The Washington bee., 1902-09-20

Good" relating TO the insult offered to
the COlOred Veterans, and other re-
spectacle COloTed people by the ap-
pOintnent Of 81 i'm Crow" committee
to look out after COlOred visitors COM
ing to the G. A. n. Encampment The
first statement IS the assertion that
this committee is d aSub-Com. on Public
Comfort. They are not even members
of the Committee on Public Comfort,
they hold no credentials as such, are
not allowed to meet with them, or at
the same headquarters, and in fact
have no relations with said c mmitee
except that which formerly existed be-
tween master, and slave a white man
directs, and over sees their work. They
occupy no manly position whatever.
Lincoln once said "lou can fool some
people all the time, YOU can fool all Of
the people some of the time, but you
cant, fool all the people all of the time
this aptly applies 10 those negroes
who have consented TO remain on this
81 i'm Crow" Committee, being fooled
into the belief that they are members
Of the Committee on Public comfort,
tut such men as Hon. JuO T. Cook,
/. G. Bailey. L. II. DOu2lass Judge
K. II. Terrell, D. B. McCary, Whit
field Mckinley, DR.. Jno. Francis, Col.
P II. Carson, {. A. Fleetwood, J. II.
Butcher, and a number of others of
our fJremOst citizens, together with
those of the Veterans Of ChaS. Sumner
Post No. g, and the Frederick Doug
lass Post No. d, have positively re
fused TO accept assignment on this Jim
Z ~ hsf n a he
false Pc, ense that they we're members
Of the Com. on Pub. Comfort.
The COlOred American heretofore
ready to resent race insult, has not
come TO the front this time TO defend
US. Their entire staff has been swal
lowed up by this committee, and the
Negro Veterans need look elsewhere
for friepds. l his is the first time tha
such public insult has been put upon
them. Even in the city OF ST Louis Mo.
no such insult was otte, ed them. 1t
was attempted at Cleveland but failed
/ he Negro press ofthat city condemned
it as well as the foremost COlored ,it-
liens of that city.
Chairman Weller tells me that we
have Neg-o @. A. posts. That is
false. There is not a Negro Grand Ar
my Post IN the United STATES The
word black or white cannot be found
in any Law governing our order. That
ther. are Posts composed entirely of
black men, and Posts composed en-
uIriy OF white men, and rosts that are
mixed, is true, but is not so by COM
pulsinn. A black man can enter any
Post in the United States provided he
is a member OF the Grand Army of the
Republic.
! hold a position on the staff of
The Commander-in-Chie Last year
the Judge Advocate General of the
Grand Army was a Boston COlOred
LAWYER II is false that any reputable
color citizens are envlOuS Of those
selected 10 serve on this prescribed
LOm, the fact is they are leaving it
like rats from a sinking ship. They
never knew, many of them, that they
had been selected until notified of a
meeting TO be held at a members pri
yate residence. 1t is false that Mr..
Murray made the appointments. He
NAV nave suggested some of them.
What the Grand Army men COM
plain of. is not that We are expected to
ook after the welfare Of our own peo-
pie, we prefer tC do that work, but it
/ is the gratuitous insult offered US by
/ inviting us to participate with them
and then assinging US to committee
wholly out side of the Committee on
/ Public Comfort When l protested TO
/ the chairman ofthat com. he came
/ back with the assertion that his COM
mittee is a social body to look alter
social affairs, and not expected 10 al
| filiate socially with. Negro 5. and yet
he appears at 'JimCrow" Committee
meeting to instruct its members how
to entertain their Negro friends and Wis
i,ors, and they grin and feel hOnored,
| and tell US So through a so-called race
Journal. If we are not fit TO sit in COM
mittee with Chairman Weller and ms