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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME II. BOSTON, MASS., Aug. 25, 1900. To the editor of The Plainsman In response to a call sent out to the Afro-American business men of this country by Principal Booker T. Washington, of the Tuskegee Industrial Institute about two months ago, more than 200 delegates from nearly every state in the union assembled in Parker Memorial hall, Boston, Thursday morning, August 23. They came from Maine to Nebraska, and from Illinois to Florida; representing every phase of industrial and commercial life. They were a neat, well-dressed, dignified, manly set of men, each bearing that air of prosperity and independence possessed by the man who has surmounted obstacles and mastered adverse circumstances. These men have organized themselves into a permanent body known as the National Negro Business league and that its character, aims, regulations and recommendations may be understood, I insert the report of the committee on resolutions and rules, which was unanimously adopted: "The widely representative character of the delegates to this convention, including nearly every state in the union, the marked interest shown in this, the first National gathering of Negro Business men assembled in Boston, Mass., on August 23 and 24, 1909, have demonstrated the necessity for and the great advantages in the formation of a national organization of Negro business men to more successfully carry out the purpose of this meeting. Firmly impressed with the apparent need of such an organization, your committee respectfully recommend as follows: Resolved, That this convention enter into a permanent organization as a national association, and that the officers of this convention, namely: For president, Booker T. Washington, of Alabama; vice president, Giles B. Jackson, of Virginia; vice president, Mrs. Alberta Moore Smith, of Illinois; treasurer, Gilbert C. Harris, of Massachusetts; secretary, Edward C. Cooper, of District of Columbia; compiler, E. A. Johnson, of North Carolina, be declared the officers of the National Business league as hereinafter named. Resolved, That the following rules and regulations are hereby adopted for the government of the same: 1. The name of this organization shall be known as the National Negro Business league. 2. Its object is to inform as best we may the world of the progress the Negro is making in business in every part of the country, and to stimulate local business enterprises through its annual meetings in any other manner deemed wise; to encourage the organization of local business for the purpose of furthering commercial growth in all places where such organizations are deemed needful and wise. 3. Any person engaged in any commercial enterprise or properly delegated to represent any individual or individuals engaged in commercial enterprise is entitled to membership under such regulations as may be adopted. 4. The officers of this organization shall be a presidedt, vice president, secretary, compiler, treasurer, and an executive committee composed of nine (9) who shall be elected annually, and shall include the president, secretary and treasurer. 5. This organization shall hold its meetings annually, at such time as the executive committee may select. 6. All resolutions shall be referred to the executive committee before being debated in open session. The National Negro Business league in session at Boston recommends: 1. That our people form local business leagues in all the towns and cities of the country where the race is strong enough in numbers, and such such organizations will best promote the interest of the race. 2. That these local leagues send delegates as far as possible to the national organization, and keep in close touch during the year with the E TO ges From Bryan to Some Startling Pigures—Negro developing remarkable Bussness Capacity. officers of the national organization. 3. That these local organizations hold meetings monthly as far as practical. 4. That we strongly urge that everything possible be done in local organizations to discourage complicated and useless parliamentary machinery, and that parliamentary and technical discussions be avoided, as far as possible, with a view of concentrating time and strength on the real object of the convention." From the time the gavel fell Thursday morning at 10 o'clock until 11 o'clock Friday evening, every moment of the four intervening sessions was profitably used. There were no points-of-order squabbles, no parliamentary wrangles, no dtsgruntled individuals to air their grievances, no Simple Simons with their silly sayings, and, most of all, no whining or jugubulous complaints. Every individual who spoke was brim full of business and therefore his remarks were interesting and inspiring. Though the program was a long and varied one, never did interest wane. The closest attention was given each speaker, and boundless enthusiasm was the order of the day. The following was the program arranged in advance and carried out to the letter with the exception of one or two slight changes in the time of appearance of speakers, and the substitution of the name of Mr. R. C. Simmons for that of Mr. W. C. Coleman, Concord, N. C., who was detained because of illness, but sent Mr. Simmons to represent him. Meeting called to order by Samuel B. Courtney, chairman of local committee; devotions, prayer by Rev. Montague; address of welcome by John J. Smith. Boston; "The Negro as a Real Estate Dealer" Giles B. Jackson, Richmond, Va.; James E. Shepard, Raleigh, N.C., discussion; "Negro Business Enterprises in Pensacola, Fla." M. M. Lewey; "Negro Business Enterprises in Enfield, N.C." J. W. Pullen; "Negro Business Enterprises in Jacksonville, Fla." J. Douglass Wetmore; Negro Business Enterprises in Chattanooga, Tenn., Dr. A. J. Love; discussion; "The Drug Business," Dr. L. L. Burwell, Selma, Ala., D. E. K. Elbert, Wilmington, Del.; discussion; "Work in Hair," Gilbert C. Harris, Boston, Mass.; discussion; "Dressmaking," Mrs. A. A. Casneau, Boston, Mass.; discussion; "The Negro Florist," A. F. Crawford, Meriden, Conn.; discussion. Singing, Mrs. Nellie Brown Mitchell, accompanist, Miss Edna Brown; address, Hon. Thomas N. Hart, Mayor of Boston; address, William Lloyd Garrison, Boston; "The Savings Bank," W. R. Peltiford, president Alabama Penny Savings Bank, Birmingham, Ala.; "Negro Coal Mining Company," T. W. Walker, Birmingham, Ala.; "The Building of a Negro Town," Isaac T. Montgomery, Mayor and founder of Mound Bayou, Miss. AUGUST 24—MORNING SESSION. "Banking," W. F. Taylor, Richmond, Va.; "Merchant Tailoring," J. H. Lewis, Boston, Mass., R. J. Palmer, Columbia, S. C.; discussion; "Life Insurance," W. F. Graham, Richmond, Va.; discussion; "The Negro Publisher," T. Thomas Fortune, New York; discussion; "Colored Woman's Business League," Mrs. Alberta Moore Smith, Chicago, Ill.; discussion; "Catering and Restaurant Keeping," W. D. Potter, Philadelphia; David B. Allen, Newport, R. I.; discussion; "Barbering," Daniel Lucas, Kansas City, Mo., T. H. Thomas, Galweston, Texas; discussion; "Negro Business Enterprises at the South," Andrew F. Hillier, Washington, D. C.; discussion; "Undertaking," George C. Jones, Little Rock, Ark.; G. W. Franklin, Chattanooga, Tenn.; discussion; "Manufacturing," John Mason Brown, Macon, Ga., F. G. Stedman, East Hampton, Conn.; discussion. (Continued on Page Two.) TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING,-SEPTEMBER 7, 1900. I have exhumed the bloody shirt for a breif moment and am wav ing it like a red flag to a bull and the latter will not fight or budge, and I will call the attention of my friends from the North—I have a great many on that side. I am proud to say—to the fact that they do not know yet, and never will know until they come South and live with us, just what we have had to contend against and just what we have to contend against even now. They do not realize it; they can not realize; and it is for the purpose of trying to have them study this question of race a little more and analyze it that I have attempted; in my feeble way, to intrude on this body for the brief remarks I have made on this subject. I will tell you, while I am talking about negro suffrage, why they are so dangerous as voters. In any State where the whites divide—and they have divided in every Southern State except mine and Mississippi—into Populist and Democrais the negro has been the balance of power, through which one side or the other has controlled the elections by means of bribery, for the negro voter was a purchasable one. Therefore we have been confronted by the condition of a large ignorant debased vote, thurst upon us by the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Other States, not so peculiarly situated as mine, have retained that negro vote. They have taken do steps looking to its elimination by educational qualification or any other system. That vote today stands as a meansace to the freedom, to the purity of the ballot-box, to the purity and honesty of elections, to the decency of government, and it is there forever until there is a constitutional provision made here which will relieve us from it. I should be glad to see education qualification throughout the North. I believe no man is fit to be an elector unless he is able to read and write and understand something about government and its great principles. But who hopes to see that? No party at the North will dare to undertake to limit suffrage in that way, because it would mean at the first election that the vote which they dread would go to the other party and they would be beaten, and the demagogues in both parties would plead that you must have equality of manhood without regard to patriotism or intelligence or decency or ability or any other qualification which makes a man fit to vote. * * Let me tell you how we are situated in our State. We had a hundred and twenty-five thousand negroes of voting age and we had a hundred thousand whites. Now, can you lift yourselves over the fence with your boot straps and beat that by. honest methods? Yet you stood up here and insisted that we must give these people a "free vote and a fair count". They had it for eight years, as long as the hayonets stood there, and in 1876 they sent more bayonets, because we had got the devil in us by that time and we did not care whether we had any government. We preferred to have a United States Army officer rather than a government by carpetbaggers and thieves and scallywags and scoundrels, who had stolen everything in sight and had mortaged posterity; who had run their felonious paws into the pockets of posterity by issuing bonds. When that happened, we took the government away. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it. With that system—force, tissue ballots, etc.—we got tired ourselves. So we called a constitutional convention, and we eliminated, as I said, all of the colored people whom we could under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Bishop Turner Rides Atlanta Street Cars into Bryan Camp. Various papers have announced with more or less gusts the "flap" of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner of the A. M. E. Church, and his expressed determination to take the "stump" for Mr. Bryan. It is also reported that other prominent A. M. E. Bishcps will follow suit, among whom is Bishop W. B. Derrick. Much importance is attached to this ecclesiastical sommersault. Chairman Jones paid a higher price for this acrobatic exhibition than will be given for anyother during the campaign of 1900. We say this because of the name of Whitman being seen in the ideal. The PLAINDEAF FR has no scruples in condemning the practice of Negro preachers and bishops dabbling in politics. For years the leaders of our religious organizations have been regarded as the great men of wisdom, to whom the race must look I have exhumed the bloody shirt in it like a red flag to a bull and the and I will call the attention of my great many on that side. I am proud not know yet, and never will know with us, just what we have had to have to contend against even now. not realize; and it is for the purpose this question of race a little more ardued; in my feeble way, to intrude on I have made on this subject. I will tell you, while I am talking are so dangerous as voters. In any and they have divided in every State Mississippi—into Populist and Dem balance of power, through which on the elections by means of bribery, fable one. Therefore we have been confronted ignorant debased vote, thirst upon amendments. Other States, not so retained that negro vote. They have elimination by educational qualification vote today stands as a meanance to ballot-box, to the purity and honest government, and it is there forever a vision made here which will relieve I should be glad to see educate North. I believe no man is fit to be read and write and understand some great principles. But who hopes North will dare to undertake to lift it would mean at the first election would go to the other party and the gogues in both parties would please manhood without regard to patriot ability or any other qualification which Let me tell you how we are situated dred and twenty-five thousand hundred thousand whites. Now, fence with your boot straps and be you stood up here and insisted the "free vote and a fair count". Then as the hayonets stood there, and because we had got the devil in us, whether we had any government. States Army officer rather than a givethes and scallywags and scoundrel sight and had mortaged posterity; into the pockets of posterity by issue. When that happened, we took the ballot boxes. We shot them. We. With that system—force, tissue bar. So we called a constitutional considation, all of the colored people who and fifteenth amendments. for worldly as well as spiritual guidance. They have not scrupled to use the power and influence of the church to further the ends of political parties. They have not objected to the prostitution of Negro houses of worship to serve the ends of political parties. But of late years this practice has been done away. The prelates and ministers of our churches within the past few years have been assuming the dignity becoming to the positions they occupy. No man on the bench of bishops of the A. M. E. Church is more striking in his personality than is Bishop Henry McNeal Turner. He is a man of bull dog tenacity rather than genius. His influence within the A. M. E. Church and among the members of the race at large is more negative than positive. He is known more among our people as a rampant advocate of African emigration, as a solution of the race problem in America, than as a man whose religious piety and zeal has accomplished much for his church. In these days the Negro preacher and bishop has not the power among our people that they once had. Growing intellegence, a knowledge of history, and an understanding of current events as they influence the destiny of the race, is making of the Negroes of today men of thought rather than passion and sentiment. The Negroes are aware of the history of the Democratic party and all the Bishops of all the churches could not induce any number of them to worship at a political shrine whose alter is reeking with the blood of murdered Negroes, and creed is foul with the hopes of degrading the Negro. The Negroes are not ready to play the inheritance in the modern Carter of birthrights. Bishop Turner has been amply cared for by the race. In all his advocacy of the principles of disfranchisement, lynch law, the Jim Crow Car, and inhuman treatment of Negroes will fall as flat as has his chimera of African Emigration. Bishop Turner will fall as flat in the nation as John Brown has in Kansas. South American Emigration is but a recollection African Emigration fails to attract, and Tillmanism advocated by either man will fall flat. Both deals smuck of "coin" not "conviction". The spectacle of the ecclesial robes, it for a breif moment and am wav the latter will not fight or budge, friends from the North—I have a and to say—to the fact that they do now until they come South and live contend against and just what we They do not realize it; they can pose of trying to have them study and analyze it that I have attempt on this body for the brief remarks long about negro suffrage, why they may State where the whites divide— Southern State except mine and Democrais the negro has been the one side or the other has controlled for the negro voter was a purchas- anted by the condition of a large in us by the fourteenth and fifteenth o peculiarly situated as mine, have have taken do steps looking to its location or any other system. That to the freedom, to the purity of the sty of elections, to the decency of until there is a constitutional pro- me us from it. ocation qualification throughout the be an elector unless he is able to something about government and its ties to see that? No party at the limit suffrage in that way, because on that the vote which they dread they would be beaten, and the demacad that you must have equality of potism or intelligence or decency or which makes a man fit to vote. * * quoted in our State. We had a hun- negroes of voting age and we had a can you lift yourselves over the beat that by. honest methods? Yet that we must give these people a they had it for eight years, as long in 1876 they sent more bayonets, as by that time and we did not care. We preferred to have a United government by carpetbaggers and drels, who had stolen everything in who had run their felonious paws using bonds. in the government away. We stuffed we are not ashamed of it. ballots, etc.—we got tired ourselves, invention, and we eliminated, as I nom we could under the fourteenth trailing around the tap of a solitical stump will be so disgusting to masses that they will turn from it with loathings. It is a sight not seen in any other ecclesiastical organization. The Negroes cannot afford to endorse such conduct of its preachers regarilless of political affiliations. Turner, et. al., will have no followers. Mesdames Ethely and Johnson assisted by Mesdames Mukes and Buckner entertained at a Japanesse tea Wednesday evening from three to five in honor of Mrs. Harris of Emporia. Those calling during the afternoon were Mesdames S. Vernella, J. H. Guy, S. G. Watkins, M. E. Young, C. F. Clinkscale, J Allen, C. D. Moss, D. F. Mallory, W. W. Ware, J. Edmonds, M. Forbes, E. Drain, F. M. Ware, J. M. Johnson, J. D. Barker, Mitchel, Huddleson, H. King, O. A. Taylor, W. A. Jordan, W. McClaim, W. Brown, A.E. Sharp, T. J. Merritt, Phelps of Iola, T. G. Turner of Leadville Colo., and Misses M. Porter of Atchiuson, Ethel Stafford of Emporia. Barlelt of Carleton Mo., Sadie Guy, Cora Merritt, Lillia Philips, Eva Hawkins, Ella Williams, Mary Jordan, Hester Hawkins, Eva Philips, Nellie Hicks, Maggie Bass, Missouri Benning Luvenia Brown. Nora Williams, Lena Thompson. ood Citizen" Soon; Some Pointed Methods by H. I. Monroe. Which side shall the Negro take in the coming campaign? In the discussion of this subject, I do not wish to be vituperative, and my wish is also to lay aside whatever personal feelings I might have in the matter, and be influenced by the condition as I see them. I will say in the beginning, that the highest principles of citizenship, is the right of the citizen to think and vote as he pleases, nor would I dare to infringe upon that right. To do this would be to violate the freedom of the ballot, the bullwork of this nation. The question of which party the Negro shall cast his vote this fall presents itself to us as it has not in many years, because of this violation of constitutional rights. The Negro is naturally republican and is so because of what the party has done for him. I lay aside and refuse to discuss the fact that under a republican administration he was given the right to vote along with his freedom, after 243 years of unpaid toil, and will not say that his vote should be influenced by this fact, because there are new questions demanding solution. Some colored men have changed their politics in the last few years; and let us hope that they are honest regardless of what we believe; because if they have done so honestly, after a fair and an unbiased knowledge of facts, they will see their mistake and return to the party that offers the greatest hope for a people struggling against strong odds. The two great parties have held their national conventions and adopted the platforms upon which they hope to win, and if there was nothing said directly in favor of the Negro, we know the attitude of the leaders. The principles advocated by the leaders of any party most generally become the principles and policies of that party. It seems to me that it is not necessary to enter into a lengthy discussion of history as to the Negro in this country prior to 1863, to prove that his best friends have been and are in the republican party, because a later review of facts will serve the purpose of this article. While some may be discouraged because the relief sought has not come as fast as we think it should, with the party some of whose leaders have ever been on the side of right, vote and contend until the end sought is obtained. When we must change our politics, let us go to a party that offers better things than we have, and whose leaders believe in giving to us at least more rights. It is useless and unwise to go from bad to worse, if we call our connection with the republican party bad; at any rate it is far better than going to the demo-pop party, and we may well say the straight democrat party; because they are asking elevation to place and power upon the same platform. If I had been a democrat all my life, I should leave it and refuse to vote with them this fall, after noticing the actions of their leaders at the Kansas City convention, and knowing the records of some of them. There should be a careful review of the democratic party in all sections of this country, respecting their attitude toward the Negro. The paramount issue in this campaign of the Negro, should be which party is going to give to us the right of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The gold standard, free silver and expansion, or what the democrats erroneously call imperialism, are very insignificant issues to the Negro as compared with freedom, justice and the right of citizenship. If we submit a fair and impartial comparison of the two leading parties of this county, it will be clearly shown that there is not a parish plantation, county or state where the republicans rule supreme that there are the injustices practiced against the Negra, as there are in the democratic strongholds. (Continued on Page Three) Mr. Croker's organ, The New York Telegraph, seems to regard the stringing up of a Negro to a lamp post in the streets of New York by the mob during the late riots in that city as a very rich joke. The incident seems to have furnished considerable matter for its facetious space writers, who were brutally witty at the expense of this innocent and outsaged Negro citizen. The Tammany police are the aggressors and the criminals who should be punished for that disgraceful riot. The system of highway robbery introduced into the Tenderloin and other districts of New York City by police captains and their go betweens, by which they exact blood money from the criminal classes in return for immunity from arrest for open violation of the law. is the true cause of the recent riot there and the terrible consequences which followed it. The New York Democrats of the baser element are not novices at the business of hanging Negroes to lamp posts. They tried their hand at that business during the draft riots in 1863, which have gone into history and they made themselves infamous by breaking into the Negro orphan asylum and murdering innocent Negro babes in other quarters of the city. Of course the Negro Democracy of New York led by Chief Lee will march the black legions to the polls in November next, and vote them solidly for Bryan and Stevenson. They would not be good and consistent Democrats if they did not lick the hands that smote them. The delegation of colored men headed by Chief Lee that called on Acting Mayor Guggenheimer to demand that the officers who clubbed innocent colored citizens during the riot, be punished are all of them humorist of a very superior order. Nobody has any faith in the sincerity of these new champions of the race, for the good reasons that they have heretofore had no word to say against the brutal treatment of the Negro by the Democratic party in other states, that they have not used their influence (if they have any) in urging the Democracy to put something in state and national platforms against lawlessness. So that this recent ebulition of indignation which emanates from these Negro Democrats is a grand stand play and the idea is not of Negro origin. The Democrats are not in the habit of playing that kind of politics. They do not keep it on tap. The significance of this move is oblivious and the move itself will prove impotent. No police officers will be punished for clubbing Negroes, but the protest of Negro Democrats against their brutal assaults upon the race, is of record and will be considered good campaign material by the short sighted black brethren who are unable to see how very shallow is this very performance of the smooth and counterfit presentment of the Hon. Richard Croker. Tammany Hall is the real criminal because it has made and is making merchandise of its official power and its political influence. Tammany Hall reeking with corruption from head to foot, a stench in the nostrils of decent men, a festering scab on the body of society, is responsible for all the villainy, all the ruffianism and rowdyism which recently disgraced the second largest city of the world, and caused the statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island to blush for shame at the deprivancy and barbarism of its enlightened white men. Can any decent or sell respecting race loving Negro so far forget his manhood as to cast his vote for this party? God forbid Chairman Hanna's recent speech to the Republicans of Asbury Park N.J. is worth remembering by all Republicans who want to see President McKinley re-elected. Too much over confidence will not accomplish that result. "Eternal vig- NUMBER 36. New York Democrats not New Hands at Hanging Negroes..... By John E. Bruce. ilance is the price of liberty" and the more vigilance all Republicans exercise, the surer the victory which is already expected, but which a foolish indifference to the points of vantage we have already gained may prove disastrous. We want to go into this campaign with the feeling that nothing is sure or certain death and taxes, and we should speedily get out of the habit of accepting as gospel truth Democratic versions of the disintegration of that party. Tammany Hall is as foxy now as it has always been, and it always gets together with celerity and despatch on election day. The splits factions and bad feeling said to exist in that party among the leaders who are more or less anxious to attend Mr. Croker's political funeral are part of a deep scheme which is intended to create a feeling of security among Repeblicans which will of course assist the Democrats in securing the prize. The Democratic family quarrel will be settled in sixty-five minutes after they have discovered that confiding Republicans have taken them seriously and are sleeping on their guns. Guns do not make good beds and it is best not to sleep on them at all. Democrats never sleep. People who are hungry for spoils have not time for sleep. We must give our friends the enemy, credit for having a system of organization and a method of doing business with its opponents which is practical, if not always successful. The tactical Democrat-fighter takes nothing for granted. He believes in the potency and value of details, and in the efficacy of bull dog tenacity in a fight for big stakes. He has a penchant for steaks and stakes and when he wins them he enjoys them. The Headquarters and bline pencil fighter, who is too tired to take the field and oo willing to take and adopt as his own the opinions and estimates of others as to the result of the battle' has never yet won a battle and he never will. The democrats have reduced campaigning to a positive science. They are real democrats in the struggle for supremacy, for every man in the patty from the highest to the lowest mingles in splendid alliance, each imbued with the one central idea —Victory—and to secure this they stop at nothing short of inglorious defeat. It is to be hoped that the republicans in the present campaign will throw off some of their reserve and begin to "play ball" in earnest. The duty of all republicans is to get together immediately. If they will do this Mr. Bryan will be one consecutive week after Nov. 6th trying to find out whether he was blown up by dynamite or kicked by the nameless long eared animal which is sometimes pictured to represent the democratic party in action. One of Mr. Lincoln's witticisms which will apply to the methods of the democratic party today, will not be out of place here. The passage occurs in one of his messages after his first inauguration. He said: "With rebellion thus sugar coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than thirty years until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take arms against the government". The public briner excepted to the use of the words "sugar coated" as being undignified. Those words express precisely my idea and I am not going to change them. The time will never come when the people wont know exactly what sugar coated means. Mr. Lincoln was right. The sugar coated speeches of Mr. Bryan have almost persuaded a number of good Americans to commit political suicide by going against the best and only party which has demonstrated its capacity to govern this country as it ought to governed. (Continued on Page Two.) FRIDE OF TOPKATENT NO. 36, meet 1st and 3rd Saturday afternoon of each month at No. 906 North Kansas avenue. Mrs. Ida M. Jordain, Q. M., Miss Anna Reynold, C. R. MACDONIA TABERNAGER NO. 08, U. K. T. Hall 601 N. Kansas avenue. Moseley 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month. Mrs. Ida M. Jordain, G. P.; Miss Sarah Walker, C. R. MACEDONIAN LODGE NO. 9, GOODSAMARANS AND DAUGHTERS of SAMARIA, meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month at 8 o'clock, at 133 East Ninth street. Voting Samarans are always welcome. W. E. Jackson, Allie Lawson, Recording Sec. Dr. O. A. Taylor's mother of Leavenworth, Ks., is visiting him and wife this week. Arthur Harris, pressman for the Plaindealer, is very ill at his home on Taylor St. The great Marshalls band will go to Leavenworth next Sunday to give the natives a treat. Mrs. Gertie Silvers and sister of Lawrence were the guest of Mrs. J. M. Montgomery last week. Mrs. L. Thomas of Clarksville, Tenn., has returned home after spending three months with her sister and brother. Every person should go out to Garfield park next Sunday to hear Jackson's Military band concert at 3 p.m. Do not fail. The auditorium chorus will rehearse next week at 618 Jackson ave. Prof. Jackson desires a full attendance of all parts. Mrs. A. M. Thomas has returned home after a five weeks visit with her parents at their country villa near Kansas City, Ks. Don't miss Valley Falls Sept. 22. Hon. Chas. Curtis and the Hon. Paul Jones will be present to tell the people something of interest. Mrs. Susan Brown, Misses Agnes and Zephyr Brown and Mark Brown of Independence, Mo., visited in the city last week with Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Williams. Mrs. Pressley Chiles and two children are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Chiles at their home on East 12th st. She will be the guest of relatives for a month. All colored organizations are invited to take part in the parade at Valley Falls Sept. 22 We hope every colored person who can will attend this celebration. On account of the postponement of the meeting at Holliday last Tuesday, Dr. G. H. Shaffer and W. W. Fisher, booked by the republican state committee to speak there, were recalled. Ex Gov. Lewelling died at his home in Wichita last Monday. He was the first populist governor in the United States. He was a Mason of high standing. We regret to learn of his sudden death. Luther Dudley died at the residence of his parents Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Dudley, 221 Quincy st., on Monday. The funeral services were held at the residence Tuesday at 2 p.m., Rev. Wooten officiating. 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 last season and their friends are cordially invited Music by Steinberg's orchestra. 2w Mrs. Alice Elam and daughter, Misses Stella Wilson and Fannie Madison of Kansas City, Ks., returned home last Tuesday, after several days visit in the city. They were the guests of Mrs. Emma Gaines. Mrs. C. Mukex gave a 9 o'clock breakfast in honor of Mrs. Turner of Leadville, Col., and Mrs. Harris of Emporia. They all seemed to enjoy the delightful breakfast and the beautifully decorated dining room. They were accompanied to the depot by Mesdames Johnson, Taylor, Ethely, Mukex. WRIGHT-RIVERS. John M. Wright was married at high noon Wednesday, Sept. 5, to Miss Josephine Rivers of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Wright is county clerk of Shawnee county, Kansas, and enjoys the confidence and respect of this entire community. The PLAINDEALER wishes a happy voyage through life. Miss Rivers enjoys the distinction of being one of the prettiest and sweetest singers west of the Mississippi river. She travelled with Blind Boone concert company for years. They left on the great Rock Island flyer for Denver, Colorado Springs and Manitou, Col. They will be at home to their friends after Sept. 20, at 1216 Lincoln st., where he has erected a nice cottage, all furnished with the latest style furniture and all the modern attachments for general housekeeping, I do not wish to score any Negro who is a democrat conscientiously and for motives above the dollar, (and I don't see how they can be.) for with other races the dollar loses its place when their liberty is at stake or is tampered with. "Give me liberty, or give me death," the Negro democrat will be the same way when he sees where he is drifting. It is a serious—yes, unpardonable mistake for any supposed leader who has left the republican party, because he has been asked to let some one else who is as deserving as himself, have the benefit of some of the public money, to say that the democratic party is the panacea for the Negro's ills, when he knows that it is the party of the bloodhound, the shot gun and the burning at the stake of human beings. For the colored men of Kansas to vote any part of the demo-populist ticket this fall, is to say that the treatment of the Negro in the south is right and we should join them (the democrats) in making it wor-e for his race. I promised not to be vituperative the discussion of this question, and I will avoid as much as I can those things that will cause anger. When in the closing days of the 54th congress I believe, Ben Tillman of South Carolina, said in his speech on the Hiawian annexation bill, that he "did not believe that God ever intended that the Negro should be the social or the political equal of the white man," the Negro journals all over this country were unanimous in their denunciation of him as a senator; and that the country might understand clear the position of himself any constituents in the last congress, he made an admission as to the treatment of the Negro at the south, that will ever be a blank page in the history of the democratic party of this country. In speaking of the Negro he said that the democratic party had shot him, had stuffed the ballot box, had disfranchised him, and had scratched their heads to find what more could be done to impede his progress." Surely the men who are advocating demo-populist policies, have not read Tillman's speech. Some of them will say that he does not voice the sentiments of the party, and his party is not with him; but can they explain why he was up in the front rank and was given the chairmanship of the committee on resolutions at the Kansas City convention. Let us not be deceived. Tillman is one of the leaders of his party, and as such his expressions must be given credence. Under such leadership, where is the show for the Negro, outside of the republican party, I fail to see. The resolutions committee at the Kansas City convention offered sympathy for the Boers in south Africa, but not a word for the Negroes at home, whose homes have been plundered and burned and inmates coldly murdered. This is a sad condition of affairs, and is growing worse. The republican party is the only party to which the Negro can look for relief, in my judgment, and I have no way of judging the future but by the past, and the colored men will do well to vote with that party—both state and national tickets. The democrats claim that because the Negro does not pay taxes equal to the white man, that he has no right to vote and have schools equal to other races. In the south where this idea is more prevalent than in the north, the discrimination has become almost unbearable, and it seems to me that they forget the fact that the Negro has given to them and their fathers 243 years of unpaid toil, that they received their freedom 37 years ago, without a dollar, without education, and divided as a race (caused by the democratic party). Is it any wonder that so soon as they cannot compete with other races, who have had all their days before them, and profited by so many years of the Negro's labor. The south has done comparatively nothing for the education of the Negro. At Fort Worth, Texas, a city the equal in inhabitants to Topeka, and as many or more colored people, they have one frame building that cost less than $1500, to accommodate the colored children of school age, while at Topeka there are five good school houses with a fine corpe of teachers. Were it not for the religious schools in the south, the colored people would suffer for higher education. The northern demo-populist might not treat us in this way, but they are training with the wrong crowd. The demo-populist were very careful at the Kansas City convention to read the Declaration of Independence. I want to call the attention of that colored man who is advising colored men to vote the demo-populist ticket, to a fair consideration of that document. I can only refer to few extracts. Could they have read that part that says that "all men are created equal?" Mr. Tillman says that it is not so," and Tillman is an honorable man. "That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The democratic party has always denied the Negro these rights. He must surely think that he is not a part of God's creation. "The consent of the governed" is another phrase made use of by the demo-populist this year, as they did when the Louisiana purchase was to be made. But that party has ever been the bulwark of liberty, humanity and justice, said as they are saying in the Philippines, wherever the flag has been raised. may the arm of the man be withered who would attempt to haul it down, unless it is done in honor. The declaration in speaking of the atrocities of Great Britain, said among other things: "He has refused to pass laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature; a right inestimable to them, and formidale to tyrants only. Now I ask any man who is willing to discuss this question, if that is not just what the democratic has done? When you know that in large districts in this country, where the Negro is atraid because of democratic supremacy, to exercise the right of franchise, unless it be in accordance with the policies of the democratic party, and where he is intimidated beyond expression. Can any man leave the republican party and go to the democratic party? Surely not. Every amendment to the constitution, looking to the interest and betterment of the condition of the colored race, has been put there by the republican party. What has the democratic party done or what is it promising to do for the colored race? They have, in bidding for the German vote, left out the 16 to 1 plank in their translation to them of the plattform, because they know that it would be displeasing to them, and so with other races. But what have they bid for the colored vote, have they not said by enactment of laws in their strongholds that they did not want the colored vote? Can it be possible that the colored men of Kansas are going to say by their vote this fall that the Jim Crow car law is right? It is a child of the policies of the democratic party. It is said that it is necessary at the south to have a separation of the Negro from other races. Can it be that he is more desperate in the south than the north? Is it right to make the righteous suffer with the wicked in the colored race more so than in other races? I say it is not The democratic party some years ago in certain states, enacted a separate coach law. We knew at the time that it was a dangerous precedent. Now in some of those same states they have disfranchised the Negro. I ask how much further is he from where he was prior to the rebellion? 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Baker, returned to her home in St. Joe Sunday. Rev. M. L. Jones of Maize is a visitor in the city. Mrs. H. Williams and daughter Mamie have returned from Colorado Springs. Mrs. Barton of Clearwater visited friends in the city last week. I. W. Brown of Minnecha, spent Sunday in the city. Mrs. L. Holbert and daughter Annie have returned from Manhattan. Mrs. S. Rawles and children of San Antonia are in the city. Mrs. S. E. Patton and mother Mrs. Brown have returned from a trip to Colorado. Coffeyville. Charity Rose Tabernacle No. 24, is doing as well as could be expected, considering the amount of sickness we are undergoing at this time. Dt. Lydia Garner, H. P., has been sick for several weeks, but is improving now. Dt. Mattie Cambell is on the sick list this week, also Dt. Laura White. Dt. Rosa Buffington returned to her home in Lenapah, I. T., after two days visit with Mrs. Lydia Garner, H. P. Sir A. Garner, D. G. M.. spent two days in Parsons, Ks., on business last week. Sir Frank Wilson, C. G. M., left this morning for St. Louis, a behalf of the I. B. F. & S. M. The writer hopes that he may have success. Golden Gate Temple No. 17, and Charity Rose Tabernacle No. 24, will give a birthday entertainment Sept. 27. Each member is to pay a penny for each year old. A good time is expected and success to our treasury. Lenapah I. T. Bright Star Tabernacle No. 27, of Lenapah, I. T., is doing nicely, with Miss Rosa Buffington, H. P. They have five new members to unite Thursday, Sept. 6. Dt. Garner, D. G. P., is expected to be with them in their work. Dt. Bessie Murrell is very sick with rheumatism. Dt. Nora Buffington has been very sick, but is improving now. St. Paul Missionary Baptist association closed its year's work at Goose Neck Bend, I. T., last week. The Masons will have a great corner stone laying Sept. 22, at Mowatta, I. T. The people of Lenapah, Mowatta, Big Creek, Hickory Creek and Goose Neck have organized a club called the Assembly, for the purpose of raising money to build a college to educate the Negro in the territory. Please send a copy of your paper to Miss Rosa Buffington, Lenapah, I. T. 5000 MEN WANTED: Men who will keep up with the times by reading the PLAINDEALER. Lawrence The university has begun its work and a great many students are ready to begin work. The prospect for an increase in the number of colored students is very favorable this year. Miss Tate of St. Louis is visiting here. Miss Stewart of Topeka is here visiting Miss Shuto. There seems to be quite an epidemic in Lawrence this year along the marriage line. Miss Viola Shuto and Charles Johnson have married. Weddings are so frequent now, everyone is saying, "who will be next?" Harry Nutall and Ed Harris have returned to resume their work in school. Misses Em. and Willa Brown, after spending a very pleasant vacation, have returned. Miss Eva Perry has returned from Indian Territory, where she has been visiting. Misses Trussie Smothers is visiting in Kansas City. The Black Bird concert company gave a concert at St. Luke A. M. E. church Monday night. They had a splendid audience, who were especially pleased with Madame Stone's facial expressions, when during her song, she wanted to impress something. The principle feature was the double-headed girl. Miss Kittie Smothers has gone to Oklahoma, where she will teach this school year. Mrs. Georgy and her son John are now visiting in Colorado. Miss Blanche Robinson entertained at her home in honor of her guests Mrs. Henderson and Miss Ella Murrell of Salina. After a dainty repast the ladies and gentlemen departed, declaring Miss Robinson an ideal hostess. Mrs. Anna Henderson returned to her home Sunday. Miss Tillie Fantroy has returned to her home, after a pleasant visit in Olathe, Ks., and Kansas City. Miss Frinda Church is visiting relatives in Fort Scott. Hutchinson. Rev. J. W. McGee, pastor of the A. M. E. Church, preached at the Baptist Church Sunday in the absence of Rev. Raimey. Rev. Gamble went to Sterling this morning in search of a musician. The A. M. E. Church will give a banquet at Masonic Hall Thursday evening. The young ladies of the city will meet in their regular young ladies Circle Wednesday. George Saunders the barber of color, who shaves nobody but white men, is talking of moving to Coffeeville in the spring. Charles Livers, Madge Philips and Will Graves of the Mandolin club spent three days in Kingman playing for a street show. After a month of intense heat, we are blessed with a fine rain which has restored comfort. There is a young gentleman that should greatly appreciate the song "Just One Girl," for he is particularly infatuated with a lady that requested him not to speak to her again. And the respond to the request is, he is indignant at all of the young men in town, and say they knocked on him. Mrs. Rickman of Sterling visited in the city last week. C. S. Fowler has declined the idea of engaging in a restaurant and general store, but will soon depart for Denver, Col., in company with Charles Price, where they will engage in business. Misses Emma Crooms and Emma Broaders will soon leave for Kentucky, and the funeral of two young men will follow. During the Robinson Bros.' circus in Newton last week Fowler & Price ran a confectionary and lemonade stand, with M. Fowler chief clerk. It is reported that they simply coined money. Mrs. Parkerson has returned from Kansas City, where she attended association. Messrs. Banks and Mr. Woods and wife of Kingman, visited in the city last Thursday. Little Percival A. Owens is suffering with a swollen throat and neck. Rev. Gamble was in Sterling last Monday on business. Mr. B. M. Crow and wife have a fine boy to rejoice over. Ben has smiled ever since Wednesday, Aug. 22. The concert given for the benefit of Rev. N. T. Gamble was a grand success in every respect. The wife of H. B. Owens is suffering from a bruise sustained from a fall on a defected sidewalk last April. In displaying or announcing honors, each one should receive due credit. But, "One that does nothing, receives nothing." George Brady is not one of those stiff-neck kind. He simply has a boil on the back of his neck. I have been requested by the travelling collector, W. F. Buffin of the PLAINDEALER, to urge the collections of subscribers. Therefore, look out for me. Miss Gertrude Thomas left Saturday morning for Jetmore, Ks., where she expects to teach school. The paper delivered by Miss Nancy Crowe last Thursday eve, was grand and could not be surpassed. The wife of Rev. N. T. Gamble left for Topeka Saturday morning to visit with her daughter. The family of James Johnson are on the sick list. Miss Nancy Crowe is suffering with her throat trouble. Dennie Graves, son of J. H., passed through the city last week enroute for Oklahoma City, Ok. Manhattan. Quarterly conference was held at the Second M. E. church Sunday, September 2. Rev. Wilson of the A. M. E. church preached the sacramental sermon. Presiding Elder South and Rev. Burton of Alma were here during the conference. Flora Austin, of Osage, and Cora Mitchell, of Burlingame, were the guests of Miss Howell the first of last week. Clarence Howell is on the sick list. Aunt Sallie Breakbill, an old settler, passed away Sunday morning, after an illness of nearly five years. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Voorhees from the Second Baptist church Monday afternoon. How well she was loved was shown by the long procession that followed her corpse to the cemetery. Mattie Owens, Mary Smith, Minnie and Jennie Howell and Inman attended the rally at the Second M. E. church in Wamego. Ella Williams has gone to Chicago, where she will live with her brother. "Hurrah for McKinley!" There will be a grand Republican rally and picnic in Manhattan Thursday, September 13. Some of the attractions are the colored lady band of Emporia, D. V. Sprague's quartette of Wamego and addresses by several noble and famous orators. Excursion rates can be had to Manhattan for this rally. Everybody can come, and will be welcomed. Mrs. Barker and J. Davis were married Wednesday, August 29, at the office of Judge Dims. It was a great surprise to a good many, but all extend hearty congratulations to the happy couple, and wish them health and prosperity through life. Mrs. Bigsby has returned from her home in Troy, after a visit of several weeks. Several expect to attend the emancipation celebration at Valley Falls. Miss Brown returned to Horton, accompanied by her niece, La Rue, and nephew, Eugene Fleming. Mr. Ervin, who has been running on the road, passed through Holton en route to Horton, where he will visit his relation. The wife of Jefferson Davis and two younger children arrived in Holton Sunday evening, and will locate here if all is satisfactory. Miss Barbee has returned after two months' visit in Leavenworth, Atchison and Omaha. North Topeka. Miss Lucy Bledsoe leaves Monday for Boston, Mass., to attend the musical conservatory. Mrs. M. D. Jones and Rev. P. W. Barker leave Monday for Richmond, Va., to attend the national Baptist convention. Anthony Overton of Kansas City has moved his family to Topeka, and is preparing to go into business. Mrs. Sarah Thomas who has been ill with malaria fever, died Wednesday noon. She leaves a husband and three children. Miss Ellen Hyde and Thomas Cook were married last Thursday eve, at the home of the bride's parents. The republican colored Flambeau club meets Saturday night in Hanley hall. Hiawatha. There was no services at the Second Baptist Church Sunday as the pastor was in Kansas City attending the Association. Mrs. Hayes and children of Omaha are visiting her sister. Mrs. Maggie Nelson of Lincoln is the guest of Mrs. Corneal. Mrs. Murray has ieft for Topeka. Misses Corneal and Walthall returned from Kansas City last Thursday. Ray Calvin will attend the Academy this year. Some improvements are being made on the Baptist Church. The influence of woman in the affairs of the world has become so marked that in determining the social, intellectual, religious and even the political standard of any nation, state or community, much stress is laid upon the inclinations and tendencies of its women. They hold the keys of social life in their hands; they claim the right of mental equality with the stronger sex; by their christian energy and altruistic nature they lead in religious and charitable movements; by their moral character—be the status high or low—they shape the actions of those about them and a community can boast of having reached no higher plane than that reached by the mass of its womanhood. As this is true of communities, so also is it of races. And yet it is a truism which, I regret very much to say, is too much ignored by our own race. Too little is done to uplift the standard of our womanhood to a higher plane; but more and more have I grown to realize the importance of the Negro woman in those affairs of vital meaning to the race: to feel the weight of her efforts in the direction of organization and association; to regard her as a principal factor in the progress of our people. And more and more do I long for the time to come when our women as a mass will fully recognize and assume the great responsibility which is theirs. I have had the opportunity, on several occasions, of being brought in contact with those whom I consider the young womanhood of Lawrence, and of observing their tendencies in those directions which so clearly mark development, and I think that in a brief, general discussion of them, I possibly may not err. Lawrence has been so long known as a social center that the term has almost grown proverbial; and there can be no doubt that the prestige it has attained has been and is still due to the marked abilities of its women. And yet the Lawrence girl spends comparatively little of her time in the pursuit of so-called social pleasures; for the blithesome frivolity of society life as seen in some of our cities, she seems to have little taste. But the stranger in this little city, so impressed is he by the warmth and congeniality of his reception, is forced to speak in praiseworthy terms of these modest young women who seem so thoroughly at their ease in the role of entertainer. Without doubt their influence and their inclination in the social world are toward the more substantial thing; those most remote from empty superfluity. With regard to the intellectual tendencies of these young ladies, my first impression was that they were not so strong as they should be; and, strictly speaking, they are not. To be sure, their work in this direction compares favorably with that done by the young ladies of other cities of Kansas and doubtless surpass that of some, but, on account of its favorable opportunities we have grown to exact more from Lawrence. It seems that in a city which for its superior educational advantages has very fittingly been called the "Athens of Kansas," aspiring young ladies should receive all the benefits offered by a higher education; nay, more; it even seems that they should not be content with anything less than a complete development, an education such as would enable them to be of great and lasting good to the race. While there have been a number who have taken advantage of these offered opportunities, and others who are now doing so, yet the number is far too small, and since we feel that a complete education in the grasp of such young women as these would prove a powerful weapon against the many wrongs that oppress us as a race, we deem it a point worthy to be urged that the intellectual standard be placed a little higher. In the teaching work, Lawrence may well feel proud of the ability of her young ladies. There are five competent young ladies engaged in the active work of developing those young minds and shaping those uniformed characters which in the years to come are destined to form a part of that intellectual bulwark now being reared around our hopes and interests. And these young women, fully developed as they are both intellectually and morally, and exhibiting a deep interest in the work to which they have devoted themselves, seem as well fitted for their mission as to justify high hopes for the young under their supervision. It is encouraging, too, to notice that a goodly number of Lawrence's young ladies are engaged in active christian work, and their efforts both in the church and in the auxiliary societies which to so great a degree claim their interest, are producing pleasing results. Many, too, whose activity in this direction is not so marked, who do not even claim identity with those whose work lies in the spiritual field, nevertheless by their moral character and christian inclinations shed an influence which is rather conducive to a better life than to sin and worldliness. And it is to be hoped that the time will soon come when a livelier interest in this great work will be manifested by more of our young ladies; for being at once the most useful and ennobling labor in which one can be engaged, it should be taken up by our most brilliant minds. And now as to the general impression made by these young ladies upon a critical observer, they present a type of modest, intelligent and cultured girlhood; not extremely pretty, as a rule, but prepossessing in manner, unassuming in appearance, girlhood which bids fair to attain a degree of womanhood commanding the respect and honor of all. A. M. THOMAS, 413 Kansas Avenue, Rooms 4 and 5. Topeka, Kan. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enclosed resolution now on my file, in my notebook, and that the same took effect by publica tion in the statute book May 15, 1899. CLAIRVOYANT. 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