The bee., 1882-06-24
OUR LOCAL REVIEW.

THE COMING PRESS CONVENTION MIXED
SCHOOL QUESTION no BE DISCUSSED "A
NEGRO FOR THE oABINEr-wun IT BE
TIE ISSUE FOR 1884p-BLAINE AS A
oANDIDATE-HE COULD NOT DRAW THE
NEGRO VOTE his FAILURE TO EXPLAIN
THE FORCE BTLL-PRoF r. ]. GREENER
AS A LEADER-HoN. B. K. BRUCE.
The interest manifested over the as.
sembling OF the Oolored Press Conven-
tion in this city on the 9th, 2Sth, and
29th, is unparalleled in the history of
the body polite. II Lincoln, Sumner,
Chase, Wilson, and other anti-slavery
agitators were here TO day to witness
this grand event which is to take place,
what feeling OF ecstacy would be i'm
bued within their souls, to know that
the Negroes are to assemble at the
Capital Of the Nation to discuss every
question known to the civilized world.
WHAT would the Southern brigadier
have said had this been told to him
forty years ago? Could they have been
made to believe that the brain of the
Negro would have been capable of hand
ling such questions? We don't under.
estimate ourselves as some of our con-
temporaries do, We believe that the
Negro is capable of doing all that nature
intended.
THE MIXED SCHOOL
question, which will mostly interest the
people in this city, and upon which we
don't altogether agree with some of our
contemporaries, will be participated in
by the New York Globe, The Peoples
Advocate, North W. Review. Freedman's
Journal. and the BEE, will no doubt
develope many logical questions. While
some of our fellow journalists may differ
with Us and show the necessity of mixed
schools, we believe that We can pro.
duce sufficient argument to show that
in. the District of Columbia they are not
q necessity, nor would the mixing of the
schools here ameliorate the coIored
youth.
A NEGRO FOR THE CABINET
ought to be the most important issue
to be made for 1884. When Hon. B.
K, Bruce was urged to allow his name
to be usel for the vice Presidency,
he could have spoiled a handsome
vote in the last Presidential Conven-
tion, but, he was mislead by some of his
pretended friends, who believed''th it
would have antagonized the chances of
Hon. Chester A. Arthur, now President
of the United States. The ideas were
false upon which the politicians based
their argument to the distinguished
r sgister of the Treasury. In spite of
Mr.. Bruce not allowing his name to be
used he received from eight to fifteen
votes. Hon. John B. Devaux, one of
the Georgia delegates will endorse this
statement. The withdrawal of the
name of Mr.. Bruce was an issue no
doubt to keep him out of the Cabinet.
Tie Cabinet boom was was irst made
by Arthur st. A. Smith one of the
editors of the Advocate, and your hum
BILE servent who was at that time editor
of the Free Lance nee Argus, in which
the first article was published aud then
copied in the Daily Post of this city,
the Sunday Capital, the New York
Tribune, and other of the best journals
in the United States. Notwithstanding
The many letters received by MIR. Bruce,
his life if he did not publi-
cally disclose that he was lot candi-
date, and the dilitory support of some
Of the colored journals thu boom was
all the same. There are many
other interesting facts connected with
this boom than what the people have
of. Our prime object was
TO push Negro into the Cabinet. which
will be our issue for 1884. We are en-
titled to a Cabinet portfolio. and the
Jolored Convention of Journalists
should make this an issue. For some
lime the country has been startled with
he presumption that James G. Blaine
will be the
NEXT CANDIDATE
Of the Republican party for the Presi-
iency in 1884 Our presumption of
such probability is that President Arthur
is as likely to pardon Guiteau as James
g. Blaine is of being the next
Presidential nominee. His defeat of the
force bill and his failure to explain it is
a sufficient evidence that James Blaine
could not be elected should he receive
The nomination. The Negroes hold the
balance of power, and before they would
vote for him they would remain neutral
in 1884.
GREENER AS LEADER.
For sometime we have been watching
with much anxiety the course which this
young politician has been
pursuing. He was condemned by the
representatives because he
his position on the indepen-
dent movement which was inaugurated
by George T. Downing and other dis
Office hunters. Mr.. Greener
was right. If that dissatisfied element
Of the Negro race had been in Office,
holding some fat position this howl of
independency would not have been
made. As leader Greener is the man.
He is eminently fitted, nobly grand and
iudiciously wise.