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$2.00 a Year—5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1924 Whole Number 487 Vol. X—No. 19
REPUBLICANS WIN
BY BIG MAJORITIES
THROORHOUT LARD
Nebraska Piles Up Votes for Party
Candidates on National.
State and County
Tickets
McMullen is next governor
Loral ltuce Candidates for State Legis
lature and the Hoard of Educa
tion Fail to He
Elected
Outside of the apparently Invulnera
able “solid South" the Republican
party has swept the country with
enormous majorities. Kentucky, Mis
souri and1 West Virginia are in the
republican column. DaFollette carrleB
only his own state, Wisconsin. Cool
id go receives 372 electoral votes, be
ing 106 more thun the 266 necessary
to elect. The landslide insures a re
publican congress.
In keeping with the nation-wide re
publican victory Nebraska has endors
ed the Coolidge administration by
pluralities which will be close to the
100,000 mark and has elected every
candidate on the state ticket, with the
exception of Secretary of State, L. Ti.
Johnson being defeated by Charles
W. Pool, democrat, the present in
cumbent, whom it will be noted, The
Monitor supported. Adam McMullen
defeats J. N. Norton by nearly 50,000
for governor. Senator George W.
Norris has been reelected and Con
gressman Sears is returned from tTie
second congressional district.
In Douglas county all the county
officers are republican. Sam K.
C.reenleaf, county, assessor, is high
man on the ticket, polling 37,622; and
is followed closely by Robert Smith,
clerk of the District Court; John N.
Baldwin, public defender; Thomas
Falconer and Harry Counsman, coun
ty commissioners. One change is
made on the District bench, former
Judge Abraham L. Sutton displacing
Judge Carroll O. Stauffer. Municipal
Judges Patrick, Holmes and Baldwin
were returned.
Five democrats captured places by
close margins out of the twenty legis
lative districts. F. L. Barnett, the
only colored American in the legisla
tive race, was defeated by Bernard R.
Stone. Barnett’s district is the Tenth
which is 2 to 1 republican and has
never before been known to elect a
democrat. The significance of Bar
net’s defeat in an overwhelming re
publican district Is not very likely to
be overlooked.
Great interest centered in the
School Board to which six members
were elected, three of the successful
•_ candidates being women. Two race
candidates were filed, the Rev. John
Albert Williams and the Rev. Russel
Taylor. In the belief that, there was
a probability of electing the stronger
candidate an unsuccessful effort was
made to have the weaker withdraw.
Kaeh received a good vote but neither
* • was elected.
El,IAS RIDGE SAVED
FROM DEATH CHAIR
X. A. A. C. 1*. Thanked for Helping In
Fight for Condemned 13-Year
Old Boy
New York, Nov. 7.—Elias Ridge, the
thirteen-year %ld hoy condemned to
death In Oklahoma, for an alleged
murder, has been saved from the
death penalty. This news is contain
ed in a report sent to the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People by W. H. Twine of
Muskogee, editor of the Muskogee
Cimeter, attorney in charge of the
case and a member of the local N. A.
A. C. P.
Mr. Twine states that he filed a
brief in the case and that argument
was had on October 6, in Oklahoma
City. Mr. Twine's report continues:
“Last evening I received a wire
from Mr. Charles N. Tarmon, the
white lawyer who voluntarily came to
my assistance, that the cause had
been decided our way and the boy’s
life saved.-Mr. Harmon stood by
me loyally in the cause. He is a real
white man, who believes in a square
deal to all men. I want to thank the
Association for the splendid help
given me in this fight.”
The boy’s sentence has been reduced
from the death penalty to life im
prisonment.
The National Office of the N. A. A.
C. P. sent $100 toward a local defense
fund of $1,000 raised by the local N.
A. A. C. P., co-operating with the
Oklahoma Black Dispatch, and also
sent $25 toward the expense of $90
for printing and filing briefs. Much
of the balance of that sum was raised
by Dr. A. Baxter Whitby, then pres
ident of the Oklahoma City branch of
the N. A. A. C. P.
Miss Ruth Kimberling of Kansas
City, Mo., is visiting her sister, Mrs.
B. B. Cowan, 2865 Miami street.
KLAN KLEAGLE GIVEN 6 TEARS
Fairmont, W. Va., Nov. 7—(Associ
ated Negro Press)—With the declara
tion that he was ‘‘a menace to society
and should be removed as far there
from as the penalty of the sta'ute
which has been violated will permit,”
Judge E. R. Showalter at Monday’s
session of the Circuit court, sentenced
the Rev. C. E. Jones, kleagle of the
Ku Klux Klan, to five years in the
state penitentiary.
The reverend kleagle was convicted
of conspiracy in connection with the
shooting of Dun Washington, a col
ored man who was lured to a lonely
spot by the wife of a white man in
order that her husband and a band
of others might kill him. Washington
was shot but not. killed. He feigned
death until the mob left. He then dis
appeared and returned three months
later to make charges against his as
sailants.
Others convicted on a similar
charge were J. A. Landis, and Ivan
Poling. Landis was fined $500 and
sentenced to sixty days in Jail and
Poling fined $500. In sentencing the
klan minister, Judge Showalter said:
"Liberty, regulated by law is the
goal of self-governing people. Liberty
without such regulations ends in the
worst form of tyranny. Any organiza
tion whose principles or teachings are
calculated to foment or encourage
class prejudice, church prejudice or
race prejudice is at variance with the
basic principles of our government, it
is un-American, it is un-Christian.”
OKLAHOMA Will ft
REGISTRARS ARRESTED
New York, Nov. 7.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People made public a report
from Oklahoma, showing that white
registrars, accused of trying to pre
vent Negroes registering, had been ar
rested. The report to the N. A. A. C.
P. says in part:
"I want to thank you and other
friends in the North for the aid and
assistance given us in making the
fight to have our group registered.
We succeeded In getting six regis
trars in this county and four In Wa
goner county arrested for conspiracy.
It was a hard Job to get this done,
and, but for the assistance of your
self and other outside friends, there
have been nothing done.”
The report further states that al
though the registrars may not be held
by the local commissioner, they may
be taken before the U. S. grand Jury,
"and we have another IT. S. Judge In
this district, Judge Kennnmer, who
has already expressed himself as op
posed to the kind of work these regis
trars have been putting over.—The
Judge will call a IT. S. grand Jury and
it is our purpose to get our witnesses
before that grand jury. We suceeded
in getting only a few hundred regis
tered but will never give up the fight.”
COLORED MAN APPOINTED
MANAGER OF CHAIN
DRUG STORE IN HARLEM
(By N. A. A. C. P. Press Service)
New York, Nov. 7.—George F.
Clayton, a young colored pharmacist,
of 1737 Van Buren street, the Bronx,
New York, has recently been ap
pointed manager of one of a chain of
drug stores operated by the Liggett
Company, according to announcement
in the N. Y. Age. The Liggett Com
pany controls the largest chain of
drug stores in New York City.
The drug store under Mr. Clayton’s
charge, is located at th Avenue and
130th street. The new manager of
the Liggett Company’s Harlem store
has been in the organization’s em
ploy for a number of years, and has
made an excellent record.
N. J. TEACHERS OF COLORED
CHILDREN OFFER STORY
PRIZE TO STUDENTS
(By N. A. A. C. P. Press Service)
The organization of Teachers of
Colored Children, of New Jersey, in
order to win sympathy for their stu
dents, has offered a prize of $26 to
the colored under-graduate in any
regular 4-year college course "who
shall write the best short story por
traying the charm of the colored
child, thus winning for him sympathy
and understanding.”
Stories must not exceed 2,600
words, must be typewritten on one
side of the paper, and should be in
the hands of the chairman of the con
test, Miss Frances 0. Grant, Borden
town, N. J., by April 1, 1926.
KILLED BABY; HAD NO CHANCE
Wooster, Ohio, Nov. 7.—(By the As
sociated Negro Press.)—Claiming that
she wns guilty of having killed her
two weeks’ old baby because her hus
band would not believe it wns his and
that she did not think it would have a
chance in the world, Mrs. Blanche
Thomas, white, was arraigned of first
degree murder before Mayor M. R.
Limb.
“It wouldn’t have had a nigger’s
chance,” she told the mayor.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY CALLS FOR RECOG
NITION COMMENSURATE WITH NEW BAY
Hon. Win. C. Matthews, Natonal Or
ganizer, Expresses Appreciation for
Co-operation of the (.roup Daring
the Campaign and Proposes a Con
st run vc Program of Action.
My Fellow Americans: Returns
from the polls decisively show that
^President Calvin Coolidge has been
elected to succeed himself as Chief
Executive of the nation. The country
is to be congratulated. I believe it
to be my duty to express to the mem
bers of my group my deepest appreci
ation for their hearty support of me
Calvin Coolidge.
Our President
and my program during the campaign.
My designation as leader in the fight
was only Incidental but the loyal co
operation I have enjoyed is positive
proof that the right kind of leadership
is all our people require to inspire
them to follow. The election is at an
end but our work as a group must
be continued. My associates have
made these happy results possible.
Believing that next in importance
to the election of President Coolldge
is a constructive program of proce
dure dedicated to the civic and poli
tical improvement of the thirteen mil
lions of colored citizens of America;
and believing that the loyal support
of the colored voters in this cuntry
registered at the polls on November
4, 1924, justly entitled them to a re
cognition commensurate with the spir
it of the new day; and expressing our
appreciation of the new spirit in the
republican party in its designation of
a Negro candidate for the United
Stutes Congress; and accepting the
new spirit of the republican party as
genuine, this program of constructive
action is submitted for your consider
ation and approval:
No. 1--Representation In the Diplo
matic Corps.
We believe that the ground lost in
recent years in the diplomatic corps
should be restored to the colored citi
zens as a Just recognition of the right
through representation in the con
sular service and as representatives
to foreign governments.
No. 2—The Establishment of ft Stable
Representative Government In the
Virgin Islands by Act of Congress.
The problem of government in these
recently acquired islands, rich in re
sources and valuable in strategic im
portance to our government, entails a
responsibility, seeing to it that a real
representative government is provid
ed for the inhabitants by the United
States government. The inhabitants
of the Virgin Islands are colored and
the initiative for the institution of a
proper government must come from
the United States.
No. 3—The Appointment of un Under
secretary of State.
The appointment of a representa
tive in the Department of State is a
recognition by the United States gov
ernment of its colored citizens which
we can rightfully claim and with col
ored men in the consular and diplo
matic service, establishes a connec
tion between these representatives
and the government of a sympathetic
and friendly nature.
No. 4—The Appointment of a Civil
Service Commissioner. /
Much complaint, some of which is
undoubtedly Justified, has been made
of the administration of affairs py the
Civil Service Commission. As a prac
tical measure the appointment of a
colored man as one of the commis
sioners will allay the feeling of dis
trust and ought to enable a system of
appointments and classifications to be
arranged to the satisfaction of the col
ored employees and at the same time
protect the government’s interest in
the maintenance of the standard of
efficiency.
No. 5—The Appointment of an Assist
ant Postmaster General.
The problems of the Post Office De
partment are many and varied and in
many of the large centers of popula
tion much criticism has been indulged
in of the administration of this de
partment. A representative in this
department will be of aid to the gov
ernment in the working out of gen
eral policies of operation lessening
racial friction and the adjustment of
difficulties brought about by racial
contact in an equitable manner.
No. 6—Restoration of the Office of
Registrar of the Treasury to the
Race.
One of the most heartening effects
of the administration will be the ap
| pointment of a colored man to this
Adam McMullen.
Governor-Elect of Nebraska
office. It will have the tendency of
restoring the confidence of the color
ed people In the administration and
the republican party.
No. 7—Appointment of a Minister to
Haiti and a Consul General to Port
An Prince.
The present conditions in Haiti, in
fact in many of the countries inhabit
ed by colored people, is in itself the
strongest reason for urging that con
tact between this country and these
people be established through the ap
pointment of representative colored
men from America. The aims and
aspirations of the inhabitants of these
countries can be best served and
friendly co-operation maintained only
through the sympathetic understand
ing had by a representative of kin
dred race.
No. 8—Appointment of an Assistant
Attorney General.
The growing importance of this de
partment’s relationship to the status
of colored citizens of the nation, in
that it is intrusted with the mainte
nance and sustaining of the constitu
tional questions arising incident to
governmental functions, makes it im
perative that we have representation
in this office as a safe-guard.
No. 9—Representation npon the Rail
road Board of Review; Farm Credits
Bureau and in the Department of
Commerce.
The large number of railroad em
ployees working under varied condi
tions in the administration of the rail
road system of the nation should have
a representative upon the board that
devises, controls and direct® this in
dustry. The question of equal accom
modations upon the railroads of the
country, is a subject that must be call
ed to the attention of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and a ruling
secured prohibiting discriminations
against our people. The operation of
the Farm Credits Bureau has not been
brought home to the Negro farmer, ®o
that he may become a beneficiary of
its operation. Certainly the large
number of colored people dependent
upon agriculture for livelihood and
the resulting benefit to the govern
ment as well as to the farmers them
selves, demands that every available
facility be furnished in the interest of
production in this industry. The
Back-to-the-Farm Movement must be
preceded by conditions and surround
ings conducive to permanency and
security.
No. 10—Recognition of Our Women in
the Public Service.
We believe that since the enfran
chisement of women, the colored wo
man ha® not received the recognition
in and welcome to participation in the
public service as her number, intel
ligence and equipment for public serv
ice demand.
No. 10—West Point nnd Annapolis Ap
pointments.
We believe that the responsibility of
bearing arms in defense of the gov
ernment carries with it the right for
recognition in the highest offices of
the War Department. Certainly well
trained officers of the Army and the
Navy of the same race as the soldier,
will be productive of a higher degree
of morale than can be possibly attain
ed under any other system, and we be
lieve that the policy enforced in the
past of discouraging appointments to
and attendance of our boys to West
Point and Annapolis is an unjust re
proach on the part of the government
upon the most loyal class of its citi
zenship, and should be stopped.
No. 12—Appointments in the Veterans
liureau mid Iteglnnnl Districts.
The Veterans Bureau is charged
with one of the greatest humanitarian
commissions this government has ever
been called upon to perform and it is
urged that all the friendly co-opera
tion of the Negro people in caring for
its own, be drawn upon and used and
that administrative offices in the Bu
reau at Washington and in the region
al districts be appointed with a view
of intelligently directing these forces
for service to the volored veterans.
No. 13—Appointments in the Educa
tional Department.
The practical workings of this de
partment in many of the states is so
adjusted as to inflict injustices and
discriminations by its operatives when
the manifest intention of the law is
to be beneficial. In many of the states
where separate schools obtain, money
is withheld from colored pupils and
applied for the donation of white pu
pils In addition to the amount set
aside specifically for such white in
stitutions. This obtains in many of
the states where separate schools are
provided for by law. The appointment
of a highly trained and practical edu
cator in this department would pro
vide against these injustices and at
the same time would be an aid to the
government and serve a need to the
colored people of the nation in their
intellectual development.
No. 14—The 92nd and 93rd Divisions
Be Reallocated ns Combat Divisions.
The colored people of the nation
have a right to expect of the govern
ment that its defenders, when called
into service, be not used merely as
laborers and that so long as the ob
ligation to serve the nation as war
units is a responsibility which cannot
be evaded, we insist that the repre
sentatives from our class of citfzen
shlp be recognized as combat troups
in the service of the government.
No. 15—Abolition of Segregation In
the Government Service.
We feel that we need but call atten
tion to the fact that this govern
ment cannot maintain its reputation
as a democracy if segregation of
citizens, because of color, is a gov
ernmental policy and we urge the
abolition of discrimination in all of
the departments of governmental serv
ice.
No. lit—Approval of Liberian Loan.
The obligations incurred by this
government to the Lberian govern
ment during the war for services ren
dered by that government are too
plain and Just for division of opinion.
The promises made bp this govern
ment through its representatives in all
honor ought to be kept and the prin
ciple maintained that America is too
broad, too big and too just to break
its word when solemnly given. We,
therefore, urge that a loan of suitable
size commensurate with the needs of
the Liberian government be made.
No. 17—Without Attempting to Deter
mine the Method to Re Employed
We Urge That the Government Take
Suitable Cognizance of the Crime of
Lynching in the United States.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM C. MATTHEWS.
NEW YORK NEOROES
W ANT TO RUN BUSSES
New York, N. Y., Nov. 7.—(By the
Associated Negro Press).—The Demo
cratic Protective association, a local
organization among colored voters,
has appealed to Mayor Hylan for in
sertion in the bus franchise of clauses
to prevent discrimination against Ne
groes in the selection of employees.
The appeal points out that as matters
stand now a Negro can only apply for
a porter’s job.
RAPS BISHOP CANDLER
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 7.—(Asspci
ated Negro Press).—Bishop W. A.
Candler of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, who has been opposing
the unification of the northern and
southern branches of the church be
cause of the presence of Negro bishops
in the northern branch, is scored in
an editorial in the current issue of
the Philadelphia Tribune for having
that kind of Christianity which thou
sands of so-called Christians have and
which says to Negroes: “Thus far
shalt thou go and no farther.”
PAUPER HAS A CAR
Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 7.— (Asso
ciated Negro Press).—After having
made application for entrance to the
county poorhouse and proved that he
was indigent, George Harmon pre
sented himself Monday for admission.
When recorded by the attendants he
asked them where he was to keep his
car in Which he had driven up. They
informed him that there was no gar
age for the inmates. Harmon drove
away.
HAITI HAS NEW CABINET
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Washington, D. C., Nov. 7.—Ac
cording to reports just received at
the Department of State, a new Hai
tian cabinet, replacing that which
resigned recently, has been formed.
Leon de Jean, minister of foreign ad
fairs and public worship; Rene Aug
ust, ministre of the interior and pub
lic works; Fernand Dennis, minister
of finance and commerce; Dela Barre
Pierre-Louis, minister of justice, and
Herman Heraux, minister of public
instruction, agriculture and labor.
OLDEST INDIAN DIES
Yosemite, Calif., Nov. 7.—(By the
Associated Negro Press.)—Mrs. Lucy
Brown, said to be the oldest Indian in
the United States, died suddenly here
last week, age 120 years. She was
the oldest member of six generation
of her family residing in the Indian
village occupied by her tribe.
NEGRO IS ELECTED
MUNICIPAL JUDGE
DY CHICAGOANS
Attorney Albert George, Running on
Republican Ticket, Is Chosen to
Court of Record by 65,000
Majority
MARKS NEW DEPARTURE
Chicago Metropolis Also Sends Adel
bert Roberts to the State
Senate
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, 111., Nov. 7.—After re
peated attempts and failures, a Ne
gro judge was elected in this city
Tuesday in the person of Albert A.
George. Mr. George ran on the Re
publican ticket and was elected to
the Municipal court bench. His elec
tion was due to solid support from his
race and the backing of the Republi
can organization throughout the city.
He received a majority of 65,000.
Before the election he had received
endorsements of the highest char
acter, only one organization that is
known refusing to place a mark op
posite his name and that one being
closely linked with the Ku Klux Klan.
Mr. George is 51 years old and was
born in Washington, D. C. At* an
early age he went to Altoona, Pa.,
where he served as clerk for a justice
of the peace and studied law in the
office of Nicholas P. Mervine. He
came to Chicago later, studied at the
Northwestern university and finished
in the class of 1897. He has been
practicing for 26 years.
Judge George was married six
years ago to Miss Maude Roberts.
He has one child, Albert R. George.
The judge has been attorney for the
Chicago Defender for a number of
years, is a members of the board of
directors of the Chicago Urban
League, secretary of the board of
trustees of Provident hospital and
secretary of the beneficiary board of
the Knights of Phthias of Illinois.
SEN. ADELBERT H. ROBERTS
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, 111., Nov. 7.—Whether
they will it or no, politics, as organ
ized locally, is going to bring the
Negroes of this city into their own.
This was never more forcefully dem
onstrated than when at Tuesday’s
election, a Negro, Adelbert H. Rob
erts, was sent to the state senate
from the Third senatorial district.
Mr. Roberts’ election makes him
the highest state elective officer in
the United States of the Negro race.
The third senatorial district is so
preponderantly Negro that the Demo
crats would not put up a candidate
against Mr. Roberts, he going thru
the election unopposed.
The district hitherto has been rep
resented by Samuel Ettelson, a Jew,
a part of the famous Second ward or
ganization who, at the same time he
was in the senate, served as corpora
tion counsel for the city of Chicago
under Mayor William Hale Thompson.
He resigned his seat in the senate last
winter when he moved from the dis
trict.
Mr. Roberts is a lawyer and has a
long and honorable legislative career.
He was born In VanBuren, Mich., in
1867. He studied in that state and
worked as a teacher and barber until
in the early nineties he came to Chi
cago, where he understood he could
make good money at the barbers
trade. In this city he was attracted
to the study of law, entered North
western, and finished. Almost im
mediately he went into the courts
serving in a number of important ca
pacities, and holding the position of
the highest-salaried clerk in Chica
go’s court system.
He) has served three terms in the
lower house of the state legislature.
Representing the wettest district in
the state, he has been a consistent
dry and has pulled through in spite
of the organization. His stand for
prohibition brought him into national
prominence, as did also his fight to
put through the legislature at its
last session, an anti-Ku Klux Klan
bill. This measure was passed de
spite desperate efforts on the part of
klan organizations to prevent it. In
the last session of the legislature he
introduced eight bills which were all
passed with only four votes against
the eight.
Mr. Roberts is married and has
four children, three boys and one girl.
He is an orator of the first rank and
has the record of having made more
speeches than any man in Illinois
politics.
Speaking to some friends before
election, he declared that he would
rather be a “statesman than a poli
tician.”
A. L. Hall of 2766 Grant street, a
Pullman employee, died suddenly
Monday, October 27th, $t 6 o’clock.
The body was taken to Bryant, Tex.,
Friday by his widow, who with other
relatives survive him, for burial.
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