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THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor
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$L00 a Year. 5c a Copy ^ OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1924 Whole Number 461 VoL IX—No. 45
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Battling Siki Likes Our Country
LOYALTY PARADE
THRILLING SIGHT
SEEN BY CITIZENS
15,000 Boys Representing All Classes
and Creeds of Omaha’s Splendid
Citizenship in Line
of March
M MMMLLELEB HUT
Thousands of Spectators Inspired By
Colorful Picture of City’s Youth
in Great Loyalty
Day Parade
Fifteen thousand boys representing
all creeds, colors and nationalities
which enter Omaha’s splendid citizen
ship, where all enjoy equal protection
of the law and the same educational
facilities in our excellent schools,
marched through the streets of Oma
ha last Thursday afternoon in the
great Loyalty Day parade which was
one of the great features of Boys'
week. It was an unparalleled spec
tacle in this city, which has been the
scene of many remarkable parades,
None witnessed it without a genuine
thrill of pride in his city.
The day was beautiful. Weathet
conditions could not have been more
favorable. The plans for the parade
were carried out without a hitch. Not
an accident of any kind marred the
day. Starting with commendable
promptness at the designated hour the
boys moved through the streets bor
dered by thousands of cheering spec
tators along the fifteen blocks of the
appointed route.
Omaha's many splendid public, pri
vate and parochial schools, each head
ed by its drum corps, and carrying
flags and various mottoes, marched
with a zest and snap and enthusiast
which was most inspiring. It was
one continuous line of boys emphasiz
ing the potentialities of American
manhood.
There were floats of various kinds
and several bands to diversify and
enliven the scene. The display of
Technical High school with its vari
ous trades was a revelation. It was
gratifying to notice that in every
section of the parade—except one—
Ikivs belonging to the Y. M. C. A.—r
boys of our own race were in evi
dence. In that of the schools, of
course, among the Boy Scouts not
only in line with their comrades, but
on the float; in the Central and Tech
high school hands; in Father Flana
gan’s Boys Home band, the drum ma
jor of which was a small colored boy
and in the cadets each in his right
ful and accredited place. Waddle’s
Boys’ band was among those in line.
Boys of all nationalities marched to
gether, as they should, an outward
and visible sign of that true demo
cracy which is America’s ideal, if not
her realization. It was a great spec
tacle and motive in Americanization
which Omaha is effectively putting
over. One school banner bo re this
significant legend “We have all races
and nationalities but are all one
Americans.”
IIELEWARE REPUBLICAN
MTATK CONVENTION
Wilmington, Del., May 9.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—The re
publican state convention of Delaware
which was held in Dover last Tuesday
eventful front the standpoint of
the colored voter. For the first time
in the history of the state a colored
man was sent as an alternate to the
national convention which shall meet
in Cleveland next June. The person
selected was Dr. Samuel G. Elbert, a
well known physician of this city. Dr.
Elbert was placed In nomination by
Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson who was
the only colored women elected as a
delegate to the state convention, she
having been elected from the Sixth
ward.
SEEM AUTO El KMT TIME
Wilmington, N. C., May 9.—Ran
dolph Seymette, 15, sailor on the West
Indian Schooner Rosemary, which ar
rived here this week, got his first
glimpse of an automobile and a trolly
car when he stepped ashore.
LIFE CHEAP IN MOBILE
Mobile, Ala., May 1.—Bodies of four
unidentified men were found In an
empty freight car on an L. and N.
siding last Sunday. Bullet and knife
wounds told the manner of death.
K. K. K. WARNED CLERK
Port Pierce, Fla., May 9.-—Chester
A. Moore, appointed clerk in the post
office at Gifford, has been warned by
the K. K. K. not to accept the posi
tion.
SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR
APPREHENSIVE ABOUT LABOR
Washington, D. C., May 9.—(Lincoln
News Service.)—Senator Furnifold M.
Simmons, democrat, of South Carolina,
in speaking of the difficulties which
the people of his state are facing in
their agricultural operations, recently
stated, during a debate in the U. S,
Senate: “There is another reason why
we are confronted with difficulty in
our agricultural operations, not only
as to cotton but as to the growing of
all sorts of crops, and resulting in
the wholesale abandonment of farms
in the South, and that is the loss of
our labor supply. Cotton is cultivated
in the South chiefly through Negro
labor and Negro tenants. They are
the chief reliance. Deprive us of that
source of supply in the South and It
would be impossible for us to cultivate
under the best conditions much more
than a third of the acreage that we
usually cultivate in cotton.”
NIGHTGOWN WHIPPING
IS SOUTH’S LATEST
Orangeburg, S. C., May 9.—The lat
est form of outrage in the South is
the nightgown whipping.
Mrs. Olive Thompson was taken
from her home in her nightgown by
unmasked men, carried down the pub
lic road for some distance, and beaten
with a leather trace until her back
was bloody.
Seven white men, including George
W. Binnecker, member of the house
of representatives, were later identi
fied by her and arrested.
WOOD RESOLUTION PROPOSES
NEGRO WAR MEMORIAL
Washington, I). C., May 9.—Repre
sentative Will Good, republican, of
Indiana, has introduced H. R. Resolu
tion No.245, in Congress, ‘‘To create
a commission to secure plans and de
signs for and to erect a monument or
memorial building in the city of Wash
ington to the memory of the Negro
soldiers and sailors who fought in the
wars of our country and the late
World War.”
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FALLS EIGHT STORIES, LIVES
Raleigh, N. C., May 9.—Although
still unconscious, James Shepard of
Henderson, N. C., is still alive after
falling eight floors down the elevator
shaft of the Odd Fellows’ building un
der construction here. No bonps were
broken.
POPE PIUS KNIGHTS
LIBERIAN VICE-PRESIDENT
Monrovia, Liberia, May 5.—Before a
crowd of Liberian notables, Monsignor
Jogee, Perfect Apostolic of the Catho
lic Mission, representing His Holiness,
Pope Pius XI, conferred on H. Too
Wesley, vice-president of the republic,
the order of St. Gregory for his ex
cellent work of establishing Catholic
missionaries in the country.
281 MEMBERS OUSTED
Washington, 1). C., May 9.—Over 230
members who voted to oust Rev. W.
A. Taylor, pastor of Florida avenue
Baptist church, last year, were them
selves ousted at an officls' meeting
of the board last week.
WHITE MAMA WOULD
GIVE HER BABE AWAY
Raleigh, N. C., May 9.—A white
baby accompanied by a note was found
on the porch of the house of Mrs.
Maggie Arnold, at the corner of Park
and Cross streets, Lincoln Park, re
cently.
The baby appeared to be newly
born and unwashed when It was dis
covered.
The note follows: “This note is left
to keep you from humiliating and ac
cusing Innocent people of this. It’s
no use to look for me because I do
not and never have lived in Raleigh,
or Wake county, and I am not a Ne
gro. I will send you some money
every month for two years and I will
never trouble you about the baby.”
VOTERS EHDORSE DAHLMAN
TICKET AT POLLS TIESDAT
“The Square Six” and Dan Butler, Who
Headed Opposition Slate Are Re
Elected by Heavy Vote
HENRY W. DUNN DEAN NOYES
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A STORY OF THE MARTYRS OF 1822
A Story of Ante-Bellum Days, Dealing With Slave Insurrection at Charleston
It is impossible to fix exactly the
time when the bold idea of resistance
entered through his brains, or to say
when he began to plan for its realiza
tion, and after that to prepare the
blackst for its reception. Before em
barking on his perilous enterprise he
must have carefully reckoned on time,
long and indefinite, as an essential
factor in its successful achievement.
For, certain it is, he took it, years in
fact, made haste slowly and with
supreme discretion and self-control.
He appeared to have thoroughly ac
quainted himself with the immense
difficulties which beset an uprising of
the blacks. Not once, I think, did he
underestimate the strength of Ms
By Francis J. Grimke
PART III
(By Tlie Associated Negro Press)
PLOTTING THE REVOLUTION
foes. A past grand master in the
art of intrigue among a servile popu
lation, he was equally adept in know
ledge of the weak spots for attack
in the defences of the slave system,
knew perfectly where the masters
could best be taken at a disadvantage.
All the facts of his history combine to
give him a character for profound act
ing. In the underground agitation,
which during a period of three or
four years, he conducted in, the city
of Charleston and over a hundred
miles of the adjacent country, he
seemed to have been gifted with a
sort of Protean ability. His capacity
for practicing secrecy and dissimula
tion where they were deemed neces
sary to his end, must have been prod
igious, when it is considered that
during the years covered by his un
derground agitation, it is not record
ed that he made a single false note,
or took a single false step to attract
attention to himself and movement,
or to arouse over all that the terri
The Voters of Omaha emphatically
endorsed the Dahlman administration
at the polls Tuesday by re-electing
the former seven commissioners in
cluding Dan Butler, who headed an
opposition ticket, and fought desper
ately for the defeat of his former
political partners, who returned the
compliment by vigorously striving to
relegate him to private life. Three
years ago Butler, as in former years,
was on the Dahlman slate, which was
known as “The Square Seven.” This
ticket was elected, Butler being high
man. Subsequently there was a dis
agreement between Butler and his six
colleagues. This resulted in such pol
itical estrangement and bitterness
that Butler organized an opposition
ticket to the “Square Six” which in
cluded all the city commissioners ex
cept himself. The fight between the
two was bitter and made the cam
paign quite lively. There were four
on; the Butler slate, and four candi
dates ran independently.
That the voters of Omaha believe
that, despite much criticism, the Dahl
man administration was a satisfactory
one, the returns Tuesday plainly show.
The entire “Square Six,” Dahlman,
Dunn, Hopkins, Noyes, Hummel and
Koutsky, were elected with votes
running from approximately 30,000 to
24,000, Hummel, the high man receiv
ing 29,956 and Koutsky, the low man
of this slate, 23,181. Butler received
20,063 votes thus landing in seventh
place. Mayor Dahlman stood fourth
with 26,506 votes. Henry Dunn broke
all precedents ,as police commissioner,
by being re-elected as the head of
this “trouble department” has hither
to meant political death for the in
cumbent. Dunn stood fifth with 23,
316 votes despite a fight against him.
Koutsky, against whom also a spe
cial fight was aimed landed with 23,
118 votes. Courtney was eighth man
with 18, 182 votes.
Mayor Dahlman who will continue
as chief executive of the city has
the unique honor of being chosen to
this office for the sixth time, a dis
tinction of which he may well be
proud and which indicates the place
he holds in the esteem of his fellow
citizens. Hummel’s vote is a testi
monial to his excellent work as park
commissioner and that of Hopkins and
Noyes for their work in their re
spective departments.
The vote was as follows:
1. —Hummel .29,956
2. —Hopkins .29,342
3. —Noyes ._ .....28,849
4. —Dahlman .26,506
5. —Dunn .23,613
6. —Koutsky .23,181
7. —Butler . 20,063
8. —Courtney .18,182
9. —McGowan .15,072
10. —Reynolds .14,690
11. —Kiene .14,559
12. —Sutton .-.14,420
13. —Rosenthal ..12,965
14. —Stroud .11,133
The five new charter amendments
which will be very beneficial to the
city in the important matter of pub
lic improvements passed with large
majorities.
tory included in that agitation and
among all those white people involved
in its terrific consequences, the slight
est suspicion of danger.
In his underground agitation, Ve
sey, with! an instinct akin to genius,
seemed to have excluded from his
preliminary action everything like
conscious combination or organization
among his disciples, and to have con
fined himself strictly to the imme
diate business in band at that stage
of his plot, which was the sowing
of seeds of discontent, the fomenting
of hatred among the blacks, bond and
free alike, toward the whites. And
steadily with that patience which Low
ell calls the “passion of great hearts,"
he pushed deeper and deeper into the
slave lump the explosive principles
of inalienable human rights. He did
not flinch from kindling, in the bos
oms of the slaves a hostility toward
the masters as burning as that which
he felt toward them in his own breast.
He had, indeed, reached such a pitch
of race enmity that, as he was often
heard to declare, “he would not like
to have a white man in his presence.”
And so, devoured by a supreme
passion, mastered by a single predo
minant idea, Vesey looked for occa
sions, and when they were wanting
he created them, to preach his new
and terrible gospel of liberty and hate.
Thus only could he hope to render
their condition intolerable to the
slaves, the production of which was
the indispensable first step in the con
summation of his design. Otherwise
what possibly of final success could
a contented slave population have of
fered him? He needed a fulcrum on
which to plant his lever. He had no
where in such an enterprise to place
it, but in the discontent and hatred
of the slaves toward their masters.
Therefore on the fulcrum of race ha
tied he rested his lever of freedom
for his people.
As the discontented bondsmen heard
afresh with Vesey’si ears the hateful
clank of their chains, they would, in
time, learn to think of Vesey and to
turn, perhaps, to him for leadership
and deliverance. Brooding over their
lot Vesey had revealed it to them,
they might move of themselves to im
prove or end it altogether, by adopt
ing some such bold plan as Vesey's.
Meantime he would continue to wait
and prepare for that moment, while
they would be training in habits of
deceit, of deep dissimulation, that for
midable weapon of the weak in con
flict with the strong, that ars artium
of slaves in their attempts to break
their chains—a habit of smiling and
fawning on unjust and cruel power,
while bleeds in secret their fiery
wound, rages and plots there also
their passionate hate, and glows there
too their no less passionate hope for
freedom.
Everywhere through the dark sub
terranean world of the slave, in
Charleston and the neighboring coun
try, went with his great passion of
hate and his great purpose of free
dom, this untiring breeder of sedition.
(And where he moved beneath the
thin crust of that upper world of the
master-race there broke in his wake
whirling and shooting currents of new
and wild sensations in the abysses of
that underworld of the slave-race.
Down deep below the ken of the mas
ters, was toiling this volcanic man,
forming the lava-floods, the flaming
furies, and the awful horrors of a
slave uprising.)
Nowhere idle was that underground
plotter against the whites. Even on
the street where he happened to meet
two or three blacks, he would bring
the conversation to his one consum
ing subject, and preach to them his
one unending sermon of freedom and
hate. (It was then as if his stem
voice, with its deep organ chords of
passion, was saying to those men:
“Forget not, oh! my brothers, your
misery! Remember how ye are
wronged everyday and hour, ye and
your mothers and sisters, your wives
and children. Remember the genera
tions gone weeping and clanking
heavy chains from the cradle to the
grave. Remember the oppression of
the living, who with heart-break and
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BATTLING SIKI, THE
SEHEHALESE BOXER
HERE FOR A FIGHT
Enlisted at Outbreak of World War
and Served Five Years, Winning
Two Medals for
Bravery
LIKES AMERICA ARB FRAICE
Expects to Have Match With McTigue
in New York Before Returning
to France to Visit His
Family
“Battling Siki"' who is here to meet
a local boxer, at the Auditorium on
Wednesday night for the Spanish
War Veteran’s Fund, had just finished
his breakfast in the De Luxe Cafe of
which Jim Bell is proprietor at 24th
and Burdette streets this morning,
when the Monitor man entered.
“You are Battling Siki” said the
Monitor representative.
“Yes,” said the Senegalese, as he
courteously rose to his feet and cordi
ally greeted us.
“I have come to interview you and
find out something about you for a
newspaper.”
“Be seated, monsieur.”
“Do you speak English ”
“Only a leetle and zat imperfectly,”
was his reply in broken English. As
he speaks “broken English” and we
“broken F'rench” we managed to get
along quite nicely.
Siki told us he was bom in Ban
Luis, Senegal, September 16th, 1901,
and is therefore not quite 23 years
old. This in response to our question
as to his age and birthplace.
He looks like a good many Negro
boys whom you meet in Omaha. He
is black with his hair growing rather
low on his forehead and impresses
one as a great big overgrown South
ern country boy. “Were you, in the
army?” was one of our questions.
“Yes, I enlisted and served five
years. I was sergeant and received
two medals.” These we learned were
given for acts of bravery.
“How do you like America?"
“I like America well; would like her
better if I could speak the language.
America good for business—I like
France better. My family is there,
and I have nine lions, my pets.”
“When do you expect to return to
France?”
“After I meet McTigue in New
York sometime this year, then I go
back.”
“Do you expect to whip him?”
“Yes. In two rounds. He is Irish
man and we fought in Dublin last st.
Patrick’s Day. I had no show, but I
can whip him.
As we arose to go, he wanted us
to have a cup of coffee. We thank
ed him but) declined as we hadl just
breakfasted too. As he said “au re
voir” he warmly grasped our hand
and said “I hope to see you again.”
“Au revoir, Monsieur,” was our
parting word.
death-wounds, are treading their
mournful way in bitter anguish and
despair across burning desert-sands,
with parched souls and shrivelled
minds, with piteous thirsts, and ter
rible tortures of body and spirit.
Weep for them, weep for yourselves
too, if ye will, but learn to hate, ay,
to hate with such hatred as blazes
within me, the wicked slave-system
and the wickeder white men who op
press and wrong us thus.”)
Ever on the alert was he for a text
or a pretext to advance his under
ground movement. Did he and fellow
blacks for example, encounter a white
person on the street, and did Vesey’s
companions make the customary bow
which blacks were wont to make to
the whites, a form of salutation bom
of generations of slave-blood, meanly
humble and cringingly self-effacing,
rebuking such an exhibition of sheer
and shameless servility and lack of
proper self-respect, he would there
upon declare to them the self-evident
truth that all men were bom free and
equal, that the master, with his white
skin, was in the sight of God no whit
better than his black slaves, and that
for himself he would not cringe like
that to any man.
Should the sorry wretches, bewil
dered by Vesey’s boldness and dazed
by his terrifying doctrines, reply de
fensively “we are slaves,” the harsh
retort, “you deserve to remain so,”
was, without doubt, intended to sting
if possible, their abject natures into
sensibility on the subject of their
wrongs, to galvanize their rotting
souls back to manhood, and to make
their base and sieve-llke minds cap*
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