The Washington Bee Newspaper, March 7, 1908, Page 4

4 PUBLISHED J 1100 Eye St. N. W.. Wasnington, D. C. —— W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washing- ton, D. C., as second-class mail matter. fine Pee ea SAU a ESTABLISHED 1880. We pee eS TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance....-+ Six months ...---++++++ 50 .20 Three months ... Subscriptien monthly Why is the colored press so si- lent on these discrimination¢? Why should colored Americans seek company that discriminates against them? Throughout the South the lily white officeholders are against colored Republicans and are doing all in their power to eliminatte them from active par- ticipation in politics, If there is any manhood in col- ered Americans they should dem- onstrate it. They should not al- low themselves to be used and then cast aside like so much trash. The colored vote in the coming election will be needed. The black man in the South has a duty to peéform and, fie should perform it without fear or favor. Today a Douglass and Langston are needed. Negro leadership of today is cowardly to some, extent. The recent meeting of the bish- ops showed conclusively that the eyes of colored Americans are be- ing opened slowly but surely. The question now is, however, Is the Negro needed? SENATOR CHANDLER’S LETTER. There is no man in this country more in the confidence of the peo- ple than ex-Senator William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire. Mr. Chandler has always been a loyal Republican and a true Am- erican. He has always believed in ‘ fair play for white and black Re- publicans alike. There is no man more liked by the common people than Senator Chandler. The Bee means by the common people, those who are the bone and sinew of the republic, His defense of Southern Repub- licans is manly and like the man. Mr. Chandler takes no backward steps, and neither does he pick his man. His letter in another col- umn of The Bee is an evidence of loyalty to the Republican party South. Senator Chandler is for Senator La Follette. He must be a man who can be trusted because he has the endorsement of Mr. Chandler. TWO WHITE MEN. There will be an attempt to send white men to the National Republican Convention. Colored Republicans should be on the look- out and see that the will of the majority is carried out. If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Republicans that an attempt will be made to elect two white men, then the colored Republicans should see that two colored delegates are elect- ed and a colored man placed on the National Committee. t two A SELL OUT? There is a rumor afloat that one IS THE NEGRO WANTED? Existing conditions seem to point committees will be fairly representative | nomination today instead of Mr. bodies, and they will give all kinds of| Follette’s, I should be intensely active #0 the fact “that tie.colored & m-! Republicans, black and white, reason-| to change the method of conducting his erican is not wanted in the Amer- ican body politic, so far as Republi- cans are concerned. Cries come up from the South that the lily white officeholders in that section have systematically organized against colored Republicans. It also seems that the Administration is doing nothing to stop it. That being a fact, it looks as if the Administra- tion is a party to it. Remove John C. Nalle from the schools, All the bosses have not been re- moved from the schools as yet. A political vagrancy law will be enacted. Perhaps Chairman Bieber thinks ithat there is a gold mine in sight. The Editor of The Bee will be in the fight to win, and not to be counted out. Th next ticket the Editor launch- es will be a sticker and the win- ner. The banquet to Auditor Tyler the other evening gave the Ad- ministration straddle. forces a chance to The Bee extends its codolences to Dr, Bailey. “Sorrow could ney- er revive the dead, so we weep be- Catlse we weep in vain.” — Sieber, without au- thority, wants each candidate to put up $350. He thinks that he is running a bank, no doubt. Chairman Captain Oyster, the colored schools wii! not be tranquil until the obstructors are removed. The Dolliver bill willbe defeat- ed. — There has been an exit of the local statesmen. They are leaving the sinking ship and making their way to Candidates Horner and Flathers. ee ate THE BEE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW How many colored delegates will be in the next Republican convention. If there are colored delegates, if any will vote for Senator Foraker, If C. J. Perry, of the Philadelphia Tribune, ever took a vacation when he was a member of the Council. When J. Douglass Wetmore now. stands If the colored race is in need of a leader. How many Negro electors will sup- port Mr. Taft jf he is nominated. lf Mr. Taft and Bryan are nominat- ed, which will colored Americans sup- port. How will colored Republicans North vote in the next election. Who will go on the National Com- mittee if the Burt ticket is elected. THE BEE WOULD LIKE TO SEE District Republicians united. More manhood among colored Am- ericans. A strong National selected. { The nerves of District Republicans soothed. Less worry about the Chase ticket. Five thousand more subscribers by the end of the year. A national testimonial to Prof. Book- er T, Washington. Preachers keep out of politics. Dr. Corrothers made a bishop, ee WOULD AVOID PARTY SPLITS. Under such a system as the above there will be no splits in the Repubci- can party of the South on delegates to the National Convention or other mat- ters. The question at once arises, How shall there be obtained a State commit- tee of from go to 100 which wil] be so completely a representative body that jits decisions will be submitted to by the \party in the State? Here, is where hte power of the Administration should be exerted: Instead of making appoint- ments according to the recommendation Committee man of the many tickets in the field]og two or three individuals, whether made an effort to sell out this week. It is now claimed that the two white candidates will get off the ticket. There is another candidate who has declared that he wants to go to the convention to make a deal. Within a few days there will be all kinds of a smash-up in the slates. The fight is now interest- ing, and at any moment someone will be on the cooling board. Republicans or Democrats, selected by the Administration, the State commit- tee should have the privilege of rec- ommendation, and the power of the Administration should only be exerted to secure an honest, and able commit- tee, which will fairly represent the Re- publican party of the State. This pow- er of the Administration can be exerted without creating friction. It would sel- dom be exerted, and would only slightly be exerted at any time. The State con- ventions which will appoint the State able representation on the State com-| canvass at the South. The bold proc- mittees. The administration will have’ lamation of a purpose to contro! the no trouble in inducing the conventions} convention by Southern delegates secur- to place upon the State committees the. ed through the detail of Mr. “Hitchcock very best Republicans there are in the; to go South and capture them by ap- States, and there is no Southern State: peals to the present Federal officchold- in which there are not Republicans good] ers, and to the white Republicans and enough for a State committee, if they | the white Democrats who may want fu- are encouraged to go to the State con-! ture office, while there is ostracism of vention, and to accept places upon the’ all the colored people of the South, State committee. , would, if it were to meet with success “at the National Convention, most likely SENATOR CHANDLER'S PLAN. , be followed by defeat at the polls. March 10, 1903. — Memorandum About Southern Politics. The condition of things at the South nomination made in 1908, as Mr. Hanna so far as the Republican party is con- HONOR TO MR. WASHINGTON. From the Buxton Gazette. The editor of the Washington Bee has suggested that the colored people cerned is unsatisfactory, and there is|of this country should tender to Dr. reat dissatisfaction on tie part of the Southern Republicans with the Admin- istration. Without specifically the raesons for that dissatisfaction, or Booker T. Washington a testimonial by a public demonstration in Convention stating| Hall in Washington next May. We believe that the idea is a good considering whether they are just or] one and that if carried out in the proper unjust, there is a very simple remedy which should be applied, and none oth- er will answer the purpose. The habit of selecting two or three spirit it will result in good for the race, Dr. Washington does not need it or desire it for any personal advantage. men in a Southern State as referees| His fame is world wide and his cup of who shall control the whole Federal patronage within the State is intolerable to the mass of the Republicans, be that mass few or many. It is unbearable when the persons selected to act as ref- erees are Democrats. There should be substituted for this unwise system the recognition in each State of the Republican State commit- tee. This should ge a large commit- tee — not less than fifty, sometimes as many as 100. The administration should recognize in making appointments a ma- jority of this committee, or may well require a two-chircf majority. The whole committee need not, by a vote of a majority or two-thirds of its members, decide upon each of its recommenda- tions; it may appoint an executive com- mittee, which will make ther ecom- mendations, but this executive commit- tee must itself be the honest product of a majority or two-thirds vote of the whole committee, which must feel entirely free at any time to assemble and give directions to its executive com™ mittee. CARNEGIE HOSPITAL NEWEST ADDITION Branch Work of Avery College Re- ceives Endorsement of Iron King. From the Pittsburg Times. There is a new hospital in Pittsburgh. It is to be known as “The Carnegie Hospital.” It is connegted with the Avery College Training School at Av- ery and Nelson streets, North Side, and authority for the use of the name of Andrew Carnegie, has been received by letter. Joseph D. Mahoney, superin- tendent of the college and _ training school, leaves this morning for the East where he will remain for several days in conference with representatives of Mr. Carnegie, discussing necessary changes is operating, prior to the receipt of Mr, Carnegie’l full endorsement. One of the stipulations to the use of Mr. Carnegie’s name and receipt of his full approval! is the appointment of Dr. Johy A. Brashear as a member of the board of trustees. Dr. Brashear was present last night at the college on the occasion of the mid-winter exhibition of work in company with John D.Cher- ry, Dr.G. G.Turfiey, and Superintendent Mahoney. The college has been in existence for several years and has been doing a splendid work in the training depart- ment. Here young women are taught to sew and do millinery work, and the young men are taught tailoring and other useful trades. There is a mem- bership at present of three hundred, some of whom are dormitory students. The hospital which at present consists of two wards, a nurses’ room and op- erating room, has just been opened an@| grazing his head. there all cases, with the exception for the presence of contagious diseases, will be received and treated. NO NEED OF PLAN IN 1904. There was no occasion to use the convenient power thus deliberately or- ganized in the National Cofvention of 1904, because there was no contest therein over the presidential nomina- tion. If there had been a contest, the exercise by a few men of the control of the Southern delegates in 4mitation of Mr. Hanna’s plan of 1896 would hav® been resisted, and the prediction made by me of contests in nearly all the Southern States would have.sbeen ful- filled. It has been reserved for a period four years later to see the legitimate, logical, and necessary result of the policy of destroying Republican organiaztion in the Southern States. It is a question that has been weighing upon me since 1896, and the time came, as I thought, for me to speak, whether my “inuflence might be much or little. I was bound to do this, whateer my feelings might be in reference to the presidential nom- ination, for I should have felt that a succeeded in making the nomination of 1896, would be followed by defeat. History often repeats itself as to methods, but frequently fails as to re- sults. If I were in favor of Mr. Taft's honor is full to overflowing. His work stands on the solid rock of its own worth and merit. He is not seeking those things that find expression only in vani:y and notoriety. But the race which he represents does need to recognize the leadership of a man that has worked so wisely in their behalf. We need to show to the world that we will follow a sensible and con- servative leader. Dr, Washington now stands for a cause that is greater than himself — the cause of human progress for all men — and it is to this cause that we lend our aid when we honor the man who is today one of its most earnest acd effective advocates. ATTORNEY GREEN’S GREAT LEAGUE VICTORY. !From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Overwhelmed when a jury, after 24 hours’ deliberation, found Wade Leigh, on trial for first degree murder, guilty ef assault and battery, Judge Phillips yesterday scored the jurymen unspar- ingly. It was thought at 3.30 yesterday afternoon that the jurors would not be able to agree, having been out since 3 Thursday, and Leigh was on the point of pleading guilty to manslaughter, pun- ishable with twenty years, when the gong rang, announcing that the jurors had reached a verdict. . Slowly the twelve filed into the box. Criminal Court Clerk Flick called the roli, then read their verdict, “guilty of assault and battery.” While the pris- oner, happy sprang to shake each juror by the hand his attorney John P. Green made a speech of thanks. Prosecutor Lieghley followed with his gratitude,but irony was apparent in his words. Judge Phillips sat flushed and motionless on the bench until these ceremonies ended, then he launched forth: “This verdict ts a miscarriage of justice,” he said. “It is preposterous. If such were the rule, we might as well have no more law, shut up our court houses.” As the prisoner walked trembling to his desk, the judge said that from the facts the accused him- self conceded to be true, he wa@ logi- cally guilty of murder in the first de- gree. Instead of death in the electric ‘chair, Leigh escaped with a work house sentence of six months and a fine of $200 and costs. Wade Leigh, a Negro about twenty- five, was put on trial ten days ago for the shooting of Vernon Love, another Negro, in a saloon on East Ninth street at nine in the evening of December 17. Leigh’s witnesses testified in the course of the trial that Love, who had a “bad man” reputation, after @ quarrel, way- laid Leigh outside a saloon at 7.30 that night and hurled two bottles at him, Two hours after Leigh found himself in another saloon forther down the street; Love follow- ed. Leigh says Love flashed a knife; Leigh fired; his opponent fell dead. At three o'clock Thursday Judge Phillips was overcome by the verdict. Then he told Leigh to rise, and began: “This verdict is preposterous. I can- not account for it; that a jury of 12 intelligent men should hold you guilty of so light a charge after they heard the evidence in this case is to me un- accountable. “From the facts you yourself admit- and from ‘your movements that night, the only logical, iational conclsuion is that you are guil- ty of murder in the first degree. Such a verdict may well inspire our citizens with a feeling of insecurity and encour- age the commission of high crime. It is a miscarriage of justice.” The jurymen, silent, filed out of the room. The work house sentence, $200, ccsts and six months will keep the pris- oner many years in the institution, if worked out; the length of time depends upon the total costs in the case. WILL THE BEE STOP AND READ? From the Cadiz Informer. Editor Chase is a splendid writer, but when he gets on the preachers for getting on the right side of moral ques- tions we cite him to read the follow- ing Scriptures: Jeremiah, xxxv, where) The official publication of the Post explanation of your tt is shown that God gives his unquali- fied endowment to and pronounced His blessings upon the Rechabites because they were a prohibition people, neither making nor allowing the use of ‘the hesty ‘stuff.” li some preachers drink whisky, then doubtless there are whisky-drinking Preachers. God said there would be men who were lovers of flesh ang of worldly pleasure. But back to the word of God. Passages of the following may be multiplied: “Wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” Prov. i, 20. “Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it givgh its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright, at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” Proy. xxiii, 31, 32. “Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest the bottle to him and makets him drunk.” Also, Matt. ii, 15. “No drunkard shall in- herit the Knigdom of God.” I. Cor., vi, 6, 10. The pastors and preachers who drink whisky set a very bad example to their ; churches. Wonder is that those church- es do not find sober pastors and preach- ers who cay do without their dram. And save us from this lecture of our co-editor Chase. Christ does not approve of whisky drinking church members any more than He approves of whisky drinking pasiors and preachers. Just the thought of Jesus patronizing a modern saloon is sacrilegious. HOSANNAS AND, ANATHE- MAS. From the South African Spectator. From the Hosannas, ‘to crucify him,” is with the practical Americans, an easy transition, and is determinable largely by the subtle influence of the “Aimighty and the recipient of the adulatory ac- claims today may become the victim of the popular indigantion tomorrow. It is related of President Roosevelt that on being congratulated some time ago by a friend on the popularity he had attained, he predicted that should a pe-| riod of hard times visit the coutnry he would be the most unpopular of presi- dents. And the prediction would ap- pear to be on the threshold of fulfil- ment. Already a number of newspa- pers are attacking him, one attributes his saying as having ‘turned on the light” to “the egotism of a very ag- gressive nature.” Others are no less outspoken and to the verge of brutal plainness, all being excited by the finan- cial panic which followed the expos- ures of the President, and it would now appear that his decision that he would under no circumstances accept the nom- ination for a third time, was dictated by the ripest of wisdom, for Roosevelt as presidcnt in 1908 is an impossibility. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS. Continued from page 1. It is thought that the Jamestown Ex- position grounds will be purchased by he Government and be used by the United States as a naval and coaling station. Wu Ting Fang, the new Chinese min- ister to the United States, has arrived in this city. Mrs. Louisa Jacckson, who was here visiting her mother, has returned to Philadelphia. Mr, E. Hubert made a visit to rela tives and friends at his old home, Wil- mington, Del., a week or so ago. The many friends of Mr. T. M. Dent made his recent visit to Savannah, Ga., one filled with pleasure. Mrs. E. Cole returned to Baltimore last week, pleased with her visit to this city. Mr. Calvin H Slaughter and Miss Dora King, both of this city, who were quietly married a few weeks ago, have returned from their wedding trip ta Boston and other Northern cities. Miss Sallie Burkes, of Charleston, W. Va. has been the guest of friends here. Miss Ida Dean, of Dayton, has ar- rived in this city and expects to remain some time. The many friends of Mrs. Patten, the wife of Lawyer E. A. Patten, of 1731 Twelfth street, are glad to know that he is rapidly recovering, and hope she will soon be herself again. Mrs. Maggie Henderson, of Jefferson City, Mo. expects to remain in this ciyt until the winter is past There seems to be no truth in the re- port that Miss Clara Sterling, a teacher in the Tuscarwas County Home, at Cleveland, drove a tack through the tongue of one pf her pupils. The Interstate Commerce Commssion has decided by a unanimous vote to deny petitions for the extension of time within which to comply with the so- called hours of service law, the nine- hour law. Although a law on the statute book says that when a new State is admitted into the Union a star representing the State shall be added to the American flag on July 4th succeeding its admis- sion to the Union, that law was violat- ed last Monday by the House of Rep- resentatives. All the supply of forty- five-star flags having run out, a forty- six-star flag was raised at the House end of the Capitol. office says that one reason the mails are delayed is because names of residents are sometimes omitted in the City Di. Tectory. Several prominent residents of thie city who have been seriously ill for the past few days are reported as being much improved. Inquiry into the competitive methods of the Standard Oit Company was con- tinued last Monday in the suit of the Government against the company. A REVIEW AND THE OUTLOOK. At a recent meeting of the Sixteenth District’ Republican Club the follow- ing instructive address relative to con- duct of the members, was made by tke president, William Tibbs: That order- ly conduct should at all times be ob- served by organiaztions; that the right and interest should be both individu- ally as well as collectively displayed im the upbuilding of the colored people as a race. . He declared that the colored man’s chances were never brighter, but that it depended largely on their cool judg- ment, careful conduct and forcefut character. That it was entirely useless to expect his white brethren to caress him, or pretend that he was a good citizen when he really considered his qualifications to the contrary. He deplored the lack of interest dis- played by the colored people in many ways. Subjects of vital importance are rele gated to the background, while subjects of little corcern are usually agitated. He spoke at some length on the pres- ent racial conditions that were in their power to eliminate or cause such actiom to be taken that would bring about the desired effect. He cautioned his hearers against being too hasty in selecting their local candi- dates in the present campaign. He pointed out the necessity of se- lecting such men who not only regard themselves, but have the interest, and the people, all districts, and all the peo- ples, regardless of color, creed, or pre- vious conditions of servitude, for the benefit of perpetual organization all dis- trict leaders should recognize as such that district organizations may be main- tained. That district organizations should unite, and devote their undivided at- tention toward defeating the undesirable element of candidates, who are seeking election through hypocrisy and deceit, He said it was time ethat colored men should be and are capable of se- lecting adequate representatives, and with aptience and at the right time such men would be selected. There are undesirable men in the field whose honor and integrity were questionable, and at the proper time the names of these campaign sharks now at large will be known to every mem- ber of the club. ‘These men conspire and a!l of their concerted effortss to raise capital thru their colored constituents only to ignore them when their votes and their pres- ence at meetings are no longer in de- mand. It may be noted by many the jealous care former campaign favorites have used to defend the just distribu- tion of acquired inuflence among the masses of their campaign supporters, choosing to recognize only a few fa- vorites. The president closed by cautioning his hearers against listening to misrep- resented campaign angels in disguise. He advised the members to make an individual as well as a collective stren- uous fight to defeat the conspirators of 1908. REGISTER VERNON YORK. The Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of the United States Treasury, spoke at the Bethel A. M. E. Church, in New York city. Rev. R. C. Ransom, pastor, on th eevening of February 27; sub- ject, “The Negro in .America.” The church was filled to overflowing by an enthusiastic audience, who fre- quently broke into vigorous applause as the Register rounded his eloquent periods. Seated on the platform were Gov. P_ B S. Pinchback, Attorney J. Doug- lass Wetmore, Dr. H. B. Parks, R. D. Stinson,and Attorneys Frazier and Cur- tus. At the conclusion of his speech the Register was given an ovation by the people, who pressed forward to meet him. On the following day he was the guest at a dinner party given by Attor- ney A. C. Cowan and wife, where he met many of the prominent people of New York and Brooklyn. Later in the evening a banquet was tendered him at the Marshall Hotel, Hon. Charles W. Anderson acting as the toastmaster. Among those who re- sponded to toasts were Messrs. J.Doug- lass Wetmore, Gilchrist Stewart, James Curtis, Fred Moore, P. A. Peyton, Dr. H. B. Parks and the Rey. R. C. Ran- som. IN NEW Suppose the President in his efforts to find out why the wages of railroad men have been cut should discover that his policies are responsible, will he say so to the country?