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THE MONITOR A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED AMERICANS__ PUBLISHED EVERY FTUDAY AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, BY THE MONITOR PUBLISHING COMPANY_ Entered as Second-Class Mali Matter July i. 1915. at the Postoffice at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, __ p TH-E REV.ToHN ALBERT WILLIAMS-- Id I tor W. W. MOSELY, Lincoln, Neb-- A«oc|ate Edlto , LUCINDA W. WILLIAMS____- -_.Buelnese Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES, 12.00 A YEAR; $1.25 6 MONTHS; 75c 3 MONTHS Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application _ Address, The Monitor, Postoffice Box 1204, Omaha, Neb. Telephone WEbster 4243 L —^ ARTICLE XIV, CONSTITUTION OF THE 3 ; | UNITED STATES | !! Citizenship Rights Not to Be Abridged * ", 1. AH persons born or naturalized in the United States, E 11 and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the R 1 “ United States and of the State wherein they reside. No g ! 1 state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ! I privileges or immunities of citizen^ of the United States; nor g «; shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or prop- , ' > erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person F ! I within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. J CANDIDATES OF OlTR RACE AN IMPORTANT local matter in which all our people are vitally interested is the election of a candi date to the School Board and to the State Legislature. Rev. John Albert Williams is being actively and enthu siastically supported for the School Board. Not only are our own people interested in his election but several influential white friends have given assurance of their support. All ex press confidence that he can and will be elected. F. L. Barnett is a candi date from the Tenth Legislative Dis trict which is a strong Republican District with a large colored popula tion. His election, therefore, seems assured. Mr. Barnett is voted for only in his district. Candidates for the School Board are voted for in every part of the city. This means that friends and supporters of Rev. John Albert Williams must be on the alert and active in every ward and voting district in the city. A united vote will put our candidates over the top. OUR VOICE IS STILL FOR ADAM McMULLEN rr«HE MONITOR was one of the first newspapers in the state to urge and support the candidacy of the Hon. Adam McMullen of Beatrice for Gov ernor of Nebraska. We-have never had any reason to waver in our sup port of him. We believe that he will prove himself a governor of whom all citizens of the state will be proud. We can expect from him an econom ical and businesslike administration such as the state requires and the times demand and a square deal for all citizens. We predict the election of Adam McMullen, republican nominee for governor, by a large majority, to wards which the colored voters will have contributed several thousand. GREENLEAF FOR ASSESSOR tJ'HE MONITOR commends Sam K. Greenleaf for the position of Coun ty Assessor, an important office for which he is well qualified. We have known him personally for thirty years —fourteen of which he was our neigh bor. His election will assure taxpay ers a thoroughly competent man and his relationship with our people has always been on the square. Vote for Greenleaf! CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT — J^OBERT SMITH has rendered the I citizens and taxpayers of this County excellent service as Clerk of the District Court for several years. | That’s why they have kept him on the job. He has made good absolutely. In the admirable administration of his office he has won the right to the re-election which he seeks. As an additional claim to our support he gives employment to a colored clerk in his office. John G. Pegg is the present employee, he having succeed ed Worthington William^ who re signed to enter the University of Min nesota. Others who have been em ployed at different times by Mr. Smith since he has held the office are Rufus C. Long and Miss Myrtle Cloud. Vote for Robert Smith for Clerk of the District Court! SECRETARY OF STATE ^HARLES W. POOL has served the people of Nebraska as Secretary of State for two succesive terms. He filled the same office acceptably a few years ago. He is one of the few democrats whom this good old Repub lican state has repeatedly chosen to an important state office even when the rest of his ticket went down in defeat. This speaks volumes for the character and ability of "Charley” Pool. The Monitor is supporting Charles W. Pool, candidate on the De mocrat-Progressive Ticket for Secre tary of State and heartily commends him to the’favorable consideration of our people. One of the ablest and best Judges on the District bench is A. C. Troup. Be sure to vote for him. Vote ‘‘YES’’ on the Branch Library Bond Issue. OUR DUTY 18 CLEAR rJ'HE CLOSING HOURS of the most important political campaign in sixty years are upon us. It is im portant and momentous because of the Issues at stake. Hysteria prevails throughout the world and the United States is suffering with this malady. There is a desire for change. There is seething unrest. This restlessness and desire for change, if it meant simply change for the better, which is really what we all wish to have, are not to be condemned. They are symptoms of growth. But there is a growth which makes for strength and a growth that makes for weakness. There is a healthy growth and an un healthy growth. Many are the indica tions that the growing pains of the nation felt at this time indicate a growth into weakness and not into strength. And that is why It behooves us to carefully consider how we shall vote In this election, which is, without question, the most important and significant one since the Reconstruc tion period which followed the Civil War. Great issues center around three strong and magnetic personali ties. In admiration for these men their adherents are likely to overlook the fact that we are called upon to decide upon BASIC PRINCIPLES which strike at the root of the na tion’s political and economic life. PRINCIPLES not PERSONALITIES should determine our vote. A fair and candid consideration of the issues involved and the principles at stake in the present election, the present crisiB, clearly shows that the progress, prosperity and the welfare of the na tion rests with the Republican Party under the leadership of Calvin Cool idge. Why do we say this? Because of the fact that this party stands upon and for the Constitution of the United States, which is the chief issue at stake at this time and that is fundamental and vital. The Constitu tion, as it is, fairly and honestly in terpreted and applied, means the hap piness, prosperity and wellbeing of every citizen. What the people need to demand is not tampering with, amending, modifying or nullifying the Constitution, which La Follette advo cates, and the party of Davis prac tises—but the enforcement of its pro visions. Coolidge and the Republican Party stand squarely upon the Con stitution. Shall the Constitution stand? This is the supreme question for us to decide in this election. There are other important issues, but this overshadows all. Shall the Constitu tion stand? La Follette and Davis who have formed an alliance say “No”. Coolidge says “Yes”. Our safety and welfare rest under the Constitution and the protection of the Supreme Court. Knowing this our duty is plain. On November 4 as loyal and patriotic Americans we will go to the polls and vote for Calvin Coolidge. WHY JiOT LA FOLLETTE? JJECAUSE of the record of the demo cratic party as it affects our peo ple but comparatively few colored Americans will be induced to vote DIRECTLY for Davis. A large num ber, however, are disposed to vote for him INDIRECTLY by supporting La Follette. None can consistently do this when he understands the danger ous principles which the brillant Wis consin senator advocates. We shall select but two of these vicious prin ciples. In fact his planks fall into - -- ■ ■ ■ x ♦> |T<| ▼ | Colored Vote for I 1 CALVIN COOLIDGE ! ♦!♦ I 2 ♦♦ Y Y Calvin Coolidge as president and as a public official before hfe became pres ident, has treated the Negro with exact and unprejudiced justice that has won for him the general support of the col Y ored race in the present campaign. His policy has been that of the Republican party which was founded, in part, upon the principle of freedom and equality Y °f opportunity for the Negro. In his appointments to various offices the president has recognized Negroes '*f qualified for various positions of trust, from the high post of minister to Libe ria, and responsible positions as assist ants to the attorney general, down to various postal and veteran's bureau X places. 1 A few weeks ago, in rejecting a sug gestion that he should endeavor to pre & vent a Negro becoming a candidate for ^ the republican nomination for Congress ❖ m one of the New York districts, Pres- ♦♦♦ ident Coolidge wrote: “The suggestion of denying any ♦♦♦ measure of their full political rights to ♦> such a great group of our population as ♦% the colored people is one which, how evjjg it might be received in some other %♦ quarters, could not possibly be permit- ♦> ted by one who feels a responsibility V for living up to the traditions and main taining the principles of the republican V party. “A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a ♦♦♦ party primary, as is any other citizen.” V President Coolidge appointed an all Negro commission to visit the Virgin Y Islands, the newly acquired possession of the United States in the West Indies, V inhabited by Negroes. The appoint- Y ment of an all-Negro commission of this V importance is unprecendented in the V history of the United States. V | MAKE SURE-VOTE TIE | STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET f . f ■ ‘ — ■ • - - two distinct catagories, political and economic, both having as their ob jective. wresting of power from the favored few and placing it with all the people. Admittedly worthy objec tives supported by the Constitution. But how does he propose to accom plish this? By the destruction of those very agencies and safeguards of government which alone make what he says he desires possible. He would sit on a limb of a tree and saw it off between himself and ite supporting trunk. The Federal Courts which protect the rights of the people and guarantee them the privilege of exer cising the franchise he would make purely subservient to the will and whim of the people. He would have Federal Judges elected for limited terms by the people making thim largely political pawns. Judges should be freed as far as possible from the exigencies of politics. This we ap proximate in the appointment of Fed eral judges by the President with the consent of the senate. This removes them very largely, if not entirely, from the popular opinions and cur rents which would tend to color their decisions. The protection of the Ne gro, as of others, lies in the Federal Courts. State and municipal courts may be and have been prejudiced against him, but in the Federal Courts his rights have been protected. Re call the Blaine cases in Arkansas and other recent important decisions. And why the demand for a Federal anti lynching law? Beca-se of the justifi able belief that the Federal Court will not be governed by local sentiment. I.a Follette would change the present tenure of the Federal Judicature. Then, too, and note how vital this is, he would have Congress empowered to override what he misleadingly calls "the veto power of the Supreme Court”. The Supreme Court vetoes nothing. It sets aside acts of Con gress and enactments of lower courts when they are found incompatible with and in violation of the Constitu tion. We need such a Judicial system which protects the rights of the low est as it does those of the highest and because in these tw0 fundamental principals, La Follettism strikes at the vitals of the nation and robs the common people of the protection they sorely need fully answers ttfe question Why Not La Follette?” Our people should not be mislead, a crisis is here. Vital principles are at stake. These touch us closely. We cannot be indifferent. We cannot follow La Fol lette. Letters From Our Readers Short, timely letter* are invited. W« prefer that writer* sign their names, but in all case* letter* signed with a nom de plume or as "Reader," "8ub !®r*5®rv etc„ *>« accompanied by the name and addren* of the author for tn© editor’* Information. LETTERS FROAf OCR READERS Elect Williams and Damctt EDITOR MONITOR: Permit me Bpace in your valuable publication to say a few words con cerning the candidacy of Father John Albert Williams for the School Board and F. L. Barnett for the State Legis lature. All right-thinking Negroes and white people, too, and from my long residence here and wide business ac quaintance I know Omaha has lots and lots of falrminded white people will admit that our people are en titled to representation both on the School Board and In the Legislature. In inducing Father William^ to run for the School Board, the Negroes of Omaha have done a wise thing. We have selected the right man. His character, ability, long residence and wide acquaintance as well as the deep interest he haB always taken in our children and in civic matters fits him for the Job. As a taxpayer and father with children in school I want to see Father Williams on the School Board. F. L. Barnett whom I have known for,thirty-five years will do good ser vice in the Legislature. He ie a prop erty owner and taxpayer and can be depended upon to do good service. Det us elect these two candidates_ Williams for the School Board and Barnett for the legislature. S. H. DORSEY, 3643 Parker St. HEART TO HEART TALK TO MT NEGRO NEIGHBORS By REV. ALBERT KUHN, Pastor of Bethany Presbyterian Church, Cor ner North 20th Street and Willis Avenue. I have been urged to run as a can didate for the ninth district, as state representative. I believe in folks casting their vote* intelligently and so I am going to tell the voters of the district, just where I stand. FIRST I believe there are fine and capable men in every party, and if I am elected, I shall work together for good with all real patriots no mat ter on what ticket they ran. it is not, the party label one wears that counts, but the man underneath the label. SECOND—I shall represent a dis trict made up mostly of working peo ple, colored and white, Protestant, Jewish and Catholic. I shall have my eye especially on legislation that affects the common people. I shall fight for their rights. THIRD—I shall propose a law which demands that shops and stores must pay as a minimum a fair living wage to our women and girls over sixteen, like some other states have. It is not fair that some girls work Just for their powder and rouge and hats and thus cut down the wages for women and girls who have to make their living by their hands. FOURTH—I shall propose a revi sion of the criminal laws. As it is now the little thief gets hit with a club and the big crook is touched with a feather duster. I am for a better regulation of the pardon system. FIFTH—I shall propose a law which shall do away with Sunday labor in shops except in cases of pub lic necessity and which forces fac tories where Sunday work in neces sary to so arrange their shifts that the men get one day of seven free. We have altogether too much seven day-a-week-slavery. SIXTH—I shall propose a law which will make it possible for chil dren to get religious instruction in the week without violating in any way the fulleet liberty of religion. A nation without godliness will go to the rocks. SEVENTH—I shall demand that the Negroes shall get their fair share of the employment which the state ad ministration has to furnish; by this I mean that if the Negro population amounts to five per cent of the whole state population, five per cent of the workers for the state should be Ne groes. There are plenty of intelligent Negroes that are a« efficient and as dependable as any white man. We should not only preach but practice equality before the law. If you are with me on this platform I shall appreciate your vote regard less to what party you belong. I am personally a booster for La Follette and make no beans about it; I have admired him for years for his honesty, his gameness and his proven sympathy for the common people. I believe that the rich can take care of themselvee; they conti ol everything else; they have controlled the govern ment for their own profit; turn about is fair play. But in state politics I wear no man’s collar and shall pull together with any good republican or democrat. I don’t believe in party hate and party prejudice, but in mutual con fidence, forbearance and co-operation. My district includes the territory from Thirtieth street to the river and from about Charles north to Lake and in some parts to Spencer.—Adv. HOW A Jl'DGE HELPED TWO WAYWARD GIRLS By Rev. John Albert Williams. Some years ago when Judge A. L. Sutton was on the District bench he telephoned the writer to come to his office which I did. He told me why he had sent for me. Two young colored women who had begun a life of shame had been convicted in his court for larceny from the person from a man who consorted with that kind of women. It was a penitentiary offense. Judge Sutton said, “I don't want to send these women to the peniten'iary, if I can help it. Courts are to help reform people, and I may be mis taken but I believe these women can be saved to society. They are not hardened cases. One of them is a Tnere kid, she looks like she's about fourteen, but claims she is eighteen. She’s Just started out. The other woman is older. I want* you to see them and talk with them. If you think, as I do, that we can help them, I would like you to find among your people two homes in which they can stop temporarily until they find work and I’ll suspend their sentence and parole them to you. Are you willing to do this?” I replied in the affirmative and went to the Jail to see them. Police Ma tron Gibbons spoke quite highly of them as “good girls, started wrong”. I was favorably impressed. I went to see Leon Smallwood, who was a mes senger at the Omaha National bank and lived in Benson, i told him of Judge Sutton’s proposition. His eyes moistened as he said: “Father Williams, if a white Judge can take that much interest in trying to save some of our girls, God knows some of us ought to help. I’ll talk the matter over with Minnie (his wife) and see if we can’t take one of them into our home.” The result was this: Mr. and Mrs. Smallwood took "the kid” into their home and the older woman came to my home, where she remained a few days until she got a service place, where she worked for several months. The younger girl found work, too. Subsequently she returned to her home in an adjoining state, where she married, has a family and is getting on nicely. The older woman was keep ing straight the laBt I heard of her which wag some years ago. I think Judge Sutton rendered good service to society by the interest he took in these two wayward girls, don’t you? MEHARRY MEDICAL SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE HERE l _ Dr. J. 8. Holman, official endow ment solicitor of Meharry Medical School, Nashville, Tenn., is here in the interests of that institution. He will speak at St. John's A. M. E. Church Sunday morning and at Zion Baptist Church Sunday night. In the afternoon at 4 o’clock he will address the N. A. A. C. P. at the North Side Branch of the Y. W. C. A., which will be in the nature of, a memorial for Dr. Hubbard, the founder of Meharry. James T. English | DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE | Public Defender | Election November 4, 1924 | Son of Late Judge Janies P. Ei | "X"X“X"X“X"X“X-X“X":“X“X“X"X*<"X“X"X":' Jas. M. Fitzgerald | Asks Your Vote for £ Re-Election as X DISTRICT JODfiE Election November 4th | •❖*X~X~X~X~X-X“X~XK~X~X"X~X~X~X~X A Vote for ? Judge Chas. Foster | F°R I District Judge f The office is non-political under x the law, and as District Judge, I ? piomise to fill it without regard •{• to partisanship, race, creed or | color. ^ X«:~X“X-X~X“X"X~X~X~X~XX~X“X“;~X~X~> • • • • • • « • • • • • • • • • • • • v^rryvTV>nmrvTVVVVVVVTVVVVVVV FOR CONGRESS I I : ? i WILLIAM N. JAMIESON * t - X X. Member of the law firm of Jamieson, O’Sullivan 4* f & Southard, South Omaha £ Mr, Jamieson is Openly, Courageously, firmly, finally % •{• and forever | AGAINST THE KU KLUX KLAN I X A !*! He don’t have any Klansmen as his advisers ? £ VOTE FOR JAMIESON I FOR CONGRESS X ? HE’S ON YOUR SIDE f ? A V _**»**. _• . • • • • • • • • • * • ft * A * * A * A A » A A A A A A A A « A A * A ’ ' * * • • • * • • * • tr • ■» >• •' f «- *• V V V Vf V V V V * I 36,000 Children— t * •% i 4 If $ £ £ AH Ages, AH Races, AH £ £ Religious Creeds attend » £ £ the Omaha Public £ ;!; Schools. School Board £ | Members must be wise, ' \ ' honest, prudent and toler- £ & ant. Theirs is a BIG job. £ f I l I £ Ask for a “School Board Ballot” £ IFofe for— I FRANK MYERS J. H. WALLACE | C. V. WARFIELD GORTON ROTH f MRS. HARLEAN C. FETTERS £ | And Add One More Good Name for the Sixth Place £ ABRAHAM L | SUTTON! for i District Judge | Served as your District X Judge for more than ten years £ Douglas, Washington and ’<f Burt Counties X Election November 4, 1924 $