The Topeka Plaindealer from Topeka, Kansas • 2

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SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, by mail Six months, by mail 750 Three months, by mail 500 elector. The convention, on the whole, was an harmonious gathering of honest Republicans seeking to promote the best interest of the party and to carry out the wishes of the people. The fight in thePirst district was perhaps the fiercest waged in Kansas in many years. While Mr. Curtis hns always had hosts of warm admirers all over the district, the splendid organization of his friends in the recent convention is due to the sagacity of Mr.

A. L. Rodgers, of Shawnee, who slept neither night nor day until the convention Tuesday declared Mr. Curtis its unanimous nominee. Having purchased, the entire Stock of Caskets and Robes of one of the best Eastern Factories will sell for just ONE-HALF FORMER PRICES.

AFRICAN EMIGRATION. Mr. Edwin H. Hackley, for many years the distinguished and versatile editor and publisher of The Statesman at Denver, is one -of the most recent converts of Bishop Henry Mc-Neal Turner, whose constant and enthusiastic advocacy of African emigration has won for him a national reputation. Mr.

Hack ley's paper is clearly and forcibly wiitten and bhould receive very careful study. There has been such a rabid opposition to the theory of emigration as a means of solving the vexatious race problem, that it is only simple justice to both Bishop Tarntr and Mr. Hackley to state that they are actuated in this matter by the sole motive of bettering the condition and environment of Business Manager Editor. Managing Editor. Nick Chiles, JT.

H. Childebs, Wili. Habbis, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1900. Aside from the splendid victory of Call On Us A 7' Ambulance ran In order to insure publication of Mr. Curtis, there was a feature of the convention of more than passing inter- matter in the current issue, correspondence must be in this office not later than Tuesday est to the Negroes of Kansas.

In this their people. Both ate men of high convention were a large number of intellectual and moral standing. ANNOUNCEMENTS. It seems to The Plaindealer that Z. T.

Hazen. this is a most opportune time to re vive the discussion of a very import Heavy-weight Metallic Casket, former price, $200 now 100.00 Fine Caskets.former price 150, now 75.00 I hereby announce myself a candidate forjudge of Fine Caskets, former price $50, now 25.00 Fine Caskets, .25, 12.50 Children's Caskets, 10, 5.00 the District Court of Shawnee county, subject to tne Republican primaries. Z. T. Hazen.

ant and interesting question. The 50.00 37.50 2.50 Children's Caskets John T. Chaney. John T. Chaney announces himself a candidate for Stite Senator.

Fine Caskets, 100, Fine Caskets, 75, OFFICE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Telephone 52 HACKS FOR FUNERALS, FORMER PRICE $3, NOW $1.50. Josiah Kosu. Josiah Ross announces his candidacy for County Commissioner for the city district. M.

future possibilities of our people in countries and under governments dominated by Anglo-Saxon civilization and Christianity, do not present the most oseate prospective. Its influence seems to be repressive rather than of that nature that causes races to push forward. In fact, there is a lack of enthusiasm in the ambition. That the idea of emigration has not received a heartier response irom the great mass of our people, has not been because they are glued to an oppres- colored delegates; they bore the appearance of intelligent, conservative citizens honestly seeking, by a dignified, manly deportment, to give a better conception of Negro manhood from a political point of view; they came and went about the business of the convention without that swaggering display that has caused so much unfavorable comment heretofore. Mr.

W. B. Townsend, of Leavenworth, the acknowledged leader and champion of an hapless minority, added fresh laurels to his name and the race. Never before in the history of Kansas has a Negro controlled the destinies of a delegation with such signal results. He has placed Senator Baker and Congressman Bailey under lasting obligation to him.

And their "good offices" should gladly intervene to procure for Mr. Townsend the largest plum in their basket. The only unfavorable criticism against Mr. Town-send is that he allows his earnestness and zeal in the interest of his friends to force" him to become vindictively 406 Kansas Ave, Anti-Combine Undertaker- Charles F. Spencer.

I am a candidate for the office of County Attorney of Shawnee county, subject to the Republican primary. April 14, 1900. Charles F. Spencer. Alvm Dodge, I hereby announce my candidacy for Representative from the district comprising the First nd Second wards, Oakland and Tecumseh townships.

Alvin Dodge. j-gsi, iTffiiiYfr" i- i tirfKalB rtri "till FAST LIVING AN EARLY GRAVE. ed as a fact that the old folks spend all their "money trying to educate their worthless young, that they might be prepared to meet the problems of life, and when any one of the old war-horses'passes away, the people give willingly, not grudgingly. The writer of this has been associated with a Kansas City young man, in the newspaper business, whose mother spent at least $5,000 trying: to educate him. She finally succeeded, and he used his "education" in the barroom, and followed a dissipated life.

It is not surprising that the mother went to an untimely grave, that she died of worry over her failure, after so much expenditure of hard-earned money, to make of him a man and an honorable citizen. Yet, such is the case. And we are personally acquainted with hundreds of mothers who are worrying themselves to death over the same problem. That the young men live as long: as they, do, after a "life" of dissipation and shame, is surprising if not shocking. Indeed, it is quite a difficult matter to find one at 35 that does not look as if he were twice that age, and had neared the end of life's journey.

What are the direct results of fast living, this no living at all? Pulmonary diseases, pure and simple. These young men of today die of diseases unheard of in the young men of slave time. Take an ex-slave of today, for instance. Do you ever hear of his dying of pulmonary troubles You do not. Why Because in slave time he was taught the correct habits of living, and has practiced them ever after.

He does not die of pulmonary troubles rather, he dies of old age if of anything. His eating regularby, his retiring at a reasonable hour, his arising at a seasonable hour, all contribute to his longevity of life and old age. If you will observe, insurance companies give certain premiums on the policies of these young men of today much more readily than they will on those held by men born in slave time; they know that the premiums granted the former will not increase in interest because of the irregularities of living: which will ultimately result in a premature death. When anyone violates any one of the laws of nature, he courts death. The young men who dissipate, seldom eat regularly, and this is a violation of the laws of nature.

The young man who today, for lack of sufficient means with which to purchase a porterhouse steak and chipped potatoes, smokes a package of cigarettes instead, with the knowledge that mayhap he will get his coveted boon tomorrow, is not living: he is merely existing, and by a. thread. It is better to eat something regularly every day, if it be only a bologna sausage. If you do-not eat something regularly, you are dissipating to a certain extent, you are rebelling against the laws of nature, against the tissues of your body, and therefore cannot live long. Why do our fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers live to an hundred years and longer It is because they have correct habits which have preserved their bodies; they eat regularly, retire at the proper time, and arise at the proper time.

This is the essence of life. They were taught it in slavery, and they have practiced it ever since. It is a W. K. Fagan.

W. E. Fagan announces his candidacy for Probate Juige. Subject to Republican primaries. will contain brief "knocks" by all the eminent Kansans, opening with John" J.

Ingalls, and ending with Thos. McNeal, the modern despot. It will be worth reading. men of the race in the larger cities who court vice who do not work, and have no visible means of support save through the machinations and traffick of what they are pleased to term a "woman." We have known susceptible young men to desert the homestead, and stay away for years because of the butterfly life held out to them through such a source. And, A.

IJrooke. Hon. A. L. Brooke announces his candidacy for e-election for Representative from the Thirty.

seventh district. Thomas i Doran, Thomas F. Doran is a candidate for County Attorney, to the Republican primaries to be held April 14, 1900. Galen Nichols. Galen Nichols announces himself a candidate fai County Attorney of Shawiiee county, subject to the Republican primaries.

The war department and President McKinley have been busy since the opening hostilities with Spain last year promoting men for heroic services. Here is an excellent opportunity for Mr. McKinley to show to the world that America knows no man by his color when it comes to defending few r'-v' savage and personal in his attacks. Leaving out his personal allusions, more's the pity, they never think of Mr. Townsend is unquestionably the ablest Negro orator in Kansas.

the stars and stripes. The heroic defense home or the home folks till overtaken by sickness or till death the early result of such a "life" stares them in the face. It is then that, through the contributions of others, they are either sent home or by Serg't D. P. Green, of the Twen VERY FOOLISH.

About ever so often Topeka must Considering that nothing of benefit ever comes of it, -it is rather strange and inexplicable that the ambition of so many of the race's young men runs principally to profligacy and vice. It is a lamentable fact that the young men of today are becoming more worthless as the days advance. It is the more lamentable because the young men of today boast an intelligence that was not that of the young Negroes of other days that is, an intelligence that the young Negroes of slave time, or those of a quarter of a century passed, had not dreamed of. The young Negroes of 30 or 25 years ago are aging, it is true, but even at this time those of them that are living possess a strong vitality and a stern personality almost' wholly foreign to the young Negroes born ot today. The young Negroes who came out of slavery with their parents and grandparents were taught the habits and forms of living that are essential to good conduct and good citizenship; they were taught the precepts and principles of the laws of nature, and, moreover, they practiced them.

This fact is demonstrated in the apparent disparity of the character of the ty-fifth infantry, with the load of amu-nition and rations, against a horde of Philippine rebels, certainly merits a brevet at least. have a big fight on the school teachers. Just now the Topeka In T. W. Harrison.

Col. T. W. Harrison announces his candidacy for State Senator for the Shawnee county district, subject to the Republican primaries. C.

V. Wolf. C. V. Wolf announces himself a candidate for County Commissioner for the district composed of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th wards.

S. F. "Wright. I am a candidate for County Superintendent, subject to the Republican primary election, to be held on April 14. 1900.

S. F. Wright. 1 dustrial League is circulating a pamphlet which is unquestionably foolish and unwise. In the nst place, We take pleasure in calling at EDWIN H.

HACKLEV. tention to the announcement of Mr. its showing that the city of Topeka A. K. Wilson for representative from has spent over ten-thousand dollars a year to educate Negro children tor the Thirty-seventh district, comprising the Third, Fourth and Fifth wards, found elsewhere in this paper.

Mr. the past ten years, is everlastingly to the credit of the good people of Wilson is one of the few men who have fought their way to the front without manifesting political am bition. He has never before asked for office. He is well fitted for this die paupers practically among strangers, and with but few whom they can even look to as friends. In the face of all this, they are seemingly content to follow a butterfly existence which ends invariably with a premature grave.

We have seen so much of this sort of thing that we are shocked at the readiness with which the people go down in their pockets and contribute toward the medical attendance and the burial given a spendthrift and a profligate whose thoughts turn only toward 'home when death stares him in the face. And we are the more shocked and chagrined, deeply so, when these contributions are taken and used toward the purchasing of flowers whose magnificence and splendor far surpass the excellence of the floral tributes and offerings placed upon the casket of a dead rich man. Think of the expense and bother and worry gone to for the sake of one whose grave will have been forgotten within twenty- sive and devitalizing environment as it is through a lack of the right kind of information about the resources of the country. The Negroes of America cannot realize that England has sent 213,000 of the best troops of the realm to South Africa to retain the fabulous wealth of the diamond ndnes of Kimberly and a hundred other places; they do not realize that there are thousands of acres of African soil upon which a white man's foot has never trod and about whose unnumbered millions of blacks the world is ignorant. The Negroes of America do not understand why the govern Dennis D.

Hope. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Clerk o' the District Court of Shawnee county, subject to the Republican primaries. D. D. Hope.

C. A. Fellows. I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner for the district composed of the Second, Third and Fourth wards. C.

A. Fellows. Will Vanorsdol. I am a candidate for County Superintendent of public instruction, subject to the Republican primaries, to be held April 14, 1900. Will Vanorsdol.

I S. Dolman. We are authorized to announce the candidacy L. S. Dolman for Piobate Judge, subject to the Republican primaries.

position. His long anil excellent service as grana secretary 01 tne Masonic grand lodge of Kansas and his very successful career as a busi ness man commend him to the people as worthy ot their support ana confidence." child born ofslave parents and of that of the child of free-born parents they are as dissimilarjn character as night and day. Generally, the one possesses those qualities which make a good citizen: sobriety, honesty, trustworthiness, with industry. In a majority of instances the other caters to the debased instincts of his nature to revelry, frolic, worthless pleasures, i and, finally, to vice. You will find this fact exemplified in anyof the larger cities where there is any number of the race's young men whose one thought runs to a "good time." A "good time" as applied to the We are not usually in the habit of A.

K. Wilson I hereby announce my candidacy for Representative fiom the Thirty-seventh district, for the state Legislature, subject to the Republican primaries. A. K. Wilson.

displaying our "bouquets," but in this case our modestv gives way to our four hours after the ride from the preventive against pulmonary com- vanity. The public will no doubt- cemetery! There is no sense, as-piajnts in siave time tney were suredly no logic, in the expenditure taught to eat thdr ashcake and corn of money tor flowers for one whose pone three times a day, and they ate grave is destined to be surrounded by weeds, stubble and shrubbery, and for one the memory of whose death is retained only on those memorable occasions when brass bands, the beat Topeka who cannot afford to allow their children to mingle with little colored children. The fact that there have only been twenty-seven graduates in twenty-three years is a bad criticism on the Negroes of this city with a school population that at no time during the past twenty-three years has fallen below two-thousand children. It looks like paying too much for your whistle, but these are not the ideas sought to be laid before the public. It is intended by this pamphlet to create an opposition to certain teachers employed in the Negro schcols.

The Peaindealer admires an open, manly, honorable fight. If there are teachers employed in our schools who are objectionable to the patrons, these gentlemen should name the teachers and the charges against them. It is not to the credit, of any man to bring a fight on a woman simply because she is married. Go whip her husband because he fails to properly provide for her. See that he does his duty in a manly way and you set him an example by being real manly.

There is so much of importance to the race that should engage the energy and ability of the intelligent men of our race rather than seeking to knock some poor woman (unfortunately married) out of a job. Their time could be better employed in increasing the attendance in our public schools and relieving the distress of the needy of the race. Gentlemen, go lay down your burdens. Ed. MiKeever, We are authorized to announce Ed.

McKeever for Representative from the Thirty-seventh district, sub-ject to the Republican primaries. John B. Sims. .1 hereby announce myself a candidate for Repre sentative from the Thirty-seventh district, subject to the Republican primaries. John BSuts.

Silas Rain. Silas Rain hereby announces his candidacy for County Commissioner from the district composed of tbe and, 3rd and 4th wards, subject to the Republican primaries. it, and never grumbled. It made them fat. They were not like the young of today growl and grumble should they not have ham and or a porterhouse steak and chipped potatoes, and refuse to eat at all.

And, in the end, dissipate, and die of pulmonary diseases that could have been avoided. W. H. of drum, the blow of fife, the clap of ments of Europe are on the verge of the greatest war the world has ever known, and its most potent cause is this land of our ancestors; they do not know that cotton, corn, wheat, rye oats, barley and all kinds of agricultural produce can be raised in abundance in Africa; that there is as much profit in raising cattle, horses, sheep, on the plateaus of Africa as on the plains of Texas or Kansas. They do not rea'ize that there are more mineral deposits in the mountains of Africa as can be found in Colorado, California or Alaska.

That under Afiic's sun, black is the standard of color and there are no objections on account of color. W.e believe firmly that the destined stretching forth of Ethiopia's hands, so long ago annoumed, will come to pass, but it must be developed in Africa. Let the promoters of African emigration lay aside the abstract theories and give the people more concrete facts. appreciate the following compliment to The Peaindealer: "I wish to extend to you ray personal congratulations on a special issue of 'The The full page headline directly beneath your dateline on the first page, and the editorial on 'Kansas are well conceived, and in their support of the best there is in Topeka 'hit the nail on the The entire paper is tasty, clean, unobjectionable, individual, and reflects great credit on. you, its editor.

Yours faithfully, H. G. Larimer." We fully appreciate Mr. Larimer's kind words of encourag-ment, but we feel that much credit is due tne attaches of our office for their neat make-up of The Plaindealer. 4...

4. 4. AV. C. Stephenson.

W. C. Stephenson hereDy announces his caudidacy tor County Commissioner for the district containing the and, 3rd and 4th wards, subject to the Republican primaries. BE II. J.

Bevelle. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Probate Judge of Shawnee county, Kansas. Subject to the Republican primaries when held this spring. H. J.

Bevellh. For Straightening race's young men of. today, means general dissipation, and too often a premature grave. We have noticed the general kick that has been made in the pulpit and through the press against Olga Neth-ersole's "Sapho," a play said to be disgustingly immoral, and one which even managers of playhouses in various cities have refused a performance. We claim that the play is an instructor; thatjt directs susceptible young men to the right path, whether they accept it or not.

The play teaches the folly and destruction which surely follow a young man's having a mistress, and it is a valuable lesson. It teaches a moral lesson the same as Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," or Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jek-yll and Mr. Hyde." There should be no objection to such plays with able performers to interpret them; they teach a moral as lofty and as ennobling as "In His Steps," or any of the great books written in recent years. "Sapho" is particularized here because we think it partly a text to be preached to a majority of the young men of an unfortunate race; it appeals to a class of young men whose reclamation from the -hrothels and places of questionable resort is devoutly prayed for.

It is to be that there are so many young Harry C. Safford. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Repre- cymbal, and the march of the old soldiers remind us it is Decoration Day. And seldom then do we think of the dear dead ones now gone beyond recall Anyway, not strongly enough to revisit their graves and remember them with a fresh flower Then, why so much pomp Why so much display, pray, when we could just as well use the money expended foolishly for flowers and for things of unnecessary importance in defraying the expenses of the funeral If we must beg money, why not use it to advantage 2 Why not use it intelligent-ly? There is no objection to giving to the cause of those who have borne the brunt of battle to the old folks who die poverty-stricken, and of old age, but there is much objection to giving to the spendthrifts and profligates of the race. There is not much hope for the race in this late generation of youth, judging from what we have already seen of them.

Of course, when they die, the people give toward their burial, but they give grudgingly. No one gives grudgingly when an old war-horse passes away, one who has Rp.n 9, muiuTc irum mc uiatncc compose a oi tne 1st and snd wards, Oakland and Tecumseh townships, sub-ect to the Republican primaries. H. C. Safford.

dinky and My Pair Can the Negro be persuaded to go on a farm Rev. Sheldon has accomplished one thing during his week's editing of The Daily Capital, if all else w-as disappointing. He used the upper-case about tne queerest ireak we meet in life is that kind of Negro reformer whose arguments for reformation are abuse and vituperation. Without i injury Remove a and ruff, cares all disease of the scalp 75c per Jar. THE DISTRICT CONVENTION.

Hon. Charles Curtis was renominated for Congressman at Atchison Tuesday. This was but the expected result; strong resolutions were adopted indorsing the state and national administrations. Mr. John Seaton and Judge It.

M. Emory were elected delegates to the national Republican convention to be held at Philadelphia next June and Mr. Matt. Edmonds, of McLouth, was chosen presidential MAKERS OF High-Grade Buggy and Team Harness. Repairing Promptly Executed.

18 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kan. in Negro. We know that's what Jesus would do GEORGE W. STA5FIELD, Druggist, 623 Kansas Ave, Topeka.

Rudyard Kipling, after giving out on The White Man's Burden has gone to dilating on the Wearing of the Green." Bad 'ces to him 1 J. F. Jarrell, of The Daily Capital, will soon give to the world his new borne the brunt of battle, and died uumc iwc uiuiiL 1 1 1 I 1 I I 1 1 1 I I 1 1 I I I I 1 It is generally recogniz- ww4mim 1 Kansas magazine, The Knocker. It.