The Appeal., 1905-10-21

the United States Treasury, gave q
stag reception last Saturday night in
honor of Henry Lincoln Johnson Esq.
a brilliant young lawyer of Atlanta, Ga
who is in the city looking after the
chain.gang case now before the United
! States Supreme Court. The invited
guests included number of the most
prominent people in the city and a de,
! lightful time was had.
Senator Cullom of Illinois stands
| by the president on the question of rail
road rate regulation. Recently he said
II am heartily with the President an6
was with the proposition he urges sc
strenuously, before he espoused it.
There can be valuable remedial leg
f islation by the Congress"
| Prince Hall Lodge, No. "A, f. A. A
M, gave a banquet to the members OF
the lodge and their ladies at Odd Eel
lows Hall, 1906 M street northwest
Saturday evening, in honor of the 157
tn birthday of Prince Hall, the first
grand master of colored Masons in
Rev. Edward H. Hunter was master of
ceremonies.
Senator Cullom will be elected to
succeed himself, and when the time ar.
rives for the legislature to meet I be.
lieve the Senator's name will be the
only one presented for United States
Senator" said Representative Roden
berg of the East St. Louis district
Illinois. Senator Cullom has rendered
the state faithful service and his
standing in the Senate cannot be ques'
toned. His record in the Senate is
| one the state has a right to be proud
of, and the people of Illinois will not
to crafty the ambition of some poll,
| tician, retire the senior Senator just
because he has completed an honora.
BILE and most useful term of twenty.
four years.
AS sample of the stuff the Demo
Gratis are giving out in the Maryland
campaign, I quote a few sentences
from an address delivered in Balti.
| more last Friday night by ex-Repre-
sentative Handy, who has represented
! a district of Delaware in the House of
Representatives.:
'.The colored race will always hear
the call of the Wild above the call
of civilization, and if left to itself
would within twenty years drift back
to barbarism and abandoning the pur-
suits of industry, will resort to canni-
balism for it's food supply The banks
of the Patapsco will be lighted by the
camp fires of these people returned to
a condition of savagery, and over
those fires the flesh of human beings
will be roasting, to supply these sava.
ges with food"
Il am strongly of the opinion that
when the time comes for the election
of a United States Senator from Illi-
nois, Senator Collum will be chosen
his own successor without opposition y
remarked A. J. Hopkins who was in
Washington, this week. All the indi-
cations point that way at present. and
Culloms strength is growing daily.
The people of Illinois are awake to the
fact that he has served them with
fidelity and conspicuous ability for
many years. and that another term is
fairly his due. Not only does he merit
continuance in office but his position
and prestige give him the opportunity
to render the state far more effective
service than any new man, however
competent, sould perform. The utili-
ty of keeping tried men in Washington
for a series of terms is a lesson that
the whole country is beginning to
learn.
Everybody will observe with heart
felt satisfaction and with a sense of
peril passed that Charleston, S. c..
has again consented to recognize the
existence of the president of the Uni
ted States. Mayor Rhett and former
Mayor Smyth were at the White House
the other day and actually took lunch
con in the same room and at the same
table where Booker Washington was
entertained. Both the Mayor and the
former Mayor are Democrats and thew
We're formerly hostile to the president
aenounclng him repeatedly when he
insisted on the appointment of Dr. w.
=. Crum as collector Of customs at
Charlestown.
DR.. w. B. Evans, principal of the
armstrong Manual Training School
has been elected a member of the
board of directors of the Manassas
Industrial Association. The new pres.
ldent Of the Manassas school is Mr.. O.
.. Willard grandson of William
Lloyd Garrison.
The Keep committee is gradually
cOnverging its lines of inquiry in tho
executive departments into concrete
scheme OF organization which will re-
duce the expenditures of the govern