The Washington bee., 1888-09-15

Clark will please read the follow
ing extract taken from an Indiana
paper:
ABAD BARGAIN EXPOSED.
How TIE INDIAN POLLS CnLoRFD CoNvEN.
TIoN WAS WORKED Up FOR CLEAvELAND.
Washington, Aug. 14l reiaII The conven-
ton Of colored men at indianapolis which
was so loudly advertised in Democratic ia
pers as the beginning e of general detection
of the colored race from the party which
gave them freedom, was fully Explained in
The House to-d-y. II Was shown 10 be the
result OF a argain by which j. Milton Tnr
ner, the leading sperit of the convention. was
to be paid for his service by money paid out
uf the public treasury by the votes of Demo
cratic congressman and the signature Of a
democratic President. The bill IN question is
TO pay the colored freedmen in the Cherokee
Nation their share OF The mHney embodied i'm
the Cherokee claim which. the India 5 have
beaten them out of Congress O'NeilI of
Missouri, touched of the earthquake. 10 day
wi hout knowing it was lOadey. When he
attem pied TO call up the bill yesterday Mr..
Owen, of Indiana, objected. . >eiil arose
this morning TO n question of privilege and
denounced a statement in local paper that
ther was barg lin in the bill as an unmiti-
gated lie. After "A brief cross fire between
him and Mr. wen, the latter who is a mild
hammered liItle man and minis. er in the
Campbellite Church. walked down the aisle
with an appearance of business i'll his man.
with great deIIDerailon aud emphasis he said.
i objected 10 that bill for reasons thai grew
out CT n convers ton which l mvse. f heard.
and language which I heard job Milton
Turner himself use, which / wrote down on
pad at the time. | subsequent L,ok the
members Of Congress aside TO whom john
Milton Turner had ddressed his remarks
and said: a difficulty may a ise in the
House or in the campaign over what Turner
has said TO you. III so shall most solemnI,
assert that this is wnaI he said | then read
he IN Ion
1T was correct, and that John Milton Tur-
ner used the Language had quoted. That
caused me upon thIs floor To object TO The
passage of this bill and the reason why | OBJ
jecIed was that did no. believe it my duIy
10 sit on This fi00r and | my silence 90 as
vote to help the DemocIatic party pay John
Milton Turner what he at least considered
as his fair a d equitable compensation fo
services rendered at the Indit napoIiS Color
ed Convention.
Theconversation TO which Mr.. Owen al
ludtd was between Turner ana Congress
man William G. Wade. from Ih,. Thir; eenth
District of Missouri. They met at the c gar
stand near the maio entrance to the Hous
floor, just before the colOred convention at
Indianapolis. Mr.. Wade, who knows Turner
very we'll, said: Milton youare no democrat:
you must be getting something for this work,
Turner replied: You bet by God / am But.
said the gentleman, can't you STAY with the
Old party? You are leading the colored peo
pie 1Ulo an enemys camp. But you See said
Turner, / have got the arrang, ments Ii
/
to Indianapolis and run thatt onvention for
G eveland and they are just going to pass my
Cherokee claim. Then my nest is feathered.
When that's over am as much republican
as ever, and don't you let anybody on Your
side object when the bill comes up.
Nobody on the democratic side Today was
ready to defen their bargain, q nd they drOpp-
ed the bject like hot potato. The amount
i'm the bill Is something over $1,000, of winch
Turner is TO get % or as some say 33, per cent
for passing the bill.
The editor of the BEE has
said enough concerning Mr.. 1ur
ner. The editor knows and states
without contradiction that the
editor of the National Echo WAS
ready and willing 20 Sell GU the
whole business aud the moIives OF
Turner and had the editor of tn
BEE entered into negotiations with
him then and there the coDferenc.
(0would have been exposed by |
one of its own cnnferees. T. J
Anderson, OF I'ittsburg. Pa, was
another one who would have sold
out for ten dollars. The editor Oft
the BEE knows the names OF two
thirds who said that they didn't |
give d-m for Cleve!ahd, but, if
there was any money in the dem
ocratic party they would get it out.
"a few weeks before the meeting of the con.
ference al indianapolis, the Washington Bee,
MI; Chases paper, declared: th,re is not an
inch of ground upon which colored Republic.
cans can stand. Time and time again the G.
o. p. has given them the go-by.'
Mr.. Chase still AYERS that there
are certain members of the repub-
lican party who wanted to ignore
the negro. He d esn't deny that.
and while that is true, the demo-
cratic party as whole is opposed
10 the negro. Mr.. Chase d. clined
to say who he would indorse, If ad-
mitted to the conference, but he
did inform Mr.. Turner that he
would not pledge himself to Mr..
Cleveland or any one else until he
found out the true motives of this
50 called conference.
1t was ascertained and Mr..
JhaSe's conclusions were, that it
vas gathering of class of sore
leads, two-thirds of whom were ig-
loraut aud unscrupulouS demagog-
les. Prof. Clark was disgusted
With this disgraceful gathering,
md knows that it could only be
as mob of boodlers:
hat j. Milton Turner was the only
nan present who had the power,
simply by the raising of his hand,
o silence this mob Of sixty. The
nan who was nominated for the
chairman of the meeting
vas disgrace TO the intelligence ;
# Prof. Clark, Turner and Fortune, !.
Who were the only ones who con- /.
the brain of the gathering.
Ir. Chase denies that the National
Committee sent him to Indianap-
lis nor did that committee give r
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