The Washington bee., 1896-06-06

I tain IN the SCHOOLS. felIy larson IS
born leader"
1t was mastery effort on the pa
/ of DIR. Johnson. The applause at il
conclusion was deafening.
:; Rev. J. Anderson Taylor said thu
: while he and Col. Carson had not bee
: of one mind in the Chicago Conventio
= years ago, when Carson advocated hi
F.; life friend, James G. Blaine, and he ad
t vocated Chester A. Arthur, he ha
| come to the Barbecue. to honor hi
| former opponent. He honored him be
. cause he was honest and true to tn
negro, in office and out. He lovet
him, he said, and admired him becaus,
he was a humanitarian and had NJ
special class to represent. The hum
.blest child, the humbleSt man, of ou
race can call him ''my representative,
he said. He has been true friend tC
the race. He is poor man. So were
many honest men great in history. He
was said to lack education. In one re-
sspect this might be true, said the
sspeaker; "but," he added, 81 would
rather have honest ignorance than in.
telleCtual rasCality. Perry Carson is
honest enough to represent you, and
he IS too ignorant to sell you out" "
! This sentiment was greeted with vo-
| Ciferous applause.
The speech was an inspiring effort,
| regarded as an example of popul;.
| stump oratory, and evoked the mos.
| enthusiastic applause.
EX-SENATOR ALLAN.
Ex-State Senator T. T. Allain, of
Chicago, formerly of Louisiana, fol-
lowed. He said Perry Carson is not
the leader of the colored people of the
District of Columbia, but of Chicago,
and any man, he thought who could
beat Fred Douglass and Bob IngersolI
in political contest must have some
thing par excellence in him. He
thought there must be something in
the soil of Maryland, which produced
not only Perry Carson, but Frederick
Douglass and J. E. Johnson, the young
colored Private Secretary of Joe Man
ley, who had done all the correspond
ence in the Reed campaign. The COL
ored people, he said, have the balance
of power in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Pennsylvania, and he did not like to
see the St. Louis Convention meet
with not single black delegate north !
OF the Ohio River among its member
ship. The fault, he thought, was not
SO much that of the white men as of
the negroes. He concluded with a |
vigorous demand for the nomination of |
B. Reed, which was favorably |
received by fraction of the audience.
Dr. G. Wellington Bryant, the silver
orator was the the next
speaker. He carried the audience bv
storm. He stood erect and with the
elOquence of a Demosthenes he ex-
tOlled the virtues of Col. Carson and
the esteem in which he is held by his
people.
He said he and Carson had lain
together in the trenches before Pitts
ourg, and their trenchment was
ar above any political affiliation.
He said he and Perry differed as
o the Presidential candidate, but
hat made no difference. He knew
enough to get on the band wagon, no
natter who might be nominated or
elected. He referred with much graft
lcation to the fact that he was the first
negro to hold political office in Balti-
more. He had fought for the Ameri-
an flag and for this country when he
lad no flag and no country, and he
proposed to stay here. The Anglo
saxon race, he said, had reached its
enlth, and the great army of black
men, coming out of the crucible of :
lavery was on the march to the high
st attainments of civilization. |
Look at our women" said he, |
they are the prettieSt in the world.
lou can only tell white woman bv l
ier hair, while we can give you any, 6
hing from royal purple to a lily
White c
The audience broke into a roar of c
pplause. In eloquent language he pic
ured Carson stepping forth in trium- t
hant glory, heroic figure cut in 5
bony. P
ENAToR ALLISON AND REED IN v
DORsED. r
The Committee on Resolutions
through Mr.. w. K. Brown, reported q
he following:
The colored citizens of the District =
f Columbia assembled in mass con- q
ention,' under the auspices of the >.
,lalne lnvincibles, the oldest political -
lub IN he country, appeal to the St. =,
,oulS convention to present as can g
lcate tor President man whose devC- =
on to the cause of human liberty will :.
e guarantee that the colored race =,
hall be protected in all their legal and II
olitiCal rights. =
The name of such man will be pre- -
ented in that conventional man, who -
! 1867, at the close of the great strue- - =,
lie for the preservation of the Union, =
n the floor of the House of Represen- =;
otives, declared in favor of according -
the colored man equal political
ghtS, without any restriction or quail -
Icauons as to property or education. -,
he name of that candidate will be r
resented by State that has never -,
avered in her loyalty to party or de- y,
OtiOn to party principles.
Fremont, the first standard-bearer -:
the Republican party, received her II II
ectoral vote; Lincoln, whose name Fl;
an inspiration and whose fame is
ernal Grant, who fought more bat hi
IS and won more victories than anv IL
illtary chleftan of modern times or
ayes, eminent as soldier and states o
an F.; Garfield, whose bravery on the -,
I'D and eloquence in the forum cleo A.
fled the nation Blaine, through 60
hose genus our commerce was ex-
Inded under the benefCent inspiration ca
that policy of reciprocity with which fo
S name is inseparbly linked; Harri- e., cU
n, brilliant, resolute, far-seeing t;r
atesman, each in turn received the ~;
eCtoral vote of that grand old State g.,
Iowa, which will present to the ST. 'u
,uis Conventian as one worthy of the a.,
CHEST honor of the republic, the ,,a
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