The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 10, 1908, Page 1

<4 —\ =~ guoTsseisuo) 7 ee ’. AAI WOL. XXIX NOIS WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY OCTOBER 10, 1908 Vile Utterances OF MANY PROMINENT DEMO- CRATS OF THE COUNTRY ON THE RACE QUESTION.—CAN THE AFRO-AMERICAN AF- FORD TO SUPPORT THE PAR- TY THESE MEN REPRESENT? Educated Negroes More Worthless. “A considerable the whites in the South, knowing the facts, believe sincerely that the edu- cated Negroes are more worthless and more dangerous to the peace and wel- fare of the community in which they live than the uneducated.”—Thomas Nelson Page. An Atlanta Suggestion. “T will give my suggestion. every Negro be compelled to register and when he goes from one place to another let the first thing he does be to go and register. Let the registra- tion officer furnish him with a certi- ficate that will explain something of his past life, so as to make his iden- tity satisfactory to the officers of the section of et law.”—James Andrew Tucker in At-} lanta News, August 29, 1906. Stop Appropriations for Negro Edu- cation. =xclude the air and a man will die, keep away the moisture and the flower will wither. Stop the appro- priations for Negro Education, by of the Constitution if and the in which it is taught will decay. Not only that, but the Negro will take the place the Creator intended he should amendment necessary, school-house take in the economy of the world— a dutiful, faithful and lawabiding ser- Alexander Troy, prominent Montgomery (Ala.), vant.” Democrat, Advertiser. Demonstration of the Superiority of the White man. “It is not only the desire to separ- ate the whites and blacks on the street cars for the comfort it will provide, but also for the moral effect. The separation of the races is one benefit, in but the demonstration of the superior-| f the white man over the Negro; ity There is nothing which shows it more conclusively than the compelling of the Negroes to ride is a greater thing in cars marked for their especial use.” —H. D. Wilson, Democrat, member of Louisiana L ature, author of Jim Crow car bill. Insolent. “The Southern whites will tell you the the “New issue” Negroes are, for the most part, lazy, thriftless, intem- perate, insolent, dishonest, and with- Lazy, Thriftless, out the rudiamentary elements of mo- rality.,—Thomas Nelson Page. For Anglo-Saxon Only. This is white man’s country, The Anglo-Saxon and African are creat- ed differently. Between the two there is a great gulf fixed. The sunlight of eternal progress, of unlimited possi- bilities is for the Anglo-Saxon alone.” —R. W. Gorman, a noted Alabama writer. Granting Suffrage a Crime. “The granting of the right of suf-t frage to the Negroes, enmasse, was a crime and a blunder. Take away the suffrage from the Negro as it is dis- allowed tc other of our “colored citi- zens.”—Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee. Education Not a Solvent. “J do not believe that education of the Negro will solve the problem.” —Bishop H. C. Morrison of Kentucky “To H—1 ‘With the Law.” At a “lecture” by Senator Tillman on the race question, somebody asked: “What about the law?’ “To h—I with the law,” replied Tillman, re- ferring to the Fourteenth and Fif- teenth Amendments to the Constitu- tion of the United States. ORGANIZED INCAPACITY. Mr. Taft once alluded to the Dem- cratic party as “organized incapa- city,” and a sensible man can easily convince himself of the exquisite fit- ness of the discription by due atten- tion to the doings of the party in the states in which it has absolute con- trol. and nullifies the Constitution of the United States. It purposely and with malice aforethought enacts laws which contravene those of the General Gov- ernment, as in the case of the Inter-j state Commerce law. VERY FEW WILL VEER. Some little time ago, it was quite a popular assertion that the Afro-Amei- can should divide his votes among the political parties and it was argued, with more or less ability, that he would be a great gainer by doing so. Such reasoners were generally Cau- casian Democrats, but at the present time a few Afro-Americans have adopted the same line of argument, and are trying to persuade Afro- American electors to vote for Mr. Bryan. This has attracted the atten- tion of the Athens(Ga) Banner and} that journal frankly and candidly tells the Afro-American voter what he will gain by taking such advice, as follows “The Democracy wants the votes of all the citizens of the republic who believe in good government, but it does not want the votes of the Ne- groes under any idea that they are to be treated in any other manner than the well-established custom in this country, that of maintaining the su- premacy of the white man. If there ure Negroes who are veering to Dem- ocracy on the idea that they are to be pampered and petted and given privi- leges over the white man they might as well be undeceived.. From Mr. Bryan down, the Democracy stands for the rule of the white man in this republic and there is no use in dis- guising that fact. The Negro might as well realize it and be done with it.” There is but little consolation in the above for the “Negroes who are veering to Democracy,” and _ the Athens Banner may rest assured that not many of the race will “Veer.” WHAT TO EXPECT FROM BRYA)? The Democrats of West Virginia met in state convention recently and adopted resolutions in favor of the disfranchisement and jim crowing of the Afro-American. And, forthwith, Mr. Bryan telegraphed his approval of the action of the convention. This vas done at just about the same time that some Afro-Americans of no little prominence were trying to make over- tures to Mr. Bryan with a view to delivering to him a fraction of the Afro-American vote, and is a mosty convincing showing of what the race? may expect from Mr. Bryan, should* he be elected. 1 Mr. Bryan well knows that thou- sands of Democrats in the South have no appetite for him, however prepar- ed their digestion—baked, fried, on half-shell, or scrambled. They have merely been whipped into the traces, sorely against the stomach of their So, he must use every effort to these recalcitrant ele- ments—humble himself into the dust to keep them in.good humor and pre- vent a revolt. So he dares not go as far as Mr. Watterson has publicly done Bryan, so far as the Afro-American is concerned is very little better than Vardaman. sense. conciliate NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN. BY T, THOMAS FORTUNE. It has become very common to dis- tort the utterances of a political op- ponent to bolster a bad cause. In a letter to the Hon. Albert S. White, of Kentucky, Mr. Taft pronounces to be “a lie” the statement contained in the circular issued by Rev. S. L. Corro- thers that he, Mr. Taft, favors the repeal of the fifteenth amendment. He says he had reference to sumptuary laws in the letter upon which Mr. Corrothers based his statement. When a preacher has the lie thrown into his face by so veracious a citizen as Secretary Taft, what should he do? The New England SuffrageLeague, of which Mr. William Monroe Trot- ter is President, threatens to hold a convention before this statement finds Far instance, in Texas the‘ an audience, In the call for the con- legislature solemnly declares that the. vention Mr. Trotter among other pro- sheets must be just so many feet and so many inches long; in other states it enforces two cent fares,even though it bankrupt the roads; in Oklahoma it rushes into the guarantee of bank deposits regardless of the fact that that policy has been disastrous when- ever tried. It defies the federal courts jnouncements says: “Since 1914 our race has lived to see a solemn platform pledge of the National Republican party to reduce southern representa- tion ignored and repudiated by the President elected theron.” Well, who secured the insertion in the Republi- can platform of the demand for the reduction of southern representation | in Congress and the electoral college ?} Was it not the Constitution League, of which Mr. Trotter is a part? Certainly. Who defeated the effort to have the necessary legislation per- tected to carry into effect the subsi- diary clause in the fourteenth amend- ment authorizing such reduction? I did, as editor of the New York Age. How did I do it? Ask A. B. Hum- phrey of the Constitution League how often I defeated his effort to have the National Afro-American League endure the dangerous proposition. Ask} President Roosevelt who persuaded] him to set his teeth against actment by the Congress of such re- ‘At The Nation's Canitol THE PRESIDENT IS EARNEST— MR TAFT’S SAFE—THE PRES-| IDENT’ CONFIDENCE IN HIM =GROES UNITED IN THE STATES—DU BOIS WITHOUT INFLUENCE — COL, RUCKER BPEAKS—DR:WASHINGTONS GRAYITUDE — PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT THE FIRST TO APPOINT A NEGRO MINISTER —U. S. ATTORNEY COBB MA- KING GOOD. The President’s deep earnestness i fighting for the perpetuation of the and urges them to elect him as his successor. A failure to exert himself to place a man in the White House in sympathy with the Roosevelt pol- icies would be a practical abandon- ment of them and would lead to a possible repudiation of them by the American electorate. So, President Roosevelt is smashing precedents and is making no conceal- ment of his desire that the country shall vote Judge Taft into the presi- dential chair and choose a Congress that will back him up in his patriotic purposes. Mr. Roosevelt’s letters in support of Taft, whether they deal in eulogism of the man or in denuncia- necessity for everybody “getting a Fi Me Ge ‘oWwAN THE JOB SEEKE CHAPEL RIN IN THE ARMY ~ ee RS CONVENTION NOW IN FU LL BLAST duction legislation. He will say that Booker T. Washington did it. Who convinced Dr. Washington that such legislation would open the way for the disfranchisement of Afro-Ameri- cans in all of the States? I did. Dis- franchisement is ‘wrong in the south, as it would be in other sections of the country, “on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude,” and it is prohibited, mandatorily by the fifteenth amendment. The way to correct the evil of disfranchisentent is not to legalize it by Congressional enactment, under a subsidiary cclause of the fourteenth amendment but to test in the Federal Courts, under the fifteenth amendment, the constitu- tionality of such disfranchising laws. No such test has been properly made in the Federal Courts, by competent lawyers. The people who should strive to have the laws tested are those who ate disfranchised. Why dont they (Continued to page 4.) policies that lay close to the root of national prosperity and national honor is sufficient excuse for his departure from hackneyed traditions and giving an aggressive support to the candi- dacy of Judge Taft. Theodore Roose- velt is never half-hearted in any un- dertaking when he feels sure he is right. Justified as he is by his cén- science in the course he has pursued with reference to the trusts, railroads and in the general conduct of his ad ministration, he would be negligent in the performance of his sworn duty did tion of the enemy, are stirring the popular heart for the Republican party, bracing the spinal column of the weaklings and emphasizing the he not defend that course with all his might. If it is his judgment that Mr. Taft is the safest man in the country to carry out the work when he shall have laid it down next March, he is within his rightful prerogatives when he takes the people into his confidence dent Roosevelt was the first executive of the nation )to name a colored man as an Assistant District Attorney for the District of Columbia, Mr. James A. Cobb, pro- nounced by competent authorities to be one of the most capable lawyers in the District, was appointed to this responsible post on the 11th of No- vember last, and assigned as a spec- ial assistant to District Attorney Ba- ker’s office. His duties are to sue the people who go on bonds and forfeit them to the government, and to pre- pare the cases for prosecution under the Pure Food Law. As this depart- ment has much to do with the preser- vation of the health of the 350,000 citizens. of the District, its importance will be seen at a glance. Under the Pure Food Law, as admin- istered by Mr. Cobb, there have been more convictions and successfu locn- fiscations of goods than any other ju- risdiction in this country. Within the past fortnight, the Uni- ted States District Attorney, Mr. Ba- ker, has had the naturalization cases transferred to Mr. Cobb’s office and now Mr. Cobb has sole charge of that department. Prominent lawyers have called the attention of President Roosevelt to the magnificent record Mr. Cobb is making in his dual capa- city, and it is understood that the lighted” with the choice he has made. Mr. Cobb is a young man of unim- peachable character, of unflagging in- dustry, and stands high in his profes- sion. This is the type of colored man the Republican party is bringing to the front, and offering opportunities for honorable distinction. This is the type of young colored men that the Democratic party will send to the rear if the chance is given them by the election of Mr. Bryan. The race can keep men like Mr. Cobb to the front by sustaining the policies of President Roosevelt, represented in the candidacy of Judge Taft. Gen. Robert Smalls, the hero of the “Planter,” spent several days here last week. He is now collector of the port at Beaufort, S. C. He was quite bitter in his denun- ciation of the South Carolina election law, and intimated that the Northern Negro who voted for a party that vast Contiuned to page five. PAHAGRAPHIC — NEWS The next session of the tuberculo- sis congress will be held in Rome. The report that the President is to take the stump in the interest of Mr. Taft, is being denied. The Ney’ York Transcript says that the ‘violinist, Herr Julius Falk, at his first concert in the United States, October 15, will use the finest Stra- divarius violin now in existence.Hert Falk paid $9,000 for the violin. From present indications the col- ored citizens of South Carolina will hold their State Fair in Columbia, Nov. 9-13. The Baker’s convention opened in this city last Monday morning. Come missioner H. B. F. Macfarland wel- comed the members to our city. Rev. John Reid Shannon, the suc- cessor of Rev.Bristol,recently elected Bisop of the M.E. connection, preacti- ed his first sermon last Sunday morn- ing as pastor of the Metropolitan Church. . The National Peace Congress will meet in Greensboro, N. C., October 12 to 16. There are to be legislative, judicial, educational and commercial sessions. Mary Johnson is the name given by a woman at Ellis Island, N. Y. She has been wearing a moustache and dressing in male attire, and selling books for a living for over fifteen years. Very little is heard concerning the Colored W. C. T. U., since its with- drawal from the white. The 34th annual convention of the W. C. T. U., was held in Douglass Memorial church, on the 7th and StH instant. Bishop J. W. Smith, who has traveling through many states, returned to the city. He has away for several weeks. beer has beer At a meeting of the Woman’s In- terdenominational Missionary Union, last Monday, it was decided to re quest Congress, through the Commis- sioners, to make a iaw against the employment of girls or women in any, kind of liquor establishment in the District of Columbia. On last Saturday the U. S. Patent office issued its nine hundred thou- sandth patent, It was for improved traveling stairs. Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan were guests of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce last Wednesday night. The Board of Education will ask that, Congress appropriate $4, 730,340 to cover the needs of the public schools for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1909. The immigration officials at Ellis Island allowed Mary Johnson to con- tinue her journey in men’s clothing under her assumed Frank Woodhull. Rev. W. L. Taylor, of the True Reformers organization, and lawyet J. C. Robertson, both of Richmond, Va., spoke last Tuesday night at True Reformers Hall. HON. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU. The man to whom the American people are indebted for the success ful conduct of their financial policy, is Hon. George Bird Cortelyou, secre- tary of the Treasury. Mr. Cortelyou came to the relief of the American people at a time when they needed help, and at a time the country was effected by the financial crisis. There is no American today, moré loved, respected, and honored, than the present secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Cortelyou demonstrated his abil- ity in the campaign of 1904. That was a campaign that will go down ia history. It was in this campaign that public men would confer with theit National chairman, and suggest how. a campaign ought to be conducted without friction. Mr. Cortelyou had the confidence of his chief, the same as he has today. He has been a suc- cess in every department that he has had under his supervision. He is the first and only Cabinet officer to ap- point a colored American his private secretary. name, Thie Rev. Robert Morris Kemp,rec- tor of St. Chrysostom: Protestant Episcopal Church of Chicago, has disappeared, pending charges against him. ’ ee