“The Democratic party when it came into power in 1871, took over the Lincoln Institute and made it a normal school for the higher education of the Negro teachers, and it has always made liberal appropriations for that purpose and for the education of the Negro school children of the State. It never has and will not discriminate against the Negro, either by criminal laws or on the question of their rights of franchise, and it deplores the action of the present chief executive of this State in seeking to make political capital by creating race antagonism.” R. S. Rutledge so resents this plank that he has withdrawn from the race for nomination as United States Senator. * * * * * The colored people of Cleveland, O., have received twenty-three appointments to minor offices to reward their support of Mayor Baehr, who defeated Tom Johnson. Beside these officials the colored people have a member of the Legislature and a member of the City Council. * * * * * The Negroes of Atlanta prepared an elaborate program on the occasion of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech to them. * * * * * The Republicans have nominated Thomas Briar, a colored man, to run for Congress in the Fourth District of South Carolina. * * * * * In the twelve counties of the Eighth Congressional District of Georgia there were only 392 colored men registered as voters. Even these, however, very nearly held the balance of power in the last Congressional election. * * * * * A press dispatch from Panama says: “It became known to-day that Mendoza sent a messenger asking Colonel Goethals to call at the Presidential palace. The army man, by messenger, asked if he was wished personally or in his official capacity. Several other notes were passed back and forth, Goethals finally going. “When he reached the palace, Mendoza refused to see him. It is said that the snub was caused by Colonel Goethals drawing the color line in the first place, Mendoza being a Negro.” * * * * * EDUCATION. Miss Alice Byington has left Hampton Institute $260,750. * * * * * New Orleans has four Negro schools with white teachers and ten with Negro teachers. It has been decided to place Negro teachers in the new Thomy Lafon School Annex. * * * * * Tuskegee has received about $400,000 from the Dolger bequest. * * * * * A Negro industrial school is talked of in Pueblo, Col. * * * * *