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| The monitor I A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS __ PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY__ Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879,_ TRe REV.'JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS-- Editor W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb----^.Aeeoclate Editor LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS-Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, $2.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75o 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 U . r>W*WM***>W************4*W>************t ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE | UNITED STATES | I > Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged 1 ’ 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, \! and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the £ ;; United States and of the State wherein they reside. No £ • > state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the £ 1! privileges or imiminities of citizens of the United States; nor |; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- £ ■ • erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person *j !! within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. X " X BISHOP CLAIR PAYS OMAHA BRIEF VISIT The Rt. Rev. Matthew W. Clair, of Washingon, D. C., one of the two colored bishops of the Methodist Epis copal church, paid Omaha a brief visit Tuesday, coming here from Sedalia, Mo. He preached an admirable ser mon in Grove M. E. church Tuesday night, which was heard by an appre ciative audience. The ladies of the congregation had planned an agree able surprise for him. The Rev. Dr. Logan had apprised them of the fact that October 21 was Bishop Clair’s birthday anniversary and at the close of the services he was presented with a beautiful leather brief case in an appropriate speech by Dr. Logan. Bishop Clair had overlooked the fact that it was his birthday which made the surprise the more pleasant. He urged the congregation to remain loyally together until he could send them a pastor. The sum of $100 was raised at the service to meet Grove’s apportionment for the general work of the church. Bishop Clair left late Tuesday night for Topeka. His dis trict or diocese includes eleven states with Liberia, Africa, thrown in for good measure. NOT LEFT ALONE pORTUNATELY for our people there are many right-thinking, broad-minded and justice-loving white people in every community who have the courage to stand up for the right. Omaha has some of this type. They do not covet the limelight, but they are willing to take a stand and use their influence when exegencies demanding action arise. This has been demonstrated (recently in the Howard Kennedy school affair where the janitor was vindicated by a com mittee of school officials for his un warranted interference with Troop 23, Boy Scouts, the facts of which were riven in The Monitor. One gen tleman was present at the inverstiga v *don who is deeply interested in so cial work and the welfare'of our peo ple He is a prominent and influen tial bu'dneis mar. The injustice of the action wj.s so glaring that he could rot pemii* it pas.; unchallenged. He felt, ard rhd tly sc. because he is closely in touch with the thought of our people, that to do so would ser iously jeopardize the good ■will which largely prevails in our community. To condone injustice is always a ser ious mistake. He, like some others, believes this to to true. And so he got got busy. The result was that letters were written to Superintendent Bev eridge and the School Board by rep resentatives of welfare organizations respectfully calling attention to what was considered an unfair attitude. Suffice it to say that another janitor is now employed at the school. This shows that when our cause is just and we conduct ourselves so as to win confidence and respect we will not be left to fight our battles alone. Men with moral courage still survive, will ing to espouse a just cause. A NEEDED WARNING pET us not be lulled to rest with the false belief that the hooded broth erhood wishes our people no ill and that they are only opposed to other groups of citizenry such as Jews, Roman Catholics and the foreign born. Even though what some of them in the face of their written doc uments aver, were true, which, of course, is not, we who believe that God has made all men and that all men are His children could not for one moment regard with favor or in difference their program of intolera tion, even though it excluded our group. But we colored Americans are objects of their hatred and ill-will. They have cunningly devised plans which aim at the abridgement of our citizenship rights by legislative enact ment. For example, in states where under the constitution all citizens are equal as regards the privileges of travel and school facilities, it is plan ned to pass legislation which will compel the separation of the races on railroads and street cars, in public places and schools. Of course in states like Nebraska and Iowa the possibility of such a thing seems quite remote. And yet, what at times, seems to be remote or even Impossible come to pass. This is part of the program which these purveyors of racial and religious hatred and prej udice are trying to put across. There fore, it behooves us right here in Ne braska to scrutinize candidates for all offices, municipal, county and state and especially for the legisla ture and senate and if there is any well-founded suspicion that they be long to the Klan vote against them. We are sounding no false alarm, neither shying at white stones. This warning is needed and timely. Be vigilant Keep your eyes open and your ears to the ground. ELECT OUR CANDIDATES RELIEVING in their rights as American citizens to stand for public office members of our race have filed as candidates for the state legislature and the board of educa tion. Of course there are those who feel that it is a mistake for colored folk to stand for election. Others, and their number is far from neglible, be lieve that it is the right thing to do where they have the qualifications to render intelligent and faithful public -ervice. Such people wall vote for candidates of our group. With the solid support of our own people for these candidates supplemented by the votes of the liberal minded among other groups of voters these candi dates can be elected. Let us stand unitedly behind our candidtes for the School Board and State Legislature. They ran be eleited. Vote unitedly. GREENLEAF FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR Sam K. Greanleaf, republican can didate for county assessor, was bom in the town of Paris, Edgar county, Illinois, November 4th, 1860; moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, at the close of the Civil War, where he was reared and educated in the public schools. Came to Omaha, April 1st, 1888. His public service began in the office of the city clerk of Omaha in 1901, where in served five years, having been em ployed previous to that time by the Omaha Street Railway company. Entered the service of Douglas county treasurer’s office June 1st, 1907, under County Treasurer Robert O. Fink, and has served continuously in that office under five country treas urers, three republicans and two democrats, for a period of more than seventeen years, and for the past thirteen years, he has held the im portant position of chief clerk. There is no record of any other man having served so many consecutive years in the county and city treasurer’s office. The outstanding feature of Mr. Greenleaf’s connection with the treas urer’s office was the reconstruction Sam K. Greenleaf | :: . t CHIEF CLERK COUNTY TREASURER’S OFFICE 'j < > Seventeen years’ Experience REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR | County Assessor f ! Experience, Efficiency and Economy Combined Will ❖ Reduce Taxes X YOUR SUPPORT IS EARNESTLY SOLICITED | Election November 4th' (My Birthday) | ' . • , ■ of the records of the office destroyed during the riot and fire at the Doug las county court house, in September, 1919. SOUTHERN MIGRANTS SWELL G. 0. P. RANKS Chicago, 111., Oct. 24.—In a survey Just completed covering a number of the key sections into which Negro laborers from the South have moved during the last four years it is dis closed that the sentiment Is over whelmingly Republican In most in stances and safely so in others. Two of the overwhelmingly Repub lican cities are St. Louis, Mo., and Detroit, Mich. Two of the safely Republican cities from the standpoint of the colored voter are Kansas City, Mo., and Milwaukee, Wis., in La Fol lette’s home state. According to Dr. T. A. Curtis, St. Louis, chairman of the executive committee of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, in that city, there are ap proximately 125,000 Negro voters in the state of Missouri. At the last registration day 34,075 colored men and women registered. The city of St. Louis is Republican with majori ties running from 20,000 to 50,000. Dr. Curtis believes that this year, as usual the vote will be Republican. One of the most prominent citizens of the town declares that 90 per cent of the Negro vote is Republican, 9 per cent Democratic and 1 per cent for La Follette. Father D. R. Clark, rector of All Saints' Episcopal church, figures 80 per cent of the vote to be Republican and 20 per cent Demo cratic. About 20 per cent of the voters are listening to I .a Follette’s preachings, but Just listening. The Democratic Negroes, according to Father Clark, are that way “Just to show the Republican bosses that we are free”. The opinion of intelligent observers, therefore points to a high percentage of the Negro vote being Republican, nearly 90 per cent or 30,000. This will represent an increase of 10,000 over the vote of 1920 and will go a long way toward dispelling any feaV that the Democrats will carry the state. The state may go Democratic for governor, but it is held as very likely that the electoral vote will be cast for Coolidge. Detroit, Mich., has had an increase of 623 per cent in its Negro popula tion since 1910. Out of a population numbering 56,000 more than 35,000 registered at the last primary and, according to Walter H. Stowers, of the law firm of Stowers and Barnes, “98 per cent of the colored vote will be for the Republican ticket, about one-tenth of one per cent for the Democratic ticket and the balance for La Follette. Another lawyer, Chas. H. Mahoney believes that 90 per cent of the Negro vote will be Republican, not because they are altogether satis fied with the party, but because they are sure they do not want to leave it. “There is some talk for La Fol lette," he explains, “but I am of the opinion that even some who talk for him will not vote for him. The num ber will be practically nil. We have no outspoken Democrats in our group at this time.” Dr. A. W. Womack, director of the Royal Brotherhood Knigh‘s of Ethio pia, thinks a few will vote the Demo cratic ticket, but not more than two per cent and that La Follette has only interested the radicals of the group who do not number many. The increase of Negro voters in Detroit has made them considerable of a political force in the city and state. Aaron C. Toodle, executive secretary of the United Civic League, holds that John Smith, who received the largest number of votes as a can didate for mayor, was suctessful al together because of the influence of the Negro vote. me cuy s i>egro population nas grown so rapidly that there has been a big job in lining up the voters, but there are five political organizations in the city the chief of whose objects seems to be the getting out of the Negro vote, and bringing it into the Republican fold. Kansas City, Mo., is one of the cities thought to be safely Republican. Not as many migrants have come into it as to Detroit and St. Louis, due largely to the fact that it is very lit tle advanced over most southern cities in the advantages it offers to Ne groes. Out of its total population of 350,000, however, 33,000 are Negroes and 20,000 of these vote. The colored additions to the population have been arriving at the rate of about 1,000 a year during the last four years, ac cording to F. T. Lane, secretary of the Urban league. Duane B. Mason, one of the lead ing lawyers of the city, is of the opinion that, although there are many Negro Democrats in municipal and state affairs, the Negro vote this year is going to be of material help in putting the state into the column for Coolidge and Dawes. “Negroes are not thinking of the La Follette ticket,” he remarks. Of the 20,000 Negro voters in Kan sas City, seventy per cent will vote the Republican ticket, is the opinion of W. H. Harrison, principal of the Attucks school. Twenty-five per cent will be Democratic and five per cent will go to La Follette. Mr. Lane of the Urban League expresses the belief that "the Negroes are almost evenly divided between Re publicans and Democrats. At the present time the Republicans seems to have the majority, according to past state and municipal elections. The coming election will most likely result in the same way since many Negroes who vote the Democratic ticket locally will vote Republican on account of the presidential election.” Milwaukee is not as good a barom eter of Negro sentiment in Wisconsin for I>a Follette as some other ci ties in the state, due to the fact that there are few Negroes in the city, less than in any large American city and to the further fact of most of these Negroes being of a special sort. The migrants to Milwaukee are made up altogether of those persons lured north by labor agents and others who have made the city their second stopping place after first coming to Chicago, in the words of J. Harvey Kerns, of the Milwaukee Urban league, Mr. Kerns is secretary. One observer believes sentiment for Coolidge and for La Follette almost equal, the swing to La Follette, if any, being due to the influence of the Universal Negro Improvement Asso ciation which has thrown its support to the senator. . Rankford G. Holley, chiropractor, subscribes to the fifty-fifty view of the above observer, holding, however, that the La Follette sentiment, is the outgrowth of the view of La Follette as a radical which appeals to those who are necessarily radical among Negroes. Mr. Kerns of the Urban league dif fers from the two observers quoted. “The general sentiment in the com munity favors the Republican party, though the Socialists are yearly win ning Negroes to their way of think ing,” he explains. WOMEN TO FORM PERMANENT REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION (By the Associated Negro Press) Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 24.—Under the auspices of the legislative depart ment of the National League of Re publican Women a conference wdll be held in this city October 25-27 to map out plans whereby the National League will function permanently as a chartered organization. Prospec tive delegates are communicating with the chairman, Mrs. M. Mossell Griffin. 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