The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-09-06
WASHINGTON.
The City of Magnificent Distances
With the Light Turned On.
Our Capitol City With its Multitude Of
important Matters Culled for our
intelligent Readers-C. A. Us
Budget of News.

| Fakirs and street peddlers AZ rule.
drive good business in all large cities.
In New Orleans you will find the fakir
or peddler selling croakers small, fish
fried crisp, in various parts of Texas and
Mexico you'll find the greaser selling
"Tamale, hot Tamale," in St. Louis the
cry OF "hot wieners, hot wieners" greets
your ears; but in Washington the sad.
doleful, melancholy, discordant, SOUL
rasping cry of 'clams CLAIMS, heah
yoah c-l-a-m-s" knocks them all out.
NO charcoal man. garbage dump man,
garden truck man.. From morn till
night "Clams! Heah's yoah CLANS!
Clam mans going! Clam man done
gone!" is heard through every highway
and by way. The clam man is generally
a little piece of humanity frayed at the
edge with an apron alternately hopping
up the street and wiplng the one plate
on which CLAIMS are served to fastidious
customer. His vehicle is little push
cart that at one time may have been of
some color but tough wear and want of
water it has long since lost it's identity.
The knife he uses to open the bivalve
varies from piece of iron barrel hoop
to broken case knife and the fork used
by his customer has seen it's best davs
something like decade ago, two prongs
missing and the remaining prong twisted
and bent as if it han been handled by q
cyclone, part of the handle gone and
rusted till it's color is mere make be-
lieye of iron. Yet the clam man does a.
good business, ranging from SO to S.
day on the principal streets to SO cents
and 81 in the alleys and haunts of vice.
Not less than half dozen conventions
have been called by Colored meu in var
ious states during the past twelve months
and all have avowed determination to
pass resolutions condemning the present
administration. It is about time that
the various committees on resolutions
were making reports.
Talking to young white man from
Minnesota not long since he took occa-
sion to say that the Colored men of the
West and of Minnesota particularly ex-
hibited more thrift vivacity and civiliza-
ton than those whom he met here.
why" said he, cit is no wonder the
Colored people are called no count when
the basis of measurement is the average
Washington Colored citizens. Don't
you think so?" I told him to "read my
answer in the stars"
Now comes the St. Louis politician to
the front. In the Indianapolis Free
man of Aug. 9, a long letter appeared
scoring the three Republican Congress-
men from St. Louis most severely,
charging them with disloyalty and po-
litlcal ostracism of the Colored voter of
that city, claiming that they are ZEN
tirely cut off from any emoluments or
honor which the present administration
has, 80 generously extended to other
elements" Marked copies of this paper
were sent to Congressman Kinsley,
Niedringhaus and Frank. It didn't
work as the correspondent supposed and
now self constituted Executive Com
mittee of Colored Citizens (of which
the 'correspe ndent Geo. B. is member)
has,, sent a long letter of grievances to
the said congressman. Dire prediction
of party disintegration possible bolts,
and sother like ghosts are held up
to view. These same committeeman (?)
played true Hessian soldiers in the cam
paign of 1888. They were for sale and
LEND me five shillings" was their pet
political drama. Now they want Office
but not Office so much as campaign
money. They are seeking bids as the
campaign is developing. When one con-
siders how such thing are carried on in
large cities by the Colored men it IS no
wonder that recognition is denied US.
In the Custom House at st. Louis you
can find at least a dozen employ ees Of.
color who are not in the classified SER
vice and owe their appointment to
political favoitism, and in the classified
service there is at least dozen. Now
these things ore known to be facts and
this brow beating, sharp practice busi-
ness wont help the Colored man of Mis-
souri, to get the Black laws removed
from the States statutes. The Congress-
men from st. Louis are not such mean
men as our friend Geo. B. would have
us believe. On the contrary they are
gentlemen and have had their quota of
appointments made and three Colored
men are now in Washington in the de-
partments owing to their efforts. The
Executive Committee of Colored Citi-
zens' are respectfully referred to the
seats in the gallery.
"A fire eating rebel argued with me the
probability of Negro not having a soul
Ansther of the same stripe made q very
candid admission quite recently about
the Negroes capability. He is rebel
from away back, moss back, secesh
state rights and the whole bill of fare.
In Georgia whence this young moss
back came. the Democrats force each
candidate for state legislature to pledge
himself to support bill to divide school
funds according to the amount of taxes
paid by Colored and white. Now this
young rebel indorse such measure be-
cause as he says 'sThe Negroes in the
South have within the last thirty years
shown themselves the most progressive
race on the face of the earth and that's
what we are afraid Of" He very con-
cisely stated the condition Of the Negro