The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1906, Page 1

PAGES ONE TO EIGHT > : ( E TIoD AL SPEAKS . AN ABSURD CHALLENG | may be right occa: ly, though, as| ran re President. 2 d aw i Pal ‘the Scotchman said, “with a knavish } ARAG Theodore Rooser Pres- WHAT gress Not Likely te. Take Roose-\intent.”. In any case, what could be} ident of the United States, Washing- 1 SAW AND HEARD. 2 ng K : i efinance Seriously. more ridiculous than for the President | ton, D. ¢ ave never been more disgusted ir 3 | ditoria! New York Werld. jof the Ur*tcd States te challenge : BY MISS BEATRIZ L, CHASE. Had any other President of the Un* 1 except Theodore Roosevy fy an att of Congr m to his wishes a such aefien challeng leadership. If it were left with the peo- f Reger ene f held | Peach him, the whole nation would he The Penngylvania Divisior yer tae fe the I am now There are Constitut League respectfully pro- |°°™€ people in this country who would} to | 1own and styled as th r super-heated denun- of the Some col- i colored troopers in re-| : the Cloned: race : to Congress without one | especially, ought ‘to know | expect evidence against a single imat office-holding does not constitute Pres-!among them. We also enter emphatic House jple, many colored men who have protest against the unwarranted charge J and many who are holding office today been ablaze with excitément.~“Inste nobody is iu the last degree disturb M Roosevelt's challenge . Seems messages to have to take Why, he defies that he colored peopel are especially Rare f wo e eighec e balance 1K |given to shielding criminals of their} ™ be weighed: in the balas ia race The colored people Have never found wanting. It is amusing to sit and have been as deliberate as “his actic rsually are, which is te say that it ‘the instantancous prodgetaniea: heel \ssem sa group of ministration correspondents” Satard roceeded to just fy his dismis nut honor of atialion of the 2: He is a thorough race man. witout honor of = iSiRMmane: est My old friend Capt. J. W. Lyons i Imantry and to defy fongress to ov moving along as usual. He is looking|™™ his work. Thejgemspapers aa) suthstantially as to qgee ane mh 1e cannot listen to many of these would-be a + | banded together in any community, ei- viten heard of} ther North or South, to shield a crim-|&FS relate what they have donc g head who held what hey can do. 1 dropped in Attorney Frishy’s office inal never known| yw; United States to people. The coun- Foraker, and it Phe action of the } 1 respectfully call your attention to] = e days yO 2 fou bus the fact that white men of the South|# few days ago and found him busy have formed secret, oath-bound organ-|*# mal --T admire Autores y jizations for thd especial purpose of murder and assassination and to de- more than Per! troy the constitutional rights and lib- nen who have to 1908 with a satisfaction that seems erties of American citizens; that these quote from the Press’ report, becatise s a Republican newspaper: “The Pregdent even went to t length of saying not -mly-that if Cc gress should vote for the Teitistatem< of these colorea soldiers he would v« such islative actions buf that if Cc gress repassed such- a bil over 1} veto he would see to,it that the ore ee ountry. If the a certainty to him i murderous organizations have been op ficient evidence + A a €! erating under different guises for forty the tall pine of Augusta has but little years, and that they have assassinated } . miss these col- ay, but he predicts a day of reck- oning. Teddy ought to have made friends with the Captain; he will be needed he send another} | obably forty thousand American citi- 1 1 2 Py i- - iditional evi-} ns who were charged with no offense except that of voting the Republican} "¢Xt December. — : ticket; that these secret, oath-bound or Well, my old friend Daniel H.Brooks the} is married at last. I never dreamed satisfied that tted a blunder, occupation is ganizations cover every State in South and embrace white men of every met his Water grade of society—not even the clergy Theodore Roose- that Dan would step across the river en deceived in When the en- m the Lord’s being omitted; that the white people of the South generally rallied to the sup port of these murderous organizations ay now, that | | | | | and shielded their memories from de- ¢ a TTIENG | tection and punishment; that these mur Amyrican- | derous organizations are carrying on t of 1904 "4 their work even unto the present, and people the wholesale disfranchisement jim-crowism and the lynchings and in the South are all a part of campaign to subjugate a h these secret clans peanuts © assasinate United States ~ y q human hand was a Christmas pres officials ‘and band’ together 3 é as \\t a y ro agreement could }ey¢ that Charles Casson, at Cleleland, “ reacl So Senator Hanna ap-| Qhio, Id gmat ONC es out A : z - : x : nted Cl M, M. Parkin, which sub- supported by the e, an : Sy fF van exeepr{ received this week. Henry Newman, who was the found- er of the cotton firm of H. & C. New- man, died at the age of sixty-cight sequently resulted in the defeat of y have very recently ; 1 h Mz ver arson and Gleason in the contest that ed i msener wh : ; pda t Su c nominated President McKinley and the custody of the Supreme € ; h Z \ y an i eee a years at his home in New Orleans, La ; : PEs S YN | itiruance of Coloel Parkin on the } : ee i 3 i ‘|this week. Natior i comnts Pre District ot The tenth annual mieceting of the Columbia. In that’ contest Chase an | 4 merican Negro’ Academy. convened iast” Wednesday’ in thé Smale Chapel. of United States, and while the were in Washington, answering charge of contempt before the Supre > harge of emp 1 Jones were elected on the Raybutn as men | Lee ticket. | “| Court of the United States, the nation q y jw 1ocked by t that the Pres é | Howard University. |. My-!'Gleasonin, this contest was The funeral services of Mrs. Hen White Hou These lynch 3 Z ue : rietta Lee, the wife of Rey. George = the St. Lor wention the political) yw J e¢ eived and honore the | : . pastor of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, took place Monday aft- ernoon at one o'clock from the Church. Gleason Roose- neral sermon was preached by policy, | W. D, Norman politcal W GLEASON OF: THE «1 : ee : Smut “thik had charge of th uiternoon and evenir admiratic employ m . : - ; sins, ‘-! Sunday at the Brooklar ughter. ERO M. RICHARDSON |! last week a 5 to uke a legal inquiry : eine AWAY—AN OCTOG elopments betor mment | mnt tacts | 1 yi Zeit : | {1AN—FAMILY WELI We can’t alway ey t ynches the , ° ag ig KNOWN HERI E 1 over to the grea yor Friday night, Decembe {his home, Saybrook, Ohix 189 years ol death Attorne fight for Rev Waldr have money¢ Wher he members of his sympathy of the “Watch, therefore, fc USTICE -CALIL AN APPOIN L t ended u ting < t t < 1 oper n of Man cometh.” f Judge De! half zen dispu v ¢ redit t self ne pro-} Albert Richardson, the { ne of the Peace TI é I re grave i as threa , gene jaily papers|ther, has been mat Plaga lg P ‘ as be 3 , , ving terms of|and is seriously first place, as ce G as Afro-American Repul } Thirteenth outnumbers " In the second Ipact vent have giv-|gress creating the with Mr. Callan was named to J4s-Jebe in as ie ae . { . avorable impression|law be amended so as to make it a a gre fe ; perl igg se ate is re oe -dical faculty and the student} punishable offense for any person to : ess or unavoidable ed not against Congress, but against) oi nat h yeen invited to re-|purchase or to procure } r for with him 1 a New 1907. e al for five yez V at s¢ i j aa eae | Deompted by the increase : was made under the act 0° “ene Roosevelt is always the it 1 his work there say that he ranks} among juveniles, Maj. Richard publican vote : t’s services and ability str rce wh estore t est 1 surgeon and| Sylvester has recommended the Di Stews = | | Sed Zz : , sl trict Commissioners that the existing Jen him a very unusual : | M. Harlan, aiter refused to permit the use in connection with the Re-| whites of | pacity to re} isfaction. the influential men of te ganization. There is no doubt | or Afro-Americans © ; oF wraps gainst_ bat a = 3 | present his district with sat- | sence, sould be unable to preside Over Senator Foraker. Yet even Forak j Continued on 4th Page. minors. : the court. e nation for governor