The Washington bee., 1888-09-15


who resigned The editorial chair
on the .4fro-Americaa, for that
vasciIat.ng editor, L. Thomas
Fortune, in an Issue of that paper
dated Sept. /, be indicts two col
umns OF matter against the editor
of the BEE on the late gathering
of few cnlored men at Indianap
oils, Ind, July %, otherwise call
ed a confe ence. Prof. Clark is
a gentleman for whom the editor
of the BEE has The most profound
respect, not for bis democratic pro-
clivities. because his dem cHacy is
founded upon personal grounds
and not principle, but for his ab,l-
ity as an educator. The intelIl-
gent ci,iz ms of Ohio know why
Prof. Clark
LEFT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
They know and so does Prof.
Clark. Men at times presume
themselves greater than what they
are, and are of the opihion that
they should be recognized in pref
erence to men who have beet OF
greater service to the cause of
human hherry. That has been the
.se of Prof. Clark. 1t was on a
milar account that be left the
republican party and not for the
love of race or the democratic
party whose cause he espouses to
day. Mr.. Go II. Dawing, another
one of Prot CIarks' deciples, is
another chronic kicker. He, too,
left the republican party becausr
the republican House of Represen-
tatives refused 10 give him tie
House Restaurant. The hypoc-
racy of Dowing was soon discover
cred In a circular to the demo.
Gratis advocating democracy. and
another to the republicans advocat-
ing republicanism.
rhe editor of the BEE could
name at least fifty just such men
who have joined the dem cratic
party and who are the deciples of
PSof. Clark, which plainly shows
the mercenary motives OF men who
have joined the party OF butchery,
opp ession, aud Ku Kluxism. Prot.
Clark further says in his article
of Mr.. Chase:
"He iourneyed from Washington with the
crowd that felt itself charged with the duty
OF man pulating the confer ence, and if We
mistake not, he WAS in that same crowd on
the morning after the adjournment of the
conference when they sat around the office
Of the Hotel English like flock of crows in
q fog, not knowing which way to fly to get
home. he knows that the crowd with VIII ich
he travelled was ootgeneraled ana beaten at
every point, and yet he drivels through COL
umns OF rumors, surn1ses and groundleSs
charges without ane document or one word
toEubStantiate them"
Prof. Clark abuses the crowd
that made the Indianapolis Doodle
conference possible. Had it not
been for j. Million Turner, the so
called negro democrats would not
have cause to regret their folly and
the disgrace of this "boodle' gath
eripg at Indianapolis. With Tur-
ner out of the conference would
be like the play of Hamlet with
Hamlet left out. 1t was Turner
who made Prof. Clarks' election
at the conference possible, and
be is the man who looked like
a frozen asp "with locks like a
porcupine," gasping like the faint
Roman who attempted to swim
the Tibers' angry food, and when
about to sink the Roman cried
"help me Cassius, or | sink"
Such was the condition Of Prof.
Clark when be was on the eve of
defeat at Indianapolis.
MR.. TURNER'S MOTIVES:
"He makes charges affecting the motives
OF Mr.. J. Milton Turner. but the charges are
un Unsupported, unproven. But If the charges
against Mr. Turner had been proven to be
true, lDal pfO0l @11tO not QlepTOSt IL6 HOu /
ssiy of purpose OF the members OF the corfer-
euce, for IL Is q matter OF record that they re-
fused to follow the leadership OF Mr.. Turner.
They rejected the programme which he and
his friends had laid down concerning the call
OF the confer ence, the roll of the officers and
the syllabus OF principles.
Chase was at Indianapolis and in the
house where the preliminary meetings Were
held, and the proceedings outlined He
knoa o why il was done and how Ii was done,
How shamful then for him to asperse the
character of the men who pal ticlpatei in
that meeting as he does when lie declares
that they could at any ii ne have been bought
r few hundr, dollars,
So far as Mr.. Turner's motives
are concerned, the editor OF the
BEE can only assert what MIR.
Turner said to him; that be want
ed his Cherokee Freedmen's bill
that j. NJ. Trotter wanted
to show his appreciation to the
president for appointing him j