The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-03-14
BROTHER In BLACK.

Quite a number of newspapers and
journals edited and operated by col
ored men are now booming Senator
Fairbanks Of Indiana for THE Repub.
lican nomination for the presidency
IN 1904.
King Menelik, Of Abssynia, Africa
the black fighter of the desert, is to
be a guest of the ST. Louis exposition
next year King Menelik has de-
fed the Entertainments of the Eu
rOpeans more than any other ruler
Of the African plans and deserts
The cOlored folk of Pennsylvania
have organized an. Imperial Grand
Council, Daughters of ISIS" and are
Boosting of it being the first of its
kind ever established among Amer.
lean Negroes. Who the duece sister
Isis is the writer hereof begs to be
excused from trying to answer.
Joseph Hughes was shot and instant.
ly killed by William Patterson at Ros.
Ign last Monday. Both men are
colOred and had quarreled the night
before. While Hughes was playing
a piano in questionable resort
Patterson went in and shot him dead
from the rear Patterson has been held
to the superior court at Ellensburg
without bail
Henry Cabot Lodge, United States
senator from Massachusetts, is said to
be most worthy successor of Sen.
atOr Charles Sumner, the great equal
right champion of thirty years ago
Senator Lodge is an untiring worker
for the American Negro and never
looses an opportunity to do him q
good turn.
It is noted that a cOlored Journalist
is advocating that Hon. John P
Green of Ohio has the brains to make
the leading Northern Negro, which
if true, it will not take either a news
paper or political clique to convince
the general public of that fact If q
man is truly great the world will fine
it out, however secluded he may try
to keep himself
Mary E. Jackson is the name of g
colOred woman that is to be executed
on the gallOws April 25th, in the state
OF Maryland. Not many women Of
this country have ever been legally
executed and if this one is she will be
the second to our knowledge, the Other
being a white woman, who was exc
cuted in New York City some ten Of
twelve years ago.
From an exchange it is learned thai
cOlOred walters still hold the fort a
the White House, regardless of the
many changes that have been inau
gurated under the present master ant
mistress of the nations capital build
ing. Colored walters have been EN-
ployed at the White House almos
since the mind of man runnneth no
to the contrary.
The editor of a paper published il
Maryland Ostensibly IN the interest O
the colOred folk of that state make.
the statement that his wife had writ
ten all Of he editorials for his pape
for the past six months and yet thu
rogue continues to fly his own name
J at the editorial masthead of the paper
HOglshness seems to be the chief in
gredient of some mems entire make
up.
The cOlored population of Muskogee
|. T., are quite commercially inclined
according to the Pioneer of that place
and Individually many of them own en-
terprises worth all the way from s1OC
to $4,000. This is a most respectable
showing for a little country town
They are even represented in the
gambling bells as ''colored talent Cd
Grated one of the four bells dives OF
the town. Tell them that the Negroes
are rising"
Maryland's legislature recently re.
fused to pass Jim Grow car bill and
the legislature of Virginia has done
what will amount to practically the
same thing. Evidently the Southern
niger haters' are getting ashamed
OF their fiendishness and are irving
to hedge. The Jim Grow car as is run
through many of the Southern states
is worse by far than is the ayera ge
cattle car which is run through the
Western states.
Company E of the Wisconsin volun.
teers has fourteen-year-old colored
boy as its mascot. 1t picked the LITTLE
Fellow up in Charleston, S. c.. where
ne was street waif, and he followed
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