The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-28
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| Fort Pillow aud the Darkcy-Nhcrc IL
the Negro 2 Educated In the south
Three Kings--A Larger Appropriation
! Needed-Othcr Items OF Interest.
FoRT PILLOW AND THE DARKEY. The
Republican Convention in Mississippi
appears TO have been turbulent gath
ering, more than three-fourlhs OF IT
composed of negroes. and its managers
chiefly Federal office holders. IL nomi-
mated for Governor. Gen. James X.
Chalmers. who used to be detested as
the hero of the Fort Pillow massacre,
and whose fraudulent and violent
practices when he was elected as
Democratic Congressman in the old
shoe String district were the sub
lect Of lurid denunciatIOns by all loyal
Republicans. Like Malone, he changed
his politics when he could no longer get
the support Of the Democratic party
and tried to regain power through the
votes of ignorant and easily deluded |
negroes. His success has been poor
thus far, and is not likely to improve
this year. The character of Republi- !
can politics in Mississippi is sufficient to
account for the antipathy to the party
which is kept alive among the respect
able people Of the State.-New York
Times.
WHERE Is THE NEGRO And then,
hat of the negroes What ofthe race
whose Acknowledgement was so costly
to the nation. both South and Moth,
and for whose education to-day the
South is spending annually sum
larger than its contributions to the
Federal Treasury before the war
Why. they become niece ssarily race III
political bondage. race living by the
| side of their fellOw-Americans, per
| forming most Of the labor of many OF
the Southern States, earning their
daily bread. owning property.
sublect to the laws, and with
out any voice, without any diff
Guilty, in the conduct of public
affairs. in the choice of their rulers or
IN the framing of the laws by which
thew are bound. 1t Is condition OF
things that the minds of the American
people can hardly grasp, so unprece-
dented and so mOnStrOus Is 1t. soTevOlt
ing to all the ideas they cherish and all
the habits they have formed. No,
whatever NAV be the real evil in the
condition of the negroes in the politics
of the South, and we believe 1t is stead
ilv and not very slowly decreasing, and
whatever NAV be the difficulty of deal
ing With il. this IS no remedy. 1t is in
fnitclv worse than the disease, even as
the disease appears to the fefvld minds
of men like General Sherman.
York Times.
ALARGER APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED
There are indications that an attempt
will be made at the coming session OF
Congress to cripple the work Of the
Civil Service Commission by reducing
the amount of the appropriation, which
is already painfully inadequate. it
NAV be remembered that such an at
tempt was made last December. but its
success was not sufficient TO warrant
the opponents of this wise reform i'm re-
newing such tactics. A motion was
made to strike from an apprO-
priation bull the item providing
for the salaries Of the Civil
Service Commissioners. No more di-
rect attack upon the civil service prin'
Iciple could have been made: but when
the question was put to vote only
TWENTY-FIVE members were willing TO
90 on record in favor Of it. and every
one OF the twenty-five was a Democrat.
Not single Republican lifted his voice
or cast his vote IN futherance of what
would have been a long step backward
IN the path Of reform. We feel certain
that if a similar effort is put forth next
winter to throw obstacles in the way of
so excellent a cause, no gVater success
will be achieyed.-N. y. Tribune.
EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH.-Reports
from all parts Of the Southern States
! show most gratifying progress in mat
ters pertaining 20 education. There Is
not only general improvement noted,
but better schOol-hOuses are being
built. better teachers employed and
better methods pursued, resulting IN
much higher grade of education than
was possible decade ago.
II will be remembered that the South
was left after the war with all her in
situations crippled. Such schooling adj
vantages as she had were practically
wiped out of existence. But the States
went Iesolutelv TO work TO supply the
deficiency. A beginning was made. to
be interrupted by carpet-bag rule, from
1865 to 1876. Then the work began
again in earnest. and has continued, in
the face of difficulties TO be sure, but
with uninterrupted progress until the
present time.-Baltlmor Herald.
THREE KINGs.-Samoa' three kings,
relieved of foreign Influence. are con-
lducting themselves in a commercially
pacific and amiable fashion, such as
could hardly be expected from trio OF
rival candidates FOR the throne With
a courtesy that has royal flavor, even
if it comes from the South Seas. Male
toa. on being brought back by the Ger
mans from bis unjust Punishment, IN
sisted on not Immediately di'plaelng
Mataafa urging i'll health, and that
Mataafa had really been made the de-
pository of regal power by the patriot
population. But Mataafa was no less
, earnest to have it understood that he
mad been the representative OF Malletoa
till the latter should return. Now IT
appears that Malietoa was at length
J quietly restored to power, and that
thereupon these friends both withdrew
10 Manono to await the action
of our country ON the Berlin confer
ence. Manona is little island of
} about three square miles area, inclosed
within the see reef of the large island
of Upolu. Oh which Apia. the capital.
is situated. They are accordingly in
tently bent on not coming INTO conflict
with King Tamasese, who Is presum-
ably still at Apia. and is certainly quiet
land tractabe. With such conduct on
the part of the three Kings. the three
treat. powers ought 20 find little trou-
BILE in arranging the new Samoan Gov
eminent. Exchange.
THE BIG CHIEF.-That iluslrious war
rior, Colonel Elliott T. Shepard, in
nominating for Attorney General that
other equally distinguished soldier,
lColonel James NJ. Narnum. used some
trulv heautiful language. He said.