The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 1, 1908, Page 4

PUBLISHEE #2 1109 Eye St., N. W. Wasnington, 2c. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washing- ton, D. C., as second-class be matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...... $2.00 ze Out of the ninet ys; 1 Sivr qnantlts.c. 0 o> os caxcemesne noo SOD ut of the ss y thou ani colored people in this city there is Three-B0ths <2 <- vcceverrecssoees -50 : r not a representative place been Subscription monthly ...-......-.- 20] siven to them. Our local govern- Z ment is filled with persons who ae mets se pee “have no interest in our local affairs MR. CHCOCK = "yo 2 i T ‘ K IS CER- at all. Year in and year out col- Mr. LH ee ; fored citizens are being taxed upon Mr. Fran itchcock is cer- 1 ; » FHtCHCOCK 1S Cel-t real and personal property. What he has that the colc tain for the Republican ticket, Just I if tain, been published red vote cer= how he figures this out The Bee is unable to state The attack that Rev. Waldron is making is having its effect with the colored voters in the States which must be carried to make the election of Mr. Taft certain, The Bee will not deceive the party by making false tements or by misrepresenting the present condition of the voters. The col- ored voters are dissatisfied, and there is no use of attempting to hide it. This talk that the c vote is for the Republican party and that it has no place to g to the Republican party is all Some say that they will head off the “tirade” of the anti-Taft col ored opposition, Just how it is tc be headed off The Bee is conjec- turing. Sitting quiet will not do It. Mr. Hitchcock may have a meth- od unseen by The Bee and those are doing the kicking. gister Vernon suggests the propriety of starting a newspaper. Who is going to finance it? Will he? If so, The Bee is confident that he will be indebted to the Gov- ernment at the close of the «am- paign. It is a very easy matter for persons to suggest to those who have had life experience in news- paper work how to run a newspa- per and how to “stem the tide” of this colored revolt; but when they attempt it they will find out that the newspaper will exhaust all the funds that the so-called advocates of Mr. Taft can secure. The colored editor wants to know No man for his the Gov- how he is to be benefited. running for an office health. No man under ernment is working for his health is Politics has been made a business proposition. The average colored American is learning some sense. ger sentiment with him, colored v« is waiting to see how he is to be benefited. before he He is grateful when his interest is guarded. Platforms amount It is no lo and the politicians know moves. to tc Parties make platforms, but how many adhere to them. The age of sentimentality has long since pass- I a maxim in is There ed away law, is made IS THE N cert SAFE? GRO nothing. “Nothing is certain until it have been threatened or he may not have been. Why di = names of the office 1 le ers who ion that t him more harm n event of its success than it =n Mr. Cleveland came into What has the Republican power to protect the colored party d voter from being disfranchised inj the South? The Democratic gov- ernor of Maryland stated to Rev. Corrothers, a few days ago if the colored vote di- vide the Democratic party would be less hostile to him. ym The colored man is barred fre everything. Take our local gov- for i nce, to. which The Bee made brief mention last reward do they receive? The Bee speaking honestly and candidly f > ) The same ms as to present condi tions which exist in this city obtain the where Republicans control. White Republican Ame Democrats ‘mands fair treatment, and if | does not receive it he will go where } throughout country s seem to be against the 1 as much as the colored ar The colored man de- rae his conscience dictates. Under existing conditions is the | Negro se ? { TAFT’S SPEECH CLEAR. mistaking the lan- tz There no guage used by Judge Taft in re- is m in his race ques acceptance. No man ev- out more strongly and ore clearly in fa- of and enforcement zhts of col- laws passed to protect the r ored men. There is a clear, bell like ring to Mr. Taift’s statement of his position on the rights of the colored in his speech deliv- ered at Cincinnati 7 Here- as been charged by Mr. voter, lay. tofore Taft's Negro that he was not square on the race it critics and defamers question, Heretofore even some of his the have guage was not that of misinterpretation, and al d the question was not friends a race it was that the jud manner in which he disc just satisfactory. That speech de- is possible of no misinterpretaf The The words are simple, but understandingly used. He de- clares, with all the force possible, and as plain as it is possible for an American, and friend, to make himself, that he is in favor of the enforcement of the laws for the protection of the colored voter. He in spirit and livered Tuesday mn. language is strong. wants them enforce in letter. He uses no sentences of doubtful meaning. He straddles no point. He comes out so boldly, so clearly, so strongly, that he serves notice on the bourbon South that, whe nelected president, he will use his power and influence for the enforcement of every law made to protect the son of Ham. It may some of Mr. Taft’s Negro critics crazy, trying to find a way to make his positive stand a negative stand, but the great masses, the busy, hustling Negroes who are building for themselves and their race, will lay back in su-1 The consensus Of opinion is that preme contentment after reading the colored American vote is safe] Mr, Taft’s reference to the en- for Mr. Taft. Never in the his-| fore t of the amendments to tory of the Repu n party has|the Constitution. there been such disaffection among] There can now be no doubt as colored American voters. The}to where Judge Taft stands on the natural presumption among certain] Tace qu n. He is with us and Republican politicians is that the| for colored voter will adhere to his old principles, notwithstanding the fact that he has been ill treated by the party to which he has been allied] E. K. Cooper wrote to a Boston Negroes draw salaries aggregating since his emancipation. The breach is getting wider and there colored voter. Rev. Waldron may and that, too, beyond the peradventure of a doubt. HE SERVED THE NEGRO. Some enemy of the late Editor (Mass. )paper and stated the con- dition in which Editor Cooper died. nothing done by, Republi-| Any colored editor, no matter who here in Washington, but scattered can managers to close this breach.] he may be, will die in poverty, no] among the hundreds of tradesmen. Talk will not do anything. Threats| matter what he may do, if he de-]Is this amount of money worth will not appease the anger of the| pends on his people to sustain his| bidding f paper. ‘t he give | declared that they wanted a clean paper. a clean, come tv} Cooper’s only Democraticjto make statesmen out | bination The Negroes of Washington Editor Cooper gave them rht Editor ault was his efforts| of office scullions, great philosophers out of bootblacks, and presidents out of brig journal. Negro managers, Yes; he may have died poor, but he had a greater and nobler mind nd more sympathetic heart than those who have endeavored to tra- duce him. If those persons who have a It is no disgrace to die pox spoken so unkindly of him had pat | him he the what they owe perhaps would not have been left to mercy of his traducers. Editor Cooper’s life has been one of ht to feel proud, notwithstanding his alleged | which race any faults. If he owed debts it was because the race whose cause he espoused is indebted to him. Un- doubtedly his books show hundreds of dollars for subscrip- tions to his paper, the Colored Am-' due him erican, The colored éditor is never giv- en credit for what he does_for his} people. The colored American is} always damned by his people for| what he does for them. The col- ored man loves the man, race or party that curses him. Let the individual who has en- Jeavored to traduce Editor Cooper start a paper, and before the pub- lication of the first issue he will wish that himself and the col Hades. exceptions, lored Of but Americans were in course, there are these exceptions are not sufficient € or to encourage the colored continue publishing his paper in behalf of his people. AN ELECTIVE GOVERN- MENT. It will be the disposition of the next Congress to change the pres ent form of government. The Bee has always maintained that an elec- tive government will be more pref- erable this com- ational qualification. | to the people in munity. There should be a erty and edu which would guarantee greater protection to the people. A com-| fications of the two quali the men to govern the people. will insure election of good The persons to be voted for should be persons of property as well. Aside from the property qualification,the sufficient amount of intelligence to cast vote intelligently. A man may have voter should possess a property and not the intelligence to vote. Hence, both are requisite. There should be a mayor, and a representative in Congress. The should be given the power to appoint a a governor or executive white and a colored superintendent of schools and a Board of Educa- tion of seven reputable citizens. This Board of should be paid a salary with the duties performed. duties of the Board of Education should be well defined. Teachers should be given better protection Education commensurate The and none should be dismissed with- out first having been given a trial by a full board. Charges involving immoral] con- duct on the part of teachers and employes in the schools should be stigated behind closed doors. Such an investigation would keep down scandals in the schools. There is every reason to believe thatCon- 's of su- inv gress will abolish the office pervising principals. Investigation of th down of certain teachers will re ceive full consideration. A great deal of favoritism and prejudice will be shown to have existed in the Committee of Supervision and Marking. WORTH ADVERTISING FOR There are 5,499 Negroes em- ployed here in Washington by the Government alone, and these 5499 e marking $3,044,404. These more than three millions of dollars are spent right jhis duties as president, in order to city would refuse to get the big end of it did they but realize how much money the Negroes are real- ly spending. » Bee is the only Negro publication in this city. Now It stands without a rival or competitor, and covers the field like a blanket. li a few of the merchants in this c will patronizethe advertising umns of The Bee, presenting the] attractive bargains they may have these Negroes — these 5,499 Ne- groes who draw annually from the Government over three millions of dollars — will assume that by -pat- |ronizing a publication edited and operated by one of their race that such firms desiré and deserve their patronage. And such firms will} receive the bulk of these over three millions of dollars received and spent by the Negroes of Washing- ton. What clothing stores, what fur- good stores of niture stores, what other and what lines business will now make an effort to divert to themselves these over three mill- ions of dollars spent by Was ton Negroes by advertising in The Bee. Place your advertising in The Bee and watch these 5,499 appre- ciative Negroes spend their over! three millions of dollars with Now The Bee, the newspaper that goes in is the time to advertise sh- into every Negro home in Wa ington. Remember, merchants of Washington, it’s what advertising pays you, not what it costs. PRESID T SCARBOROUGH The new president of Wilber- force University, Professor Scar- W barough, was in the city a fe days last week, but could not re- the temptation of submitting to a polit sist interview before hef left town. Now The Bee, in all sincerity, and with an eye single to the s%c cess of Wilberforce University and lent, wishes to cau- her new presi tion Professor Scarborough about dabbling in politics. He has been elected president of a Negro just college that is in bad financial con- dition. It will require all his time and then same more, to devote to make the college what it should be and prevent its remaining in the He | rut into which it has fallen. time to play will have no and the best thing he can do is to That's 1 occu-; let politics severely alome. been one trouble with the pants, the recent occupants, of that position, They have neglected the institution for politics. When Professor Scarborough has achieved a reputation as a success- ful president; when he has lifted his college out of debt, and rehabil- itated the school, he may have a little time to play politics; but he is too new now, and the responsi- bility that rests upon him is’ too; great to even snatch one minute of y’s time to discuss oF the univer dabble in politics. Stick to Wilberforce, Professor ! At least until the old school recov- ers from her aggravated attack of financialitis. FORAKER AND THE NEGRO The Republicans of Ohio may think that they are playing good politics by throwing Senator For- aker overboard. They never made| such another blunder. There are some colored men in this country who will vote the Republican ticket no matter what you may do to them. A majority of colored Am- ericans in this country are deter- mined to follow Senator,Foraker, no, matter what the conditions are. | If Senator Foraker is eliminated} from Ohio politics, every sensible voting colored man will yote the Democratic ticket. The Bee is a Republican organ, but it cannot see its friend and the friend of the race thrown aside because he cham- pioned the cause of the colored sol- diers. This is a republic and the people under its Constitution are entitled to freedom of speech. The Negro is with Foraker; whichever way is ore Tt certainly and not even the largest stores in this he goes the Negro will go. Some will go any way. j committee may select. HON. FRANK D. DANCY THE LATE HON. FRANK D DANCY, OF TARBORO, N. C Vi present to The Bee readers a Sf id Fon. Frank D. Dancy, of Tarboro, N. C., the deceased brother of Recorder John (€ Dancy. This is the first time his cut has appeared since his death last fall. It represents him in the prime of his manhood, when he was a State Senator in North Carolina. He was at different times town commissioner, commissioner, member of the Board, State Senator, and of Tarboro, one of the first colored mayors in the United Stat ie shrewd, county School mayor was active in politics, and leader In later years he gave and a successful party in his best days. his whole time to business life, accumulated a fair competence in his! He eighth year of his age native town. died in the MR. ELMER DOVER. One of the best men in the Re- in publican party and man whom colored Americans have con- fidence Mr, Elmer I retary of the National Republican t Mr. is Jover, sec- Dover Committee. v be objectionable to men on the Na- ional Republican Committee, but in the opinion of The Bee, Mr Dover classes of voters than any man the As a mat is more popular with all ter of fact Mr. Dover is an affable man, who is possessed if power to at ference how busy he is, he always has time to see the most humble Such a man is invaluable that when elected president, he citizen. in this campaign WHO GOT IT The New York Age, last week asked the question, What Negro received the three thousand dollars for agitating the Brownsville mat- ter? We always had a sneaking suspicion that someone was being pai Now, who did get that three thousand dollars? And now there is a painful silence. Nobody wants It may be to or will “fess up.” that The Age will give name, date and place. Look out for the ex- piosion. THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Jurisdiction of Maryland and Wash- ington Combine with Main Body. Long Cherished Dream of Late Supreme Chancellor Starks Final- ly Realized — Officers and Social Festivities. The Maryland and District of Co- lumbia Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of the Eastern and West- ern Hemispheres were in session on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at Odd Fellows’ Hall, 1606 K street northwest. The principal feature of the first day was a grand street pa- rade, with five hundred Knights in line, covering the main thoroughfares of the city and presenting a hand- some appearance. Upon the recom- mendation of Grand Chancellor Geo. A. Watty it was decided to cast the fot of this branch of Pythians with the larger wing of the two Supreme Lodges of colored Pythians, thus re alizing the fondest dream of the late Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks, who died before he could see’the re- sult of his labors in actual operation, The per capita tax was increased from 12 to 15 cents The folld new lodges were reported: St. Luke’s, East New Mar- ket; Alpha, Frederick; Liberty isbury; S. W. Starks, Baltimore; Metropolitan and Potomac Lodges, of Washington The address of welcome was de- livered by Commissioner H. B. F, Macfar! and eloquent responses were’ made by Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, of this city, and C. F. Me- Mechen, of timore. Supreme Chancellor S. W. Green, of New Or- lear was present, and delivered a stirring address, in which he stated |that the Order has a membership of |one hundred and sixty thousand, and jis one of the largest among colored peop’e Officers were elected as follows: George A. Watty, Baltimore, grand chancellor; Samuel Williams, Baiti- more, vice chancellor; H. H. §t. Clair, Cambridge, Md., grand master of exchequer; Dr. H. C. Fowler, Baltimore, grand medical examiner; | ideus Copeland, Baltimore, grand prelate; Josiah L. Diggs, Baltimore, grand keeper of records and seals; A. C. Washington, Cumberland,gran master-at-arms; John C. Green, Bal- -timore, granc marshal; J. Philip eenca Chestertown, grand lecturer; John H. Booth, and George E grand inner guard, Fisher, grand inner guard. The past grand chancellor’s degree was conferred upon Samuel D, Hayward, the retirng grand keep- er of records and seals, and George A. Watty and John H. Henderson were elected representatives to the Supreme Lodge, which holds its bi- ennial session in Kansas City, Mo., in 1900. The Grand Court of Clan- the, the woman’s auxiliary, elected Mrs. Lillie G. Jones, of Ba'timore, grand worthy councillor. The xt annual session will be held in Cam- bridge, Md The social features of the week were noteworthy. There was a ban- on Wednesday evening at Odd Hall, at which Hon. W. T. quet Fellows Vernon, Register of the Treasury; Hon. John C. Dancy, Recorder of Deeds; Sir S. W. Green, Supreme G. A. R., responded to toasts. On the same evening Lawyer Thomas L. Chancellor, and Mrs. Julia Mason Layton,of the Woman's Relief Corps, Jones, a leading member of the Dis- trict at his residence, Sixteenth street and Vermont pnewly-elected officers of the Gr jar, gave a magnificent dinner | avenue, in honor Lodge. AMNl of the officers were pres ent, includi preme Chancellor Green, and a ber of prominent citizens of Washington, covers he- ing laid for twenty-five. Lawyer W C. McCard acted as toastmaster, and to impo ere made by Messrs eorge A. Watts ett, Samuel D. » Chase, editor of the R. W. Thompso correspondent, St. Clair, the speechmaking with an eloquent tribute to his and Pythianism in general yer Thomas I Purchase you lumbia Ice Company wagons. is the best. appropr responses sentiments W. Hac Green Hayw Bee; by 1