The Washington bee., 1901-05-25
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
SecrlonaIism with a Vengence.

There IS great deal of iealously
rising among the negroes in Office
which will prove 10 their detriment.
This same feeling was inaugurated,
among celtlin northern negroes,
under the Harrison Administration
which resulted in retiring a good
man, DR.. J. NJ. Townsend, who
was made Recorder of the Land
Office. Invitations have been Issued,
and TIE BEs has one. to be
present at a banquet this eveninJ
in which our esteemed townsmln,
Hon. John P. Green, is the guest
Of honor. The invitation states
that numb-r of co,ored men from
the North, East and West will meet
in Banquet Cooking to the formation
Of p permanent ass slciatiOn for the
advancement of the ma 'eriaI IN
terest ofits members" Just why the
representa- ives Of the South should
be ignored, the promoters have
failed to state. Should not the
material interestof the negroes South
be looked after as we'll as the ma
teritl inter5stof the negroes North,
East anl West? What does it
mean? Is it an attempt to inform
the administration that it must
look after the negroes from the
sections named to the exclusion of
the poor negroes South, who have
demonstrated greater political
sagacity than the negroes from the
sections named? This kind oil
politics should cease and The Bee
would suggest that the admjuistra-
tiOn pay no attention to IL few
Office holders, who claim to repre-
sent a constituency that doesn't
exist, thus throwing discord
among intelligent voters who don't
ask to be represented or express
imaginary grievances.
A similar movement was in
augurated under the Harrison
administration. A few Northern
negroes got together AMI resolved,
among themselves, that DR.. J. NJ
Townsend should have better
place than Recorder of the Land
office. Hon. E. 2. McCabe was the
spokesman of this Northern mutual
administration society and this man,
with few other Cfic. holder, lead
DR.. Townsend to believe that he
should have better place. Prcsi-
dent Harrison asked the committee
was not DR.. Townsend satisfied 4?
No Sir; Said the spokesman.
What does he vant2 rem lrked
Mr.. Harrison.
Well, said the spokesman, Mr.. !
Townsend wants either the Re-
cOrdership of the District of Col-H
umbia or Register Of the Treasury.
He can't have either, SAID Mr.. |
Harrison.
Well said the spokesm IN, he will |
resign.
Well, let him resign, said Mr..
Harrison.
The committee returned to DR..
Townsend and informed him of
what the President had said. A
few weeks thereafter DR. Townsend
resigned. Mr.. MeCabe, who wanted
TO be Governor of 0klahoml :, aud a
few others we're soon retired. The
,sst time DIR. Townsend was heard
r m, he was preaching and the others
have not been heard of since, The
Southern negroes continued to be
appointed to good positions while
some Of them who knew it all, ad-
yised the masses of the negro voters
to support the democratic party.
Some of them supported the demo
cratic party and the moment that
party got in power it commenced to
disfranchise The negro aud it has
never ceased. There is no reason
why the Southern negro should
have been ignored. The BEE has
greatrespect for the Southern negro. /
BE has been struggling ever since
his emancipation, AMI it was
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