Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-03
NEGRO AMBITION.
II Is to Found and Govern a
Great State.
OKLAHOMA THE LAND OF PROMISE.

Well Mstured Plans In Operation to Cap
ture the New Territory for the CoIored
People-A Political Society That Pro-
poses to Try an Important Experiment
The scheme ms Outlined by Those In
the Lead-Backing In the Senate and
Eisewhere-PIentyo of Money.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 3-Edwin p
AcCabe returned from Washington City
Saturday and left for Oklahoma last night,
TO visit Lincoln first and then the other ne
gro settlements in rapid succession Mr.
McCabe, despairing of securing an appoint
ment as governor of the new territory, will
AJAX recognition for his race in his appoint
ment as secretary of the territory In this
demand he will be supported by the Grand
Brotherhood. composed of colored men,
which claims TO represent nearly one-half
the population of Oklahoma. The change of
front by Mr.. McCabe IS in accordance with
the decision OF the brotherhood council,
| which held session a few days ago in Okla
homa. The council was attended by the
| officers of the brotherhood from Kansas,
Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi. That
body, realizing that IL was impossible TO de-
| feat the Indian candidate for governor,
claimed that in justice they should have the
| second place in the territorial government.
A Plan to Capture the State.
In addition to the agents of the brother
hood residing in the south, a special envoy,
| @. w Edmund has been sent on a tour
| through the southern states. His method is
| TO systematic the work of the local agents
who are sending negroes north. He will in
, sist that none be sent who have not means
| of subsistence for at least one year, and that
no families be sent to Oklahoma unless the
| head of the household is an able bodied man.
He has been instructed to urge the immigra-
| ton of voters, in accordance with the plans
OF the brotherhood to capture that country
whenever the first state election is held. All
negroe. not self sustaining will be persuaded
| TO remain in the south until after the state
| government is organized
Big Influx of Colored People.
As Washington agent, Mr. McCabe sent 500
families from North Carolina and 500 fami-
lies from South Carolina direct TO Okla
homa, where they are now comfortably stu
ated, and some of whom will go to the strip
Mr.. Jarrett, one of the Kansas agents,
whose headquarters have been with the inn
migration association in this city, has COM
| pleted arrangements by which over 5000
families will be brought into the territory
before Sept. l. all from the southern states
A number of wealthy negroes in Washing
ton are aiding this movement with their
money well as with their influence. SEN
ators Ingalls, and Plumb are lending their in
huence to the scheme, the former being es-
pecially active, while several members o.
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posed negro state.
The President Hears the Plan.
Mr.. McCabs, while in Washington City,
| had an interview with President Harrison
| In which the latter asked why the black race
| did not try to people a southern state Nc
| Cabe's reply was: 1--WE desire to get away
| from the associations that cluster about US in
the southern states We wish to remove
from the disgraceful surroundings that de-
| graded my people, and in a new territory,
such as Oklahoma, show the people Of the
| United States and of the world that we are
not only good, loyal citizens, but that we
are capable Of advancement, and that we
| can be an honor to those who broke down
the barriers Of slavery" The president,
while not expressing any opinion, seemed to
be favorably impressed with the project
Money for Education.
The negroes of Oklahoma have secured a
section of land. which is set apart for uni
vsrsity William Waldorf Aston has promised
to ndow it with $500, 900 as soon as the build
| ings are up, and present United States SEN
| ator will give ESQ 900 toward the buildings
rs soon as the territorial government is
established, which will probably be within
two weeks, ths president having urged con-
gress TO act speedily. Donations will be
| secured 10 put up buildings within the year
| valued at Sl00, 600 and there will be estab-
lished the greatest negro university in the
world 1t will be located not far from
| Kingfisher
| Getting Ready to Move.
The negroes now located in Graham
| county, among whom are many intelligent,
| thrifty men, are preparing to move in a
body to Oklahoma They will follow the
| general plan OF making a settlement, so that
their numbers will constitute their strength.
| As these were the founders of the brother
hood which has done SO much TO unity the
race this contemplated movement is sgnifi-
| cant They will take with them considera-
BILE wealth, and will have a reserve to draw
from, and win add greatly to the strength of
the scheme for forming negro state.
Brotherhood Man Talks.
An officer Of the brotherhood said yester.
day: ave do not propose to impose upon the
whites nor abuse our power. We will simply
stand by our own people, and there can be
but one result, and that esult will be a solid
negro state, the grandest in the Union. In
brief, the power Of the new society, the indie
pendent Brotherhood, is In q fair way TO ac-
comPlish its purpose. 1t has united the black
rsce, and for the FIRST time the negroes can
be said to be people guided by one impulse.
They are determined to have state and
Oklahoma being their only chance they are
determined to capture IL by a peaceable con-
quest, and they are likely to succeed They
viii have power. They will have 10000
within the borders of that territory before
| the end Of the year, and, with McCabe as a
territorial officer, will have SO, 600 more"
Remarkable Weather for the South.
NEW ORLEANS, La, March S.-The weather