The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1908, Page 1

WOL. 29 NO10 WASHINGTON,—D. C., SATURDAY AUGUST 8, 1908. NEGRO OISAFFECTION COLORED AM Dr. Washington Held Respo Negro Troops — Dr. Waller Sa} It Is Self-Defense — Dr. Corro- tk T ored citizens held last Monday even- jalbraith Church, under the »f the National Negro Po- Mil- RICANS BOLT. ts Vindictive iere was a large meeting of col- ing in (¢ auspices litical League, of which Rev. J ton Waldron is president The meeting followed a meeting of the the Na- tional Negro Political League. This held in the afternoon and was attended by a from executive committee of American meeting was score of committee members This is for various parts of the country. organiaztion which the an has its avowed the Negro vote for William Jennings Bryan. Its president, the on Waldron, of this city, presia- ed at the public meeting last ni Promoted Celebrated Dinner. The first speaker was Dr Waller, of New Protestant Episco: d purpose influencing of Rev. J. Owen York, formerly a cle ye 1 resi- Dr. Waller is sec- »politan Club. nt in this city the ¢ organization which retary of sm the promoted and conducted a dinner some months New York white men : men.’ Dr. W Waller’s conn ization in intr attended en and Ni to \ Dr. organ- referred am proud ion with Dr.; “Tr | mopolitan 1 said beginning his speech organiaztion which | I epresented pose the breaking down of barriers between and the establishment black and white of a free-ma- of ct Many New dinner it sonry racter and culture of th York gave in New York unent men in at the It wz were present a di black present vastly and w The gue asked me held. I have y to the credit of eve i man and woman , instead of objecting,have the informed the when next is to be} m Ww would another one in October. Recognition by Democracy Waller told of recognition accorded by the Democra of New York to the Negro since he began to -y $s vote. ble with the Negro is,” at he has blindly follow- ed one The solidarity of the Negro vote has stopped the advance of the Negro race in this country.” sr took up the Browns- air ,and declared that Booker hington could have stayed the President’s hand had he chosen. “Northern capitalists have $3,00v,- 000,000 invested in the South, and they fear unrest there,” he continued. “Unrest means no dividends.” The speaker charged that these capitalists split hi “Th said he. party f zed. had chosen Washington as their rep- He was bitter in his de- nunciation .of the latter. Dr. Waller contended that the Re- publican party has given the Negro resentative nothing for his forty years of sup- port. “I am not afraid to face the ques- tion which will be asked concerning the treatment of the Negro by the Democrats in the South,” he contin- “I declare that the Democratic party has been compelled to do what it has done in the South in sheer self- defense, because we have been stu- pidly f&. The first step in our salvation will come when we divide our votes and stop giving it to one party that does nothing for us. massed against Debt to Republicans Paid. The Rev Galbraith S. L. Corrothers, pastor Church, declared the gro at one time owed much to the which gave but he that this debt was wiped out years of Republican party, him liberty and equ insisted ago. He charged Mr. Taft with having sent to the Senate a report supposed to deal with the conduct of the troops Brownsville, in at which and every crime ever committed by every act a Negro soldier in any regiment was mentioned rhe Dr theBaptist clergymen who passed res- d Rev. Corrothers criticise action of Dr. Waldron in supporting Mr. Bry- an. ‘That things ever d “and I Christian clergymen.” He th employed in Government olutions condemning the of the in this that was one sorriest said done city,’ he, gret it was by more Negroes had ofices \LDRON Political League D.D een promoted in the last weeks nation’s his- been than ever the in tory, and this must have ne for a cause Dr. Cuddy, a former worker in the missionary South, made a speech attacking Mr. Taft’s religious Race Is Dissatisfied. The Rev. Mr. Waldron, in his ad- referred to the activities of the organization of which he is the head. Among other things he said: vie dress “In order to be sure of our position this matter, the Chi- Convention was over we set the the League in all part to work feeling the pulse of the race and obtaining opin- ions relative to the political situation from leading Negores as well as from the ‘common people’ throughout the country. We find from this six weeks’ » first, that the race is dis- satisfied with the Republican party, and second, that the majority of Ne- groes throughout the country —- but especially in the Southern States — feel that their salvation, politically, depends on a division of the Negro vote between the two great parties; third, we find that most of the mem- bers of the race who are yet in pos- im as soon as othcers of of the country canv banquet | addr | next jin Dallas; on the 8th he will be at} session of the franchise are out spok- en in their determination either to remain away from the polls next No- vember or to vote for Mr. Bryan.” GRAND MASTER HOUSTON Official Head of the Grand United Odd Fellows Touring Seven States of West and South — Flourishing Conditions and Ovations at All Points. Grand Master William L. Hous- ton, who left last week for his tour of seven of the Western and South- ern States, is receiving an ovation at each point he visits. He spoke in Cincinnati on Saturday night, and was entertained in the most elabo- rate manner by the prominent mem- Master’s tour of every Southern State in the Union, and enables him to present to the coming ion of the B. M. Cin Atlantic City a de- tailed and comprehensive report of the condition of the Order in the en- tire country, because, in addition to his covering the entire South, he has met and addressed the Order in every Northern State from Illinois to Mas- Nowhere in the nation does any man, woman or child have to be informed as to who is the pres- ent Grand Master of the’ Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of America. sachusetts. A COLORED-LADY INSULTED. Washington, D. C., July 29, 08. HON. WILLIAM OF I Who Died at His Home Dubuque, B. ALLISON, OWA Ic Tuesday, August 4th 1908 wa, tk Gec bers of the fraternity Grand Master charge District H in the Grand Master Cklahoma, where he the District Grand Lod Territory and the of Oklahoma, and at respective Cincint Tul AVS From went to pr Indian one of the Stat the conclusion consol¢ | District | On last Muskogee, him the essions ted the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma of them into new x the citizens of Oklahoma entertained after he had ss that was received with ever, by ivered an of appreciation the audience. The € Ww nd Master will spend the Ar » weeks in as (and Texas. On August 1 and 3 he will meet the fraternity at Little Rock, Ark, and on the 5th will enter upon he work of conducting the District Grand Lodge at Fort Worth, Texas. On the 6th he addresses the Order Waco; ed little city of the hot-wather baths, and the 1oth will find him at Austin, the thriving capital of the great State Texas. August 11 he wil! visit the historic Alamo City — San An- tonio. On the 12th he will k at Houston, and while there partici- pate in unveiling the monument ov- er the grave of the late C. M. Fer- guson, the deceased District Grand On the 13th will to gth at Marlin, the celebrat- ot spe Secretary of Tes Grand Master Houston Galveston, and on the 15th to Deni- son, where he will unveil the monu-} ment over the grave of Prof. D. W. Walker, the late secretary of the Odd Fellows’ Endowment. On the 17th the Grand Master will} be in Vicksburg, Mi as the guest of the lodges of that c and on the 18th his itinerary calls for Brook- haven: on the roth he will be in! Jackson, on the 20th in Greenville, concluding his tour of Mississippi at Holly Springs, the headquarters of the Odd Fellows’ Beneficial Assso- ciation of that state. go August 24th he enters the State of Tennessee, where he mzkes an ad- saying “Peace hath her victo- wned than war” was ed the ries no less r in ex: strikingly perience ady 11 isulted by a motorman on of one c who we ly grossly it our local street-car 1 lady, wh the i Howard University, the orhood who lives neig and is mployed Bureau of Printing home returning MR. RALPH W. TYLER. Journalist and Writer and Political Forecaster—A safe Man. w weeks ight from entrance to from her work one day a fe apting to a car near the carriage the old Freedmen’s Hospital grounds, tri lift the gate latch, which had been wrongly closed. The torman, in language that was bruta!- ly insulting and coarsely profane, or- dered her to let the latch alone and leave the car from the opposite side, which was the wrong side, and he knew it at ef the male neighbors and acquaint- ances of the lady were present and d ago, and on atte the time. witr man. dress at Chattanooga, speaking on the following night at Knoxville. This trip concludes mo- | | i dent of the railroad company, and al- Commer done Interstate This with- out delay, and after due investigation the motorman, who was suspended during the investigation, was prompt- ly and properly dismissed from the service of the company; and the lady was officially notified to that effect in a letter from the Interstate Com- merce Commission received today. A_ Subscriber. so before the Commission. was A GREAT BALL GAME. Proirinent Colored Men to Play For Charity. Possibly the most interesting and nuique, in many ways, game of base- ball that will have ever been played in Washington will be played in September, when Ball two nines, made up of some of the most prominent and well known men in Washington, will cross bats in a hotly contested game, the proceeds from the game going to the Colored Social Settle- The will no doubt 1 big crowd, and afford more a ment. at- tract amusement than a minstrel show, for, to prominent offi- cials groveling in the dust, trying to game see Government stop hot grounders, or chasing after flies, or trying to hit an inshoot will be too funny for anything. Two nines will be made up from the fol- well-known men: Judge Terrell, Dr, Williston, Dr. Curtis, W. Calvin Chase, Ralph W. Tyler, W. T. Vernon, James Gray, Robert Pelham, Whitfield McKinley, A. Cobb, Charles Hall, Garry alter Pinchback, John C. Maj. Charles Ar- thur Gray, Rev. Garner, Grand Mas- Wil H. Car- lowing lowing Robert mes Booker, Dancy, Fillmore, ter n Houston, and doza TPARKGRIPHIC. NEWS By Miss Beatriz L. Chase, A woman at Menominee, Mich, was reported last Wednesday as be- ing in a precarious condition at her home in that-city as the result of ex- posure and being terribly bitten by mosquitoes and flies while lost in the woods. The ex-cashier of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad has been arrested on two counts of alleged embezzlement.. Rev. Dr. T. W. Henderson, well known by many in this city, was re turned to Charles Street A. M. EK Church by the New Bedford Con- ference After debating on the question of the advisability of the establishment of postal savings banks, the Univer- sity Congress of George Washington University, in this city, indorses the plan. Bids from contractors for the con- struction and furnishing of thirteen portable school buildings in the Dis- trict were received by the Cemmis- sioners last Wednesday (Balance Delay e COLORED DOCTORS SUCCESS- FUL Special to The Bee Atlantic City, July and became — Three hundred sixty-two medical stu- dents full-fledged physicans today, when the Pennsylvania State Medical Board completed its inspec- tion of examination papers and an- nounced the list successful candidates to whom doctor's eertifi- The Board was 30 of the cates will be issued RE\ L inancial Secretary and President of This E > I Political League Keep a lookout for the announce- It will be a game to ment of the date. worth going miles see h ING meeting M There will True Reformers’ Hall next Monday night for the purpose of celebrating the political indey ce of the N There will be a parade headed by a At this meeting Mr. SS be a at gro. of music Bryan is to be endorsed. There is an organiaztion of sixteen he old legislative districts in this Dr. S. L. Corrothers in charge of this meeting. He has also established headquarters in this city, where two clerks have been engaged. banc of t city. is MR. JAMES O. HOLMES. One of the most enterprising men Two or three in this city is Mr. James O. Holmes, of Twenty-first street northwest, who resides in one of the most commodi- the rudeness of the motor-|ous dwellings in that section of the Their first impulse was to take | city. up for her cause by personally re-|into the real estate business in the} after senting the insult, but wiser counsel | near future. Mr. Holmes anticipates going He is one of the most prevailed, and they promptly decid-| genial men in the city, and a man the Granded to lay the matter before the presi- | who has a bost of friends. ag CORROTHERS, Central Sta the Division of the National Haddon pers of three hundre in session at Hall, applicants were examined. were thirty-three but aminers declare that, although the rigid, the ex- failures, tests extremely aminations were five percent better the four- were time teen years. Among the few colored successful applicants was Dr. Ches- ter A. Arthur Gordon, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Gordon, of | Philadelphia. Dr. received his preliminary and college educa- tion in the public schools of Phila- delphia and the University of Penn- ania. He graduated from the Medical Department of Howard Uni- versity, May 27, 1908, and took the State Board Exams at Philadelphia June 23, 24, 25 and 26. than at any in past Gordon The coat of arms of Messrs. Taft and Sherman appears at a bad time of the year. It would have been much better to have waited until November. (English, don’t uu know.) Bishop Brent will arrive in Vat couver about July 25.