Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-07
THE COLORED CONVENTION.
Closing Proceedings Yesterday-Ex-
Gov. Pinchback Elected President.

About 500 Of the delegates to the colored
national convention were received by President
Harrison at the White House yesterday after
noon, being presented in a few happy words
by the chairman of the convention Prof J. C,
Price of North Carolina, whose delicate and
feeling reference to the calamities that have so
recently fallen upon the administration fami-
lies visibly affected the President. The re-
Spouse by the President was one of the most
felicitous of his many concise and meaningful
informal addresses and had most happy effect
upon his interested hearers.
MR.. PINCHBACK ELECTED.
The delegates immediately reassembled in
convention for the election by ballot of per.
manent president of the civil rights associa-
ton they had formed, and after a spirited con-
test in which there we're a number of exciting
scenes on the floor, ex-Gov. P. b. s. Pinchback
OF Louisiana was declared the successful candi-
date, the vote being as follows: Total, 2O2; Mr.
Wells. /; Mr.. Mitchell, Is; Mr.. Perry Carson,
80; Rev. Derrick of New York A. and Mr.
Pinchback, 108. The widest enthusiasm fol-
lowed the announcement of the result, hats
were thrown high in air and the shouts Of the
ex-governor champions made the windows
jingle. BY the time the hall was Quoted Mr..
Pinchback, who had been absent during the
election. was brought in at the front door and
O Dc
son and Mitchell escorted HIM to the platform,
where a speech was extorted from him. He was
equal to the occasion. and perhaps prepared for
it, for his election had seemed fore
gone conclusion from the first day
of the convention. In his pa
triotic and imprisoned address he amended
the whole action of the convention lifted its
proceedings to higher plane and practically
adopted the important resolution, commending
those who denounced outrages, which had been
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honor, but that it had been thrust upon him.
and that he had been thus drawn from private
life to a wider field than he had hoped again to
occupy in national affairs Though he had been
chosen to fill nearly every place from the low
est in the gift Of the people to one next in
honor to that of President of the United States.
and held the distinguished position of being
the only man in this country who could by his
complexion desert his people, he had ever been
true to the negro and should ever be so. He
declared that there is hope in the south; de-
nounced all talk of Winchesters, of butchery
and OF a war OF races, and assured his people
that if they would be guided in some degree by
his advice there awaited them a better and
more prosperous future.
At the close of his address q resolution was
adopted: THAT it is the sense of this conven-
ton that steps be taken at once to unite the
Afro american league and the civil rights asso-
citation; that the president. DIR. ]. c. Price, be
u member of the committee for that purpose. ;"
OTHER OFFICERS CHOSEN.
The executive committee met last night and
elected the following officers: First vice presi-
dent Perry Carson; second vice president, ].
C. Chappelle; third vice president, Joseph
Hill; fourth vice president, d. Z. johnson;
secretary, J. G. Barbados; treasurer, Carter
Stuart, ST.
The constitution requires the four vice presi-
| dents to be distributed east and west of the
Mississippi and north and south Of the Ohio
The permanent headquarters will be in WASH
ington. A big farewell reception was given the
delegates at Grand Army hall last night.