The Washington critic., 1890-02-07
NOPOLITICAL SLAVERY.
coLOREp MEN TO BREAK AWAY
FROM REPUBLICAN, THRALDoM.

bS VNSNhNiNC NOIuHllllec VI VIC
Colored Citizens Civil Rights Associa-
ton. which was given the power by the
National Colored Convention to elect
the officers who were yet TO be chosen
when that body brought its final session
to close late yesterday afternoon, met
last nightand fllled out the list. 1t had
been the purpose of the convention to
elect all the officers Of the National As
sociatiop, but there was not sufficient
time left, and for this reason the work
was turned over to the executive com
mittee after the president had been
chosen. The officers of the association
who will serve for the ensuing year are:
President, Ex-Governor, p. s. b. Pinch
beck; Vice Presidents j. G. Cha ppel,
James Hill Mississippi;
J. Johnson, California; treasurer, Carter A.
Stewart, District of Columbia; secretary, #.
G. Barbadoes, District Of Columbia.
EFFECT OF THE ELECTION.
The election of ex- Governor p. b. s.
Pinchbeck as president of the associa.
ton is regarded, by many colersd men
as an evidence that new course is to
be marked out for the races progress.
Said leading delegate to The CELTIC
man: There was every indication
when the convention commenced on
Monday last that the. colored people Of
the country, and especially of the South,
.as. evidenced by the expressions Of their
representatives who were sent on
here to voice their sentiments,
had determined to take conservative
stand for thefuture and declare their
emancipation from the thraldom of Re-
publican politicians, and this has been
verified TO the fullest extent. True, the
convention was at times noisy but polit-
ical slavery was in its death throes,
and its last breath went out with q
Struggle However much the delibera-
tions of the convention may have
been criticised in certain quar-
ters, the fact remains that the assembly
was composed Of the most intelligent
and the Representative colored men
who have ever come together in this
country.
UNIVERSITY GRADUATES.
"Of the. 500delegates present, it is said
that at least $50 of them are graduates
of universities, colleges and normal
schools. and among the number were
lawyers, editors, doctors, ministers of
the Gospel, as well as n Judge and a
bishop. The men best known by their
race who were present were: Ex-Gov-
ernOr p. b. s, Pinchbeck, G. G. II.
Astwood, ex- Minister to Santa Do
mingo; Fourth Auditor John r. Lynch,
J. c. Price, president of Livingston
College at Salisbury, ~ c.
j. Milton Turner, x-Minister
TO Liberia; S, G. Wear of Pennsyl.
vania; Colonel Perry Carson, John
NJ. Mitchell, member of the City
Council of Richmond, Va; ex. Auditor
McCabe of Kansas, @ H. ]. Taylor
whom President Cleveland appointed
Minister TO Liberia, and DR. Derrick
of New York. At least two of these
members are outspoken Democrats
Turner and Taylor, and, however
strange it may seem in the face of the
past, they were accorded all the cour
tesies, rights and the esteem that were
enjoyed by the most radical Republican
ON the floor.
CHAIRMAN PRICE.
"The chairman, ]. G. Price, who pre-
sided over the deliberations of the con
vention. and who was elected by /;
unanimous vote to the office, is til,
president of the Afro. American League
which met in national convention q
Chicago less than month ago and is
sned an address to the country of 81
conservative, nature that Republican
papers declared its aim to be to lead th,
colOred voters into the ranks of tn,
Democracy. And the convention which
is Just closed here elected Mr.. Price a
its presiding officer after he had de
| livered to it speech which, If he ha(
made two years ago, would hav
brought down upon him the condemna
ton of his race.
POLITICIANS THERE.
There were politicians in the con
vention, of course, tricksters, VIII
hoped to gain offices and consideration
at the hands of the Administration b,
manipulating the affairs of that body L
the end for a continued party support
and it was the desperate efforts of these
met by the determined opposition o
the liberal element, which caused what
| ever discord there was manifested b.
| that assembly.
There were speeches made dealin
with the negro problem which woul
have ELECTED applause from any meet
| ing of the advanced white people OF tn
| South, and these were made in ncarl
| every instance by men from that SEE
| ton. 1t was often declared, and ever
| time the assertions were met with heart
/ applause. that the negroes of the Sout
| had hundreds of sincere friends anon
the white speople of that section VIII
were Democrats of the most pfonounde
type. a
l y gSYMPATIIY OF WHITE LADIES.
\ The tender sympathy which viii,
ladies of the South are extending to th
unfortunate and helpless members {
the colored race were acknowledged
and one speaker even declared that
will finally be the intereession of thes
ladies in the negro's behalf that wi
bring about the betterment of his cor
dition. A resolution was offere
during the session to the effe(
i that Southern men and ;So,ither
newspapers speaking out against I'll
outrages In their localities are deservin
of the most grateful expressions {
thanks from the colored people, and
was only lost through thetopposition {
the Office holding and otflce,seekin
delegates. together with the fault TIL
a speaker in advocating the measul
made the mistake of going too far
the eXoneration of. the Southern peopl
BRIDGE OF. ICE.
Here was the bridge of ice upc
which the convention was crossing ovt
the river of race conflicts, but one ma
stepped with laundering tread an
only part got over. The contest ov,
the presidency of the new organizatiC
was spirited, for it was to mean mucl
| The political heelers and trickste
battled for one of their kind to be at i
head while those looking and workir
for the future prosperity, pea
and success of their peop