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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. In Politics, We Cannot Kiss the Hands that Smite Us and Love Those Who Despitefully Use Us. Negro Dems to Contrary Notwithstanding. VOLUME II. NATION'S CAPITAL. The Business Manager Makes Some Observations NEGROES MAKING HISTORY. Some Remarkable Successes in Almost all Lines of Human Enterprise & Endeavor A Former Kansan Among the Men of Affairs. The Department Employees. I arrived in Washington, D C., the city of magnificent distances, the nation's capital, Friday morning, June 22, and was met by our young and popular townsman, Fred Hedge. He is a good representative of Kansas and we should be proud of him. He is making hay while the sun is shining; for not only is he filling a position in the House post office, but he is putting his hard-earned cash into hog raising, which will yield him a good profit. Mr. Hedge spares no pains to make it pleasant for his Kansas friends when in the capital city. He is the right sort. SOME PUBLIC BUILDING. I had the pleasure of visiting the Capitol, the Congressional Library, Pension Office, and last but not least, the White House. One visiting Washington should not fail to visit that grand and noble structure, which I believe out-rivals the historic temple of Solomon in architectural beauty and symmetry. It would take several issues of the PLANDEALER to tell of all its attractions and adornments. The Pension Office is a very large building and several Negroes are employed within its walls. We had the pleasure of meeting W. M. Messer, who has been an employee in this department for years. LIVING BEYOND THEIR INCOMES. There are several Negro clerks in this department, but almost invariably the rule obtains that they are living beyond their means, owning neither real or personal property commensurate with the excellent salaries they draw from the government. It is strange how both men and women, who come from the humbler walks of life, develop such luxurious tastes and extravagant notions, finding it impossible to exist on the simpler fare of other days. The average Negro, before he gets a good position, can live on almost nothing; but when he gets a few extra coins, look out! high living, big tea parties, goods on the installment plan; family to the seashore when heretofore they have been living on creek banks and in cabins. He loses sight of the race as soon as he arrives in Washington, imagining that he is the whole show and becoming infatuated with the idea of his own importance. THE TURN OF THE TIDE. In due time, the inevitable happens—the end comes—It finds them without money or credit; out of work and drift in the great, pitiless city of fashion. They hate to return to the huts and hovels of other days, so they turn professional mendicants begging and imploring for just the crumbs that fall from the master's table—just anything to stay in Washington. Thus he becomes a slave to circumstance and environment. INWASHINGTON, more than half of the Negroes who hold public positions are afraid to assert their freedom; good plow hands are spoiled in the vain endeavor to metamorphose the back-woods bumkin into the clerical hybrid; the industrial life of the race is impoverished and the professional not enriched. Washington has over a hundred thousand colored popula- FRIDAY MORNING. tion. They do most all the public work in the district. If the Negroes of Washington can show no more progress after thirty years of unparalleled racial advantages, we need not despair because local instances of enterprise are so few and far between. There is, of course, some enterprise: a few drug stores, grocery stores, one small bank; the usual saloons, barber shops and cafes PROFESSIONAL MEN, ETC. You will find a number of professional men, but most of them have lost their professional identity in the great, non-individualizing life of the departments. There are doctors, lawyers, musicians and one or two dentists. The chief wares in trade of the Washington Negro are politics. He is the whole show when you meet him in the political arena. He imagines that he is as wise as Solomon and as cunning as a fox; but he is as dumb as an oyster and as slow as a tortoise. He never does anything, yet is always exploiting his own ability as a race leader. He will give more for the doubtful honor of being selected as a delegate to a national convention than he would for a farm yielding enormous profits in grain and stock LACK OF RACIAL UNITY. They scrap and vilify each other in the scramble for minor political preferment as if it were a contest for presidential honors. A Negro delegate hired a brass band, carriages and adorned himself in purple and fine linen to celebrate his victory over another of his ilk, just because he was a delegate to the Philadelphia convention. The PLAINDEALER hopes to see a change in Washington. It must come through young Negroes taking a different view of life. I met Frank F. Davis and wife. Mr. Davis was in the drug business in our city some months ago. he is now with his brother, W. M. Davis, and they are conducting an up-to-date establishment. Albert Barton, our old political fighter, is in the Interior Department; he looks like prosperity is with him and will have something to show for his services when he leaves Washington John L. Harrison, our popular Topeka teacher, is in the Census Department during the summer. I had the pleasure of meeting and shaking hands with the President. It is a characteristic grasp; what you might term a jerking hand-shake. He extends his hand outward and downward, then jerks it back, barely laying his palm in the visitors. It rests but a moment; you don't have time to discuss commonplaces, he dismisses himself for thousands of others are waiting. The President is a busy man; the office requires no ordinary man; it requires a great, big man, with lots of cultivated gray matter and real good, firm horse sense to do the work that President McKinley is doing. Ninth Cavalry to go to China. As an evidence of what Uncle Sam thinks of the black boys in blue, and particularly of the fighting qualities of the gallant Ninth, is emphasized by the recent order issued by the War Department, after a conference between the secretary of war, Lieut-Gen. Miles and Anjutant General Corbin, detailing two squadrons of this famous command for duty in the Orient. The gravity of the situation in China calls for a demonstration of force, and no troops present a more over-awing appearance than the brave boys the late General Lawton delighted to command. There has been no scrimmage during the last quarter century, whether within or without our borders, that the Ninth Calvary has not played a leading role; the unconquerable valor that put to rout the red-skins at the battle of Wounded Knee and delivered up Geronimo to justice; the headlong daring at San Juan, that rescued Roosevelt and snatched victory from defeat, will tell in a marked degree when these unsung heroes set foot on Chinese territory. The command, together with other commands detailed for similar service, will be mobilized as soon as possible, and when transports are in readiness, hurried to the scene of the war that is taxing the resourcefulness of the civilized powers of the world to successfully handle. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 13, 1900. NEGRO OFFICERS. Authentic Evidence Brought To The Public Eye. ARE CAPABLE AND FAITHFUL They Are Proving Themselves More Efficient Than Any Others in Luzon, etc. A Gallant Capture by a Company of the 48th., Wins Enviable Mention. FROM "COLORED AMERICAN" The people of this country are always glad to hear from the forces in the field in the Philippines. The colored people are especially pleased to learn every scrap of news, for no letter, despatch, or message of any character fails to place on record some signal service or laudable achievement performed by some members of the gallant negro companies stationed there to guard the stars and stripes, and to uphold the dignity of liberty of our beloved native land. The following correspondence explains itself. It is a series of testimonials properly au.henticated, and tells, in tense and pointed language, a story of the patriotism, fidelity and capacity of the negro soldier. The recital comes not from the envious and grudging, who would exalt themselves at the expense of brave black boys who make their promotion possible and their lives safe, but from the big-hearted, true commanders, who are honest and square enough to tell the truth as it is, and who subscribe to that liberal philosophy voiced by a distinguished admiral, "There's glory enough for us all!" If there is under the sun in these last days of the nineteenth century, any individual so dense as to charge that the Negro soldier will not fight under officers of his own race we hope these few lines will reach his eyes, and lead him out into the light of history and into the realm of demonstrated fact. The regimental commander takes pleasure in congratulating Capt. Buck and thirty men of his company on their capture of Pedro Paterno on the 25th. of April. This prominent insurgent had been long believed to be in hiding somewhere in Benguet, but he and his protectors there had successfully eluded all previous searches. Capt. Buck's astuteness in discovering the fugitive's whereabouts no less than the energy of the whole night's march through drenching rain and over rough trails to make the capture, is particularly commended to the regiment to be borne in mind and emulated. The following telegram just received is published to the regiment and will be read at the formation for retreat on the date received: 16 The Adjutant, San Fernando. On information that there was a company of insurgents in Tarcrong, east of Cayman, I sent Capt. Hankins with his company and a guide to that point April 28. He returned yesterday at noon, having struck insurgents in Tarcrong in intrenched barracks on Sunday afternoon. Counted twenty dead, unknown number of dead burned in barracks. Three seen to escape. Two prisoners brought in. Thirteen guns, also ammunition, and equipments brought in. Many guns, and etc., burned in barracks which had to be fired to g.t at insurgents remaining therein. Large quantities bulled rice, other supplies, and clothing burned. Papers captured. Prisoners gave strength of insurgents fifty men and five officers. Two captians, one lieutenant, two cornetts, all killed. Force consisted of parts of two companies. Hankins did good work. Surprise on insurgents complete. Band practically annihilated. No casualties to us. Signed, DADE, commanding To Capt. Hankins, his officers and men, the Regimental Commander hereby conveys his keen appreciation of and sincere congratulations for the thorough work of Company F, as recited in Major Dade's dispatch. This company, by its excellent showing in matters of discipline soldierly appearance, cleanliness, and sanitary condition of camp, and devotion to duty, has long attracted the attention of the Regimental Commander, who is therefore particularly gratified to find thus signally vindicated his confident trust in its officers and men. By order of Col. Duvall. Signed, A. D. BRIGHT. Capt. and Adjut. 48th. Inf. U. S. V. Telegram. Vigan, May 3, 1900. Col. Duvall, San Fernando: Brigader General commanding wishes me to convey his congratulations to you and his thanks to those of your command who accomplished the good work at Tamorong, to which I add mine. Signed, SMEDBERG. Assistant Adjutant General. San Fernando de La Union Luzon, P. I. May 8, 1900 Orders No. 62. The following extract from a telegram just received from Major Rice is published to the regiment and will be read to each company at formation for retreat the day the order is received at the station: Allen, via Tagudin, May 8. Adjutant 48th Inf., San Fernando: Lieutenant Brown, who was commanding this post during my absence received information of a band of 26 insurgents under Lieut. Patrico Saydin at Barbarit on Rios Bias. He left here yestercay morning at 4 oclock, arriving at Barbarit 2:30 p.m., taking with him 30 men, Co. G. and Lieut. Cheek and 20 men Co. A. He succeeded in completely surprising their camp, killing Lieut Saydin and nine men; capturing eight Remington rifles, 560 rounds of ammunition, and one colts revolver. * * * Made no prisoners and had no casualties. I regard this as a brilliant piece of work for which Lieutenants Brown and Cheek deserve much credit. Signed, RICE, Major. By order of Col. Duvall. Signed, A. D. BRIGHT. Capt. and Adjt. 48th Inf., U. S. V. The company officers of the 48th Infantry and our doctor are all colored. Capt. Buck distinguished himself on San Juan Hill in 1898. Capt. Hankins is from Virginia. Lieutenant Brown is from the 9th U. S. Cavalry, and Lieut. Cheek is from Michigan. Our colonel is as proud of his regiment as though they were all his family, and he treats them all kindly. NERVY OLD SOLDIER. The Teacher and the Home. The relation between the teacher and the home is akin to that which exists between the pastor and the home, differing mainly in one particular. The pastor has a hundred households to care for in Christian love and watchfulness, while the Sunday school teacher has five or six, or perhaps ten, to visit and think of and remember in prayer. A great familiarity may very naturally result from this closer opportunity for service and friendship and the teacher, in the hearts of the young who gather in the class, is regarded as next to the parent, is quoted as an authority and is taken as an example. How may the teacher strengthen the links in the love-chain binding him or her to the scholars? In two or three practical ways. One is the way of regular or occasional visiting during the week. This, if the teacher is a (Continued on Page Three.) THE TWO PARTIES. The Conventions of Philadelphia and Kansas City. THE VITAL ISSUES OF EACH Some Striking Characters and Notable Utterances. Men Who Mold the Parties. The Negro's Part in the Coming Great Contest. His Work and Worth. Within the past fortnight two great National conventions have been held The Republican National convention at Philadelphia, nominated Hon. William McKinley of Ohio, for President and Hon. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, for Vice-President. The Democratic National convention at Kansas City, Mo., last week presented Hon. William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, for President and Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois for Vice President. There is a wide difference in the workings and personnel of the two great National conventions. Both brought out typical Americans, able representatives of the principles of the two great parties. Both conventions were remarkable for the enthusiasm manifested by the tremendous crowds in attendance and the eager interest of the nation in the doings of both conventions revealed an intensity of feeling and interest in the final result not noticeable in any pational convention of either political part since the stirring days of the civil war. The Philadelphia meeting was remarkable for a general air of harmony, saturation, and confidence that indicated a united barty. There was a manifest desire to be unanimous in all things. The only ripple of excitement was in the choice of a Vice-President. From all parts of the country came a strong feeling, demanding the unanimous choice of William McKinley for the Presidency. The death of Mr. Hobert was unfortunate. It developed the only semblance of a "fight," at any time noticeable. The present Republican administration has been called upon from the inauguration March 4, 1897 to deal with the most profound questions, both foreign and domestic, that have confronted any administration except possibly that of General Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Facing a depleted treasury, depressed business interest, a foreign war, and laying the foundation of a colonial policy which will in spite of the desires of the anti-imperialists transform the Cuban, Porto Rican, and the Filipino into patriotic Americans, it is an accomplishment worthy the united acquiescence of the party and the nation will undoubtedly ratify its action in November. The dealing with such grave questions and that too successfully, is sufficient to have made the fortune of any party. Realizing the splendid record of his party, President McKinley at no time concerned himself with the details of the convention, made up as it was of the statesmen who had helped to shape the destiny of the administration. The Kansas City convention was but the shadow of a dictators will. It was the ego of Mr. Bryan, the defeated idol of Democracy in 1896. It was a gathering of petty politicians rather than statesmen. It was the negative of modern progress—the "Boxer element" in our expanding American life. For months the preliminaries of this convention was a series of criminations and recriminations beginning with the notorious "Stone-Jackson". National Democratic embroglio and ending with the "Crocker-Hill" tilt. The nomination of Mr. Bryan was as much a foregone conclusion as that of Mr. McKinley. His splendid campaign FRIDAY MORNING. of 1896 and his overwhelming defeat of the champion of the financial falacy of "16 to 1" seems to have served only to intensify the devotion of the blind followers of a lost cause. There was one time an effort made to dethrone this latter day Jefferson by a "ten dollar" dinner party at Tammany Hall when the candidacy of Judge Van Wyck "the ice man" was launched. But Mr. Bryan and his followers laid out the "tigers" candidate by giving a dollar banquet on the same days, with the amusing result that the astute Crocker became a supple follower of the "boy orator of the Platte." The Democratic convention lacked much of the harmony among its leaders that was predominant at Philadelphia. The attitude of ex-Senator Hill and Mr. Crocker will not aid the Democrats in New York, any more than the turning down of Mr. Towne is calculated to please the rank and file of the silver Republicans and Populists who have been, and are now, duped by a gang of unserupulous politicians to chase this phantom, that in the event of success these fellows may have an office. Mr. Bryan as the defeated idol at Kansas City absolutely dictated the doings of the convention with the assurance of implicit obedience, which he received. There was no boss at Philadelphia but there was a Czar at Kansas City. THE PLATFORMS. Without a formal declaration of principles at Philadelphia, the Republican party would have commended itself to the most favorable consideration of the American people. The history of the party during the past three years is a platform worthy of the strongest confidence. The problems now confronting the American people and solution of them along lines well known and clearly understood, necessarily fix the limit of Republican activity and aspirations. Finding on its advent into power that the financial policy pursued by the outgoing Democratic administration had resulted in the destruction of American credit at home and abroad, the party having full control of all branches of the government, gave to the American people the Dingley tariff act to replace the notorious Wilson Bill, which Mr. Bryan declared did not approach absolute free trade sufficiently to suit him. This has resulted in a return of prosperity for all classes of American labor and capital. Pledging in 1896 to give to the nation a stable financial standing, the gold standard has been adopted which has resulted in additional prosperity to all classes. The platform adopted at Philadelphia re-affirms its allegiance to those principles It commended the course of the administration in dealing with the question growing out of the Spanish-American war. It stigmatized the flagrant conduct of the several Southern States, as worthy of the severest condemnation, in their efforts to nullify the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment to our federal constitution. The Republican platform is devoid of high sounding phrases, calculated to catch the emotional voter. It is a plain, business like document dealing in every respect, with questions now interesting and engaging the attention of the American people. It is the plain but carefully expressed claims of a party sobered by the consciousness of the vast responsibilities resting upon it. NUMBER 28. PITHY POINTS. Straws That Show The Tide of Public Opinion. STANLEY ADMINISTRATION. Webster Davis Enters Political Vaudeville and Does Sensational Ellipflop. Major Brown's Prayer to Money. Political Prodigals Return to the Fold. Senator Baker is in town this week assisting in planning a successful cam paign. The Negroes of Kansas are always in for prosperity and will uphold the business administration of Gov, W. E. Stanley. The tendency of the the Democratic and Populist parties to ignore the Negro is sufficient evidence that they do not need him. Show me a Negro who is dissatisfied with Republican prosperity and I will show you one who needs to be cared for continually by some officer of the law. Maj, Jno. M. Brown was four years Co.Clerk, four years in the Auditor's office and was chairman of the Refugee Board. Now, he cries out, "I am a Democrat." Alas! Many of those who left the Republican Party in recent years are returning to the fold to help swell the majority for Gov. Stanley and the entire Republican Party. "Before I would vote a Democratic ticket or support anything connected with the Democratic party—I would suffer my right arm to be cut off."—Col. J. Brown in 1888. Chairman MarkAlbangh called the Republican State Central Committee to meet in Topeka on July 10th, the Lord looked upon it and saw it was good and sent forth showers of blessings. There are a number of Democratic propositions that are too paradoxical to be harmonized. The Democratic convention is agianst Republican expansion, yet they gave Hawaii such a hearty reception. The principles as laid down by the Republicans of Kansas and the Nation appeal to the reason of mankind They set forth business propositions, advocate principles beneficial to humanity and it is the foundation on which prosperity is built. On all sides, from friend and foe, from Republicans and Democrats, come commendation and praise for Gov. W. E. Stanley and the entire personnel of his administration. And when we consider that the affairs of the state for the last two years have been conducted on purely business lines, and that every man from the governor down, has lived above even partisan criticism, it is easy to understand why Republicanism is stronger today than two years ago. There is a general air of prosperity; graneries are filled with grain; stock is marketable at good prices; every farmer has been enabled to make improvements on the farm and the future under the same conditions is radiant with the bow of promise. Selfish and unscrupulous politicians may desire a change because it means a chance to profit at public expense but no sensible man, black or white, dasires other than the re-election of Stanley and the entire State ticket and all will work to that end. The thousands dollars saved by the economy practiced in the different departments will be the strongest campaign argument—the management of the insurance department alone saving thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of the State. PRIDE OF TOPEAK TOWN No. M. Incels 1st and 3rd Saturday afternoon of each month at No. 906 North Kannam Avenue. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, Q. M., Miss Anna Reynold, C. R. MACEDONIA TAURINKADE No. 50, U.K. T. Hall 101 N. Hammers Avenue. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, G. P.; Miss Sarah Walker, C. R. MACEDONIAN LODGE No. 9, GOODSAMARTANS and DAUGHTERS of SAMARIA, meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month at 8 o'clock, at 113 East Seventh street. Vinting Samaritas are always welcome. W. E. Jacson, Chief Allie Lawson, Recording Set. PERSONAL NOTES. Shiloh Baptist Church rally raised $135.00 last Sunday. Mrs. N. A. Jordan is very ill at her house 1191 Lincoln St. Mrs. Drusilla Merritt has removed to 506 Jackson street. Mrs. M. Moss has gone to Dodge City to visit her son, F. A. Moss. Lucite Pullin and little neice Coral left Monday for Chickasha I. T. Miss Maud Johnson is very ill with dropsy at her home on Crane street. Mrs. Smith is very ill at the residence of her daughter on Monroe st., and is not expected to live. Rev. G. H. Shaffer is rapidly recovering from his recent attack of fever. Miss Minta Beck, of Wamego, Kas, was in the city last Friday and Saturday. Mrs. America Turner, of Leadville, Colo., is visiting her sister, Mrs. O. A. Taylor. Mrs. J. Barfield of Carbondale, lost her little four year old daughter last Friday. Miss Lena Stewart of Omaha, Neb., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Hamilton. Mrs. Ella Wade is dangerously ill at her home on Chandler and Fourteenth streets. Rev. Bates of St. Joseph, Mo., will fill the Shiloh Baptist Church pulpit next Sunday morning. Our Business Manager, Nick Chiles left Wednesday for Lincoln, Neb., to attend the Grand Lodge. The Good Samaritan Grand Lodge will convene in Representative hall, Aug. 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Mrs. Mollie Pace and daughter, Susie brightened our office Thursday afternoon by a pleasant call. F. Roundtree, our smiling councilman, made a business trip to Kansas City, Mo. Friday of last week. The Mt. Olive M. E. Sunday school will picnic at the Reform School grounds on Thursday afternoon. The Rosebud club met Wednesday with Mrs. Brashear. Adjourned to meet July 25, with Mrs. Adams. Mr. Henry Johnson and wife of Nevada, Mo., are in the city with his mother, Mrs. Matteson, who is very sick. Mrs. Geo. Moss has returned from Kansas City, where she spent several days. She was the guest of Mrs. B. Craue. Excelsior Lodge, No. 3., K. P., will entertain their friends on Thursday eve., July 19. You are invited to be present. Cards are out announcing the birth of little Hortense Keith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Holloway of Horton, Kans. Mrs. Ellen Butler of Kentucky is visiting the family of Geo. Sneed, 304 Jefferson St. She is accompanied by her little daughter. Mrs. Miller who has been visiting Mrs. G. W. Hamilton on West 10th street, returned to her home at Kansas City this week. Mrs. Geo. Moss entertained Mrs. J. Wilson of Joplin, Mo., Tuesday evening. Whist, music and dancing were the features of the evening. Mrs. T. Sterns died Friday at her home 3 miles east of the city. She leaves a husband, five daughters and three sons to mourn her loss. W. F. Bufkin, the PLAINDEALER's travelling representative, left Wednesday for a tour of South-west Missouri and South-east Kansas in the interest of the paper. Misses Willa Smith and Laura Anderson of Leavenworth, chaperoned by Mrs. Clara Kirk of Cresline, Ohio, attended the reception at Lawrence, Wednesday night. Mrs. William Wilson leaves on Sunday for an extended visit with her parents at Fayette, Mo., while away she will visit Macon and St. Louis, Mo., and also Chicago. Mrs. Florence Campbell of Atchison, arrived in the city Sunday to attend the funeral of her brother-in-law R. Campbell. She will remain several days. Mrs. Belle Smothers and daughter made a short visit in Topeka with Mrs. M. E. Langston. They have returned to their home in Arkansas City, Kansas. Meedames T. Bird, J. Bennett, J. Brashear and T. Williams entertained at the home of Mrs. Williams last Thursday in honor of Mrs. F. J. Peck of Baltimore. B. C. Duke preached in Wathena last Sunday morning and evening, and in Troy Monday evening. He is receiving more calls from Kaussa and Missouri than he can fill. Mrs. Mannie Oden left for Kaussa City, Mo. last week. She had been attending her mother, Mrs. Arthur Campbell, who was sick for some time. She is up and doing nicely at this time. Dr. C. E. Thomas, a prominent drug merchant of Aniston, Ala., was in the city this week visiting with Lawyer A. M. Thomas and renewing recollections of college days at Ann Arbor, Mich. Miss Susie Shaw will leave next week for her home at Wanega; from thence she will go to Oklahoma where she will spend the remainder of the Summer. Miss Shaw is one of our most charming young ladies and her absence will be felt. Tom Kelley, secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, is a hustler and wherever he goes he carries the good news to the other people of the state. Mr. Kelley is known throughout the state as a strong man. We believe that he will give much strength to the committee. Richard Campbell died Saturday morning of stomach trouble after an illness of three days. His funeral took place Sunday afternoon from the First African Baptist Church, of which he was a member. He was also a member of the United Order of Immaculates. He leaves a wife, three sons and numerous relatives to mourn his loss. Mrs. W. W. Wilson was highly entertained at the residence of Mrs. E. W. Matley's, Wednesday evening, by the Dumas club, Mrs. Wilson will leave Sunday morning for Fayett, Mo. to visit her father and mother for one month, from there she will accompany her mother to St. Louis, where she will spend the summer. The club wishes Mrs. Wilson a safe journey. We regret to announce the resignation of Rev. W. L. Grant from the pastorate of the Shiloh Baptist church which he has filled so very acceptably for the past five years. Rev. Grant is above the average in ability, both as a thinker and an orator. He has fine executive capacity and no doubt will meet the success he so justly merits in his new charge, the First Baptist Church in Kansas City. Topeka loses a splendid citizen. F. M. Waterfield, secretary of the Amanda Smith Orphan Home, and Miss Emma Lee, of Toronto, Canada, were married in Chicago July 2. Mr. Waterfield is a printer and a fine young man, and his bride was recently president of the Lee Art school of St. Louis. Here's wishing them a long and happy life.—Harvey Tribune Citizen. Mr. Waterfield, at one time, was to have come to Topeka as a composer on THE PLANDEALER. Then, perhaps, this story might have been different. WAMEGO (continued.) The noted horseman, Mr.B. B. H.G. Buckner, made a flying trip to Manhattan last Saturday and brought back another horse for training. Mr. Buckner transferred his work to Wamego a few mouths ago and intends to remain with us until the fall races. We are glad to have such a rustler in the community. Rev. I. W. Wilson, of the A. M. E. church, conducted the election of Sunday school officers here Sunday. The following officers were elected. Mrs. Chas. Lee, supt; Miss S. Williams, assistant supt.; Miss Willa Cason, secretary, Mrs. M. Love, treasurer; Mrs. Benj. Powell, librarian; L. W. Beck, teacher of Class No. 1. Miss M. Dillard, teacher of Class No. 2. The corps of officers is a good one and we do not doubt that the school will prosper under their supervisor. Little Madeline Beck met with a painful occident last Friday. She was playing on a step-ladder in the yard when it folded up, thowing her to the ground and cutting an ugly gash in her cheek. Dr. Hill was called and dressed the wound and she is now doing nicely. Rev. T.G. Barr of Emporia paid us a pleasant visit Saturday and Sunday on his return from the District Conference at Junction City Rev. Barr was formerly pastor of the A. M. E. Church here for two years and was highly respected by all. It was puile a treat to see his familiar face once more in our pulpit and listen to another of his always interesting and instructive discourses. There will be a basket meeting at the A.M. E. Church Sunday; and preaching services will be held at eleven o'clock a. m. and 3, 5 and 7 o'clock P. M. Rev. Wade is expecting the assistance of several ministers from surrounding towns, the choir will be composed of the best musical talent of the city and a spiritual feast is anticipated. PITHY POINTS "When I was sheriff of Cohoma Co., Mississippi, the Democratic thugs destroyed my property, caused the death of my wife and children, and caused me to flee from their diabolical hell to the heaven of Kansas."—J. M. Brown in 1886. Hon. Webster Davis of K. C., in making his flop into the arms of democracy, after he had been in the Republican fold so long, that he referred to the Demo-Pop-idol as "William J. Brennings." It pays to be right even in making a flop. Like many others, the Republicans made him, now some other party will "brake" him. The passage of the unconstitutional constitutional convention propositions for the purpose of disfranchising the Negro voter and the enactment of humiliating "Jim Crow" car legislation reinforced by the demand for the repeal of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments will or should keep even the independent colored vote nearer to the Republican party than ever before. Brown's Prayer to a New Goo. To Senator Money of Mississippi, "I have come all the way from loyal, liberty loving and bleeding Kansas to Negro hating Missouri, that I might bow down in humble submission to the 'diabolical thugs' who ran me and my family out of Mississippi, to beg that I might come back into the Democratic party. I know you are right because you have disfranchised the Negroes, instituted the "Jim Crow" car, prostituted our women and lynched our men, and you are now trying to abrogate the 14th and 15th amendments to the federal constitution and had offered ten thou sand dollars for my head when I hurried left for Kansas. You also indicted me for malfeasance in office, and ask the governor of Kansas for a requisition, which he refused. I have been well cared for by the Republicans of Kansas, but now I am ignored because younger men are coming on and I am not in the race. And Oh! Senator, I freely admit that I have lied about the Democrats and that the governor of Kansas should have delivered me up to your minions that my bones might be bleaching in Mississippi swamps. Please see your head Devil Tillman and see if he will accept me." The Prayer Answered. Now nigger, if you will be good, polite and obedient to us white folks, and stay in a nigger's place and don't ask for an office, don't ask for your wife to ride in a coach with us, don't ask to vote, or swear against the white man, don't ask for equality of law, always say in your speeches that a nigger is inferior to a white man, that he is incapable of thinking for himself and that old Abe Lincoln ought never have been born, and that the Emancipation Proclamation was a crime, never dispute a white man's word, then probably I'll submit the matter to Brother Tillman and others and if they think you will not become a saucy nigger from that time on, we will receive you—Selah. The Teacher and the Home. (Continued from Page One.) person of leisure, is an excellent way to become intimate with the class in its individual parts, of ascertaining the home environment and of finding out when and how to say the personal words which will attract the scholar to Christ. But if the teacher and scholars, as is frequently the case in the classes of the older young people, are engaged in business during the week, having evening only at their disposal, the matter is less simple. Visiting cannot be done in day-time, and open evenings are comparatively few. Still, the earnest teacher will secure an evening now and then to devote to calling upon scholars. A class re-union at intervals at the home of the teacher promotes a strong class feeling of loyalty and does much to attach class and teacher. 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Another obvious and easy way of cementing the friendly relations of teacher and scholars is by the writing of letters in absence. Thus the home and the teacher are all the week brought into vital touch with the Bible. Certainly, no teacher that lives near to God will ever forget that daily prayer more than all else, brings a blessing to the class. "It ye abide in me and my word abide in you," says the Master, "ye may ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. What more can we want? That word stands everlasting for our assurance and encouragement. We shall not fail of daily joy, of daily peace and the love between the teacher and the home be a fore-taste of life above. BEFORE AFTER concerns and big however, at to round them BE clean, write a If you UNABL Hot Weather! Well, I guess yes, but not so warm and sure as Beauchamp's Blackberry and pepsin. to cure Diarrhoea, Dysentery Colic or any form of bowel complaint. Every bottle guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. 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Five (5) Daily Passenger Trains are run on this line in each direction, between Kansas City and St. Louis. The Famous Hot Springs Of Arkansas Are reached ONLY by this LINE H.C. TOWNSEND, G.P. & T.A., ST. LOUIS, MO. E. NIPPS, Agent, TOPEKA, KAS. IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! CORRESPONDENTS to this paper must use due care in the preparation of their man uscript. We have not the time to reconstruct your news items, and if the matter sent in is not legible, it will be filed as dead matter. Long lists of names of parties attending social functions, extended comment not of a purely news nature must be accompanied by cash to insure publication. Sign your correspondence. North Topeka. One of the most successful and attractive entertainments of the season was the Street Fair, at B street Baptist church July 4. under auspices of Beulah Mission circle. The booths were handsomely decorated in gay colors. Amount taken in, $24.75. Misses Pearl Woods and Nellie Thomas are visiting Mrs. Mary Matheny in Newton. Rev. S. W. Beasley and Rev. Bates of Missouri are in the city. Rev. L. M. Arthur filled the pulpit at St. Mark's church Sunday. THE PLANDEALER was pa last week shaking his old friends. The primaries will the city July 17 to gates to the county of Tom Flannelly will cageation from Chetopa. J. E. Finley, one of brightest young men, led a position in the pulb of Columbus, Kans. Helen Edmonds, wh visiting in Pittsburg home Saturday. Fannie Roberts, wh A surprise party was given on Leona Cornell Friday, July 6. in honor of her twelfth anniversary. Many useful presents were received. Mrs Ida Jordan left Monday night for Lincoln, Neb., to attend the annual grand session of the Macedonian Tabernacle and Tent. Sunday school at St. Mark's church will be at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Wooten left Monday night for Lincoln, Neb., to attend the grand session Macedonian Tabernacle and Tent. ill for several months day morning and w Sunday, Revs. Cart Duncan officiating. Ted was an active memtle Flock Baptist chur left a husband, 8 chilfers and a host of mourn her loss. Alonzo Dial is in Pit Ottawa. Mrs. H. W. Scott Kansas City last Mon her sister. Mrs. Henrietta Swa has been visiting in Ottawa. Those who have news for THE PLAINDEALER can leave it at A. S. Kane & Co. Family Drug store, 832 N. Kansas avenue. Manetta and Lula Robinson gave a swell party Friday evening, June 30. The evening was spent dancing and games. Refreshments were served and everyone was happy. The Ladies' Aid society of North Topeka, which was organized last August to help the poor, has prepared a home at 717 N. Tyler street, to be known as the Topeka Charity Home. It will be ready for occupancy in a few weeks. There will be a special meeting at B street Baptist church Sunday. The Rosebud club was entertained by C. T. Birdwhistle and wife Thursday evening. Refreshments were served. Weir City. Etta Schrader of Ottawa lectured at St. John Baptist church last Thursday evening. She is an eloquent speaker, and received attention of her hearers from the time she uttered the first word until the close. Emma Vernon of Galena is the guest of the Misses Harkins. Rev. A. Boswell of Missouri is in the city, and will conduct a series of meetings for Pastorelect J. S. King. Maggie Robertson spent a few days in Pittsburg, the guest of D. Anderson. Joe Gunter is able to be out again, after several days illness, to the delight of his many friends. E. Berry and George Austin spent last Sunday in Columbus, and report a grand time with the ladies. Belle Glover is slightly indisposed this week. We hope that she will soon recover. L. Scott and daughter, Martha Jane took their departnre last week for an extended visit to relatives in Eirmingham, Ala. Chetopa. Coffeyville. The colored people of Coffeyville are reputed to be in the best financial circumstances of any in the state. More colored people own their property here than in any other town in the state. Foster Williams is a most successful business man. He is engaged in the grocer business. He has one of the best stocked stores in the city. He is a man that the citizens of Coffeyville, as well as southern Kansas, are proud of. A. Roan is also in the grocer business and seems to be quite an enterprising man. Leave all subscriptions for the PLAINDEALER with A. J. Shobe at the K. C. Restaurant. Remember it is only $1.00 per yr. Manhattan. Ada Downey arrived from Adina, Kans. Saturday where she has been visiting her aunt Mrs. Stamps. Minnie Howell is in Council Grove with friends. Maude Smith spent the 4th in C. C. with friends. Ida Posie of Wamego was the guest of Efie Williams Sunday. The fishing party that spent the 4th at Wild Cat Lake reports a good time. G. W. Owens spent the 4th in Junction. Rev. Keele of Burlington is here on business. Miss Jennie has the typhoid fever. Rev. L. Crawford has been ordained as minister of the Seven Days Adventist, or the church of God. The people here are well pleased with the PLAINDEALER. We have a number of subscribers already and we trust before this year is out every colored citizen here will be a subscriber. Newton. Mrs. A. Adams of Paola, who has been visiting her sister Mrs. Jones of this city, returned to her home Saturday. Ed Mason and family spent Sunday in the country. Mrs. J. Robinson has returned to her home in Arkansas City after a few weeks visit with her husband in this city. Chas. Miller spent the 4th in Wichita. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson left Saturday for Pueblo Colo. where they will make their home. Mr. Slaughter was given a surprise pary July 3rd by his wife and daughter, Lula. His friends gave him a large arm chair. Nellie Thomas and Pearl Woods of Topeka are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Matheny. C. Miller and wife and J. Gross and wife spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Harve Manning, nine miles northeast of town. The evening well spent, the only thing to mar the feelings of the hostess was the sickness of her boy Carl. We hope he is better. No preaching at 2nd Baptist Church Sunday as they have no pastor. Newton. Joplin Mo- Leavenworth. Goldie Young, stencgrapher and leading soprano of the A. M. E. choir, is visiting in Denver. Laura Anderson is visiting in Wichita. Atchison. EDITORIALAFTERTROUGHT A short time ago, we published an article from the pen of a Mr. Bowling of Washington, relative to the action of our Kansas Senators toward the bill introduced for the purpose of re- A man, who can come in from the country an Abraham Lincoln Republican; attend a Silver Republican convention and be converted, go to Kansas City a Free Silver Republican and be transformed into a Jeffersonian Democrat, all these changes, occurring within forty-eight hours, now that man is a daisy. But these lightning change political artists are not calculated to carry the masses. They are to quick in the change. Wamego. The Progressive Literary Club of this city, after a lethargy of several months, has again called its members together and resumed work under the leadership of its active and enthusiastic president, Mr. Charles Lee. The past activity of this society will be remembered as having been directed toward the social and intellectual welfare of its members, and the deep interest and enthusiasm manifested at the special meeting of Monday evening without doubt give sufficient grounds for assuming that its work in the future will be no less spirited; that its motto, "True to each other" will be no less faithfully followed than it has been in the past; and we remember with pride that, even at the period of its greatest inactivity, it could be said of this organization that it was doing some good and certainly no harm to any. The primary purpose of the meeting Monnay evening was to make arrangements for a celebration here, August 1st, the first Wamego has held in ten or twelve years. It is certainly a step in the right direction both as evidencing the social life of our people here and appreciation of the advantages, blessings, and prosperity we enjoy as an emancipated race; and the club will have the most hearty co-operation and support of the citizens of Wamego, both white and colored, in its efforts to make this celebration a success. Mr. O. M. White returned from Onega Tuesday where he has been since June 17 assisting Dr. Parsons in his dental work. Every one admires push and stick-to-it-iveness, especially in the younger generation, and in a town where there is so little ambition manifested. Mr. White stands as a type of the rising young man, one who has in him the elements of success. (Continued from Page One.) gloried in the fact that it had killed and mutilated Negroes in the South. It denounces the Porto Rican Tariff law because it imposes a tax upon a people without their consent, and boast that they control eight millions of Negroes without their consent and compel them to contribute to the expense of a government. Everything is denounced but the Boxer Rebellion in China, and this only escaped, because it had no Webster Davis. THE FREE SILVER REPUBLICAN. This conference or rather National convention at Kansas City is only interesting in a very minor way. It is hardly a national party, and in fact very meagrelly deserves the name of a party. It can be better appreciated as an element of dissatisfied Republicans with Democratic proclivities, lacking the moral courage to bollly join hand with the Democratic party. Its conference at Kansas City was very much on the order of a tramp waiting for a handout, that never came. The returning delegates are mad at each other as well as the Tammany Tiger who would not swallow Towne. This minor incident is of interest to Kansas Negroes only by rea-on of the presence of Major John M. Brown, the whilom Republican of Shawnee County, who in making his adieus to the Republican party and his bow of submission to Tillmanism (from which he fled from Mississippi a few years ago) he agreed to deliver the Negro vote of Kansas to the cohorts of reform and Negro repression. Now Major Brown is a great and good man, and his connection with "the Father of Our Country" renders his statements above suspicion as to truth and veracity. The Major has one of the biggest and finest farms in Kansas and it may be possible that he has corralled the entire Negro vote out at his ranch and knows whereof he speaks. We haven't seen the cards in his hands or up his sleeve, but we are ready and willing to wager our entire printiug plant against just any old thing that there will be some Negro votes in Kansas this fall that will refuse to be delivered The Major is a warm article on the stump and if he will allow his pet South American Emigration scheme to rest quietly in the tomb of oblivion, he is liable to do some business for the anti's provided his head is as clear on the silver craze as it is on the real principles of the Republican party for which he fought, bled, and —. Kansas Negroes cannot be carried bodily and delivered as so many chattels, to any political party. Not even by an ex-Publican who has grown sleek feeding at the public crib. THE NEGRO DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE. The Negro Democrat is an entity. He has ceased to be a crysalis. He has reached that point in his career where he can enjoy the luxury of an independent existence. He can have state and national leagues, a something beyond the capacity of the Negro Republican. It is to be regretted that the poor Negro is an alien in all things. He must "tread the wine press alone," in social, religious and political matters Even in the company of the devoted apostles of Thomas Jefferson, who preached the devine doctrine of "the equality of man," the poor Negro must go it alone. The National Negro Democratic League was in session at Kansas City last week. It was not an "August" body unless some of the speeches were a little torrid when reviewing Brother Tillman's boasts of what the solid South had succeeded in doing in the way of defrauding the Negro voter and murdering the Negro regardless of whether he belongs to the Democratic party. The Negro Democrat is a crow eater of the highest type. His attitude more clearly than anything we have yet discovered illustrates that precept of Christ, s, "love those who displeitefully use you." At the head of the League is the Hon. Edward E. Lee "the black Crocker of New York" and Mr. Geo. E. Taylor of Oskaloosa, Ia., is the Secretary. In his historical sketch, Mr. Taylor is inclined to complain because "indeed the League has never received the recognition that it should have received by the Democratic National committee." This no doubt arises from the fact that the Democratic managers all look upon this forlorn Negro political miscarriage in the same light that the Editor of the Louisiana State as the "foulest things on earth." The Negro Democratic League is a conception of the late Mr "Alphabetical" Taylor whose memory is still green. It is an organization for the purpose of getting next to the precounter by men who have become disgruntled in the Republican ranks. It has no standing within the Democratic organization. It is a political Ishmael. 406 Kansas Avenue. 'Phone 52 OFFICE HOURS Telephone, 454 7 to 10 a.m., 12 to 10 p.m. 7 to 10 p.m. J. M. JAMISON, M. 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