Evening star., 1896-01-28

mischief, began to make a disturbances
one young imp in a pair of sawed-off
h;." urbusers , nout sizes 100 large and wearing
Whlte plug hat, Vas especially unruly and
nad 10 be threatened with expulsion by
the sergeant-at-arms before he subsidized
Carson Exnmtnel.
MIR. Hollands speech was; the, main fea-
ture of the evening, and; 1t was an excellent
specimen of the ad ,csptandum stump
speech. Taking up Col. Carson's career he
insisted that in ell his leadership in the
District of Columbia he had never done a
single thing to be named by his followers
as distinct advantage to the negro race
During Carson's asoendancy the coiored
race rad lost the right of suffrage and all
the various municipal offices and legislative
positions which it once had. Going into
details the speaker showed that whenever
Mr.. Carso had undertaken by Indignation
meetings to arouse sentiment in favor of
the colored people he had s:gnally failed,
and cited the Lomax and Green cases
where colo"ed men had been murdered by
pohcemen and there was a disposition to
prosecute until the Carson meetings caused
a reaction of public sentiment because of
the 1ncendiary utteTs noes made by Carson
and his irien6s, He also alluded to the
fiagier case ond made the point that Car
son having been prevented by Mr. Green
the father Of the boy killed, from holding
an Indignation meeting, the grand jury had
indicted Miss Flagler ana she would be
tried for the shooting. Referring to Car
sons claims that he fought, bled and died
for tie &C ountry and the emancipation of
the race, Mr.. Holland said that Carson en-
listed in February, 1865, less than month
before tho surrender, and that he not only
never fired a gun in the war but never
heard one fired.''
Bailey Criticised.
Having finished his consideration of the
Carson case, the speaker took up Candi-
10 a ot t1nyy -h0 r.
brought up in the District Of Columbia and
had done nothing here except to accumu-
late property. The dirtiest kind of
white man could go into any one of Bailey's
nve barber shops and be shaved, while
decent, gehtlemanly colored man like him
self or Mr.. Bailey himself could not go into
any OF them and be shaved.
Mr. Bailey, he said, owned twenty-five
houses in Washington, and while he had
hve or six real estate men paying him for
cfhce room in his bank building, he placed
the charge of these twenty-five houses not
WIN these coloIed real estate men, but with
Whlte agents. Furthermore, with the eXcep-
ton CT few houses in an alley in the west
ern part of town, not one of these houses
could be rented by a colored man. Bailey,
ne said, was ffty-six years old. but he kept
cut or the war. If the race had depended
On men like Bailey they would all be slaves
STILL
Mentioning two or three other candidates,
the speaker threw them contemptuously out
of consideration with the remark that they
were mot in it,
Mr. Hollands Service.
Speaking of himself and his own services
for the race, Mr.. Holland said that he began
when fourteen years old plotting colored
men on the underground, railway toward
Canada and freedom. In April, 1861, when
sixteen years old, he enlisted and served
through the war-not in the .commissary or
the hospital service, but carrying gun. AS
to what he did he would only say, as brave
man should, he tried to do his duty to the
best OF his ability. Letting other people
the two medals that were pinned on his
treast, these medals were given to me for