The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-05-19
viii Show His Republican
Friends Just What the Negro
is Doing IN Macon County,
Alabama.
PAVE WAY FOR BROAD
VIEW OF RACE PROBLEM
Committee from Birmingham
Leaves Today for Tuskegee
to Meet the Party and Escort
Them to Birmingham.

Twenty-Five prominent Republicans left
Washington last night to spend week
looking over the possibilities of Alabama
and the condition of the negro. The party
will be the guests of Congressman Charles
w Thompson of Alabama, and will con-
sist largely of his colleagues in the
House.
Congressman Thompson's object In
planning the trip was to show his friends
the enemy just what the negro is doing
in Macon County, Alabama, and TO pave
the way for a more general view OF the
race problem as 1t presents itself to the
Southern people.
The party will reach Birmingham FRI
dav night about 10 O'Clock and will leave
Saturday evening about 615 o'clock. Sat
urday they will be entertained by trip
around the thorn" and shown some OF
the wonderful mineral resources OF the
district, and what is being done by the
negro in the coal and iron mines. Lunch
con will be served on the train about
noon when 1t stops on the size OF Heo
mountain near where iron ore Is peing
taken from its side.
Local Committee Leaves.
A committee of three, consisting OF
Mayor w. M Drennen, Mr.. e. w. Bar
rett and DR.. J. w. Hughes has been ap-
pointed to go to Tuskegee this AFTERNOON
and meet Congressman Thompson ana
party. When the party arrives IN BIZ
mingham Friday night 1t will go to the
Hillman Hotel where 1t will be enter
tanned at the expense of the citizens OF
Birmingham. There is no programme LOT
Friday night, their arrival being too late
to allow " any. When the party returns
from the trip around the horn Satur-
day it will go to the Hillman where din
ner will be served.
The party will arrive at Tuskegee, Col.
Thompson's home, at midnight tonight
Tomorrow there will be barbecue at
his home, when the party will see eighty
negroes blowing in one field and nearly
100 women and children working In the
cotton fields. In the afternoon there will
be a concert at the Alabama Conference
Female College followed by an AT
Home" at Colonel Thompson's residence.
Visit Washington's School.
Wednesday L
Normal and Industrial School, the work.
ing of which will be explained to them
by Booker Washington, the president.
Here the party will see 1900 negroes and
their work.
Thursday morning the party will ar
rive in Mobile, where they will be the
guests of the city. An excursion down the
bay has been arranged and visit to
Fort Morgan. There will be banquet
1T, tan ohnl
road.
Montgomery will Officially entertain the
party Friday. There will be reception
and a drive over the city including
visit to the building In which Jefferson
Davis took the oath of office as Presi-
dent of the Confederate states, and the
house occupied by him while President.
In Birmingham the party will see the
Transformation of that portion of Ala
bama, which before the war was con-
sidered the poorest in the state. into
great Industrial community and center of
manufactures that control the iron
market of the country and Is destined to
lead with equal prom inence, the produc-
ton of steel. The Republicans will here
see the negro at work in the furnace.
mines and shops
Colonel Thompson's Congressional party
will consist of the following persons:
Representative u. w. luOhlpSou' fAid-
bama; Representative ]. II. Southland.
Mrs. Southland and Master Southland
Ohio; Representative s. s. Barney, Wis
consin Representative G. e. Lfttle1eld
Mrs. Littlefieid. Maine: Representative A
b. Darragh, Michigan: Representative W.
/. Smith, Mrs. Smith, Iowa: Representa-
tive w. E. Fuller. Miss Fuller. Iowa;
Representative C. ". Gillet Mrs. Gillet
New York; Representative H. B. Dahle
Wisconsin; Representative w. E. Brown,
Mrs. Brown, Wisconsin,; Representative
C. w. Russell Mrs. Russell. Miss Rus
sell. Connecticut; Judge W. l.. Chambers.
Mrs. Chambers, Mrs. Bryant, Mr.. Isaac
Gregg Mrs. Gregg. Mr.. w. A. Hide
brand, Mr.. Milt. Saul, Mr.. C. w. Thomp-
son. Jr., Mr.. A. v. Webb. Washington.
d. C.
Colonel Thompson Talks
when I came to Washington" said
Colonel Thompson, II was prejudiced
against northerners, because they repre-
scented. as l viewed 1t, policies which
were inimical to the interests and aspra-
lions of the south They were harpfng