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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME II. Tillman Democrats Steal Negro Constitutional Rights. Lynch Law is Democratic Policy—Inconsistent Negroes—Cut down the Southern Representation. We must have the triumph of the white man's ticket. We would be more than pleased to see the colored men join our ranks, and should they do so, we agree to give them all the rights guaranteed them by the constitution. We do not, however, promise them anything impossible. We do not promise for them to dictate to us, but if they are willing to aid us in securing a good government, we shall be glad to receive them. In Copiah county, however, we, the whites, are in the majority, and we must carry our points. You do not deserve to be called a white man unless you vote a white man's ticket.—(Copiah, Miss. Signal Democrat, July 6, 1883.) The Ben Tillman fiat of 1900 does not offer as liberal terms to the Negro as that of the Mississippi Democrats of 1883. The Democrats of the South have since taken away the constitutional guarantee. They do not want the Negro to vote their ticket or vote at all. Yet in the North there are Negroes who religiously believe themselves to be consistent Democrats. The Negro Democratic new papers are railing at President McKinley because he has not (so far as they know) said anything against lynching and lawlessness at the South. The Negro Democratic editors and orators are as blissfully ignorant of what is said and what is done in Republican circles as was the old lady in the mountains of Tennessee, about happenings in the spiritual world, who, when the missionary informed her that Jesus died for her, expressed great surprise, saying she hadn't heard of it before, as 'ouah folks don't git de papers.' If these editors would read the papers they'd know more. Who is it that is lynching and outraging and disfranchising the Negro at the South. Surely it cannot be the Republican party. The Democratic Negroes who talk about Southern outrages upon their race are calling attention to the iniquities of their own party, and we renew to these gentlemen the assurances of our distinguished consideration and thanks. It is indeed a sad commentary on the justice and fairness of the Democratic party when Democratic Negroes "fill the air with the tumult of their discontent" because, as they say, a Republican president does not publicly denounce its methods in dealing with the Negro. In the president's letter of acceptance August 26, 1896, he said, among other things: "We avoid no issue, we meet the sudden, dangerous and revolutionary assault upon law and order, and upon those to whom it is confided by the constitution and laws, the authority to uphold and maintain them, which our opponents have made with the same courage that we have faced every emergency since our organization as a party more than forty years ago. Government by law must first be assured; everything else in wait. The spirit of lawlessness must be extinguished by the fires of an unselfish and lofty patriotism. Every attack upon the public faith and every suggestion of the repudiation of debts, public or private, must be rebuked by all men who believe that honesty is the best policy; or who love their country and would preserve unsullied its national honor." This is surely a declaration against lawlessness. Here is another declaration. It was written December 5, 1899: "The love of law and the sense of obedience and submission to the lawfully constituted judicial tribunals are embedded in the hearts of our people, and any violation of these sentiments and disregard of their obligations justly arouses public con- demnation. The guarantees of life, liberty and of civil rights. should be faithfully upheld; the right of trial by jury respected and defended. The rule of the courts should assure the public of the prompt trial of those charged with criminal offenses, and upon conviction, the punishment should be commensurate with the enormity of the crime. "Those who, in disregard of the law and the public peace, unwilling to await the judgment of court and jury, constitute themselves judge and executioners, should not escape the severest penalties for their crimes. What I said in my inaugural address March 4, 1897, I now repeat: "The constituted authorities must be cheerfully and vigorously upheld. Lynching must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the United States. Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law. The preservation of public order, the right of discussion, the integrity of courts and the orderly administration of justice must continue forever the rock of safety upon which our government rests." Mr. William J. Bryan, whose fervid eloquence has electrified and hypnotized a good many people in the past four years, has not in all of his speech making said one word on the subject of lynching and lawlessness that can be construed to mean that he is against it. How do Negro Democrats account for the sphinx like silence of this distinguished Democratic leader with the flint lock brain and the hair trigger mouth? The literary bureau of the Democratic party has emitted a "yaller" document purporting to be a speech delivered by Bishop Walters to the Afro-American council, which is one part truth and twenty-four parts lie. The literary cabinet maker who put this thing together is an expert at the business of misrepresentation. It would probably surprise the author of this yaller back document to be told that Bishop Walters will use his best influence to compass the election of William McKinley, and that he will do this because the party which Mr. Bryan represents is unequivocally opposed to the Negro. If it is not, why is it just now engaged in disfranchising Negro voters wherever it has the power? The constitution of Louisiana contains the following rich joke in its preamble: "We, the people of the state of Louisiana, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberty we enjoy, and desiring to secure the continuance of these blessings, do ordain and establish this constitution. BILL OF RIGHTS. Act 1 All government of right originates with the people, is founded on their will alone, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole. Its only legitimate end is to secure justice to all, preserve peace and promote the interests and happiness of the people. This is enough to freeze the blood in the veins of a wooden Indian In Louisiana "white" spells "we," and this has recently been so plainly demonstrated that no extended argument is necessary to discover the rank hypocrisy and cant of the constitution tinkers of the Pelican state. Mr. Bryan has many warm friends in Louisiana and in all the states where the new Democratic propaganda has been successfully tried, and there are reasonable grounds for the belief that he would be the chief beneficiary of the new system by which Democratic majorities do not vote. The Democratic party in the South is making a great deal of noise just now for political effect and to divert attention from its cowardly and rascally methods for keeping itself in evidence in the congress of the nation. It has no scruples against misrepresenting the Negro in that body since the incentive to do so is $5,000 per annum, with perquisites, and the average white Southern gentleman is not above accepting a $5,000 salary even if he does obtain it under false pretenses. The eleven old secession states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, Flori- TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1900. Let the Negro Study the Current Question—A Knowledge of facts will destroy Democracy and Bryanism. "How should the colored man vote?" is a question discussed in the World, published at Indianapolis, as the organ of the national Democratic Negro league. Editor Manning deserves much credit for the able and dignified manner in which he handled his subject. In this article he appeals, and rightly too, to the Negro to take his position as a voter after a careful inquiry into the policies and principles of each political party. That this should be the course pursued by all races in a republic, no one questions. It is a condition devoutly to be hoped for, and likely to be realized only when the great millenium shall come and wipe out that political party which bares its claims for consideration upon the superiority of an illiterate white man over an educated and refined Negro. Like all Negroes who cast their lot with the Democratic party, Editor Manning appeals to the Negro to lay aside whatever traditional inclinations he may have for the party that gave him his freedom, that has led in every attempt to "lift him up the plane of man's incline," and associate himself with "that party which for the time being, seems to offer the best program for the public's welfare." Two great political parties are contending for the mastery in American politics at this time. The Democratic party, lead by Hon. William Jennings Bryan, and the Republican party, headed by Hon. William McKinley. Both parties have prepared and adopted platforms clearly setting forth the courses each will pursue in the event of election. In a recently prepared and an elaborately written article, Mr. Bryan places before the American people "the issues in the presidential campaign" as the "money question," the "trusts," and "imperialism." In July at Kansas City the Democratic party, headed by Senator Tillman and Richard Croker, passed upon Mr. Bryan's essay, and relegated the money question and the trust question to the rear as being subordinate and inferior in importance to the paramount issue of "imperialism." When a people are called upon to carefully analyze a proposition and to accept or reject it coldly and dispionately, the consistency of the man and the party is bound to cnt some frozen water. With the possible exception of his military record Bryan is no more today than he was four years ago. Four years ago he was the blatant advocate of a vicious financial system, the very mention of which created a panicky feeling in stock markets. Then he posed as the advocate of the poor laboring man and down trodden humanity; today he stands by reason of his surrender to Dick Croker et al, as a political montebank, lacking even the recommendations of Sockless Jerry. The sole ambition of Bryan is to be president. His willingness to lay aside the "cardinal principles of the crime of 73," and the great red dragon shows this beyond question. Can the Negro, brother Manly, be expected to have confidence in a party whose leader willingly and cheerfully lays aside their cherished principles and undertakes to ride into power on just any old platform! If you think so, you don't know my people. The financial policy of the present state and national administrations have been beneficial to the Negro. Scattered all over the country will be found thousands of Negro farmers who are raising wheat, corn, rye, oats, cotton, sugar cane, and selling it on the market for a higher price today than they received under a Democratic administration, that found it necessary to issue bonds to keep up its reserve fund. We like the World's suggestion, that the Negro should dispassionately view all parties. We ask only that he should study the FACTS. Let the Negro bring himself up to the point that he can take in the financial and industrial policy of the present administration, and we are willing to bet anything that the Negro will vote for a continuation of the prosperity of the past three years, Editor Manley says: "Mr. Bryan is the champion of liberty, both at home and abroad. His platform speeches pledge him to secure this priceless blessing to all citizens of the United States, and to all the people of the newly acquired islands regardless of race or color, or other considerations" * * * "He will also see that no man's rights are violated in any state "SO FAR AS IS IN HIS POWER AS PRESIDENT TO PREVENT IT." These are beautiful sentiments, but hardly consistent. Before discussing the imperialism issue in relation to the Negro, we would like to know what Bryan would have done on May 1, 1898, when the news of the fall of Manilla startled the world? Would he have ordered the withdrawal of American soldiers and sailors and left the Fillipino a prey to the European land grabbers? Not to any extent. He would have followed the same course as has McKinley and his Republican advisors. He would have ordered the man shot who attempted to haul down the American flag, because the American people demanded it should stay. The American people are the power behind the throne and not the will of any man. Mr. Manley as the recognized head of the Negro Democratic league, asks the Negro to antagonize the present foreign policy of the Republican administration and support GAGE'S WARNING. Washington, Aug. 25.—L. Treasury, made a statement today election would have upon the secretary Gage said: "There is no Secretary of the Treasury to my public debt payable in coin and of the government as well which million dollars a day. That he is very certain, if he is the same he was then quoted as saying: that the gold standard is a good tained, I want him not to cas promise him it will not be more than I am able to get rid of it." Washington, Aug. 25.—Lyman Gage, Secretary of the Treasury, made a statement today concerning the effect Bryan's election would have upon the country's financial system. Secretary Gage said: "There is no doubt Bryan could order his Secretary of the Treasury to make payment in silver of all the public debt payable in coin and for all current disbursements of the government as well which amount to $1\frac{1}{2}$ million to $1\frac{3}{4}$ million dollars a day. That he would give such an order, too, is very certain, if he is the same mind that he was in 1896, for he was then quoted as saying: 'If there is anyone who believes that the gold standard is a good thing, or that it must be maintained, I want him not to cast his vote for me, because I promise him it will not be maintained in the country longer than I am able to get rid of it.' Bryan, "the champion of liberty." Why should the Negro support Bryan in this contention? Has the history of the Democratic party in the past half century furnished the least evidence that the liberty of the Negro will be enlarged in the event of its success? Has Bryan, as the champion of liberty in all the past six years of tack and travel, raised his voice against the brutal outrages upon the Negroes in America? Has any one of the leaders of this modern party of liberty said anything calculated to rebuke the human fiends of America, who have treated Negroes with greater cruelty and severity than have McKinley's soldiers the Philippine rebel? These are questions that must be taken into the chamber and honestly pondered. These are the questions a Negro must answer with his ballot in November. The Negro with his intelligence and patriotism will not vote for Bryan and Tillman. They will not vote for a party that has disfranchized and murdered Negroes in the south. They will not vote for a man who totally ignored 5,000,000 Negroes in his speech of acceptance, who had been deprived of the highest right of an American citizen. If the Negro will ONLY THINK, and not be deluded by the sophisms of Negro Democrats, we are perfectly willing to abide the result of their vote. Don't forget to ask your friend to subscribe for the PLAINDEALER. uld the Negro Henry DeMoss' Child Abused by a Tramp—The Brute Caught after a Chase—Representative Brooks leads posse. On Tuesdny afternoon while the parents were employed in their usual farm work, a big burly white tramp named Patrick Laughtin, called at the home of Henry de Moss, near A. L. Brooks nursery north of the city, and asked for a drink of water. Finding no one about the premises but the children, he picked up Gertrude, the 7-year-old daughter, and carried her into the house and attempted to rape her. In his eudeavor to succeed in his fiendish crime, the cries of the child and other children attracted the attention of A. L. Brooks, who was working nearby. The cries of the children frightened the tramp, and he hurried away. Mr. Brooks came up and after inquiring of the children, called A. M. Pallmam who was working with a gang of men on the road. Hurriedly organizing a posse, they at once started in puaruit of the ravisher, who was caught near Perry. The sheriff was at once notified and the prisoner is now lodged in the county jail, Bryan Gage, Secretary of the day concerning the effect Bryan's country's financial system. Sec- no doubt Bryan could order his make payment in silver of all the land for all current disbursements which amount to 1 1/2 million to 1 3/4 he would give such an order, too, he mind that he was in 1896, for If there is anyone who believes thing, or that it must be main- ast his vote for me, because I maintained in the country longer charged with this heinous crime. Patrick Laughji is an Irishman who has a wife ann child living near Shallwatervale, in Washington, on the Pacific coast. He has been working for Lantry Bros., and walked into Topeka. He is 37 years old and was born in Ireland. The young child is badly hurt, In his efforts to ravish her, he severely injured her back and right shoulder. It is surprising that such a crime as this should pass the eagle eye of our daily contemporarles. Had it been a Negro attempting such a fiendish act, our quiet city would have witnessed the disgrace of a mob and lynching. While we condem the crime as one worthy the severest penalty, we believe that the law should be followed, and justice meted accordingly as provided in our statutes. Indian Territory as I saw it. It is as fine a country as Kansas or any other place in the west, with an abundance of water and wood, settled principally by a mixed race of Indians, Negroes and white people. The soil is very rich, will produce all kinds of grain, cotton, tobacco, fruit, berries, vegetables, etc., in great abundance; besides wild grapes, pawpaws, cherries, walnuts, hickory nuts and all kinds O Vote."? He of wild berries. The best place in the world for poor men of all races, every chance for them to get a good srart farming, as good farms can be rented for one-third of crop; houses, barns and pastures free. By all means it is the best place on earth for colored people, because they now have the inside track, and with industry, energy and economy, may succeed in solving the race problem, and making advancement beyond any thing in human history. There are millions of acres of rich land awaiting the touch of farm industry to make them blossom like the rose. Here is the last chance for the colored man in the west. No taxes on land, nor stock. C Topeka can well be proud of Prof. Archie L. Reynolds, who for the past ten years has been connected with Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City, Mo., as pupil and teacher. After completing the grammar schools of Topeka, young Reynolds decided to take a course at Jefferson City. Completing the course, he was appointed one of the assistant teachers and given charge of the Boarding department. So well has he done his work that within the past year he has been given charge of the department of Mathematics, with a salary of $1100 per year. Prof. Reynolds is a type of what any young Negro can be who applies himself to his work. Editor PLAINDEALER, Topeka, Ks.: The editor of the Colored Citizen gives us a nice little array of figures in his issue of August 24, to show how far we tall short of getting our share of the sum appropriated by the legislature of 1899, for salaries for 1900-1901. His object is to offset the influence of a certain little phamphlet issued by the Republican state central committee. Really, we do not get much of that $1,421,302, and if we can get 7 pet cent of that amount by going over to the Democrats, let's go, all of us, horse, foot and dragoons. Your ar ument is so convincing, and your figures so conclusive, that there is great danger of us breaking our necks, rushing into the Democratic camp. But, (and thereby hangs a tale) in order that we may be more fully assured, we will hold the matter in abeyance until you get the returns from South Carolina. The colored vote of that state (suppressed) in 1890 was 125,000, against 100,000 whites. I am ignorant of the amount appropriated for the salaries of the state officials, neither do I know just what per cent was paid to the colored state officers last year. If in you next issue, you will show that the colored vote received one, one-thousandth of one per cent in this state dominated by Democrats, your comparisons will be less odious. Your argument reminds me of a tale of an old colored man in the south, who had killed his hog and hung it on the back porch. During the night someone stole halt of it. He raised a great hue and cry, and finally made complaint to the magistrate, stating that his meat had been stolen by the Republicans. His friends upbraided him for charging the theft to the Republicans, and demanded of him, his reasons for so doing. His answer was (what I am afraid yours will be), "Ef it had er been der Demercrans, daid er tuck it all." NUMBER 35. The Leading Organ of the M. E. Church Scores the Rebels of the South. Some figures that tell the story of the Crime of 1900—The People will not permit it to Continue. The conscience of a nation of people may be relied upon alway to demand the right kind of conduct. This was true during the period of the great slavery agitation. At times those who were laboring for the freedom of humanity felt that all was lost. Now, when in the face of great opposition, the Negro is meeting the fondest expectations of his many friends, the opposition to the Negro is busy framing and enforcing laws calculated to retard his progress and to annul his rights and privileges as a citizen. The triumph of the anti-Negro elements in the South is arousing a feeling at the North and throughout the country that can be relied upon to rise up in the end and destroy those who seek to circumscribe the Negro's rights. The Central Christian Advocate, the organ of the most forceful ecclesiastical organization in America, presents the following discussion of the problem in the South: North Carolina has now followed the example of Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, and, by a vote of 55,000 majority, snatched the ballot out of the Negro's hands. The disfranchising act is as follows: "Sec. 6. Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language; and before he shall be entitled to vote, he shall have paid on or before the first day of the year in which he proposes to vote, his poll tax for the previous year as prescribed by Article 5, Section 1, of the Constitution. But no male person, who was, on January 1, 1867, or any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any state in the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such person shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this state by reason of his failure to possess the educational qualities herein prescribed; Provided, he shall have registered in accordance with the terms of this section prior to December 1, 1908" The self-confessed intention of this act is to disfranchise the Negroes as a race, but to exempt the white race, no matter how ignorant, worthless or depraved from the action of an educational test. THE ELECTION. We shall not at this time discuss the equities of the deed. Something of its ethical quality may, perhaps, be inferred from the way this state in the American Republic went about it to accomplish its end. New Hanover county has some thousands of Negroes entitled under the law to vote. During the last days of the campaign the Red Shirt Rifle clubs became very active in intimidating the Negroes and in suppressing free speech. Bands of red shirt riflemen searched the trains said to contain United States Senator Marion Butler of that state. He took the advice which hinted that he better not speak in certain towns in this state and cancelled his engagements. When election day came, of the thousands of Negroes entitled to the franchise only five voted. Mr. Simmons, chairman of the state committee which silenced the Negroes, and who will now succeed Mr. Butler and go up to the United States Senate on that kind of a record and because of it, has given out a published statement affirming that the campaign had been "one of education." Exactly. No doubt of that in the world. In the city of Wilmington, in this aforesaid county of Hanover, the Negroes had certainly been to school. The wholesale murder of (Continued on Page Two.) WILLIAM McKINLEY, FOR PRESIDENT. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, VICE PRESIDENT. STATE TICKET. For Governor, W. E. Stanley. For Lieutenant Governor, H. E. Richter. 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 L. Long. For State Senator, John T. Chaney. For Representative, 37th District. J. B. Simms, For Representative, 38th District; H. C. Safford, For Representative, 39th District. E. D. McKeever, For District Judge, Z. T. Hazen. For County Attorney, Galen Nichola, For Probate Judge, W. E. Fagan, For Clerk District Court, A. M. Callaham, For County Superintendent. S. F. Wright, For County Commissioner, Silas Rain, WHAT WE WANT— is 5000 paid subscribers by November 1st, 1900. We are sending out several thousand extra each week. Let every Republican see that we have two or three new readers in every locality. If you write an editorial with some sense in it, we will give you some good matter to go into the columns of your six months campaign sheet. A paper like THE PLAINDEALER, which is established for the purpose of doing good for the Negro, and is doing much good, cannot afford to notice these patent campaign sheets, for they come up like mushrooms in a night, and they disappear as soon as Bryan is defeated. They continue not in one place, for a sheet that cometh from the Democratic party is of a few days and full of nonsense, especially one issued by Negro Democrats. They are as the wind: they blow, but no one can tell from whence they come. A dollar is mighty powerful with them. Principles drop out of sight. Oh, Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do. IF there is any virtue in the Negro Democrat, let him use it in suppressing crime in his own party. We are aware that the Negro is not recieving all that he should in a political way from the Republican party. We know that there should have been a Negro placed on the Republican state ticket. We know that all the clerical positions in the gift of the state should be filled by Negroes. But there is a something in politics aside from holding offices. The Republican party stands for, and has given to the Negro every right and privilege he enjoys. They have elected him to every office(save one)that he has held. The Republican party has paid more dollars into the pockets of Negro voters for labor than any other political organization. The Republican party has built more school houses and educated more Negro children than any other political party. The Democratic party has always and is today opposing every move for the benefit of the Negro and is seeking to curtail and restrict his rights. The Negroes of Kansas know that the Populist party is a Democratic subterfuge, calculated to catch votes and render the success of the Democratic party possible in localities where it otherwise would have no show. They know that Bryan's crocodile tears about the 'poor Philippines" and down trodden humanity does not include the Negro. They know that Bryan is the truculent tool of Tillmanism and that Democratic success at this time would embolden the element to undertake the nullification of the Federal constitution in every state of the union. Nothing is attracting more attention at this time in all political parties than the probable attitude of the Negro votes. In their zeal to obtain votes, Bryan and his nondescript aggregation of political "ballyhoos" violently transgress the cardinal principles of modern democracy in their efforts to succeed in obtaining the presidential office under false pretenses. Taking its cue from Ben Tillman's "man Friday," the Boston Traveler has published an elaborate appeal to the Negro voters to support the "Nebraska wonder" and his anti-imperial- Not at this time. Nor any other time so long as the principles and practices of the Democratic party remain as they are. Nothing reveals to the Negro voters of America the hollow mockery of Democratic pretension to being the party of "freedom and liberty" so much as its anxiety for the "little brown brother across the sea," and its manifest energy in destroying the liberty of the "black brother in the South." The Democratic idea of liberty and freedom is a matter of geography. It depends entirely too much on locality. There is wide inconsistency in their manifestations of interest in the Tagals rebels in the Philippine islands and the eight millions of Negroes who are honest and industrious citizens of the South, who by their energy and ability are seeking to, and are, developing the latent industries of America. The Democratic party has always opposed the Negro, and always will. Its interest in the Philippines is not predicated upon a real desire to better the condition of a people whose moral, intellectual and financial life will be greatly improved by adopting our civilization. This so-called anti-imperialistic policy is but a Democratic pretext to delude the great mass of American voters into voting into the control of our national affairs a gang of cheap John politicians, whose love for humanity is seen in its record in the South. The Negro voters know this, and they will not be deluded into voting for Bryan and his gang of political plunderers. "MEN dare to do in crowds what they would not dare to do as individuals," declared Bryan in his Indianapolis speech. Yet, strange as it may appear, this remark was not aimed at the Democrats of Kentucky and North Carolina. According to Senator Tillman, stuffing ballot boxes and shooting Negroes in South Carolina is all right. He would have us protect the brown man only when he is engaged in emulating the example of Aguinaldo and firing on our flag. More Negroes have purchased homes and paid for them during the past two years of prosperity in Kansas under Republican rule than at any time since 1890, when the Populist craze followed the collapse of our boom. South Carolina, with a white population of 462,003 has three congressmen representing it, while her Negro population of 639,141 has four white congressmen to represent it, though this Negro population is not allowed to exercise the franchise according to Senator Tillman's dictation. Louisiana, 558,395 white population, three congressman; 960,192 Negro population, three congressmen. Mississippi's white population 1544,851 with three congressman; Negro population, 644,749 with four congressmen and a disfranchisement law. Georgia's white population is 078,367 with six congressmen; Negro population, 858,g96 with four congressmen. Alabama, 833,718 white population, five congressmen; 679,299 Negro population, four congressmen. Virginia, 1,020,122 white population, six congressmen; 635,858 Negro population, four congressmen. Florida, 224,949 white population, one congressman; 165,473 Negro population, one congressman. North Carolina, 1,055,382 white population, six congressmen; 562,565 Negro population, three congressman, (one being a Negro.) Tennessee, 1,336,637 white population, eight congressmen; 430,881 Negro population, two congressmen. Texas, 1,745,935 white population, ten congressmen, 439,558 Negro population, three congressmen. Arkansas, 883,852 white population, five congressmen; 309,427 Negro population, one congressman. These politicaf burglaries occupy their seats by false pretenses; they do not now and never have truly represented the Negroes in their respective states, and but for the presence of the Negroes in these states, they would never be in Congress. There never was a more palpable fraud committed upon the American people than that which has made possible this monstrous disproportion of the Southern Democratic representation in congress, representing a voteless and voiceless constituency, made so by Democratic rascality, mendacity and fraud. This is is the way Mr. Bryan's party in the South perpetuates itself in power; and the same repressive methods which it employs to send congressmen to Washington to misrepresent the Negroes will be employed in the effort to send Bryan to the White house in November. The next brilliant move of the Southern democracy will doubtless be a census of the grave yards of that section with a view to increasing the basis of its representation in congress. The inconsistency of the Democratic party is shown in its present attitude toward the Negro and its eagerness to represent him in congress, though he cannot vote for the congressman (who should be his congressman), whom the nation pays $5,000 per annum for supporting the constitution and drawing the salary. For honorable politics and politicians gaze on the decayed white respectability of the South which knows a good thing when it sees it. (Continued from page one.) their race by these same Red Shirts at the last election had taught them at least one lesson, "illitera.e" as they were, they yet had become "educated" at one point. To be sure. We do not intend to discuss the ethical quality of this election. That is foreign to the purpose of this editorial. Suffice it to say that we do not believe in illiterate Negro suffrage as a lever for the uplift of the Negro. It is a microscopical privilege, at the best, in the hands of ignorance. Prof. Huxley is correct: "Voting power as a means of giving effect to opinion is more likely to prove a curse than a blessing to the voter, unless that opinion is the result of a sound judgment operating upond sound knowledge." As good a friend as the Negro race has ever had, in several particulars, J. L. M. Curry, LL.D., agent of both the Peabody fund and the John F. Slater fund for the education of the Negroes, says that the premature investere of the Negro with suffrage was a wrong to the white and black races, and especially to the black. It was a burlesque in no small measure. The colored leaders recognize this. And they recognize that the uprising of the black race must be by the stern path of thrift, education and character. The day of delusion is past. Presently we shall go thoroughly into this phase of the question and note how the rising of the Negro, in the desire for an education, in the acquisition of his own home, in patriotism and in scorn of divorce, is the wonder of the period since the war. And we shall note whence comes the pathetic fact that the Negroes die twice as fast as the whites. But not now. We wish to ask what the state of Iowa, and Massachusetts, and New York, and Colorado are going to do with the fact that North Carolina by the act of a week or so ago has clothed herself with five if not ten times the representative power some of these states possess. ELECTORAL POWER. Louisiana and Colorado may be looked at for a moment. The following table prepared for the vote in the November election of Louisiana in 1896, when the old constitution was in force, and in 1898 when the new anti-Negro constitution was in force, will serve as a starting point: LOUISIANA. Total vote 1898 1896 District 6,318 15,412 ** 12 7,856 16,188 ** 3 5,903 15,688 ** 4 5,900 16,148 ** 5 4,895 15,268 ** 6 4,194 16,488 Average 5,549 16,200 It will be seen from this that the entire six congressional districts polled 33,276 votes. The First Congressional district of Colorado alone polled 58,609 votes, the Second Congressional district 79,963, or a total of 138,572 votes in the same election in which only'a total of 2,494 votes were cast for all candidates in the Sixth district of Louisiana, and which with 33,276 votes elected six congressmen in Louisiana. We ask on what principle of equity such a state of affairs is to be perpetuated. The number of presidential electors is equal to the number of Congressmen plus two general electors. We beg to ask by what course of reasoning Louisiana should have three times as many congressmen as Colorado when the vote is only one-fourth as large as that of Colorado? We further ask how long the southern natives expect such an inequality to be tolerated? And we ask the question not in the interest of sectionalism or to stir up sectional discontent, but to allay both. It will be interesting to group in the next table the number of votes it took to elect the presidential electors in the election of 1996, in the three states which at that time debarred the Negro from the voting power— Popular vote Number Average per elector electors Mississippi 79,545 0 7,828 South Carolina 68,977 0 7,620 Louisiana 68,977 8 12,631 Number of electors Average per elector Popular vote Minnesota 315,539 37,282 Nebraska 223,245 8 27,995 Iowa 521,547 13 40,119 Michigan 544,492 14 39,892 Ohio 1,014,293 23 44,009 New York 1,423,876 36 39,557 Kansas 334,841 9 37,105 Colorado 138,572 4 34,643 That is to say, Nebraska cast as many votes as Mississippi, South Carolina and Louisiana combined, but they sent to Washington 26 electoral votes, while Nebraska sent but 8. We beg to ask how long this is to continue? In the vote for congress the lesson is even more striking. In 1898 the entire vote for congressmen was after this fashion— If this disfranchisement through illiteracy were to be honestly applied, and representatives were to be elected only by an equitable computation of the voters who can read, it would debar the southern states of 35 congressmen, and it would add 38 to the northern delegations—a difference of seventy-three. WESTERN NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION The fifth annual session of the Western Negro Press association was held at Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday and Tuesday of last week, at St. Mark's school house, and a very pleasant and profitable session it proved to be. President W. W. Taylor of Salt Lake City, called the meeting to order, and J. Gordon McPherson of the same place was elected as secretary. Representatives of many western journals were in attendance. The chair appointed the following committees: Resolutions and address to the people—J. M. Booker, Colorado Springs Sun; Mrs. A. C. Calloway and G. C. Carr, Sioux City Searchlight. Condition of Afro-American Citizens—Rev. E. Wagner, Mrs. E. Smith and Miss Mary Howell. Status and needs of Race Newspapers in the Territory of the Negro Press Association—G. C. Carr, Mrs. A. J. Young and Mrs. W. W. Taylor. Condolence—J. M. Booker, H. H. Voss and Abner Howell. Miss Mary Howell read an excellent paper on "The Power of the Press." At the afternoon session Governor Wells delivered the welcome address, paying a high tribute to the Negro as citizen and soldier. Editor Booker responded in a fitting speech. H. H. Voss read a paper on "Organized Labor and the Negro," in which he held that dislike of the Negro in the field of labor began among poor whites when Negroes commenced to learn the trades, and that the aim of unions now is to keep the Negro down to menial labor. P. W. Upshaw of Kansas City, Mo., stirred the audience from center to circumference by his eloquence and logic in his plea for unity. Editor J. H. Childers of the TOPEKA PLAINDEALER sent in his paper on "The Future of the Negro Press," which was read by Mrs. Taylor. Many other very interesting papers were read. The committee on condolences reported, and referred very feelingly to the sudden and sad death of Editor J. L. Fleming of the Western Enterprise of Colorado Springs, and a motion by Voss was carried that memorial services in memory of Editor J. L. Fleming be held throughout the district of the association on the first Sunday in September. At the close of the fifth annual session the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: W. W. Taylor, Plaindealer, of Salt Lake City, president; G. C. Carr, Searchlight, of Sioux City, Iowa, 1st vice president; Mrs. E. Ellen Russ, of Denver, 2nd vice president; J. M. Booker, Sun, Colorado Springs, secretary; J. Hume Childers, PLANDEALER, Topeka, Kas., treasurer. Executive committee—F. L. Barnett, Progress, of Omaha, chairman; G. F. Franklin, Statesman, of Denver; Col. James Beck, Citizen, Topeka; H. H. Voss, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Julia Emory, Manitou, Colo.; Nick Chiles, PLAINDEALER, Topeka; Miss Mary Howell, Salt Lake City. Ways and Means—J. D. Rivers, Colorado Statesman, Denver, chairman; C. T. Alberts, Times, Pueblo; J. L. Thompson, Bystander, of Des Moines, Iowa. The association adjourned to meet at Colorado Springs, Colo., Tuesday, August 6, 1901. To the subscribers of the PLAINDEALER of Arkanaas City, Ks.: P. B. Andrews is not connected with the PLAINDEALER in any way whatever, and is not authorized to collect for the same.—Business Manager. Our Sales... ON... Beauchamp's Blackberry and pepsin. have increased ever last year nearly PRIDE OF TOPEKATEN No. 88 meets 1st and 3rd Saturday afternoon of each month at No. 908 North Kannamarens. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, Q. M., Miss Anna Regnold, G. R. MACEDONIA TARHNACKEN No. 85. U. K. T. Hall 600 N. Kannamarens. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, G. P.; Miss Sarah Walker, C. R. MACEDONIAN LODGE No. 9. GOOD SAMAR-TANS and DAUGHTERS of SAMARIA, meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month at 8 o'clock, at 113 East Seventh street. Visiting Samar-Tans are always welcome. W. E. Jackson, Chief Allie Lawson, Recording Sec. PERSONAL NOTES. Lewis Knott is lieutenant at fire station No. 2. Miss Bertha Harland has returned from Leavenworth. Miss Porter of Atchison is the guest of Mrs. Vernella. Mrs. M. Dyer is visiting relatives and friends in Kansas City. Bessie Bennett and Ethel Johns are visiting in Kansas City. Mrs. Phelps of Iola, Ks., is the guest of Miss Luvenia Brown. Misses Mary Jordon and Lizzie Cooper left Friday for Chicago. Jefferson Brown has bought a nice residence, 1924 Topeka avenue. Miss Ethel Stafford of Emporia is the guest of Miss Hester Hawkins. Mrs. Amanda Brown left Monday for a visit in Kansas City and St. Louis. Mrs. Mack Harris of Emporia is the guest of Mrs. Johnson, 117 Madison st. Jefferson King of Lawrence and James Peck of Wamego, were in the city last week. Rev. Young of this city has been made happy by the arrival of a little girl. Mrs. Harris of Emporia and Mrs Johnson were callers at this office Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. M. G. Holloway and little daughter returned Wednesday to their home in Horton. Mr. and Mrs. L. Parks and daughter of Holton, were among the guests of Chiles' hotel last week. Miss Hester Hawkins entertained at breakfast last Friday, in honor of Miss Stafford of Emporia. The wife of Bishop Abram Grant of the A. M. E. church, died at Atlantic City, N. J., last week. Mrs. Mary Daniels returned home Wednesday from Emboy, Minn., where she spent the summer. Mrs. B. Carter and Miss American Saunders of Leavenworth, were the guests of Mrs. D. O. Taylor. Bishop Henry M. Turner, senior bishop of the A. M. E. church, was married in Baltimore last week. Miss Sadie Nichols felt last Friday for a month's visit in Chicago. Before her return she will visit in Colorado. Frederick Stearns of the Leaveneworth Times is now "ad" man on the Capital. We welcome him in our midst. Misses Myrtle Pennel of Atchison and Alta Hoyt and Lulu Woodruff of Lawrence, were the guests of Miss Mary Jordon. Dr. J. M. Harris, one of the leading physicians of Sedalia, is a candidate for coroner on the Republican ticket and will be elected. A series of meetings are being held at the Baptist church. Rev. Jordan of Guthrie has been conducting and preaching the past week. Who said the 23d Kansas was not Republican? All that was needed was one to see them with McKinley buttons. This is a stand which tells which way the wind blows. Mrs. S. McCarrol entertained at home Friday afternoon, in honor of Mesdames Williams, Calloway, Palmer, and Miss Lizzie Suel of Kansas City, and Lawyer G. W. Jones of Hill City. Rev. Grant spoke in Coffeyville last Saturday; on Sunday preached at Yale, and Weir City Tuesday will Preach the educational sermon for the National Baptist convention September 15. Miss Mollie Johnson entertained last Wednesday at her home in honor of her guest Mrs. Harris of Emporia, and other visiting ladies in the city. The affair being a pink tea party, the house was beautifully decorated to suit the occasion. After a daily repast the ladies departed, declaring Mrs. Johnson an ideal hostess. Mrs. Richard Hightower died at her home in South Topeka on Wednesday at 3:00 a.m., of consumption. The funeral services occured at Shiloh Baptist church on Thursday under auspices of the Household of Ruth of which she was a member. Mr. Hightower has the sympathy of the PLAINDEALER in his bereavement. 5000 MEN WANTED: Men who will keep up with the times by reading the PLAINDEALER. Mrs. Emma Phillips of Weston Mo., and Mrs. Leota Phillips-Fields of Carrollton, Mo., who have been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morton, have returned, after a pleasant visit. Mrs. Francis Thomas died at her home last Friday after a long illness The funeral services were held at St. John's A. M. E. Church in charge of Benevolent Society. She leaves a husband to mourn her loss. The 3rd annual opening of Prof. J. H. Stewart's dancing class will be next Thursday eve, at 118 W 8th st Those who attended the last season and their friends are cordially invited. Music by Steinberg's orchestra. 2w Scott Joplin of Sedalia, Mo., is destined to be one of the best rag time music writers in the country. He composed the famous Maple Leaf rag. His music is sold by Carl Huffman, Kansas City, Mo. Call on any music dealer in the country for his music. For particulars, address SCOTT JOPLIN, Sedalia, Mo. John Jarret died at his home on Harrison street last Tuesday. He leaves a widow and three children to mourn his loss. He was a stone mason by trade and a member of the stone masons' union. The union appropriated $50 for funeral expenses, also a fine floral offering. In the death of Mr. Jarrett, the race loses a skilled mechanic of respect, and Topeka a good citizen. Miss Blanche Winifred Renix, for merly of Topeka, Ks., but now of Des Moines, Ia., was the only colored graduate of the class of 1900 in the West Des Moines high school. The class was the largest of any class except one, in the history of the school. She is now employed as stenographer in the Bystander office in that city. She contemplates visiting Topeka in the near future. Miss Nora Williams entertained last Friday evening, in honor of the many visitors in our city, the guests of honor being Misses Gertie Taylor of Leavenworth, Porter of Atchison; Mesdames Phelps of Iola, Harris of Emporia, Turner of Leadville. Card playing and dancing being the amusements of the evening. After a dainty repast, the guests departed, all declaring a delightful time. Mrs. A. O. Taylor entertained last Thursday afternoon at her home in honor of the visitors in the city. Monday afternoon she was again the hostess of a number of ladies in honor of her sister Mrs. A. Turner of Leadville, Colo. The house both afternoon was beautifully decorated. The Misses Arnicholas Chiles and Bertha Harland presided at the punch bowl. Dainty refreshments were served and the ladies departed declaring a delightful time. Misses Eva and Lillie Phillips entertained very pleasantly on Tuesday evening complimentary to the following visitors: Mesdames Turner of Leadville, Col., Harris of Emporia, Phelps of Iola, Richardson of Leavenworth, Thompson of Chicago, Ill., and Miss Bartlette of Carrollton, Mo. The evening was spent in vocal and instrumental music furnished by Misses Bledsoe and McNeil and Mrs. O. A. Taylor. Refreshments consisting of ices and assorted cakes were served during the evening. An enjoyable time was spent by all. Mrs. R. H. Wade assisted by her sister Mrs. M. Harris and Mrs. Julia Abbott, entertained ten ladies at thimbles, etc., Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m., in honor of and a surprise to her mother Mrs. Ellen Huddleson's birthday. Mrs. Johnson received a cup and saucer for completing her quilt block first, and Mrs. Parks a black plate for guessing the nearest to the right number of rows on ear of corn. Refreshments were served. The favors were tiny thimbles attached to cards. The guests were Mesdames G. W. Shaffer, A. Duncan, Nannie Coleman, Mary Bennett, G. W. Guy, Jane Jamison. J. Vernella, D. Merritt, Emma Johnson, Pliny Parks. The 23d Kansas Reunion held at Garfield Park was well attended. Several of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers were present. The privates came in large numbers. Pork and beans were served by Commissary Seargent Arthur Harris. The sham battle on Thursday afternoon was fine. At 5 o'clock grand mount and concert by the 23d band. Col. Jas. Beck was elected commander. The next meeting will be at Kansas City, Kau, some time in 1901. Hon. Charles Curtis and Major Boyd, who did more to make theregiment a success, was present and made a fine talk for the boys. (Continued from last week.) But still the sun shone on; the birds twittered and sang, nature seemed bursting with the very fulness of its joy, as if a life's sorrows had not been ended, another sacrifice laid on the alter of selfish love and soulless passion. From the night of the awful tragedy, Vernon Stone was a changed man. Light-hearted, reckless, devil-may-care sort of fellow that he was he became sullen, silent and morose. Night after night, when he was in off his run, he avoided all intercourse with the men who had been his closest companions, and sauntered forth alone with a very picture of miserable dejectedness on his face, in his walk and very mannerism. From debonair, happy Vernon Stone, he became a man whom his friends almost feared and everyone in general shunned. As he came forth from the hotel on this evening that our story ends, he passed a group of his friends without even a word or sign of recognition. With his head bowed and his hands thrust deep in his trousers pockets, he walked down the street in the direction of the railroad. Like the night on which our story opens, the sky was obscured with clouds * * an awful, ominous silence brooded over the face of nature. Not a leaf stirred, not a bird piped a note, not a breath of air refreshed the sweltering populace. And deeper and darker grew the heavens. A sudden thunder clap crashed out on the stillness, and without a moment's warning, the rain poured in torrents. In a very short time the streets were cleared of every pedestrian. The rain continued to pour without abatement. The group within the little hotel looked out upon it, and the same thought was in the mind of each; what had become of Stone? The silent inquiry found voice when a boyish looking man, who had always showed a marked liking for the absent one, addressed this remark to his companions: "What do you suppose Stone can mean by wandering out a night like this?" "That's a hard question to answer. You know how queer he is lately, and this is one of his black fits. It will wear off. I presume." "But I have never seen him like this; he never even spoke to any of us. Since the accident, he's never been the same, poor fellow. He broods too much. I fear it will drive him to something awful if there isn't a change for the better." "I'd get my run changed if I were he, and go where nothing would remind me of that terrible happening." And thus for an hour the assemblage discussed the absent one. And still darker and darker grew the heavens; the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed—the storm did not lessen a whit in its mad fury * * * * But to follow the solitary stroller. He walked on and on, past the railroad and the cut, through the woods where he had strolled with his lost love in the moonlight. Then onward towards the village cemetery, while the sky became blacker and blacker and the rain began to fall. Still heedless, on and on he went, minding not the drenching of the rain, the roar of the thunder and the flash of the lightning. Reaching the graveyard, he sought the mound that rose above the grave of Ellietta Moreton, and flinging up his arms in the darkness, fell across the voiceless tomb of the girl his self-fish cowardice had murdered. Yet, in spite of his culpability, one could not help but pity this strong man, stricken to earth by his grief, as he called to her who could never hear him, "Ellietta! Oh, my darling; my darling." Fiercer grew the storm, wilder the lightning. A dazzling flash lit up all the landscape and the thunder crashed out its note of warning. As the flash illuminated the heavens and ere the thunder ceased to echo in the woods beyond, Vernon Stone was seen to straighten out spasmodically and then curl up at the foot of the burial mound. Yet the downpour never ceased; the storm never wearied. Next morning when it was discovered that Vernon Stone had not slept in his room; had not been seen around the hotel and did not come to breakfast, his friends grew anxious and soon two or three went out in search of him. They found him in the graveyard, dead on the grave o the girl his cruelty had slain. * * * * * * * * They laid him to rest beside the girl who had loved him so devotedly, so madly, so blindly. The world pitied the man whose life had been so strangely blighted, so tragically ended. But it was heaven's vengeance, it was retribution. 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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. Owing to pressure of other matter, a large number of our news letters have been forced out this week. We ask the patient indulgence of our readers for a short time. We shall try and give each city its proper space. [En.] Lawrence The marriage of John A. Gregg and Miss Celia Nelson took place in Masonic Hall, Aug. 21. At 7:30 R. G. Jackson gave a recital. Promptly at 8 o'clock the bridal party entered, Mendlesohn's Wedding March being played. They were married by Rev. Attaway and during the ceremony, Wagner's Bridal Procession and "Just one Girl" were played. The men of honor were Jefferson King and Mr. Lee of Kansas City. The maids of honor were Misses Minta Beck, and Vera Lindsey. After the marraige was the reception. The people of Lawrence wish Mr. and Mrs. Gregg success through life. They will be at home to their friends at 1013 Indiana St., after October 1st. The people of St. Luke church were very much surprised to see Theodore Copeland presiding at the organ last Sunday evening. Theodore is the coming pianist of Lawrence. James Beck of Wamego, Mr. Lee of Kansas City, Minta Beck of Wamego, and Myrtle Pennel of Atchison were here to attend the wedding. A few girls and boys spent a very pleasant evening with Mr. and Mrs. Shultz. Mrs. Robt. White is visiting in Glascow, Mo. Weir City. Messrs. Foster and Smith, both enterprising young men, have opened a short order house here. We welcome them to our city and hope that their business will prosper. Misses Emma and Sallie Hawkins and Messrs A. Booker and S. W. Fourd enjoyed a pleasant day's outing at Eureka Thursday. Susie Kinnel of Ft Scott is the guest of Mrs. A. Maiweather's this week and a certain Mr. Payton is all smiles. Mrs. Violet Ramsey, who was visiting her son and daughter, returned to her home Tuesday. The citizens organized a McKinley-Roosevelt club last Monday evening. Mrs. F. Stevenson returned home from Kansas City. Miss E. L. Berry spent Sunday in Yale. School Commences the 17th of Sept. Jetmore. Gertrude Thomas of Hutchison is attending Normal in Jetmore preparing for the school in District 18. Lucinda Murant is also preparing for the school in District 57. A moonlight social was given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Moore in honor of Hattie Johnson. All reported a nice time. James Chork will soon leave for the Cherokee Nation where he has accepted a school. Mesdames Moore and Owens reports a nice time at Kinsly. Newton. Winfield. Sunday August 19th was Rev. Ramsey's last quarterly meeting for this conference year. Rev. Clarke of Arkansas City officiated in the absence of P. E. Brooks. The meeting was a grand sucess. Tuesday was another big day for Winfield. It was celebrated in log rolling by the Woodmen; many people witnessed "The Trades Display" at night. C. Douglas went to Arkansas City Saturday. Rev. Ramsey left for Augusta Saturday to hold meeting on the Sabbath. E. Wilson of Arkansas City was the guest of Mrs. Nichols. J. Dickenson of Oxford was in the city Tuesday. Will Carter was in the city Tuesday. Miss Keller of Arkansas City spent Sunday in the city. Thursday was circus day; how happy the little folks all seemed. Cherokee Cherokee Rev. R. C. Davis left Friday for Parsons and other points. Hattie Watkins, 'accompanied Vinita. I. T. Mrs. Lizzie Edmonson has gone to Fort Smith. Dr. Haynes was thrown from his buggy and received painful injuries. Cora Landrum is on the sick list. It is thought that two of our printers will be married in Sept. Sam Hilderbrand and Boon Woodall had a hearing before Commissioner Doncurlos on a Wiskey charge and were released. Deputy Clerk Chandler has issued a marriage licence to Roy McCartney and Lulu Holmes of Nowater. Robert Claus is sick with Hay fever. The Baptist Church has called the Rev. G. W. Hearts as pastor for six months. Greenville, S. C. What came near being a riot, over two hundred colored men went on a strike at the Monogham mills. Two of them got in a dispute, had a few words and settled it. Foreman McNally cursed one of them and was told that it was no white man's business. At this the white man struck the colored man. After he had received a good thrashing at the hands of the colored man, a number of white men came with sticks and guns to his aid. The colored man ran just as his friends were coming to his rescue. He was shot at four times, one bullet taking effect in his right jaw. All men of color threw down his work and called for time. Mrs. Fanny Craft, mother of Mrs. Mary Wedlington, died at her home in Sallis, Miss. July 26. She was born in 1780, making her age at the time of death 120 years. Emporia. Mrs. Rives and daughter of Denver Colorado, have returned to their home after a visit with parents and relatives. Mrs. Bruce who has been visiting Anna Stafford, has returned to her home in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham of Guthrie, Oklahoma are here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Tipton. A water-melon round-up was given last Thursday evening by the Misses Armstead. A delightful evening was spent. Mr. White preached at the A. M. E. Church last Sunday night. Anna Stafford spent last Sunday in Parsons. Delia Tipton of Plymouth, Kans. is here visiting her sister. Aunt Dicy Odair is on sick list. John Hudson met with a very painful accident last week. He is now with his brother-in-law. The Ministrel Concert and Cake Walk given at the Whitley Opera House was a success. Harry Odair went to Parsons Sunday after a few days visit with his mother. Mrs. Judd Carson is home from Kansas City. Mesdames Wicks and Alphine attended the Christian convention at Ottawa. Walter Redmond is visiting his sister in Omaha, Neb. Mrs. James Booker and son went to Colorado Sunday. Ethel Stafford, Percy Lewis and Verbal Duncan visited in Topeka during Reunion. Emporia. Mr. Cunningham and family spent a few days in the city. They were enroute to Oklahoma. Holton. Garden City Mr. Editor:—Please allow me space in your paper this week in answer to the Colored Citizen of last week, which spoke against Col. Roosevelt in the way he spoke of the Negro soldiers. Well, Roosevelt might have said certain things concerning the Negro soldiers, but what does it amount to? Is what he said as bad as the Democrats are doing in the south and in the state of Georgia, where they stop 8,000 good colored men of their privilege and equal rights at the ballot box, and where men of good moral standing and respected citizens are not allowed as much rights as a brute, and treat them as though they were brutes instead of human beings. And the Democrats don't even stop at that. They are so prejudiced against the Negroes' happiness, even if they see them do anything that does not seem to meet their approval, the first thing they do is to want them to suffer the penalty by burning them at the stakes. Is the Republican party or any of Col. Roosevelt's associates doing that to the Negro, or have they ever tried to do such a thing or low down cowardly trick like it? No, and I dare say they never will; and yet you continue to hamper the Republican nominee for saying what he did in regard to Negro soldiers. In regard to those ambitious men at Leavenworth, who have declared to vote for Bryan and Breidenthal at the coming election, If they were to make up their minds and go south and stay until election day, do you think they would be recognized as a first-class citizen from the west and be allowed to cast a vote? I hope those industrious young men will go South and vote. It might be well for the editor and managers of the Colored Citizen to take a trip south through the state of Texas and ride on them Jim Crow cars, and extend their trip to Georgia, where they will be escorted to separate street cars, and probably their minds might be refreshed up some. And common sense teaches us that our vote is the only thing in life that we have controlling power off, and just think, we are being deprived even of that, Mr. Editor, Yours, WILSON CARTER. Hope Writes. Editor TOPEKA PLAILDEALERI Hon. W. J. Bryan, Democrat-Pop and Free Silver candidate for president of the United States, was in Topeka last week, but I did nor take time to go out and hear him speak. I had a good red water melon and I made up my mind there was more in the heart of a good melon for the Negroes of Kansas, than there was in the heart of Bryan and his party. Take the Republicans I hear some young Negroes say they don't care how they vote, they just as soon vote for a Democrat as a Republican. When it comes to the man, I know some Democrats that I would rather vote for than for some Republicans, but that is not the thing. When you step on the dog's tail in the north, the dog growls in the south. It takes the same thing to keep up a party, that it takes to keep up the Kaw river. Open the ravines, creeks and branches and she will overflow her banks; take them away, and she will go dry. Vote for Bryan and you are voting for Tillman and the Democrat party of the south. White men vote the Democrat ticket,—why? Because his father-in-law is a Democrat and if elected, will give him a good paying job. But the Negro has no father-in-law in the Democrat party, and yet he may have, but he is afraid to own him; if you do, he will mob you and leave his daughter a widow. Young men who want to be Democrats so bad, go south and you will find some young men that will exchange positions with you, then you will be where your party has full control of state and county. Then come back in a few years and tell me what a good party you belong to, that's all. D. D. HOPE. Wichita. Mrs. J. Hayter has returned from Woodard, Okla. Mrs. M. Carr left Friday for a visit to Joplin. A most pleasant social event was the garden party given at the home of Mary Anderson Wednesday evening. Mrs. L. Webb has returned to her home in Kansas City. On Thursday evening the members of the senior choir of the A. M. E. Church were loyally entertained by Mrs. Coffey. Prof. W. Frank Bufkins was in the city last week in the interest of the PLAINDEALER. Lulu Parks left Tuesday for Jefferson City. Dr. E. Harrison of Kansas City is in the city. J. W. Thompson, E. Drain and H. Braden attended the Reunion in Topeka. Mrs. A. Adams left last week for Wellington to arrange for a concert. 5000 MEN WANTED: Men who will keep up with the times by reading he PLAINDEALER. Wichita. Missouri Masons. The Grand lodge of Masons for the state of Missouri was in session at Sedalia last week. The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons elected the following officers for the ensuing year: G. H. P., Milton F. Fields, St. Louis; D. G. H. P., Charles Griggby, Liberty; Grand King, A. L. Reynolds, Jefferson City; Grand Scribe, T. B. Shilkirk, Kansas City, Grand Treas., T. A. Jordan, St. Louis; Grand Recorder, O. M. Woods, St. Louis; Grand Sec'y., G. W. Dupee, Jefferson City; Deputy District G. H. P., T. P. Mahammitt, Omaha, Neb. Tuesday—The Grand Commandery was called on at 10 o'clock a.m. the various committees appointed and the business of the session begun. The grand eminent commander's annual address, followed by speeches from several distinguished sir knights, brought the proceedings to the election of officers, which resulted as follows: R. E. G. C., Chas. Prentiss, St. Louis; D. G. E. GeoH. Green, Lexington; G. G. E. Wm.Harris, St. Joseph; G. R., O. M.Wood, St. Louis; E. G., J. L. Miner, Kansas City; E. G. P., Reuben Barker, Macon; E. G. T., James Gordon, St. Joseph; G. S W., Charles C. Capleton, Jefferson City; G. J. W., John Anderson, St. Louis. The Grand lodge reported a prosperous year, $4,069.75 was collected by the Masonic relief committee to be divided among 52 beneficiaries. WEST COMMMANDERY of St. Joseph, Mo., gave several exhibition drills on the street and in the large hall at the park. This commandery is composed of the best young men in St. Joe. Theo. Adams is drill master. They made a fine appearance. There is no doubt that Northwest is doing more to build up Masonry in the west than any other of the orders connected. The "Cyclones of the West" in appearance make up movements and stability that can't be beaten. lie it resolved by the L-signature of the State of Kansas, two-thirds of the members elected to each house thereof concerning therem. Secur. 1. The following proposition to amend the constitution of the state is hereby submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval or rejection, var. Section 2 of article 3 of the constitution of this state is hereby amended so as to read. Section 2. The supreme court shall consist of seven jectures, who shall be chosen by the electors of the state. They may surprepare in two divisions, with full power in each division to determine the cases assigned to be heard by such division. Three justices shall constitute a quorum in each division and the concurrence of three shall be necessary to a decision. Such cases only as may be ordered to be heard by the whole court shall be considered by all of the justices, and the concurrence of four justices, shall be necessary to a decision in cases so heard. The justice who is senior in continuous service of service shall be chief justice, and in case two or more have continuously served during the same period the senior in years of these shall be chief justice, and the presiding justice of each division shall be selected from the judgments for which they were severally elected and until their successors are elected and qualified. As soon as practicable after the second Monday in January, 1901, the governor shall appoint four justices, to hold their offices until the second Monday in January, 1902. At the general election in 1902 there shall be elected five justices, one of whom shall hold his office for two years thereafter two justices shall be elected. At the general election in 1906 and every year thereafter two justices shall be elected. At the general election in 1908 and every year thereafter two justices shall be elected. At the general amendment herey proposed shall be designated on the official ballot by the following title: "The judicial amendment to the constitution," and shall be voted for or against as now provided by law under such title. Sec. 3. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute-book. Approved March 4, 1899. 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. 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