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FaiJ Yohr Foil TaX Mo daijfi
"MOST DISTDTCTIYE WEEKLY
nr AJEEEICA."
A CONSERVATIVE TET FEARLESS
CHAMTI05 OF JUSTICE.
Fcunded by W. B. King.
The Republican Party Is The Ship All Else Is The Sea." Fred Douglas.
2.00 Per Annum
VOL. 27 NO. 10.
THE DALLAS EXPRESS DALLAS TEXAS HATUUUV JANUARY 241920
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Yyler urges definite
AC-TION IN POLITICS.
Says Republicans Should
Show Where They Stand
by Plank in Platform For
Negroes.
Dy Ralph W. Tyler
In many way the Impending pres-
idential campaign mnrt deeply con-
cerns the Colored people In the
United State than any previous one
since the adoption of the 14th and
15th amendments to the constitution.
The accumulating evidence of in-
creasing persecution of the race In
the South and discrimination in the
North and the apparent "leave it
alone" policy of the party with which
we have lone been adulated and
which has had our practically solid
support in national elections ab
a bearing on those (ittestlons culling
for a solution by the granting of
constutlonally vouchsafed rights and
privilege has made our race some-
what skeptical as to the future.
The world Was out of which we
thought and confidentially believed
would issue a much tauted world
democracy as applicable to our race
that gave millions to finance is und
more than Four Hundred Thousand
men to light for it an to the native
and natural zed and even alien i
whites left instead in its wake ai
trail of racial prejudice wider deeper
and more engulfing than existed
before.
The leaders of - the Republican
party no less than leader of the
Democratls ' party have apparently
been more concerned with economic
question which concern other cou-
triea the feeding und uplifting of
peoples in foreign countries than
with the question of justice for the
American Colored men who loyally
bore the brunt of the battle in ttie
heat of the day.
Unless we succeed In Influencing the
Republican party to write into its
platform to he adopted at Chicago
in June a plank designed to secure
equal Justice for the race and a
solemn pledge that such a plank
shall be strictly adhered to we will
have failed in our duty to the race.
There will be four parties to go
before the voters of our country
for endorsement thlB coming fall
the Republican Democratic Labor
and Socialist. With the second which
is most largely responsible for all
our Ills we cannot consistently ally
ourselves. With the Socialists past
.and present there are ineparately
associated too many radicals who are
styled bolsheviks Soviets. syndical-
ists and I. W. W. The Luhor party
although the American Federation
of Labor has f one on record as fav-
oring a recognition within the ranks
of organized labor of Colored labor
on equal terms with white .to many
of our race yet appears impotent
even though there is much in it
policies that are Idealistic to secure
for us a quick and permanent Jus-
tice. The Republican party provid-
ing it is reconstructed brought
back to those principles that actu-
ated and controlled it under Lin-
coln appear to be the only safe
ark upon which we mav take safe
pasage to a hoped for mllleum.
l'ractlcally all of the avowed pres-
idential aspirant In the Republican
party have sounded their keynote
but In none of tliem hus lime been
a single note of encouragement
even by inference for the more than
120000(10 Colored peoples? The bur-
den of their song has been untag-
onism to the "Reds" who would as
bolsheviks Soviets syndicalism and
what not. overthrow our government.
Unintentionally perhaps they made
no reference to the Rebels thore In
this country who rebel against ac-
cording to u 12000000 loyal contin-
gent the justice they splendidly won
in every wnr this country has waged.
Iff ore the Republican convention
convenes we ought to assemble as
a race and. banishing all factional
strife among ourselves ignoring
every and all personal differences
by speech action and resolution Im-
press upon the party that we MUST
be given only the recognition the
constitution sneciflcAllv nrnoiHaa a mi
which our loyalty service and sac-1 prehend them and make hem BUi-
rlflces have paid for in full. 4h onf . tha .
mere must be no recognition of!v" - ......
a southern policy" by any future
Republican president In contradis-
tinction to a national policy of us-
tice for all. There MUST NOT be
a revival of policy persued by a
Republican president that denies to
our brothers In the South equitable
representation in governmental affairs
under the delusion that such a pol-
icy will best solve the race problem
for those who refuse to coincide
that the American colonists' slogan
"No taxation without representation"
is as sound today as it was In 1778.
The same opportunities and rights
must be accorded the Two Millions
of Colored people In the North that
are accorded the whites who are no
more citizens of these United States
than are the Colored and the same
opportunities and rights due the two
million Colored people In the" North
MUST be accorded the Ten Mlllon
Colored people who live In the South
and that too without reservations.
Tha Republican party preaches a
"one and indivisible country" and
we the Colored people must see to
It that the party recognizes our
race as a component part of that
"one and Indivisible."
It is up to us to impress by unity
In resolution and up to the Repub-
lican party to ACT concertedly and
effectively to conserve every right
and privilege the constitution vouch-
safes for us.
COLORED LAWYERS
'PLEAD CASE IN
LIVERPOOL COURT.
Canadians Amazed at Polite-
ness of Busy City And Ne-
groes' Activities.
One noticeable difference between
shops In Liverpool and Toronto
is in the window dressing. Here
the purpose of the shopkeeper is
to pack aa much as he can In
the windows. One bookseller has
his stock piled against a glass In
such a manner that no gleam of
light enters the shop. Most of the
articles are ticketed and we am
told that an Enellshman likes to buy
In the street That Is to say he
likes to examine the arUcle ponder
the price and make up his mind
before going Inside. The salespeo-
ple mostly girls probably have no
equals on. the American continent
except In Atlantic City. "No sir
' sorry to say sir we have no Wa-
terman ink except in red at pres-
ent Very sory. But we have the
small bottles for traveling If that
would suit you sir?" Since this is
. what we want and not ink by the
gallon the purchase is made.
"Thank you so much sir: would yon
mind paying at the cashier's desk
n. c. governor denoun-
CES RECENT LYNCHING.
Reward Offered For Each
Man Caught and Convicted
(Associated Negro Press).
Raleigh N. C Jan. 2. The
whole power of the state will be
exerted to apprehend the lynchers
of Powell Green In Franklin de-
clared Gov. Bickett. The lynch-
ing took place In Gov. Blckett's
home county and Is the second
within the year In that county.
Gov. Bickett announced he would
offer a reward of $400 for each
man apprehended and convicted of
participation In the lynching this
being the limit allowed by law.
A coroner's jury examined six
witnesses but failed to implicate
any one In the lynching." It devel-
oped however that the chief of
police of Franklintown was hold-
jng the Negro When he Shot R.
M.
urown the white man whose
murder led1 to the lynching. The
jury will continue its inquest Tues-
day. "The whole state Is shocked and
humiliated by this horrible out-
rage on our laws" said the gover-
nor. "Such deeds put to open shame
our boasted white civilization and
make the name of southern chiv-
alry a by word and a reproach. It
is true that the crime committed
was an- atrocious one for he shot
down without cause and without
provocation one of the best citi-
zens of Franklintown. This nat-
urally aroused vgreat Indignation
but it affords no semblance of ex-
cuse for a mob taking the law into
its own hands.
"The Negro above all others is
entitled to the protection of the
law. He nas no voice In the mak-
ing of the law; he has no hand in
Its execution. " All the power'' and
all the processes of the law are
In the hands of white men.
"And yet this mob savagely de-
nied to a helpless Negro prisoner
the right to trial before a white
Judge and a white Jury and re-
ceive a white man's justice. The
said truth is that thq man - who
did this Negro prisoner to death
gave way to the same barbarous
and brutish passions that made the
Negro shoot down his victim with-
out cause.
"The members of that mob cru-
cified the elementary principles of
justice for which white men have
fought and bled and died and
through a thousand years. They
have assaulted the very citadel of
our civilization and all the power
of the state will be exerted to ap-
Baptists Plan To Establish
New School.
Nashville. Tenn. Jan. 22. I.Ike a
Hercules bent on turning the world
towards an educational program such
as it his never known the Baptist
National Baptist Convention unin-
corporated spent two davs in working
out every detail of the plan for their
great Theological Training Seminary
and for homo and foreign mission
drives to be covered within the next
five years in which twenty-five mil-
lion dollars are to be raised.
Several states through their rep-
resentatives pledge full support.
Texas led the entire union by pledg-
ing five million dollars or In other
words one-fifth of the whole amount.
The meeting was presided over 'by
Rev. Edward P. Jones of Evanston
Illinois.
Among the . distinguished church-
men who spoke were Prs. J. W.
Hurse of Kansas City. J. H. Kelly of
San Antonio Texas E. J. Branch of
Houston Texas. E. It. Carter of At-
lanta Ga. .1. B. McCrary of Illinois
A. W. Hill of Aiken S.C M. U Porter
of Springfield Illinois. J. H. Green
of Atlanta. Ga.. M. J. Barlow of Shu-
buta Miss.. David Ahner President
of the Theological Training Seminary
C. J. W. Boyd of Davenport Iowa
J. P. Robinson of Little Rock Ark'.
R. H. Boyd C. H. Clnrk and .1. I.
Harding of Tennessee. Rev. David-
son of Dnkomo. Indiana. Rev. Rus-
sell of Milwaukee Wisconsin Rev.
Reece of Houston Texas. Rev. J C.
Curtis of Galveston- Texp. Rev. AV.
H. Cannon of Galveston. Texas.
It was announced at the close of
theme etlng that an Address To the
Baptist of the Country eptomlzlng
the difficulties and landing on a safe
constructive plat form would be sent
out during the next sixty days which
It is claimed will bring not only the
twenty-five million dollars hut even
a greater amount and that the Negro
Baptists would raise the whole sum
and then ask co-operation from the
world at large.
sir? Thank you sir. Good day and
thank you." When you ret a par-
cel of goods sent to the hotel it is-
wrapped up as though it were to
be shipped Immediately on Scott's
expedition or to form part of the
luggage for an African exploration.
Politeness Pays
The notion that this politeness
which is apt to strike strangers as
almost obsequious. Is offered in ex-
Change for tips is erroneous. You
don't tip a clerk in a store here any
more than you do in Canada. The
habit probably has its root some-
where In the stftrat of class distinc-
tions. . Long experience has taught
(Continued on page S).
COL E. H. R. GREEN HEADS MASSIVE
MACHINE TO DOWN McGREGOR AND .
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE ISSUES THE CALL TO ALL LOYAL REPUBLICANS - STATES
THE LAW GOVERNING STATE CONVENTIONS - OUTLINES THE PROSPECTIVE PLANS
OF TEXAS' TRUE REPUBLICANS UNDER THE "GREEN" BANNER GUARANTEEING
TO NEGROES THEIR FULL
PUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF TEXAS:
The Republican National Committee
has issued the following call:
"To the Republican Voter of the
I lilted Mates.'
In pursuance to the rules adopted
by the Republican National Conven-
tion of 1916 the Republican National
Committee directs that a National
Convention of delegated represent-
atives of the Republican Party
be held in the City of Chicago In
the State of Illinois at eleven o'clock
a. m. Tuesday the 8th day of June
11120 for the purpose of nominating
candidates for President and Vlce-
t'nMiHfnt. tn be voted fur at the
presidential election on Tuesday Nov-1
ember 2 1112(1 nlid for the transac-'.
Hon of such other business us may
properly come before it.
The voters of the several States
and of Alaska Hawaii. Porto Rico
the Philllpino Island and the Dis-
trict of Columbia who are In accord
with the principles of the Republic
can Party believe in Its declaration
of policies and are in sympathy with
Its alms and purposes are cordially
Invited to unite under thin call in
the selection of delegates to said
convention.
Signed:
JAS. B. REYNOLDS Sec'y.
MILL II. HAYS Chairman.
I'nder the Law
The State Republican Executive
Committee must call a State Con-
vention May 25th 11120 to elect (4)
Four delegate and (4) Pour alter-
nate delegates from the State at
large. One (1) delegate and One (1)
alternate delegate each from the
1st 2nd 3rd. 4th 5th. 6th 7th 8th
Hth 10th 11th. 12th -13th. 15th lllth.
I7lh nnd lsth C'onurrssinniil Districts
and Two (2) delegates and Two (2)
alternate delegates from the 14th
Congressional District to the Repub-
lican National Convention which Is
held June 8th In Chicago Illinsls.
Trie County Chairman must call
in each County May 4th. County Con-
vention to elect delegates to the
State Convention.
Precinct Chairman must call May
11 1920 PRECINCT PRIMARY CON-
VENTIONS. "Said PRIMARY CON-
VENTION shall be held between the
hours of ten o'clock a. m. and eight
o'clock p. m. These PRIMARY CON-
VENTIONS shall elect delegates to
the County Convention of the sev-
eral counties which -shall ' be held
on the 4th of May. 1920. The quali-
fied voters of each voting precinct
of the county shall assemble on
the date named and shall be presid-
ed over by a chairman who shall have
been previously appointed by . the
county Executive Committee of the
patty and shall be a qualified voter in
said election PRECINCT: and said
Convention may elect from among
their number a Secretary and such
other ollleers as may be necessary
to conduct their business of the Con-
vention. The chairman of said Pre-
cinct Primary Convention shall pos-
sess all the power and authority on
electing delegates to National Con-
ventions. Before transacting any business
the chairman shall make or cause
to be made a list of all qualified
voters present: and the name of no
pc'-son hall be entered upon said
list nor shall he be permitted to
vote or to partlcapate in the bus-
iness of such Convention until it
i made to appear that he Is a qual-
ified voter of said PRECINCT from
Negroes Desire to be Made
Health Wardens Among
Their Own People.
Baltimore Md. Jan. 22. Colored
people in the Fourteenth and Seven-
teenth wards are demanding recog-
nition at the hands of Health Com-
missioner C. Hampson Jones. Re-
quests for members of the race for
places as health wardens are said
to have Reviewed the moral if not
tho active support of Mayor Broenlng.
Dr. Jones In particular and the
Republican party In . general are
threatened with dire vengeance if
First Branch City Councllmen Warn-
er W. McGuInn Fourteenth ward and
William L. Fitzgerald of the Seven-
teenth ward both Colored are not
given a share of the patronage. Mc-
GuInn took a doctor. to the Health
Department and asked for his ap-
pointment as health warden for the
Fourteenth ward on the strength of
a letter of Indorsement from the
Mayor.
. Dr. Jones Is said to have told
McGuinn that under no cirtnmstan-
es would he nany a Negro health
warden and McOulr.n left the depart-
ment In a huff. He charged that
Health Commissioner with "uncalled-
for prejudice against the Colored race.
Dr. Jones is declared to have said In
reply that It was not a matter of
prejudice but of Judgment and that
he would not stand for any Intimida-
tion no matter from what source it
came. It was a heated Interview.
Dr. Jones I understood to be ready
and willing to place men In charge
of dental clinics in Colored schools
but that Is about as far as he will
go.
It develops that they have not
stripped at the Health Department
They are also demanding representa-
tion on the School Board and In
othe rbranches of the municipal ser-
vice and the Republican leaders
seem disturbed over tne situation.
Several delegations of Colored men
have called at the City Hall lately
and pressed their claims before the
Mayor who according to all accounts
has been a sympathetic llstncr to
say the least.
The men are claiming an Important
part In the election of the Mayor and
aro sayng that the two members of
their race In the Council are entitled
to some of tho places the adminis-
tration has to give out. It Is gen-
erally believed that the Mayor would
like to recognize them but that hi.
advisers are holding him In check.
LILY WHITE REPUBLICANS IN TEXAS.
QUOTA OF REPRESENTATION
FROM TEXAS." .
a certified list of qualified voters
tho same aa is required in conduct-
ing a general election. After the
Convention la organized as above
provided it shall elect its delegates
to the County Convention and trans-
act such other business as may prop-
erly come .before it. The ofllcers of
said Convention shall keep a written
record of its preceedings. Including
a list ot the delegates elected to the
County Convention ""which record
shall constitute the returns from
said Convention. "The same shall be
signed olHclally sealed up and safely
transmitted by he officers hereof to
transmitted by the County Execu-
tive Committee of the party and to
be used by the Executive Committee
in making up a roll of the delegates
to tho County Convention."
We are not authorized to speak
for the State Republican Executive
Committee but merely point out the
law which It nust follow and beyond
that it cannot go.
Mate Kxecutlve Committee
After much search and inquiry
we are able to give to the Repub-
licans of Texas for their infomation
a correct list of the names and ad-
dresses of those composing the State
Republican .Executive Committee:
Phil . E. P.aer Cbalrman Paris
Texas.
Geo. C. Hopkins Winnsboro Texas.
Geo. M. Pridgeon Chairman Hous-
ton Texas.
Tom Dailey Texarkana Texas.
Sam Gray Ben Franklin Texas.
M. . A. Taylor sI!onham Texas
H. L; Hlckson Gainesville Texas
(i. A. Duck. Greenville. Texas.
Geo. P. Hockhold. Dallas Texas.
Geo. C. Hopkins Winnsboro Texas.
G. W. L. Smith Henderson Texas.
7. W. A. Clark. Corslcana Texas.
Chas. A. Bock' Hillsboro Texas.
G. A. Boynton Waco. Texas.
J. Wed Davis. Teague. Texas.
Chas. F. Adams Jacksonville Texas.
F. R. Bluestein Orange Texas.
Roy. B. Nichols Houston Texas.
R. A. Harvin Angleton. Texas.
Aug. F. -le 'ens LaGrange. Texas.
- Robt. tA.i" s Bastrop. Texas.
Dr. E. P. Wllmont. Austin. Texas.
Eugene Nolte Seguin. Texas.
R. E.. Creagor. Brownsville Texas.
J. E. Elgin San Antonio Texas.
C. O. Harris. San Angelo Texas
Marshall Smith Brownwood Texas.
F W. Nelson Clifton. Texas
L. S. McDowell Big Surings Texas.
W. C. Kenyon Amarlllo Texas.
J. N. Winters liort Worth Texas.
T. A. Robinson Denton Texas.
Nat I. Collier Treas. Houston
Texas.
National Committee n Lilly White
These persons constitute the Reg-
ular Republican State Organization.
Mr. H. F. MacGregor the National
Committeeman to our regret has
lined up with the Illy white Repub-
lican Council whose announce object
and purpose are to draw the color
line in the Republican politics which
is at this time unfortunate to say
nothing of It being contrary to the
Principles Policies History and
Traditions of the Republican Party.
W ho Shall Represent Texas
Several weeks ago we addressed
a letter to the leading Republicans of
the state seeking to get a concensous
of opinion a to vjin they would
favor a delegates to the National
Convention. From the hundreds of
letters received the following are
the most prominent persons suggest-
ed as those whom thev would like
to see elected delegates from the
state:
Spring Health Crusade to.
Start.
Austin Texas Jan. 22. The Spring
Tournament of the second Modern
Health Crusade will last for 15
weeks beginning any time before
February 1 announces Miss Louise
Hunter State Crusade Executive
who is the director of Children's
work of the Texas Public Health
Association.
Miss Hunter and George F. Granger.
Field Secretary of Texas Public
Health Association are traveling
over the state lecturing In Texas
schools and organizing the Modern
Health Crusade. They expect that
over 300000 Texas children will en-
ter the ilght against uncleanliness
nnd disease and will learn health
habits which will help them grow
to be strong healthy men and women.
Education In health la as Impor-
tant as tho teaching of reading
writing and arithmetic declared Mr.
Granger. "The Texas Public Health
Association would like to see the
Modern Health Crusade made a part
of every school curriculum. Health
and hygiene should be taught to
the children and the glamor nnd
romance of the Crusades make the
Tsks and habits of cleanliness Into
pin v."
The Association is supporting the
Modern Health Crusade as a part of
its 1920 "better health' program and
will this year wage an extennlve
wRr against tuberculosis and other
diseases.
Says Husband Deceived Her
Gets Divorce.
White Plains. Jan. 22. Charging
that her husbnnd had deceived her.
Mrs. Sybil P. Neale brought a suit
for annullment of her marriage.
The suit came before Supreme
Court Justice Morcheuser at White
Plains. Who granted a decree to Mrs.
Sybil P. Neale of Yonkers from Theo-
dore B. Neale of Manhattan on the
ground he deceived her.-when he said
his family and ancestors hailed from
an Indian Tribe. The couple were
marled in March 1917. Mrs. Neale.
who is good looking testified that
she had been married some time when
one day she noticed her mother-in-law
was wearing a wig. This start-
led her and she went Immediately
to her lawyer Burton C. Melghan of
Mamaronerk who made a secret In-
vestigation. She said a Supreme
Court Commission In Boston une.rth-
ed the birth certificate of the defend-
ant's brother showing his color to be
black.
THE BATTLE CRY "RE-
!
Col. E. H. R. Green Kaufman
Texas.
Wm. M. McDonald Tarrant County.
Gen. Webster Flanagan Henderson
uounty.
Capt. J. E. Elgin. Bexar. County.
Dr. E. P. Wllmont Travis County.
John w. JMcKlnney orayson County
Hon. C. A. Boynton McClellan
County.
Mr. Ed McCarthy Galveston County
Phil E. liaer Lamar County.
Judge C. K. McDowell El Paso
county.
M. H. Broyles Harris County.
H. G. Coree Bowie County.
O. M. Guest Lamar County.
H. L. Price Cherokee County.
A. M. Simmons Kaufman County.
E. J. Barlow Collins County.
R. S. Legate Grayson County.
A. S. Well Dallas County.
J. W. A. Clark Navarro County.
Ben Wallace Anderson County
W. D. Davis. Harris County.
J. E. B. Stewart Parker County.
It. A. Hanna Waller County.
C. Hughes Wharton County.
Wm. Anderson Bastrop County.
R. D. Evans. McClellan County.
I S. McDowell Howard County
Mr. tireen Texas Citizen and Voter.
We have many letters desiring to
know whether E. H. R. Green Is a
citizen of Texas. Col. Green Is a
citizen of Texas. He votes in Terrell
Kaufman County and has his poll
tal receipt for 1920. He is one of
the most powerful and Influential
business men in the United States.
He Is an asset and nut a liability to
the Republican Party both State and
Nation.
That the Republicans of Texas will
be delighted to elect and have him
lead the delegation to the Notional
Convention there Is no doubt in our
minds and we know that he will
take pride In serving the party.
Want Congressmen
Col Green is very desirous that
Texas Republicans send to Washing-
ton some Congressmen. He will to
this end undertake to raise a large
Campaign fund and make an earnest
effort to elect a good strong Repub-
lican from the 8th 9th. 10th 14th
and 16th Congressional Districts. It
will be the policy to put up strong
men In each district.
Poll Tnx
Of course to make possible any
effort along these lines each white
and each black man must pay his
poll tax not later than January 31
1920. All soldiers sailors and ma-
rines who were honorably discharged
do not need a poll tax. Persons over
60 years old only need to call at the
Tnx Collector's office and get an ex-
emption certificate. The most impor-
tant election ever held in America
will be held November 2 1920. and
all men should possess a poll tax
and vote in that election.
Green Cluba
We want Green Clubs organized
In each Ward and Voting Box of
every County in the State. Don't
wait for some one to lead off In this
matter hut appoint yourself a Com
mittee of One and call the Republl-I
cans or your Voting Hox together
and proceed to organize be electing
a chairman and secretary. After
electing them send their names and
correct post office adress to me: 524-
T25 Linz Bldg.. Dallas. Texas.
When I can 'advise or serve you
don't fail to command em.
Sincerely
HARRY HECK
Dallas Texas January 10th 1920.
Negroes Assist in Civil Ser-
vice Examinations in Cali-
fornia. Los Angeles Calif. Jan. 22. On
Tuesday December 30th the Los An-
geles County Civil Service Commis-
sion and Bureau of Efficiency held
an examination for the purpose of
selecting employees ror the varlour
vacancies In the Hall of Records
and other County buildings. About
twenty Colored citizens took the ex-
amination. The Commission Invited the follow-
ing well known Colored citizen to
assist the regular examiners in ex-
amining the applicants: Mrs. Elolse
Bibb-Thompson; Mrs. L. V. Stewart
head of the Colored employees at
Bullock's and Noah D. Thompson
Editorial department of the Evening
Express and former co-worker with
Hooker T. Washington at Tuskegee
Institute.
County Examiner B. A. Davis and
Dnvls and Paul W. Urown had charge
of the examination and were assisted
by our Colored representatives chiefly
In the oral examination of the ap-
plicants. Secretary F. D. Doty of the County
Civil Service Commission and the
county supervisors are to be com-
mended for their attitude of fairness
towardf seekers of positions with the
county and for establishing a prece-
dent for other public officials to
follow.
Editor of Indianapolis Ledger
Dead.
Reciprocal News Service.
Indianapolis Ind. Jan 22. Mr. J. D.
Howard Editor of the Indianapolis
Ledger 'died at 9:25 Thursday morn-
ing. His death came at the end of
of a prolonged Illness and caused
deep sorrow among the citizens of
this city and from the expressions
that have come It caused the same
kind of feeling; throughout the na-
tion. Mr. Howard was A prominent fac-
tor In the affairs of Indianapolis.
He was a member of the leading Or-
ganizations of the city and state as
well as the National Negro Press
Association.
A Special message was wired to
Secretary of the National Negro Press
Association at Nahvllle. Tennessee
the day of his death. Arrangements
for the funeral are under way and
a number of out of town visitors
are expected.
URGE DEFENSE FUND FOR
ARKANSAS RACE MEN.
Plans to Fight Case of the
Condemned Men of Phil-
lips County are Perfected
Want Fair Trial.
.Several days ago leading Negroes
from all parts of the stats of Ar-
kansas' assembled In the city of Lit-
tle Rock and organized the CITIZEN'S
DEFENSE. FUND COMMISSION. The
personnel of the Commission Is as
follows:
Dr. J. G. Thornton. Chairman; J. H.
MuConlco Secretary; Dr. H. W. Suggs
Treasurer Rev. J. p. Robinson und
Rev. R. M. Caver.
The object for which this commis-
sion was created Is to raise funds
to conduct the defense of the 87 Ne-
groes convicted in connection with the
recent race trouble In Phillips County
Arkansas. Tile men composing this
commission are well established citi-
zens of wide acquaintance and rep-
regent the very highest type of spir-
tual professional and business ac-
tivity.
Twelve of the Negroes convicted
in connection with the Phillips Coun-
ty trouble have been sentenced to
die in the electric chair and 75 to
serve sentences In the Arkansas pen-
itentiary ranging from live to twenty-
one years.
Negroes throughout the stat and
nation feel that these Negroes should
be given full opportunity to prove
their guilt or Innocence and In tWw
of that fact Counsel have been em-
ployed to light tho cases- to the end.
A few days ago a motion was filed
In the Phillips County Circuit Court
for a new trial. The motion was
over ruled. On January 9th an ap-
peal was taken to the Supreme Ark-
ansas Supreme Court for a new
trial. Every effort will be made to
defend the rights of these Negroes
both in the State and Federal Courts.
To fight these cases through the
courts will require a large sum of
money and the CITIZEN'S DEFENSE
FIND COMMISSION Is now calling
upon Negroes throughout the country
to contribute to this Fund. The Ne-
groes in every community are
requested to make contributions
through some well established organ-
ization like the church club benevo-
lent civic association etc. or send
contributions direct to the secretary.
J. H. MeConlco.
Box 112. Little Rock. Ark.
In this matter the race must act
at once.. Contributions should be
be made and remitted promptly In
order that the progress of the de-
fense be not handicapned for lack
fundH.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
LOOKS TO WOMEN'S
UNFAILING IDEALS.
Chairman Will H. Hays Has
Firm Belief In Ability To
Solve Problems.
Speaking on the principles of Re-
publicanism In a recent speech
Will H. Hays outlined very brief-
ly a few which will particularly
interest women. He said:
"In all of our effort the best
brains and hearts In the country
are necessary. Women are able
to contribute and owe to the sit-
uation the peculiar ability which
is theirs. We trust the women
voters of this country to help the
Republican party carry out its de-
termination to require that the
highest standards of health be
maintained and enforced; that
there is a proper compulsory school
education; that we have proper
limitation In the hours of work
for women In employment where
standing is required and that
there be an eight-hour day; that
there is a proper prohibition of
child labor; and that there shall
be adopted as speedily as possible
every practical principle which can
further humanize industry."
Florida G. 0. P. To Eliminate
Negroes.
Miami Fla. Jan. 22. First steps
to make the Republican party "lilly"
white" in Florida by eliminating Ne-
groes from Its councils it was an-
nounced here today have been taken
in the filing In the Circuit Court at
Jacksonville of an application to
enjoin Joe Lee a Negro former col-
lector of Internal revenue for Flori-
da and D. T. Gerow from calling a
state Republican convention. The ap-
plication tiled by J. E. Junkin and
50 other Republicans contends that
Lee and Gerow are no longer at the
head of the party organization in
the state.
Negro Woman 110 Years
Old Listed in Census.
Los Angeles Calif Jan. 22. Anna
Prater a ' Negress today olHclally
was listed as 115 years old by Fed-
eral census enumerators. She was
born in South Carolina she said
was sold fifteen times as a slave act-
ed as "Mammy" to 52 white children
and ran away from three masters
only to be captured each time. While
telling her life history she busied
herself with sewing.
HKD CHOSS TO SI'RNI) THIRTY
MILLION.
Washington. Jan. 22. The Ameri-
can Red Cross will spend 130000.000
this year.
Out of a fund of that amount avail-
able for the year's work $15000000
has been set aside for European re-
lief. (13.75000 for use at home and
$1250000 for completing its program
In Siberia.
In making public plans for the
carrying forward of the Red Cros
peace time activities. Dr. Livingston
Farrand head of the Red Cross de-
clared that a considerable reserve
must be held for emergency calls
such as "slteh possible events as the
opening of Russia to Intercourse with
the United States."
With appeals Infinitely beyond Red
Cross resources nnd unable to count
on additions to ls total fund during
the year the Executive Committee
he said found it wise and necessary
to consider the application of Its
funds so that the soundest sense of
proportions might prevail." -
LINCOLN LEAGUE HEAD
APPOINTS DELEGATES TO
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Hon. Wm. M. McDonald
Urges All Delegates to Be
Present Will H. Hays To
Address Body.
FOKT WORTH.
TO THE COLORED CITIZENS
OP TEXAS:
In pursuance to the rules
adopted by the Lincoln League
of America under the direction
of Hon. Roscoe Simmons Presi-
dent - and. by power vested in
me as President of the Eincoln
League of American of Texas
I do hereby nominate and ap-
point the following named per-
sons as delegates to the Nation-
al Convention of the Lincoln
League of America to be held
in the city of Chicago State of
Illinois at 11 o'clock ' a. m.
Wednesday the 11th of Feb-
ruary 19SC ?r the transaction
of such business as may proper-
ly come before It:
State at Large:
C. N. Love Houston Texas. -W.
S. Willis Waco Texas.
R. D. Evans Waco Texas..
H. D. Winn Dallas Texas.
' A. G. Perkins Galveston Tex.
as. .
Rev. W. L. Dixon Gilmer
Texas. '
Hon. J. H. Riddle" Denlson
Texas.
Dr. N. J. Atkinson Greenville
Texas.
Hon. H. . Strickland Dallas1
Dr. T.T. McKInney Denlson
Texas.
Dr. T. E. Speed Jefferson
Texas.
Hon. M. M. Rod gers Dallas
Texas. ' - - - -
G .M. Guest Paris Texas.
H. G. Goree Texarkana Tex-
as. "H. L. Price Cuney Texas.
W. G. Bell' Beaumont Texas.
Dr. W. F. Warren Tyler Tex-
Texas. Hon A. S. Wells Dallas Tex-
as.
Hon. R. H. Goosby Bryan
Texas.
Prof. A. H. MlmB Calvert
Texas.
Hon. Ben Wallace Palestine
Texas.
-Rev. A. Barbour Galveston
Texas.
Hon. C. F. Richardson Hous-
ton Texas.
Prof. W. L. Davis Houston
Texas.
Prof. C. H. McGruder. Victor-
ia Texas.
Hon. M. H. Hodge Wharton
Texas.
Dr. Chas. Wyman Bastrop
(Continued on page 5.)
Georgia Man's Home Shot
up by White Men.
Elberton Ga.. Jan. 22. Six or eight
unknown white men went to the
house of Joe Jackson Colored living
on the farm of M. D. Moss about six
miles from Elberton and shot all the
window panes out knocked the doors
of the house down with an axe. Tom
Guest brother-in-law of Jackson
was sleeping in the house at the
time and states he heard pistol shots
and ran from the house In his night
clothes. As he got about 30 yards
from the house some one shot him
in the back with a shot gun. He Is
In a critical condition and a not ex-
pected to live.
Sam Jones the uncle of Jackson
who Is H5 years of age was sleeping
in a side room. Some members of
the mob knocked the panel out of
the door leading to his room and
thrust a pistol through the hole in
the door and shot him through the
neck. He will recover.
They can give no explanation as
to why the mob attacked them and
claim they do not know any of them.
Bullet holes show some shots were
fired from Inside the house.
The people here are very indignant
over the occurrence and are deter-
mined to run down and punish the
guilty persons. It Is not known how-
ever whether they live In this county
in an adjoining county or across the
State line in South Carolina.
Deputy Sheriff Jack Haley was on
the scene shortly after the occurrence
and obtained all facts possible. He
is making a thorough Investigation
and states he feels that he la on the
track of the guilty ones and will be
able to make arrests within a short
while.
Richest Colored Woman of
Pennsylvania Dead.
Carlisle Pa.. Jan. 22. Susan Thomp-
son known as the richest Colored
woman In the Cumberland Valley
burned to death in her home when
she fell against her kitchen stove.
It Is believed she suffered a stroke
or paralysis.
Mrs. Thompson made her home for
many years. She was born In
Virginia and held as a slave before
the Civil War. She received a large
monthly annuity from a Philadelphia
family whom she served. Her sav-
ings and good Investments made her
rich.
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