The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 22, 1908, Page 4

PUBLISHEL i:3 1109 Eye St.. N W. Wasnington, D. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. red at the Post Office at Washing- ton, D. C., as second-class mail matter. Ente = 25 Ee ean ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. in advance. ....-$2.00 One copy pet year Six months ...---- Three months pscription monthly . leave school, they would then be doing a service to God and the community. Will point out to The Bee what the colored} someone people in this city are doing for humanity? Will someone suggest a remedy for such idleness among our boys and girls ?* The educated young girl or the young girl just ont of school is compelled to seek employment in some toilet or kitchen in a depart-| ment store. It has come to the at-| tention of The Bee that a certain | department store in this city has in its employment a woman known as a procurist. Young girls have been approached and asked to meet white men at her house. Many of them have refused, and when they do some kind of excuse is framed{ and they are dismissed. The Bee has the name of another young colored girl who was em-| ployed at a certain candy manu-| facturer’s and because she refused to tolerate the advances of the boss she was dismissed, - It is the duty of every colored American to see that their boys and girls are protected from in- sults. It is the duty of everyone to throw a protecting shield around those who are weak. yers | terms THE BLACK MAN IN THE CAN VASS. From the St. Louis Globe Demcorat. Some of the Negroes are opposing the nomination of anybody who is sup- posed to be inimical to their race. They do this because of the discharge of the Negro battalion from the army on ac- C.j count of the distrubance charge against] Tuesday morning. it at Brownsville, but of which it was not proved to be guilty. Some of the members of the battalion had been in! A few of the army for several terms. —| them could, for length of service, soon fire. be retired on part pay. All ef them, however — the innocent as well as the guilty, even if there were any guilty— were turned out with the stamp of fastened upon them by the War Department. In 1900 there were a little over two million Negroes of voting age in the United States. Most of them who are in the States of the North and West probably go to the polls in every elec- tion. A large majority of them, it is safe to say, vote the Republican ticket. . ln some of the close States which the “Republicans usually carry the black vot- hold the balance. In 1900 there were 4,576 Negro males of voting in dishonor | Connecticut, 8,374 in Delaware, 29762 in Ulinois 18,186 in Indiana, 14,605 in Kansas, 21,474 in New eJrsey, 31,425 in | New York, 31,235 in Ohio and 14,786 in West Virginia It will be noticed that in a majority of the States here named the black man is a decidedly important factor in all the In most of the Presi- dential compaigns the transfer of uvo- thirds three-fourths of those votes from the Republican to the Democratic side would turn the scale. A Republi- ean candidate who would encounter the antagonism of any considerable portion of the black voters would need to be ex” ceedingly popular with the rest of the country in order to be assured of vic- tory. Under no possible conditions can there be such a tidal wave for the Re- publicans in 1908 as there was in 1904. elections. or 1904 in such important States as New York, New eJrsey, Ohio Indiana and Illinois can not be repeated in those | States this year under any circumstanc- es. In of those States the ma- jority is likely to be down to the small some } figures of twenty years ago and earlier. ‘In nominating a candidate who would need any large number of voters, white or black, in 1908 the Republicans would be incurring a rather dangerous r NEGROES. MR. TAFT AND T From the Boston Heialc. Bishop Walters of the African Meth- ers of Negroes (Rey. W. H. Scott and W. M. Trotter) have issued a call for a conference to be held in Philadelphia April It is in strong A “crisis for one-eighth of the citizens of the country” impends. There next worded In this city there is population of ninety thousand col-| a colored! ored people, and not one establish- | ment is in operation in which our} own boys and girls can be employ- ed, t we think about in this city Who can appear the whitest in; society, or can give the best dance in which the brightest complexion- ed individuals, men and women, iy appear. | The social fever has taken a re-| markable hold on many of the col-| ored people. This white complex-| ion craze is degenerating the social circle of Washington to such an extent that society is becoming umalgamated. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. | The questions that should touch, every parents’ heart are, What: shall we do with our boys and! The boys and girls, beeause the white people look out for their boys and girls? Bee means colored} girls in good fashion. If-so many of our ministers did not walk the ona parade, seeing which can erect the largest church, but turn their at- tention to their boys and girls who THE COLOR LINE. The refusal of the cafe in the ‘Treasury Department to serve Mr. Lewis H. Douglass a few days ago is only one of the many dis- streets dress ance between the is said to be “open al und the nullifiers of the con- in the Sow The treatment Negro soldiers following the incident a President stitution of ment deseribed os is Brownsville “denial of jusiice and — constitutional jrights visited upon colored citizens un-} is $15,411,240 per precedented in our country.” There- fore, in view of the effort of the “pres- ‘ent Czarocratic regime to perpetuate it- self in power in imperial fashion,” the conference is called take counsel as to he wisest political course to be pursued by colored citizens. While this state- ment is directly aimed at the President, it also intimately affects Mr, Taft, who, as Secretary of War, enforced the pol- icy against the Negro troops, which has done more than anything since the Civ- il War to alienate the Negro from the Republican party. It is claimed by editors of represent- ative journals edited Negroes for Negroes that in the coming presidential election the balance of power will held by this group of voters, and that by assert themselves. which Bishop Walters intend movement they to the heads represents any considerable num- ber of voters in the North, it is one that will not be ignored by those who shape the plans of the Republican party. There is a limit to the docility and obedience of every man and of every race, and perhaps the Republicans cannot bank on the perpetual loyalty of the Negro, North or South. The margin of votes which the Republicans and Democrats have in a number of States is so small vote to determine the result if it cam be massed for or a€ainst a candidate. and Ohio and Illinois each with thirty- criminations made against colored Americans in the Government de-, sition to seriously affect the result Of) greq thousand votes partments. The Bee is quite pos- itive that Secretary Cortelyou will not tolerate any color prejudice in his department. THE VAGRANCY LAW. to f{ a law will put , especially po- ex-members Congress intends s va- grancy law, This all tramps to work litical vagrants, and of the police and detective depart- ments to work. This law will now make able-bodied men go to work and it is so framed that no guilt) man will be able to escape. ‘one thousand Negro voters, are in a po- i a presidential election, if the opinions {of the Negro leaders are supported at jthe polls. But there are many “ifs” and “ands.” PARACPAPHIC NEWS. (Continued from page 1.) $100,000 in bonds from Mr. Carnegie. William Sell, the last of the renown- ed circus family, died suddenly last Monday in New York city, of gastritis. The joint convention of bishops which was in session in this city adjourned the early part of this week, to meet in Lou- isville, Ky., after the sessions of the general conference. i The military reception to Secretary The big majorities of 1896, 1900 and - odist Episcopal Church, and other lead-| that it is deemed possible for the Negro! Taft last Tuesday evening at the State Armory, Manchester, was not enlivened by the music of the First Infantry Band. “The men had other engagements for pay, and would not break them to play at the reception for no pay. V" Mrs. Ida Bailey, wife of Dr. H. L. Bailey, died at her late residence last She was an ardent worker in the Niagara Movement and an admirer of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. The Eiffel Tower, used as a wireless telegraph station, has been ruined by The tower was built in 1887-89, “and was 984 feet high. Mr. John M. Gray died at his late residence in this city last Monday a,nd his funeral took piace at Robert's Chap- el, Alexandria, Va., the following Wed- nesday Mr. E. S. Brown, of Kansas City, Mo., has received some flattering offers for the patent of his new stone inven- tion. Two colored women and a white man were fined $5 each for kissing in the streets of Milwaukee, Wis. Prof. Booker T. Washington will de- liver an address at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, March 10; subject, “The Advancement of the Human Race.” Commissioner MacFarland spent last Saturday inspecting the Government Hospital for the Insane, with the super- intendent, Dr. W. A. White. He ex-} pressed himself as being well pleased with the condition of the institution. Mrs. Marion Smailey, staff captain of the Washington Branch of the Salva- tion Army, in all her years of feeding unfortunates she had never seen! a hungrier set than last Monday. | It is said that Miss Hattie B. Sprague | of Smyrna, Del., granddgughter of the late Hon. Frederick Douglass, a “helpless cripple.” She is compelled to use crutches. Rev. W. P. Thirkield, president of} Howard University, addressed the Y. M, C. A. of Baltimore, Md., last Sun- day afternoon at the Metropolitan M. E. Church. It is said that the New Hope Negro | Baptist Church at St. Louis was th scene of a fight one night last week, in which razors and chairs were used. The revival at the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church closed last Sunday | | night after being in progress five weeks. Last Monday the Senate passed the} Gallinger bill appropriating $50,000 for | a temporary home for former soldiers, | sailors and marines in the District of | Columbia. Two Hand” suspects were caught in thirty- | two raids conducted by the State Police | Department of Pennsylvania last week. William Churchill, colored, who was jengaged in “biting his bull pup’s ears to shape them one day last month be- came angry when spectators objected to his method, and fired at them, He was given six years in the penitentiary. Ben Cotton, eighty years old, known “real old-time Negro min- ried last Sunday at New said is hundred and — seventy “Black | as one of the strels,” was bu York. He was born in Pawtucket, R. L, in 1827. The income of John D. Rockefeller from the Standard Oil Company alone y which is over *; a million dollars a month. BOLT OF BLACKS IN NORTHERN STATES PROMISED Stand Taken by the Bishops. Resolution Their Conference Up- braiding the Administration and the } War Secretary in Equal Terms— Say | the Solid Negro Vote of the North) Will Be Against Either of Them. Resolution of Béshops. at “We, the colored ministers of the A. M. E, the A. M. M. E. Churches of the United States, in conference assembled in the city of Washington, «dc in stern and coming Repubhean not to put in ither President Roosevelt or on pain of having ar- raise our voices warning to the Conven- for the hereby solemn National tion nomiantion presidency Secretary t, rayed against either of those gentlemen at the polls next November the almost solid colored vote of the North” The bishops of the African Method- ist Episcopal Church Tuesday passed a resolution vigorously opposing Secretary of War Taft, and asserting that the Negroes of the entire country would be instructed to vote against any candi- date named by the President. It was decided to make an effort in every State in the Union to contro] the Negro vote. In the States of New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, Del- aware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ida- ho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Missouri there are more than five hun- These five hun-j dred thousand voters are to be asked to cast their votes against Secretary of War Taft, or any candidate that the President may name. Advice to Southern Negroes. In all these States an effort will be made to organize State leagues. In the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, aKnsas, Louisiana, Mississip- pi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Vir- ginia where there are to be two hun- dred and eighty delegates elected to the National Convention, the Negroes have been advised to go into every county and State convention and demand rec- ognition, and where not accorded their }Mmain where he was ,and demanded that full rights they are advised to hold separate State conventions and to elect delegates. The gist of the resolution was this: “That we enter and here our solemn protest against the monstrous injustice done the ‘black’ battalion by President Roosevelt when he discharged its one hundred and sixty-seven brave men without honor or trial of any kind and merely on a suspicion of their guilt in the Brownsville affray, and against the hardly less wrong done these same men by the pliant and cowardly en- dorsement given by Mr. Secretary Taft to the huge injustice of the President Threat of Defeat at Polls. “That in consequence of the many sins of commission and omission of the Republican party against its faithful black contingent in the South, of its Lily White movement, and the counten- ance and support given that movement by the present Administration, of the unmerited and illegal punishment of the black battalion by the the approval of the same by his Secre- tary of War, we, the colored ministers! of the A. M E, the A. M. E. Zion, and the C. M. E. Churches of the Unit- ed. States, in conference assembled in the city of Washington, do hereby raise our voice in stern and solemn warning to the coming Republican National Con- vention put in nomination for the presidency cither President Roose- | velt or Secretary Taft, on pain of hav- | ing arrayed against either of those gen- tlemen at the polls next November the almost solid colored vote of the North.” } now President and not to COLOR LINE IN THE TREASURY. Some few days ago Mr. Lewis H. Douglass, son of the late Frederick Douglass( went to the lunch room in theTreasuryDepartment and seated him- self at of the tables and some time to be served. one waited He called to one of the corolerd wait- ers and asked be served. He was told by some person that he would have to go to another table prepared colored people. Mr. Douglass inform- ed the man that he was satisfied to re- to for he be served. He was how- ever, and immediately arose and called upon Secretary Cortelyou, but that gen- tleman was not in. It is the intention of Mr. Douglass, however, to lay the matter before the Secretary. refused, CAMPAIGN EXP. : One would judge by the last rule is- the Election Board that the ns in this city were going to a legislature, and members of Congress, There is no need of a finance committee for the purpose of electing two delegates from this city to the National Republican Convention. Is necessary to have three collect funds? sued by Republi elect a governor, it men to Pray, how much mon- ey does the Election Board believe that it take? The candidates will not tolerate any large assessment. It is not will necessary. The people, that is the voters, will pay the expenys the Board request that all qualified voters necessary Let be requested to pay to the Supervisors five (5) or ten (10) cents at the time they register their or judges of election names. The money thus collected will defray all the necessary expenses. The Board will then know just how much money is collected and the Republican be This not ft, but an unnecessary tax don't voters will satisfied. will only stop gra upon deleg intend to pay. The Bee is confident that the Repub- of this would prefer this method, and again will bring forth the best element of the the Committee will then get rid tes that they licans city then it voters in city. of the grafters and many of these po- licical sharks and vampires who float around the city claiming to have so many districts and voters in their vest | pockets The five- or ten-cent tax rate will be a kind of pol] tax levied upon all quali- fied voters. This method will elevate the election methods in this city, and insure a fair election that Mr. Sidney Bieber claims he is going to give. The Republicans intend to see that a fair election is held, and if Senator Gallen- ger’s bill becomes a law The Bee is quite certain that the Commissioners will give to the Republicans a fair election A CHIP OFF OF THE OLD BLOCK From the Philadelphia Tribune. West Chester, 12.—Chester Ar- thur Gordon, alias Arthur Gordon, son of Rey. Alexander Gordon, pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church, of West Philadelphia, was arrested in the city of Washington, D. C. Monday and brought back to West Chester by Sher- iff Garrett, of Chester county, under the serious charge of seduction. The prosecutrix is a comely and highly re- spectable young girl of West Philadel- phia, and a member of Dr. Gordon's church. As an aggravation the church is said to have expelled the girl and refused to expel the man. The case will come up for trial shortly, and young Gordon is under bail. Lawyer Everet: J. Waring is attorney for the young girl. The police of the Bronx, New York, have had dogs added to their force for § police duty. 4 STAIR IN POLITICS VERSATILE BUSINESS MAN EN TERS NEW FIELD. Is Theatrical Magnate, Financier and Publisher—Likeiy to Be Michi- gan Delegate-at-Large to G. O. P. Convention. New York—Wanted—The transfor- mation of a versatile business man into a Republican leader, Apply to Ed- ward D. Stair of New York and De- troit, newspaper proprietor, theatrical magnate and financier. This might well be the form of an- nouncement adopted by Mr. Stair if he desired to be entirely frank in the publication of his aspirations to be the delegate-at-large from Michigan to the Republican national convention. Now 48 years old, Mr. Stair has been stead- ily progressing in the business world since he was 13, when he began his fight for the attainment of his ambi- tions. In finance and business he has reached the goal at which he aimed. But it now appears that there is some- thing more which is essential to Mr. Stair’s happiness and to the real quintessence of bliss. The indefatigable little political bee has recently got extremely busy with the newspaper - threatrical - financial man. The bee has stung him once, to common knowledge, making Mr. Stair desirous of applying salve in the shape of the position of delegate-at-large. The bee has also begun to sting him, by re- port, a second time. If the bee com- pletes the last bit of work Mr. Stair will be seeking additional salve in the guise of even higher politi¢al honors. This, at any rate, is the gossip among men who announce that they are fa- miliar with the topic they are dis- cussing. If Mr. Siair succeeds as well in poli- H tics as he has in business he certainly will let the country know that another “live one” has come to the front. The business versatility and success of the New Yorker-Detroiter, whose business headquarters are in New York and res- idence in Detroit, are shown by the fact that he is: A newspaper man, being a large owner of the Detroit Free Press and of the Detroit Journal. A theatrical man, the firm of Stair & Havlin controlling 158 theaters in the United States and Canada. A financial man, being director of several banks and trust companies and a heavy dealer in real estate. And now he wants to shine with equal brillianey in a fourth firmament and become a political star of the first magnitude. He is a comparatively newcomer in the New York business world, having moved his headquarters here from De- troit only in 1900. It is in Michigan that he has spent most of his life, and it was in Michigan that he laid the basis of his fortune. Mr. Stair started his life struggle with newspaper ambitions only. Through all his suecess in the the- atical field he has been true to his first love and has always been connected with newspapers in one capacity or another. He is, moreover, more prom- inent as a thea@rical magnate than as a newspaper proprietor. His firm owns all or part of every popular- priced theater in the United States. Every theater Mr. Stair has bought, according to his admirers, has paid from the moment he took control of it, as though there were magic in his touch. In the theatrical world he is considered a marvel for another rea- son—that is, because, with all manner of temptations to take a prominent part in the gayeties of “great white way,” he leads a most abstemious life. The sparkle of champagne is not for him. Not even does he smoke. Neith- er does he chew. Whether he swears or not his biographers do not state. Morenci, Mich., was Mr. Stair’s birth- place, and it was here, at the age of 17, that he first beeame a newspaper proprietor, having established The Morenci Review. Later he published the Midland Review and the Maple Rapids Dispatch. Then, at 21, he turned westward. He edited the Daven- port Dispatch and then the Coopers- town Courier. Then he turned back again to Michigan. There he bought} the Livingston Republican and made it a power in state politics. Afterward he went into the theatrical game, at which he has thus far held a winning hand. The present announcement of the Stair candidacy for the post of dele- gate-at-large follows the withdrawal’ from the race of Assistant Secretary, of the Navy Trumar H. Newberry. AN INTERESTING REPLEVIN { CASE. The case of James H. Coleman, ad- ministrator, against Kate Collwell and Milton Colwell, which has been pend- ing for nearly a month in the court of Justice of the Peace R. H. Terrell, was decided Wednesday last in favor of the plaintiff Mr. Coleman. This proceeding was in replevin, in which Mr. Coleman, administrator of the estate of the late Mrs. Louise Cole- man Robain, sought to recover a valua- ble piano owned by the decedent, and which the defendant, Miss aKte Coll- well, held and refused to turn over to the administrator, claiming that deceas- ed gave it to her just before her death for services rendered, etc. The plaintiff was represented by At- torney W. C. Martin, and the defend- ants by Messrs. H. T. Winfield and ES L. & Siddons. At the trial, defendants’ counsel con- tended first that the deceased gave the piano to Miss Collwell as compensa- tion for services gendered as mifigse. Failing in this they contended that she held it as bailee, and as a last resort endeavored to show the piano was a gift to Miss Collwell, donatio mortis causa.” When Miss Collwell was call- the to testify, Attorney Martin objected on the ground that un- der the law she was incompetent as a witness. Justice Terrell heard her tes- timony conditionally, stating that if the legal point raised by Attorney Martin was correct that he would strike out her testimony. At the special instance of the court, defendants’ were requested to file a brief in support of their conten- tions. This was done Friday, the 14th ‘ instant, and a copy served upon Attor- ney Martin At the conclusion of the trial Justice Terrell observed that the question’ rais- ed by plaintiffs’ counsel was a very im- portant one in the case, and seldom raised. He took the case under aft- visement, and Wednesday last entered judgment for the plaintiff. ed to stand counsel The bill prepared for the old clerks the Government service will bring anxiety, and in many cases pov- erty, to thouands of the inhabitants of the National Capital. For the first time under Republican new in administration there are free soup hous- in every industrial center. E. W. Scott, private secretary to Dr. Booker T. Washington, delivered an address at the session of the National Negro Business League at the A, M. E. Church, Philadelphia, Tuesday eve+ ning recently At the annual banquet of the Amer- ican Bakers’ Association, given in New York, aJnuary 29, when the toast was )given out for the President, the four j hundred arose and drank the toast in + profound silence. The toastmaster then j thanked them for their magnificent ex- {pression of loyalty. When the name of J. P. Morgan was called their were cheerse and waving of napkins. Mrs. Lucy A. eJfferson, of Richmond, Va., mother of Dr. E. R. and Thomas Jefferson, was buried last week. The great feud of Hargis vs. McCoy of Kentucky started over a three-dollar es shoat. In an address delivered to a big audi- ence at the Bethel A. M. E. Church of Philadelphia, Booker T., in part synop- sis of his address, cites Joe Gans as an example because he has faith in himself; also that we should stop the old tale, viz., we belong to a downtrodden race and say “I belong to an uplifted race,” and that we have done well ‘ years in forty In Italy thirty percent of the people can neither read nor write; Russia seventy-five 3 American in percent ;in the South countries, eighty-six Percent, and after forty years of freedom fifty- seven percent of American Negroes can read and write. Secretaries Cortelyou have forwarded and Garfield Congress a letter requesting an addition of $2,870 per an- num for salaries of the professors at Howard University. _ The organized militia of the United Sattes numbers 107,272 men. New York, heads the list, with 14,750; Pennsylva- ma, second, with 9,791; New Mexic the smallest, with 272. The amounts) appropriated last year for the mainten-; ance was $4,941,889. The fortieth annual encampment o: tle Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., was held last Wednesday at the G. A. R, Hall. : The Independent Suffrage League of the District of Columbia are fixing up plans to try to have suffrage for the District of Columbia If the question of the Negro prob- lem was taken out of politics the whole ‘ country would be idle The whites of the United States (with exceptions) take up their time in mak- ing laws to keep the Negro straight while they do the devilment. For illus- tration, read the various papers publish- ed in the United States. Retribution is bound to follow. to Reaé The Bee. Stewart, of the law firm of Rafston % :