The Washington bee., 1892-02-13
ALEXANDRIA NEWS.

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later than Wednesday OF each
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The jim Crow CAR Friends of
Justice, probably before you read
this Issue of the leading Afro
American journal, the BEE, that
obnoxious bilI may have passed
both branches of the Va. Demo-
cratic Legislature, Notwithstanding
committee was, or Is now, in ex-
istence eminating from the Will of
the proper or improper Judgment
Of what Is called the better element
Of the cOlOred race lhhabiiing
this old Rip Van WiDkle Of town,
Alexandra. Well, no man or wO-
man should Object TO this class of
citizens, but d similar transaction
was indulge d in by similar class
OF men in Washington a few years
ago, when Congress was memorial
lied for the purpose of having that
precious better element of cOlOred
people accommodated in bar rooms
and lunch houses within the bounds
of the District of Columbia, which
met it's fate IN the sober judgment
of every intelligent American, ire
spective of color. While the me
mortal died just where they left it,
and its originatOrS reduced them
selves in the race, and a number of
them have been political vagraDts
on all administrations ever since;
and so 1t will be with all of that
better element everywhere who
seeks the better class legislation
instead of legislation having a
tendency to better the condition of
the whole race. Therefore the
committee will immediately y after
they report 0f they dO,) become
thing of .he past, not only in the
minds of their better class creators
but IN the minds OF the white dem
Ocratic Legislature. So the bill is
likely to become laW-cOmmittee
is of no consequence in the case.
Alb, well, suppose it does, what will
be the reSul ? Well, in the first
place, it will ObIiterate every negro
democrat in Viginla, because this
class of people ID too poor TO leave
on account of obnoxious laws, and
without the support of these race
killers the democrats can not carry
Virginia. Secaud, that awful spec
tacle of negro going to prison in
charge Of a white sheriff or deputy
will be thing of the past. They
can't ride together. Third, The
we'll dressed cOl0red nurse. looking
like princess to many employers,
will no longer have to sit and hold
a white child while the cars courses
the once proud old commonwealth.
Fourth, the immediate appoint
ment of several negro deputy Sher
ifs, railroad conductors aud train
men, as negro will be fined 5000
to ride IN the whi cracker car,
and the white mau 5000 to ride III
Jim Crow Car, no provision being
made for distances. So you see
that the dav is past when the dem
ocrats can legislate wholly against
the negro, even in Virginia, with
out iujuring their own interests,
and it is fair to suppose that the
prominence gained by all the dem
ocrats concerned in this car law
bill will be of brief honorable exis-
tence. The bill will surely die OF
cholera Iufantum, while the Afro
American press will erect an i'm
posing stone to its memory as deaO
matter.
POLITICAL.-The colOred vote of
the 9Th Virginia congressional dis
trict cOmpOses 81 per cent. of the
entire Republican vote in the dis
trict. IL is this 81 per cent. who
says negro delegate is in order
from this district to Minneapolis
and he will not be a District OF
Columbia cnrb-stone political brok-
er, either, but representative man
who is actually citizen. So We
hope that the political philanthrO
piSt will be more Of this obnoxious
gang, who are so destructive to the
district; who see it's surface through
type only on election day when
they come then at sOmebOdyelseS
expense, claiming to be doing some
good; its no such thing, and to
come here to vote because you once
lived here, next election, is a Ger
tifcate for home in Virginia for
some years, house, board and
clothes free. Boys we are on to
you!
The BEE is welcomed to Alexan.
dria by all lovers of honey.
RObt. Il. Mitchell was in the city
a few days ago. Robert LOOKS well.
E. j. Webster will sell you a sim
gle copy of the BEE at his barber
shop.