The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-06-09
AN AFRICAN OF SOME SIZE IN THE
ST. LOUIS wOODPILE.
HOTEL MEN AFTER HIM.
THE COLORED BROTHER WILL
NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE
HOSTELRIES. h
III GOSSIP occAsIoNED.
MUCH
Talk of n Fund to Rent a Hall and
supply 1t With A
Cots.

ST. Louis June S-What shall be done with tht
colored delegates and alternates to the national
Republican convention Is a question which n
puzzling the members Of the national committed
who have arrived in the city, and the Businesl
Mems League which secured the convention ID
ST. Louis as well Every hotel, boarding house and
cafe came out fat-footed today and declared thai
would entertain no negro guest or Gus,
TONER Money is no object. Threats OF prosecui
tion have had no effect. and from the present
outlook 1t would seem that unless tents are SO,
cured the black men will have to 60 hungry and
unhoused
When the hotel men read this they wer4
exceedingly wrathful. They said 1t was an
invitation to the colored delegates 20 pros!
ecute them for damages. They went I'd
the League committee on MOTEL accommo.
dation and made vigorous protest. Com
certed action then followed with the re-
suit that the negroes cannot find lodging
places nor even a reputable place to eat.
Maj. Q. @. Rainwater,a member of the Busi
mess Mems league, and of the local en-.
tertainment committee.is quite as much
dispeased with the turn affairs have ta.
ken as any member of the national commit
tee. he, with several other members of the
loc | committee, have been hunting for a
place to entertain the negro delegates but
without success Perry Heath and ex+
Congressman Thompson of Ohio who are
here In the interests of Mai. Mckinley are
quite as much disturbed as the national
committeeman. They hacve been in tele-
graphic communication with Marcus A.
Hanna all day, but as yet no solution of the
problem has been reached
II am thoroughly disgusted and dIscour.
aged" said National Committeeman j. g.
Long of Florida tonight. ~ have been
lanl frr oil 1nr,
house or cafe that would admit the negroes.
but 1t has been fruitess search | have
even gone so far as to try TO charter a
steamboat, but when the owners learned
for what purpose | wanted 1t they found
an excuse for refusing me the use Of thieves
sell 1t Is the only time In the history OF
the Republican party where such an embar-
RAISING predlcament has arlsen.'
When asked what the national committee
would do in the matter, Mr. Long replied:
81 have consulted with tie members who
are here, and we have decided to offer q
resolution as soon as the committee meets,1
cOndemning the hotel md innkeepers. and
for the setting aside of fund for renting
a hall in which cots shall be placed for the
accommodation of the negroes who may
come to the convention. We Will also re-
quest the employment OF corps of cooks
to supply them with food"
This trouble has been brewing for nearly
week number of days ago -ft' was
learned by the Business Mems league that
some of the leading hotels had been cancel
ling agreements with certain state delega-
tions when the landlords learned that negro
delegates were numbered among them.
1t became so apparent that the negroes
were being Disseminated against that the
Republican league issued the following
manifesto: 1.-The Business Mems League
when In Washington, securing the nation
al republican convention for St Louis,
promised that colored delegates and mem-
bers of the national republican executive
committee should receive the same recog-
milton from the hotels that the other del
egates to the convention would receive.
With this 1t was implied that the citizens
representing the city of st. Louis for Sc
curing the convention would ask and en-
deavOr to induce public places, hotels,
boarding houses and bath rooms. at least
for convention week, to accord to the rep
utable and respectable colored men who
will come here representing their section
and their people in the Republican party,
such treatment as any reputable and res
pectable person would receive.
1t is not believed that a great many
would want to accept the privileges, but
IL will be very humlliating IL one of them
v it'll their colleagues and friends,or alone
should present hin self in any public place
and be refused admittance or service. Ii
is hoped, expected ard desiredby the gen.
tlemen representing the citizens who Sc
cured the convention, that all will endeayor
to meet the situation as justice and pro-
prety require. Any parties In interest
failing TO receive Accommodations will please
report to the general hotel committee, G.
C. Rainwater chairman. or the bureau
of inform atiCn.