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Show THE BLACK MEN WANT IT. Tha Nogroa. D.uiandlng That Colored Mror.tary of th. Treasury bo Named. Boston, Feb. 7. The BostorCourant, organ of the colored people, contains au editorial urging the president to till the vacancy caused by the death of Secretary Sec-retary Wiudom by tho appointment of a colored man as secretary of the treasury. B. It. Bruce. John M. Lang-ton, Lang-ton, ex-Congressman Lyune. Frederick Douglass and James M. Towusend are named. The editorial says: "Was not Benjamin Harrison elected solely bv tho black men? It is conceded on all hands that he was. Kven the president himself admits it. In view of these undisputed un-disputed facts, a cabinet position is not at all too large a gift for i'resideut Harrison Har-rison to bestow upon the faithful colored col-ored republicans, who made him the head of the nation." |