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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28


Montana will expend S25. 900 for an
exhibit at the St Louis Exposition
While operating a circular saw at
Phiilipsburg. ~ j., Clinton Hayes had
his right leg cut off.
The carpet factory of Lamont G,
Robinson, at Paterson. N. j. was gut.
ted by lire Saturday Loss. $50 600.
The United States transport Han.
cock reached New York Saturday
from San Francisco to be converted
into receiving ship.
In a pistol duel on the streets of
Eureka Springs, Ark, Deputy United
States Marshal j. d. Keys was killed
and w. S. Hudson seriously injured.
Tuesday, February "a.
The senace yesterday confirmed
William X. Day as associate Justice of
the United States supreme court.
Vice Governor Luke e. Wright. of the
Philippines. arrived in Washington
last night. He will sail for Manila on
April l.
Three children OF William Adams OF
Hillside. l. T.. were burned to death
Sunday nl-It in a fire which destrove,
their home.
Daniel Bevan. postmaster at Miner
Mills, near Wilkesbarre, Pa. was
stricken with smallpox yesterday. and
the postofiCc is now closed
Two men were instantly killed and
two fatally hurt in a grade CROSSING.
accident at Joliet. Ill. yesterday. when
an eNrr""" 'r'jn struck their carriage
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. February 10.

The foundry plant of Thomas Car
Inns Sons Co. Allegheny, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $780,
600.
The senate committee on foreign re.
lations has authorized favorable re-
port on the extradition treaty with
Mexico.
Two men lost their lives in fire
which destroyed the ST. Clair Hotel at
Port Huron, Mich, yesterday. The
financial loss is $125, 900.
Orders were issued at the war de-
partment yesterday for the retirement
OF Brigadier General j. P. Farley. re.
Gently promoted from colonel.
Friday, February 20.
James B. Colgate. of New York, has
given 100000 to Colgate University
Hamilton. N. Y, as An addition to its
endowment fund
The Tonopah. New, Athletic Club
has offered purse of $4,000 for a
finish fight between Jeffries and jim,
Corbett
William e. Meehan. of PHILADELPHIA.
gave an illustrated lecture on fish
culture to the Pennsylvania Legislature
last night.
Secretary Moody has ordered the
trial by court martial of Lieutenant
Chester Wells, charged with neglect
in the loss of the naval tug Leyden
on the south coast of Block Island.
January 81.
Saturday, February II.
Governor Pennypacker. of Pennsyl-
vania. appointed T. J. Lynch, of
Easton, executive clerk, vice j. r. Rod
gers. resigned.
Governor Murphy, of New Jersey,
was notified yesterday that the war
department would equip the National
Guard with the standard United States
army magazine rife.
A large number OF guests attended
the musicale given by Mrs. Roosevelt
at the White House yesterday. 1t was
under the direction of the Washing.
ton symphony Orchestra
The minutes OF the Nebraska con.
stitutional convention of 80 years ago,
which were supposed to have been de-.
stroyed by fire in 1875. were found In.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28

The BAPTIST SENTINEL thinks that
Brother NELSON WILLIAM, JR.. should
Zpe happy over the one cent verdict,
(which presumably carries with it one
cent character The case has been set
Sled where Brother WILLIAMS lives, but
seems IT, have been r.opened in Raleigh,
N. c., where Brother S. N. VAss lives
These people are very much like the
SNAKE, whose body was weighing after
she head had been cut OFF, They're
dead and don't know it.
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There is no serviiity in those clean
cut expressions. There is no limitation
to the education advocated. He states
the proposition so that the Negro can
begin at the bottom and go to the top.
His theory as herein set forth is all
right.
He continued:
al cannot believe, will not believe,
that a country that invites into it's
midst every type of European, from the
highest TO the very dregs of the earth,
and gives these Corners shelter, protec-
ton. and the highest encouragement,
will refuse to accord the same protec-
ton and encouragement to her black
citizens. The Negro seeks no special
privileges,
This is the basic principle of political
equality, admirably stated. 1t will APP
peal to the conscience of tie cool head
ed, but thoughtful northerner, while
constituting an appeal to the liberal
minded white elements of the south
land.
He continued:
"All that he asks is opportunity; that
the same law which is made by the
white man and applied TO the one race
be applied with equal certainty and ex-
actness 60 the other"
This is indeed all that we ask. Will
the country grant this request or will it
slam the door of hope in our face upon
the insolent demand of Senator b. r.
TILLMAN?
And again:
1.-The age for settling great questions,
either social or national, with the shot
gun, the torch, and by lynchings has
passed. An appeal to such methods is
unworthy of either race. / believe the
time has come-and / believe 1T is a
perfectly practical thing-when group
of representative Southern white men
and Northern white men and Negroes
should meet and consider with the
greatest calmness and business sagacity
the whole subject as viewed from every
standpoint"
The above is admirably stated. The
call for a national gathering made up
of northerners and southerners and the
Negroes themselves is a proposition
which will meet with favor at the hands
of every patriotic citizen who wishes
the republic well and will do all in his
power to promote a movement that will
bring peace and foster contentment in
this great land of ours.
These utterances have the ring of
true craftsmanship and it may be that
this honored leader sees far ahead the
dawn of brighter day when the Negro
will be the Negro no longer, but all
references to him will be based primar-
lily upon his birth-right to true Ameri
can citizenship.
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Only a small percentage were bad, and
these, ne said, are leading the rest, and
being patted on the back by politi-
clans"
How can he hate his own flesh and
blood? How can he hate the mulattoes
of South Carolina? He permits a sys-
tenn of concubinage in South Carolina
which is not surpassed any where in this
or any other country He Furnishes a white
man for marrying colored woman
or colored man for marrying a white
woman and yet permits this same white
man, outside of the bonds of wed-lock.
"to raise up children unto Abraham"
President ROOSEVELT can hardly con-
ceive of the Illicit revelry that takes
place between white men of the TILL
MAN stripe and the most degraded Ne
gro women. They eat with them, sit
down at the table with them and the
same roof shelters them in the exercise
of the most pronounced form of social
equality.
And then these whited hypocrites 90
out in public places and declare their
adherence of the poor Negro. But
then these are subjects that few men
have the nerve to discuss or the hardi-
hood to condemn. We are in favor of
the separation of the races in a way
that will separate. We as a race are
bleaching out too fast and we desire to
help the white people to put stop to it.
The miscegenation laws of the Soutn-
land have about as much effect so far
as remedying the evil complained of as
would bandage around the head bring
about the cure of pain in the stomach.
And again:
.'He regarded it as his duty, he said.
to his State, TO stand forever opposed TO
any idea of political or social equality
on the part of the Negro with the
whites'
senator THLMAN is sworn to recog-
nize and support the civil and political
equality of all men before the law. He
could not be Senator until he had
sworn to support and recognize a Negro
~ NAAO POhsAOoA SqldA VI u white man.
What then are his assertions but the
worst form of perjury? Truly may it
be said of him:
20 consciencel Thou hast flown TO
british beasts and men have lost their
reason"
de voiced swish that was father
to the thought" when he is quoted:
II beg you, for God s sake" he said.
facing the Republican side, mot to pro-
duce an acute stage of hatred which
VIII bring the two races together, with
the resolve of the whites to die in order
to retain their supremacy"
But why discuss Senator TnIMAN
further2 The country knows him and
hundreds of thinking men in the land
have long since ceased to take him seri-
ously. Oh, that some passing show
man could induce him to accept an en-
gagement in a dime museuml
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numbers below the Mason and Dixon
Line, where miscegenation laws obtain
and not above that line where the races
are permitted to live together latter
| Gods holy ordinances" In plain
words, there are less mulatto children
in states where the white and colored
persons are permitted to marry than
there are in sections where they are not
permitted TO marry.
Senator HoAR does not believe that it
is necessary TO pass laws in order to
keep white ladies OF standing from mar
rying coiored men, although the editor of
the TDIES-DISPATCH has placed himself
in the ridiculous attitude of impugning
the motives of the best ladies in the
southland We do not believe that the
accomplished white ladies either North
or South require the enactment of cruel
and unconstitutional laws in order to
prevent them from marrying a Negro
even of the BOOKER WASHINGTON type.
A colored man cannot marry a white
woman without her consent.
We pause here TO remark that white
men in this section have welcomed and
recognized their mulatto children of
the kinky- haired type, and this was and
is being done in Virginia and other
southern states where the ideas of the
distinguished New Highlander do not
obtain.
Truly has it been said, Evil be to
him, who evil thinks" Such thoughts
as those INDUCED in by the TINES DIS
PATCH have hardly entered the mind of
Senator HoAR. There are numbers eof
white men who visit white families
and the parents of the ladies would re-
sent their marriage with their daught-
ers as much as they would their, union
with citizen of color.
Colored men are admitted into the
homes Of the best white families in the
Southland and their uniform courtesy
and retiring manners have caused them
to be trusted in the family household
from the garrett to the kitchen. Be
cause white men or some of them seem
70 be unable to look at colored female
without desire to ruin her, they seem
to think that colored men cannot look
at whise female without having their
minds filed with similar notions.
We do not need the white females.
We have white Negroes, thanks to the
white mainland brown Negroes, red
Negroes, yellow Negroes, chocolate
Negroes and black Negroes, thanks to
the black man and have no such mar
row confines as those to which the white
man is limited
We have, sir, in our orchard all of
the fruits of the garden" and you need
have no fear that because we eat with
you meal Of viotuals that we have any
desireto encroach within the sacred
boundaries of your family territory.
All we say to you and yours is, stay home
Mt night with your own families. and
leave the poor Negro man and his bou
quet of Negro women severely alone.
We have no cause to fear amalgama-
tiol from white men of Senator HoAR's
stripe. Our trouble comes from white
southerners who are all the time abus-
ing the Negroes and yet all the time hug.
ging them
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28
WORRYING ABOUT THE LADIES

THE Richmond, Va, DISPATCH was
known for its Negro-hating tendencies
while the Richmond, Va, TIMES was
more liberal in its dealings with the
citizen of color. Recently the two
Journals combined and the result has
reminded us of the story told of the
parrots.
Ii is said that a man owned a pet
parrot, to which he was much attached
but it had formerly been in the possess
ion of sailor who had taught it to curse
In the most outrageous manner. The
parrot grew worse in this respect in
stead of better and he finally decided to
secure parrot from minister which
was known for its religious qualities,
repeating prayers and the like.
He thought that this would bring
about reformation of his erring bird.
The two were put in the room together
and after few days companionship
the man was Mortified to find that he
had two cursing parrots instead of one.
This seems to have been the case with
he two newspapers referred to, instea d
of the TIMES having improved the Dis
PATCH, the DISPATCH has ruined the
TINES. In nearly every issue now we
hear the shrill notes Of the cursin 2
tarrot 1t is Niger! Niggerl Nigger!"
all the time.
In it's issue of the Goth inst under the
caption of New England Clap trap" it
says
Senator Hoar recently remarked that
Negroes like Booker Washington are as
welcome at his table as at the White
House. Now that means, if it is a sim
cere statement, that educated Negro
lads are welcome to call ON the lassies
in Mr. Hoar's household and win their
hearts if they can and marry them and
bring forth a generation of mulattoes
It means that Mr.. Hoar would welcome
these mulatto children into the family
and be glad to know that the blood of
his family circulated in their veins.
Or perchance, if one OF the young
men in the family should marry black
woman of culture and refinement Mr..
Hoar would welcome the kinky- haired
woman and welcome the kinky-hafred
children that should be borne of the
union, and be proud for them to bear
his family name.
We presume that Senator HoAR meant
what he said and he did not say that.
The statement is serious reflection up
on the families of the persons giving ut
terance to such thought. Senator
HoAR designated BOOKER T. WASHING
TON and educated Christian gentlemen
like him.
He knew that colored men of Prof.
WAsHINaToN's type have no such ideas
as those advanced by the TMEs-DIs-
PATCH editor.
Moreover Prof. WASHINGTON is mar
ried, and as man in this country is
permitted to have but one wife, it is ont
Of the question for him to entertain any
such notions as this Negotiating edi-
tor would ascribe to him.
1t seems to US that the less that is said
about this mulatto children question the
better it viii be for some of the white
men in the southland. We call atten-
ton too to the fact that mulatto children
are to be found in practically unlimited
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dead and against the Negro. who is
alive is not the way to bring prosperity
to the section in which we live. or peace
and contentment within its confines.
Oh, that some southern statesman could
and would rise TO the necessities of the
occasion and set the true standard of
leadership in way that the white peo-
pie of the Southland might follow.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28

IF colored people would save one-half
sof the money spent in frivolity and
.foolishness, We would be worth a bill
5aon dollars by the time the next census
rs taken.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28

THERE are some colored folks just
Aike some white folks-you can't make
anything of them no matter what you
10 with them.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28

THE good Negroes and the good
white folks Of the South are hav-
ing no trouble with each other, but
Sod help the bad elements of both
races.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28

1T seems that the Negro-haters are
not after the loafing, worthless Negro.
All of their efforts are now centered on
2she industrious kind.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28

OoLoRED men, let us buy land and
engage in business. If we fai', we are
Better off for having tried.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28

LET us be respectful at all times to
white people and to every other kind Of
people.
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SATURDAY. ...... FEB. g.. 100 8

We should teach our children polite
ness.
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Entered in the Post Office at Richmond, Va,
rs second class matter.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28
sOfiN nlTCHELL, JR., EDITOR.

an communications intended for publication
should be sent SO as to reach us 10y Wednesday.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-28

WE should support race enterprises
and take one good race paper.
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Monday, February %.

tact in a vault in the state house al
Lincoln.
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HOUSE..
Friday. Feb. q,

Friday, Feb. 81, 1908
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. McKinnon of
Augusta.
Papers from the Senate disposed of
in concurrence.
strances against resubmission came
from the Senate, that body nOn-con-
curing with the action.of the House
in referring them to the committee ON
temperance and ordering them placed
on file.
On motion of Mr.. Davis of Water
ville the House receded and coneurred
with the Senate.
Senate Bills on First Reading.
An Act to amend Chapter $50 of the
Private and Special Laws of 1866, en-
titled An Act to incorporate the Sebec
Dam Company, as amended by Section
6 of Chapter 26 of the Private and
Special Laws of 1899.
Resolve in relation to completion of
the fifth revision of the General or
Public Laws, and appointing a COM
missioner therefor.
The following petitions, bills, etc,
were presented and referred: .'
Legal Affairs.
BY Mr. Thompson of Orono: Bill,
An Act defining and enlarging the du-
ties of juries in trials of fnisdemean-
ors.
Federal Relations.
BY Mr.. Sargent of Brewer: Petition
OF F. f. Ward and IL others from
South Brewer and vicinity for the ma
tional ownership of the anthracite coal
mines. and permanent municipal coal
and wood yards. IS
Railroads, Telegraphs and Expresses.
: By Mr.. Cook of Casco: Petition of
S. f.. Jordan and 40 others of Casco,
for free telephone lines and telephone
connections %,fs s7.-
T. BY Mr.. Ruggles of Carmel: Petit
ton of Charles Fl. Blagdon and As 9TH
ers of Carmel for same.
By Mr.. Dodge of Troy: Petition of
Frank Clement and rs others of Knox
for same.
BY Mr.. Thornton of Ashland: Petit
ton of Frank E. Tarr and others of
Mapleton for same.
Commerce.
By Mr. Newcomb of PASSPORT: Bill,
An Act to authorize Jacob c. Pike to
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with this session sometime this sum-
mer. 1 think we should conserve our
energies and our time l think all the
members can get back on the trains in
time to hold an afternoon session on
! Monday.
| MIR. RJTZZELL of Old Town: Mr..
| Speaker, second the motion.
| MIR. Pi1TTENGILL of Rumford:
| Mr.. Speaker, / hope that the amend
ment will not prevail, and for this rea-
| son: Probably three-fourths of the
municipalities in our state have their
elections next Monday. 1t is almost
| universally the case with the towns in
the section of the State from which |
come. Our municipal elections are
matters of so much Importance that it
is the duty of every representative to
attend the election in his city or town.
Now, if we attend our elections on
Monday, ii will be impossible for us to he
here earlier than four o'clock on Tues
/ day afternoon. There is no member
in this Houes more anxious than my
self to complete this session, but we
shall gain nothing by meeting on
Monday. We won't have a quorum.
And if we have our session on Tuesday
at four o'clock we have lost no time;
and / certainly hope that the amend
ment will not prevail.
MP. BURRILL of Ellsworth: Mr..
Speaker, l wish to say practically the
same as the gentleman from Rumford.
We have a municipal election in our
town on Monday and certainly want
to be there, and j think that is the sit
uation with a large proportion of the
members of this House; and [ hope the
amendment will not prevail
MIR. DAVIS: Mr.. Speaker, / had
forgotten, not being interested in poll
tics Taughter) that there was an cleo
ton on Monday. | Withdraw the
amendment / offered.
MIR. 4 RI1ZZELL Mr.. Speaker. 7
withdraw my second.
MR.. SEWALL of Bath: Mr.. Speak,
err, before acting upon that order of the
gentleman from Pressure Isle. would
suggest that there is a resolve on the
table to begcalled up on Tuesday.
Mr.. PETTENGILL: In regard to
that very matter Of our assignment of
Tuesday. would say that we will
nave session on Tuesday. We will
lose no time. The assignment will
come up Tuesday afternoon Just the
same, only 1t will be at four o'clock in
stead of ten O'Clock.
The question being on the passage
of the order.
s(Continued on page 81
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supplying water and lights for the use of
the residents of said Isle of Springs" and
as amended the bill was passed to be en-
crossed
An Act relating to the Camden Trotting
Park Association. On motion by MI.
Alden of l<ennebec. this hill was laid on
the table. and Tuesday next assigned for
it's consideration.
At this point the President resumed the
chair.
Passed to be Enacted.
An Act to amend an Act Incorporating
the trustees of Coburn Classical Institute.
An Act to extend the charter of the Will
ton Electric Light and Power Company.
Orders Of the Day.
On motion by Mr.. Philbrook of Oxford.
bill, An Act relating to increasing the sal
airy of the county attorney of Oxford coun-
ty. was taken from the table; and, on
further motion by the same Senator, the
Senate receded from it's reference to the
Oxford County Delegation. and concurre
with the House in referring same to the
committee on salaries.
On motion by Mr.. Wilson of Washington
it was voted to adjourn, to meet on Tues
day. March 3. 1903 at four O'Clock p M.