The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1908, Page 1

*AaeIQI] [BUdTsseagsu0g WOL. XXIX NOI3 The Political Situation EX-GOV. P. B. PINCHBACK What He Said to a Represen The Bee. P. B from Baltimore, ». S. Pinchba Me city, to at Ex-Governor who came this ss Memorial, was met representative Tuesday, stions c asked several He put to him yu cerning politics. was follows: W campaign is a mo: 1s one for the country, and a ve for the determine which of serious one colored people It witl the great — the Republican or the parties Democrat f its gr the next — shall have contro! four years at least, and pos- sibly for many What is your opinion of the can- more years. didates? Either that splendid man and well- equipped statesman, Willi or WilliamH.Bryan will be the next The candiates of the oth- are not in the running. Jow do you like the platforms? The p’atforms of the two parties records The Re- th speak for themselves. The f well known publican party was born in of each are and has ever bee of freedom and equali ore the law for all mankind. Un- r | der its administration of the govern- ment, prosperity, peace and happiness n the common lot of the peo- ple and the republic has been elevat- have bee the exa world-power of st stand the Rep and both apab'e of admiins ion m short, fe and sane National Government in the all peor the the poken anc people r the the condidate for flat-footed on opinion he is sure as I can observe element eonfronting us — over-confid nce 1 > same old Bryan; but h going for the presidency on different | former campai Evidently he be- ieves in the He has dis- anger- er- | and now assumes rs to rate him too cheaply. The pl outspoken all the and Democratic orm one ; the are concerned. es of the Ne it becomes doubly so when we reca Mr. he Sout nant, wing e repeal ments, especia amendment is lamitous in red racé, and mig i I were no colored voters in my opinion t there rous to mention JUSTICE DONE ‘,EGRO. Noted Educator Requests the World n to How Mobs Are Threatening Civiliza- tion. TWENTY-FIVE NEGROES HAVE BEEN D WITHIN y '. DAYS, Innocent, TO Mob Law boldens Em- cious — No Sympathy Vv *| number only four were even ch vo | National Government for | a are , | exciting first you don’t} | With Crime. | By telegraph to the E World.) Baltimore, August 19. e past sixty days twenty- |groes have been lynched parts of the United § assault with criminal wom upon - | Nine were lynched in one day on the | charge of being connected with mur- |der. Four were lynched in one day on the charge that they passed reso- | lutions in a lodge approvi der individual. T lynched in one day on the charge} !that they had taken part in the burn- g of a gin house. g the mur- of an hree were g The others were lynched for miscellaneous reasons One was publicly burned in opeft ylight in the presence of women and children, after oil had been px ed upon his body, at Greenvill , and reports state that a tho people witnessed the spectacle in the | open square of the town. vicfim was eighty y > Tex- sand rs of r can our Christian civili stand this? I am making no spe plea for the Negro, innocent or g ty, but I am calling attention danger that threatens our tion, Condemns Negro Loafers For the Negro criminal, and espe- | cially for the Negro loafer, gambler | d drunkard, I condemnation, have nothing but} | the severest and no} jlegal punishment is too severe the brute that assaults a won It requires no courage for hundred men to tie the hands individual the But to stake or to or shoot him young men | boys who have once witnes: | who have read in the papers of of and th scenes burnings jlynchings often get the idea | there jing some individual in the commu | ity who is least able to defend hi |s | No deubt the people who in lynchings, and excuse the jlieve that they will have the of striking terror to the guilty. who shall say whether the pers lynched are guilty? of distinguishing the innocent fr There is no way the guiity e That who have examined ept by due process of | law. is what courts are for. Those into the cts know only too well that in the 1 | wild justice of the mob it is y the innocent man who fre- ecuted. Ter In These lynchings ter: tine | cent, but they embold But no man can be safe at all is something heroic in attack-| One other | How | frenzy the mob Statistics how that « ten averag years an oes a year have been 1; charge of assaulting wor Granting that thirty-two per year are | j guilty, is that ad | Negro men who have no part in such Are low thirty-two crim lemning over three million crimes? we as al- nation t a year out of race of ten millions of peof to throw us int frenzy and cha zation to foreign na- people governed by law or order? Agair I would say I not making any special plea for the Negro, but be- ause I feel that lynching is not 1e complexion of our ci so tions as an uncivilized not am . an aw n ke Effect of Mob Justice. Mob just the | foundation ts, undermines upon wh civiliz tion r the urity. There opinion, two remec¢ First of all, viz., j and confidence of its s are, in my mined effort everywhere to see the law is enforced, that all times and all places se man charged with crime i fair trial. Secondly,let all good citi in an effort to rid the communi especially the large cities, of the id'e, | vicious and gambling element. And in this connection I would not be just and would not be frank ur I stated that the betters of the blz race could use their influen espe- very | less | | cially in The} idle element that DR just reason for con-|, ack} please accept the cong: the cities, to see lives by without permanent or reliabl or place of abode is ei rmed or gotten rid of in some ma In most cases it is this « |that furnishes the powder f¢ di Booker T. Was WASHINGTON AN EX SWIMMER al to The Bee. Booker T. Wz Mr. ates at the Nation Scott, and a unday and part o Jel Md., and were t Mrs. A, M. Cu and Major and Dr. e Douglass cottz George Mrs. C. stop- nd Bowen Washington age Sunday ] yuglas Memoria where Dr. Washing- RALPH W AND MR. PAPA Washington, a ten-pound boy. Pa Grandpa Bes Bee. | | | of ' others. shed Dr. men, ington, M es among Booker T. Wash- Douglass, Dr. Warring, Dr. Thirkield, ex-Gov- MEMORIAL. a Scene That Will Remembered Jernor P. B. S. Pinchba jC Mr. zs = _ fol Jefferson, Sidney Pittman,who | Mr icy, : Mr. W. Louis " “ ney Pittman, ge of the memorial e cises | yp I ae yay | ar as! MOA r . y *+) W.Tyler, Hon Jefferson, who gave | The rounds free of charge, de-} credit US othe for the success Tee day waa. pleasant. \ GRAND JUBILEE, upon the placid waters he id Fellows of plea t gton did not arrive up grounds till 630. All day hundred people who’ most was ifall, Hall, will ; ‘ WASHINGTON, of the Negro. grounds amused the differer goth, endir visiting On Friday night Mr. f usements out 7.30 p.m.Mr, Robert H. Ter- th er prayer by |! officer, called hall. It will niece his week. rf 1959 the lers city PITTMAN. n Bruce was followe Dr. Thirkield followe Wash his h oe 7 f » delivered one of ddresses. Washington, his son, will Addresses were also delivered by prey Thomas L. Jones, Dr. Wa- Po Bo S Pi Register W. T. Vernon city toc ex-Governor k, and T.W. Burgess Last Saturday Seated upon the platform were] Channel. Recorder Emmett J. Scott, Sid- W. Calvin Chase, Anderson Taylor, Hon, Ralph chiba'd Grimke and Tr was a great suc- the District under the auspices of have wil have a grand jubilee beginning Sunday, Au- a Friday, September Thomas president of the associa- r the closing address. a history of s and tribulations | date the indebt-| be a and no one should nity to be present. of Major} r who has been} time in the city, ieft | Third last , to join her s in the city, the who leave made ther attempt to swim the English aig a | | Ill, a few Sundays ago. PARAGRAPHIG. NEWS By Miss Beatris L. Chase. It is reported that Mr. D, Web- ster Davis, the well-known speaker, is to deliver three ures in the city of Montgomery, Ala., beginning witl September 1. We see by the Southern Reporter that in America the total member- ship of the’ Baptist Church is 4,569- 524. lect I wturday the Atlas Portland Comp North Hamp- was awarded a contract for cement for use Cement ny of ton, Pa., 4,500,000 barrels of on the Panama C Jarvis Henderson, of Kansas City, who stands 7 feet fnches in his stocking feet, is said to be too tall for any use except the circus business —and he says he is tired of that The Ninth of the National Negro League, which od Md., came to a close | By the collar was formerly a part of emy Music Chelsea, Mass., debris, oe hop B the A. M. E brated the f their marriage last week. Dr. D. R. Wilkins, who was the former editor of the Chicago Conser- vator, died last week, j The Central Union | hereafter hold its weekly meetings behind closed doors, all reports be- ing excluded and the “Star Cham- ber” method will be recommenced. The Zion A. M. E. Preachers’ As- seciation tendered to Bishop J. W. Smith and wife a reception and pub- lic testimonial last Monday night at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church, It is said that Chief Wilkie, of the Il not any- zger- under arrest in Chicago a fortune from the Gov- the hands go. annual session Business Baltimore, con in in Square, last Tuesday, twen- in the of ea workmen were burie e ja F, Tanner, of hurch, and wife cele- anniversary of Labor will wi have ald, who for stealing ernment. The case is i of the ies i Col Stewart, who was sent abandoned military post in Arizona by the .Pres- nt’s order, has by the same official been ordered to take the horseback- riding test pres for field officers of the army. The sum of $2,500 has been donat- ed to the Bermuda National History Society by the widow of the late Thomas Reid. Mr. Reid was at one time the pre i The Assi Treasury and the Chief Divisi i rows some views regarding changes in the of the tariff law, such changes beieved to be nec- thorit winter to the be ident of the society. Sec ry of the of Custom nm to Senator Bur- nt n have administration essary Notwithstanding the there is an report that in the Dis- trict caused presence of a white man with the lepros rowds flock to visit the locality where the uneasiness by the lepers’ tent is. The niece of the late United States Senator McLaurin, Mi ppi, Miss Kate McLaurin, made her first | appearance on the New York stage |last Monday A bellboy of the Asbury Park, N. confessed last week that he was the thief who stole akout $7,500 worth of jewelry from hotel Frank Bryant of night, Allenhurst Inn, room white, has confess- jed to the morder of his aged com- Thor Brady,in Springfield, Confession panion, is good for the soul, and may save the life of some innocent black man. September 15 will be the anniver- sary of the independence of Mexico, and every precaution is being taken to avoid on the borders. Troops are being placed in sections not near large cities. Joe Kemper, white, of Houston, Texas, shot two policemen who had arrested him. One officer is not ex- pected to recover. Joe Kemper is the a former treasurer of Walter county. Col. William B. Horner,after serv- ing over forty years in the War De- partment, is placed on the retired list from active service. The retirement begins the first of September. trouble son of