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VOL. VII NO. 14
; CURRENT
COMMENTS
In the Queen City of the
~.~:_ Northwest- .-,
SEATTLE THE MECCA
c? For Disables: Disqualified to Earn
"• a Living.
(or Disables Disqualified to Earn
a Living.
;OUNC!LJ|M|£NES
eggers" Harvest — Queer Charac
r ters— Norfiers Rapidly Returning—
Mr. Hawkins Comes Out Early.
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- • Most persons doing business in Se
attle at present are reaping quite a
financial harvest owing to the fact
' that the streets are crowded with
.-.: customers, and, according to hotel
rumors, there is not a vacant room
to be found in the city. This great
I. press of business has caused many
| men seeking employment to come to
■; the city, and, tor the most part, all
?- who want work get it. It has not
'{■ only attracted the laboring folk, but
: it has likewise atracted the beggars,
the poor, the sick, the halt and the j
j blind, all of whom can be found on j
our streets asking for alms from the
passers-by.
On this corner you will find the
'Aljlmd man puiJing persistently at his
violin, irom whicn he is pouring j
r forth strains of lannliar music to at- j
tract the attention of those hurry- j
i ing to and fro, that they may re
• member that he would like alms
4 irom which he could maintain him;
-; fceiiTana his iamily, and he does not
go home at night empty handed.
. On the other corner is to be found
"• a man with no legs, but who has
- -placed haniseii on a board under
which wheels have been arranged,
■and witn ms hands in the form of
legs and leet lie puns himself up
aiid down tne street, in his hat he
. lias placed a circle of pencils winch
tie hopes to sell to tne passers-by
' aiut.-ue, tuu, may 'earn ai ß daily i 1
..j oread, lie travels throughout the
%city ;i with perieci ease. ierhaps
wnen* the unfortunate circumstances
nm befell him he concluded in his
mind that there was nothing left for
"■• •uin to do but seek some charity
house maintained by the govern
ment, but as necessity is the mother
of invention, so Thick is the mother
of Success, and he has found suc
cess at tni= business in Seattle, as
hundreds buy from him each day.
Within the past week not less than
2,uuo aisappoxined i\ ome gold seek
ers have returned to this city, and
ior a while their distressed faces
could be seen strolling up and down
the street looking apparently for
sometning winch they had never
lost, Tney nad spent all they could j
get together to take them to Nome,
where they thought they could
gather gold by the bushels, but a sad
disappointment awaited, them, and
they hurried back to civilization,
broken m spirits as well as in
finances. Seattle being the Mecca |
for all forms of disappointments,
they could be seen in ail parts of the
city. They soon found work, and
that discontented face gave way to
bright smiles and all was well, and
Seattle's population has thus been
materially increased.
''Have a stick of gum?" says a
■ young boy who wheels himself up
and a own the streets on a go-cart.
The young fellow unfortunately lost i
his legs in the frozen regions of Al
aska and finding that he no longer
could make money to support him
self in that land of ice, he came to
Seattle, and putting his wits to
gether soon devised a means by
which he could honorably support
himself, and so he either sells flow
ers or gum to Seattle population,
and, it is said, that quite enough
persons drop a nickel or a dime into
his till each day to earn for him a
good living.
On another corner you will find
the chattering Indians with their
baskets and wares for sale. There
may not be any real value in these
articles, but they are at least curios,
and the American people under the
present prosperous condition of the
country are curiously inclined, and
are ready to spend their money in
" any fancy that may come over their
minds, and those Indian fads are al
ways salable to persons having
money to burn.
It would thus seem that no city in
the West offers greater inducements
for persons unable to make a living
by the sweat of their brow, owing to
some form of mishap, than Seattle,
and this is so because her citizens are
thrifty and in a prosperous condi
tion.
The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN
A rather amusing story is being
told on the streets these days of J.
E. Hawkins. About a week ago
there was a J. E. Hawkins hauled up
into the superior court for insanity,
and was sent to Steilacoom, the in
sane asylum, for treatment. J. E.
j Hawkins, the attorney, was in the
mountains camping, and his familiar
face for weeks was not seen about
the court rooms. However, he re
turnerd one day this week, and while
in company with a few friends walk
ing up the street, one of his brother
attorneys accosted him: "Why, !
hello, Ld. lam glad to see that you
are out. 1 was quite sorry to hear of
your unfortunate predicament." I
Mr. Hawkins looked a bit surprised
at the remarks and asked for an ex
planation. "Why, the papers last
week reported you insane and sent \
to the. asylum, and not seeing you j
around 1 was certain it was correct."
'•Well," said Hawkins, "I may be off
in a good many things, but 1 am not
crazy as yet." However, it cost Mr.
Hawkins quite a few dollars for
drinks for the crowd before he heard '
the last of it.
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The familiar face of J. H. Wright,
the noted Fifth ward politician, is
to be seen on the streets once more,
having gotten all the .Nome he
eared for. "While I have returned
from Xome, 1 am not one of those
who believe that the country is not
rich with gold. I firmly believe that |
in time Nome will send out equally '\
as much gold as has Dawson City.!,
What .Nome needs is less floating
population and more men wanting
|to work and develop the country. j'
Another thing Nome is sadly in need '
of is Jess litigation and let men get 1
hold of those claims which are very ]
rich in gold who will go to work 1
and develop them. 1 am glad the }
political fight is all over and that I '
was not in it." M
h
"1 went north to look after the in
terests of the Post-Intelligencer and
also for my annual outing, said Mr. ]
A. P. Sawyer one day this week. 1
"A ome is, l admit, greatly overdone, 1
and the government or somebody j i
else with money will have to aid a .
great many of the persons now at
.Nome away from there, but that is !'
nothing against the country. Those | 1
persons wnom the government will 1
nave to help away from.there are \
persons who rushed north with \
nothing in view save to go out on the j •
beach and gather up a sack of gold |'
and then return home wealthy men. '
■1 Ucj -;:. c disappointed, aid-listing }
spent their all to get there, have \
nothing on which to return. Next \
year 1 believe Nome will send to the \
assay office in this city many million ,
dollars of gold dust. Substantial
business houses will do well if they i
do not get discouraged over a few re- }
verses." ■ \
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After a most unprecedented fight i
among the three factions of the ! ;
union convention, the following j _
ticket was named: :
Governor, John R. Rogers. \
Congressmen, J. T. Ronald and \
F. C.Robertson. l
Lieutenant Governor, W. E. Me- \
Croskey. 1
Supreme Court Judges, E. C. Mil- '
lion and Richard Winsor. '
Secretary of State, James Brady. \
State Auditor, W. J. Silverthorn. I
State Treasurer, W. E. Runner. \\
Attorney General, T. M. Vance. \
Land Commissioner, 0. R. Hoi-1>
comb. .
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, .Frank J. Browne. '
Presidential Electors, George Cot- 1
i terill, N. G. Blalock, Fred Reeves }
and J. G. Heim. \
Judge Richard Winsor was the |
only Populist receiving a nomina- ,
tion on the ticket. Governor Rog
ers' friends fought the Pops to the
last ditch, but finally consented to 1
relax to the extent of allowing Judge '
Winsor to be named for supreme l
judge. Turner ruled first, it ap- i
pears, with a golden hand, and then ,
I with an iron hand.
NEGRO DEMOCRATIC PAPER.
Washington Exponent is the
name of a bran new weekly paper
just issued in Seattle, which is be
ing published in the interests of the
Democratic party, with the sole pur
pose of converting Negroes to De
mocracy and Bryanism: John H.
Ryan is the editor thereof, and he
paints a brilliant picture in his i
I initial number for the future of the !
j Negro in this country if William ;
; Jennings Bryan is only elected to j
the presidency, a statement that a I
great many persons most seriously !
doubt. With a Republican presi-;
dent and a Republican congress still ;
| the Democrats constantly disfran
chising the Negro voters, pray, what \
could the Negroes expect with a '•
Democratic president? If any Negro ;
in the Northwest or on this side
of Mason and Dixon line doubt for j
a single minute that the Democrats
do not love them with all their
hearts, then let such Negro betake
himself to North Carolina or any
other Southern state and offer his
ballot to some judge of election
and he will soon discover that the j
Democrats love him so dearly that
they will not even permit him to
live any longer in this vale of tears,!
but will send him immediately, if j
not sooner, to his Father's home to
| slip and slide on the golden streets
I of the New Jerusalem.
WASHINGTON'S NEXT GOVERNOR
"7N PRESENTING the portrait of Hon, J. M. Frink, Republican Candidate for Governor, to the thousands
of readers of The Seattle Republican, the face and features of a man as pure, as patriotic and as
'■*■ perfect as could be found in all the wide world. His record as a public man, his record as a business
man, his record as a moral man and his record as a citizen of this great ' 'land of the free and the home of the
brave," are all as spotlessly clean as purity itself. If elected governor of the Evergreen State, without eqivo
cations, frills or frocks, he will be the governor in fact. He is as independent and self-willed as he is broad
minded, and as broad-minded as he is just. Tied to the strings of no ring, faction or click, he stands as the
emblem of purity in politics and for an upright, honest and economical state administration. The working
man's friend because he gives him work and pays him more for it than any one else in the same kind of
business. He is the man that all men in the proud young state of Washington can support and not feel
ashamed of the fact that they did support him. J. M. Frink will be Washington's next governor.
HON. FRANCIS W. CUSHMAN has proven himself a most excellent colleague of Mr. Jones, and
during his short labors as congressman has greatly popularized himself with the voters throughout the state.
In the present campaign Cushman will be a star campaigner, and will win for his party many thousand votes
HON. WESSLEY L. JONES, who was elected to the lower house of Congress from this state two
years ago by 6000 majority, has already made a record at the national capital that the Evergreen State can
point with pride to and he will be re-elected by not less than 14,000 majority.
OUR CONGRESSIONAL ROSTER
HON. WESLEY L. JONES.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31. 1900.
HON. J. n. FRINK.
HON. FRANCIS C. CUSHMAN
PERSONAL.
Master Norris Bennett was among
I the visitors to the City of Destiny
this week.
Mr. E. H. Holmes, of Spokane,
was among the visitors to the Queen
City this week, he being a delegate
to the Democratic state convention.
Mr. John H. liyan is again a resi
i dent of Seattle. He is now editing
I a weekly paper in this city in the
interests of the Democratic party.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hawkins have
returned from their mountain out
ing and are looking the picture of
health from their stay in the hills.
Mrs. Edsen and Mrs. Miller, of
Taeoma, and Mrs. Anderson, of Spo
kane, spent a few days in the city
| this week visiting with friends.
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X you have any social news and
desire the same published send them
to this office and they will be pub
lished free of charge.
Mr. Will Turner, deputy county
I assessor of Pierce county, visited in
the city this week on his annual va
cation.
A picnic at Point Defiance, Ta
coma, last Thursday attracted quite
a few Seattle folks to the City of
Destiny.
Dr. J. J. Smith, of Franklin,
came down last Monday to attend
the three-ringed circus, and had a
peek of fun at the expense of the
Demo-Pops.
.Master Benjamin 11. Moore has
been given employment at the Re
publican state central committee
rooms as messenger during the cam
paign and will begin work today.
Eor some unaccountable reason
the Bee's sting was not felt last
! week. Can it be possible that the
Bee's stinger has lost its stinging
qualifications?
According to reports from Nome
James Green and John N. Conna
have left that place and sailed for
Dawson City, where they hope to get
work during the winter season.
Madame Rumor has it that no less
than half a dozen Afro-American
couples in this city will double up
for life before January rolls over
th"ir heads.
Rev. G. A. Bailey, who is now
pastor in charge of the A. M. E.
church in Tacoma, was in the city
last Tuesday on his way to Spokane
to hold his h'rst quarterly confer
ence.
It is rather a difficult matter to
mix preaching with politic^ and the
-Newcastle divine will find that out
before the present campaign closes;
that is, if he contnues in his present
political maneuvers.
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Oliver have
sold their Juanita Hotel property for
$2,000 and they will move within
a few days to their ranch near Sun
nydale. They have been very suc
cessful in the hotel business and
they hope to do equally well on their
ranch.
Mr. Mathew Brown, of Newcastle,
lias decided to move liis household
effects to Seattle, where he will re
side for some time. Mrs. Brown has
employment as maid with a dental
firm and he hopes to be equally suc
cessful in finding something to do
during the winter season.
A NEGRO HERO.
Joe Fortes, a West India Negro,
who lives in Vancouver, B. C, has
saved thirteen different persons'
lives by swimming into the bay and
rescuing them as they were sinking
to rise no more within the past
twelve months. He has been made
swimming instructor of the beach by
the city council of Vancouver. He
is pronounced a hero of the bravest
stripe by all who know him, and
he is well known all over the city.
WAS A CUTE TRICK.
There is no longer any doubt but
that the recent demonstration
against a Negro prisoner in Akron,
Ohio, which resulted in the loss of
two lives and the wounding of many
other persons, all white, and the de
struction of so much property, was
engineered by the emissaries of the
Democratic party to draw public at
tention from the Southern outrages
i against the colored citizens. If a
similar outrage against a Negro in
Ohio, the home of McKinley, as. in
North Carolina, they reasoned to
' themselves, could only be made to
I 1 happen, it would to some extent
i justify the South, but, thank God.
[ the men who went South and gayc
up their lives that the Negro mighi
be a man and a citizen left son.-' ir
Ohio who stood like stone walls g
few days ago, and said the Negrc
t should be protected the same as am
1 other man though he be guilty oi
[ crime. The same law and the same
I punishment should stand for the
, i white man and the black man one
' and alike. Another Democratic
boom has thus been prematurely ex
ploded.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
1 TAT\ f\
. AFRO-
I AMERICANISM
■ Throughout the United States
of America.
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MANY RACE RIOTS
Causing (Much) Bloodshed and
(Grave) Misapprehensions.
BRIEF AND BREEZY
In Indianapolis With a Most Rep
resentative Body of Negroes In
Attendance—No Politics;
Those colored men who have got
! the idea into their heads that the
Tammany* Tiger in Greater New
York is the Negro's best friend and
which has been bending every effort
to catch the black men's votes, might
read with much satisfaction the fol
lowing article:-
NEW YORK, Monday, Aug. 27.
—Key. W. Brooks, the colored pas
tor of St. Mark's M. E. church,
preached a sermon before a large
congregation last night on "The
Story of the .New York Riot." Dur
ing the sermon the feelings of the
congregation were at fever heat, and,
despite the pastor's frequent admoni
tions to be calm", his hearers twice .
interrupted the sermon with vigor
ous applause. He said:
"1 have been visiting the riot vic
tims and making an investigation.
1 have a book of facts. What I say
here tonight may send me before
the courts, possibly to jail. In mak
ing the following charges against
the police,, 1 invite investigation.
"innocent men were cruelly as
saulted.
"The clubbing in nearly every
case was done by the police. v
"We have not found a single
tough character among the victims
maltreated, but honest, hard-work
ing people.
"itespectable and helpless women
who appealed to the police for pro- j
tection were cursed and threatened j
for their petition.
"Men and women prisoners were"^
beaten by the police while getting in g
and out of the patrol wagon and
while on the way to the police sta- -.:
tion.
"Men were beaten in the stationT
house. : *
"Men and women were taken from
their beds in a nude condition by !
the police."
!Now the entire city government of
Greater New York is under the con
trol of • the Democratic party and
the Tammany Tiger, those very dear
friends of the Negro. Wherever the
Democratic party has any power you
can always put it down that it is
strictly in for killing every Negro
that it can, if it can be done and
escape the legal punishment. This
is true,'whether such Democrats in
authority be in the North, South,
East or West. All of those colored
men who are so anxious to vote the
Democratic ticket in the North
ought to do so by all means, and if
they cannot vote it enough in the
North, why go right down to North
Carolina and there vote it to their
hearts' content.
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HEAVY DAMAGE SUITS.
More recent reports declare that
the state of New York and the city
of New York are confronted with
another trouble arising out of the
1 recent riots, and it is that the Ne
groes all over the country are rais
ing a fund to employ the best legal
talent in the country to aid those
Negroes who were so shamefully
abused by the police and their "for
eign devil" henchmen to enter suits
in the courts for damages. This
; same later report declares that Tam
many's henchmen are responsible
for the trouble, and that the Ne
groes, who have heretofore 'been
strong allies to that Democratic or
ganization, strong enough in many
; instances to change the entire com
i plexion of the political situation in
; Greater New Y~ork, have threatened
[ to desert the Tammany Tiger to a
• man unless some satisfactory ar
. rangement and explanation is made
, by Tammany. From a Democratic
■ standpoint the situation is a serious
. one.
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E. H. Holmes, the colored Demo
| crat from Spokane, who some years
*; ago left Vicksburg, Mississippi, be
, cause he and his relatives could not
vote as they desired, in fact could
' not vote at all, owing to Democratic
'1 shotguns being in the way, must
have had queer feelings come over
1 him while participating in a Demo
-1 cratic meeting in this state. What
] would his Vicksburg frends think of
J him if they should hear of this epi
[ sode?
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c j So far no American has attempted
- to Edward Atkinsonize the cause of
the Boxers.
