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are those of the writer and not necessarily
a reflection of the policy of The Voice.—
Pub.
Wherry
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vote of the senators who are
present.
LINCOLN PARTY REFUSED
“Today’s vote in the senate
shows that the republican party is
the party of the great emanci
p a t o r Abraham Lincoln, and
that the republican party is the
only agency through which equal
opportunity for legislation of
this kind can be guaranteed to
the voters of the United States
of America.”
In the face of this G.O.P. de
nunciation, democrats gave ground
and it was almost pathetic to see
Truman’s man “Friday”—Senator
Scott Lucas of Illinois—admit that
“the democratic party has always
been split upon the subject of civil
rights.”
Mixed emotions were evident,
perhaps those that occasionally
bring about drastic political re
alignments, as Lucas admitted a
simple, confusing, disgusting truth
to those Negroes who for eighteen
years have been allied with a
party, which is unable to pass
legislation in their behalf, al
though continually accepting and
seeking their votes.
SOUTHERNERS DOMINATE
“P do not think there is any
one,” said Lucas t r a g i c a 1 ly,
“whether he be a democrat or a
republican, w'ho does not believe
that the senators who come from
the south have a very deep con
viction and take a very tenacious
position with respect to the issues
which are involved in the pro
posed (FEPC) legislation.”
There it was: there was, finally
the admission from the Truman
administration to Negroes that the
south was in the saddle. That is
could and would rule this nation
when civil rights was about to
unfold as a law of the land.
And even though Mr. Lucas
promised he would continue the
battle despite the setback, the
FEPC bill appears today to be
dead as far as the Eighty-first
congress is concerned.
Senator Lucas indicated that he
is willing to lay aside the FEPC
motion from time to time to clear
the way for other legislation until
he is ready to make another test
of the cloture rule. He did not set
a definite time for the next at
tempt.
You can do very little with
faith, but you can do nothing
without it.—Samuel Butler.
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do not find a loved one there, but
fearing that they will. Curious on
lookers are crowding the block to
look and see what happened.
In the meantime numerous in
vestigations—by the police depart
ment, by the Chicago Transit Au
thority, by the coroner’s jury, by
the fire attorney’s office have
been started.
While the scenes of passengers
escaping the street car with
flaming hair and clothing ap
peared tragic, more grotesque was
the hopelessness of persons jam
ming the doors of the trolley, but
unable to escape. A number of the
dead bodies were charred stand
ing futilely at the bar between
them and life.
This accident is considered the
worst in the history of the city,
and the fire the worst since 1946.
The collision occurred during
the rush hour on one of the city’s
busiest shopping days. It hap
pened in a neighborhood where
numerous Negro and white fam
ilies live side by side.
CHICAGO. (ANPJ. The follow
ing persons have been identified
among the dead in the tragic col
lision between a street car and a
gasoline trailer truck:
• Mrs. Clara Dobson, 38, 9134
Perry Ave.; Mrs. Marie A. Frank
lin, 37, 6748 Prairie Ave.; Mrs.
Julia Piercefield, 59, 9352 Mich
igan; Douglas Turner, 39, 9211
Harvard Ave.; Floreine Foster, 21,
210 W. 93rd. At least 10 others are
still unidentified.
Persons hospitalized were: Provident
hospital: Vernon Anderson 34, 22 E. 101;
Alma Featherstone, 30, 1142 E. 67; Ben
Head, 36. 2912 Prairie Ave.; John Jack
son. 35, 6225 Rhodes Ave.; Mrs. Avis Wat
ley, 40, 4818 Calumet; Edward W. White,
.r., 35, 9214 Indiana Ave. St. Bernard’s
hospital: Mrs. Catherine Johnson, 30, 542
E. 46 PL; Mrs. Led die Jones. 42, 6603
Wabash Ave.; Mrs. Frances McDonald, 35,
9151 Harvard; Melvin Roundtree, 42, 9114
Harvard; Mrs. Fannie Powell, 39, 9222
Perry Ave. Englewood* hospital: Mrs. Ora
Mae Bryant. 29, 9304 Stewart Ave.
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•TATI B1ST0AICAL BOCIB7Y
Nebraska Governors.
William A. Poynter, governor
of Nebraska from 1899 to 1901,
was one of two men elected to
the post of chief executive as the
result of fusion between the Popu
lists and Democrats. (The other
was Silas A. fjolcomb, whose
career I discussed in an earlier
column.)
Governor Poynter was born at
Eureka, Illinois,'May 29, 1848, the
son of a pioneer minister. After
graduating from Eureka College,
he taught school for a few years,
and then went into the grocery
and hardware business. He emi
grated in Nebraska in 1879, pur
chasing a farm near Albion in
Boone County.
Like many another Nebraska
pioneer, William Poynter took an
active part in politics almost from
the date of his arrival. He was one
of the organizers of the Farmers
Alliance, and in 1884 he was
elected to the state house of rep
resentatives, the only Independent
in the body.
The so-called “Populist Revo
lution” of 1890 put Mr. Poynter
in the state senate. He had enough
friends in this session to result
in his election as president pro
tem of the senate. He took an ac
tive part in fusion politics during
the 1890s. The Populists nomi
nated him as their candidate for
congress frotn the Third district in
1892, but he was defeated by Re
publican George D. Meiklejohn.
Fusion among the Populists,
Democrats and Silver Republicans
resulted in Poynter’s elevation to
the governor’s office in 1898. The
contest was close, though, and he
defeated Monroe L. Hayward, the
Republican candidate from Otoe
County, by a margin of about
2,700 votes.
Though they had elected their
state ticket, the fusionists lost the
legislature, and Governor Poynter
had a hostile majority against him
in both houses. As a result, he was
able to get very little of his pro
gram, concerned primarily with
railroad regulation, enacted. It
was during Governor Poynter’s
administration that the present
governor’s mansion, located just
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south of the enpitol, was pur
chased.
Governor Poynter whs renomi
nater by the fusion interests in
1900, but was defeated by Charles
H. Dietrich.
Governor Poynter always was
interested in agricultural develop
ment. He was one of the organ
izers of the Boone County Agri
cultural Society, and served for a
number of years as a member of
the state board of agriculture.
Following his defeat, he con
tinued to make his home in Lin
coln, where he took an active part
in public affairs He died sud
denly, April 5, 1909, in the Gover
nor’s office, where he had gone
as the head of a delegation to urge
Governor Shallenberger to sign
the much discussed ‘'daylight sa
loon bill.”
Death Takes
W. B. Millson
William B. Millson of 2137 So.
48th, nephew of the late William
I Jennings Bryan, died Monday
after an illness of three weeks.
He had lived there more than 40
years.
Until his illness, Mr. Millson
was still active in the U. S. de
partment of internal revenue
where he had served for 17
years.
Bom in Salem, 111., he moved
to Lincoln where he attended
Nebraska Wesleyan. Mr. Millson
lived for a while in Twin Falls,
Ida.
For approximately 12 years
around the turn of the century
Mr. Millson farmed land belong
ing to Mr. Bryan.
He was a member of the Elks.
A son, Maj. Francis Millson,
died in Washington, D. C., in
1945.
Surviving are a sister, Mrs.
Laura Spangler, and an aunt,
Mrs. T. S. Allen, both of Lincoln.
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Charles M. Johnson, 68, ol |oy^
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illness. He had lived there sin<<
leaving Lincoln in 1940.
Mr. Johnson was born in Aus
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he came to Lincoln at the age of
19. For a number of years he was
an employee of the Burlington
railroad. He also worked at the
old Grand Hotel for 15 years.
He was a member of Mt. Zion
Baptist church and the Masonic
lodge.
Surviving are his wife, Bertha;
a son, Charles; two daughters,
Mrs. Imogene Winters, Lincoln
and Mrs. Verda Rayon of Califor
nia. One brother and three sis
ters, all living in Texas. Services
were held in Los Angeles.
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