The new age., 1907-03-23

but causing trouble in the commun-
1ty and the sooner they are driven
out of the homes and kept out of the
homes of all respectable people, the
better OFF the community will be.
Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, the
Chicago correspondent of the New
York Age, makes a great mistake
when she states in the columns of
the New York Age that Registrar w.
r. Vernon made a great speech late
ly In Chicago, but as matter of fact,
and was admitted by everybody in
the church at the time, his speech
was entirely unsatisfactory, and al
most insignificant All Mr.. Vernon
attempted to do was to offer an apol-
ogy and some excuses for the action
OF President Roosevelt in the dis
charge of the three colored COM
panies of the 25th infantry 1t must
be admitted that everybody in the
church was disgusted and wholly dis
satisfied with what Mr.. Vernon said.
Unfortunately, for the colored peo-
pie in Chicago, but the same is true,
like every other city, there are some
colored men who succeed in having
and getting their names printed in
some of the colored papers and mag
azines that have no standing what
ever among their people, and some
times they get into Office by accident
or mistake, and such is the case of
Oscar DePriest and John C. Buckner.
Oscar DePriest and John G. Buckner
are ignorant and are known as weak
Hngs in everything they attempt to
say or do. When John G. Buckper
was member of the legislature, he
voted and worked for the vicious and
notorious Allen bill that broug ught
such great disgrace on the state of
Illinois, and now whenever his name
is spoken of, it receives nothing but
Kisses and groans.
The colored lawyers that have
held the position of assistant county
attorney for Cook county for num-
Der of years have made excellent roc
ords in that office and one that the
people in Cook county feel proud of.
The first colored lawyer that was ap-
pointed assistant county attorney for
Cook county was Lawyer E. H. Nor
ris, who was appointed in the year
1894, and who displayed such legal
ability that they called upon him to
conduct and look after all the ina
portant law suits where the county
of Cook was party. In 1895 he
went before the supreme court of the
state of Illinois in that famous law
suit between the city of Chicago and
the county, of Cook involving seven
million of. dollars and won the suit
for the county of Cook. The next
lawyer to hold the Office of assistant
county attorney was w. H. Ward now
deceased, and the next colored law
yer to hold the position of assistant
county attorney was Mr.. L. B. Ander
son, who is now the present incum-
bent.
At a meeting of the Calumet Club
held last Monday, Mr.. Jos. F. Bailey
in the chair, the business of the club
was for the purpose of discussing as
to what the prominent colored men
of the country had done for the
benefit and protection of their race.
Lawyer John G.. Jones made a bitter
sneech, attacking the record of EX-
United States Minister w F. Powell,
of New Jersey, and said that the con-
duct and the action of w. F. Powell
for a minister of Hayti was a burn
ing disgrace to the American govern
ment and a serious reflection on the
colored people of this country, and
that he having charge of the affairs
of Santo Domingo and his action
there was so unsatisfactory as it has
been reported that it lost the colored
DeoDle of America the opportunity of
having another colored man appoint
ed minister there for the Santo Do
mingo government requested Presi-
dent Roosevelt to appoint white
man minister to Santo Domingo, and
that was done.
Mr. A. Wilberforce Williams is
now lecturing in the colored A. M. E.
churches in this city on every Sun
day evening, and advertising ard
soliciting the congregation to pur-
chase stock in the Black Diamond
Development Company, that A. ].
Cary, pastor of the Bethel A. M. E.
church. is connected with. If the peo
pie wish to put their money in sand
hole, so they will never see it again,
then let them put it into this Black
Diamond Development Co. Whon
the colored A. M. E. churches of Chi
cago are to be rsed on SundavfOr the
purpose of selling stock to the con-
gragation as has been done in the
past, it is then about time for the
honorable, decent, Christian people
to stay at home. If things keep on
in the future the way they have been
conducted in the past, in some of the
colored A. M. E. churches in Chicago,
we will not be a bit astonished or
surprised to hear at any time, pool
selling and betting on horse races
carried on in some of the colored A.
M. E. churches of Chicago.
There is a great difference between
the republican party and the demo-
cratic party in Chicago so far as the
treatment and recognition is con-
cerned relative to the colored man.
The republican party since the year
1871 and almost each year down to
the present time have nominated and
elected some colored man on their
ticket and in the whole history OF the
democratic party in Chicago, they
have never nominated or elected one
colored man to any Office of any kind.
The first colored man elected a
of tho IoCiSIafnr0 of the state