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RAILROAD TIME TADI El The 'nod I-Il naur at Sue Chaurus Ca for a Hate tarteal The Kansas Blackman. The DON'T DO IT! What's the use in paying full regular "Oredit House" prices for your Dry Goods, Shoes, Tinware. Queensware, Gents Furnishing Goods, Notions, Hats, etc, when you can save 25 to 33-1-3 per cent on every purchase you make at the ONLY strictly CASH store in Coffey ville. You often see advertisements in the papers "selling out below cost" to make room for fall goods, etc, etc. Remember, we are not selling goods on any such pretentions.

Every article that goes out of the BIG RACKET bears a profit- a small one we admit, but a profit, nevertheless. We cater to the MASSES and not the CLASSES. BIG PRICES WILL NOT DO when even the rich cannot afford to waste their money and the poor must look after every penny. Not by favor but by merit alone we expect to hold and increase our trade. For Cash Buyers Only.

ONE PRICE, SPOT CASH. PRICES THAT TALK. Men's Oil Grain Shoe(Hut, Gore) 81 08 Ladies Dongola Patent tip shoe 1 00 Ladies Oxford Patent tip shoe 50 Womens Kangaroo Calf 1 34 Men's Buckle plow shoe 98 The best 4 sewed broom 12 bars best laundry soap 25 spools Clark's ON I thread 25 24 25 sheets envelopes best note paper 05 10 yds lawn (great bargain) for 25 Remnant calico (best) per yd 4 A 1 window shade with spring roller 19 14 qt galvanized bucket 25 Tab oil cloth per yd 18 12 qt paper bucket 32 A first class sweat pad 28 A good web halter 19 1 We have just recieved a fine line of Compare prices with us before ERBONE you buy. CORSETS you will find Our line of FEATHcheaper than any other corsets in the city of like grade and will make this warrant: Money refunded after four weeks trial if not satisfactory. THE BIG RACKET, Nearly Opposite Southern Hotel, COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS.

THE BLACKMAN, VOL. 1. A PAPER BY AND FOR THE NEGRO. W. D.

DRIVER, Editor and Publisher. Published Friday at Coffey ville, Kan. Terms of Subscription: One year, $1.00 Six months, .75 Three months, .40 Single copy, .5 Invariably in Advance. Address all mail to THE BLACKMAN, W. D.

DRIVER, Pub'r, COFFEYVILLE, KAN. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1894. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For Associate Justice Supreme Court, W. A.

JOHNSTON. For Governor, E. N. MORRILL, OF BROWN COUNTY, For Lieutenant Governor, JAMES A. TROUTMAN, OF SHAWNEE COUNTY.

For Secretary of State, W. C. EDWARDS, OF PAWNEE COUNTY. For Auditor of State, GEORGE E. COLE, OF CRAWFORD COUNTY.

For State Treasurer, OTIS L. ATHERTON. For Attorney General, FRANK B. DAWES. For Superintendent Public Instruction.

EDMUND STANLEY. For Congressman-at-Large, RICHARD W. BLUE. For Member of Congress, Third District, S. S.

KIRKPATRICK, OF WILSON COUNTY. COUNTY TICKET, For Representative, F. M. BENEFIEL. For County Attorney W.

E. ZIEGLER. For Clerk of District Court W. C. FOREMAN.

For Probate Judge, N. E. BOUTON. For County ANNA KELLER. For Coroner, JAMES THOMPSON.

For Commissioner, Second District. P. S. MOORE, Hate tarteal Blackman. AS, Princip makes the pangs poverty wither and wither until lost in an anchor of peace.

Patronize our advertizers. They are assisting us in the publiaction ofa paper for the race and thus lending encouragement to the general aduancement of our people. As we view the present condition of the Negro and then look at where he was only a few years ago, we are forced to exclaim "The hand of Ethiopia 19 being stretched The populist are making an effort to "split" the Negro vote of Kansas by ranting about the long and continued fidelity of the Negro to the republican party. The state would today be enjoying respect of the business world and confideace would still be had in her had the white man been as wise as the Negro, and voted for the principals of republicanism. Until she Negro shall see some broader views and more practical ideas than those promulgated by the populist, he will wisely remain in the ranks of that grand old party which hag solved every intricate problem that has ever confronted this country and under whose guidance this republic rose to the highest point ever attained in the civilized world.

The age when the Negro can be swayed by sentiment is rapidly passing and he who would lead the Negro must show his merit by his achieve. ments. BLACKMAN BREVITIES. North Dakota has only 596 Africans among her population. A scheme is in progress to colonize 10,000 Negroes in Mexico.

The colored industrial school at Normal, has an enrollmenu of 300 students. Mrs. Sallie McGuire, of Chicago, has fallen heir to a snug sum of about $35,000. Mrs. Lizzie Jackson has been e- lected lady principal of Wilberforce University.

Howard University, in Wash. ington, D. is to have a new college to cost $20,000. The Louisana Legislature has passed a bill prohibting inter marrying of the races. Miss Lizzie C.

Carter is principal of the Howard Orphan Asyl-1 um in Brooklyn N. Y. One hundred and seventy colored people left Philadelphia last week bound for Liberia. Mrs. Julia J.

Irvin has been profeseor of Greek in Cornell University for the past four years, Dr. J. W. Browning has established the first and only colored drug store in Baltimore, Md. Miss Blanche Newsome is a graduate from the Chicago American Conservatory of music.

The colored people of Lynchburg, are making an effort to establish a bank in their city. President Cleveland has appointed A. H. Grimpe colored of Boston. consul to San Domingo.

The Atro-Americon Press Association of the United States will meet in Richmond, in September. Miss Emma Savage, of Pauline, Ohio, is the first Afro-American graduate from the high school of that city. Mrs. Lizzie Olden, colored, 1 has been elected as third vice president of the Republican League of Colorado. The Editors of Texas have Organized a Press Association to be known as the "Lone Star Press Ag.

Miss Celia B. Lattimore is the first colored graduate from the high school of Saratoga, N. Y. Miss Annie Wells, sister of Ida B. Wells, has recently graduated from the high school at Santa Cruz, California.

Mr. Scottron the new colored member of the Brooklyn board of of education has been bonored by a public reception. FRIDAY, AUG 17, 1894. Mrs. Kate A.

Delaney, widow of the late Martin R. Delaney, died at her home in Wilberferce, Ohio recently, aged 72 years. Hon. J. J.

Spellman, L. one of the best known colored men ir. the country, died reeently at his home in Jackson, Miss. Miss Alice Ruth Moore, of New Orleans, is contributing a very readable series of "En Passant" letters to the New York Age. Arrangements are being made by the colored citizens of Chicago to give Miss Ida B.

Wells a grand reception when she returns to Chicago. Miss Ednorah Nahar has taken under her management the "Black Patti," Mme. Sessieretta Jones, and the statue poser, Miss Flor. ence Robinson. The colored ministers, of Birmingham, have decided that the African imigratien scheme is detrimental instead of advantage ous 1 to the colored people.

The resurrection plant, is a native of South Africa, dry and apparently lifeless, but opens its leaves and assumes all the appearance of life when rain falls. Miss Ida Platt graduated from the Chicago College of Law with high honors. Miss Platt is the first Afro- American lady admitted to the bar in the state of Illinois. The first colored woman to pass the examination of the Board of Examiners and be permitted to practice medicine in the state of North Carolina, is Dr. Lucy Hughes Brown.

Mrs. H. A. Downing is one of the most successful teachers in the school of Brooklyn, N. and is now teaching in a public school in which both teachers and scholars are mixed.

The colored men of Chicago have organized a union known as the Anti-Strikers Railroad Union with S. B. Stevens president; Robert Jackson, vice president and A. S. Hutchinson, secretary.

Ralph Perry, a native of, Africa grown man, when brougut to this country as a slave during the first administration of President Washington, died the other day at the age of one hundred and twenty years in the county infirmary at Logan, O. Thomas E. Besolow, the African Prince at Williams college, will soon sail for his home. He will first go to England, them to Sweden, where he will visit the Swedish King, and from there to Africa. Besolow recieved a call from his people requesting him to return to his native country and resume power.

There are 1,759 colored females studying the several professions in the United States. We have three colored women instructors in theology; there are eight who are studying medicine; one is enrolled as a theological student in the Alabama College and in the District of Columbia there is a colored woman studying law. Barmwell county, South Carolina, has a 12 year old Afro-American who, as a prodigy of memory, is as much more of a wonder than McCarthney, Van Hann et al. of that ilk as those freaks were above the average of humanity. His first great feat, and that upon which his fame will rest when he "goes down into history," was that of committing to memory the entire book of Genesis in two hours and fifty two minutes.

$25,000 OFFER TO THE COLORED RACE! A New Emancipation for Readers of "The Kansas Blackman." Friends, clap your hands and rejoice for the HELP that comes to you from Coffey ville. You have LOST half of your crops but you can SAVE half of your expenses. The people of this country are CAST DOWN and need encouragement. It comes from Wells those wonderful merchants and men. They have thrown their big store wide open to rich and poor, black, red and white alike, for a $25,000,00 GRAND HOT WEATHER SALE.

ALL MEN are EQUAL with Wells and ill have an equal SHOW to MAKE 50c ON EVERY DOLLAR he has to spend to feed and cloth himself and family for the next 25 days. Their clerks all tell us that they have orders not to stand on prices against any man, woman or child. They have promised the people $25,000 by Sept. 13th and goods must by KNOCKED OUT in every department. It is well known that they carry the largest, cheapest and best stock in Kansas of Dry Goods and Groceries Queens.

ware, Crockery, Clothing, Shoes, Millinery, Cloaks, Wall Papper, Carpets, Trunks and Curtains. You know that you can GET THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICES for your wheat, eggs, chicken, butter, etc. of your TRUE AND LIVELY FRIENDS, WELLS L.O.L-.P. DODD DECLINES. HE WILL NOT ACCEPT THE POPULIST NOMINATION.

The Attempt of the Populists to Split the Negro Vote of Montgom ery County a Failure The Letter The populists of Montgomery county have no candidate for the office of coroner. Jackson Dodd, one of the brightest young Negroes in this part of the state, has declined the proffered honor and now new steps must be taken by the reformers to split the Negro vote in this country. The populists seem to have presumed that Dodd was a populist because he endorsed SOME of the sentiments promulgated in the Omaha platform. They reasoned that he, being a Negro could not refuse being a candidate for office. They nominated him, and proceeded at once to boast of their exceding love for humanity and the Negro PARTICULARLY.

But they reasoned without their host. Dodd was not to be duped. His unconditional declination will be a bitter pill for the populists but the directions read 'em." A copy of the letter declining the nomination was SnOuN by Mr. Dodd is as follows, on which we will pass editorial comment in our next issue: COFFEYILLE, Aug. 15, 1894 HON.

J. M. ALTAFER, NO. 12 THE CHANGE. With this issue of THE BLACKMAN we begin in a new field.

The change is only in the seat of The principles which we have espoused, the ideas which we have from time to time advanced, are and shall be maintained. We believe in the Negro as an America citizen and shall labor in his interest as such. We shall make his cause ours, and his achiev. ments shall be heralded to the world by THE BLACKMAN, and ifhe falls no hand will reach to succor him sooner than ours. To our many friends in Topeka, who haye stood by us in the past, we return our sincere thanks and while we are not with you daily, THE BLACK MAN will contain its usual quote of news from the capital city by one of the staff' and thus we hope to share the patronage of the reading public of Topeka.

To the citizens of Coffey ville we feel an introduction unnecessary. Here, in the home of our childhood where we "shined" and grew to manhood, we feel at home, and only ask that we be given that support which our efforts may merit. To all, we would say, our one aim is the advancement of the Negro race along the lines of intelligence, industry and morality. Do something, get something and be somebody. Support race institutions and there will be a mutual growth.

There are always ready hands to assist those who really desire to stand up. Honesty and industry are the only means by which we may successessfully grow to greatness. The boys and girls of today will be the men and women of tomorrow. Parents, see that they start in the right direction. When populist fanaties preach reform to you, ask them for evi.

dence and then look at the state institutions, enveloped in and crime. With every state institution resting under the disgrace of populist misrule every loyal citizen should lay aside personal feeling and vote the straight republican ticket and lend his aid in redeem- ling Kansas. Ch'm'n Peoples Party Co. Independence, Kan. MY DEAR take the nity to inform you that I have withdrawn from the race for the coronorship of Montgomery County.

The fact that I endorsed the Omaha platform evidently caused some of the members of the Peoples Party to presume too far as to what I would really do in that direction. It was my intention to meet the convention of two weeks gone, but circumstances over which I had no centrol inter. vened te prevent the carrying out of that intention. Having failed to meet the convention and learning later that I Lad' been nominated and, by a man who did not even consult my wishes in the matter, I oarefully considered the proceeding and with all my respect for the men who made the Omaha Platform and notwithatanding my endorsement of certain principals therein contained or yet the honor conferred upon me by the coonty convention, concluded that I could not possibly enter the race. The one great reason is that I AM NOT A POLITITION and even though I was would mot accept the nomination for the office of caronor whether tendered by Populist, Democrat or Republican.

So far I' have stated no political preference. You will please consider me withdrawn and gevern yourself dingly' JACKSON A. DODD. LOOK AT IT! THINK ABOUT IT! TALK ABOUT IT! WHY buy your them the Extra Buy your goods of all discounts. Buy money is as good Groceries of these old time Credit profit to cover losses on customers a cash house that pays spot cash of the house that treats all alike, as anothers.

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