The Washington Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1907, Page 1

‘ion and ars rin- Fe ene Oe a ee ae. ae vVuL. XXVILINO. 6 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY JULY 6, 1907. \iio-American Council ST SUCCESSFUL MEET-| HE HISTORY OF THE | RGANIZATION | s tenth an- rp Street Memorial was called to or- der Walters, with e Bernice Williams, the ac- etary, and Dr. Stewart, rican Baptist, Louisville, Ky., ion was opened with an ad- nop Walters, which was d eloquent. ~ It electrified the nee present and enthused the There are fully two attendance from} Grat interest sent. legates in f th country 1 in the report of the com- prepare and issue the country. One of the} men is the Rev. L. G. Jor-} al organizer. | t seem + eches were tronges This v Recor Deeds J. gize the Admin-|' xed pe on to speak He started off by crit- zro press and others for as he said, the Presi- He made no qualifica- seems to be the special re Administration, but he iow. He declared Thurs- , after lunch, that the com- lress should not adopt or ng condemning or criticising ent. He told that it vest for him to board the train turn to Washington, It was a royal in the committee on ad- the entire committee eventu- ed and the report was unant- was The real contest came when the on election of officers report- report of the committee was exception of the name Hart, which was opposed st last- H. H Calvin Chase. The cor u Mr. Chase substituted of Attorney Thomas L. Jones, ly Miller, Dr. F Corrothers substituted the name Attorney James A. Cobb, but he was cted to on account of his absence m the council. M than likely he Id have been elected, because Attor- ncis and Rev y Jones declined. The contest became warm, and the opposition seeing its Bishop Walters HELPED IT. Hopelessly was the opposition defeat- i. Bishop Walters delcared that Hart hould be elected. Mr, Chase took ex- ception at this remark, and declared that presiding officer running the gag law, which he would not tolerate. The Bishop put the affirmative vote and the was declared Hart elected. During the contest Dr, John R. Fran- cis made a speech in defense of Hart and declared among other things that we should stand by our colored lawyers. Mr. Chase asked him why he didn’t employ colored lawyers at the time he had his bank This re- mark created a sensation, and Dr. Fran- s in reply said that all the colored people were opposed to him. PROFESSOR KELLY HELPED HIM suit in ccourt | Jones and Prof. L. M. Hershaw |of Professor Hersha | Walters asked Prof. K gainst the election of W. H. H. Hart were elo- | quent and convincing. At the conclusion | address Bishop | Miller if he} aw" knew the standing of Professor Hart ttorney Jones suggested to the chair- man to ask the lawyers, as Prof. Kelly | Miller was no lawyer, and neither does he visit our courts. Mr. Bennett, who is the colored department st manager of | in an ex- cited and wild manner declared that we had three monkeys in the convention. A New York delegate demanded that he apologize. Mr, Chas moved that the speaker be compelled to prove to the council tit he was not a monkey before he be per- mitted to speak. Before he was al- lowed to proceed further he had to apologize. The address of Dr. J. RK. Francis on the vital statistics was full of facts. sound Beyond all doubt, and taking into consideration everything, this tenth an- meeting of the Afro-American was the largest and the most that has ever been held The officeholder, nw Council representative sinc its organization many of them away. Mr lds Adams and Mr. R. W. two are miess ang nc speeches fall Pa | The next meetihg will be held in Co- mbus, Ohio, next year. This meeting will be equally as important. OFFICERS. Bishop Alexander Walters, president, New Jerse Vice-President, Bishop A. Gra sas, F Second Vice*Piésident, William Alex- ander, Maryland. * Third Vice-President, J. Tennessee. Fourth Vice-President, George Maryland, Fifth Vice-President, Williams, Georgia. Sixth Vice-President, J. dez, New York. Seventh Vice-President, S. L. Corro- thers, District of Columbia. ghth — r, Pennsy?vania. Corresponding Secrétary, dan, Kentucky Recording Secretary, Maryland Assistant Secretary, Williams, Illinois. Treasurer, John W. Thompson, New York, Chaplain, J. F. Robinson, Indiana, Caairman Executive Committee, Will- iam Steward, Kentucky. Secretary Executive Committee, Kel- ley Miller, District of Columbia BUREAU>d. Legal Director, W. H. H. Hart, Dis- trict of Columbia. Education, J. E. nia. Literary, A Columbia. Ecclesiastical, Bishop G. W. Clinton, North Carolina. xg Lynching, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, District of Columbia. Emigration, S. Joe Brown, Iowa. Newspapers, L. M. Hershaw, District Kan- C. Napier, Bragg, Bishop R. S C. Fernan- William At Sin L. J. Jor- A. L, Gaines, Fannie Barrier McGirt, Pennsylva- H. Grimke, District of OUT. Professor Kelly, coming to the fes- cue of Dr. Francis, stated that, perhaps, Doctor did not know the legal abil- ity of the editor of The Bee at the time. This created laughter and enthusiastic applause. The only way that the friends f Hart could have elected him was in manner in which Bishop Walters, presiding officer, acted by declaring m elected by an affirmative vote, and jeclining to put a negative vote. DR. S. L, CORROTHERS. The most vigorous and manly speech- s that were made wete by Dr. S, L. Corrothers, Bishop Walters, Archibald ike, Editor McGirt, Rev. George ragg, Dr. William A. Sinclair, Thomas Jones, Prof. Kelly Miller, Dr. L. G. an, Rev. Blackwell and others. Df trothers took no middle ground. In t most every speaker gave manly ut- ces with the exception of John C. Washington Recorder of He seemed to be walking around 1 a chip on his shoulder, but before mittee on address to the coun- tld knock it off he took the ankle xpress for Washington, declaring that e could remain no longer. The addresses of Attorney Thomas L. ney, the of Columbia. Vital Statistics. John R. Frances, Dis- trict of Columbia. Business, H. W. Barrett, Maryland. Prof, J. T. Layon left the city this week for Chicago, Illinois, to attend the Western Reserve College, School of Modern Music, Series Method. Bishop Alexander Walters and Rev. L. G. Jordan are in the city. ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY. “The story of the year for the colored people in America,” the address contin- ues, “has been but a repetition of the old story of their struggles and wrongs. Unexampled have been their successes, also. Denied nearly everywhere in the South the rights of American citizens, equality at the ballot box, equality in the schools, equality in the courts, equal- ity on the railroads, equality of oppor- tunity and equality of protection from mob violence, the race has gone on do- ing the labor of the South and piling up for it its vast increasing wealth and lift- ing the level of its own life in many lines at one and the same time. “At the north the race has been knock- ing at the door of opportunity, open to all races in the republic, but closed to it alone—closed to it alone not because was bad ,worse than other races, but solely because it was black, darker than other races. It was counseled and while it was denied equal opportunities j to obtain employment and the sort of} in the churches, in labor clubs} every- where to~ be industrious decent, and in unions and in residential neigh- borhoods which rm: to the industri: 2 f moral, mental and material worth and value © itself and the nation at the same time. White People Prevent Progress. “Many of the white people say to the colored people: ‘You are weaker than But when the colored people seek, as they are doing, along industrial, educational and political lines, to strengthen them- selves where they are weak, the white people of the nation, in spite of their boasted freedom, Christianity and civ- ilization, put themselves in the path of the colored race’s progress. “We are here in the midst of our country, here where we have given our scale of we are; you are inferior to us.’ love, our best blood and our most de- yoted service in peace and in many wars. BISHOP ALEX PARAGRAPHIC NEWS: BY MISS BEATRIZ L, CHASE. fe, P. W..D, sermon at the forty-fifth anniversa the District Grand Lodge, No. 3, Samaritans, Sunday afternoon. The two hundred and thirteenth an- nual William and Mary College was held last Wednesday week. Hon. John C. Dancy lectured at Mo- ther Zion Church, New York city, last Monday evening. Four of the seven applicants who de- sired to become citizens of the United States passed the examination and were itted last Monday, Last Tuesday was West Virginia Day rew preached the y of Good at Samaritan Teiaple, last commencement of aui ‘at Jamestown Exposition, and Senator Elkins presided at the exercises During the month of June there were four hundred and eighty-one marriage sued, thus adding four hun- licenses ANDER WALTERS WHO DECLARES THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE NEGRO TO ACT Gratitude be dying in the heart of the nation, and a bitter and relentless race hatred and contempt are growing to monstrous strength in the souls of the Our faithfulness to the women and children seems to American people. ring the war of the rebellion, our in defense of heroism and _ self-sacrifice the Union during the same war, are forgotten, forgotten by the South, for- gotten by the North, in this period of reaction and commercial glorification. ‘We approve the stand of President Roosevelt in behalf of fair play and a square deal for American citizens as exemplified in the appointment of D Crum and the fair. We deplore his discharge of 167 soldiers of the 25th United States In- fantry without any competent legal evi- dence of guilt as subversive of funda- mental right. We trust that he will yet see the injustice done these patriotic soldiers who have their best all Indianola post off devoted years to make the nation glorious, and will exercise his characteristic courage in correcting this great wrong. We also regret that President Roosevelt, in an annual message, by implication at least, holds the whole Negro race re- sponsible for crime committed by a few —a pernicious principle which is applied to no other class. “We advocate all modes of education for colored youth applicable to other classes in like condition and needs. We are unalterably opposed to any special educational brand as a badge to racial inferiority. Unworthy Counselors. “We, as a race, suffer great wrongs at the hands of the South, at the hands of the nation, and we are counseled by those in high places in and out of office to be silent and patient, in which coun- sel there are some colored men who are base enough to join; but, as colored men, we declare now and here that we will not be silent or patient at the bid- ding of such unworthy counselors, re- gardless of their high official position or their race or color. We will cry aloud on the platform, from the pulpit, in the Continued on 4th page. dred and eighty-one dollars to the Unit- ed States Treasury, Chief Justice William H. Fish ad- ministered the oath of office to the Hon. Hoke Smith as governor of Georgia, at noon last Saturday. At the close of the. fiscal year there was a surplus in tse Treasury of the United States of $86,945,542. Miss Betrice Plummer, of this city, was a recent graduate of the Grammar School of Ithaca, N. Y. It is reported that Governor Varda- man, after attending revival meetings conducted by Rev. Cates, a revivalist, made an open confession of faith and is quoted as having said that he surren- dered all for the cause of Christ, Mr. Howard Woodson, a civil engin- eer, recently transferred to Washington, is said to have filled with credit the position held by him in Chicago. Governor Hoke Smith will have ac- complished a great work when he brings the State of Georgia out of its present horrible condition. Last Sunday evening the Sunday school of Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church had its annual celebration. The church was crowded with parents and friends. The Seattle Searchlight says that the visit of Senator Tillman did not make any change in the welfare of the col- ored Americans. They are still pros- pering. a Mrs. Mary King, the wife of Mr. Ed- win King, died last Sunday and her fu- neral was held at Shiloh Baptist Church, Tuesday following. By being run over by a train of cars at the Ohio works of the Carnegie Steel Company, Youngstown, Ohio, last Mon- day, one man is said to have been killed and twelve injured. The coast and geodetic survey re- ported this week that the observatory at Cheltenham, Md., recorded an earth- quake shock. Many promotions were made in the examining corps of the Patent Office last Monday. ; In the absence of Judge. Alexander Mullowny, who ‘eft the city last Sat- urday afternoon On his summer vaca- tion, Justice of the Peace Samuel Mills is acting J the Branch of the ce Court in his stead. It is stated t a gang of pickpockets United S 1 Operating in Montreal > weeks jade their larg- which time is the discov- Rev. Zed H. C hell is in the sun” ery made by opp, who is | District probation of and assistant pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian ; Chapel The first National Convention of the Endeavor Societies of the African Meth- odist Church convened last John A. M. E. Church, Nashville, Tenn. Episco; Tuesday in Arrangements are being made to re- build the Roger Williams University. Many persons attended the mass meet- ing which was held in the Convention Hall lastSunday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in the interest of the National Training and Indusrial Institute for colored boys and girls. The funeral services of Rev. Joseph W. Ross, pastor of the Atlantic High- lands A. M, E, Zion Church, took place last week from his late residence and from the inity A. M. E. Church, Long Branct he ah Tribune says that Dr. { Bumstead has resigned his po- on as dent of the Atlanta Uni- versity. he “World’s Panama Exposftion” is to be held at New Orleans, La, in 1915 Senator Foraker delivered an address the commencement exercises of Wil- rece University, Venia, Ohio, An inquiry into the wreck on the Bal- and Ohio oad at Terra Cot- red begun last Saturday Deecmber, was by the Grand Jury in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, It is said that there is a prosperous merchant in the bottling industry in New York makes a specialty of employing deaf mutes in his establish- ment. who Pringe Egbir Mirza, son of the late Governor Zuli, Sultan of Ispahan, Per- sia, shot his mother three times last Saturday, which resulted in her death. It is said that Lieutenant Graetz, of the Prussian army, will scoon leave Ber- lin to make the first attempt to cross Africa in an automobile. VARDAMAN OF MISSISSIPPI. Escaped from the Devil. Jackson, Miss., June 25.—(Special)— James K. Vardaman, Governor of Mis- sissippi, was among those who went to What | Saw And Heard pologist only When the call of the Afro-American | Council was published in The Bee eev- | ery officeholder resigned. R. W. The omp- son, Cyrus Field, Adams and others sent jin their resignations. Recorder Dancy was the exception, but he had to apolo- gize for what he didn’t Say. The more Dancy talks, the deeper he puts his foot into the mud. Ex-Register J. W. Lyons attended the Afro-American Council last week. He was booked to speak, but it was lost in the shuffle. If Recorder Dancy had remained from the Council meeting he would not have to explain. Mr. Dancy may think that he played good politics, but he didn’t. There is a great deal of criticism against the president of the Afro-Amer- ican Council. Gang law is the colored Americans object to. The coming contest for delegates to the next National Republican Conven- tion will be a hot one. Already political aspirants are becoming prevalent Dr. J. Sheppard of North Carolina passed through the city last week for > Afro-American Council had one a what New York. Preparations are being made by his friends to tender him a dinner in the early fall. It will be one of the atest events in the career of this well-known North Carolinian I am thinking that a n many schools I of the supervising principal be a benefit to the under- stand that the offices of Supervising prin- cipals will be abolished by the ifext Con- It will be a good thing to take hority from these , many 2 I re- fer particularly to the Negro supervis- ors. of whom domineer over teachers I didn’t attendsthe meeting at Con- vention Hall last St aday. There was ja large crowd present, Wuat became of Editor Fortune. He did not attend the Afro-American Coun- cil meeting. ROUNDER. FORM NATIONAL NEGRO LEAGU Sessions Held in Manhattan Last Week for Organization, and President Roosevelt Is Criticised. From the Brooklyn Eagle. A national Negro conference, at which there was organized the National Negro League, a political organization formed to “put in the White House a man who will treat the Negro race with the great- est consideration,” was held June 6 ard the “mourners’ bench” at last night's Te-y7, in the assembly hall of 334 West Fif- vival services at the Fair Grounds Coli-)ty-ninth street, Manhattan. There were seum, an evangelist of Georgia, and who is known in most of the Southern States as “ the minister who can draw the largest congregations and bring more sinners to repentance” than any other man occupying the religious field, has been holding forth in the Coliseum. The structure is the largest building in Jackson ,and it has been filled to over- flowing at every meeting. Conversions have been numerous. On Sunday 200 went to the “mourners’ bench” and professed faith. Great in- terest has been manifested in the reviv- s work, stores and business houses of the town closing during day services to allow their clerks and other employes to attend if they so desired. Last night Gov, Vardaman was in the audience. He has been a constant attendant at the services; and last night he walked up to the rostrum when Dr. Cates asked for converts to come for- ward. In a voice which carried to the far- thermost corners of the coliseum, the executive repeated, after the preacher, th words: “I surrender all to Jesus for salvation and service.” Men and woman wept in religious fervor, and the Governor was seen to furtively wipe tears from his eyes. The revival services will be continued for some days. BALTIMORE AND OHIO R. R. Popular excursions to Niagara Falls, only $10 round trip; July 19; August 2 and 16; September 6 and 20; October 6, 1907. Excursion tickets will be sold on the above dates, good going only on Spe- cial Train leaving Washington at 7.45 A.M., arriving Niagara Falls at 11 p.m. Tickets valid for return ten (10) ular trains, except “Black Diamond Ex- press” of Lehigh Valley Route. Call on ticket agents for pamphlet giving full particulars as to stopovers, side-trips, etc. = Nearly one-fourth of the milk used jin the United States is adulterated. days, including date of sale, on all reg-! {three sessions of the conference, and For ten days the Rev. George C. Cates,* President Roosevelt was arraigned and severely criticised for his action in dis- missing Companies B, C and D, Twenty- fifth Regular Infantry, as the result of what come to be known as the Brownsville (Texas) incident, Out of the conference grew the league and out of the league, in turn, it is pro- posed to up-buiid an effective Demo- cratic organization, which shall attract and hold the Negro vote in many States and intimately influence the Presidential contest. The objects of the new organ- ization are given, first and foremost, as political, so that the Negro may gradu- ally assume a stronger place in the na- tion’s affairs. Here are the league’s of- ficers, elected at the conference: Former Judge James C. Matthews of Albany, N. Y., president; Edward Ev- erett Brown, who is assistant health commissioner of Boston, vice-president; James H. W. Howard, secretary; Isaac Walker of Jersey City, N. J., treasurer; chairman of executive committee, Ed- ward E. Lee, and national organizer, P. Hampton White of this city. The states represented at the confer- ence were Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Maryland, the District of Co- lumbia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. There were in all about forty-five dele- gates. A resolution was adopted com- mending Governor Glenn of North Car- olina for his “fair treatment of the Negroes in North Carolina,” and he was praised especially for doing away with lynchings during his administration. P. Hampton White of 103 West Twen- ty-ninth street, Manhattan, said of the work of the conference: “The new league just organized is going to work in every State in the Union where Ne- groes are a large part of the population, and steps will be taken to change the old order of things; there will be no more faulty affiliations, no more gross | Servitude.” | Branch feagues will be organized as a means of enlarging the sphere of influ- ence of the organization. Irwin Lewis, white, of West Chester, | Pa., buried alive his five-year-old step. | daughter. has aries | oe etree er a eS RIC) OS Sa