The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1908, Page 1

WASHINGTON ATURDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1908. eto BusinessLeasue! EMMETT J. SCOTT SPEAKS. Receives an Ovation, and Is Banquetted | 3y Local Business League — Strong National Busi- instinct ut fims of ¢ ace Stimulated by Fraternal | ment mmercial resence of a large audience at A Church on last night, Emmett Scott, Dr.Booker T.Wash- corresponding secretary and | er of the National Ne s League, told of the In th Metropolitan to private secretary achievements represented ft years ¢ nerea fostering care | |G world avenue of] marked | arcely utility not of a Negro, manifold e eag s embarrass tt inder wh Mr lor self-heipful- g the by actu evidence of| an indulging | yur national gatherings, } justified the organiza-y the? one League all t e. The business, In existence, ha f of risen a never been action and in- th as patie have been League elements of real racial} contair i uplift.’ Mr. with Dr he tt is in thorough sympath the teachings and philosophy of Booker Washington, with whom been associated for fullest has intimately in the and enjoys eleven years, the widespread popularity of, the that are commercial, industrial } welfare of the colored | ational Capital. He re-| ova at the hands of the representative audience which } Tuesday evening. The held the auspi iness League, in con-} sion of the meast h building and peopl ¢ chief, forces t up e cleved an large and I an greeted n meet was under of the loca e regular Bethel nd Historical Associa- on, the foremost organization for ht-| erary research entire country. The personnel of the gatheing, as size, was a flattering testi- monial of the high regard in which Mr. Scott is held in Washington, and} istakable note of endorsement of! and constructive labors. The exercises ,through hurriedly arranged, great credit upon the energy cefulness of Miss Marie A. esident of eBthel Literary, gracefully during the pre-| junction with Literary in the well as its an unm his helpful reflects and resou D who presided liminary stages of the meeting. The program included Dr. Davis, official stenographer of League, gave an 1e of the big meeting last l Kans) analyzing its} d describing its invigora?- the commercial life of man, a pho experience, Madre, pr WwW. H the Na-| interest: | Au-| who tional ing res gust at composi ing ¢ the race; Mr. tographer of twer who gave some inform§ng statistics | touching the Negro enterprises of vari- | ous kinds now in operation Wash- ington, making a showing so creditable is hearers were agreeably | thas most of hi surprised ; Mr, R. W. Thompson, man-; Daniel Fre years in | co-operative | the | Republicans should lrevenge by voting ] nominee. ger a news vho presented the local the suggested that stock the and telephone com- dai and the several public potent means of staying the blighting hand of “Jim Crowism,” emphasizing the need Negroes them- Cobb, assistant Dis- W L.. Pollard, at- e dealer; Mr. R. E. in wall papering; Dr Some Practic stions for ite,” urs Te compact a isterngthéni: spirit, and r capitalists purchase in et railways, g and in ies, newspapers, ilities, as a theatre owned b: Mr JL A Attorney ; a and k Ama prosperous phar- turer of chemical A FE, Lankford, an! L. R. Clarke, prin- School of so delivered brief address- the Mr. Mrs Domes- escriptive of ir experiences in hich they had developed. ess W Vinton Davis, styled th Henderson ‘The Black re Henrietta Daughter of the League,” recited Josephine Heard’s Samson,” amid en- applause. mniclus meeting at Church, Mr. ¢ | at a de-| atc, es were r Auditor Ralph W C. Dancy, Tyler, Re-| H Terrell, d A. W 10M Att orneys Thon Sango, the latter of Treasury ding with ributes and were inte f which acknowledged in a Mr. guest of Dr. and Mrs. A. left Thursday morning, Scott was M. Curtis. 1 accorded happy all-to--brief | hted the reception pleased with the COLORED REPUBLI( m the Daily Post ANS. Re by he vot plored York the presents d full of some of ew Times, figures are menace, it it if is true that colored vor ire dis- posed to turn from the Republican tick- et if a candidate opposed by them The Kansas, should be nominated, hat Idaho, Indiana, Oregon, Washington and West Virgin- | a could have been thrown to Bryan in 1900 by colored voters. New York, Jersey and Ohio might be made Demo November the colored de: their ew cratic next if sert stand- i | ard. [he Negroes of the North are watch- ing the attitude of Republicans in the South toward colored lf the Lily Wh element Louisiana and other States is in control, thereby ex- voters, te in ‘cluding colored Republicans from party conventions, the Republican cannot expect the colored brethren to managers | go to the polls and approve such meth- ods by voting the Republican ticket. ‘Not only are the colored Republicans protesting against such exclusion from participation in party affairs, but they are being suppgrted by Republicans of the old school. These two elements are at work arranging rival conventions in districts where the Lily Whites are in control, and it almost certain that contesting delegations will appear be- fore the national committee at Chicago, moring for admittance to the Nation- is c al Convention. Four years ago the national commit- tee created a contesting delegation com- posed of colored Republicans and their sympathizers from Louisiana, and this delegation shared the votes allotted to that State. If the committee should adopt the same rule next June, it might mean that Secretary Taft would lose the vote of at least four Southern States aggregating seventy votes — enough, possibly ,to swing the nomination. When it borne in mind that the colored Republicans of the North are narrowly watching the developments in theSouth and are preparing to co-operate with their brethren, both in the convention and at the pol the menace of such a movement may be realized is to sit in a Republican convention, it is extremely probable that they will seek for a Democratic The result might be the ov- erthrow of the Republican party. The Illinois members of the Supreme Court have adopted robes like those worn by the Justices at Washington, District of Columbia. Times shows ; Montana, | If the col-| |ored Republicans are denied ,the right | my j What | Saw And Hear Every d ments y brings among the never seen fe m honors that so ma Every new ver cal many districts they c statesmen visit hin arry t wha value the other fellow is before he leayes the new cand make ‘effort loan or a piece boys, to enable check not an until the oting only disgracefi is I money amusing, fthis local statesn is convinced he is not an easy mark, hardly return {General Burt w cal im. statesmen that The one General vist of adjournr General then } is doubtful wl j ter appreciated by the people. 'sessor of the ith MR, H. H. DARNEILLE The Reptblic t I the city | Mr H the e trying to elect Darneille white n. deles Chicago There better own to the people and no man bet-| As of Columbia record of Mr. Darneille will surpass any | He is a} simon-pure Republican and one who has | looked Republicans | whenever in his power to as-| | District the | at has ever held the office. ays out for 1 | do so. | Mr. Darneille has not only the con- fidence of the Republican party in this city, bet he has the respect of the par- There are thousands of working- is city who will vote for him. . d to them Republicans when olored employ- premo‘ed turned He believe MR. of HOPEWELL Formerly Assessor of the District of for Delegate to the National Rept self as a candidate or not There is rebellion in the Blaine Invir cibles: The once old boss, Perry, can hold the boys for the men he has in structed them to indorse. The janitor of the District Building instead of meddling in politics, had bet- | ter look out for the building over which he is janitor. I would like to know what this gen-j| last } been doing since the His club endorsed Chiarman tleman has campaign Bieber and Attorney but Horner for Ge certain that Chair- man Bieber If will resign from the com The Blaine Invincibles are now ing for another candidate who filled purse. Well, are very have been out of empl time. It a kind of jocal statesmen who are out of a job. There will be something doing shortly. candidate that springs up. who districts their vest pockets go constituents and tell them that the new man is just the They have not succeeded as yet gates it not is will run, he does he ttee has states They the local and many of hungry thinner. ment 10r is recreation fo: Every new in those carry to their man in convincing the candidates that ¢ can deliver the goods. Within a days things will be lively. The preach- ers will be out in the field with their candidate.~ The politicians think that preachers should stay out of poli- Many of them go on the theory ministers can_purify the atmos- phere. Of course their pulpit is in need of nothing but funds. I have known a minister allow money pass; no comes or how it is earnec tverything at present is in confusion Tickets are being smashed every day. I am informed that Dr. Charles H. hall strong in the West End people think well of him He is of the strongest few also ties. that to to what source. it i. matter from Mars is The beyond doubt one men on the Home Rule ticket. Rounder Read The Bee. look- } some } never { H. DARNEILLE, District government will |: j organiazt | | register District Let Mr. Darne STRENGTH OF COLORED VOTE What Might Happen if It Was Thrown to Democratic Cand date _ 5 tor m every for Brig. Gen. Andrew Burt, formerly ‘in command of the Twenty-fif | Infantry, from th “withor which were discharged honor” for heir the Brownsville th platform of Sumner Hall in Brooklyn, Tuesdé participation in riwt demanded from y eve- ning, that the Republican par oose | He, said, on behalf of “the ten thousand voters in Kings This | gerated. |some other candidate than Taft Burt spoke, General F oun- ty.” number doubtless But 1900, the j twelfth census and of a national elec exag- in the year of tion, what would have happened to Mc- ‘inley through the complete transfer of I out the country may stile Negro vote to Bryan through- be inferred from | the following table | This one set hand or a ing will have to be by of the newspapers 5-point type Of which voted namely, Idaho, Oregon, | Virginia would in 1900 of the Negro Repu the these seventeen States, of for Bryan, two seven more, Kansas, oMn- W ratic Indiana, Washington, have and Dem t Democrats tana, gone ican yot ers had gone over to | Colorado and Missouri helped elect Mr. Roosevelt 1904, but Mr. Taft—still} adhering to the census figures of 1900—! tc of and of 8184 votes, in Colorado, a dif- in reckon with a 93,774 have { difference ! | would potential votes in Missouri, ference hitherto in favor of the Repub-| Rhode Island, which} for Kinley governors Democratic candidate. a plurality Der in agoo, electedd is| 1900 and 1907. 1900, elected a Repblican governor 1906 by 8890, F: lity reducible at least 1,682 by the agency of Negro ballots.. Oklahoma was Democratic in| Constitutional Convention of 1907, | elected a Republican delegate nocrati in in Idaho, a to} the but she to Congress in 1904, 10,000 Republican Negr | ma | he | Jersey } the {on every corner in and around the of- | is District politics. | demanded 17 | he | for these vampires. are over Oklaho- of rse, would be event, but it Pennsylvan Republican y tive to note that she depénds upon} the nx for a large part of Connecticut wes | 1892, giving Cleveland | 5; New Haven’s Demo- | his Negro phal plurality. Democratic in plurality of 5,3 officia] existence the Republican } election last cratic mayor Gwes “knifiing” municipal The defection of any cc to Negroes ticket fal. the nsiderable uid Ohio next November mig balance to the Democratic si Taft's cal may well ponder the significance of the Sum Hall Perhaps, too, they | rej iu-| turn the de. Mr managers pol ner meeting. > not ard as quite empty and itl to the immediate pro respgc Mr. Ta September by N of st made last} gro editor ANSWER. s endeavored under ions, The Bee has} fender of the op-| ck. The Editor} collar, and neither is conte for delegates Conv Will the declare Republican ntuion ates stand ? out and remain e they under yi There field for numerous Hughes, | the the f the of the There are can- | x, Cannon : Will they come of tes upon the fence. off let candidates for president will make the and be known which the best president? There should be honesty in politics ning else. heart well in Colored Republicans Mr. Taft. Will an as every at are the him? in y one of ididates declare r or against running who is not Admi ot There is not a at the istration or Mr dates It v Taft will any the candi-]} an express remarked -by two or three of aS go to With and the want deal. be he Bee made, de? deal The columns of T t he are open to if answer all don’t candidates answer, and they answer Bee will for them POLITICAL VAMPIRES AND MORE WORK FOR THE CHIEF OF POLICE. Thee present poli contest District h politic: There is at this time needed a polit- The disgraceiu] and cal in the Columbia} among Republi- ough vampires of to the surface class and cans of sharks. ical vagrant law. outrageous scenes that are exhibited al- most daily should put a blush of shame the decent people. Up- upon faces « fices of the candi these political vampires and sharks may be seen. Many of them who had occupations have tem- porarily and are in search easy money, as they call it. This city has one individual in par- ticular who never could manage him- self; this individual in company with other leisure and restless statesmen may be seen and around the offices of candidates. The occupation of the old Emancipators has been substituted for es left them in another. Major Sylvester, the Chief of Police, will be compelled to ask Congress for an additional police protection for the candidates. to keep these sharks vampires at work on some farm and Every man imagines himself a states- far concern- man; and so as votes are ed he carries them in his vest pocket. The most prevailing. topic of today One man egiance the Invincibles,, one thousand dollars. An- other, who has not jong been released from the penitentiary, declares that he the only pebble upon the political beach. in called to see a rep’ table Republican a few days ago and certain man that thief; the to be} who now ° chins vO viduals t a informed him was representing Was 4 unfit other declared that associated with decent people. No candidate clean the minds of these political vampires and sharks. About three mont farm would be a wh he was has a record in jt | Hughes y Miss Beatriz L, Chase, Histor Col. a 1 : by on, has been dropped ¢ Boston schools by the Iperintendentbeca he does up to date.’ O. O. Howard, the only of the i sider the book “ Civil War, was reti day evening ! Thete the birds \merican harbe i esday th unniversar he Guz he says quit, ihe good citizens among the | ants of the first slaves of Americ not be made responsible for th i SO eek, ‘cer tase descendan It was’ or argest churches in the city The House of Representative € resoluticn, has requested the Secre oi the Navy information cgucerning the reduction of skilled Ja. Bor in the Washington and other N yards, Attorney last to furnish Sutro, New Tuesday before House ce pie and ice had comunitted water dyspeptics who comunitt as great as any by who indulge in strong drink Morgan College, Balt fortieth exercises Church Mou nning , and it is rumored th promised to his Park Square Gar- | make appear- t the e first time ance tonight den, Boston, Americ wyer The in many years in L address on “The A Lincoln” Second Baptist Church mas L. oJnes delivered an r of the fe and C m ~ Es t all Jones an aceptable Prof. Imar peaker times J. Ferit Syracuse University, the ¥. M. C, A, last ] “How We Got Our Bible. Thomas Lawson says he is will- in eveni advocated a revision of the Mr. ing to bet $100,000 that President Roc uccessor. ue of the property now velt will be his own The entire \ owned by the descendants of the Amer- ican slaves is estimated to be more than $937,830,000. The office tian Advocate was considerably damag- of the Southwestern Chris- ed by fire January 31. Everything in the business office except what was in the iron safe was destroyed or render- ed paper requested to have aptience until things useless. Friends of the are assumes hape Editor Animals, sugg r Cerane our next President.” It is reported that the pastor Wesley A. M E. Zion Church, Rev H. Davenport, fi general managem Angel,of OurDumb Mr, Winthrop Mur- admirable for George T. ts “as an man Houseo f his connection “True Reformers’ Day” was celebrat- ed by the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A, last Sunday afternoon at True Reformers’ Hall The electric: railwe Santiago, Cu- di ebrations were said to be elak The Colored Montgomery, The cel- ate, Alabamian, published “at Ala, second year of publication last week. for it continued Miss Alice Byington, of Stockbridge, Miss., in her will bequeathed $50,000 of her fortune to Tuskegee Institute, Tus- She was the daughter of the Massachusetts ba, was opened last Sai entered its success kegee, Ala. Judge Byington ,of Contirlued on Page 4 Read The Bee.