The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-08-20
WASHINGTON
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A Collection Of a Few Of the Events
Occurring Among the Afro.Ameri.
cans of the Capital of This Great
| and Glorious Nation for Our Many
| Readers.
+ Mrs. Fred Freeman and son Reg
inaid have gone to Cincinnati, where
they will be the guest of Mrs. Sarah
J Saunders Monroe.
The National Colored, Personal Lib,
erty League celebrated the nomina-
tom of Roosevelt and Fairbanks at
Coliseum park last Tuesday evening.
| Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of William Parker Hare of Bos-
! ton to Miss Maude Estelle Quincy,
which occurred August 10th. Mrs.
Hare. will be remembered in Chicago
as Mrs. DR.. Mckinley.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 1S.-The
order recently issued by the assist
ant secretary of the interior abolish
ing the Office of second assistant sur
geon at Freedman's hospital has
been rescinded. Although the Office,
which pays salary of $1,000 per
year, has not been filed.
The Misses Nora Roberts, Eta
Lewis, Irene Poe, and Jessie Keene,
of indianapolis, spent several very
pleasant days in our city and while
here received marked social atten-
ton, being the guests Of the Farce
oles Tuesday evening, Mrs. Chas. g..
Halls dinner party Wednesday even
ing and Miss Matte Browns "at
home Thursday.
Among those attending the G.. A.
R. encampment in Boston are
Messers: John r. Layton and son,
Phil. and Lloyd Quincy, Richard
Gates, VIM. A. Joiner, VIM Pollard,
VIM. Wells and J. A. Cobb and Mes
danes John F. Smyth, Phillip Ship
pen and Richard Gates; the Misses
Helen johnson, Virgie Ross, Anna
Wilder, Laura Charity and Hattie
Mcintosh.
According to a letter received in
this city some days ago from Mr..
Charles La F'On, who. has recently
been more or less active in an at
tempt to organize Afro-American
Leagues throughout Illinois and In
diana, he is to succeed Minister Pow
ell in Haiti or be appointed consul
r0r f0 hxyc irio in tho
Republican success. If La Fon
thinks he can ride to fame and glory
upon the backs of Illinois Afro-Ameri-
cans he is badly mistaken. But why
take him seriously when we know
that the national committee is not
handing out any prediction jobs.
A number of prominent young men
of Washington gave a banquet last
Tuesday night in Odd Fellows Hall
in honor of Harry S. Cummings, the
Baltimore lawyer who made one of
the speeches in the Chicago conven-
ton seconding the nomination of Mr.
Roosevelt. Among those who re-
sponded to toasts were the following:
DR.. Robert Reyburn, national commit
teeman from the District; former Rep
r4esehtative George H.-White, Judson
w. Lyons, register Of the treasury;
John c. Dancey, recorder of deeds;
Judge E. M. Hewlett, and DR.. James
R. Wilder.
A meeting of Welcome to the dele
gates to the Right Worthy Grand
Council, Independent Order of st.
Luke. was held at the Metropolitan
A. M. E. Church, M street, between
Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets north
west, on Tuesday evening, at 8
o'clock. Addresses were made by
Commissioner Mcfarland, Rev. Geo.
w. Lee, Rev. O. J. W. Scott, Mr..
O. T. Taylor, deputy for the District
of Columbia; Mr.: Jacob F. Wright,
Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, president of
st. Luke bank, Richmond; Rev. q. D.
Lewis, of Richmond, and other dis
tinguised men and women from all
parts of the country.
My old friend Alex Ross, or rather
President James A. Ross. of the ma
tional Afro-American Democratic
League" has received a letter from
ouu6S oA AO1 Ill ACO1y W q
latory communication from the
league. We observe that Mr. Parker
did not state his views on the NE
gro question: in fact there are a very
few northern Democratic politicians
who have the nerve to express their
convictions on this subject Finance
and kindred subjects can be discussed
ad infnitum but the 100000 Afro
American voters of the country will
still be in ignorance as to whether
Judge Parker favors an open door
OF hope or the Jim Grow laws, the
peonage system, the wholesale lynch
ings and the disenfranchisement of
American citizens in the South. The
Judge had splendid opportunity to
give his views in the Ross letter, but
he did not seem to grasp the situation
like he did when the famous tele-
gram on the financial question was
sent to st. Louis. Mr.. Parker cannot
escape and President James A. Ross
would do we'll to suggest the matter
in order to avoid possible embar
rassment
A. reception of welcome to Mrs.
Mary Church Terrell, whose success
socially and intellectually while at
tending the International congress of
women at Berlin, Germany, is regard
ed as triumph for our race was ten