The Washington bee., 1889-07-13

THE EDITOR OF THE "BEE" AGAIN
BUSY IN POLITICS-AN INCIDENT
WHICH RECALLS AN EPISODE OF
THE CLEVELAND ADMINISTRATOR
Especial dispatch to the Baltimore Sum-
WASHINGTON, July 4.--Last night
Senator Chandler was for a time
''o'er all the ills of lite victorious.
His pulled ear no longer tingled
with pain, and he was quite forget
ful of how recently Senator Faulk-
ner had convicted him of misstating
the exciting episode in the commit.
| tee ruom. Tho OCCASION OF this
wave of happiness was a serenade
rendered the New Hampshire
| statesman by the Chandler and
John Sherman Clubs, two organi-
| cations of colored men of the Dis
trict, who was .marshaled by Mr..
Calvin Chase, editor of the ''Bee,"
the organ of the race at the capital.
A carefully prepared address and
resolutions, congrat, latory, compli-
mentary and fraternal, were read,
whereupon the New Hampshire
Senator culled from his ''Outrage"
pigeon-hole the freshest newspaper
clippings of bloodcurdling scenes
in the South, and proceeded to
make characteristic harangue
which was calculated to influence
the worse passions of the colered
people, and to encourage them to
regard their white fellow. citizens
as their ever-aggressive enemies.
This deplorable exhibition had a
most fitting and rebukeful antices
dent on an occasion when the same
Mr.. Calvin Chase with other color.
ed men visited Mr.. Cleveland at
the White House, not to congratu-
late him OH his election, but to
commend tue retention i'll or ap.
pointment to Office of one or more
of their race. During the Blaine
and Cleveland campaign the "Bee"
contained a most violent and blood
thirsty editorial, revolutionary in
sentiment, full of race antagonism,
and quite outdoing Mr.. Chandler's
speech of last evening. When the
, colored delegation was ushered into
the presence of Mr.. Cleveland, and
Mr. Calvin Chase was identified as
the editor of the "Bee," Mr.. Cleve-
land drew from his pocket copy
of the organ containing Mr.. Chase's
editorial assailing the democratic
party, the Southern whites and cry.
ing for war of the races; and this
editorial the President read with
deliberate JUNCTION to the embar-
rassed group, and like the California
scientist who, during a geological
debate, was struck in the stomach
with a specimen of old red sand.
stone, "the subsequent proceedings
interested them no more.' The
very feelings of race antagonism
and hatred and revenge which
President Cleveland deprecated
aud discouraged, were what Mr..
Chandler endeavored last night to
revive and intensity. The New
hampshire Senator appealed to his
record for his sincerity, and a refer
ence to the congressional proceed
ings of 1887 and 1888 will justify
him, for he introduced several bills
having for their object placing un-
der federal control 1.-The election
machinery of not all the states of
the Union, but those which hap
pened to have awakened this little
mans animosity. This determined
and persistent demagoguery, its
narrowness of spirit and lack of
broad craftsmanship are exempli-
fed in his bill, December IL, 1887,
for "maklng regulations prescrib-
ing the times, places and manner
for holding elections for Represen-
tatives in the Congress of the
United States in certain states"
i. e., Florida, South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana.
In this stage Of the reformatory
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