1 The Monitor i ^
A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF COLORED aMEkd a
_ _ _THE KKV JOHN ALBERT WM.LIAMS Kdii»-___
*3 00 a Year. 1 Pc a Copy OMAHA NEBRASKA. NOVEMBER 4. 1920 Vil. VI. No. 19 (Whole No 279)
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REPUBL NS CARRY NEBRASKA BY 135,000—M’KELVIE IS VICTORIOUS
AMERICA* PEC. REPUDIATE
WILSONIAM Alt „rtACY AT POLLS
Republicans Achieve an Unparalleled Victory from Coast to Coast
—Avalanche of Votes Under Which Democratic Vagaries
Mismanagement and Camouflaging Was Buried Unprece
dented and Surprises *he Most Sanguine—Both House and
Senate in Control of Party
NEBRASKA RETURNS TO THE FOLD
WITH OVER 100,000 MAJORITY
GorcrtKir McKelvir is Re-elected After Hotly Contested Battle—
Entire Republican Ticket is Successful in State—Biggest Vole
of Confidence Ever G»en President-Elect is Recorded for
Harding—AD Douglas County Offices are Captured by
Republicans
\ fpHK republican party ha» been re
JL turned to power by an unparal
* leled victory. From roast to coast un
precedented majorities have been
rolled up for barding and Coolidge and
with them candidates of the party
from United States senators to con
stables have been swept into office.
The democrats have not carried a sin
gle state in which the people are al
lowed to vote. Only In the •‘solid
South, which flaunts the constitution
and unlawfully withholds the suffrage
from a large percentage of its people
tep they able to remain entrenched
in power, and even there the repub
lican party made decided gains. Mary
land. Kentucky and Tennessee have
ele ted several republicans and com
plete returns may give the electoral
votes of these states to Harding. The
lepublican nominee now has 300 elec
toral votes with bright prosiiects of
increasing this number to 350. giving
Co* only the 127 votes of the solid
South. On the question of the league
of nations, which President Wilson felt
confident could be safely left to the
“solemn referendum" of the American
people, the electorate has emphati
cally spoken. This issue was clearly
drawn. Cox said be was for going
into It; Harding said he was for stay
ing out of it. The people’s answer is
clear.
The emphatic repudiation of Wil
sonian autocracy and the burial of
democratic vagaries, mismanagement
t ' V h W Kita J
HOW. HAMl'EL R MrkKI.VIE
Re-elerled Governor of Nebraska
and camouflaging under an avalamhe
of votes has given the republicans
complete control of both house and
senate. The gain In the house will
be at least twenty-four and probably
ten In the senate.
Four State* High.
New York, Ohio, the home of both
Senator Harding and Governor Co*,
llPnols and Pennsylvania furnished
the largest republican pluralities.
T**s>t of New York, where Governor
Smith, democrat, and Nathan U
Miller, republican, were neck and
neck In the gubernatorial fight, was
close to the million mark; Ohio was
around 150,000; Illinois, at the pres
ent ration about 800.000, and Pennsyl
vania about 400,000. In California,
ybere Senator Phelan, democrat, was
trailing far behind Samuel M. Short
ridge, republican, and with Senator j
, Harding even farther ahead, adoption
ef the alien land law amendment re- i
sating to Japanese land tenure had a
ylde majority.
Recall" Ke-ult of
Unofficial results presaged a larger '
msjority in the electoral college for ,
Senator Harding and his running
mate. Governor Coolidge, than any i
since 1888, except alone the vote of.
! 425 for President Wilson in 1912, dur
; :ig the republican “split,’*
The first trial of woman suffrage j
contributed largely to the republican
majorit’es. and also was a factor in
delaying the count in many states, j
The millions of women's ballots also j
swelled the popular vote recorded be- ;
yond all records.
Senator Harding accepted his vic
tory without exultation, stating he wag
“more given to prayer to God to make
me capable of playing my part.”
To Governor Coolidge, the next vice
president, he sent a message savin?:
‘‘We’ve got? a real Job and well
tackle It together."
Score by Htate*.
The following table shows the states
with their electoral vote carried by
Harding and by Cox and the states
till classified as doubtful due to the
nccmpletenes# of the returns:
Harding carried:
California . 13 [
Colorado .. 8
Connecticut . 7
Delaware . 3;
Illinois . 29;
Indiana . 15;
Iowa . 13 i
Kansas . 10 I
Maine . 61
Massachusetts . 18 ;
Michigan . 15 j
Minnesota . 12 j
Nebraska . 8;
New Hampshire. 4 ]
New Jersey... 14 i
New York. 46
Ohio . 24
Oregon . 51
Pennsylvania . 38
Rhode Island. 5j
Utah . 4
Vermont .. 4
Washington . 71
West Virginia...... 8
Wisconsin . IS j
Wyoming . 3
Total.329
j Cox carried:
' Alabama . 12 i
Arkansas . 9
Florida . 6
Georgia . 14 |
Kentucky . 131
Louisiana . 10
Mississippi . 10
North Carolina. 12^
Pouth Carolina. 9
Texas . 20
Virginia . 12
Total..,.127
States from which Insufficient re
turns have been received and which
are classed as doubtful are: Arison*. I
3 votes: Idaho, 3; Maryland, 8; Mis
souri, 18; Montana, 4; Nevada, 6; New
Mexico, 3; North Dakota, 5; Okla
HON. WARREN G. HARDING
President-Eledt of the United States
loma, 10; Tennessee, 12; South Da
kota. 5. Total, 75 votes.
Nebraska Returns.
Nebraska hag returned to her fi s
love, the republican party, with a d
votion that makes full amends for any
past misdoings or flirtations, by giv
iog to Harding the biggest vote of con
fidence ever -given in this state to any
candidate for any public office. He
tarried the state by two to one with :
a plurality of 135,000 over Cox, the!
democratic nominee. At the same time
the voters swept into office every re- |
publican candidate for state offices by I
pluarilities of from 70,000 to 100,000,
with the exception of Governor Mc
Kelvle, whose plurality ocer More
head will be about 30,000. Governor
McKelvle, who was bitterly oppesed
by certalne factions within the party,
was re-elected, defeating Morehead
and Wray, independent Nonpartisan
league candidate.
The full congressional ticket is re
publican, Reavis, Jeffris. Kvans, Me- j
Laughlin, Andrews and Kincaid win
ning by handsome pluarilities in their
respective districts. Congressman
Jeffris of the second district, which
Includes Omaha, was elected two years
ago by less than 00 votes, defeating
Congressman Lobeck. This year he
wins by nearly 10,000 majority over
O'Hara.
In the state legislature democrats
will be as scarce as the proverbial
ben’s teeth.
Results In Douglas County.
The decisive republican victory In
Douglas county carried into office ev
ery candidate of the party with hand
some majorities. Not an office Is In
doubt
Nears Polls High Vote.
The contest among twelve candi
dates for seven Judgeships of the dls
*-<rt court was attended by a situa
tion which Involved the similarity of
names and resulted in a safe place for
the candidate whose name Is L. B.
ay. Judge Willis G. SearB not onl
d his division of the Judicial ticke
at his unofficial total vote of 26."8
the highest of any candidate on th>
'ouglas county baliots. Judge C ha It
. Gobs one of the Judges seeking re
lection, seems to have been defeite
ia vote for 155 precincts being 18,62!
. M. Fitzgerald, present police Judge
oiled 22,854, which exceeded the vote
f Judge Arthur C. Wakeley, accord
■’g to unofficial returns. L. B. Day’s
•otal is 21,134. Fitzgerald was the
inly democrat elected.
FLORIDA DENIES RACE VOTES
IVored Cltbcns Determined to Expt
else Constitutional Right—Race Wot
busies Race Man Lynched—Several
Whiles Killed.
(Special to The Monitor.)
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 4.—The cas
ualty list at Ococee, twelve miles from
here, where two whites were shot to
death and one Negro was lynched
Tuesday in an election riot, and sev
eral other Negroes perished when
buildings in which they sought shelter
were burned, had not reached here to
night. Armed whites were reported
patrolling the region and closing in on
Negroes who fled to the woods.
More than twenty bulldingB in the
negro settlement were burned. Re
ports from Ocoee said that explosion
of considerable amounts of ammuni
tion occurred as the flames swept the
buildings and that numerous firearms
were found in the ruins. Some reports
said five Negroes died in the flames
One Negro woman was among these, it
was said.
The battle was precipitated by the
attempt of Julian Perry, a Negro, to
vote after he had been refused the
privilege by elect'on Judges, on the
around th"t he had not natd his ro’l
tax. He returned later, armed with a
shotgun, but It was taken from him
and he was driven away.
After dark, according to reports,
• ry again approa< hed the polls, ac
nnpanled by a number of other Ne
oes. The white citizens at once
rmed a posse and dispersed the
egroes, who fled to the Negro settle
ent. The posse followed and wtt
esses said the Negroes opened fire
om the buildings. A member of the
<sse was wounded.
The attackers centered on Perry’s
HON. A. W. JEFFEKIS
Hc-cleeted Congress in an from the
Omaha District
house, intent on his arrest. Two of
•he whites, I^eo Borgard and Elmer
McDaniels, both former soldiers, were
killed in the back yard of the house.
A Negro woman said seven or eight
armed Negroes were in the Perry
house, which ultimately was Bet on
fire to dislodge them, the flames
spreading to other buildingB.
Perry himself apparently was cap
tured and later taken by a mob and
lynched. It was said he was taken
from an automobile in which he was
being carried to the jail after having
been treated at a hospital.
RACE OFFICER RESIGNS
POST IN WAR RISK
INSURANCE BUREAU
Has Former Lieutenant In the 567th
Infantry — Embarrassment by “Un
derlings” of Whites in the Depart
ment Given as Reason
LIEUTENANT W ILLIAMS
RESENTS TREATMENT
(By Associated Negro Press)
W^ASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.—
” Lieutenant J. Williams Clifford,
former officer of the 367th Infantry,
Ninety-second division, A. E. F., who
for over a year looked after the in
terests of colored service men. in the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, re
cently tendered his resignation as
their special representative because of
continual limitations of his official
duties by white superiors. In an in
terview recently, Lieutenant Clifford
said:
‘Little by little certain official in
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
have attempted to give my section
trouble simply because of their hatred
for the Negroes. Upon one occasion
it was claimed that a personal letter
was sent out from my office in a
franked envelope without a stamp, al
though the envelope was never pro
duced. Another time I was ordered
to stop signing letters ip my sect’on
to colored soldiers, and friends be
cause they wished them to be signed
bv a white man. This I refused to do
and I was given to understand that if
I did not do so, they would get some
one who would carry out their orders.
It was only after a two weeks’ fight
that I was permitted to sign mv name
to letters originating in my section.
Later I was forced to send my dictated
letters down to another office where
a white high school graduate approved
and signed them, signing my own sig
nature to my own letters before they
were sent out. This was all done be
cause there was fear that I would per
sist in helping colored ex-service men
in matters pertaining to the'r insur
ance, death claims and allotment
claims in a wav that might embarrass
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
“Realization that there was need for
a colored urn in the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance to look after the in
surance, compensation and allotment
claims of colored soldiers. T succeeded
in having mvself appointed to the po
sition during the present administra
tion. My official designation has been
snecial renresentative of the Colored
Soldiers and Sailors in the Bureau of
War Risk Insurance. Bv articles In
the colored newspapers and magazines
and through the enrollment of many
volunteer workerB including ministers
doctors, lawyers, insurance agents, se
rial workers. Young Men’s Christian
associations, Young Women’s Christian
association. National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Pponle
fraternal organizations, Urban league,
workers, and other community serv
ice organizations, I have been able to
stimulate interest in government life
insurance among colored d<soh.,rped
soldiers to the end that m"l!ons of
dollars worth of insurance have been *
saved and added to the economic
strength of the Negro race. This work,
according to letters over the signa
ture of my superiors has been carried
on very efficiently. In fact, it has
been common talk in the bureau that
the colored service men’s section for
its size is one of the most efficient
un'ts In the entire institution.
“The policy of segregation and dis
crimination enforced by the present
administration is nn-Amerlc"n and
desnicable in the extreme. Merit and
ability count for naught if von have a
black face. In most every government
department the colored members of
mv race are hndd!ed together ip some
obscure corner or room and kent away
from the other emnloves lust as if
thev are infected with some infections
disease. Colored soldiers who fought
on the bloody battlefields of France
and contributed to the glorious Amer
ican victory who are now working in
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance are
not permitted to eat with the other
emnloves of the building in the war
risk restaurant."