The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-04
LEADERS OF THEIR RACE.
The Banquet in Honor of Represent
tntive George II. White.


Negroes of national repute gathered
around the banquet board last night at
Delmo- Koonce banquet hall, No. 1906 NJ
Street northwest.
The occasion was a complimentary din
ner to Representative George II. White
of North Carolina. The hall was beauti-
fed by ferns and flowers and the tables
were embellished with pyramids of fruit
and with flowers. The names Of the sub
scribers to the fete follow:
j. l.. Love, J. II. Payntef Dr. Phil Brown
Brooks DIR. George II. Richardson, Or. \. ".
Fancil, Nathaniel Rufiin, t. T. Fortune, DR.. \.
NJ. Curtis, Paul Lawrence Duntar, George IL.
Benjamin. j. Frank Boston. Dr. :. Brandon,
John Mckee syphax Prof. John 7. Layton. F. J.
Jones, George ". Murray. Bishop Alexander
Walters, Bishop W, B. Arnett, Cot. James Lewis,
John p. Green. Daniel Murray, Henry +. Slaush-
ter, \. W. Quincy. jr-; J. W. Mays, H. g. tyson.
DR. John p. Turner Il. X. Washington, Kelly
Miller, John B. Hyman, L. C. Bailey. Joseph
Hanno, DR.. J. 5. Outlaw, Lewis II. Douglass,
George ". Cook. II. Y. Arnett, Whitfield Me-
kinlay. j. b. s Pinchback, J, ". Lyons, A. B.
Cosey, J. y. johnson. Jesse Lawson, r. ;. Smith,
Charles E. Lane. DIR. J. ". Wilder. Charles r.
Douglass, r. W. Thompson, and ". 7. Nenard.
The guests were as follows:
The Hon. George White North Carolina;
Bishop Alexander Walters, New Jersey; the
Hon. p. b. S. Pinchback Louisiana; the Hon.
.Iudson W Lyons, Georgia; the Hon. II. p.
Cheatham, North Carolina; the Hon. George ".
Murray, South Carolina; the Hon. John T.
Green. Ohio; Bishop Benjamin ". Arnett, Ohio;
the Hon. c. j. Jones, Mississippi; Col. James
Lewis Louisiana; the Hon Perry Ii. Carson,
District et Columbia; T. Thomas Fortune, New
York: Paul Laurence Dunbar Ohio; Prof. Jesse
LAWSON New Jersey: Daniel Murray. District OF
Columba II. P. Slaughter, Kentucky; \. W.
Quincy, IT., Texas: ]. William Mays, New Jersey;
Prof. Kelly Miller. District of Columbia; ii. G.
Tyson, North Carolina; Prof. George William
Cook. Pennsy lvania; DIR. John p. Turner,
Georgia; X. ". Thompson. Indiana; II. X Wash
ingtOn, South Carolina; Joseph HannOe, North
Carolina: John b. Hymau. North Carolina; l. c.
Bailey District Of Columbia; Lewis II. Douglass,
New York; II. y. Arnett- Ohio; Whitfield Ne
Kinlay, South Carolina \ b. Cosey. New Jersey;
Dr. j. " johnson, Texas; X. 5. Smith. Florida;
Charles e Lane North Carolina; DIR. j. X.
Wilder, South Carolina; Mai. Charles u. Doug
W A. Pledger, Georgia. Prot j. i. Love, North
Carolina; j. H. Paynter. Colorado; DIR. Phil.
Broome Brooks, District of Columbia; DR. George
II. Richardson. Ohio, DIR. A. W Taneil. District
OF Columbia. Nathaniel Rubin. Maine; DIR. A NJ
( Curtis Illinois; George II. Benjamin, Wyoming
J. Frank Boston, District of Columbia; d. :
Brandon. Alabama; John Mckee Sypliax, Penn
sylyania: Prof. John T. Layton. New Jersey:
Charles G. Williams. North Carolina: DIR. John
= Outlaw, North Carolina; DR.. J. C. Norwood,
North Carolina; +. H. Hunter, North Carolina /;
DIR. Frank j Webb, Texas; Eugene Brooks, Dis
trict of Columbia; b. F. Branehcomb New York;
John Craig, District of Columbia: Lewis Thomp-
son, District Of Columbia E E Cooper District
of Columbia; \. B. Thomas, Maryland
Jesse Lawson. of New jersey. pres ded.
and Prof George William Cook. of Penn
| sylvania, occupied the post of toastmas-
| ter The toasts and the names Of those
who responded to them follow:
"A Glance at the Future" Bishop Alexander
the Hon. P B. $ Pinchback, of louisiana The
| Republican Party" the Hon. Judson ". Lyons,
I Georgia; Our Status Under the Present Adj
ministration." the Hon II. P. Chatham, North
! Carolina; The Fourth Estate, 7. Thomas For
| tune, New York; Our Poet Laureate" Paul
! Laurence Dunbar, Ohio; The Bench and the
| Bar" the Hon. Cornelius J. Jones, Mississippi;
| 1.-THE Church and the State Bishop A. W.
| Arnett Ohio; The President of the United
| States Daniel Murray. District OF Columbia
| pending Contests in Congress" the Hon George
| ". Murray. South Carolina; "U; ;. Grant, Col
| James Lewis, Louisiana; THE Southland ]. L.
| Love; The Negro Must Love HIMSELF John II.
| Paynter.
| Representative White spoke with eIo-
| quence and earnestness. When he arose
| to speak the guests stood, cheered and
| waved their handkerchiefs. He would. he
| said, be less than man If ne did not
| keenly appreciate the significance of the
! occasion and the honor conferred on him.
Whatever success had been his in life he
! attributed to his endeavor to live up %
! and to merit the estimate in which his
| fellow men held him. In the future, As
| in the past ne would endeavor to merit
| their commentator.
| He snoke Of the rule OF public santi-
ment 1t was this sentiment which hal
| kept the black man enslaved for more
| than two hundred years. Ii was not till
| the accursed institution Of slavery threat
, ened to throttle the Republic that public
| sentiment became strong enough to break
the shackles OF the negro Whenever the
| speaker uttered the names of William
| Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe
and Frederick Douglass, the gu ST.
| cheered.
| Representative White spoke Of the pow
err Of the press in mOldng public senti-
. ment The press, he said blazed the way
for the emancipation of the black man
| The negro had ambition. He was ambi-
tious to breathe the air of freedom, &c
have thc -rrcrtages OF education and &c
live as made of God. At pres
ent L. of the public pc
was asi gro. II magnified his
vices ana .i.iLed his virtues. Public
opinion generally had been nodded into
the belief that the negro was a bad ami
NAL. The negro race was not destined Z
die out Statistics showed that over SCI
negro babies were born daily. They wert
not going to emigrate. Neither were they
| going to amalgamate, because in this pro
cess they recognized that both races would
be weakened. What they crayed was {
mans chance in the race of life, and h
| was willing TO let the devil take thu
/ hindmost. He wanted not to be measured
] az a black man, neither would he be meas