The bee., 1884-02-16
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CARSON'S CASE-HARDENED
CLAPP.
KING DAHAMY REIGNS.
SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
To the BEE /:
sCENEs AND INCIDENTS.

Atthe meetingofthe Republican
central committee at Association
dall held last Tuesday night il
your city for the purpose of reor
ganlzation, attracts no little at.
tenhon on account of the arbi
trary ruling Of the chairman, and
the high handed injustice prac.
tlced upon the people of the dis
trlct, your correspondent as q
spectator, expected to see the
business for Which the committee
was called together to be trans
acted in au orderly and intelligent
manner Here at the capital OF
the nation, the assembled wisdom
of the country; naturally your OBJ
server expected TO see model
meeting, 1t was not a mass meeting
composed Of all kinds and classes
CT people, but a representative
body of men. The delegates
present, upon the whole, was moth
ing but mob, and unfortunately
the complexion of the committee
were two-thirds colored men.
Shame If the proceedings that
characterize Carson's Carousal on
Tuesday night are to be taken as
a representative meeting, and that
it represented the moral, intellec-
tual, and political status of the
district people, then We invoke
High Heaven to save the nation,
especially our down trodden race,
from further degradation. If that
meeting is the prelude to suffrage
in the district, Washington will
become the home of King Da-
hamy. 1t appeared from the onset
that trouble was brewing, and that
Clapp intended TO rule or ruin.
The actual spirit in bringing
about this clamorous Clapp, were
Carson, Stewart, of the Pension
Office, Stewart, No. 2, of the Gov
ernment Printing Office, whv was
not a delegate, Greasy Greener,
and other turbulent would-be-if-
they-knew-how-politicians. w.
G. Chase, the president Of the 9th
district republicans, and Messrs.
Atkinson, Freeman, and others,
whom yonr correspondent is un-
acquainted with, were the only
delegates that displayed any
knowledge of parliamentary usage,
Judgment, and GOODNESS. They
endeavored to guide the commit
tee in the right path of rectitude
and to place colored republicans
upon record that they need not
feel abashed. Mr.. Clapp called the
meeting to order and read the
meeting a lDng essay on good
order, and requested the committee
to be good boys, as the eyes of the
people were npon them, in other
words, that he was their presiding
officer, a white man, intelligent,
refined, aud rich, and he didn't
want any of their ''nigger FUSS"
but, if necessary, let it come, as he
wanted to succeed himself as chair.
nan ofthe committee. He could
stand 1t for one night. The good
time was coming when they would
be powerless. | want to use the
position of chairman to get to Chi
cago as a delegate, or control such
election. He sat down overcome
with emotion.
A Clappite arose and moved a
committee on credentials /; Clapp
hurriedly put the question and de-
clared it adopted. Just at this
stage, w, c. Chase representing
one of the most intelligent and in
fuential district, the 9th, moved
that the committee proceed to tenn
porary organization, Clapp refused
to recognize him, Mr.. Chase in
sisted on his motion as right and
but CIapp refused again to
out It, then Mr.. Chase appealed
rom the chair. The intelligent
Clapp paid no heed. AT the same
ime Carson backed by his strikers
Kept up a perfect pande-
The hero of the hour,
rLooo Stood like a stone wall, in