The bee., 1883-03-03

go BACK on our friends. We have
further resolved to attack and route
every enemy we may find in our camp.
In accordance with our public. duty,
our resolution, and the interest we
have in the future of our race, we have
exposed the deceptions of Mr.. Robert
Purvis & Son for which the editors of
the Globe and 4.fro-Americdn, Zone a
disappointed office seeker and the other
a Democratic deputy sheriff., has at
tackled us. The 4ffr0-AmeItcdIt, says ::
THE Hon. Robert Purvis refused to
support RobeSon, whose name is the
synonym of corruption, and sought to
defeat him 10y organizing an indepen-
dent movement among eolored voters,
the BEE, as it had a right to do, antag-
oniZed him."
You admit then, my Democrat
ic friend, that we had right
to antagonize Mr. PurviS still you
have assailed us for so doing. But
you and Mr.. Purvis do not agree, for
whilst Won admit that he refused to
support RobeSon, he denies it most en-
phatically. One or the other of you
has lied let the public decide which.
But, gays this Democratic editor
1T was very inconsistent in the BEE
to he so very impatient with Mr.. Pur-
Wis, and yet to be so patient with the
Malone Independent party of Vir-
ginia."
We were of the opinion that the editor
of the 4tro-America1y1xas well inform
ed; at least we thought that he knew the
difference between Democratic and
an Independent movement The APP
po.ntment he has received, as Demo-
cratic deputy sheriff, has coagulated
his brain. Another appointment of a
higher order would make him a fit
subject for lunatic asylum. The
movement in Pennsylvania was none
other than a Democratic movement
conducted 10y men, who, like the editor
of the Afro, wanted notoriety and
petty position, which their lack OF
honesty, integrity and ability could
not get them in the Republican ranks
therefore, they formed a corrupt COM
bination, enticed few colored men to
join them and elected Democratic
State ticket. If it were an Independ-
ent movement, why did not the So
called Independents continue the
struggle? Why do they now deny
ever having participated in the move
ment at all? On the other hand, the
Independents of Virginia are to-day as
earnestly engaged in their persistent
effort for equal privileges for all men,
as they were before the campaign.
Show The BEE Virginia Independent
who denies ever having taken active
part in the movement, and the BEE
will show the editor of the Afro over
tweatF7afe ths 1rrs1ffrf5tffg RfFi5lH" are
Robert Purvis & SOM, who denied
ever having anything to do with it. If
the movement were an honest and
sincere one, why deny it? Again will
the able editor of the A.fro-Amertcan
dare deny that the colored men who
took part in the fraudulent movement
in Pennsylvania are politically ruined?
Will he tell the public what benefit
they have received from it
or will ever receive firm it?
Will he dare deny that it was through
these so-called Independents that the
State of Pennsylvania was lost to the
Republicans? On the other hand will
the editor of the Afro say, that the
Malone movement in Virginia did not
benefit all classes of people in that
State? Was not the colored man par
ticularly benefited? Is it not fact
that at the first sitting of the Read
juster Legislature that all laws that
were obnoxious to the colored man, in
fact made for him was abolished? And
is not that in true accordance with the
principles of true Republicanism? But
says the AJro.
The fact that r.. c. o. Ben
iamin (the man with thousand
titleS) who was connected in big
way with Mr.. Purvis in the Inde-
pendent movement against Mr.. Robe
son, comes to the rescue of the BEE by
turning States evidence, does not ma
terially leSseD the heat of the hot box
into which the mad Republican folly
of the BEE has placed itself.
We have but very little personal ac-
quaintance with Mr.. Benjamin, but
from what we can learn that gentle
man came by his titles in an honorably
way. Is the editor of the Afro
alarmed because the titles Except
that of Democratic Deputy Sheriff has
been monopolized and there is none
left for him9 But you will persist in
accusing Mr.. Purvis as being our indie
pendent and against Mr.. Robson,
while Mr.. Purvis persists with equal