Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-29
LANGSTON'S TREATMENT.

Full Details of How the Noted virginia
Colored Man Was Treated in Parksrs-
burg-Names OF Those Who Net Him
and Heard Him Complain.
Special telegram 20 tie RsyIstsr.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, February
2S.-The mistreatment and insult OF
Hon. John NJ. Langston, coiored ex-
Congressman, and the greatest speaker
of the Republican clubs, and the pubic
exposure of that most outrageous and
shameful affair, created a terrible rum
gus In the Republican camp. They
were not so mad at its publication as
they were over the fact that the col
ored, and white people OF this city,
would (all who did not already know OF
III, hear Of IL and vent their just indig-
nation upon the party and men who
were guilty of that shameful outrage.
In brief the following is the exact
story:
Mr.. Langston was met, as we said be-
fore. at the Ohio River Railroad by a
couple Of colored men and buggy.
The white folks committee was busy
rushing their music and their select
circles TO the B. * o. trains To meet
white speakers who never came. They
did't have any band at the OHIO River
depot, and they didn't have any escort.
Langston was not Foraker, an Elkins,
nor Goff. He was only Niger and as
3 nigger was relegated. The buggy and
the colored men hauled Mr.. LangstoD,
who as a matter OF course, supposed he
was To be taken TO a hotel, 10 Pony
Blanchard's in Hayti, and from there
to Mrs. Madison's. They then went up
into Bucktown, as we said before, but
Mr.. Langston would not land he was
right, as no one will dispute), stop at
any OF the five or six places he was taken
to. They then hauled him around from
pillar TO post until the driver, boy who
did not understand the situation, de-
cared that "that man was the hardest
man to suit he ever saw. lie wouldn't
stop at any Of the coored folks homes. "
Meanwhile an old friend and acquaint-
ance. colored gentleman well-known
and highly respected, who wanted
TO see Mr.. Langston, went In
search of him. He visited
the hotels-couldn't find him. He
made inquiries and at last heard that
they had taken him to Pony Blanch-
ards house. When he went there he
found that the cavalcade had gone over
to Mrs. Madison's. He followed him
there, but the procession had disap-
peared-swallowed up as 1t were, in the
shadows of BucktOwn. The old gem
tleman travelled, and dogged, and talk
ed and walked, and inquired until
nearly dark, when, just as he was going
home he was told where Mr.. Langston
was. He found him at Mrs. Maston's
a colored lady's residence, where the
driver and the committee, driven TO
desperation, by their fruitless search
and the complete exhaustion OF Mr.
! Langston, had stopped IN order to give
that gentleman an opportunity to rest
and shake the dust OF the suburbs from
his clothing. II was from there that
Mr.. Langston was taken 10 the hotel,
and by the old friend who had worn
himself out In search Of him. The gen
tieman says (by way OF parenthesis)
that it reminded him OF Japhet In
search OF his father-It was an uphill
job. When they got him TO the hotel
they introduced him to Mr.. Nolan, the
Democratic proprietor, who courteously
and kindly received him and took him
TO a room-not TO G.. WIS room. Here
Mr.. Langston was given his supper, In
his room, and 10 was while there that
G. w. was told of his presence.
In order 10 become fully satisfied OF
the truth of all the statements made in
the above the REGISTER interviewed a
numher nf cOlored DeOple
Rev. Robinson, colored, pastor OF the
Logan Memorial Chapel, an old friend
and acquaintance OF Mr.. Langston,
says that the statements are not only
correct. but that Mr.. Langston himself
not only refused TO stop at the
places referred to, but requested that
he be taken TO some hotel or 10 head
quarters where he could meet the club
representatives. Rev. Robinson him
self went TO the Commercial Hotel and
introduc him TO Mr.. Nolan, but this
was after the long drive about town
and later In the evening.
Mr.. Henry Simmons, another colored
man, a well-known barber and son OF
Professor Simmons, like many other
colored citizens, was highly indignant,
and did not fail TO. express his opinion
of the outrage and OF the party guilty Of
it. Mrs. Madison was not sick, ,as stated To
the Inteltigcncer, but, as she said, she
had received no notice OF Mr.. Langston's
coming, and could not care for him. He
was the guest, as she said, OF the Re-
publican blowout, and ought TO be
treated as any other guest or orator.
Mrs. Madison action meets with the
approval Of the people generally.
Names Of many colored people could
be given and the statement corrobora-
ted further II necessary, bu, In this
city no one-not even the Journal, pre-
tends TO deny the allegations.
The Langston outrage cannot be eX-