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The monitor
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A National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Colored
Americans.
Published Every Thursday at Omaha, Nebraska, by The Monitor Pub
lishing Company.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter July 2, 1915, at the Postolflce at
Omaha, Neb., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor and Publisher.
Madree Penn, Associate Editor.
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THE NATIONAL CONVENTION
AND THE PLATFORM
rE National Republican Conven
tion is over. It was a great
gathering, viewed from many angles.
The sight of 15,000 people—for this
was the number, including delegates,
alternates, newspaper men and visit
ors or guests, as the latter are called,
who attended the sessions daily—as
sembled under one roof, riotously dec
orated with the national colors, is a
scene better imagined than described.
The tension and intense interest of
delegates and visitors was another
impressive feature. The personnel of
the vast throng was not the least in
importance of the factors which
gripped and held one. Then, too,
above the unmistakable rivalry for
the mastery, evinced by the cohorts of
the respective candidates, there was
an apparent spirit of earnestness and
eagerness for the best interests of the
country. But this desire to serve the
nation, impressed us as being some
what diluted by a timid conservatism.
A courageous and progressive spirit
willing to boldly grapple with the
issues of the times seemed to be sadly
lacking. This was quite apparent in
the platform, which, after many
weary hours of work, was finally pre
sented to the convention and adopted
with much enthusiasm. At the time
of its reading it did not impress us
as a great document; nor has a sub
sequent reading and analysis of its
elegant diction heightened our opin
ion of it as a worthy sentiment-mak
ing declaration. On certain issues,
like the League of Nations, for ex
ample, it straddles; while upon other
issues, vital and paramount, it is
either silent or evasive. The plat
form as a whole is an artful playing
to the political galleries on democratic
blunders without any desire or will
ingness to recognize anything con
structive in the work of a rival ad
ministration. It is clearly a com
promise platform with all the weak
nesses of compromising measures.
The platform is strong only as an ap
peal to partisan passion and preju
dice. It may serve this purpose as a
campaign document, and it may prove
a boomerang. The platform makers
studiously avoided any reference to
disfranchisement and violations of the
constitution which are notorious and
to which the Republican party is privy
by its cowardly silence and acquies
ence. The platform is platitudinous ,
and ponderous, but its underpinning
is dangerously weak.
THE CANDIDATES
REGRET exceedingly that
Leonard Wood did not receive
the nomination. The people wanted
him. He was undoubtedly the popu
lar choice. The politicians did not
want him. We knew this all along;
but so strong was the sentiment of
the people for him that we did not
believe the politicians would dare ig
nore and run counter to it. But they
have done so. With what results the
future will disclose.
However, since the convention has
confirmed the selection of two can
didates for the presidency and vice
presidency, in the persons of Harding
of Ohio and Coolidge of Massachu
setts, it is the duty of loyal republi
cans to give them their support. Those
who know them vouch for their ability
and integrity. We know very little of
Senator Harding; we know more of
Governor Coolidge, and strongly ad
mire him. We know that Governor
Coolid m is sound to the core on the
question of human rights, and Sen
ator Harding, hailing from Ohio, and
being the bosom friend of the late
lamented Foraker, ought to be anc
doubtless is. Believing them to be
sound on this issue, with us the para
mount is sue, we shall gladly give them
our support.
HOWELL OF NEBRASKA
IV 7"E WISH to publicly pay tribute
W to National Committeeman R.
B. Howell of Nebraska, and we do
this the more gladly because we have
never been particularly drawn to Mr.
Howell. Frankly, we have regarded
him as one of the high and lofty
kind who had very little regard for
common folk in general and our own
group in particular. We have never
had any contact with each other more
than to speak in passing. We be
lieve, however, in giving credit where
credit is due. In the contest cases
coming before the National Commit
tee the one outstanding figure, as we
were reliably informed by a repre
sentative of the Associated \ Negro
Press, who was present throughout
the hearings, who championed the
cause of the Southern Negroes and
“insisted that the cases must be de
cided on the basis of justice, was
Howell of Nebraska.’’ He fought
manfully and courageously on the un
popular side, and it takes a real, big,
red-blooded MAN to do that. We
need men in Omaha and Nebraska to
take the same stand here as you took
before the National Republican Com
mittee in Chicago, Mr. Howell, and if
you will stand as uncompromisingly
for justice and fair play here in mat
ters political, civil and industrial, as
you did for political justice in Chi
cago, you will receive the warm
hearted fealty of a grateful people.
The Monitor learned with pleasure of
your attitude, and on behalf of those
for whom we authoritatively speak we
sincerely thank you.
PRESS CONFERENCE
IT WAS a great pleasure to be able
to attend the Conference of the
Race Press held in Chicago. The
members of the fourth estate there
assembled were an alert, wide-awake,
progressive, upstanding set of men,
inspired with high ideals. To meet
these men from veterans like W. Alli
son Sweeney and Julius Taylor to re
cruits like wt L. Porter and C. F.
Richardson and note their ability and
earnestness, one can well understand
why the Negro Press is making its
influence felt upon the nation. They
are serious-minded men, wide-visioned
men who realize their mission and the
responsibility placed upon them.
PRAYER
“I AM old-fashioned enough to be
lieve in prayer^’ said one of the
youngest and ablest of our newspaper
men in calling the press conference to
order recently. He is right. And woe
betide that people who become so up
to-date that they do not believe in
prayer. A people who believe in
prayer will ultimately triumph- over
every foe and overcome every obsta
cle that obtrudes.
CLEAN LIVING
CLEAN living is an imperative
need of the time. Examination of
men for the army showed the terrible
price American manhood and woman
hood is paying for sins of impurity.
Live clean lives, boys, for your own
sakes and for the sakes of those who
are to come after you.
KEEPING UP INSURANCO
Ex-service men should keep up their
life insurance. Just think how much
it will mean to you and yours. If you
have allowed it to lapse, renew it.
making public sentiment
This country is governed and con
trolled by public sentiment rather than
by the laws upon the statute books.
Seldom, if ever, is a law passed until
it is backed by public sentiment, and,
by the same token, seldom is it en
forced to the letter unless public sen
timent has the preponderance of de
sire.
Therefore, the American Negro will
never in this life and world “come
unto his own’’ until public sentiment
is aroused to the point of direct ac
tion. This is true of lynching, dis
franchisement, “lily whiteism,” “jim
erowism,” segregation and all the
other nefarious and un-American
shortcomings that disturb the peace
of mind and living.
The big job at hand, consequently,
until the entire people of the nation
are amused, the people within, and
the people without our group, is the
[ making of public sentiment
This is being done today as never
! before in the streets, the homes, the
■ j schools, the churches, places of bus
1 iness, lodges and the newspapers. The
! biggest responsibility for carrying
forward this work—this propaganda,
if you like—rests with newspapers of
our own group, and such fair minded
periodicals of the other side as are
awakened to the spirit and duties of
j the times.
J New recruits are being added to
[ this latter group weekly. It is a
most gratifying sign. Nevertheless,
there is yet a long road to travel. One
I newspaper, of the kind w'ith which
most of us are familiar, that poses
as being just in its opinions and ex
pressions, but which is actually insid
ious in its propaganda of disastrous
hatred, can do more harm in one thin
ly veiled editorial than a dozen fair
ones can do good.
I Our newspapers everywhere, now'
greatly strengthened in their lauda
ble purposes by the valuable organ
ization of the Associated Negro Press,
are going forward with unabridged
determination. They are not only com
manding attention, but respect. Our
newspapers are writing new pages of
history' in letters of gold so forceful
are the utterances, the American gov
! emment pauses to consider, and so big
| are the letters of truth, “He Who |
Runs, May Read.’’ Amen.
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WHAT OUR EDITORS SAY
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The Banished Saloon.
Banishing the saloon has put the j
: Negro upon a much higher and bet- j
ter plane of living in every' respect. I
And the Negroes themselves realise j
this fact.—The Houston (Tex.) Post.
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Holes In Reservoir.
The Negro migration and the war
! are charged with the South’s labor
i shortage, and the consequent losses,
actual and potential, to Southern de
velopment. But Southern labor short
; age is pretty much like a water fam
ine in a community which permits big
] holes in the sides of its reservoir.—
i The A. M. E. Christian Register.
Educated Leadership.
Not only do the business men of the
j South realize the necessity for edu
cated leadership, but the thoughtful
j men among the Negroes themselves
1 are most anxious to have training and
enlightenment leaders. — The Reno
(Nev.) Journal.
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Race Consciousness.
I It is very gratifying to note the
j awakened race consciousness of our
group as shown by the determination
of our families to support the enter
prises fostered by the race. Evidence
of a growing loyalty are seen on every
hand.—The Texarkana (Tex.) Appre
cia tor-Union.
Tolerance Necessary.
Two lessons seem to be taught by
the race trouble at Fayetteville. One
is that some degree of tolerance
should be shown by white people to
wards Negroes.—The Raleigh (N. £.)
I Observer.
In Our Place.
Our white people must put them
selves in the Negro’s place in order
to realize how lynching affects the
colored people and breeds had blood
between both races.—The Lebanon
(Ga.) Journal.
NEW YORKERS ASSAIL
“LILY WHITE” POLICY
—
Edward A. Johnson Says Convention
Action May Cost Republicans Votes.
New York, June 17.—Edward A.
Johnson, chairman of the committee
of 1,000, an organization in Harlem,
declared last Saturday that New York
Negroes were very much displeased
with the way in which the credentials
committee in Chicago has been han
dling the colored delegates for the j
last week.
“The committee has thrown out the
Negro delegates of four states,” he
said, "of Arkansas, North and South
Carolina and Alabama. The Negrotv
of the North have always been op
posed to the ‘lily white’ policy of the
republican party.
"These delegates were thrown out,
not because there was something
wrong about their credentials or be
cause they had not been duly elected,
but were discarded simply in an ef
fort to seat white delegates and build
up a white republican party in the
South.
“Unless this matter is remedied it
will have a bad effect on New York
Negroes. There is a disposition
among race men here to turn, to the
democratic or socialist party, and they
will cast their votes for these parties
in large numbers unless the colored
delegates accredited to the convention
get a square deal.
“The fact that a few prominent of
fice seeking Negroes may be given
jobs later in an effort to throw' a
sop.to the colored voters will not work
and w’e w'ill not stand for it.”
A CARD OF THANKS.
A Precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in our home,
Which can never be filled.
We wish to thank our many friends
for their kindness and service ren
dered us during the sickness and
death of our mother, Mrs. Florence
Elizabeth King, who died May 31, 1920.
We especially thank those who gave
such beautiful floral offerings, among
them Class If, of St. John’s Church and
the Swatiska Art Club. We thank the
following ones who provided for the
family at lunch and dinner last Wed
nesday: Mrs. C. W. Fields, M;a. 0. N,
Simmons and Mrs. L. Scott. Thanks
to Mrs. James Clark and Mr. S. C.
Kennedy for auto service.
MRS. M. DUNCAN,
MRS. C. BUCKLEY,
MRS. V. SCOTT,
MISS VIVIAN KING,
MISS LOYCE SCOTT,
MISS THELMA KING,
Daughters;
MR. J. H. KINC,
Husband;
MR. FELIX KING,
Son.
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