The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-28

chairman of the national committee, had
nominated Powell Clayton. Henry Cab
OF Lodge put Lynch in the field against
HIM, and Theodore Roosevelt and George
William Curtis seconded mis- nomination.
The avowed object of the nomination
was to break UP tie unit rule. Lynch
was elected with forty votes to spare.
20 this convention. lie voted for Cay
ton, while Foraker, Mark Hanna and
John D. Long voted for Lynch. Mr.. Lynch
was afterward third auuItor OF the treas
ury under President Harrison.
Another slave who appeared in the
House was General Robert Smalls. of
Beaufort, S. c. was the engineer
who ran the 4lanter, loaded with artii-
lery and supplies, out of Charleston
harbor in May, 1862, and del vered her to
the commanding officer of the Union
squadron Smalls was afterward APP
pointed a pilot in the navy, and was
made captain for gallant and mer .torious
conduct. He served three terms in Con-
gress, being seated in the Fifty-first Con-
gress as the con .estant for Colonel VIII
am Elliott's seat. The ousting process
was completed IN ninety seconds under
the Reed rules, the quickest tine on rec
ord. For years General Smalls has ha
claim before the House for salvage
on the Planter. Several times it has
>
has he been able to secure it's considera-
ton.
MOST BRILLIANT OF THE REGIME
Probably the most brilliant negro of
the regime was Professor John Nj. Lang
ston, seated under Inc Reed rules n the
| Fifty-first Congress. He was a profess
scr of law in Harvard University and at
one time its acting president. Born a
h., ,zF. .1,Is,,
| practiced law in Ohio for twelve years
| Langston's equal in talent was Henry
| Hummer cheatham, of North Carolina,
| now reg ster of deeds in the District of
| Columbia. Cheatham made a speech on
/ tho proposed negro exhibition a the Chi
/ cago Worlds Far that attracted uni
! versal attention. He cut loose from ali
/ political afilnities and spoke for his race
alone. His remarks were cheered 10 the
echo, and Confederate veterans wed with
enc another in rendering their congratu-
| lations. The appropriation for the ne
gro exhibition was voted without a $
senting voice.
And there are others-George Wash
ington Murray. Richard II. Cain, Robert
9. De Large and Thomas T.. Miller, OF
South Carolina: Benjamin S. Turner and
James .. Rapler. Of Alabama and 10
siah 7. Walls. Of Florida. Murray, Tur-
| ger ard Walls We're slaves. Rapler wa:
the son of a runaway slave and was
educated in Canada. He was a - tall
swarthy Negro. looking like an Indian
he was cool, calm and reserved-a gooC
talker and a fine speaker He spoke
French, German and Spanish, and wa.
comm ssioner to the Vienna exposi.
ton. Cain was a little, short, squatty
negro. a fair talker and very aggressive
He wanted all the rights of white mar
and wanted them quick. Walls was
pepper-aud-salt negro, a smart talkel
and an adrOit manipulation of his race
Turner was a stout, stalwart negro, who
made only one speech in the house a!
attracted some attention. t was sale
TO have been written by Professor SeeIyt
IF Amherst College.
SO much for the past We know the
present. What about the future? Fol
this is a great world. and God moves il
a mysterious way.
AMOS J. CUMMINGS.