The Washington Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1907, Page 1

tn ang PS ah: oS ag WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY DECEMBER 14, 1907. | VOL.27 NO. 29 ; ‘CHICAGO. WINS WINDY CITY SECURES THE PRIZE — CHICAGO, COLORADO ND MISSOURI MAKE PLANS— R ROBERT REYBURN MAKES 4 PLAN FOR SUFFRAGE. c Republican National Convention 08 will be held in Chicago, begin- 16. This decision was reach- t the final session of the Republican stional Committee at the Shoreham tel today. The final vote showed jicago 31, Kansas City 18, Denver 4. The committee named the following ict of Columbia supervisors charg- with the duty of preparing for and ting the election of the two dele- gates from the District: Sidney Bieber, man; Perry Cranford, and George Collins. The call for the election of delegates the National Convention, which will 1 Monday, will contain a pro- permitting the Republican State mittees of those States which have y election laws to pre- gates shall be electe® be whether de! primaries or by State convention ommittee also decided to put ter- 1 delegates on a numerical parity the District of Columbia—that 1s, 1 and two alternates. » delegate: f States was finished at 11.45 into j the committee went tive session, the hall being cleared the iders preparatory to taking There was some he ballot proceeded quickly, being known a f nutes : had ma very 1 Kansas City and Denver rec- e triumph of the Lake City ng t i »y acclamation, in fixing a ed well the place and time committee then took 1 incement of the vote on the location of the convention show- ed that the first statement was slightly had roneous, ar Kansas _ City otes and Chicag6 31 and Territories was Connectic For Chicago—Californiz ware, Florida, Geor Idaho, Ili- Kentucky, Louisiana,Maine,Mary- | Massachusetts, Mississippi, New ampshire,New Jersey,New York,North Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Carolina, Virginia, Washing- iska, District of Co- Tennessee, Tex- , Arkans: Kansas City—Alabam: Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minne M , Mor Nebraska, Ari South Dakota, New Mexico, Ok- ma, Indian Territory, Hawaii, Por- , Fhilippines Islands. r Denver — Colorado, Ohio, West Wyoming William F. Stone, sergeant at rounced the appointment of Dave C. Owen of Milwaukee, Wis, as chief 4 <istant sergeant at arms, and of Lee G Hechinger, of East Orange, N. J., as hief confidential clerk. Both Mr. Ow- en and Mr. Hechinger were associated th Mr. Ste during the convention 1904 Then John W. Yerkes, of Kentcky, hairman of the committee on call of he convention, made his report. A long i lively debate followed. The com- 1 wording the call had endeav- nake the requirements in the of selecting delegates to the Na- rginia, arms, Convention so general as to in- as Ititle as possible with meth- for making terfere that may be provided h selections by primary elections This feature of the report was briskly ected to by many of the committee- cn on the ground that it placed the clection of delegates within the powers f Legislatures, which could prescribe ules for primary elections. They claim- ed that the selection of delegates to a orivention is, first and last, purely a party matter that should not in any pat- ticular be controlled b ya State Legis- lature, which might, very possibly, be of an opposing political complexion. Par ticular objection was offered to the plan by Sonthern committeemen. But the modification indorsed, however, and in those State where pri- mary laws prevail the State committee will have the say as to whether delegates shall be selected ct such priamires or by the regular procedure. The District Election. Considerable interest was die played in the selection of District su- pervisors and the designation of Sidney Bieber as chairman met with general favor was loca! Registration of Voters. Dr. Robert Reyburn presented his re- sparring over] d of voting, but this was soon} fied wit | port on a plan of procedure in the Dis- trict of Columbia providing for a reg- istration of voters thirty days before the election, which was approved. mittee recommend suffrage in the Die triet of Columbia, and he made a long speech in support of that proposition. Chairman New ruled that he was out of order, and no action was taken of the question of suffrage The committee having finished its bas inesh, adjonrned a few minutes after twe o'clock, to meet again at the call of the chairman. Chairman ,Yerkes chairman of the committee on call, will get busy this afternoon, and expects to have the call in shape for general publi- catioh Monday. When the Republican National Com- mittee met this morning at ten o'clock the first business taken up was the heas- ing Of the claims of the cities offering to entertain the Republican National Convention. I attended the meeting of the Nation- a] Committee Friday and I never before felt the air so chilly at a meeting of a National Republican gathering. That old-time enthusiasm was lacking. The only thing that gave it the appearance of old times was the presence of General Dick, of Ohio. It is true that General Dick walked upon crutches, but his fac- | remarked the Senator. “Some of the Idiers shot up the town. I am a wyer,” said the S tor “So am I,” said Mr. Chase. “And since you |do not know who the alieged gvil parties are, what principle of law ap | phic s?” Senator Warner said “I want }to see you. Come and see me lhe Senator left without giving an answer FOOTBALI From the Phe who VICTIM BURIED Afro-American edger. Mr. Herbert reedman’s funeral of the cott died at Hospi jtal, Washington, last Sunday, after a brief illness from blood poisoning, took place on Wednesday afternoon | November 16, when teh Howard and | Lincoln football teams played. The injurq was. considered to be of no consequence, it seemingly being only an abrasion. Blood poisoning set in, however, and all efforts to save his life proved unavailing. Mr. Scott was very popular with his college mates, and after his grad- uation next June intended pursuing He a course in modern languages. received his prepartory the high school, where he 104. was grad- uated in TRUE REFORM Four great ERS. veny-five meetings. True Reformers pre Rev. W. L D.D., president of the leading years’ success paring to greet Taylor, Negro bang of America. December 15, Methodist Sunday, 107, at II Ebenezer Fourth and Zion subject, a.m., Church, D streets south Church Men, east; 2 p.m., Baptist Southwest, “Young Consider Your Journey. 8 p.m. Miles Monday night, December 16, 1907, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Anacos- tia; D.C. All enterprises cannot afford to miss any Memorial lovers of pmogressive Negro of these meetings. W. R. Griffin, Chief, N. stsereopticon lecturer. P., and Union installation of one thousand officer, True Reformers’ Hall, Janu- ary 6, 08. Bishop Turner, of the A. M. E. Church, has gotten himself in trou- ble by marrying Laura P. Lemon, the divorced wife of the Rev. Mr. Powell, aminister in the Bishop's dio- cese. He will have to answer to the bishops at the conference in May, the said lady. Dr. Reyburn also asked that the com-| I saw my ofd friend Ed. Deas, of South Carolina, who is just aa full of fire as ever. The most amusing thing 1 saw wast the old bankrupt of the defunct Capital Savings Bank. He darted in and he darted out, and he could not leave with- ont giving a stab at I:. Wilder, whe was in and around the committee room. The Doctor was not at all disturbed by his abuses, and neither was the other party whom he was abusing. Well, my old friend Tom Carter was at the door of the committee room. Tom knows everybody, and everybody knows | Thomas. Capt. J. W. Lyons was on deck look- ing as happy as ever. It was reported that he had gone over to the Adminis- 1 don't think so. Captain Ly- He knows a thing tration. ons is for Fairbanks or two. Senator Warner held up the Editor of | The Bee w explain to position on the Brownsville matter. In the conversatio ulties were as bright and as penetrating | as ever. | s ATOR WARNER In the hall of the Shoreham last week Editor Chase of The Bee and the Senator had a discussion of the Brokwnsville incident. Mr. Chase }said to the Senator that he should {vote with Senator Forager on the Brownsville report. “I could not,” | from Trinity Baptist Church. Rev | Dr. G. R. Waller conducted the fu neral services, after which Prof | Kelly Miiler of Howard University delivered an eulogistic address | Mr. Scott was a member of the }next graduating class of Howard University. He was injured by one of Howard’s men running into him training at Episcopal | Church. | dent | | | What | Saw AndHeard IMPORTANT FACTS) THE BROWNSVILLE BULLETS. Composition of the Core Not as to Government Specifications. Were the bullets used to “shoot up” Brownsville, Tex., government bullets? The analysis of two of the seven bul- lets picked out of houses in Brownsville has shown that the cores do not contain the substance which government. steel- cased« Springfield bullets are supposed to contain. If Senator Foraker can show by anal- ysis that most of the steel-cased bullets used by the government contain a core composed according to the government specifications—obviously all of them cannot be examined—he wil] have de- veloped probably the most convincing chain of evidence that has yet resulted from his efforts to prove that the col- ored troops at Brownsville were inno- cent of ‘shooting up the town.” He has decicied to ask that the com- } mittee on military affairs of the Senate SENATOR W. WARNTR OF MISSOURI. were Mr, J. W. Poe, Mr. P. M. ell, and the Editor of The Bec, Mr. Chase. Mr. Chase said to the Senator from Missourj that he was wrong on the Brownsville niatter, and regretted very much that he could not vote with Sen- ator Foraker. The Senator said that he would explain to the Editor of the Bee and like for him to call and see him. Dr. Robert Reyburn made a manly | speech in behalf of suffrage. It was a manly defense for the people of this suffrage. ; I was anxious to see my friend El- | mer Davor, chairman of the National | Committee. Mr. Dover is a genial man and popular among all classes of Re- publicans. If Senator Foraker 1s nom- inated Mr. Dover will no doubt be the next chairman of the National Com- mittee. Congress will investigate the public schools and the outcome will be sepa- rate management for the colored school Cook or Prof. H. M. Brown. j Rounder. | DR. WILDER A CANDIDATE, Dr. Wilder, it is rumored, told the committee that S. L.Corrothers would not be and that he used, and that he was a vile extremist against Presi- and that he wanted and Foraker Roosevelt, Roosevelt removed elected president. Dr. Wilder is a candidate for del- egate for the: National] Republican Convention as a Roosevelt candidate WHITTIER EVENING. A “Whittier Evening” will take place at Howard University Chapel, December 17th, at 8 p.m.. Dean Wil- bur,of theGeorgetown University,will deliver the address. There will be recitations from Whittier by the stu- dents, and Whittier music will be furnished by the choir. All are in- he having been forbidden to marry} vited, free of charge. Read The Bee. Mitch- city, who are deprived of the right of | I am in favor of Mr. George F. T.) ase of the matter. \ take up this pt | The government steel-cased Springfeld bullets be made | with cores containing one part of tin requires that its and thirty-six parts of lead and no an- The government metallurgist jof the geological survey, who was is- structed to analyze two of the seven bul- lets brought before the committee from Brownsville after they had been dug out of the woodwork of the houses that were fired upon, has reported to the committee that these two bullets do not contain the relative amounts of tin and lead required by the War Depart- ment, and, furthermore, that they do not contain antimony. When this fact is laid before the com- mittee formally it is likely to cause a sensation, it is believed, and if further testimony tends to show that the gov- ernment specifications are being carried | timony out in the manufacture of these bullets there is likely to be a change of atti- tude on the part of some of the mem- bers of the committee in favor of Sena- |tor Foraker’s position that the soldiers could not have “shot up” the town CHAIRMAN NEW ISSUES CALL. Republican Notified of the June Con- vention, Manner of Election of Delegates Speci- fied—Arrangements in the District of Columbnia. The official calf for the republican na- tional convention, to be held in Chicago ; pune 16 next, has been issued by Chair- man Harry S. New and Secretary El- mer Dever of the republican national The call which is addressed the committee. “To the republican electors of United States, as follows “In accordance with established cus- tom and in obedience to instructions of the republican national convention of 1904,the Republican National Committee now direets that a national convention of delegated representatives of the re- publican party be held in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, at 12 o'clock noon, Tuesday, the 16th day of June, 1908, for the purpose of nomima- ting candidates for President and Vice- President, to be voted for at the presi- dential eleetion, Tuesday, November 3, 1908, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come be- fore it | “The republican clectors of the ses- j eral states and territories, including Ha- waii, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Porto Rico and the Philippine Ilands, and all other electors, without regard to past political affiliation, who believe in the principles of the republican party, and indorse its policies, are cordially in- vited to unite this call in the selection of delegates to said convention. Number of Delegates. “Said national convention shall con- sist of four delegtes-at-large from each state, two delegates for each representa- tiveat-large in the Congress, two dele- gates from each congressional district and from each of the territories of Ari- zona, New Mexico and Hawaii, two delegates from the District of Colum- bia, and two delegates each from Alas- ka, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. For each this convention, an alternate delegate shall be chosen, to serve in case of the absence of his principal “The delegates-at-large and their al- ternates shall be elected by state and territorial conventions, of which at least thirty days’ notice shafl have been published in some newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the respective state or territory. “The congressional district dele-gates ‘shall be elected by conventions called by the republican congressional com- mittee of each district, of which at least thirty days’ notice shall have been pub- lished in some newspaper or newspapers the provided, that in any congressional dis- of general circulation ip district ; trict where there is no republican con- \ gressional committee the republican stat® shall be for and committee substituted represent the congressional committee in issuing said call and making said publi- cations; and provided, that delegates both from the state-at--large and their gressional district and the alternates may be elected in conformity with the laws of the state in which the election | occurs, provided, the state or any direct; but provided further, that in no so held as to any con- alternates te and delegates from each con- | | j | | state shall an election be preevnt the delegates from gressional district their being selected by the republican electors | of that district. Election in Djstrict of Columbia. | “The election of delegates from the j District of Columbia shall be held un- ! der the direction and supervision of an and election board composed of Mr. Sidney Bieber, Mr. Percy Cranford and Mr. ‘George F. Collins of the District of , Columbia. This board shall have au-! thority to fix the date of said elections, subject to prior provisions herein, and to arrange all thereto; and shall provide for a registration of details incidental ‘the votes cast, such registration to in- ,clude the name and residence of each { voter. “The delegates from the territories from Alaska shall be selected in the manner of. clecting ddlegatds-at-large from the states as provided herein. “The delegates from Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands shall be elected in conformity with certain rules and regulations adopted by this committee, copies of which are to be furnished to the governing committee of the republi- can party in Porto Rico and the Phil- ippine Islands. “All delegates shall be elected not earlier than thirty days after the date of this call, and not later than thirty days before the date of the meeting of the next republican national convention. “The credentials of each delegate and alternate must be forwarded to the sec- retary of the republican natlonaY com mittee at Washington, D, C., at least ‘twenty days before the date fixed for the meeting of the convention, for use in making up its temporary roll. “In any case where more than the au- thorized number of delegates from any state, territory or territorial district are reported to the secretary of the na- ional committee a contest shall be deemed to exist, and the secrtary shall notify the several delegates so report- ed, and shall submit al] such credentials and claims to the whole committee for decision as to which delegates reported | shall be placed on the temperary roll | of the convention. “All notices of contest shal] be submit- ted in writing, accompanied by a print- ed statement setting forth the grounds of contest, which must be filed with the secretary of the committee twenty days prior to the meeting of the national con- vention. Harry S. New, “Chairman.” “Elmer Dover, “Secretary.” delegate elected to, popular | committee, | such congressional committee so! of Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii and | A lie | Nailed PROF. LANGSTON MISQUOTED. A Misropresentation by a Local Paper. The following dispatch to the Times of this city appeared in its issue De- cember 2: St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 2—I€ the col- }ored man wishes to advance his race he |tuust behave himself in street cars, said Prof. Arthur D. Langston, the colored Principal of the Dumas School, today to delegates of the Missouri Negro Re- publican League. He said no colored man should occupy a seat while a white woman stands, and “dirty persons should not be allowed on the cars at all.” The Bee is indebted to Mr, Frank Langston, clerk in the District govern- ment and brother of Prof. Arthur Langston, for the exact words of his brother's speech, which is as follows, “Yesterday was a red-letter day for oratory at the Missouri Negro Repub- ican League Club, at 2349 Chestnut street, where a large number of col- ored Republicans have been assembling levery Sunday afternoon to discuss sub- jects of character. an educational and __ political Many prominent speakers of both races have addressed the mem- bers of this club from time to time, , on subjects touching the race problem, | but the addresses have usually been of | the kind that painted the picture of the negro’s progress in glowing colors, and have Leen devoted largely to recitals of | the achievements of the past, but when it was announced by the entertainment ;committee that Prof. Arthur D. Langs- }ton, principal of the Dumas School, was among the speakers, on the sub- | ject, “Opportunities of the Negro as a | Voter,” his well-known frankness as a public speaker, in pointing the shortcomings of his race, attracted a out | record attendance of members and _vis- | itors at the Sunday |yesterday. John High | School graduate, presided over the as- |sembled voters, who filled the parlors and halls of the clubhouse to flowing. Among those present were representatives of many wards of the city. | Bernard Hobson, William Haffner and George W. Galloway of the Twenty- afternoon meeting Pope, a } over- sixth Ward made brief speeches, in | which they pointed out reasons why jmegroes should vote the Republican j ticket, and Charles Hunter, one of the leading young orators of the club, de- livered a brilliant Achievements of the Negro Race,” in oration on the ‘ which he eulogized Toussiant L’Ouver- ture, Crispus Attucks, Fredereck Dou- glass, Paul Laurence Dunbar and other distinguished men of the negro race, concluding with an appeal for a single standard of excellence for both races C. K. Robinson, president of the club, also made a few remarks. Mr. Langston introduced, and congratulated those present upon the privilege of living in the twentieth century and enjoying the blessings of He said “The importance of the duty of every citizen , to study the politics of his coutry caty |not be overestimated, for the reason that the government exercises control ‘over the life and (property as well as the civic tights of every citizen. But while I am proud of the achievements of the great men of my race, and ask for them that they be given credit for all they have done, what we are doing to-day is of far greater importance. We are not judged to-day by the philanthropist or the philosopher, but by the great mass of voters. And their opinion of us and their friendship for us is of the highest importance. was next American citizenship. Let the negros as an in- dividual, in his family life and in his ommunity life, challenge the friendship and iespect of his neighbors This is the key to the solution of a great social probiem. I demand of my race | that they do it best to be at peace with their neighbors and lose no oportunity to prove their worthiness to enjoy everY Privilege accorded to every other peo- ple. The street cars, in which the two races are brought into the closest contact, give the negroes great op- portunitics to make good, by practicing the rules of common politeness and gallantry, and in this way win for the race the sympathy of every true lady | in the land, and, incidentally, set an ex- | ample of gallantry to some of our | white fellow-citizens.” Isaac A. Hedges also spoke. He con- , cluded by reading Wendell Phillips’ eu- logy of the character L’Ouverture. white of Toussiant London will have an all-night the- jatre. New York has an all-night | bank, and police court. The Masons jof the Distric of Columbia have a lodge that meets in the day. a