our selves, If this sort of tom-foolery can’t be stopped any other way it were well to have the Executive havea hand. The rebuke which these foolish men received is only a foretaste of what is awaiting a host of other relf constituted lead ers both social and otherwise. ington are doing more to make him a political leader than he is doing him self. There is not a kicker but would like to have the *tham’”’ passed to him. Yes, and you have been one of the kickers, Men should be what they pretend theyareand not hypo- critical A few months ago Col. W. A. Pledger was in this city and was kicking hard because this na- tional negro apoligist had supplant- ed him and other hypocritical lead- ers. The Bee is a kicker and a hard kicker at that and it doesn’t envy the position that Washington has taken so far as being a political trimmer and anegre apologist. Col, W.-A. Pledger, The Bee will tel] you a thing or two about the apolist to whom you now are toady- ing. Bosh! The Apologist Gone. From the Southern Christian Advocate. Deputy Collector George Washing- ton Murry, the former colored Con- gressman from South Carolina, has been dismissed by Major Micah Jenk- ins, the new collector recently appoint- ed in South Carolina by President Roosevelt. What will Ex-Congressman Mur- ray do now. Apologists never suc- ceed no matter how deserving they may be. Kicking is now in order and nodeubt Mr. Murray will be heard from. — — The Power of the Press, “Onee again,” ttiumphantly gaid the able editor of the Slopton-on-the- | Slosh Herald, “has,the power of the @ress made jtself felt. For more than,seven years we have been clam- oring, conscientiously and continu- ously;“im-Season- and out of season, for’a new railway station here, and now fheA. B. & C. railway has de- cided to°accede to our demand and erect*one. The Old’ station “ was burned down last Thursday night amid “thunders of applause.”—'Tit- Bits. Pert Polly. “Yes,” sad Miss Ancient, “this lovely old brooch Has been in our family for sixty years, quite. “And have you been wearing it all of the | time?” Asked pert Polly Perkins, who's not very brig thousand prople as they might af- —Cinci: Commercial-Tribune. ee eee wee os oy ; Trop. I’m not at home, but if that’s What | Saw and Heat, There is a native Washington as- soziation organized. 1 wonder what fool suggested sueh? There are people in this city who have been here Since infancy and arenodoubt good and honorable citizens. There is some body who wants social rec- ognition and he thinks this is the way to get it. An organization should be sccially strong as well as numerically go. Some smart ducks went all the way to Oyster Bay to let the Presi- dent know that they represented 90,000 colored people in the Dis- trict of Columbia. Talking about cheek, but the cheek that the note shaver shewed when he left this city and went to Oyster Bry to tell the President that 90,000 eolored people in the District of Columbia wanted certain men Distriet Com-} missioner Was monumental cheek. Whoever told McKinley he repre-| sented any body. Great Cexasor Some people arogate too much to themeelves. The colored editor of a great colored paper who was recsntiy ap- pointed in che Recorders Uffice as an expert copyist no doubi, found newspaper work getting low, W. A. Piedger sometimes e:lled the “Col.’’ has had a change of heart. He thinks Booker T. — ash- ington isa greatman now. Pled- ger has been promised something no doubt Will the Col. tell me whet it is? Just how the supervisors fight will terminate no one knows. At any rate it looks very much like Dr. Bruce Evans is in the lead. I had understoed that merrit wou'd | win. Not saying that Dr, Evans is not meritorious, because I be- heve he is the best man for the place. There is nothing vindica- tive about him. I would like to see him superintendant and Mr, John Nalle supervisor. The colored leaders and colored politicians wil bave to “Go way back and sit down-’’ It is hoped however they will have their eyes open some day. The wizzard of Tuskegee will te} in town soon, Well, he has all the big negroes bluffed. Even Col. P edger has had a change of heart Just some few weeks ago the Oul. was giving the wizzard a southern | “eussing.’? Well, peop'e willchange| some times when they see a good | thing in sight. The Col. has seen | something and itis the sincere hope of The Bee that he will get it. If nothing else than a good job There are some very progressive lawyers in town. I'don’t knowof any class of men that could be a great- er power, Lawyer Royal Hughes, L. M. King. Clinkecales, Jones, Pollard, Frisby, Peyton, Cobb, Martin and a few others are doing well in the legal profession. I a‘tended the picnic of the na- tive Washingtonians. It was large- ly attended. I suppose the novelty of the name caused a large crowd to attend. However it was a good af- fairand it ishoped that those whoare seeking social recognition will suc- ceed. There are too many exclusive organization among negroes and when you sift them they areall the same. The peculiarity about the colored people of this city is, that they endeavor to draw social lines and yet they all place themselves upon one social footing when a pay affair is given. So where is the difference? A line drawn in a free affair aad all placed upon a com- mon level at @ pay affair. The colored man socially and political - ly will get his right #ens-s soon. ROUNDER. Judge Kimbal. Judge Kimbal went on his leave last Saturday to be gone six'weeks. Justice Samuel Mills occupies the upper bench | of the court. | ' miss Pechis — Gracious! Delia, there comes that tiresome M ; r. De @ box of candy he’s leave it. Delia (at the door)—She’s not at home, sor, but if thot’s candy he hov | she hopes ye'll lave it-—Philadelphia Press. got I hope he'll ; ~ Se ase THE WASAHINGLON Bin. | was 67 in’ 1840. | appre OLNEY BARRED BY AGE. Why the Democratic Party Is Not Likely to Nominate Him for the Presidency in 1904, When some Memphis democrats let Richard Olney know that they would like to see him the presidential nominee of the party he told them he did not wish to be considered a candidate. He gave reason for his unwillingness to respond to their kind advances. In a letter to a New York paper Edward Stanwood says Mr. Olney could have pleaded his age as an all sufficient reason why he should not be considered in con- nection with the presideucy. In 1904 Mr. Olney will be 69 years old and no HON. RICHARD H. OLNEY. (Proposed for President by the Demo- crats of Tennessee.) would be over 74 if he were elected and served to the end of his term. Not one of the great political par- ever ties, says Mr. Stanwood, has elected or nominated a man so old as Mr. Olney will be in 1904. The oldest man ever elected president William Henry Harrison, who Jackson was 65 when second Buchanan year of his nomination and Taylor was 64. Henry Clay was 67 when he was a candidate in 1844, Gen. Scott was 67 when he ran in 1852, and Cass was 64 when he ran in 1848. There is no precedent for a {| 1 candidate of 69, and pol as much guided by as lawyers are. nwood says Mr. Blaine told when he was elected the time. was 65 the ns ar precedents was no longe had reached a time of life when he “When the American people elect a president,” said Mr. Blaine, “they require him to remain I need my sleep.” The American people make more de- mands upon the time and energies of their chief magistrate than they did in the quiet days of the first presi- It is doubtful whether the average man put in the White house sired to be president; craved rest. awake four years. dents. } at the age of 69 would live through tried to do all that of Lord § his term if he expected was him. is- bury the premiership because he no longer feels equal to the discharge of its duties. The mental and phys which an American pre je sing. The not one for men who have to nurse a strength weakened by the insidious There doubt- men of 69 who are able to stand a four years’ siege of constant work and worry, but a political party will be quite excus- able if it declines to look for them and gives preference to younger men. The age limitation which excludes Mr. Olney, says the Chicago Tribune, will not be objected to by David Bennett Hill, who is only 59. It will not affect Arthur P. Gorman, who is a little over 63. It will not be dif- ficult for the democrats to find a candidate who has not lived up to the maximum limit of 67 years. GONZALO DE QUESADA. First Minister from Cuba to the United States Was Educated in New York City. eal strain to ident is sub- office is ches of old age. less are exception Gonzalo de Quesada, the first Cu- ban minister to the government at Washington, was born in Havana, GONZALO DE QUESADA. (Minister at Washington from the New Republic of Cuba.) December 15, 1868, educated in the public schools of New York, and later in the college of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in 1888. After studyi and New York universities he took his degree in law. Senor Quesada repre- sented the Rep®blic of Cuba during the revolution, and became the pet of the patriotic ladies in Washingtay. He is a dark-eyed, handsome, gallant young man and a thorough diplo- mat. z at Columbia ~— at the age of 72 has resigned HOW MEXICANS LIVE. Peculiar Customs Noted by Visitors’ from the States. ' Light Breakfast Taken by Inhabi- tants of Our Sister Repablic— Food of the Working Peo- ple Is Very Plain, The Mexican breakfast, like that of the French, consists only of bread and coffee.* Lunch and dinner, or dinner and supper, as they are call- ed, differ but slightly. Dinner is served usually about 2 o'clock. It begins with soup and eggs, and then follow a number of meats, each served as a separate course, with an entire change of service every time. The meats are eaten quite alone, few vegetables being served in ad- dition to the salad course, and such as are used for garnishment. The dessert courses at a Mexican table differ even more radically from those served on American tables. Home- made pies, cakes and puddings are practically unknown. The Mexican housewife, says Mod. 4ern Mexico, pays comparatively lit- jtle attention to the kitchen, and rarely cooks anything herself. If pastry is desired, it is purchased at the dulceria. Nothing is baked in a Mexican house, even the bread being universally bought fom bakers. Mexican cooks do not, as a rule, un- derstand pastry making, and their sweets are limited to stewed fruits, | usually cooked to the consistency of the richest and sweetest preserves, so that a very small portion is satis- fying. Business hours in Mexico begin in the afternoon at 2:30 or 3 o’clock, and run until 7 or 8 in the evening, so that the supper hour falls any- where from 8:30 to an hour later. This is probably one reason that Mexicans are not more given to even- ing entertainments. Attendance up- on the theater entails the necessity | of an unusually early supper, or else lin postponement until after the per- | formance, a thing that often occurs, On the oher hand, a leisurely sup- per of an hour or more, beginning at CURBSTONE DEALER. That Meets One's E Mexican Village.) | (A Sight es in Every |9 o'clock, brings the close to bedtime. The Mexican dz a bowl of coffee close pretty y laborer swallows at a street stand, jenough to pass one, and has the price, but usually he begins his daily toil upon an empty stomach. About 9 o'clock his faithful spouse, or infrequently, all of them, mother and of labor with a_ basket a pitcher of soupy brown beans, tor- tillas (corn cakes that form the staff of life among the lower elasses), some rice and possibly some bits of meat that are minced in a tortilla, which, in addition to serving often as both bread and meat, is also knife and fork and spoon. Bits are torn off, and by deftly curling it into semi-circular form and doubling the end it is used as an effective scoop for even liquid food. A jug or pulque, the fermented juice of the maguey or century plant, that is the universal beverage among the masses on the tableland, is also a usual accompaniment of this meal. The Mexican laborer does not have a midday rest, but works until about 3 o'clock, when the morning repast is repeated without variation as to bill ef fare. He begins his toil at daybreak, and is expected to work till dark, with little regard to a clock. On his way home he stops at a pulqueria to have all the drinks he can afford, and arrived at his home he may find something more to eat and he may not. It seems to make little difference to him. The Mexican peon can eat more, or get along on less, than almost any other laborer on earth. In the south- ern part of the country, where the mountain Indians are at times draft- ed for work in the lower country, these men bring with them a ball of heavy cornmeal paste, about the size of their heads, slung about their necks with a string. When hungry they break off a piece of this and mix it up in a cup of water, and up- on this’ single ration they will sub- sist for an entire week. | Sieel Stronger Than Stone. An experiment, with a view to as- certain the relative resistance, under pressure, of the hardest steel and the hardest stone, was recently made at Vienna. Small cubes, measuring lem., of corundum and the finest steel were subjected to the test. The corundum broke under the weight of six tons, but the steel resisted up” 42 tons. = ‘ bakers hay jon his way to work if he is fortunate j some member of his family, and, not j children, come trudging to the scene ! containing 5 HAD FAITH IN HiMseyp John Mitchell, Presiden; United Mine Worker, Life as & Mine iy, of ths Began The leader of the ¢ president of the Unite is thus describeg! in a bri: . the Outlook: Like so many other Jai this country, he is stil) He is 33 years of age. the coal mines as a school education as sup night studies, chiefi questions, and espe: ing to organization of labor the Knights of Labor in years later, when he was he was elected secret: a district organizat JOHN MITCHE (President of the United Mine Worke. America Mine Workers. Hi power within the o tremely rapid. | a national organizer, igent, and in 1899 p beginning of the ¢ the power of the orga most exclusively among the coal miners of the we ually won by “colle much better terms as to t and treatinent than were the anthracite miners « eastern Pennsylvania ter less than 10,000 © connected with the union. ‘I of the strike, ell, was followed by the the union of nearly of anthrac cent immigrants from ea At present, th fore, he i h a time of battle largely due t the e miners, ine is not of | CAKES FOR CORONATION. London Bakers Are Trying to Outdo Each Other in Producing Elab- orate Designs The tempt attention and bakers, in ing for their wa of advantage the kir While the Abbey have iliness of the coronation. and in m: { exhibited crown cakes aborate des Some of the ¢ n. kes coronet ¢ ly speaking, have been n onets of ea v “The crown pre whose window, w an enormous “ of the almond or gems are smooth LONDON CORONET CA (A Few of the Works of by English Baker gee almonds and silver bea the large balls, as well ¢ tation of the ermine of meringue icings very 80 not meringue is erushed, but evenly si sugar, about the nels, and the dark spots after baking with brush. The arms of the made in sections and be over properly shaped t the leaves are seps slightly twisted. The 4 are then fastened on t! with hot suger.” as become disco dusted w ftec size Daily Mailx from Heaye" A spiritualistic a Petersburg has a . “From the Other Wor pears signed comm the dead, in reply t« living. Any letter to a dead persor ing to the editor four are equal to about t dead seem to be pro ents, for no inquirer more than a week come from the ot heaverly mails are alway* subscri