Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-24
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The Republican Meetings Roll
Along Nightly.
Wild ENTHUSIASM FqR,, PERRY CARSON
II
General Disposition to Place
Saunders With Carson.
CHARACTERISTIC SCENES
CHARACTERISTIC SCENES

CHARACTERISTIC SCENES
A number Of colore1 republicans Of the
fifteenth district held a Carson meeting last
night in the barber shop at the corner of
D street and New Jersey avenue northwest.
The assembly was presided over by s. Has
kins, with Walter Tate as secretary. It
was a small gathering, but perfect order
was maintained. The speeches were SEN
sible and to the point, and the meeting
adopted a resolution favorine the candi-
dacy of Carson. with the understanding
that the second man on the ticket and the
two alternates shall be selected after
meeting of Mr.. Carson's advisers today.
T. ]. Clayton made speech in favor Of
Carson that Impressed the meeting. He
said Carson worked for the republican
party and stuck close to his race, and for
those two reasons alone he should be sup
ported by every negro in the District. The
fact that Carson did not have a collegiate
education was no bar to his candidacy,
because Carson is born leader Of men,
and that Is what Is needed in this case.
Mr.. Clayton also favored L. M. Saunders
as Carson's associate on the ticket.
H. A. Clark also made a telling speech,
in which he spoke of Carson's work for
sons endeavors had been Of a philanthropic
nature and had redounded to the advantage
of his fellow negroes rather than to his own
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Mr.. Clark said
the meetings now being held in the city
are giving a black eye to suffrage. How
ever. while some of them had been dis
graceful, others have entertained speakers
who would be a credit to the Senate of the
United States and 1t was pity that more
space in the public press was not given to
this class Of speakers. Mr.. Clark caution
ed the colored people TO be upon their good
behavior in this struggle for suffrage and
the negroes or the natoual capital, for
here is the bone, sinew AMI heart Of the
prOgI eSS of the race.
Plea for Temperance.
w. F. Finley spoke In eulogistic strain
Of Carson. He said he had done more for
the negro cause than any other man. At
ter telling how Carson had stuck to his
people for thirty years and describing his
record friend of the slave before the
war, Mr.. Finley contrasted his record to
that of the other cand dates with bitter sar-
caSm. He entreated his hearers when re-
ferrng to one candidate not to send bar
keeper to represent the colored people of
the District of Columbia. a, man, he said,
who sold poison to the young men and wo-
men of his own race THAT pat them into
jail and penitentiary or loaded them down
with disgrace. He also, touched up the
records Of some of the other candidates In
no gentle vein.
A. P. Hall made a speech in favor of w.
F. Thomas for alternate. and advocated
sending Carson and Gleeson as delegates.
j. w. Coles spoke enthusiastically in ia
vor of Carson. saying that he knows the
politics of his country and is acquainted
with the greatest politicians in the party.
Edward Odom made a rousing speech.
He advocated sending genuine negro as
long as colored man is to be selected, and
said that Carson was the only true negro
in the field. He roasted Candidate Bailey
over slow fire. He said Bailey for the
last thirty years had heep engaged in
amassing a fortune, keeping entirely out
of touch with his race, and then when he
concluded to go into politics his first break
had been into the democratic party.
First n Democrat.
Bailey belonged to a Cleveland club, he
said. and donated tho first dollar to the
Cleveland campaign fund. Then because
Bailey had been turned-sdown for recorder
Of deeds he jumped into the republican
party while the democratic collar was still
warm on his neck Mr. Odom went for Can
didates Key and Holland in a vigorous
way. He said that during President Har-
rison's administration when ex-senator
Kellogg charged that the President was not
doing his duty to keep down lynchings IN
the south, Messrs. Holland, Bruce and
Lynch, being at that time in fat govern
ment offices, spread out their hands In
deprecating fashion and said that the ne
groeS of the south were satisfied. Mr..
Townsend in the general land office knew
better however, and said so, whereupon he
was promptly dismissed.
"And I was fired from the Post Office
Department about the same time for in
t1orslng Townsend's statement" said Mr..
Finley.
]. H. Richardson, in few words. in
dorsed the remarks of the other speakers
and the meeting came to an end.
Meeting In Bladsen's Alley.
Zion Mission, little, lamp-lighted room
in Blagden's alley, was filled last evening
by fifty or more members of the Thirteenth
| District Club, No. 2. colored organization
| which, until last evening, was a staunch
Carson and Parker association. But now
| because Of resolutions adopted last even
| ing, the withdrawal Of Col. Parker having
been duly announced, it is Carson and
| Saunders Club. 1t was announced that the
| following officers of the club had been
| duly elected, and that each and every one
Of them had qualified: President, Geo
| secretary, Charles Greer; assistant secre.
tary, j. E. Grammer; treasurer, r. H
Parker, and sergeant-at-arms, Henry Smith
Upon calling the meeting to order, Mr.
| Ball invited one of the members to invoke
| the divine blessing. That struck some OF
the young men as being something unnatu
raj and uncalled-for, perhaps, and they
| giggled and nudged one another as the
simple, reverent prayer was made, although
they were Indignantly raped to order
| The same young men made merry, as the
| secretary, In the uncertain light, laborious
| ly struggled. through the minutes Of the
previous meeting. The chair explained tina
Col Carson having lost his running mate
by the withdrawal of Col. Parker, 1t wa:
necessary to supply him with another, thu
race being double-team event Mr.. Lorir
| M. Saunders had been the white candidate
selected by the caucus as such, "And now,
remarked the chair, I'D like some gentle
man in the house, If he wants to, to pu
Mr.. Saunders in nomination"
| who's dis hyah Mistah Saunders, d.
eemmen dat yo' 'fers to?" inquired mem
Der. IL
'Tn tell you," replied the chair. "He'.
| man, a republican, who never let a color
ed man go way from his door empty; Now
don't think I'm losing sight of old PER-!
Carson for we amt going to do that W.
| all know him too WELL" , Il
Enter Josh Green.