The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-03-10
WASHINGTON
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Special Correspondence THE APPEAL.
Washington, March Tom Dixon s
Clansman is on the boards here and
the gallery gods are happy. The PEG.
pie on the ground floor did not receive
the play with expressions of approval
but the applause from the gallery was
bOlSterOus. 1t seems that the gallery
was filled with deadheads who We're
placed there to yell when the cue was
given and one of the boxes contained
what was evidently paid claquc.
During the intermissicn Dixon the
ed by a lot OF boys. He looked like
the Mephistopheles that he is. On tn =
first night Dixon came before the CIT
tain without being called and mod"
harangue in favor of his play. The
Clansman is a dangerous play, for it
appeals to the race prejudice of the
low unthinking classes.
Delegate Kalanianaole OF Hawaii
has introduced a bill to pay Queen
Liluokalani $200.)nO in satisfaction OF
her claim against the United States.
Senator William Boyd Allison of
'o,":s. who Saturday celebrated his sev-
enty-seventh birthday, and Sunday the
thirty-siXth anniversary of his entrance
into the Senate, has served in that
body a. longer cons ecutive period Than
any other member now on the rolls.
He took his seat March 4. 1873. and
since then has been reelected five
times
Senator Hopkins who has been in
Chicago looking after some business
matters has returned to Washington.
Mr.. Robert T. Douglass one Of the
prominent young men OF Washington
has been appointed to clerk ship un-
der the District government.
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw. OPP
poses the coinage OF the one million
two dollar silver coins to be used as
souvenirs of the jamestown exposi-
ton. He advised company to make
the event a big naval display.
hudson w. Lyons. Jr., is the name of
the latest arrival at the home of Hon.
Judson w. Lyons, Sir, Register of the
Treasury
A meeting OF the members of the
Southern Industrial Educational Asso-
citation. with many friends of the organ
ization, was held Saturday evening at
the Washington Public Library. MIS-.
Martha S. Gielow. the president @eDc~
al OF the association, was present, and
made an argum>al 1T in favor of the wo:l<
which the members of the association
are at present iaVlne Dlars
into effect in the matter of educating
1llltelate white people IN cel,a1. st,
tons of the South
The speaker asserted that there are
between 100000 and 100000 illiterate
white voters in the south, many q.
them being unable to sign their nam IS.
The plan is to have one hundred thou
sand members OF the association and
to raise fund OF 100000 with, which
to carry on the work.
In contrast to the recent race war at
Springfield, Ohio, was the action OF the
Ohio Republican Association at its
meeting Monday; when the members
listened with interest to an address
made by Hon. John P Green. OF Cieve,
land, ''black Republican,, as lis
styles himself. In speaking OF to:
disturbance at Springfield, he said
Contrary to the charges which are
made. the class Of white people in that
1t is the Kentucky
contract negroes that caused the
trouble. When / was in Springfield
was taken to the best hotel in the cif:.-
diIed with Webb G. Hayes, son Of the
President and then at the head OF a
procession we went to the city hall
where | was given respectful attention
Here in Washington al Afro Am3ri
can may not even go into a restaurant
or scculC reserved seat in theate :
We seem to be in the country. but not
Of the country, here. That is the rea-
son am SO fond of Ohio
Compulsory education in the District
8s.s re commended b. the Senate Dis
tri:t Ccmnirtee yesterday The bill
considered by Senator Dillin:ha was
favCrab'v reported because from 1905
-. 5000 Children Of school age in the
District do not attend school.
Anthony Michalek. VINO has been de
clared entitled to his seat iii Congress
e Ilsns committee No. / Of the House
having dc .ided that he is citizen and
hot his fathe- was citizen. was boz,
!. Rshepia in 1873. and when bat 8
nonths old wa: brought to this city
b. his parents. He received his edu
6 :a-io1 in the rlblic schools. and fol
lowed the occupation CT bcokkeeDef
the elections Of 1904 Mr.. Michalek
defeated C. J. VoBiclla, the Democratic
aandidats, bv S25 vc-es. He repra
,e1ts tho fifth Illinois district, and ii
= said that he is the first man 81
Bohemian blood in America to be elect
ID to the national House of Represon.
satiEes.
preventative. Keifer Of Ohio father
~ the reduction OF representation bill
carries a linn which datee frerr Is s
70 served all through the civil wal
without injury. and got a. bullet in RI
leg after Lees surrender. In April
1865, while scouting at the, head OF q
small column of cavalry on the out
skirts of Richmond, he had brush
with wandering force Of confedeF
ates, and would have been killed had