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    The Monitor
£ A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP COLORED AMERICANS
THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, Editor
*2.00 a Year. 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1924 Whole Number 479 Vol. X—No. 11
RACE LEADERS IH
POLITICAL FIELD
ORDER SPOTLIGHT
New Faces and Powerful Personalities
Loom as leaders and Gathers
of All Important Negro
Vote
NUTTER FIGHTING SENATOR
New Jersey Furnishing an Exciting
Scrap Between Senatorial
Candidate and an
Attorney
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, III., Sept. 12.—As the 1924
presidential campaign swings under
way new faces and powerful personal
ities loom as leaders and gathers of
the ail important 'Negro vole. It
seems to have been recognized that no
one individual can herd the flock of
colored sheep and that these lambs
are apt to stray into almost any field.
Thus every party has turned a listen
ing ear to would-be and potential
leaders. Some of the leaders are men
of national influence and strong, and
some are of state influence and strong.
The republican party has Robert T„
Vann, Emmett Scott and Robert
Church on a “strategy committee”
that is supposed to be the real works
so far as republican policies and ac
tivities in a big way are concerned;
has William C. Matthews working
hard in the harness to show Negro
-voters the light anywhere he can and
Roscoe Simmons directing a speakers’
and publicity bureau. The outstand
ing feature in connection with all
these men is the fact that they have
been picked for ability to deliver.
They have made themselves felt.
There are many strong men wno
have felt it better not to strike out
into the big works but to make them
selves powerful and impregnable at
home. Such men as Ed Wright and
Oscar HoPriest of Chicago, the power-!
ful local workers in Ohio and in New'
York, are numbered among these. One
of the most aggressive of these given
district leaders is Isaas Nutter, the j
Atlantic City, New Jersey, lawyer.
Hi present fight is in some respects
the most interesting now engaging
the attention of a colored leader. Nut
ter is in it up to the neck in the fight
to defeat Senator Walter E. Edge’s
battle for renomination. Nutter
wants Hamilton F. Kean. He used to
tie an Edge lieutenant, but got up in
meeting some time ago and told tne'
senator that his fealty was to be no
more, that from then on they were
enemies and that he was going to do
all he could to defeat New Jersey’s
representative in the upper house.
The battle between the two men is
somewhat personal. Nutter claims
that Edge has persecuted him because'
he has fought for a square deal for
colored people. He makes the charge
that Edge is not sincere and that he
is neglectful of his promises to col
ored voters. It is charged that Edge
egged his lieutenants on to get Nutter
disbarred from practice in New Jersey
courts. First Edge tried to ruin Nut
ter and now Nutter is out after Edge.
Now it is all a matter of who is the
strongest man in New Jersey, the
present United States senator or the
fighting Negro lawyer.
There will be a decision before long.
White votes in the mosquito state are
about evenly divided as between the
two major parties. The candidate
that wins the Negro votes usually wins
the election. Nutter through a
smoothly working state machine has
l>een corralling the Negro vote for
Kean. It now begins to look like a
Kean landslide. The Negroes know
Nutter and they are out to vindicate
him of the charges Edge’s lieutenants
pestered him with. Should Edge win
the nomination this month, Nutter
does not intend to give up. He's going
right on working for another candi
date until November. He means to
beat his antagonist. No other state
in the Union presents a situation so
fraught with big possibilities. Nut
ter may turn out to be the biggest
mosquito, white or black, in the state
of New Jersey,
ST. LOUIS HOSPITAL
IS OVERCROWDED
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 12.—City Hos
pital No. 2 for colored patients is
badly overcrowded.
With space sufficient for only 110
beds, 220 beds are crowded in and the
average daily number of patients is
244. The city appropriated over a
million dollars for a new colored hos
pital.
RUTH WHITEHEAD WHALEY
New York, Sept. 12.—Mrs. Ruth
Whitehead Whaley, who was denied
a law diploma by Fordham Univer
sity on the ground that she alleged
prejudice in the school success
passed the New York bar exam
iion last week and has been admit
to practice.
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SOUTHERN WHITE MAN
WRITES FRANKLY OF
SOUTHERN OLIGARCHY
(N, A. A. C. P. Press Service;
* William H. Skaggs, a white Ala
bamian, has just had published by the
Dewin-Adair Company of New York,
“The Southern Oligarchy”, which is
certain to attract considerable atten
tion and to arouse widespread contro
versy. The nature of the book can
be gained front its subtitle wmcn
reads, "An Appeal in Behalf of the
Silent Masses of Our Country Against
the Despotic Rule of the Few.” The
purpose of Mr. Skaggs is stated in
the very first paragraph of the first
chapter where he says:
“The purpose of this book is the
presentation of facts relating to tne
policies and practices of an Oligarchy
by which the Southern States of Amer
ica have been ruled for more than for
ty years; and also a survey of the re
sultant evils of such policies and prac
tices.”
Mr. Skaggs discusses peonage, dis
franchisement, lynchings, race pro
scription, the chain gang system, child
labor, the Ku Klux Klan, financial de
linquencies of Southern States in re
pudiation of their just debts, anil other
Corrupt practices. From his own per
sonal experience and knowledge he re
veals hitherto unknown facts relative
to the decay of civilization in the
Southern States. These revelations
will be of great interest to colored
readers although all of Mr. Skaggs
conclusions may not be agreed with.
SOUTHERN PASTOR POPULAR
PULPIT SUMMER SUPPLY
Canadian Congregation Makes Gen
erous Gift to V\ ork of Successful
Arkansas Minister
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 12.—In ap
preciation of his work among them,
the Canadian parishioners of the Rev.
Joseph T. Hill, one of the leading
pastors of this city, who has for a
number of years accepted a summer
charge at Winnipeg, Canada, gave
him this year $1,000 to be used in his
work in America. This was in addi
tion to personal gifts which have come
to the clergyman from time to time.
I>r. Mill's services are employed at
Zion Methodist church, the oldest
white Methodist church in western'
Canada. During the suirimer months:
he takes the pulpit of the Rev. R. J.
Johns. His coming to Winnipeg each I
summer has come to be more ami |
more of an attraction, the summer i
Sunday meetings always ovrtaxing
the capacity of the church. He has
just returned to this city for a stay,
preparatory to returning to the Cana
dian city and serving as the chief
speaker during the golden anniversary
celebration of the church. On the last
Sunday before he left 2,000 persons
were turned from the church door.
The large congregation is due in some
measure to the fact that many of the
churches in the city suspend services
in order that their congregations may
hear "the wonderful preacher from
America.”
Canadian newspaper writers have
vied with one another in an effort to
describe the almost magic personality
and the marvelous learning of Dr.
Hill. Columns in the dailies have
been devoted to descriptions of his
work and influence.
DEPARTMENT STORE
FOR PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 12. — The
Gardner-Williams Corporation reports
important progress made toward the
selection of permanent headquarters
for the Negro department store, which
the corporation plans to open in the
fall.
This is important when it is taken
into consideration that Negroes in
Philadelphia, numbering close to 160,
000 spend yearly approximately $16,
000,000.
GEORGE P. STEWART,
RECORDER EDITOR DEAD
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 12.—George
P. Stewart, founder and owner of
“The Indianapolis Recorder”, is dead
here, after an illness of several
months* Mr. Stewart established
"The Recorder" more than 27 years
ago, and it is one of the most Influ
ential newspapers of the middle west.
He was active in politics and frater
nal circles and leaves a wife and two
children.
WOMEN VOTERS
CALLED TO ACTION
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, Sept. 12.—Miss Hallie Q.
Brown, director of colored women vot
ers, has isued a call to action for the
women of America. Miss Brown urges
that "clubs, classes, schools for first
voters be opened in every district and
precinct.” Especially are the young
women urged to action in all of the
states. “The timid, the negligent, the
stay-at-homes are the ones who defeat
a ticket,” says the call.
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SCIPIO A. JONES
ELECTED CHANCELLOR
IN ARKANSAS COURT
Little Rock, Ark., Sep. 12.—Scipio
A. Jones, prominent colored attorney,
was elected as special chancellor in
the Pulaski chancery court, Arkansas,
the second highest court in that state,
on Saturday, August 30th, according
to a telegram to Mr. William Pickens,
made public today by the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, New York.
This is the first time in the history
of the south, so far as is known, and
possibly in the United States, that
such an honor has been paid a Negro
lawyer. Mr. Jones has had an emin
ently successful career as a member
of the Arkansas bar, his outstanding
achievement being the successful de
fense of the victims of the Phillips
county, Arkansas riots of October,
1919, in which cases Mr. Jones was
the principal attorney for the N. A.
A. C. P. These cases were fought
doggedly by Mr. Jones through all of
the Arkansas courts and through the
United States Supreme court where
he was associated with Mr. Moorfield
Storey. These cases, it will be remem
bered, established a new precedent in
American legal procedure in that the
decision gained in the United States
Supreme court acted not only as a
reversal of the Arkansas court but, in
effect, was a reversal of the Supreme
court itself.
ANTI-SOUTHERN BOOK
IS BARRED FROM
BOSTON LIBRARY
“By Sanction of Law", a Story Based
I'pon Colored Blood in White
family Considered Too
Sensational
Boston, Sept. 12.—“By Sanction of
Raw” has been barred from the Bos
ton public library.
The author of the story is Joshua
Henry Jones, former newspaper man,
now secretary to Mayor Curley and
the son of Bishop Joshua Henry Jones.
The story of the novel is a tragedy
of an aristcratic white family of the
South which regards itself as the
superior race and looks down on
“niggers”, only to find out at last
that it has colored blood.
The hero is a colored boy who at
tends Harvard and falls in love with
a white girl at one of the big finish
ing schools. They afterward marry.
According to the Boston library the
book is too sensational to be placed
on library shelves. By many review
ers It has already been termed the
best novel of the year and a refuta
tion of Dixon, Tillman and Vardanian.
WORKMEN’S POLITICAL CU B
HIVES SERIES OF I.EI Tl IIES
The first of a series of lectures
given under the auspices of the
Workmen’s Political Club was held
Monday evening in north side branch
of Y. W. C. A. A small but interested
and enthusiastic number of persons
were present. The need of a poli
tical educational campaign was evi
denced by eager women. Many facts
were brought to the attention of the
listeners. A number of questions per
taining to the election of officers to
the board of education was discussed.
The workmen wish to express their
thanks to Rev. Russel Taylor for be
ing present at the meeting, the only
professional man or woman who was
there. Adjourned to meet in Pilgrim
Baptist church Tuesday evening at
8:15 when a definition of the Farmer
Rubor progressive party platform will
be on the program. General public,
women especially, invited.
MINISTERS ALLIANCE
The Ministers’ Alliance will be
called to order Tuesday at 10:30 a. m.,
September 16, by the Rev. K. W. C.
Cox, city, at the Y. W. C. A., corner
Grant and Twenty-second streets. All
ministers are urged to be present.—
J. D. Crum, secretary.
CONGRESSMAN DYER
SCORES KU KLUX KLAN
Declares Hooded Order Outgrowth of
Lynching and an Unpardonable
Stigma Upon the American
People
(N. A. A. C. P. Press Service)
Congressman L. C. Dyer of Mis
souri,, author of the Dyer Anti-Lynch
ing Bill, severely scored the Ku Klux
Klan in a speech delivered before
the Lions Club of Washington on Aug
ust 27, characterizing the Klan as an
unpardonable stigma upon the Amer
ican people, and an outgrowth of the
lynching era in the United States. Af
ter telling in detail of the growth of
lynchings in the United States and ex
ploding the myth that all lynchings
are caused by “the usual crime’* Mr.
Dyer declared:
“Out of this era of lynching has
grown this terrible stigma upon the
American people, the Ku Klux Klan,
which is persecuting people upon no
other grounds than that of racial and
religious prejudice. They have flouted
our American laws and taken them in
to their own hands. If this nation is
to endure we must put a stop to this
menace.”
Mr. Dyer made a strong plea for
the establishment of fraternal societ
ies which would act to wipe out racial
ami religious prejudices, especially in
the national capitol. His plea, ac
cording to the Washington press, made
a profund impression upon the mem
bers of the Lions Club. Mr. Dyer
spoke at the regular weekly lunctieoh
of the club held at the Willard Hotel.
CHARLES DICKERSON'S FATHER
DIES AT DAUGHTER'S HOME
James A. Dickerson, father of
Charles W., Hunly B. and Mrs. Eliza
beth Allen, died at the home of his
daughter, 2(123 Hamilton street, Fri
day morning. Mr. Dickerson who had
been in poor health for several months
came fyom Louisville, on the solicita
tion of his children, Hanley B. going
after him, June 10 of this year. He
was lovingly ministered to by his chil
dren and grandrh:', en during his
brief stay here preceding his death.
He was 07 years of age. The funeral
was held Monday morning at 10 o’
clock from Jones’ Undertaking Chapql,
the Rev. John Albert Williams officat
ing. Interment was in Forest Lawn.
His sons and other male relatives
were the palbearers. He is survived
by three children, named above, seven
grandchildren, four sisters, and sev
eral nieces and nephews.
WESLEY D. BELL
SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS
Wesley D. Beil, third son of Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Bell, died at his
home, 813 North Twenty-third street,
Friday afternoon after a long illness,
aged 23 yearB. Wesley was an am
bitious young boy, devoted to his
father and mother, and anxious to
help in the education of his sister.
He was hardworking and industrious
and had built up a successful taxi
business when his health failed. He
was well-liked by a large circle of
patrons, friends and acquaintances
who attested their esteem by the num
bers in which they attended his funer
al which was held from the ChurclCof
St. Philip the Deacon Monday after
noon at 2 o’clock, Rev. John Albert
Williams officiating. Interment was
in Forest Lawn. He is survived by
his father and mother, one sister,
Margaret, one brother Albert, and
several other relatives.
DEATH OF HUBERT WILLS
Mr. Hubert Wills, a resident of
Omuha for the past thirty-three years,
departed this life on Tuesday, Sep
tember 2, after a lingering illness. He
was a faithful member of Mt. Moriah
Baptist church, having united with
that church about twenty-one years
ago. He was also a member of Key
stone Lodge No. 4 Knights of Pythias,
which order had charge of the body.
The funeral was held from Mt. Mo
riah Baptist church, Interment at For
est Lawn. By special request of de
ceased the funeral sermon was preach
ed by Rev. M. H. Wilkinson who was
formerly pastor of Mt. Moriah church.
He was assisted by Rev. W. F. Botts
of Zion and Rev. G. L. Day, the pres
ent pastor of Mt. Moriah.
KATHLEEN EASMON-SIMANGO
DIES IN DONDON, ENG.
(By the Associated Negro Press)
London, Eng., Sept. 12.—Mrs. Kath
leen Easmon-Simanga, a native of
West Africa, and the wife of Kamba
Simango, who died here at Charing
Cross hospital with peritonitis, was
well known in the United States,
where with her distinguished aunt,
also a native of Africa, she tourned the
states for several months raising
funds for an industrial school after
the fashion of Tuskegee Institute.
Her husband, who was in Portugal,
came here and claimed the body.
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JOHNSON ANSWERS NEW
YORK SUN ATTACK ON
VILLARD SPEECH ON HAITI
(N. A. A. C. P. Press Service)
New York, Sept. 12.—James Weldon
Johnson, secretary of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, who made the first in
vestigation and expose in 1920 of the
American occupation of Haiti, has
made public the text of a letter ne
has written to the New York Sun in
reply to an editorial printed in that
paper on August 28th which attacked
Oswald Garrison Villard for cfeclaring
before the Institute of Politics at
Williamstown, Miss., that “the blood
of 3,000 Haitians slain by our Amer
ican Marines * * * dishonors our good
name.” The Sun declares editorially
that Mr. Villard was wrong in tnat
only 1,132 Haitians were slain and
further charged that these were ban
dits killed by the marines. Mr. John
son points out that Major-General
George Barnett, former commander of
the Marines in Haiti, admitted on Oc
tober 23, 1920, that 3,250 Haitians
were killed and that he further •'re
gretted to report” that there “were
many unlawful and indiscriminate
killings.” Mr. Johnson also pointed
out that these slain Haitians were not
bandits for they were fighting against
the unlawful seizure of their country
and further declared that “the Amer
ica of 1776 would have called them pa
triots, not bandits.”
COLORED ATTORNEY
WINS $20,000 SUIT
SOUTHERN COURT
! Supreme Court Finally Settles Case
Which lias Dragged Along
for Wore Than Ten
Years
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 12.—The
$20,000 suit of A. \V. Cockrell, Jr.,
white, a lawyer, against S. D. McGill,
a race lawyer, was settled for $5,000
this week. The case has been in the
courts for ten years.
Cockrell’s suit was for $20,000
he alleges was the amount of his fee
for settling an estate of the McGills
which amounted to $100,000.
The case was fought repeatedly
through the lower courts and each
time the colored attorney lost. Final
ly, however, he appealed to the Su
preme Court which held that the fee
was “unreasonable and excessive ex
cept to the amount of $5,000.” Mc
Gill acted as his own attorney.
WARNING AGAINST
PRESERVING COMPOUNDS
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Washington, D. C., Sept. 12.—Can
ning powders and preserving com
pounds are very likely to prove in
jurious to the health, chemists of the
United States Department of Agri
culture announced recently.
The chemists, who have been carry
ing on a special investigation of those
preparations, say that they usually
contain salicylic or boric acid. While
salisyclic acid is useful as a medicine
in certain diseases, its excessive use in
canned goods might lead to serious
disturbance of the health, it is said.
Boric acid is recognized under the
pure food act as being harmful to
health, and while it possesses some
antiseptic power, the chemists do not
think it is safe to depend upon it alone
to check the growth of harmful bac
teria in foods. The safest method to
prepare fruits and vegetables for can
ning or preserving, it is said, is to
sterilize them properly.
SOCIALISTS ENGAGE
COLORED ORATOR
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago., 111., Sept. 12.—The So
cialist party, backing Robert M. La
Follette in his fight for the presid
ency, has engaged Ross D. Brown,
prominent orator and Socialist organ
izer, to carry a campaign in Bob’s be
half into Pittsburgh, Penn., and Buf
falo, N. Y.
STEEL CORPORATION
WELFARE WORK
Chicago, III., Sept. 12.—In a recent
bulletin issued by: the United States
Steel Corporation which, big as it is,
is rather anonymous with the work
of Judge Elbert Gary, president of its
board of directors, is found excellent
pen and picture description of the
work undertaken by the different
branches of the corporation to insure
the sanitation of its plants and the
safety and welfare of its employes.
It is interesting to note that there
are thousands of Negroes employee
by the corporation who are receiving
the same benefits that come to the
white workers. Some of the pictures
seem identical with the same sort of
work done in colored schools. Where
as there are corporation employes
among the Negroes in the north, most
of its colored help, to judge from the
| bulletin, is in Alabama, where there
! are hospitals, schools, all sorts of rec
j reational facilities, home-buying so
| rjeties and a general spirit of progress
Among the plants where such excel
! lent provisions are made for Negro
j employes are the Duquesne Works of
I the Carnegie Steel company, the Ed
1 gar Thomson Works, where Earl John
son, United States Olympic distance
runner is a member of the track team;
the United States Coal and Coke com
pany, Gary, W. Va.; the Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railroad company, Mus
coa and Bayview, Ala., and the Gary,
Indiana works.
The welfare activities take in the
entire family of the worker. There
are canning and swing clubs for the
women. There are games for the
children. There are pageants for the
grown-ups, athletics, schools, prize
gardening projects and all the other
features of welfare work that find
most favor with social workers.
MAJOR JOHN R. LYNCH
IS STAUNCH SUPPORTER
OF CALVIN COOLJDGE
—
The Grand Old Gentleman Whose
Words Always Command Atten
tion Places President With
Roosevelt
Chicago, Sept. 12.—Major John* it.
I. ynch, U. S. A., retired and former
congressman, in an exclusive state
ment for the Associated Negro Press,
has declared strongly for President
Coolidge for president. “Coolidge Is
the best president this country has had
since Lincoln and Roosevelt,” said
Major Lynch, an active republican
for more than a quarter of a century.
Asked his opinion About Davis he
said: “Davis is too good a man to be
a democrat, and no democrat is big- j
ger than his party. Grover Cleveland j
was a fair man, but he could not do i
anything with the democrats of the
south. That is the big point colored
republicans must remember when they
are tempted to vote for a democrat
for president. The democrats of the
south control everything nationally,
and they do not propose to deal with
colored citizens.”
Things are humming at the repub
lican headquarters, where there is
genuine co-operation and interest in
working for the welfare of the voters.
Announcement has been made by the
colored division of the republican na
tional committee, that a fund of $50,
000 will be raised by colored voters
as a practical demonstration of in
terest in the results of the election.
It is reported that a number of sub
stantial contributions have already
been made to the national committee.
“We must share the responsibility of
the campaign expense along with all
other good republicans,” said an of
ficial, “ and in this way we will share
the respect and consideration of all
others.”
MAJOR LOVING PASSES
THROUGH OUR PITY
Last Saturday night Major and
Mrs. Walter H. Loving and their son,
Walter H., Jr., passed through Oma
ha en route to Washington, D. C.,
where Major Loving, famous band
leader, was called on official business.
Omahans will remember Mrs. Loving
as Edith McCary, daughter of M. M.
McCary, who was Major Lynch’s
clerk during the time he was stationed
here as paymaster. Major and Mrs.
Loving hope to visit Omaha friends
on their way west.
N. W. C. A. NOTES
1 Board meetng first Thursday each
month at 7:36 p. m.
Regular monthly meeting every sec
ond Wednesday in each month at 10:30
a. m.
The following persons donated to
the Home during last month: Mrs.
M. Grant, Mrs. S. C. Solmon, Mrs.
Edith Scott, Mrs. T. C. Hammond, Mr.
J. C. McFarland, Mr. M. Manning,
Mrs. C. Scott, Mrs. M. Woods, Mrs. M.
A. Shelton, Mrs. Lille Wainwright and
the North End Bazaar.
Mies Jennie Robinson left Tuesday
night for a visit with relatives in De
troit, Mich., and Cleveland, Ohio.
FORMER ASSISTANT
ATTORNET GERERAL
DESERTS HIS PARTT
Massachusetts Republican Leader,
Formerly Coolidge Partisan,
Somersaults Into
Davis Ring
CLAIMS KLAN TO BK IN CONTROL
Lewis Declares That the Republican
■Party Is for and Democrats
Against the Hooded
Menuce
Boston, Mass., Sept. 12.—William H.
Lewis, former Assistant Attorney
General of the United States, and
hitherto regarded as an admirer and
warm personal friend of President
Coolidge, has declared his intention
of supporting Davis and Bryan in
stead of Coolidge and Dawes. He
states that he is for Davis because of
his outspoken opposition to the Klan,
while Coolidge remains silent on this
great menace to American institutions
and principles.
Lewis, who is a graduate of Am
herst College of which Coolidge is
also an alumnus, and of Harvard Law
School, where he won fame as a foot
ball star, is one of the prominent and
outstanding lawyers and republican
leaders in the Old Bay State. At the
National Republican convention in
Chicago, four years ago, he was an
enthusiastic Coolidge partisan and
worked earnestly for his nomination.
He has been a visitor at the White
House since Coolidge has been its dis
tinguished occupant. His desertion of
the party at whose hands he has re
ceived honor is a cause of great sur
prise and in some quarters is viewed
with suspicion.
Lewis claims that the Republican
party has deserted the ideals of Lin
coln, Grant and Roosevelt and is now
the party of the Klan, while the
Democratic party is its outspoken op
ponent.
Mr. Lewis gives out the following
statement as his reasons for support
ing Davis:
“As a colored American, I propose
to vote for Mr. Davis because he is
opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, the
greatest menace to American demd
cracy today. It has raised the stand
ard of religious bigotry, race hatred,
and is striving with might and main
for the control .of the American gov
ernment, to administer it in the in
terest of one group of Americans. It
is aimed first at the Negro, then at
Ihe Jew, then at the Irishman, and
'he Catholic, and finally it has set its
hand against all foreign born, as if
any man had the say as to the race
n which he should be born or in.
what country.
“There are colored men now liv
ng who remember the Ku Klux Klan
if another day. It came into being
to put the colored voter and citizen
Jut of business. Intimidation, coer
cion, riot and murder, were there
lot? Fifty years ago the Democratic
party was the Ku Klux party. Today
:he Republican party is jthe Ku Klux
partly. %
“The debate of the Ku Klux Klan
in the Democratic convention was the
most refreshing and wholesome thing
that has taken place in American
politics in a quarter of a century. Mr.
Davis has taken his stand upon that
issue, and I propose to stand with
him.
“The Republican candidate for Pres
ident has said nothing up to now as
to whether he stands for the Klan or
against it. Is the Republican party
afraid to take a stand against the Ku
Klux Klan? Is It still the party of
Lincoln, of Grant and Roosevelt?
“I see no way of putting down the
Ku Klux Klan except through the in
strumentality of the Democratic par
ty. All that has been accomplished
in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and
Arkansas has been the work of the
Democratic party. I propose to join
with the great majority of Americans,
including the Irish Catholic, the Jew
and the foreign born, not only in the
interest of self preservation, but in
the interest of my country.”
PRESIDENT OF LINCOLN
UNIVERSITY DIES
(By the Associated Negro PressY
Lincoln University, Pa., Sept. 12.—
Rev. J. B. Randall, president ot Lin
coln University, one of the best known
institutions in America for the Edu
cation of colored youths, is dead here.
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BEST HAIRDRESSER
IN CITY OF ALTOONA
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Altoona, Pa., Sept 12.—The man
agement of the Strand theatre, recent
ly played “The Flapper". In connec
tion with exploiting the picture a vot
ing contest was held as to the moot
popular hairdresser in the city. Nn,
Grace Scott, a colored woman, was
the winner.
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