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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1916)
---, General Race News race problem halts WOMAN’S HUGHES CLUB St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 28.—East St. Louis is not going to have a Woman’s Hughes-Fairbanks Club, as had been planned by Republican leaders among the women, because some of the more rabid decline to meet with the race women, according to rumors which have considerable grounds for substan tiation. It is feared by political lead ers of the east side, if the race women are not admitted to the club, they will not vote the Republican ticket. Mabel Craig Stillman of Chicago was in East St. Louis last week to aid in forming a club. A meeting was called for Saturday evening at the City Hall Auditorium, but it had to be postponed indefinitely. The Re publican leaders claim the postpone ment was due to a dearth of speakers and could in no way be attributed to the color question. This is as firmly denied by our people in touch with the situation. WHITE TEAM MATES STAND PAT FOR COLORED PLAYERS Wabash, Ind.—Because the Toledo Glenwoods insisted on playing Full Back Frame, colored, in the game with the Wabash A. A. here Oct. 8, the locals refused to play and the visitors withdrew from the field before the game was called. When the Toledo team appeared on the field with the colored back the locals objected. Half an hour was spent in attempting to get the Glenwoods to play without their full back, but they refused and finally left the field. RACE MAN SUES FORD Chicago.—Elbert R. Robinson filed suit October 18th in the Federal Dis trict Court for $100,000,000 against the Ford Motor company. Robinson, who is a Colored man, sets forth that he originated and patented a core, used in the construction of car wheels and that the automobile concern has infringed his patents. The declaration asks for all profits and gains since the alleged infringement and damages of $100,000,000. Martha R. Cohen, a race woman of New Jersey, died recently and left her church and children an inheritance of $25,000. She made it as a washer woman. Rev. James A. Bingaman, formerly of Omaha, and now of Shreveport, La., raised $1,250 in two weeks to remove the debt from his church, the Antioch Baptist. Jesse Persley, of Topeka, Kansas, has invented and patented a twine binder tractor. The mechanism is used in cutting wheat and oats, binds and lays aside the bundles as it glides through the fields. Lincoln A. Johnson, T. Thomas For tune, Fred Moore, of the New York Age, Charles W. Anderson, Perry Howard, and Ralph Lungston, are the Colored men forming the Colored Na tional Campaign committee at New York. Southern newspapers are beginning to print cartoons showing how hard they have been hit by the migration of Colored people to the North. In a new novel, Rainbow’s End, by_ Rex Reach, a Negro, Sebastian, ser vant to Esteban Verona, is one of the eading characters. To him and his master alone were intrusted the se :-ets of the treasures of the old Span sh family of Verona, and their faith ulness to their trust is one of the trong points. The scene is laid in Cuba in the days of Weyler and Gomez. The Leopard Woman, a late novel jy Steward Edward White, has its set .ing in the untracked African forests. Its narrative style is terse and vigor ms, and its glimpses of African coun ry and customs very illuminating. Over three thousand Colored people from the South came to Chicago last week. “Life’s Demands, or According to Law,” by Sutton E. Griggs, has been accepted by the Board of Education of Memphis, and is now being used in the public schools of that city for Colored people as a text book. The author is Colored. The Birth of a Nation was stopped in Cambridge, Mass., by the mayor after a strong protest from the Col ored people of that city. The total registration of Memphis and Shelby county, Tenn., is 34,251, with one precinct still missing. Of the total registration, 12,208, are Col ored, and this enormous registration has thrown consternation into the pol itical prophets. The Colored voters are being strenuously schooled at night in order to learn how to vote the three-foot ticket, and it is expect ed that there will be some interesting results on election day. K large assortment of motor cars and automobile equipments were piled on an East River pier, New York, last week, consigned to the West African Coast. The days of glass beads are over and exporters say that the na tive African ladies are demanding silk stockings, fancy underwear and choice negligee. The Memphis Press (white) is much concerned over the Negro vote. Boh Church and other wealthy Colored pol iticians are spending great sums edu cating the voters, while the white re publicans claim that they are not supplying the funds and that the Col ored men have broken entirely away from their organization. Oma Houghton, who left North Car olina two weeks ago to seek his for tune in Boston, Mass., left a movie picture house one night last week. As he came out he jostled against two young Colored women and called them “nigger.” The women had him ar rested and in court he told the judge that down South they would have shaken hands with him for what he said. The judge, however, told him to dig up $300 or go to jail. He didn’t have the three hundred, so he’s in the jail house now. John Mitchell, a bright student, is a member of the Los Angeles High School orchestra. The waiters of the Chicago Press Club, who struck at the Wilson ban quet, have been given an increase in wages. McQuillin 1512 Farnam Street JOHN B. STETSON HATS HIGH GRADE FURNISHINGS “The House that JacK Built” Sheet Music THE MUSICAL HITS OF ALL PUBLISHERS 10 TO 30 CENTS. HOSPE MUSIC SHOP YOUR VOTE, PLEASE —FOR— MIKE L. CLARK For Sheriff Republican. Election Tuesday, November 7th. Will Be Always on the Job. "EMMET G. SOLOMON REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR COUNTY TREASURER RESIDED IN THE COUNTY 48 YEARS. WAS COUNTY COMMISSIONER-COMPTROL LER 1906-1909. AND CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY AND CITY TREASURER 1910 TO DATE ^^^EXPERIENCED^^^^^^BUSINES^^^^^^^^ERVICI^^^ Geo. A. Magney Democratic Candidate lor County Attorney Vote For WILL N. JOHNSON LAWYER FOR PUBLIC DEFENDER Republican Candidate ..t VOTE FOR James M. Fitzgerald DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR POLICE JUDGE A Man You Can Depend Upon Election Nov. 7th *