Show CHIPS WANTED A good whitewasher asber one used to covering up bad records and blunders made by y incompetent officials such a man will find a steady job at good wages by colling calling on the secretary of war or mark hanna michigan democrat THE freedom of the negro has no birthday no man can tell the day of the mouth month or the year upon which slavery was abolished in the united states we cannot even tell when it began to be abolished the tribune wichita kan i I 1 I 1 FROM the earliest periods of I 1 history gold and silver have been money metals just as wheat and corn are now food products and closing the mints against the free coinage 0 of f silver depreciates its value and enhances the value of goldlust gold just as naturally 1 as it would decrease the price 0 of f corn and in increase the price of wheat to close the mints against corn croydon democrat PEOPLE reading republican weekly newspapers should know that the political matter con contained bained therein is not the product of the local edi editors ors mind it is is manu fractured by wall street journalists located at the national capital and forwarded by mark alark hanas bureau reau of to the journalistic slaves who feed on the political carion canon thrown them from the republican pub licau table of corruption corr eption ex THE st louis negro tammany was organized at jefferson avenue hall thursday night sept 8 with members member ex dent william willi am H fields of the missouri state democratic negro league was chosen president and C C rankin editor of the st louis bee secretary ira douglass 1 vice president W H blackburn financial finan C ial secretary and charles madison treasurer treasurer ier the freeman THE cakewalk given in irish american hall last thursday night seems to have been a social as as well a as a financial success whites and blacks mixed to together ether indiscriminately but on any other public occasion however the whites would have raised the devil lest the contamination tami nation prove odious the whites whose consistency can be purchased at a very cheap figure seem to appreciate the negro best beat when he makes a mimic or a minstrel mi n of himself or goes through the antics of a monkey or the pranks of a bear the radical editor taylor of the salt lake utah broad ax is not through telling the country yet of the social functions tendered the negro press association at their third annual gathering in omaha meet us in in denver next year bro taylor and send it to wichita we wedge our plug hat to a ginger snap you will say omaha is not no t a whist whistling lin C station to our fair city as a banqueting abode the tribune wichita kan brothers robinson and covington we are through in elaborating upon the banquet SAnd and reception which was nas tendered the western negro ne press association by the citizens of omaha and ancl our finances will wih not permit us to own a ping hate hat but bat we will aiu wager ani one bushel of 0 utah carrots against two bushels of kansas corn com that wichita nor any other dav or town in ibi cyclonic kansas clenter can cm enter tain the th VF penh members b e 1 of the A negro jaress 1 y they entertained ito kr t |