The bee., 1883-02-24
OUR REVIEW.
THE NEXT ELECTION OF DELEGATES

LlAMS Its CNRELIABILITY-TH
SARATOGA CONVENTION, THE "oLI
MAN" ELOQUENT NOT IN ATTEND
ENCE-NEN AND NOT EDUCATORS
REPUBLICAN VICTORY IN PENNsYL
VANIA, &C. sc.
The time is fast approaching for th,
election of delegates in this city to tn,
next Nation al Republican Convention
There are numerous candidates in tn,
field and all are sanguine of success
The District Republicans should bt
careful and guard against such cor
rupt measures as were reSorted to in
the last convention, and send no man
who has proved traitor, and who are
now opposing the best interest of the
district people. 1t will be remembered
that all sorts of promises were made
by those who were sent as delegates
before, and nothing was or has been
accomplished 10y them yet. The men
who were most faithful received less
consideration, and it is wise in him
who will now guard against the cor
rupt demorallzlng entluences of pre-
tended men.
THE NEXT DELEGATES
10 tne National Convention should be
men of pure type, men who will de
mand suffrage for one hundred and
eighty thousand people and cause the
convention to pledge themselves, that
the people of the District of Columbia
shall have voice in the affairs of the
District Government. The delegates
who will be sent from this city should
be pledged to support principles and
not men, and such men who represent
true principles, who were the men
who represented us before? One of
them was like other negroes we have in
town, gOod-for-nothing, save an Office.
and outside of that they are of no
earthly good. We have one colored
man who has on all occasions used his
office for the good of his people, which
cannot if denied by glance is made
Judiciously and fairly at the now exist
ing circumstances. We should be rep
resented by such men as Colonel NJ.
M. Holland, Hon. Fred Douglas, Pro-
fessor r. T. Greener, Hon. A. NJ. Clapp,
Colonel R. G. Ingersoll and General
w. Whitaker, any two of the above
named gentlemen would accomplish
the desired end and aim of the op-
pressed people of this city. The pre-
viOuS delegates to the last convention
were as Shakespear says, "Proper mems
statues, but alas,
A DUN SHOW"
The delegates to the last convention
were actually too dumb to vote judi
ciously and to the interest of the peo-
pie by whom they were sent to repre-
sent. Washington has been represented
by dumb shows about long enough.
and as this is our only chance to over
throw the street navy and army ma
bob aristOcracy, we must use it to our
advantage. The history of
THE CoLoRED RACE
so-called, has been written by Rev. Geo.
w. Williams, the editor of the late
defunct Commoner. The history is
unreliable and contains some gigantic
lies that are familiar to the people of
this day and time OF all historians
records lies for truth, we have but a lit
tie confidence in histories that are now
in existence. In one passage of the
history, first volume in speaking of the
trustees of the public shoots (colored, J
II &c raportad fbot oortoi tructaaC ,,aro
highly educated and they were edu-
Gators. Everybody who has had, and
has now any knowledge Of the colored
schools, must admit that we havn't had
but two educated colored men on the
trustee board since the public schools
have been in existence. We shall deal
with this subject in our school article
next week. Again Mr. Williams says
that Hon. Fred. Douglass and Profes-
sOr r. L. Greener met at Saratoga and
discussed a paper, this is one of the
most gigantic lies in his history of the
colored race. Professor Greener was at
Saratoga but Mr.. Douglass was not
there at the time named in Mr.. Will
liams' book. Had we time we could
pick out at least two hours errors and
lies in this so-called history of the
colored race. We cannot take the
book as authoritative, from the fact it is
unreliable.
THE CoLORED INDEPENDENTS
throughout the country must feel
somewhat disappointed over the Re-
publican victory in Pennsylvania, and
the exposition of the corruption of the
colored Independent party in the State
of Pennsylvania. The BEE was
used in the Legislature this week by a
State Senator in showing up the Demo-
cratic tactics When L. Thomas For
ture gets through reading Mr.. C. O.
Beniamin's letters, he will find out that
he is not only an enemy to truth and
virtue, but he himself is dispossessed
of the virtuous impulse which is
characteristic of men of character,
brain and Judgment.
The greatest need in our public
schools now are men of education and
character. We need men who are
going to look after the material inter
est of the district girls and an equi-
table adjustment of the teachers sala-
ries. This way of importing teachers
into the district in exclusion of our
home talent should be condemned by
the taxpayers of this city. 1t is a
a disgrace on Washington talent, that
supervising principals should be i'm
ported into this city in exclusion OF
such men as Professors Stourm, J. NJ
Gregory Greener, and Mr.. Halle. We