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The bee., 1884-05-17
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYS-
TEN.

We believe that change in our
public schools would materially i'm
prove its present system. To say
that our colored schools are con-
Quoted upon the same principles as
the white schools would be false.
1t is the same old ideas that have
been fostered from the time our
schools have been under the man
agement of the present regime.
What we desire in our schools are
new ideas. There are many
changes that can be made which
would be to the benitit eff the col
ored schools. The reforms that
were looked for and which are
greatly needed, have been disre-
garded. Our High school is not
placed upon the same educational
basis as the white High school.
There was a time when the color
ed peoplecould have had Nor
NAL school which would have
been an honor to our public
school system, but Mr.. John FL.
Brooks, through his ignorance de-
feated the whole measure. A
new trustee in the place Of MIR.
Brooks and the appointment of
man who has knowledge of our
school system is greatly desired on
the part of the colored people.
We ask for the removal of Mr..
Cook the present superintendent,
and put IN his place a man with
progressive ideas. Mr.. Cook Is a
gentleman every body will admit
but his ideas OF our public school
system will not do in this age.
The colored schools have made no
progress within the last two years,
and unless Mr.. Brooks and Sup
eriutendent Cook are removed,
the schools will fall below par.
The people have looked for re-
forms which should have been
made long ago. What has been
the result of the management of
the Seventh school division under
Mr.. Brooks? The appointment
of imported teachers in preference
to home talent.
The bee., 1884-05-17
SPECIAL NOTICE.

The patrons and friends of the
BEE are hereby notified that all
communications must be addressed
to the BEE Publishing Company
at our new office, No. 1109 [ St,
n. w. Any person or persons
claiming connection with this pa
per must be made to show their
credentials, as no commission is
genuine, if its lacks the seal OF
this institution. A. I. Hanson is
the general agent who has charge
of all subscriptions, and any bills
paid TO other parties without the
agents seal to receipt, it will be
done at the risk ofthe person or
persens who make such payment.
Always have the money ready for
the agent at the end OF each
month.
The bee., 1884-05-17
OUR NEW OFFICE.

The enterprising business mana
ger of the BEE, Col. Murrell, has
been busily engaged for the last
week, refittlng up the BEE Office
with every modern convenience,
SO that ii will equal any in the
country. We claim now that the
BEE Office is the best office of the
colored press in the country. We
have had the District. Messenger
and Fire alarm put in which will
be an accommodation to the peo-
pie in this vicinity. Any time our
neighbors desire to have a mess
enger, cab, carriage, herd1c police
man, &C., called, the BEE office Is
the place to come. The manager
has had put in a public telephone,
aud next week the telegraph will
be put in. The BEE will be the
great Natior al organ of the color
ed race. Mr.. J. q. Hilton, repre-
senting the Mutual District Mes
senger Co., is the gentleman to
whom we are indebted to for our
new enterprise.
The bee., 1884-05-17
PROTECTING THE INTER
ESTS OF LABOR.

The speech of Hon. William d.
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, on the
protection of labor delivered
April 18th in the House of Rep
resentatives is out in pamphlet
form. This speech should be in
the hands of every citizen of the
world. Mr.. Kelly certainly taught
the democrats good lesson when
he delivered such wholesome adj
vice to them. He graphically pic
tured the condition of forcing sub
.jects aud cheap labor. Mr. Kelly
IN reply to the democrats said:
Are our democratic associates in
their mad pursuit of cheap goods,
willing to add pernicious anemia
to the list of diseases with which
the people are already familiar?
The cry freform by the democrat
ic party is similar to the sham re-
form of several years ago.
The bee., 1884-05-17

We endorse what Louise says
in her letter this week. She GER
tainly is right when she makes a
protest against young men escort
ing loose females where respecta-
bic people go.
We endorse the reappointment
o. Hon. J. B. Edmonds, as Dis
trict Commissioner. President
Arthur made a fine selection in
the appointment of this gentle
man. Judge Edmonds is good
enough Republican for the people
of Washington. He is a gentlman
and an honest man, The National
Republican to the contrary not
wlthstanding,
The bee., 1884-05-17

Of course, no colored man will
be sent as delegate to the Nat
ional Convention what has he to
do with this government? Did
we not free him, after he had
worked two hundred and forty
years for Us, enricblng us anu ed
ucating our children, he should be
grateful to US for this favor. True
we did not take up arms because
we loved the Negro, if we had al
lowed the slave holders power 20
increase, it might have engulfed
the entire nation. But the Ne
gro was freed, and is in duty
bound to stand by the Republican
party right or wrorg. This is
what the white men say; we
mean that low, despicable element
that is in the majority. When the
Democratic party learns some
sense, the Negro will begin to
cross the line; then the Republi-
cans will begin to croak.-We
DenUer Sun.
The bee., 1884-05-17
THE MISSISSIPPI DELEGA.
TION TO CHICAGO.

Ex-senator Bruce, now register
of the Treasury, goes at the head
of the Mississippi delegation to the
republican convention. The del
egation is said to be for Arthur,
with Logan as second choice. Mr..
Bruce was called on last night by
a number of colored politicians,
and informed that it was contem-
plated to present his name as the
representative of the race to the
convention for the nomination for
Vice President. Mr.. Bruce is too
modest man to make any efforts
in his own behalf, but his friends
are quite certain that be will not
refuse the nomination if his white
colleagues of the convention tend
er it 10 him with the proper grace
While he was a member of the
Senate he was several times called
to the chair, and he would there.
fore not be entirely new to the po.
sitIon.- Baltimore Sm.
Senator Bruce served as vice
president of the Senate without
prejudice, why not elect him vice
President of the United States!
Logan as president and Bruce as
vice president will concilliate the
country, and especially the Negro
ED,
The bee., 1884-05-17
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The bee., 1884-05-17
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

1t has been the desire aud dis
position on the part of some
colored men to mislead the Negro
from his path of duty. This mis-
representation arises from men
who have been kept in office by
the republican party, and who
have failed to get recognition
from our party managers. The
Colored people must learn and
act like other men within the
party, when they are not success
full. 1t is a fact undeuiable that
the republican party as whole is
not responsible for the wrong
doings of few men. Ought the
republican party be held respon-
slble for Mr.. Hayes, treachery to
the southern Negro? There were
as many true republicans in this
country who were as much op-
posed to Mr.. Hayes policy, as the
southern Negro, who were left
naked to the mercy of the rebels
in the south. Is the republican
party responsible for the defeat of
the force bill by James 6. Blaine,
which would have given the Ne
gro ample protection in the South!
We desire 10 say TO our colored
friends that the mission of the re-
publican party is not yet fulfilled.
That mission will not be fulfilled
until the southern Negro is as
free as every white citizen in the
New England States. The COM
ing campaign promises to be an
interesting one. The great ques-
ton at issue is protective tariff on
one side and free trade on the
other. The principles of the re-
publican party are protection and
universal liberty to every Ameri-
can citizens, a perpetration of our
free school system, a free vote and
an honest count. The democra-
tic party still adheres to the Jack
sonian principles, perpetration of
oppression and q denial of the con-
stitutional rights Of the Negro.
Which platform shall we accept
Over two hundred aud fifty years
of oppression and slavery, ought
to be enough for the Negro. We
are now permitted TO enjoy to an
extent, liberty and protection un-
der republican form of govern
ment, upheld by the republican
party. and when We become insane
and throw our support TO the dem
ocratic party, then we throw
away our civil and political
liberty.
The bee., 1884-05-17
THE VIRGINIA MIDLAND K. WAY
THE TRUNK LINE TO THE SOUTH
SOUTHWEST AND WEsT
Schedule in effect NOyEMBER, 1893.

schedule In effect NOVEMBER. 1854
30 A. M.-New Orleans Mail. daily maxim,
close connections to all points Soutn and
southwest, daily, except Sunday, with c.
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New York and Washington to AtIanta. Pull
man Sleeping Cars from Washington and Al.
lanta to New Orleans.
10 2. M.-LOuisyilIe Fast Line. win CburIyt
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Washington, via Charlotte and Columbir. To
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For tickets and all information INQUIRE at
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The bee., 1884-05-17

All communications relating to the Editor
ial or News department should be addressed to
the Editor and Proprietor. In conjunction
with the BEE, the managers have established
a News Bureau of the COlored Press. We are
prepared to furnish biographies, special cor
respondence and news items at a reasonable
price The object of the bureau is TO furnish
colored Journals with special Washington let
ters when they have no special correspon-
dents. We have some Of the best writers In
the country connected with the bureau, which
will enable us TO furnish truthful, spicy and
concise correspondence. Give the News
Bureau q call
The bee., 1884-05-17
E Y Err 7 LAD Y

interested in Art Needlework, Fancy Work,
and every branch of amateur Art Horticulture
Fashion, Cookery Of Music should send Is
cents for the current number STRAwBRIDGE
CLoTHIER's QUARTERLY. 12o pages, pages
new music and over Loco engravings in each
number. Address
STRAwBRIDGE & CLOTHIER,
Eighth and Market Sts., Phila.
What is 1h- frs. business OF one who
studies Phi-cso2-ly? To part with self
conceit. or = is impossible for any one
to begin to learn what he thinks he al
ready knows.
We write our merdes In the dust: bn.
affections we engrave in marble. Our mem
ories serve rs but too well to remember the
latter, but we are strangely foIgetfnl o. the
fomer.
The bee., 1884-05-17

Senator Vest, of Missouri,
stated last Wednesday that he
wanted to correct a statement
that had been published to the ef-
feet, that the Senate had passed
unanimously, the bill to retire
General Grant. He wanted to
say that he (Ves0 was opposed to
the bill. The Senator has not
forgotten that General Grant pull
led the self same Vest down, dur
the late unpleasentness.
The bee., 1884-05-17
THE COLORED VOTE.

We made the statement lately
that no public man stands to-day
more firmly in the regard of the
colored people than General Lo-
gan, aud We believe that no can
dieate for the Presidency would
or could poll such solid mass of
the colored vo'e both South and
Nor.h as Logan.
Logan has consistently and con-
stantly shown himself to be the
friend of the colored race, and
has been prominent in all meas
ures of National legislation for
their advancement and education,
believing that the colored man
will progress more rapidly In the
scale of manhood and citizenship
under proper influence and pro-
tectlon than was dreamed of by
most men "a few years ago. That
General Logan would bring out
the colored vote everywhere in
greater numbers than any other
man Except, perhaps, Abraham
Lincoln, were he livlng), we are
firmly convinced. Talk with the
colored men of the North and you
find them the name of Logan with
that warm affection characteristic
of their race. Talk with the Ne
groes of the South and you will
find they are looking to Logan as
stalwart friend, protector, and
chieftain of the people. The col
ored people do not forget that for
years the voice and influence of
Logan has been consistently and
persistently given to uplift and adj
vance their interests as citizens of
this nation. They point to his
first great plea for the black man,
when on a July day in 1865, in
the Court House at Louisville
KY, he made one of his impassion-
ed and earnest speeches IN behalf
of advancing and maintaining the
rights Of the freedmen. He pre-
sented all the strong moral and
legal arguments in favor of eman-
cipation, and called upon the peo-
pie of Kentucky to consent to the
constitutional amendment pro-
hibitiug slavery and to strike out
the race distinctions of citizenship
in their state con,titution at once
and forever.
On the question of civi! rights
he has been from the very first
radical and outspoken in favor of
protecting the colored people in
their political privileges.-THe Pc
Oria Duly Taneclpt.
The bee., 1884-05-17
SENATOR BRUCE WELCOM-
ED HOME.
By The CITIZENS AND THE CoLoRED
MILITIA.

About eight o'clock on last Mon
day night about three hundred cit
izens assembled at the Armory of
Co. B Capital City Guard, and re-
paired to the residence of Register
b. K. Bruce, who has recently
returned from the Hot Springs and
the South mnch improved in
health. A fine string band head
ed the procession, which arrived
at the residence of Mr.. Bruce about
half past eight o'clock. Col. NJ.
NJ. Holland, the spokesman, in
troduced the Senator to tile people
who responded in neat little ad-
dress. Capt. VIM. Clay, of Co. B
is entitled to great deal of credit
for the turn out of his company to
welcome to our fold once more our
distinguished citizen, B. K. B'uce.
Sweet music was discoursed by
the fine band which played "Hail
to the chief"
The bee., 1884-05-17

We welcome to our exchange
list, The Lansing Sentinel, Lansing
Mich, The Arizona Mining Inder,
The st. Louis Evangelist, The San
Francisco EleUator and The Prairie
Farmer, Chicago, Ill.
Success to these journals.
The bee., 1884-05-17
..THEwoMAN,s PHYSICIAN.
Il kANk IkIGG.
y. Z. Pas'r Agt.

A common sense medical work for LADIES
ONLY. Fully answers all question which
modesty prevents asking a male physician
Gives causes and symptoms of all diseases Of
the sex. with positive cure for each in plain
language, written by ladies who have made
these diseases life study. PLAIN TalH
in delicate language which every woman
young and old should read. It is recommeu
Ell by many eminent lady physicians as
safe guide for the SEX Handsomely bound
and illustrated Sent postpaid for SJoO.
Address the
ROCHESTER, PUBLISHING Co,
80, 80 33Il Osburn Block.
Rochester. ". Y.
The bee., 1884-05-17
SPECIAL NOTICE.

WANTED At the office Of the BEE,
a good advertising agent. A I'D
eral percentage will be paid.
Call between the hours CT s and
9 a. m, Z and s o clock, p. m.
The bee., 1884-05-17

The friends of the distinguished
soldier and statesman, Hon. John
A Logan, are making quiet and
gallant fight to have him carry
off the prize at Chicago.
The bee., 1884-05-17

We disclaim any responsibility for state
ments expressed by our correspondents
neither do we indorse all they say.
Correspondence on living topics is solicited,
but to have attention must be brief.
Communications for publication must
be accompanied with the writer's name.
Not necessarily for publication, but as a
guarantee OF good faith.
The bee., 1884-05-17

With Prof. j. M. Gregory in
the country, or Capt. o. S. b. Wall
and another trustee in the place
of Mr.. Brooks, our public schools
would be improved.
The bee., 1884-05-17
ANOTHER MISSISSIPPIAN
IN TOWN.

Mr.. EDITOR: In the person of
Mr.. w. G. Cox, of Vlcksburg, who
was born at Richmond in 1850,
and removed to Mississippi with
his parents while quite a child,
where he has since remained; was
mustered into the military service
of his country during the late civil
war, and served two years and
two months in Company d, q. S.
Colored Infantry; first as a pri-
vate, afterwards made Drum Ma
lor. Was wounded three times in
the battle Of Mobile, at Fort
Blakely, and also had a brother
killed in the same battle. He was
a brave and gallant soldier, was
honorably discharged from the
service in 1865, where he returned
to his old home at Vicksburg, and
to the loving arms of his aged
mother, who still lives at the
clever age of seveuty-fve sum-
mers. Mr.. Cox has been a sue
cessful and influential local poll
tician, in his section ever since re-
construction, having been a dele
gate to every Republican Con-
vention, State and county, since
the war. He has held also sew
eral places of trust and honor, at
the Capital and in his town and
county. When the troubles of
1875, came on, he remained at
home, in the midst of the most
trying ordeal>, such as made the
souls of the most of his brethern
fail them.
1t can be said to his credit that
he remained at his post with
matchless courage, as the leader of
his much prosecuted people. Vas
District elector for Hayes in 1876,
and was again appointed by the
Republican State Central Com
mittee, to canvass his district for
Garfield, in 1880, which he did
with great acceptability. He has
always heard the call of his party
though often endangering both his
life and his property. He has al
ways been an active, willing. and
effective worker for the party, in
the interest of bis less fortunate
fellows. He is known in his sec
ton, as the fighting Negro, among
the whites, any Negro who has the
courage of his convictions, in the
South, is regarded by the southern
people as bad men.
Mr.. Cox is now employed in the
office of the Comptroller of
Currency, Treasury Department.
We extend to Mr.. Cox the hand
of friendship, and welcome him to
our beautiful Capital city. May
he succeed at his new post of duty
as he has in the far off South as a
leader of the lately enslaved.
His FRIEND.
Perhaps Mr.. Cox can give JEFF
fords little help, who was de-
feated recently as a delegate to
Chicago from that State. Jefords
ia entitled fo the sDnnOrt of every
The bee., 1884-05-17
LOUISE.

Let it be understood that Mr.. G..
g. Stewart IS not connected with
the BEE but on the Crit Editorial
Staff.
The bee., 1884-05-17
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The bee., 1884-05-17

The District Messenger and
Telephone at the BEE office, can
be used at all hours of the day
and night.
The bee., 1884-05-17

For the best Liquors go to II.
S. Walter, 212 9th Street, North
west. The pure article regardless
Of prlce.
The bee., 1884-05-17

Hon. John A. Logan the Ma
tions choice for President will be
nominated and elected.
The bee., 1884-05-17

A citizens mass meeting next
week to protest against the reap
po1ntment of j. I'll. Brooks.
The bee., 1884-05-17
THE BEST MADE
G. L O II m IN G.

AT the lowest prices can be bought from y.
HAMBURGER & SON, 6l5 Pennsyl wanna
avenue, under Metropolitan Hotel. Washli-
ron, ID. G. Branch of 1865 Baltimore street
Baltimore, Md.
The bee., 1884-05-17

Senator Logan's boom, like
Banquo's ghost will not down.
The bee., 1884-05-17

We need a trustee who can put
our schools upon a higher basis.
The bee., 1884-05-17

Go to Chase and Co., the most enter
prising firm in the city.
The bee., 1884-05-17

The democratic party must 60.
The bee., 1884-05-17

We are gratified to announce that Mr..
Benz. Moten one of our most promising
young men of Washington has just passed
creditable examination before the civil
service board of ex-examiners. The BEE
eongratulates you, Benny.
The bee., 1884-05-17

The BEE Office has Telephone COM
municatiUn.
The bee., 1884-05-17

The.last issue of the Louisiana Standard
announces the election of our clever young
friend James D. Kennedy to the presiden-
cy of the Americas Club. The club is iD
its Thirteenth Year and represents the
ELITE of the Crescent City. The hosts of
friends of Jimmy Kennedy here extend
their congratulations.
The bee., 1884-05-17

Perhaps Mr.. Cox can give JEFF
fords little help, who was de-
feated recently as a delegate to
Chicago from that State. Jefords
is entitled to the support of every
colored man.