The Monitor
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Eight Thousand Colored People
In Omaha and Vicinity, and to the Good of the Community
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor £
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$1.50 a Year. 5c a Copy Omaha, Nebraska, Sept. 9, 1916 Vol. II. No. 11 (W ^ No. 63)
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Hughes Endorsed;
Wilson Flattered
National Negro Educational Congress
Enthusiastically Declares For
Hughes and Fairbanks.
HANNIBAL DEMOCRAT LEAGUE
Flatters Wilson and Themselves by
Assuring Him That Colored Vot
ers Will Support Him.
Washington, Sept. 8.—The Negro
Educational Congress declaring itself
for Hughes and Fairbanks and a small
delegation of Colored men telling
President Wilson that they are with
him are among the most recent out
standing features in politics as it re
gards the race.
The Educational Congress at its
closing session Saturday, Aug. 26,
held a lengthy debate over the acts
of the present Democratic adminis
tration. Its general attitude toward
the Negro since Wilson became Pres
ident was strongly criticised and the
party condemned for its shortsighted
ness regarding the race. It was point
ed out that under the Wilson regime
the race had lost the Haitian port
folio, consular positions, the position
of Register of the Treasury and other
important posts. Segregation was
also scored.
Hughes Endorsed.
The Congress adopted the following
resolution:
Whereas the condition of the Amer
ican Republic has been made almost
intolerable in consequence of the
Democratic misrule and graver than
it has been in the history of the Gov
ernment, and,
Whereas the continuation of that
party in power would threaten the
existence of our most cherished in
stitutions, and,
Whereas that race progress has ever
been retarded under Democratic rule,
and,
Whereas the splendid and patriotic
record of the race in peace and war
demands a fair chance.
Therefore we appeal to the patriotic
men and women of the race to give
their united support to Hughes and
Fairbanks for President and Vice
President of the United States. Not
for the purpose of taking from any
race of men their God-given immun
ities of human endeavor, but that we
may at least enjoy an equal chance in
the race of life under the flag of a
common country.
Wilson Flattered.
A delegation claiming to represent
the Hannibal National Negro Demo
cratic League called on the President
Monday and preesnted a long address
assuring support for him and the
national ticket.
Giles B. Jackson, of Richmond, Va.,
is the president and Rufus L. Perry,
a Brooklyn lawyer, is the secretary.
Others in the delegation were: Ben
jamin S. Smith, supervisor of Colored
schools in Washington county, Md.;
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DOUGLAS REPUBLICAN
CLUB TO MEET
The Douglas Republican League
will meet next Thursday night, Sep
tember 14, at Peterson Hall, 24th and
Burdette streets, at 8 o’clock. Good
speakers will address the meeting.
Speeches will be delivered by Dr. L.
E. Britt, Attorney Will N. Johnson,
M. F. Singleton and others. Every
body come.
CANDIDATE FOR LEGISLATURE.
Louisville, Xy., Aug. 25*—Col. Ros
coe Conkling Simmons, one of the best
orators in the country, is a candidate
for the legislature, representing the
Tenth ward. He came to Kentucky
from Mississippi. At ane time he was
editor of the New York Age.
A Challenge to
Your Race Pride
An effort is being made by the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People to raise a
$10,000.00 Anti-Lynching Fund. Two
conditional gifts of $1,000 each de
pend upon the entire amount being
raised by September 15th. How mucji
will Omaha give?
For Anti-Lynching Fund.
S. L. Bush . $2.00
Rev. Jno. Albert Williams. 2.00
William G. Haynes . 2.00
Jos. B. LaCour, Jr. 1.00
Sergt. Isaac Bailey. 1.00
A. N. Wade . 1.00
Total .$9.00
CLOSES CONFERENCE YEAR
The Rev| W. T. Osborne, who for
four years has been pastor of St.
John’s A. M. E. Church, is just clos
ing his conference year. Tuesday
night it has been planned to have an
entertainment in which all who ap
’ preciated his faithful work during his
pastorate here will have an oppor
tunity to extend felicitations, wish him
Godspeed as he leaves for conference
and express their wishes for his re
turn. An interesting program will be
given Tuesday night, Sept. 12, at 8:30
participated in by the various pastors
and representatives from their congre
gations.
SHAKESPEAREAN CELEBRATION
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 1.—The pre
sentation of Julius Caesar and a Ne
gro Folk Song Festival showing the
half century of Negro development
will take place here at the Coliseum,
Sept. 4 to 11. Well known stars of
the musical and dramatic world will
appear. Among them are the Fisk
Jubilee Singers, Mme. Anita Patti
Brown, Antoinette Smythe and Rich
ard B. Harison.
Miss I*ouise Anderson, of New York
City, is making a one week stay with
her friends, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wil
kinson, 2218 Seward street.
SIDETRACK LYNCHING BILL.
Georgia House Tables Measure Aimed
at County Sheriffs.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 25.—A bill pro
viding that the sheriff of any Georgia
county in which a lynching occurs be
removed by the governor was tablet!
118 to 29 by the Georgia house Aug.
16, a few minutes before the close of
the legislative session, after it had
passed the senate.
NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVEN
TION.
The National Baptist Convention
will be held at Kansas City, Mo., Sept.
6-12, 1916. Those contemplating at
tending, should notify the committee,
J. W. Hurse, Ch. 800 Independence
Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Memorial Tablet to
John Brown Unveiled
Lake Placid, N. Y. Sept. 1—A me
morial tablet to John Brown, the
American abolitionist, was unveiled
with appropriate ceremonies Aug. 23
at his grave near the village of North
Elba, N. Y.
Addresses werg.made by Myron T.
Ilerrick, former ambassador to
France; Rear Admiral Frank F.
Fletcher, U. S. N.; Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise of New York city; H. G. War
muth, former governor of Louisiana;
Frank B. Sanborn of Concord, Mass.;
Kelly Miller, Dean of Howard Uni
versity, and John E. Milholland.
FOUND NOT GUILTY
Percival Rountree, 1125 North 19th
street, who, with Bennie Seaire and
Morris Putrin, two white boys, was
arrested charged with robbing a
drunken man was found not guilty.
The two boys who are much older
than Percival were manly enough to
say that he had nothing to do with
t and was not with them at the time.
They received suspended sentences in
juvenile court.
LIVED TO BE 121 YEARS OLD.
Kansas City, Mo.—Louis Merriam,
colored, who was bom when George
Washington was president of the
United States, died at his home in
Kansas City, Kan., recently. Merriam
was the oldest man on the United
Slates pension rolls and claimed to
have substantiated the fact that he
was bom 121 years ago at the Sopher
plantation in Virginia, in 1795.
CHILDREN WIN PRIZE
West Chester, Pa., Aug. 18.—Fifty
four children competed for prizes in
| the baby show on the playgrounds,
which brought out over 200 compe
titors. These children made a splen
did showing against their white broth
ers. The prize winners were Oscar
W. Ray, Jr., Dorothy Coulston and
Arietta Johns.
Historically Cl\ 'i
For Colored C\ <?ns
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Boston Editor Believes the Psycholog
ical Hour Has Struck for United
States for Equal Rights.
WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER
Sends Strong Message to Race
Throughout the Country to As
semble in Epoch-Making
Congress.
Boston, Mass. This year, 1916, for
Colored Americans is historically crit
ical. It marks the accountability year
of the first Southern president sinev
freedom, and the half-century since
the passage by Congress of the Civil
Rights Bill and of the 14th Amena
I ment creating their Citizenship.
For some years we have been losing
on rights of citizenship, in law or
practice, South and North, an omin
ous sign. At the height of such a
year what is to be the answer of Col
ored America, itself, what its his
torical record?
It is not enough to vote against the
perfidious Wilson. Evenso he might
be re-elected. Shall the historian of
tomorrow, and he will be a white man,
perhaps this same Wilson, record that
under a race proscription suffered not
so much by any other race, 50 years
after receiving citizenship, 12 million
strong, this Colored race, alone of
like race groups, was incapable of
iiself creating and maintaining or
ganized self-defense of rights on a
national basis ?
How Record of Race Can Be Saved.
Religious, fraternal, charity, busi
ness organizations, local organizations
for Hghts or national by the philan
thropic aid of noble friends, are all
most excellent, but do not sustain our
h stirical record as *• race. This can
be easily done, however, by the forma
tion of an Equal Rights Committee by
Colored Americans in each Colored
community. Have it understood that
these commiltees are for co-operation
with other organizations and all dif
f' lulty i3 removed. Toey are to pre
vent the charge of no self-fight or
initiative, are for members of all other
organiations to join, and are not to
interfere.
The great opportunity comes NOW.
Every Colored community should form
an Equal Rights Committee at once,
and send a delegate to the National
Colored Citizenship Rights Congress
called for Washington, D. C., in one
month’s time by the National Equal
Rights League, whose branches hold
up this cause but in not enough places.
Through the Congress or league these
Equal Rights Committees—the very
name has power—can be nationally
connected. Send either a delegate or
a message to the Congress. Thus
without any interference with existing
agencies our race can save its own
historical record and by self-help and
spirit retain a valid claim before man
kind to Equality of Rights.
Act now, Colored America.
