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ALL THE NEWS, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS; NEWS AFFECTING THE RACE EVERYWHERE, GATHERED BY THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME II. KANSAS MEDICOS. The Sunflower State Array of Medical Talent. NEGROES WORTHY OF NOTE. They Rank Way Up Among Men of Their Profession. Douglass Hospital. Doctors Thompson, Vernella, Taylor, Brookins, McLemore, Shields and Hudson. In pursuing the established policy of THE PLAINDEALER, we believe example is to be admired, and is far 大徳寺 more productive of results, more real and tangible than the gospel of precept. We are inclined to believe that the cause of so many idle colored boys about our streets is due largely to the constantly iterated and reiterated interrogative statements: "What's the use going to school? I can't get anything to do?" True, there is much in this everyday life of ours to discourage the average youth, whose aggressiveness lost much of its temper through the race's years of slavery and oppression. The young Negro who looks the world in the eye and sees the scant room in the commercial world, and the dismal outlook for the race's professional men, finds very little to encourage him to sacrifice pleasures of youth to obtain an education. But conditions are P. H. DR. W. H. HUDSON. ATCH ON. changing with the Negro. He is learning in the great school of experience that the exceptional Negro who has the temerity to scale the heights of professional knowledge can do for him all that any other race can do. He is learning that the Negro lawyer can plead his cause as eloquently before the bar as can the Anglo-Saxon; that Negro doctor can diagnose diseases and prescribe for their cure as well as the white. In fact, the great masses of the Negroes are rapidly recovering that confidence in each other, honesty of purpose that had its downfall when the lust of the African savage sent his brother to perish in American slavery, that he might have a string of glass beads. It has been this lack of confidence between members of the race that FRIDAY MORNING. has contributed so much to the slow growth and development of our people since emancipation. The world marvels at the very remarkable progress of the race during the past thirty-five years, but the present achievements of our people in education, wealth and morals would pale into insignificance if there had been the same confidence and gregariousness among our people in 1863 as we have today. But still, all signs point to a brighter future for our people. The outlook is not so gloomy. The race, though prescribed and ostracised, is rapidly learning to supply its own wants. This is infinitely more than could be said of the Israelites after four-hundred years of Egyptian slavery. A few days ago the telegraphic reports told of the work of the race's greatest benefactor, Booker Washington, who is at this time actively making a careful study of the condition of our people in New York, with a view of suggesting methods of bettering their condition. This is a plan which should be followed in every locality where our people are in any considerable numbers, and should be pursued for the purpose of seeking homes for the race where the largest measures of freedom are enjoyed, and the opportunities for financial and moral improvement are greatest. Here in the West can be found the best examples of Negro development along industrial lines. Here, in less than a generation, the race has laid a foundation for future wealth not even excelled by the Southern states. Here, too, will be found the finest specimens of Negro manhood. From the rapidly increasing wealth of the race, a strong and increasing class of professional men is growing up, whose achievements are eminently respectable. Scattered about in the populous Negro districts of the state will be found a large number of colored physicians. The work they are doing is forever relegating the "vooodoo" quack, whose identity has long been associated with the race. The oldtime voodoo with his basket of herbs, bones, etc., who played upon the ignorant superstitions of a race enslaved, is a recollection, and, along with the "conjure woman", is a part of the folklore of the race, used by mothers to frighten fretful babes. Yet, the race cannot scoff and abuse the man with his herbs. He served his purpose. To his knowledge of the healing and medical properties of the weeds, grasses and plants has been added the scientific information of technical school of medicine and surgery, with the result that the Negro doctor is an entity, with his diploma and pills. In the acquisition of a technical knowledge of medicine and the application to diseases of the human being, the Negro has manifested the same remarkable genius for absorbing knowledge that has characterized him in other and equally difficult branches. Realizing the oestracism of his people, and their great need for proper hospital care during illness, the Negro physician has conceived and put in operation hospital and training schools for nurses that are proving a great benefit to the race. These hospitals are imperatively demanded in the South and in some Northern localities where the prejudice against the Negro is stronger than the love for Jesus Christ Kansas has all these elements. A strange and an inexplicable condition to exist in a state dedicated by the blood of its noblest citizens to the cause of liberty and humanity. Topeka, perhaps, has more Negro physicians than any other city in Kansas, the oldest being Dr. J. M. Jamison, followed by Drs, Seth Vernella, I. A. Shields, C. S. Sunday, O. A. Taylor and W. E. Jackson. Seth Vernella. To the "eclectic school of medicine" Dr. Seth Vernella, a native of South America, belongs. He is a specialist in diseases of women and children, and has built up a large and lucrative practice. He received his medical education in foreign countries, and was for a number of years attached to a Catholic hospital at Rome, Italy. After completing his education, he traveled extensively TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 27, 1900. THE TWO COMPARED Tom Fortune Tells How He Stands. His Position. HAS CRITICISED THE' G. O. P. But His Criticisms Have Been Inside the Party. No Tho't of Leaving its Folds. McKinley and Roosevelt Preferable to Bryan & Stevenson Because Abler and Wiser. No man of African descent at presents weilds as potent an influence on National Negro politics as does Hon. T. Thomas Fortune, the versatile though sometimes erratic Editor of the New York Age. His views on all public questions as they affect the Negro are remakable for their comprehensiveness and force. Editor Fortune is at all times clear and explicit. Just now, when, the increased number of Afro-American politicians, for revenue only, are espousing the cause of Bryan and Democracy as ruled by Crocker and the Ice trust, it is necessary that the position of the faithful adherents to the party of liberty and progress should be clearly understood by the great mass of our people. In a recent issue of The Age Editor Furtune thus clearly and forcibly defines the position which the Negroes of America should assume towards both parties: The Martinsburg (W. V.) Pioneer Press has come out flat-footed for Bryan and Stevenson. We do not object to that. Every Editor should do his own thinking. The Pioneer Press enumerates all the points of grievance the race has had against President McKinley during the past four years and wants to know how the Age can afford to support the National Republican ticket. The Cleveland Gazette and the Indianapolis World and a few others of our papers which are supporting the Democratic ticket, want to know the same thing. We had thought we had made our position plain enough. Such opposition as we have made to policies of the Republican party during the past four years which seemed antagonistic to the best interests of the race we made strictly inside the party, and we have had the satisfaction of seeing two of those three adverse policies reversed. We contemplated at no time going outside of the party and we do not contemplate doing so now. From the platform point of view, we are in accord with all the declaration of the Republican platform; we are not in accord with any delaration in the Democratic platform. As far as the candidates are concerned, McKinley and Roosevelt are preferable to us, as a good citizen and an Afro-American, to Bryan and Stevenson, because they are abler and wiser and safer men, and more representative of regnant American aspirations at home and abroad and of Republican traditions, which are the glory of the Nation. As far as parties are concerned, the Republican party has always been our friend; it has conferred upon us all the rights of citizenship we possess and it has never taken any right of manhood or citizenship from us. The Democratic party has opposed every right of manhood and citizenship which the Republican party has conferred upon us and relentlessly antagonized every right so conferred. It has been our relentless foe. It is our relentless foe. It has learned nothing since the war; it has forgot nothing. Our political creed may be summed up in the following: We are against the Democratic party because the Dem- The Negro like the Swede. German or any of our many heterogeneous racial elements assuming his position in political parties, accordingly as the principles and practices of the party affect his progress as a citizen. The enacting of laws calculated to deprive the Negro of equal opportunity as a citizen and of stigmatizing the race as inferior beings is a principle and practice of communities and States where Democratic A. B. DR, O. A. TAYLOR, TOPEKA. sentiment prevail. In discussing the infamous "Jim Crow" car law, the Age says:— Talking about the infamous "Jim Crow" law of Virginia, the Richmond Planet says: "We are a law abiding people," But when we do not make the laws, and have no voice whatever in the making or enforcing of them, and when the laws are purposely made to degrade us and deprive us of the constitutional guaranty of equality of rights and justice, how then? We believe in obeying just laws that bear equally upon all the people and we believe in antagonizing all DR. W. G. BROOKINS, FT. SCOTT. laws that do not. How long would an equal number of white men in Virginia obey the "Jim Crow" laws of that State if directed against them by black men? Are black men better or more craven than white men. There will be an end of the whole scheme of Humbug. And again:— The Springfield (Mass.) Daily Republican, talking about the proposed "Jim Crow" legislation on the street cars of New Orleans, says: We may therefore venture the prediction that the proposed new law will not remain long on the statute books. The economic consideration will finally overcome the prejudice of color. Street transit depends for its greatest efficiency and cheapness A. B. DR. I. A. SHIELDS, TOPEKA. upon a service strictly common to all people without discrimination. And if it should chance that Southern and local capital is operating the service the color discrimination will the more (Continued on Page Four.) CORRECTS LIBEL. 9th and 10th Cavalry Not Roasted By Teddy. THE CHARGE UP SAN JUAN. "No Troops Could Have Behaved Better." Roosevelt Proud of Them. In A Letter He Silences the Slander Which Reflects on Black Boys Who Wore The Blue. In April 1899, Governor Roosevelt published one of a series of articles in the Century Magazines relative to the doings of his Rough Riders and other soldiers, during the late Spanish-American War. In this article reference is made to the conduct of the Negro soldier, consisting of "a score of colored infantry men", that happened to come under the eye of Colonel Roosevelt. And he said, "No troops could have behaved better than the Colored soldiers had behaved so far, but they are of course peculiarly dependent upon their white officers. Occasionally they produce non-commissioned officers who can take the initiative and accept responsibility precisely like the best class of whites, but this cannot be expected normally, nor is it fair to expect it. With the colored troops there should always be some of their own officers, whereas, with the white regulars, as with my own Rough Riders, experience showed that the non-commissioned officers could usually carry on the fight by themselves." And again in describing the conduct of the men under the severe hail of shot, shell, and shrapnell that the Spanish soldiers were pouring on them, Col. Roosevelt says "but under the strain, the colored infantry men (who had none of their officers) began to drift to the rear, either helping wounded men or saying that they wished to find their own regiments.* * * * So I jumped up and walking a few yards to the rear, drew my revolver halting the retreating soldiers, and called out to them that I appreciated the gal'antry with which they fought, and would be sorry to hurt them, but I would shoot the first man who, on any pretense whatever, went to the rear." * * * "where all the regular officers did so well, it is hard to draw any distinction, but in the calvalry divisions a peculiar meed of praise should be given to the officers of the Ninth and Tenth for their work and under their leadership the colored troops did as well as any soldiers could possibly do." The foregoing are the offensive remarks of the Republican candidate and have been brought forward by Democratic Negroes as a good and sufficient reason for Negroes to vote against the Republican party. We take pleasure in publishing the following letter from Colonel Roosevelt in relation to his utterances. Oyster Bay, July 9th, 1900, Maj. Geo. W. Ford, Fort Scott, Ks., My dear Major Ford:— I thank you for your letter of the 30th ult. just received on my return from the West. The attack on me comes from certain demagogues who expect me to speak in the superlative of everybody. I have had similar attacks made upon me because I pointed out the shortcomings of certain white volunteer officers and the shortcomings of the regular artillery. In my article I mentioned a panic which occurred among some colored infantry seperated from their officers. I stated that "No troops could have behaved better FRIDAY MORNING. than the Colored soldiers." but added that "they were peculiarly dependent upon their officers." I pointed out that some of the Colored non-commissioned officers were able to accept responsibility and take the initiative precisely like the very best White non-commissioned officers, but that under the circumstances it was not fair to expect this to be the invariable case; and in conclusion I stated that the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry who were with their own officers showed that "Colored troops did as well as any soldiers possibly could do." Finally I dedicated my book "To the Officers and Men of the Five Regular Regiments of the Cavalry Division at Santiago", saying that "I do not believe in any army in the world could be found a more gallant and soldierly body of fighters than the officers and men of the 1st, 3rd, 6th 9th, and 10th U.S. Calvary", and added that "for my own regiment I was proud to accept the statement that it was on an equality with these regiments." If there is any further information you would like I would be most glad to give it. I may point out that one of the arguments used against me with the National Gaurd was the statement that I had undervalued them when compared with the regulars of the cavalry division. Of course that was a slander as the present is slander, but knaves can often persuade fools to go wrong by misquoting or only partially quoting what a man says. A volunteer regiment like the 20th Kansas when it has had such an experience as that regiment has had, is as good as the best regular regiment in the world. The Ninth and the Tenth Cavalry did so well before Santiago, that as I have pointed out in my book, it completely overcame the prejudice even among my South-westerners of my regiment, and to use their own phraseology "were delighted to drink out of the same canteen with them." Faithfully yours. It has never been, and never shall be, a practice of the PLAINDEALER ro apologise for the conduct of any man, white or black. We accept the statements of Gov. Roosevelt along with those of many thousands of American people, who have been convinced that the Negro soldier is entitled by virtue of his noble conduct to their highest consideration and respect. But admitting as true all that has been said relative to the Negro soldiers failing to receive just recognition from the hands of the National Administration, is that sufficient to justify the Negroes of America in jo ining to and promoting the success of a party whose recorded history on the race problem is blacker than the hinges of hell? Is there sufficient in the utterance of Gov. Roosevelt, construe them as one will, to offset the boasted murders of Ben Tillman? No honest Negro will vote with Democracy and lynch law. Rev. A. Beck Talks. Some Experiences and travels. Col. Jim Beck has a brother, who is a preacher and a great big man. He has spent many years traveling over the south. He has seen much of the condition of our people in the South and does not hesitate to speak out on the dastardly treatment of our women. The magnificent gospel he is preaching should be imbbed by his brother. In a recent interview in the Ashland (Neb.) Gazette, he has this to say about the prevailing practice of lynching Negroes in the South by the leaders of the Democratic party: "It was truly heart rending to listen to his description of the cruel wrongs to which the colored man is still subjected in the South. In the North we hear only one side of the matter. When a brutal, ignorant Negro becomes the victim of a Southern mob, the average person is apt to reflect that he only received what he deserved and let the matter pass with a NUMBER 30. ern White Men. STRAWS THAT TELL Direction of Political Current Shown By Trend OF WORLD'S BEST THOUGHT. Political Opinion. Resume of Week's Events. Pointed Paragraphs. Republicanism in Kansas. It Makes Strange Bed-fel lows. A Question It Makes Strange Bedfellows Politics makes strange bedfellows Just think of John Brown and Ben V DR. S. H. THOMPSON, WYANDOTTE. Perkins in the same party. Most Economical In Kansas History. Gov. Stanley's administration [will go down in history as the most economical in the history of Kansas. There was money left in the contingent fund. Democracy Is Almost Hell. Democracy is Goebleism, Tilmanism, lynch law, and disfranchisement of Negroes. Simply that and nothing more. Don't All Speak At Once. Can a Negro be a Democrat in Kansas? No, he cannot afford it even in heaven, to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Not On Your Tiatype, See Did Bridemental meet the Twenty- M. DR. S. E. VERNELLA, TOPEKA. third Kansas on its return from Cuba. Certainly not. Then please Brother Beck, don't froth at the mouth about Gov. Stanley. False Statements Will Cut No Ice.' Does the Kansas contingent of Tillmanism hope to make votes against the Republican party by making false and rediculous statements about Gov. Stanley? Major Brown should remember that a capable soldier kept the records of our colored regiment, as well as a competent officer drilled his battalion for him. The Question of Separate Schools. There is no time when the separation of white and colored children in the public schools can be justified. If it is good policy to seperate them (Continued on Page Four.) Women of Negroes [In order to insure publication of matter in the current issue, correspondence must be in this office not later than Tuesday.] WILLIAM MCKINLEY, FOR PRESIDENT. THEODORE ROOSEVELT; VICE PRESIDENT. STATE TICKET. For Governor, W. E. Stanley. For Lieutenant Governor, H. E. Richer. For Associate Justice, W. A. Johnston. For Secretary of State, George A. Clark, For Treasury, Frank Grimes, For Auditor, George E. Cole, For Attorney General, A. A. Godard, For Supt. of Public Instruction, Frank Nelson, For Insurance Commissioner, W. V. Church, For Congressman at Large, Charles F. Scott, For Congressman First District, Charles Curtis, For Congressman Second District J. D. Bowersock, For Congressman Third District, George W. Wheatly, For Congressman Fifth District, W. A. Calderhead, For Congressman Sixth District, W. A. Reeder, For Congressman Seventh District Chester I. Long THE Democratic party is the tail to the Populistic kite this year. THE dictatorial attitude of Boss Bryan at Kansas City is very suggestive to imperialism. THE Republicans have no party perfidy and dishonor to hamper them in their victorious campaign. We renew our faith in the policy of protection to America labor.—Republican plantform. The Democratic platform renews its faith in foreign labor. We appose the accumulation of a surplus.—Democratic platform. The Democratic party has always been a debt creator, even in time of peace. Any government not based upon the consent of the government is a tyranny.—Democratic platform. How about the government of the people of New York by the Tammany ice trust? MAJOR Brown whose recent plunge into Democratic politics seems to have it in for Governor Stanley, and predicted much opposition to the governor because he failed to meet the twenty-third boys at Leavenworth on their return from Cuba. But we do not think that Governor Stanley's action will drive true Republicans away from their party; neither will the heresies taught by the Major. To what party does the Major wish the men of the 23rd to attach themselves? Surely, not the party of the self-confessed murderer Tillman, who prates of liberty and sheds crocodile tears, over the far away Filipinos, and vauntingly boasts of shooting "niggers" at home; who; was horrified at the atrocities of Spain and encourages outrages ten times worse in America. No, No, Major, if we are to leave the Repnblican party, God forbid! that we should ever become members of the party championed by Tillman, and men of his ilk. The men of the 23rd, like the vast majority of the colored voters of the state will go to the polls in November, and vote for the Republican nominees, county State and National. Poor Wu Tung Fang, Chinese Minister to the United States bewails the unfortunate condition of his countrymen in America, and believes that a better understanding of his people will result in a repeal of the Chinese Exclusion act. Don't you believe it Brother Wu, there are no chinese angels in the white man's bible, any more than there are colored ones. It makes no difference how dirty the white man is, he belongs to the superior race, and thereby has the call on the Mongolian, Ethiopian, or Malay, and don't you forget it. DALLAS EXPRESS, Kingletts. To hear the average Democrat talk about McKinley, one would think him a horse thief. THE excursion going darkey ought to remember that watermelons don't grow all the year. THE race which neglects itself can with poor grace demand recognition at the hands of another. THE white man has made himself a great factor not by talking race pride, but by doing race pride. QUIT fighting the Negro newspaper, old fellow. It is doing a great work. It is today the most effective champion of the Negro's rights. KANSAS MEDICOS. (Continued from Page One.) throughout Europe and Egypt, taking special lectures. Coming to America a number of years ago, he spent some time in travel and practice in Canada and in the Eastern states. He finally came to Kansas and located in Topeka, where he has been, with the exception of a few years in Atchison, for the past twenty years. By close attention to his profession the doctor has not only succeeded in building up a good paying practice, but he has also laid aside some of this world's goods as a protection against the rainy day. He has a magnificent home at 224 Topeka avenue, where he hospitably entertains his many friends. In Mrs. Jennie Thurman Vernella, the doctor has a dutiful wife and a strong helpmate. To her encouragement the doctor attributes much of his very remarkable success. D. A. Taylor. The man who makes up his mind that the color of his skin shall be no barrier to his success in life, and couples with it a firm and steady determination to win an honest honorable name, is bound, sooner or later, to succeed. A few years ago a colored lad was selling papers, blacking boots and doing odd jobs over in the city of Leavenworth. In him were the strong elements of energy and honesty that develops the real man. Oliver A. Taylor made up his mind to succeed in life. He labored hard and honestly in the public schools from which he graduated with honors, working at any old thing to pay his school expenses. In 1891, he entered the Meharry Medical school at Nashville, Tenn., and completed the course in 1894, working in the coal mines at Leavenworth during vacations to earn money to pay his expenses. Completing his course, he located at Mexico, Mo., and by his ability and integrity soon attracted public attention. He served a term as assistant city physician. He was resident physician for the Kansas and Texas Coal company for two years. He enjoyed the distinction of being the only Negro physician a member of the Northeastern Missouri Medical association. He practiced medicine at Macon, Mo. for over four years. He came to Topeka August 20, '98, and as a token of his appreciation by local physicians, seven months later he was elected a member of the Topeka Academy of Physicians and Surgeons, being the first and only Negro to become a member of the academy. On May 4th, 1900, he was elected a member of the Kansas State Medical association, there being but one other Negro member—Dr. S. H. Thompson, of Kansas City. Dr. Taylor is the examining physician for the Odd Fellows and Knights of Tabor lodges of the city. During the recent small-pox epidemic he treated 230 cases and was uniformly successful. This was more cases than was treated by any other physician. The doctor will take a course in German at Washburn college this year for the purpose of enabling him to care for his rapidly growing German clientage. He now has the largest practice among Negroes of any physician in the city. About five years ago he married Miss Ida B. Harlan, one of the popular teachers of the Leavenworth public schools, from which she is a graduate. Mrs. Taylor is a very affable lady, who by her warm-hearted sympathy, has contributed much to the success of her husband. They are the owners of property in the southeast portion of the city. The doctor's success in this city has been remarkable from the outset. A man of fine presence, open-hearted and generous, he has made hosts of friends, and his career here will prove an inspiration to many of our boys. I. A. Shields. Tennessee has probably contributed more energy to the Western Negro's progress in the splendid young men she has equipped and sent out than any other state in the union. Very few Negroes are born with the silver spoon; most come with the stern necessity of using fingers. This was especially true of our esteemed fellow citizen, Isaiah A. Shields, who began his career brushing boots and dusting clothes in a Nashville barbershop. Without allowing discouraging surroundings to sap the energy from his ambitions, Dr. Shields turned night into day that he might have a man's chance in the battle of life. Entering the splendid schools of Nashville, the doctor was forced to leave before receiving his degree, by reason of failing health. To recruit the same he lived for a number of years in Arizona, where he divided his time between barbering and practicing and studying medicine. He came to Kansas in 1882, and was married to Miss Cora Sharp, of Eskridge, Kas. Here the doctor put his few dollars in the Shields block, which remains to this day a monument to his bad judgment. Locating in Topeka about twelve years ago, he has succeeded in building up a very comfortable practice. Here he has many friends who respect him both as a man and a citizen. He is the owner of a nice little home on Van Buren street, and has some personal property. He is both an Odd Fellow and a Mason. B. A. McLemore. There is one Negro, at least, of whom all Bourbon county is proud, nor need the color line be drawn in order to make this assertion, as he is held in equal esteem by both races. We speak of Dr. B. A McLemore. He was born in Tennessee, and attended the common schools, after which he entered Central Tennessee college in 1879, and in 1884 he enter the Meharry Medical department, graduating three years thereafter. The same year he came to Fort Scott. His wealth at that time consisted of a trunk, good health, nerve, pluck and a diploma, but he went to work, and among the first things he did was to bargain for a small, brick house, which by energy and economy he soon paid for and used as an office. Since he arrived here he has been nominated five times for coroner—twice elected, twice defeated and tied once, and is yet a strong Republican. For thirteen years he has hustled and saved, and today owns considerable property, both farm and city. The little brick which he first purchased, has long since become inadequate for his growing practice, and he has purchased an office in the most prominent part of the city, and owns the block upon which it is situated. Besides this and his farm land, he owns property all over town, including two blocks on the most prominent boulevard in the city. It is said that he is the wealthiest and most prominent Negro in the county. He is a splendid physician and is often called in consultation with the most prominent white physician of the city. Whenever an expert physician is needed as a witness, the court never fails to seek his services. He speaks out boldly his convictions and opinions. Politically and socially he is a fearless, logical talker, and is known more or less all over the state, and stands well with all colors and classes where known. When he speaks upon any subject, both white and black will hear and heed, for he is not only a factor in his own race, but a power in the community in which he lives. At present he is guardian of several minors, and was administrator of the estate of the wealthiest Negro of the county. He was unanimously chosen city physician last year, and was the choice of the board of commissioners again this year, in which capacity he is now serving with honor, credit and distinction to all alike. Three years ago he visited his old home and took unto himself a helpmeet in the person of Miss Lizzie Harris, a graduate of Fisk university, and a woman of rare abilities and an amiable disposition, who has won a host of friends during her residence here. While he enjoys the full patronage of his own race, yet as a recognition of his abilities the patronage of both races is his. Thus, with an unlimited practice, a pleasant home, a financial standing of no little worth and an amiable disposition, one would not care to meet a more agreeable person than the doctor. M. G. Brookins. is another one of Ft. Scott's Negro physicians whose success is a source of inspiration to our young people. Nothing succeeds like success. Nothing breaks down the seemingly insurmountable walls that the Negro's restriction has built about our people like the breaking over of one or two. The breach made thereby is an opening to another and tells him what he can do if he only trie. Born over at Macon, Mo., Dr. Brookins was content with the precarious existence of a music teacher until the encouraging words spoken by Dr. O. A.Taylor sent him to Meharry college of Nashville, from which he graduated with honors. As a musician the doctor is something of a prodigy. During the time he was attending college and the musical conservatory, the doctor mastered twelve different musical instruments, and became proficient in composition and voice culture. He afterwards took a special course in piano tuning. He followed the profession of music teaching for a number of years with success, and during his course at Meharry Medical college, he paid his tuition by teaching music. He entered Meharry in 1895 and completed his medical studies in 1899, and at once located at Ft. Scott, where he is enjoying an exceptionally good practice. W. H. Hudson. Over at Atchison, Ed Howe is not the only man who stands as an idol of the people. There are 4,000 Negroes in Atchison county who have great faith in Dr. Hudson. Dr. Hudson was born December 24, 1862, at Nashville, Tenn., where, after finishing the high school course, he entered Central Tennessee college, taking the scientific course for two years. He taught school four years, then entered Meharry Medical college, taking a full course in medicine. The doctor has always been very studious, never having failed in any examination, and ranked high in all of his classes. He belonged to that class of young men who plowed their own row. During school vacations the doctor would turn his hand to any honorable labor to earn his next year's school money. In the harvest field, in the woods felling trees, sometimes hauling cord wood thirteen miles and gardening, all that he might provide for his parents and get through school. He always had a distaste against being a house servant, coachman or porter. After graduating in medicine in 1887, he located temporarily at Gallatin, Tenn., as Dr. J. W. Anderson, professor of anatomy had become very much attached to him, and desired that they permanently locate in a city together, after Dr. Anderson had taught another year in Meharry. So December 8, 1888, the doctor opened office in the city of Atchison, where he soon won a place in the front ranks as a physcian and an agitator of things pertaining to the welfare of his race, to which he is uncompromisingly true. His ability holds for him the practice of a large majority of the colored people in the city and county and a very creditable list of some of the best white families too. His energy has been expended on many lines to the benefit of the people. The extended arms of the race welcome thousands of men like this favorite son of Atchison. He is the founder of the True Eleven, an order which is calculated to promote the interests of the race. This order, as well as the doctor, has laid aside a few shekels. Sol. H. Thompson. is the name of one of the brightest Negro physicians in the West. Dr. Thompson is a West Virginian by birth and a New Worker by education. He is a graduate of Fordham Medical college in New York city. Like other young men of our race. the doctor has been compelled to create his commissary out of the country through which he passed Therefore, in order to complete his education, the doctor has "hopped bells" in hotels, "chased plates at the seashore and "pulled the hoist on an elevator." Thus he got started and he kept going. Completing his schooling, the doctor, after some travel, finally located at Kansas City, where his energy and ability attracted immediate attention and gave him a lucrative practice. He was defeated for the nomination for coroner in 1897, since which time he has given less attention to politics and more to the practice of medicine. In 1898 he conceived the idea of organizing a hospital for the care of Negroes, in view of the meager accommodations in the white hospitals. He was very materially assisted by all classes of our people, and as a result of their efforts, Douglass hospital was founded in 1899. A review of the hospital for the past year is before us. The report shows that 145 females and 84 males were received and treated during the year. Of these, 151 were discharged as cured, forty-five improved and seventeen died. This is a most excellent record for a new hospital, and certainly commends it to the very favorable consideration of all people. The hospital is kept up by charity, but very few of the wards are private. The hospital invites the race from all parts of the state and Missouri to send their sick Dr. Thompson is head physician. The doctor was married a few years ago to Miss Belle Armstrong, of St Louis, a very charming young lady. Vital Questions of the Day; Parties and Partisans. The National political roster for the year 1900, has been spread before us, and from that roster the Nation will select the men that will steer the ship of State for the ensuing four years after March 4th next. The Republican party comes before the people this year with broader and more important issues than ever. While the Democratic party, "driven from home", "out of doors", comes out with nothing to offer for the consideration of those who had expected to support it. Mr. McKinley as nominee for President on the Republican ticket, and Mr. Stevenson on the Democratic ticket for Vice-President, have both served their respective parties in the same offices that they are now aspiring to. The people of the Nation have watched with interest the administration of President McKinley and all will testify as to his fitness for the office. While the country has had to do with war to a small extent, during the past two years, the banner of prosperity nevertheless, has continued to wave over the land, and there has been employment for all that have sought work. Mr. Stevenson, a few persons remember, was Vice under Mr. Cleveland during his administration and that is all that he has done since the Civil War. We will now consider Mr. Bryan the head of the Democratic party, and Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. McKinley's running mate. Since the Civil War the Democratic party has been only an ineffective combination of elements of opposition to the Republican party. Bryan attempts now to re-organize it on a new basis. It was Jefferson's party, then Jackson's par-y and it may become Bryan's party if he can sufficiently impress his individuality on it. Mrs. Bryan is the champion of liberty, the "Moses" of the toiling masses of the country and yet he is content to be the hammer-bearer of a party that has been continually disfranchising the Negro voter in the South, and now they have the nerve to tell the Negro it is time to divide his vote. Is this liberty? These two comparatively young men, Roosevelt and Bryan, are no doubt studying each other. Roosevelt is the stronger man, an all around man. Bryan is almost entirely one thing, aalker. When it comes to doing, he fails; looking at things through the glamour of his oratorical temperament, he is apt to make a wrong move as a right one. Roosevelt is not that kind of a man, but he holds to a straight course, meeting the issues boldly and successfully as they arise but not taking the public into his confidence in regard to the future. He has a stronger party behind him than Bryan has, and is more thoroughly master of the situation than Bryan. While Bryan and the Democratic party is contending for a lost cause, there are many Negroes who are silly enough to support him as they --- A Profitable Way to See The West Is to join one of the personally conducted California excursions of the Santa Fé Route. Congenial companions are assured. Special conductors relieve you of all care and contribute materially to your enjoyment. No extra charge. Inquire of T. L. KING, Topeka Agent, The Atchison, Topeka & Sauta Fe Ry. OFFICE OF ASST. GEN'L PASS, AND TKT. AGT. C. R. I. & P. R'Y. Cheap Excursion Rates to Colorado. On July 7, 8, 9, 10 and 18, and August 3, ticks from points west of Missouri River, and east of Colby, Kan., to Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou Pueblo, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, and return, will be sold by the Great Rock Island Route At rite of- One Regular fare plus $2.00 Round Trip Return Limit Oct. 31, 1900. BEST LINE TO DENVER ONLY DIRECT LINE TO COLORADO SPRINGS AND MANITOU. Take advantage of these cheap rates and spend the vacation in Colorado. Sleeping car reservations may be made now for any of the excursions. Write for full information and the beautiful book "COLORADO THE MAGNIFICFNT"—sent free. JNO. SEBASTIAN, G.P. & T.A, Chicago, IL. E. W. THOMPON, A.G. P. & T.A., Topeka, Kas. In the District Court, Shawnee county, Kansas. Walham Connelly, planoff. Mary Connelly, defendant. The state of Kansas to Mary Connellly, defendant herein: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Shawnee county, Kansas by the above named plaintiff in the case No. 30,265 William Connellly, defendant, versus Mary Connellly, defendant, for a divorce, and that unless you answer the petition of plaintiff which was filed herein on July 7, 1900, on or before Sept. 10, 1900, said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered therein against you, forever divoring plantif from you, and declaning the contract heretofore between you and said plantif.ff null and void. WILLIAM CONNELLY. (ATTORNEY) IN GREEN NICHOLAS ATTY. A. M. CALAHAM, Clerk DIVISION 1 First Published June 27, 1900 In the District Court in and for Shawnee county, Kansas. The Second Ministry Baptist Church, a Corporation, planifi, $\textcircled{1}$ No. 70,605. D. Stouffer, defenant $\textcircled{1}$ To the defendant, D. 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We are hereby notified that the said defendant has been audited in the District Court of Shawnee county, Kansas, in the above described action for the purpose of determining the interest of said defendant and to have the same forfeited, if any he has; and to have it declared null and void, and that all persons interested therein must answer the petition filed by plantiff hereon on or before the day of September, 1900, or the petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered against said defendant declaring said mortgage and principal note null and void and ordering the same surrendered to the court to be released and cancelled and all other proper relief. A. M. THOMAS, Attorney for Plaintiff. [ATTEST:] A. M. CALLAHAM, Clerk District Court. Fax: 212-560-1000 OFFICE HOUSE: 9 to 11 A. M. 3 to 5 P. M. 7 to 9 P. M. W.M. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SUEGEON. Office, 117 West Fifth St. FRANK HERALD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAM. Room 313, Long Building, 515 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, Mo. MRS. R. P. TYLER. . . First-class Rooming House For NICE, CLEAN ROOMS, Rooms by The Day or Week 505 BLUFF ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. MISS NELLIE HICKS Has opened a Musical Institute at her residence, and has secured Three of the Finest Make of Pianos in the city with which to give instruction. Special attention given children; terms reasonable. Parents would do well to send their children to Miss Hicks, at No. 422 EAST FOURTH STREET OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 10 A.M. 3 to 5 P.M. C. SUMNER SUNDAY. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Calls Promptly Answered. Telephone 558. WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO, KANSAS. DEPARTMENTS, Theological, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial and Musical. Instructors from Leading Colleges. Good Water, Excellent Drainage, Healthful Climate. School term of nine months, begins Sept. 10, 1900. EXPENSES: Per month, Board $50, Tuition and Room Rent $2.00 Industrial Training FREE of charge. For further particulars and Catalogue, Address. Wm. TECUMSEH VERNON, A. M QUINDARO, KANSAS. For Sale Real Estate. FIVE ROOM HOUSE. 4 lots on Washburn avenue, $400 Five-room house, 1½ lots Topeka avenue, $950; three-room brick cottage, cellar, two lots, $550. Terms easy. FOUR ROOM COTTAGE, Good shape, on 1 acre, 1½ miles from the city, $600. PROPERTIES ON LINCOLN ST. All in good condition, 1 to 1½ lots, 3 to 5 room houses, fine location, $300 to $550. SEVEN ROOM HOUSE, Two lots on Chandler street, $400. New 4 room cottage, 4 lots east front, Martin and Dennis' addition, $550 16 lots on Central avenue, cheap. 12 lots on Quincy street, $100 each; 10 lots on Monroe street, $100 each. LOWMAN HILL LOTS. $50; N. Branner street, 1 lot, neat 3 room cottage, barn and cistern, $450; 3 room cottage, 1 lot, Van Buren street, $500; 4 room cottage, 1 lot, Van Buren St., $500. BOTTOM LAND in 5 and 10 acre tracts near the city. Desirable property in all parts of the city. Call and get A. M. THOMAS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 'Phone, 299. 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4 and 5. 'Topeka; Kan. OFFICE HOURS 7 TO 9 A.M. 12 TO 2 P.M. I. A. SHIELDS, M. D. Office, 1331 Van Buren Special Attention to Ladies 1001 ACTIVE AGTS WANTED. BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Published in one beautiful volume of new 500 page and appropriately illustrated with more so original drawings and photo-enrgraphics, are inches of material written by autobiography at the solicitation of his gravy friends. The world knows that he is not only a race leader, but a man among men. As the champion of the Southern States, he gradually shaping the destinies of the Southern States. The people want to know all about this modern reformer and his marvelous career. THE demand for his autobiography is enormous. Agents will coin money at liberal commission allowed. SUFFIT FREE mailing, we will forward free our Magnificent Prospectus, with full instructions for canvasing. The book is sold on subscription and directly on a territory plan. Write ADDRESS. J. L. N (LCIS & O. N. 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Ransom is in Town this week. Miss Willa Smith wrote Will Harris last week. Mrs. Davis is quite ill at her home on Quincy St. A. G. Bane of Kansas City was in town this week on business. Lieut. Bettes of Co. E., Wichita, Kansas is in town this week. Mrs McClain and daughter Helen are visiting friends at Keen Kans. Miss Lydia Douglas left for a month's visit with friends in Wichita. Miss Corine Bennett heard from Thos. McAdoo this week. He is well. Mr. and Mrs. G. Thomas returned to their home in Kansas City Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Morrow of Pueblo Col. passed through, enroute to Kansas City. Mrs. D. F. Mallory and J. J., her son, are visiting in Eskridge this week. Mrs. Lewis of Vicksburg, Miss., is the guest of her sister Mrs. E. W. Matley. Camp meeting is going on west of Garfield park and all are invited to attend. John Breidenthal thinks a Bank Commissioner could make a good Governor. Lieutenant Singletary of cempany G. Kansas City, Kans. is in the city on business. Miss Ida May Young of St. Joseph, is the guest of her cousin, Miss Ollie Thurman. Misses Edith and Mary Crider left Monday night for their home in Zion, Okla. The grand lodge of Royal Arch Masons will convene in the Senate chamber August 13. The Grand Commandery will convene in the Senate chamber on the evening of August 13. Prince Hall grand lodge, of A F. & A. M., will convene in the Senate chamber August 14, at ten a. m. If you want o hear good speaking, save your dimes and hear Prof. W. T. Vernon and Maj. John M. Brown. Mrs. Robt. Buckner and daughter, Corine and Miss Bertha Richardson will visit Lawrence friends this week. Hatton Etherly went to Kansas City Kans. Tuesday morning to attend the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias. Rev. Beck, the evangelist and family and Miss Elliol of Lincoln, Nebr. are among the guests at the Chiles Hotel. We wonder if John M. Brown will be invited to stump Mississippi and South Carolina this fall? Tillman needs him. Mr. Walter Atkinson and Miss Elzira Waters were married at the home of the bride's parents on east Sixth street, last night. There will be a big time at Garfield park August 16. Boat-riding, baseball, bicycle racing, all sorts of sports on the grounds. Rev. J. R. Ransom held Quarterly Meeting at Quindaro last Sunday and reports times better now than they have been for years. The Golden Rod Club met last Thursday with Miss Nora Williams. Light refreshments were served and a delightful time was enjoyed by all. GRAND CONCERT ADDRESS . HON. CHAS. CURTIS 4 P. M. Guard Mount Co.A.23d Ks.Vol. ASSISTED BY THE BAND, 5:30 P.M. .GRAND CAKE WALK.. Topeka, August 1st. GROUNDS OPEN 1 P. M., CONCERT 7:30, CAKE WALK 8:30 Admission 10 Cents. GEO. W. JACKSON, Band Master. T. T. JONES, Sec'y. CLARENCE MOSS, Drum Major. F. M. STONESTREET,Treas DOUGLASS HOSPITAL Hattie Batts after spending a few delightful days with Dollie Bryant on the "banks of the Wabash", left yesterday for a visit to St. Joe and Kidder, Mo. _____ Col. Jas Beck and Price Thomas of the Colored Citizen, were in Ft. Scott this week attending the Democratic Convention. We guess they are wise now. _____ The Excesior Club will run an excursion to Burlingame, Friday Aug 3 for the benefit of Shiloh Baptist church. For rates see hand bills and our columns later. ev. Alex Beck Talks. (Continued from Page O) shudder. The infinite wrath which the Negro has been sent for generations seems not to into the account at all. Mr. Beck assures us that the ed brute is not the only one the crimes which have stirred people so deeply, North as South, in recent years. Colon men have to submit to the serial crimes from demonized wives and they must submit without mercy or there will be no peace. Mary and Martha Johnson, daughters of Rev. P. Johnson, who have been at the Orphans' home in Leavenworth several years, are now in this city with relatives. Look out, the Democrats will now charge the Republicans for every good deed that has happened for the past century. You know they are always generous in this direction. Mrs. Philips and Misses Harpers and Jones of Arkansas City, left Thursday morning for Kansas City to attend the Grand Lodge. They were accompanied by Mrs. E. Matley and Ogeal Wilson. Rev. Beck, one of the best known evangelists in the country, a brother to Col. Jas. Beck a howling democrat, says he would like to take "Jim" down in Mississippi from whence he has just returned, and he thinks Jim would stop his foolishness. A grand entertainment will be given at Metropolitan hall on the evening of August 16th for the benefit of the visiting Masons in the city. A finer-looking set of men than those who will be in attendance at this grand session, were never seen beforein Topeka. CLAIRVOYANT MADAM RUSSELL, the world's renowned clairvoyant trance medium and palmist, reads your entire life past, present and future, she gives advice on business, love, marriage, divorce, absent friends, social or domestic affairs. Hours, 9 a.m., to 9 p. m., daily; Sunday, 9 a.m., to 6 p. m. Parlor, 215 East Seventh street. ev. Alex Beck Talks. (Continued from Page One.) shudder. The infinite wrongs to which the Negro has been subjected for generations seems not to enter into the account at all. Mr. Beck assures us that the colored brute is not the only one guilty of the crimes which have stirred the people so deeply, North as well as South, in recent years. Colored women have to submit to the same brutal crimes from demonized white men and they must submit without a murmur or there will be "a race war", a term so common in the current discussion of the race problem. He was implored to bring North a bright young girl by her mother, because to send her to school in the south would subject her to infinite danger, from which Christian(?) civilization of that region affords no protection. Nine out of ten of the young colored girls who are permitted to leave the parental roof come back with white children. It is an awful indictment, but Mr. Beck assures us that it is true. The young lady above referred to had a narrow escape from Hellish outrages by one of the young bloods of the Southern white aristocracy whose social standing was, presumably, not affected in the least by the fact. She struggled like a tigress and was only saved by the timely arrival of a company of white women on the scene, a lonely place in the public highway. Her father, who is a Christian gentleman even if he has a black skin, was wrought to such a frenzy of indignation, feeling as any father would feel under like circumstances, that he threatened to shoot the desperado on the spot, when he was waited on by some of the leading whites and given to understand that if he did not keep quiet his life would pay the profit. Had the conditions been reversed, a Negro being the offender against a white woman, he would probably been roasted over a slow fire with all the savagery of a pack of Sioux Indians. This is an example of the justice that colored men have impressed upon their minds." We would respectfully refer the above to the advocates of Tillmanism in Kansas and elsewhere. A preparation prepared solely and distinctly to improve the condition of the hair of the negro race. 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E. NIPPS, Agent, OPEKA, 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. Newton. Mrs. T. L. Hackley of Ponca City, O. T. passed through Newton last Wednesday on her way to Atchison to visit friends. Newton. Mrs. Lucy Hart who has been to Kansas Cfty visiting with her son returned Tuesday and reports a nice time. W. H. Paige has opened a nice little two chair shop at 425 Main St. Rev. J. M. Brown held his 4th quarterly meeting at this point. □Abe, Weston who has been to Kingley for the last year returned Saturday. Kate and Gertrude Patterson of Florence returned home after a visit in this city. The picnic at Halsted was a success. It will be long remembered by all present- Chas. Chiles with a small party spent Sunday in the country at the Turner home. He is all smiles today. Frank House went to Wichita Sunday and returned Monday. Josiah Tandy of Chicago made a flying trip to Newton last week on business, He is formerly from Kentucky and has many friends in this city who were much pleased to see him and welcome him to their home. Leavenworth. Mr. and Mrs. Carson entertained Tuesday evening of last week in honor of their one year old daughter Gladys. The little ones who were present enjoyed themselves to such an extent that the older persons responded with light conversation and laughter. Harry Woods is again on the road. Tillie Parker of Lexington Mo. is visiting in the city. Harry Barbee and M. Gilliam were in Kansas City last week. Henry Smith is very ill at his home on Michigan Ave. Mrs. Mollie Fields is visiting in the city. Daisy Simms is the guest of Mamie Williams. Mr. Harris is home from Lexington, Mo. Julius Cotton was taken ill Monday evening. America Fields and niece Carolina, spent a few days in Atchison. Mrs. Maude Jones and Hulet are visiting in the city. Frank Green was married to Mary Brown of Kansas City, Ks. last week. The infant child of Mrs. Johnson died last week. A party was given at the home of Mamie Williams in honor of Daisy Simms. Rev. Stewart wishes to announce his Sunday Services. Sunday School 9:30; Preaching 10:45 A. M. and 8 P. M. A concert at Independent Baptist church last Friday night was a success. Henry Allen dropped dead on the streetSunday. There will be a picnic at witzler's Grove Aug. 1st. "Old Folk" has gone. We all read the PLAINDEALER TUSKEGEE NOTES Several students who received training in the division of brick-masonry last term, are now employed by a white contractor in the erection of a large brick building in the town of Tuskegee. They are giving perfect satisfaction in their work. Nearly all the graduates of the present year's class are at work at the trades that they learned here. The health of the school is much better now than it has been for many years. Thanks to the foresight and efficient care of our President, Physician and Head Nurse. The leading institutions of the South have applied to principal Washington during the past month for Tuskegee graduates to teach and conduct agricultural and mechanical divisions. It has been gratifying to recommend young men and women who will be able to satisfactorily meet any demand that may be made upon them. The Public Library in the town of Tuskegee, which was founded and supported by Principal Washington is still being conducted during the vacation. Cyrus Canfield. Atchison. One important nuptial event has passed and we see another luming up in sight. What has become of Mr. Dorsey? The Radical does not say. Mrs. Helen Fleetwood of Little Rock Arkansas, sister of Dr. Brown is visiting in the city. P. R. Booker and W. H. Hudson were the colored men on the Senatorial Delegation. Wathena. The Lawn Party given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Branch last Friday evening, was a grand success. Little Charles Butcher was seriously injured by a windlass last Saturday but will recover. Aaron Bell one of our most successful farmers has reached a high mark in berry harvest this year. Hallie Ford, the dangler of Major G. W. Ford of Ft. Scott, is visiting Mrs. Branch. Cards are out for the marriage of Ida Coleman and Louis Young. Atchison. Wathena. Lawrence LAWRENCE, KAS., July 25, 1900. Mr. Editor: Allow me space in your paper to inform the public that I did not write the article concerning Jeff. King and John Gregg, nor am I a correspondent for your paper. F. D. G. HARVEY. We are acquainted with Messrs. Gregg and King. They are perfect gentlemen and alright. Dr. Harvey is not the PLAINDEALER correspondent, and the person who wrote the article was doubtless just playing a practical joke. Mr. L, B. Waples, the colored representative of the State Mutual Life Insurance Company of Worcester Mass., is in the city doing business. He should have the encouragement of all. He is the first colored man that this company has employed. He reports good business in Lawrence and he has our best wishes for success. Strode's mandolin club is now playing nicely. Mr. Strode contemplates giving a musical entertainment with the assistance of of the Orchestra. Miss Carter of St. Louis, who was visiting Miss. Hoyt was suddenly called to Kans. City on account of the illness of her brother. Rev. Attaway has been quite quite ill this week. Chas. Seymour is in the city visiting his parents. TROY Chicago, Ill. The Chicago contingent of colored Pythians returned yesterday from Peoria, at which point the annual convention was held. Dr. William F. Taylor, who was elected grand chancellor, will confer with his subordinate officers today, and the plans for the meeting of the supreme lodge of the order will be commenced at once. Representatives of the order in all parts of North America, Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and the West India islands will be in attendance at this convention, which will be held in Chicago in August, 1901. The new temple building of the order will be erected by that time, and the dedication services are expected to be the most elaborate and imposing ever held among the colored people of this city. Wichita. Manhattan. Rev. R. P. Banks returned to Junction City, Kans. Saturday. His presence is greatly missed and we hope to him again soon. Rev I. S. Wilson preached at the second M. E. church Sunday, Rev. Chenault of Wamego delivered the morning sermon. Elder Brown's wife and children came Sunday for a visit. The church of God had babtizing Monday at the Kans. river. The A. M. E. church gave an ice cream social Tuesday evening; a very pleasant time was reported. Mr. J. Hickman and E. Cruise are expecting to go to Denver to spend the winter. We are very sorry that we have some young girls who cannot get enough company, without running around after the boys on Sunday. A hint to the wise is sufficient. Emporia. Abe Stafford, of Michigan, is here visiting relatives. A jolly crowd of young people went hay riding last Wednesday evening, the guest of honor being Miss Arnicholas Chiles of Topeka. Mrs. George Stafford, of Michigan, is here visiting her parents. Miss Tolia Bufkins, of Oklahoma, is here visiting parents; also Mrs. Nannie Austin, of Osage City. Miss Eliza Bradshaw is visiting in Kansas City. Emporia. Hiawatha. There was no preaching at the Second Baptist church Sunday. Libbey Corneal is suffering from a sprained ankle. The A. M. E. Church will hold a basket meeting at Morrill's Grove Sunday. John Fleming and family, Mrs. True and mother of Horton, visited Mrs. J. Payne and Mrs. W. Washington last week. Mrs. Sarah Green and children, Mr. Burley and Miss Amelia are at Platte City Mo. A few of Mrs. J. Allen's friends tendered her a pleasant surprise party Thursday evening before her departure home. Grand Rally at Baptist Church next Sunday. We are certainly gla' that Messrs. Stockton and Cobbs will remain in the city for awhile. Walter Graves spent Sunday in St. Joe, Mo. Last Thursday, Will Washington was overcome by heat but was soon alright. North Topeka. Miss Ellen Hyde is on the sick list. Rev. D. L. Taylor, of Salina, was in the city last week, the guest of Mrs. Ida M. Jordan. Hutchinson. The excursion run from here to Halstead, last week, by Rev. Ramey was a grand success. The Negro Republicans of Reno Co., held a successful ratification meeting Monday night and speeches favoring the relation of the National and State tickets were made by Rev. J. W. McGee J. N. Pope and others. A very pleasant surprise party was given the 22nd at the residence of Mrs. C. O. Smith in honor of Mrs. Andy Johnson of Colorado Springs. Mrs. Gertie Saulter of Sterling is visiting her parents. Miss Jennie Fowler has returned from the country where she has been visiting Miss L. Wakefield. She reports having had a good time. Mr. C. S. Fowler, bright business like, young man, will soon open a general store and restaurant. Kansas City, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnold entertained a number of their young friends Monday evening. They indulged in dancing until a late hour when a grand luncheon was served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. E. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Reynolds, Mrs. Mattie Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Bain, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Berry, Mrs. A. Ross, Misses Lucy and Mary Thorp, Henrietta Givens, — Gorfee; Messrs. Tress Hide, Harvey Robinson, James Davis, Eddie Phenix and James Cleveland. Olathe. Frank Bufkins, of THE PLAINDEALER, was in town last week on business but he did not forget the ladies. Robert Young, while coming home in company with two other men last Saturday night, was bitten by a mad dog. He went to Paola, where a madstone was applied. The stone adhered fourteen hours. Mr. Young came home feeling better. The Missionary circle had for discussion this week, "Is the Negro Retrograding or Advancing?" The Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem will give a grand entertainment this week. This is a very strong organization, and is doing good here under the management of Mrs. Primos Smith. The infant child of Calvin Saunders died last week of summer complaint. The Second Baptist church will give a picnic and basket meeting in a short time at Cedar creek. Your correspondent would like to correct a mistake made in last issue. Instead of Mrs. B. F. Botts being president of the W. H. M. circle, it is Mrs. Walter Rollins. 5000 MEN WANTED: Men who will keep up with the times by reading the PLAINDEALER. Olathe. Straws That Toll. at any time, the same policy would justify a complete seperation. If the children of our race are timid in the presence of white children after being kept in exclusively colored schools until they have passed the primary Triune Forces of Demo-Pop-Free Silverim The triune forces at Fort Scott this week will place in the field a ticket that will be on a par with the one selected in Kansas City. It will be an appeal to the passions rather than gobd business sense. The Republican opposition in Kansas, seem determined to ape the action of the gang of political gamblers known as the National Negro Democratic League, in the conduct of its campaign. They proceed upon the theory that holding office is the measure of party consideration. That to get some "recognition" in the shape of a political appointment is all that should prompt any class of people to give its feality to a party. All races and people enjoy and appreciate the recognition that goes along with public office holding. Each race feels that in return for its fidelity to the party they should have all the offices, and when they recieve all the offices and have the power, they proceed to create new offices to gratify the hungry. We do not believe the Negroes in Kansas have recieved a just proportion of the official recognition they are properly entitled to as a part of the great Republican party of Kansas. And in veiw of this belief, we shall labor for more and better positions for the Negroes. But above and beyond the mere holding of office, in the conduct of State affairs, there is another side of this question which should be placed before the Colored voter. This is the question of material benefits to the great men of our people. All of the race cannot hold office, for the reason that there are not enough to go around. Those who cannot find political positions to fill must devise other ways of making a living. During the past two years we have been emphatic in our advice to our people in the North, East and South to come West, and especially to Kansas. We have urged this because of the beneficent laws which all people enjoy. These laws are the result of Republican legislation. We have here in Kansas many thousands of acres of land that remain open to the settler and yet many sections of land that can be purchased for a nominal sum. These broad acres afford every opportunity for making money and at the same time the individual is not restricted by unjust laws enacted by the friends of the National Negro Democracy for the expressed purpose of defrauding the Negro of the rights guaranteed him under the National Constitution. The opportunities for our people in Kansas are greater than in any other section of the country. Kansas has just harvested the biggest wheat crop in the history of the State and will have a bigger corn crop. The Two Compared speedily be done away with. If the steam railwaysof the south had not been so largely owned by Northern capital Jim Crow car legislation would probably never have been so readily enacted. Even then it will not stand long if it ever becomes apparent that the Jim Crow car metierially increases the cost of the service and involves the maintenance of higher transportation charges. Great as is the power of color prejudice in American life, it is not likely to prove as strong in the long run as the power of a dollar and this is one of the grounds of hope for the future of the black race. A sufficient hope should be in the guaranty of the Federal Constitution in such matters and in the law of contract which governs the sale of tickets on common carriers. In the case of white men it is sufficient hope; in the case of black and yellow people the Supreme Court of the United States has held that they are outside of the Constitution and have no civil and political rights that the United States or the several States are bound to respect, Under the Supreme Court, the oligarchy that misrules us, today we have precisely the definition of the black man's status that was laid down by Roger B. Taney, and reaffirmed by Morrison R. Waite But the definition and the status will be changed. This is permanently the practice of a party that opposes the Republican party, because it proposes to prepare the Cubans and Phillipino for self-government before turning them loose to become a prey to their own incapacity and the cupidity of stronger European nations. The Democratic party insults the sacred name of Jefferson who practiced what he preached "liberty to all mankind." T 406 Kansas Avenue. 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