The Washington Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1907, Page 4

PNRM ARMIN AE ArH TOIT ENED Te HAIR PE CRT RT ERY See BG i suenoe THE BEE PUBLISHED AT 1109 Eye St. N. W., Washington, 5 SE ex W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Wasb- ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. Be Se TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance. .$2.00! Six smcnths + ..< as: <cc-----<5, E00, Three months .......ccccccees §0 Subscription monthly ....-..... 20 FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SENATOR JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER OF OHIO FOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, OF NEW YORK SENTIMENTALITY. There is a great deal of sentiment among the colored people. They seem to be controlled by sentiment. When Mrs. Mussey undertook to} defend Professor Cardozo, the col- ored people began to give her an ovation. They went so far as to invite her to address the Bethel Lit-} erary. The Bee wants the colored people to understand that Mrs. Mussey is a friend to the colored people when they do right, and no more. The colored people should | understand that they need not come to the conclusion that Mrs, Mussey is any more of a friend to them} than any other member of the} Board of Education. If teachers | are right they will be fairly treat- ed. There may be one colored} member of the Board of Education | whose resignation the people will | no doubt demand. The Bee gives| notice now that no teacher should | be recommended for dismissal be- | cause some colored member has a personal grievance against him. NEGRO JOURNALISM. Journalism among colored Amer- icans, such as it is, is not what it} should be. Colored editors, like the people they represent, are influenc- ed by sentiment. There is but little or no stability among colored edi- tors. Of course there are a few honorable exceptions, and a very few. There has been some agita-| tion about establishing a daily The colored people should first support a weekly before they press. talk about establishing a daily, At} least nine-tenths of the colored ed- itors of this country have no thoughts of their own. If they have an opinion they are afraid to express it. Many of them want office, or live in the hope of getting one some day. COL. CHARLES G, AYRES. It will be remembered that it was the distinguished wife of Col. Charles G, Ayres who entertained the famous Tenth Cavalry, colored, in this city several years ago. Colonel Ayres has Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion Building. So well pleased was the management with his former work in other directions that he was selected without competition. The Bee feels confident that Mr. Pittman will give a bulding to the people that will be a monument to posterity. Accept the congratulations of The Bee. Phone, Main 2602-M. AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN One among the most enterpris- ing women in this city is Mrs. L. R. Clark, whose portrait appears in this week’s Bee, with a brief his- tory of what she is doing for young girls and women. Mrs. Clark should be encouraged in her noble work, She is giving young women trades and at the same time she is finding something for them to do. The Bee wants to see the people rally to her support. T REGISTER AD-; MS’ RACE IDENTITY. There appeared in the Washington Post and the New York Times of June 11 an article in relation to the rejection of the application of William Wilkerson, a célored man, for membership in the Washington Philatetic Society, of which Cyrus Field Adams, assistant Register of the Treasury, i The ac- counts in the daily papers were mis- taken in stating that the application rejected was that of Prof. Garnet C. Wilkinson. Professor Wilkinson and Mr. Wilkerson both live in that por- tion of the District across the East- ern Branch, hence the mistake. The members of the Washington Phila- tetic Society are white men, with} the exception of Mr. Adams, who is colored, though the other members of} the society stoutly maintain that they| always thought Mr. Adams was a white man. The rejection of the ap- plication of William Wilkerson for membership gives weight to th statement of the other members; for it stands to reason that a society of} white men would not knowingly elect | a negro president of their organiza- tion, when they would not knowingiy elect one to simple membership. There are two accounts of Mr. Ad- ams’ attitude toward Wilkerson’s ap- plication. Most of the members seen state Mr. Adams voted against Wil- kerson; one member states that Ad- ams said he thought Wilkerson ought to be admitted. It is said, however, that the minutes of the society show that the vote for rejection was unan- imous, vote being taken by ballot. As an editor of a Negro paper, as the president of a Negro press asso- president. | ciation,, as a member of a Negro bus- iness league, as an officer of an or- ganization agitating for civil and po- litical equality, and as an officer of the Federal Government, holding his office as a Negro, and in recognition |of the party fealty of the Negroes of Illinois, Mr, Adams owes a full and complete explanation of his attitude toward Wilkerson’s application, and his own membership in the Washing- ton Philatetic Association. ,; The editor of The Bee is not inter- ;ested in getting Mr, Adams out of his job, and has never thought of such a thing. The editor of the Cleveland Ga- zette is a liar—will he believe it? The editor of The Bee intended to say nothing, but since an Ohioan ancient officerseeker and blue-vein agitator has made an unjust and an unwarrantable charge, TheBee must say something. No man has drawn the color line in Cleveland, Ohio, more than this disgruntled and fierce agitator, Harry C. Smith, of the Cleveland (Ohio) Gazette. The Bee has no fight to make on Dep- always had the opposition and enmity| uty Register Adams, and he knows of the War Department. President Roosevelt was made Presi- Before! it. The Bee has never spoken an untruth, notwithstanding the mis- dent of the United States he recom- | carriage of justice by perjured tes- mended Colonel Ayres to the posi- tion of brigadier-general in the army. But after he was made President he never could find it convenient to ap- point him. The country is with Col- onel Ayres and his most distinguished | wife. MR, PITTMAN WINS. The Bee congratulates its es- teemed friend Mr. W. Sidney Pitt- man in having been given the con timony. / Mr. Adams is a member of this organization; the name of Wilkinson was offered for member- | ship, but rejected. Mr. Adams in- formed The Bee that he voted for him; the secretary, so The Bee is informed, stated that he did not. It is a question of veracity between Mr. Adams and the white secre- | vention Hall, Sunday Davis, president of the Dunbar Lit- erary, in reply to the article that was handed in by Rev, P. A. Wal- lace. Mrs. Davis is well known to the editor of this paper as a lady of refinement. She comes from one: of the best-known families in this] city, and-so far as she is concerned she has done all in her power to aid the people in the southwest. A GREAT. MOVE NATIONAL TRAINING AND = DUSTRIAL SCHOOL To be Established in the District of Co- lumbia for the Benefit of Colored Boys and Girls. An effort is being made to establish in the District of Columbia a National Training and Industrial School for col- ored youths, both male and female, principal grounds and school buildings to be located in the District of Colum- mia, thus making the institution national in its significance and scope. In con- nection with the agricultural work of the schoo}, it is planned to operate a farm school nearby, in the State of Maryland, at which dairying, poultry raising, brick making and the like will be carried on; the girls will be taught in all branches of domestic science, such as cooking, laundering, sewing, dress- making, millinery, etc., in short the in-| stitution will do work similar to that) done by Dr. Booker T. Washington's schoo] at Tuskegee, Alabama, and by Hampton Institute at Hampton, Va. The school will aim to teach such trades, vo-| cations and callings as may best qualify the students to become self-supporting and independent citizens and, at the same time, enable them to be useful and helpful to the communities in which th it will also send out spe students to do practical and intelligent missionary work in the District of Co-{ White the school all be ‘non-sectarian, it shall be conducted on a high plane of morality, temperance, economy and re- may reside; lumbia and other communitie ligious teac The plans for the establishment of the school have been under discussion for sometime past; the project has the endorsement of the leading citizens of Washington, and a fund of $50,000 is} being raised with which to begin the} work of the school in the fall of 1907. Among the subscriptions so far received to the is one of a thousand dollars| by ex-Senator John B. Henderson. Dr. Wm. E. Chancellor, superintendent of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, has stated that such a train- ing and industrial school would do aj much-needed work in this community | which cannot be accomplished by the public school system, and he has backed up his endorsement witah a subscription of $100. The subscriptions of all persons desiring to contribute to the cause will be gratefully received and properly ac- knowledged from time to time. A mass meeting will be held at Con- afternoon, June 30, 1907, at 3 P. M., at which time the detailed plans of the school will be an- nounced to the public, and for which meeting an elaborate musical program has been arranged and addresses will be delivered by some of the most distin- guished citizens of the District of Co- lumbia. Rey. S. Geriah Lamkins, pastor of Tenth Street Baptist Church, corner of Tenth and R streets, N. W., Washing- ton, D. C., who has been for some time promoting the effort to establish a na- tional training and industrial school in the District of Columbia, was born in Roanoke County, Virginia, June 20, 1857, of slave parents; atended the public schools of his native county; entered Howard University, Washington, D. cC, in 1880; graduated with honor from the Theological Department of said insti- tution with the class of 1885; he has been a pastor in the Nation's Capital for more than 20 years, during which time he has served as secretary of the Bap- tist Ministers’ Conference; vice-pre: dent and secretary of the Baltist Con- gress of the District of Columbia; he has served as a member of the Board of Education of the National Baptist Con- vention; corresponding secretary of the National Negro Young People’s Chris- tian and Educational Congress; for the manager the Washington Department of the “Christian Banner,” a National Baptist newspaper published in Phila- delphia, which makes him one of the best known colored preachers in the United States; he is a 33d degree Mason and a member of the Supreme Grand Council of the Southern and Western Juriddiction, With reference to this effort, Rev. Lamkin said: “There are about 100,000 colored peo- ple in the District of Columbia and the great demand for well trained domestic servants, skilled mechanics, farmers, etc., not only emphasizes the need of such an institution, but makes a well-equipped industrial school one of the most commendable and desirable en- terprises that can be projected for both laborers, tary. In another column of The Bee | the white people and the colored people of the community. While the National Training and Industria! Institute, in whose interest I am laboring, is design- tract to draw the plans of the new | is an article from Mrs. Helen A.]ed for the benefit of colored hoys and girls, its establishment here would be a public benefit, as well as a practical chari The following are extracts taken from some of the letters of endorsement re- 1 ceived by Rev. Lamkin: From Hon. H. B. Macfarland, Com- missioner of the District of Columbia: “I approve heartily of every effort to promote industrial training and partic- ularly of your proposition, which ought to do much good.” Hon. H. L. West, Commissioner, Dis- trict of Columbia: “Any movement which is based upon honest desire to inculeate principles of industry ought to meet with universal approval.” Hon. John Biddle, ex-Commissioner of the District of Columbia: “I approve of every effort to promote industrial training and especially the one you propose.” Dr. Wm. E. Chancellor, superintendent J. D. Baltimore, ily that he offered an G. W. Boone; them by his improper M. W. Taylor, tw: Joseph Liverpool, Jere Adams, Trustees.” Washington, D. C., June 10, 1907. Second. They also state that “Mrs. Davis’ Literary Society consists of her- self and two other members of her own}, family; none of them are accused of being literary in any sense.” I submit a certificate signed by the members of this society showing the falsity of the statement of the article siged by J. O. Thompson and Wm. H. Ricks: w la m “We, the subscribers, hereby certify 33 that we are members of the Dunbar Lit-| erary Society,of which Mrs. Helen A. Davis is president. Joséph Carroll, Estell Brown, an th at Public Schools, Districi of Columbia: “The institution that you are promot- ing for the religious and educational lite of the colored people should be of the highest value to the boys and girls. I trust you will be successful and shall be glad to assist in any practicable way to which my attention may be called.” Hon. J. J. Morrow, Captain Corps or Engineers, U. S. A., and Engineer Com- mander of the District of Columbia: “In so far as 1 am conversant with your plans for an industrial school, I am glad to give them my approyal.” Hon, Robert N. Harper, President of Washington Chamber of Commerce: “I look upon industrial training schools when properly run as a most wise step n the right direction for improving the conditions of all who may take advantage of such an opportunity.” Hon. John M. Wilson, Brigadier Gen- eral, U.°S. A president of the Washington Board of Trade: “T trust that you will have eminent success in the great enterprise you are about to initiate, namely, the establish- ment of a National ining and Indus- trial Institute for the colored boys and girls in the District of Columbia.” Hon. D. W. Baker, U. S. District At- torney for the District of Columbia: y opinion tk the institution wil] materially your people and be conducive to industrial depart- their general welfare.” Washington Universit; “I cordially approve every effort for the promotion of industrial training for all classes of pupils; therefore I am glad to approve your proposition for ndustrial educ. in the District of National Training and Industrial School for the children of the colored race.” Rev. Samuel H. Greene, pastor Cal- vary Baptist Church, Washington, D. C.: “The Training and Industrial Insti- tute in the District of Columbia, pro- posed by Rev. S. G. Lamkin, commends itself to me as in every way desirable and practicable. I believe Mr. Lamkin to be worthy of confidence’ and sympa- thy.” Dr. D. J. Stafford. ‘atholic Church: “Your project of starting an indus- trial school where the Negro youth may be taught the mechanical and useful trades, I consider worthy of all com- mendation. It seems to me that in start- ing such a school you are working for the best interests of your people. I wish you all success.” Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor N. Y. Avenue Presbyterian Church: The Industrial Institute addresses it- self to a very imperative need in our community and I wish for you imme- diate and large success.” Rev. U. S. B. Pierce, Church (Unitarian). “It would seem that there is real need of just such work as the National Training and Iudustrial Institute con- templates. It is a pleasure to commend it” astor All Souls’ nator John B. Henderson: “Rey. S. G. Lamkin has been active and enthusiastic in promoting the enter- prise and I heartily commend his work to favorable consideration.” MRS, HE v A. DAVIS REPLIES. Editor Be In the issue of The Bee of the 8th instant, under the title “Rev. Wallace Not Removed,” J. O. Thompson, steward and trustee of the Metropolitan A. M E. Zion Church, and William H. Ricks, secretary of the board of trustees of past fifteen years he has been editor and;said church, signed certain statements to which I wish to call the attention of its readers. First. Referring to the Dunbar Liter- ary Society, of which Mrs. Helen A. Davis is president, they state that “The trustees refused them the use of the church because they had no following and the meetings were unprofitable.” I submit the following statement signed yb every member of the board of trus- tees of the church except J. O, Thomp- and Wm. H, Ricks: We, the subscribers, trustees of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church, hereby certify that we have no knowl- edge that the Dunbar Literary Society was refused the use of our church or that the meetings of the society had no We know nothing derogatory as to the family from which she came. William A, Bowie, I. Jones, s. W, Needham, president Geo. | jhad refused her he use of the church,’ Columbia, under the auspices of the} ctor St. Patrick’s | entitled “Rey. Wallace Not Removed, Rosa L. McNeille, Eve. M. ‘Taylor, Ananda Grigsby, Ruth Grigsby, J. D. Baltimore, | J. Addison Turner, Ju Amelia Blackburn, Sadie Marshall, J. Hillary Taylor, Augusta Clark Taylor, Virginia Williamson, Blanch White, W. Hurd.” Washington, D. C., June 10, 1907. Third. “Mrs. Davis comes from aj: family well known in South Washington | and has no influence whatever in church circles.” As to this statement and the} other statements contained in the article I submit the following declarations from Mr. J. O, Thompson and Wm. H. Ricks: “An article appeared in the issue of The Bee of June 8 signed by us and entitled ‘Rev. Wallace Not Removed.’ In that article, signed by us, we stated that Mrs. Davis’ Literary Society con- sisted of herself and two other members of her family only. “It further stated that the trustees re- fused them the use of the church because they had no following; that Mrs, Davis} S came from a well-known family in South} Washington and had no influence in| pe an | st is | {I w ar ar been called to the matter we have thor-| Jz are in error in stating that the trustees) H etc. We further state that we intended} U no reflection upon Mrs. Davis and her! th family, and we know nothing of them]! to other than people of the highest respec-] tability. We know nothing of the fol-| th lowing she has as we have never attend-| in ed any of the meetings. published in your editorial of June 1,| 10 1907, was not by authority of Mrs. Da-j Sc vis. | J. O. Thompson.” | ve Washington, D. C., June 18, 1907. ! th To whom it may concern :— | ye This is to certify that I, Wm. H. Ricks, | signer of article published June 8, 1907, | fe "fc did not draw up the article; it ar brought to me by Rev. P. A. Wallace and I signed it in haste, it being my|m lunch hour and therefore had no time to| B read or consider its contents. The arti-|an appearing in your paper. in her true light, I remain Wm. H. Ricks, Secretary of the Board. | sy |To whom it may concern :— The article published June 8, 1907, in| ar The Bee, “Rev. Wallace Not Removed,” | bx signed in haste. J. O. Thompson, Steward and Trustee. I wish to thank the trustees who so sistance in the onset of the attack. I also thank the members of the Dun- bar Literary for the part they played in the interest of proof against the false assertions made as to their numerical strength. I wish also to state that it is a personal gratification to»me to feel H_ Ricks have exonerated themselves from intentionally making “either a woe- fully ignorant or meanly vicious” attack on me-and my family; I suppose that both of these elements dominated the first act of the real author and the whole obloquy of the article falls upon Dr. P. A. Wallace, as is referred to therein. In view of the foregoing facts it would seem that the affair printed in The Bee, written as it appears by him, was incorrect and at variance so much so as to be startling. The attempt he ar th G made to put the standing of my family|°! " tive, he s. in question induces me to refer reluc- tantly to an act of his which otherwise out of respect and consideration for his dear wife for whom I entertain the friendliest and kindliest feelings, I would | >¢ not mention. us oughly investigated it, and find that we| dent. The article} 55,000 in Ohie, gallantly and honorably came to my as-} . he as ordered out, and the doors of the hous to him. This perhaps the animus of his la iz hshed article toward hich I came I wish to state als jresponsible for the he Bee stating t ce’s forcing Mrs church was one removal, nor an that it had anyt oval. As ‘to the inuendoes my family and nter into any controvers nd reared in this city a, e ‘public schools and my tainments are knowr ances and fo the people refinement with whom | their judgment and t these matters are fixe; changed. It is to be r. n attack as was made j une 8 should have bee by a man who represer church, the greatest of itutions. He, a min man of truth and honor, a gentleman. Y dence herein it does not such, and I feel ju have taken and I consider ould not add to the ity of any instituion Teligious or othery |cer or member. The charac |spoken of, nd Mr. culate }coarse and nd intell pecial te New Yor sed to R church circles. Since our attention has|the N ames C, M ealth Commiss ton, vice-presid nited Colored Dem je Execut n White, ge Mr. Edite The leag €y expect to New York, 70,000 i 45,000 90,000 in the other St uth Mr. Editor, Roosevelt has at swing 65,000 N Wm. H. Ricks, | ceeded in driving the color sters from the Reput ey have been so loyal to for ars w, Mr. Editor, I v e the colored Americ r such men as Hearst t r any Republicans | ny of Roosevelt's present « Now, Mr. E ake it know ooker T. Washin: nd does not re cle was an injustice to Mrs. Davis, as|that he is only used she had no knowledge of the first one} the present administrat Hoping that} nuts out of the f this may do justice and place Mrs. Davis}them. Now, Mr. Editor Ocratic newspapers Yours, etc., have succeeded in protector as acceeded in organ |lican party, as well nd it is only a q oth the party leaders wil was not drawn up by me. Rev. P. A-lyeltism. I opposed Ro Wallace brought it by the school where}sand times, yes, tw: I am janitor for me to sign and not|for what he has done having time to consider its contents I] chould teach our childre: square dealer (?) Yours truly, 730 Clarence St., TRICKERY CHAR PRESIDI Times, June 9, 1907. Chicago, June &8—Wil Bryan today, in an addr » Press Club, accused I sevelt of practicing sh that Mr. J. O. Thompson and Mr. Wm. He charged the Presi ing the lead of the D: er his guidance, ir Republican party fror coming Presidential Mr. Bryan i devotion to his nd regu tariff The ie A opinion Soluti overnment While every was pred will be the pre- fore the convent ¢ nomination, Mr. Br When he first came to this city my|™@ke @ formal dec mother’s home was one of the first places V. Williamson, who lives with her, be-? characer of Mrs. H. A. Davis or the] ing members of his church. He called|Vélt could not consist frequently from that time forward until | 4 a little more than year ago. At his last] 4? call I am told by a member of the tam- termination to accept following, or that it was unprofitable.| which he visited, she and my sister, Mrs, "tion He is of the opinion t te after his repe proval of the “thir READ THE BEE