The Monitor
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A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousi b^vc _ x eople
in Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community
The Rev. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
$1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy. Omaha, Nebraska, July 8, 1916 Vol. II. No. 2 (Whole No. 54)
New York Raising
Colored Regiment
Remitting Twelve Companion W'hicli
Will be Mustered Into Empire
State Militia.
FORMER NEBRASKAN COLONEL
Governor Whitman Details Colonel
Wm. Hayward and Captain Spen
cer to Form Regiment.
New York, N. Y., July 8.—It is a
certainty that the Colored men of
New York State will be given an op
portunity to serve as a body in the
military service of the State. The
organization of a regiment to be re
cruited among Colored men was au
thorized by the state legislature some
time ago, but various causes have
prevented its consummation. Gov
ernor Whitman has detailed Colonel
William Hayward, of the New
York National Guard, and a
member of the Public Service Com
mission to the duty of recruiting and
organizing the regiment.
Active work in recruiting has start
ed. V. W. Tandy having successfully
passed the examination, has been des
ignated as first lieutenant and as
signed to duty as provisional com
mander of the First company of the
regiment. LieutemiTit Tandy is at
present in charge of the recruiting
headquarters. He is being assisted
by Private Koy Morse, detailed from
the 8th Coast Artillery, N. Y. N. G.,
and by other members of the First
company who have already been uni
formed and assigned to duty by Colo
nel Hayward.
This will be the first regiment of
Negro troops ever connected with the
National Guard of the State. That
the regiment will soon be recruited
to full strength and ready to be sworn
into State and Federal service is in
dicated by the fact that men are rap
idly enlisting.
Commissions Open to All.
While Lieutenant Tandy is the only
designated officer of the regiment at
this time, it is understood that the
men who offer for service will be
k
given every opportunity to secure
commissions in the regiment.
Captain Lorillard Spencer of the
8th Coast Artillery, Military Secre
tary to Governor Whitman, is assist
ing Colonel Hayward in the organizi
on of the regiment. General Leon
ard Wood of the United States Army
and Major-General O’Ryan, comman
der of the N. Y. N. G., have approved
the forming of the regiment.
Col. Hayward’s Military Record.
Col. William Hayward, who will
command the regiment, has had ex
tensive military experience. At the
age of 14 he enlisted in Company C,
2nd Nebraska Infantry, as a drum
mer boy. When old enough he enlist
ed as a private and was at once made
a sergeant. He then took a four
years course in the Cadet Battalion
(Continued on eighth pagei
A Word of Warning:
There Must Be No Segregation
at the Municipal Beach
Exodus of Colored Labor
Causes Deep Concern
Savannah, Ga., July 8.—Savannah
is beginning to show genuine concern
over the feet that such a large num
ber of Colored residents are leaving
here. They are dispatched to places
where they can find work of a regu
lar nature. Some of them have re
cently been dispatched to the tobacco
fields of Connecticut and others have
been sent to other sections of the
country. They are sent away through
the immigration bureau.
“We would not care if the govern
ment only took the worthless class
of Negroes,” said a man who works
a large number of them, “but it does
not do this. It inquires especially
whether those who apply for trans
portation are worthy and whether
they are reliable and they only send
hat kind away. The result is that
the industries with which I am inter
sted are beginning to feel the scar
city of adequate labor. We may ask
the government to quit taking our
best laborers away from us.” Several
nen who work large numbers of Col
ored men gave expression to the same
view. The men report at the custom
house and large numbers of them can
be found there every day.
PROPOSES MEMORIAL MEETING
FOR COLORED CAVALRYMEN
Boston, Mass., July 8.— The Na
tional Equal Rights League suggests
and urgently advises that everywhere
Colored Americans hold Memorial
Meetings in honor of the Colored Cav
alrymen who were sacrificed in Mex
ico and died fighting bravely for the
flag, which does not protect them at
home. It would be most fitting to
ulogize those black heroes right now,
ind appeal for equal rights for their
race. White Irish-Americans are eulo
gizing Irish rebels of Ireland. A cit
izens committee should be formed at
mce in every city.
Boston’s meeting was held in old
Faneuil Hall July 6th.
President Byron Gunner, Milburn,
N. Y., will be glad to get a notice of
all such meetings.
COLORED WISCONSINITES
FORM ORGANIZATION
Oskosh, Wis., July 8.—The Colored
citizens of Wisconsin have formed a
state organization to be known as the
“Co-operative Development and Pro
gressive Association.” The purpose
of the organization is to promote th
best interests of the people through
out the state. The first meeting,
which was recently held here, was
well attended.
Boxing Commissioners
Knock Out Color Ban
Albany, N. Y., July 8.—Boxing
Commissionsrs of New York, with
Chairman Fred C. Wenck, presiding
unanimously decided in their meeting
Wednesday morning, June 28, to re
move the ban on mixed boxing bouts
in the State of New York, which rule
was adopted to prevent Jack Johnson,
champion heavyweight of the world,
from fighting in this State.
This action was taken after the sub
ject had been considered in all its
phases and after months of cone -av
tion cn the part of opponents of the
rule that it was not only unfair but.
unsportsmanlike. Governor Whitman
is largely responsible for this resuit,
as he called the meeting and was »n
favor of the action taken.
It will hardly open the way to the
getting of Jess Willard into the ring
with any of the Colored contenders
for the title as he has discretely drawn
the color line. Moran, who recently
boxed Dillon in Brooklyn, is the only
white heavyweight who has said he is
willing to meet any of the boxers, re
gardless of their color.
JAILED FOR INSULTING
COLORED GIRLS
Columbus, 0., July 8.—R. B. Mc
Clurg, white, who claims Greenville,
Pa., as his home, and who says he
came to Columbus to join the army,
was given $10 and costs and 10 days
in the city prison by Judge Ruth in
municipal court, Wednesday morning,
for insulting two Colored girls at Mt.
Vernon and Cleveland avenues, Tues
day night. McClurg was arrested by
Sergeant Newport, who is said to
have had a hard time keeping Mc
Clurg from being mobbed by a crowd
while waiting for the patrol.
JOHN BROWN’S
HOME PURCHASED
Meadville, Pa., July 8.—The Na
tional Historical Society has pur
chased five acres of land twelve miles
east of here, which was formerly
owned by John Brown of civil war
fame and upon which he built a tan
nery. The society will inclose the land
and erect a suitable marker to his
memory.
COLORED EMBALMERS
FORM ASSOCIATION
Richmond, Va., July 8.—The Col
oicd embalmers of this city have
formed an association the purpose of
which is to raise the profession to a
higher standard and put all on the
same foundation for the best inter
ests of the business.
Rooseveltian Rooters
Will Support Hughes
Progressive National Committee En
dorses Republican Candidate
for President.
BULL MOOSERS ARE HEADLESS
It is Conceded that the Return of the
Prodigals Insure Hughes’
Election.
Chicago, July 8.—By a vote of 32
to 6—nine not voting and three absent
—the Progressive National Committee
met in Chicago and indorsed the can
didacy of Charles Evans Hughes for
President, following the advice given
in a letter from Theodore Roosevelt,
which was read by Secretary Oscar
K. Davis.
The vacancy at the head of the
Moose ticket caused by the declina
tion of Colonel Roosevelt was not
filled and will not be filled. To clinch
the matter, the committee, after com
mitting its leaders to Hughes without
any strings, directed the executive
committee to ally itself with Mr.
Hughes’ campaign and do all in its
power to aid in his election.
Committee Adjourned.
The committee adjourned sine die
and departed, leaving Colonel John M.
Parker of Louisiana, the candidate for
Vice-President, to follow whatever
course he thinks best. He is still
on the Progressive ticket, but it has
no head and will not have one.
Whether he will resign or decide to
go on and do what damage he can to
Charles W. Fairbanks will be de
termined after he has returned to
Louisiana and had time to think it
over.
An effort to make Victor Murdock,
of Kansas, for President, was over
whelmingly voted down.
Hughes to the Committee.
All doubts concerning Charles E.
Hughes’ attitude toward the two puz
zles of his present campaign—the
Hyphenates and Colonel Roosevelt—
were swept away yesterday when the
fermer justice of the Supreme Court,
with his usual economy of words, ex
pressed himself on both in a manner
that left no opportunity for mistak
ing his meaning.
Hyphenates generally and Germans
who may have been responsible for
criminal acts in America specifically
were denounced in a telegram sent to
O. K. Adams, chairman of the Pro
gressive National Committee in the
evening. The telegram, whose pur
pose was to thank the Progressives
for their indorsement of his candidacy
by a vote of 32 to 6, contained a clear
statement of his views upon the Ad
ministration’s foreign policy.
Responsibility for the killing of
Americans in Mexico and the activity
of foreign agents in this country he
placed squarely upon the shoulders of
President Wilson because of his ever
changing diplomatic program.