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«.i<ow,n^ | 'T'ttp 1\ /f th=' 1 1 bbL, lVlOJN 11 Orv I_™_ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor $3.00 a Year. 10c a Copy OMAHA. NEBRASKA, OCTOBER 14, 1920 Vol. VI. No. 16 (Whole No. 276) ‘ HOT DR. V “COLOR kLIME” v MAKERS Henry Lincoln Job igimntly Denies Thai Whit. <i Colored Spellbinders Are Not Pemllted to Speak From Same Platform. SPEAKERS BEING . ( IIOSEN WITH ( ACTION (By The Associated Negro Press.) CHICAGO, Oct, 14.—Reports ema nating front various sources to the ef fect that the Republican National Committee has laid down a rule that colored speakers are not to appear on the same platform with white speakers, is branded as absolutely false by Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, In charge of the national bureau, and National Committeeman from Georgia. Col. Johnson states that there has been no such rule adopted, or even suggest ed. and cites numerous occasions in ) various communities where speakers of both races have appeared, in all sec tions of the country, even the South. The demand for speakers during the last weeks of the. campaign ts increas ing. The leaders of both groups are exercising caution in their selections because of their desire not to have speakers go out who will "spill the beans,” in , the last gripping days of the campaign where, according; to their convictions, everything is going along in tip-top shape. Mrs. Lethta C. Fleming, Director of the Bureau for Women, has been in New York City, looking ever the work of the Eastern division, which is under the direction of Mrs. Mary Church Ter rell, of Washington, D. C., and Miss Jeanette Carter, of the same city. Mrs Fleming is enthusiastic about the de terminayfin of the women to become a part of the real political life of the country. There seems to be unusual alarm on the part of southern politicians about the activity of colored women There is downright fear, well founded, that the women do not intend to pas sively submit to the Illegal disfran chisement of their sex, as has been forced upon the men of the South. One prominent woman of the South, whose name is a household word, made this remark: "We are going to exer L else our rights under the law. We (ear no evil; we shall not be bluffed away from the polls. If bodily harm is resorted to, there are two sides to the question, and we may as well be gin to prepare for a decision, a peace ful one, wc fondly hope. Why should we he denied our votes?” That southerners have fallen bacK on their old bogey of color scare Is / ) demonstrated bv the manner in which ' Governoi Cox wat Inti oduced in southern communities, without a pro test from him, as "the white hope or southern womanhood.” In many respects, this is one of the most peculiar campaigns In American history. It Is anything hut the old fashioned hurrah kind of campaign, where there is red fire, great parades, unbounded enthusiasm, and torrid side walk arrangements are the order of the day. If one should hear a group of fellows going down the street yel ling "Hurrah for Harding and Coo lldge,” people would look at them with astonishment. Whether the Nine teenth Amendment has anything to do with the matter Is not known How ever the people are thinking, and have convictions. The big battle grounds are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia. So cer tain are the Republicans of securing New York, Pennsylvania and the other Eastern states, that activity has slowed down. RECENT OMAHA VISITOR KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT g (Special to The Monitor) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 14— Thomas Roxboro, living at Eighth Avenue North and Bassett place, this city, died an hour after being removed from the scene of the fata) accident on Minnehaha boulevard Tuesday, in which a companion whose name is unknown at this writing, was killed outright. The car which was being driven by Mr. Roxboro was overturned ♦ feeding at a high rate. Both arms and both legs were broken, several ribs broken and an artery severed by i flying glass. Mr. Roxboro is sur vived by a wife who made a heroic ef fort to save his life by giving a quart of her blood. She at this writing is resting easily. They had just re turned to Minneapolis after an exten sive auto tour through Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, stopping in Omaha during the Ak-Sar-Ben fes tivities, where they made many friends. OFFER *.'(00 FOR FON \ IFTION OF FLORIDA LYM ilKItS NEW YORK, Oct.. 14.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New i York, today announced <1'e offer or , $.700 reward for Information leading; ! to the arrest and conviction of an' ; | person or persons guilty of lynching J four Negroes at MaeClenny, Florida, I last week. A statement signed bv .fames Weldon Johnson, Acting Sec retary of the Association, says: "The National Association for the j Advancement of Colored People, pur suant to its policy of fighting mob ; violence offers a reward of $700 pay able upon conviction of any one of the lynchers at MaeClenny, Fla., to the person giving the information leading to the arrest. "This latest atrocity In Florida adds i weight to the evidence which this as-1 j soclation has placed before Congress I in favor of a federal law against i lynching.’' CHEERING THOUSANDS WELCOME HARDING I Republican Nominee and Next Presi dent of the United .States Given Great Reception by Citizens of Gate City—Automobile Reception Unique Feature DELIVERS MESSAGE TO 10,000 PEOPLE SENATOR Harding was welcomed to Omaha by thousands last Thurs day afternoon. The local committee hail arranged the most unique recep tion the future president had been given on his tour. It was called “an automobile street reception.” The carrying out of the plan was in the eapahle and efficient hands of Walter S. Jardine as general chairman, who selected a corps of business and pro fessional men as captains to put it | across. A mile lane of flag-bedecked I automobiles ran from the Union depot ! to the Fontcnello hotel. As Harding’s | party rode through this lane cheers 1 and honking of horns from occupants ! of the automobiles and the crowds that | lined the sidewalks greeted him. Hun dreds of automobiles in tbeir turn joined in tbe procession. No division received more favorable i comment than that of our own people. Among those whose cars were in this division were Alfred Jones, C. C. Gal loway, l)r, A. G. Edwards, Mrs. Mary E. Overall, Mrs. James G. Newell, Mrs. I T. D. Lewis, S. T. Phannix, Walter L. I Seals. Rev. W. C. Williams, Nat Hunter, W. H. Robinson, N. W. Ware, C. R. Boyd, Harry Newland, George W. Mncklin, Eugene Thomas, Richard Gorham, Mrs. Jefferson and five or six others whose names The Monitor has not secured. At 8 o'clock Senator Harding spoke at the city Auditorium. Long before the appointed hour it was impossible to gain entrance and thousands were turned away. He was introduced by Congressman Jefferis. Mr. TTarding spoke for an hour and a half and was frequently interrupted hv applause showing how thoroughly the vast au dience was with him. He discussed domestic problems pressing for atten tion and came out in direct onposition to the League of Nations. Ten thou sand people heard his message. JOHNSON TO BOX IN PHISON THANKSGIVING HAV (By The Associated Negro Bress.l LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Oct 14 Jack Johnson, the pugilist. Is adding to his notoriety here in the Federal Prison hv having arranged a heayv weteht hout for Thanksgiving flav It has not been fullv determined whom he will fight. NATIONAL RAGE CONGRESS CONVENES Proclaim* As Ms Dominant Note The Doctrine of "Self Help” For Tile Itaee. Holds One of .Host Sucres*. fill Sessions in Ms History. FI.FITS STRONG t'OBP OF OFFICERS By CHARLES STEWART (Special to The Monitor) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14.—The doctrine of “Self Help” for the Ameri can Negro was preached during the r,th annual session of the National Race Congress which was held last week in the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, it was one of the most successful sessions in the history of the organization from stand point of actual racial work. A large number of people were pres ent and an interesting program was carried out during the session and plans for larger activities were laid out. Every interest of the race is to be looked after, during the next 12 months, and an executive secretary was elected, the Rev. Dr. H. J. Callis, of Washington, and he is to give his whole time to the work. The Con gress is going after disfranchisement, lynching, Jim Crowism, mob violence, proscription and all their kindred evils. in his opening remarks, Dr. W. H. Jernagin, -declared that on account of (lie refusal of Alabama to permit colored women to exercise their right of franchise, no self-respecting Negro could vote the democratic ticket llus year. “If Alabama refuses to permit Negro women to vote,” he said, then that state is in open rebellion to the I'nited States. This Government has spoken through the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The question is now whether Alabama is larger than the United Btatcs or the I'nited States larger than Alabama The nation lias spoken, placing franchise in the hands of women. "It is high time for the south to produce statesmen and not pigmies who build up race prejudice, rare hatred, race antipathy. Unless we are protected In our political and civil rights and provided with schools, then every Negro will go where he can get his rights. We can never have true democracy in America as long as hu man beings are lynched and mob vio lence and lawlessness go unchecked. What we died to establish in Europe, we would like to have right here in America.” The opening sermon was delivered bv Bishop I. X. Ross, on Monday night. At the opening Tuesday morning ad dresses of welcome were delivered by Dr. O. W. Carrington, pastor of John Wesley; J. A. Lankford, architect; Judge R. II. Terrell, J. J. Finley Wil son, and all the addresses were re (Continued on Page Three.) Monitor Purchases the Lincoln Review rpHE Monitor has purchased “THE REVIEW” of Lincoln, Neb., edited by Trago T. McWilliams, and consolidated j it with The Monitor. Mr. McWilliams becomes a member if The Monitor staff and will be editor and business man ager of the Lincoln department, which it will be noted occu- j pies a page of this issue. By this arrangement the people j of Lincoln are given the advantage of a larger publication i and the Lincoln advertisers the advantage of a larger cir dilation. The addition of subscribers to The Review, to If those already on The Monitor’s list puts The Monitor in practically evei-y colored family in Lincoln. To our large if and constantly growing circulation in Omaha, Nebraska and j throughout the country, The Monitor takes pleasure in f announcing that we have added at one fell swoop practically f the whole colored population of the progressive and im portant city of Lincoln to The Monitor family of readers. THE MONITOR Bv John Albert Williams, Editor. [I ’S! Q...m...mQ FIRE LEAVES 500 WITHOUT HOMES Blaze Sweeps Eight Blocks In Colored tinerican Section of I'ine Bluff, Ark PINE BLUFF, Ark., Oct. 14.—Near ly 500 people were homeless Tuesday night as the result of a fire which swept over eight blocks of a Negro residence district and for a time threatened the business district less than a mile away. Only the dying out of a brisk southeast wind, and en trenchment tactics employed by fire- j men, checked the flames. Nearly 100 homes were destroyed and the total loss was estimated at from $200,000 to $300,000. The burned area presented a pa thetic scene with fires still smolder ing at scattered points. Colored fam ine- were wandering aimlessly about in the district, seeking shelter for the night, and here and there a family stood woefully on guard over a trunk, a piece of furniture, or whatever com prised the little household goods they had saved. Na fatality had been reported up to tlie present lime and a canvas of hospitals indicated that only a few re ceived slight injuries. An aged woman was forcibly taken rfom her home after she had rushed i back into the dwelling, declaring1 frantically that ‘‘she was going witli her home." She pleaded with her res-1 cners to lie allowed to perish in her ; burning home. Throughout the ills trict were charred bodies of pigs, horses, cows and house pets. .4 —* HAITIAN INVASION CALLED VIOLATION OK UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ilnorfield Storey* Ex-President, of t American Harr Association, Charges That War Has Been Waged Against Island Without Authority From Con gress. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Moorfield storey, of Boston, ex-president of the American Bar Association and presi dent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has authorized the following state ment on Haiti, which was given out at the office of the Advancement Asso ciation, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. “General Lejeune’s report on the conduct of United States Marines in Haiti only emphasizes the fact that (Imre has been no specific denial of the serious charges made against the A> icrican Occupation of that island “The charges, made by Mr. James Weldon Johnson, acting secretary of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, and by Mr. Herbert J. Seligmann. were to the effect that some • 3,000 Haitians bad been killed by Marines; that men j and women had been tortured; that undue pressure had been exerted upon the president of Haiti and other of-j H!HtlllUUIMIMIIIIIIMIIIIOI.HIII!llltlUI!IIMIinilllll!IIIIIOItlllllllMUIIUIIIMMt|IIIHIIIMItlllHIIIIIHIIIll milltu i.lHinilliMiM.i.uinMim itMIMmilMllttl»Mm»tMHIIIUM*limlli|!HHU«IM'iUIIIHIIIIH|Ulli _ ficers, in behalf of an American bank ing institution; and that a rigid cen sorship was excluding the facts about the Haitian situation from the Unit ed States. “in answer to these specific charges it is hardly sufficient to assert that some Haitians are grateful for whai has been done and that the American adventure in Haiti has been benefi cent. “Our whole intervention in Haiti is in violation of the principles we profess and of our constitution, and whatever the Haitians have done has been obtained, by force. We have made war on Haiti without authority front Congress.” con it; itence called to DISCUSS EDUCATION (By The Associated Negro Press.) ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 14.—Announce ment has been made by P. P. Clax t.on, commissioner of the bureau of education at Washington, that a con ference will be called to discuss Ne gro educational questions. The con ference to take place in Atlanta in the Senate chamber of the capitol Friday and Saturday, November 19 and 20. Among the subjects to be consid ered at the conference include the fol lowing: The work, the conditions and needs of the colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts for Negroes of the Southern states, industrial education of Negroes in other schools and the preparation of teachers for Negro schools. DEMENTED DOMINGAN KILLED BY OFFICER Desperate Fight Between Patrolman And Alan He was Seeking To Arrest. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Patrolman Martin Gill struggled for 20 minutes on the roof of a five-storv building Tuesday with a San Domingo Negro he was trying to arrest, and then shot his antagonist to save himBelf from being hurled into the street. The man with a bullet in his stomach, slid off the roof, falling into a basket of waah left on the sidewalk. There he died a few minutes later. Scores of pedestrains stood on Sixth Avenue, transfixed, watching the struggle, while guests in several hotels near by pressed their faces to window panes. Finally a former sailor dashed upstairs to the roof and caught Gill by one leg just as the Domingan was about to roll him into the street. The man, identified as Rafael Cotin by this time had obtained Gill’s pistol. He fired at the patrolman, wounding him in the shoulder. The sailor struck Cotin on the head with a piece of wood, and Gill regaining his wea pon, fired twice as Cotin made his last furious rush. Medical Examiner Norris later expressed the opinion Cotin yvas insane. (MARGES AGAINST ALLEGED MOB LEADER ORDERED DISMISSED LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Oct. 14.— Proceedings begun In the Kansas fed eral court to bring about the return to Arkansas of Robert Hill, Negro, accused of participation in race dis turbances at Helena, Ark., last fall, have been dismissed at the instance of Attorney General Palmer, accord ing to an announcement made by Fred Robertson, United States district at torney for Kansas. Hill was said to have been the lead er of the Progressive Farmers’ and Household Union of America, an or ganization of Negroes which became involved In a series of race dis turbances In Phillips county, Arkan sas, that culminated in calling out federal troops. Several white persons iind an unknown number of Negroes were killed before the trouble ended. Alleged ringleaders of the movement, with the exception of Hill, were cap tured and brought to trial on charges of murder. Hill fled and later whs captured in Topeka. Efforts of Ark ansas state officials to extradite Hill began a litigation marked by refusal of Governor Allen of Kansas to honor the extradition papers. INDUSTRIAL UNREST CAUSES ANXIETY ■ Wlmt Will Be Hie Position of Kace Labor Should the Inflow of Foreign Workmen Assume Large Propor tions. Becomes Important Question. BELIEVED COLORED WORKMEN WILL RETAIN PLACES (By The Associated Negro Press.) CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—A crisis in northern industrial conditions is im pending on the solution to be worked out bv the most thoughtful men in the industriay world, will depend the eco- . nomic future in the North of the Ne groes for the next generation and more. What is to become of the Negro workers? Is the question being asked on every hand by those who have been carefully watching the pre-war time flow of immigration from the vari ous countries of Europe. From the manner in which immigrants are com ing into the United States, at the rate of more than 25.000 per* week at this time, there is certain to be a tension in industrial pursuits in which the un skilled labor of our group is now em ployed. The fact that the largest percent age of the immigrants at this time ts women does not lessen the problem. Since the beginning of the war, col ored women have been employed in large northern industrial plants In great numbers. They are in the places that used to be filled by foreign women. Will the new immigrants re place the colored women? Investigation by The Associated Ne gro Press discloses the fact that there are some employes among the whites who will give the preference to the white foreign women, merely on a basis of color and not efficiency. On the other hand, for the present at least, the majority prefer to continue with the help they now have. In meeting the crisis, there are three men whom it is believed the race can depend upon to consider the matter from a strictly impartial viewpoint. They are: J. Ogden Armour, of the packing industries: Judge Elbert H. Gary and Charles M. Schwab, of the steel industries, these being the larg est fields of labor in which the race is employed. These men have always shown a disposition to be fair to Negro em ployes for two reasons. First: be cause they speak English, and, sec ond : because they seldom mix in labor troubles. The subject is so tremendous that it calls for the most sober thinking ny the leaders of both races. The South is not without its part in the prob lem. That section of the country is using the situation to persuade those who have moved North to return, and to prevent others from coming North. Under existing economic and social conditions in the South, the appeals are falling on deaf ears. This makes the problem more perplexing for all. Added to this situation is the new proposition to displace Japanese work ers in the far West with thousands of Negro laborers from the South. MRS DUNBAR DISMISSED BY DEMOCRATIC BOARD WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 14.—Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson, widow of the late Paul Laurence Dunbar, famous colored poet, was unceremoniously discharged from her position as teach er in the public schools of this city by the Democratic board for having attended the social justice pilgrimage to Marion, Ohio, October 1. Mrs. Nel son, who was among the colored dele gation from ^the east that went to Harding’s home, joining the thousands of other women assembling there for the purpose of social welfare, had been warned by her principal that if she attended this meeting she would be dismissed. When she returned and presented herself at the school to take up her duties, she was informed that her services were no longer needed. She appealed to Dr. Conwell Banton mem ber of the board, and was informed that the action of the principal would be sustained by the board.