The Washington bee., 1895-01-19
CUNEY TO ASTWOOD.
GOOD ADVICE TO THE PREACHER,
EDITOR, POLITICIAN. ETC.

Washington, ID. c., JAN, Is, 1895
To the Editor of The Defender: There
appeared in your issue of the 5th inst,
an editorial In which 1t is stated among
other things that HeDry w Quincy and
VIM Calvin Chase "have banded them.
selves together like the Jews did to slay
Paul, to destroy us personally and polit-
ically; the one for our diScontinuing
him as a collector for The Defender,
both for.our defense of Recorder Tay-
lasr w ondefff fdft. Snade or the mighty
Paul pardon the comparison, the al
most proclamation of thy name.'"
In so far as the entire article relates
to me, it is wholly gratuitous and mali
cious, for | have not formed any COM
bination with editor Chase which has in
view your destruction. either personally
OF politically. | would not and could
not harm man personally because l
differed from him politically. j hat is
not my way, it is pure AstWoodian and
being copyrighted, it is pre-empted. In
the Judgment of thoughtful and intelli-
gent men, your political destruction is
a thing OF the past. The strange part
of it is that man who is irrrtrievably
politically lost had not been able to dis
cover it himself 1t was an act of self
immOlatiOn.
never was a collector for The De-
fender and theIefore you could not have
discontinued me as such. 1t is true
that you handed me some receipted
bills made out against certain Senators
and Members of the House, to whom
YOU Gained you had been sending your
paper from its first issue and requested
me to collect one ysar's subscription
from them. which | cOnditionally agreed
to do. That condition was that you
were to conduct your journal in entire
harmony with the principles OF the Re-
publican party, and cut loose from the
! colored Democrat contingent with
whom you had been associated, several
of wnom you had characterized as ras-
Gals. You pied poverty to me, saying
| that YOU must have some assistance or
YOU would be seriously embarrassed. l
SympathizeG with you and was about to
make an effort to relieve you when on
several evenings thereafter [ was In
formed by two persons connected with
your office that you were in conference
with Recorder Taylor, Consul II. G..
Smith and Mr.. T.. w. Pulies in the lat
ter's office, the same being in the build
| ing in which your office is located.
" hen you came out l was standing IN
| the pasSage-way leading to your office.
| and on approaching me remonstra ed
with you for being clOseted for an hour
or more with leading colOred Democrats
your late associates, one OF whom you
had denounced privately and then pub
licly through the columns of your Eaper.
You pretended to be highly indignant
at what had said and blurted out as
you left me, That if you were to be
''nagged" in tha5 sort of style by Re-
publicans you would return to the DEM
ocratic party. L said in reply, that l
thought you had that proposition then
under advisement and the best thing to
do was to resolve in favor of 1T.
AsI was leaving the building was
overtaken by Mr. J. Z. johnson who
said you wanted to see me. l returned
and you will remember that quite an
animated discussion took place between
us with reference to the future policy of
your paper. tried to impress upon you
the importance to yourself of recover
ing the full confidence of the leading
men of the Republican party and that
the less you had to do with colOred
Democrats, the better for you; that ne
gro Democracy was looked upon with
suspicion, as an impossible, indefensi-
BILE thing; and that if you expected to
be taken back into the party in good
faith you would have to show conclu-
sively by acts aid not words that you
were truly Iepentant; that Mr.. Taylor