The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XXI NO. 10. CLOSING DAYS OF A STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN CLOSING DAYS OF A STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN The Most Exciting Campaign Since Abraham Lincoln Was Elected HEADQUARTERS PRESENT BUSY SCENES Each Party Has Made Special Bid For The Colored Brother's Vote New York, Nov. 1 — The battle of ballots will take place next Tuesday after what is probably the most memorable national campaign since 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency. In 1860 the forces opposed to the existence of human slvery were battling against those that wanted the institution continued The fight that year was a three-cornered one for the presidency, and though Lincoln did not receive a majority of the electoral votes, he received more than any single candidate. This campaign is practically a three-cornered one for the presidency. President Taft seeks a reelection. Allied with him are the stand pat Republicans, the exponents of special privilege and those interests that have been fostered by an exceptionally high tariff. Taft supporters also include men who are wedded to the old order of things—those who do not see a necessity for a change in the way of doing things. On the Democratic side is Woodrow Wilson, the candidate of a party that has only controlled one branch of Congress within the past 18 years, and that has not elected a President since 1892. Allied with Mr. Wilson are men who believe in a low tariff, men who believe that a Democratic administration may be safely trusted and men from the South who have owed their political accendency to their connivance in or their actual participation in the theft from the Negro of his political rights. A new party—the Progressive—with all the virility and enthusiasm of youth, is also in the field this year. Headed by Theodore Roosevelt, who has lent his tremendous personality to it, it is battling for another emancipation. The new emancipation includes a severance of business and political manipulation, the bringing 'about of better conditions for the great average of men, women and children, be they black or white. Enlisted in this battle with Col. Roosevelt are many of the best known exponents of social justice in this country. New York City houses the headquarters of the three great political parties. It is mainly from this city that the fight is directed. Each party this year is making a bid for the support of all races, and in line with this each is making a special bid for Negro support. The Republicans have always asked the colored brother to aid them at election time, and this year the past achievements of the party have been used to keep the colored vote in line for the G. O. P. The colored voters have not all heeded this argument, and the present campaign has resulted in the greatest division of the Negro vote during the forty old years that the race has had the right to vote. Up in Harlem there are two headquarters of colored Democrats. One is in charge of Bishop Walters, who is conducting the fight for race support for Wilson in various parts of the country. In the other, R. N. Wood, head of the United Colored Democracy; Cornelius D. Hughes, F. Q. Moition and others, are hust- A SECOND EMANCIPATOR EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ROOSEVELT SOME MEN UP AND NOT OUR ONLY SAFE MOTTO IS ALL MEN DOWN 2ND EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION In this country we can not permanently succeed except upon the basis of treating each man on his worth as a man. We can fulfill our high mission among the nations of the earth, we can do lasting good to ourselves and to all mankind, jonly if we so act that the humblest among us, so long as he he haves in straight [and decent fashion, has guaranteed to him under the law his right to life, liberty, to protection from injustice, his right to enjoy the fruits of his own honest labor and his right to the pursuit of happiness in his own way, so long as he does not trespass on the rights of others. Our only safe motto is "All men up" and not "some men down." For us to oppress any class of our fellow citizens is not only wrong to others but hurtful to ourselves. "Under these conditions it will become for the first time possible that the Negro who shows the quality which entitles him to respect and countenance will, with the cordial good will of his white neighbors, do his part in healthy political work for the common good." We are in the first place beginning, where all charity must begin, at home. We are beginning by trying to take steps to do justice to the colored man in our own states. I believe that the Progressive movement should be made from the beginning one in the interest of every honest, industrious, law-abiding white man. We have made the Progressive issue a moral, not a racial issue. I believe that wherever the racial issue is permitted to become dominant in our politics it always works harm to both races, but immeasurably most harm to the weaker race. Let me point out that the Progressive Party is abroad at its very birth, endearing in these tates, in its own home, to act with fuller recognition of the rights of the colored man than ever the Republican party did. It is unwise to revive bitterness by dwelling on the errors and short comings of the past. Let us profit by them, but reproach no man because of them. We are now starting a new movement for the betterment of our people, a movement for social and industrial justice which shall be nation-wide, movement which is to strive to accomplish actual results and not to accept high sounding phrases as substitute for deeds. For many years the attitude of the Democratic Party towards the colored man has been one of brutality, and the attitude of the Republican party towards him one of hypocrisy. One party has brutally denied him, not only his rights, but all hope of ever being treated aright; the other has hypocritically pretended to be zealous for his rights, but has acted only in ways that did him harm and not good. The Progressives, on the contrary, have at the very outset of their party career acted towards him with good faith and also liking facts in the face, performing for him in the present more than either of the old parties has ever preformed, acting as that there will be an increased measure of performance in the future, and yet promising nothing that cannot be performed. James H. Hayes. of Virginia, is conducting the general fight for Roosevelt. He his kept his pulse upon the country, and has in his opinion, succeeded in lining up the majority of the colored voters for Roosevelt and Johnson. That there is a genuine Roosevelt sentiment is indicated by the fact that in some sections of the city Taft speakers were not allowed to present their views, while the populace at all times have been willing to listen to Progressive arguments. "I firmly believe," Mr. Hayes told a representative of the Afro- American Ledger, "that Roosevelt will be elected. The race vote will go his way. Taft need not expect and will not get a majority of the race vote. We have had "flying squadrons" this week in New England, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware and have received most favorable report from those States. Continued on Page 4. PRICE THREE CENTS DR. HARVEY JOHNSON'S LETTER UNANSWERED Gives Letter He Wrote Chairman Hanna a Month Ago, to the Public. TAFT. HAS DONE NOTHING, HE SAYS Prominent Baptist Minister asks State Chairman Some Pertinent Questions Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson made public a letter sent to Mr. John B. Hanna, Republican State Chairman on October 5, asking that President Taft define his attitude on matters concerning, the fundamental rights of the race. The letter, which yet remains unanswered, followed one from Mr. Hanna in which the latter pointed out that Mr. Taft was opposed to lynching, etc. Dr. Johnson in his letter, points out that Mr. Taft as President has not used his influence in having legislation passed removing barrier against the race. His letter follows: Mr. Watty handed me your communication some days ago. I have been casting about in my mind to see if I could find it expedient, wise or necessary that I should call on you with reference to the present campaign, and the political affairs of this country. First, because I am a minister of the Gospel and not a politician. Second, because if I called on you it would possibly require the visit of an angel from Heaven to convince the politicians and money-seekers in political work, that you had not made it sufficiently interesting to me, financially, to cease my opposition to President Taft if the visit should so terminate. And since I have never received a dime or a penny in my whole 40 years of ministerial labor, from any political source, I do not now at this late day want to make shipwreck of my usefulness and reputation, either as a citizen or a minister of the Gospel. And again, I have never at any time called on any of the political officers of any party excepting my work with the Prohibitionists when they were first organized, and they were then rather religious than secular in their character. Then again the matter on which I wish to communicate with you is, that since you are familiarly acquainted with President Taft, that you would use your good offices to have him retrace his steps in his dealing with the colored people so as to conform with the great claim you make for him in your letter. That he has expressed himself as against lynching, as against disfranchisement, and as in favor of the colored man enjoying the civil and political rights is true. But Mr Hanna, don't you know that the President has absolutely done nothing but "express himself?" And that never as President of the United States, but as Mr. Taft: His acts are only official when communicating with Congress by Message, or in Cabinet assembly, or when consulting congressmen, senators, or judicial officers with reference to matters that are to be enacted into laws. You imply in your letter, and Mr. Taft has said, that he has done all he can to remedy the evils of lynching, jim-cerowism, and disfranchisement of colored citizens; but I assert that he has done nothing, absolutely, to remedy them, but to say that he was against such. For as you know, he has not sent a Message to Congress,—no, not one,—to have remedied the evils under which we suffer. He has not called any senator or representative to the White House, requesting him to originate bills in either House for the remedying of these evils. How then, can he say for himself, or you say for him, that he has done all that he can, and that he is deeply interested in the colored citizen enjoying his citizen's rights when the Civil Rights bill still is a nullity? Has he asked the Supreme Court to rescind its own decisions, and let the Civil Rights bill stand legal as passed by Congress? Has he sent to Congress a Message recommending the abolishment of the Jim-crow law, or any other oppressive law, whether it has been left to grow up and become common law, or, has been legally enacted? and I mean by that, by legislation, for they cannot be constitutionally legal. I know that the President falls back on the theory and doctrine of State sovereignty—a more dangerous theory and doctrine cannot be advocated, especially for a republican president who believes in the United States as a united corporate body, and not the independence of the several States, for the very terms are contradictory, and the words Independent and Sovereign States do not appear in the Constitution, for how can they be independent and yet be component parts of the union of States? Now sir, what I am getting at, that I cannot accept Mr. Taft's statement, and your implied state ment that he has done all he could to remedy the evils under which we are suffering. I am aware sir, that the President cannot make Congress act, at the same time I do know that he can ask them to act on any and every subject that the has a mind to do, and more than one committee has visited him and asked him to recommend to Congress in a Message the remedying of the many evils I have before mentioned. This he has expressed himself as unwilling to do, up to this point. The reason I write you thus, is because Mr. Watty and his committee came to see me to have me hold up, or cease my opposition to President Taft. As President of the United States, in ability and all that goes to make a President competent and efficient, in a general way, I have nothing to complain of. It is on the race issue that I take issue with President Taft, and hold him as wholly neglecting to take such action as he can take, to remove the evils under which we suffer. The Committee informed me that you, being familiar with the President, would take the matter up with him and use your good offices to have him recommend to Congress the enactment of national laws against Jim Crowism, against lynching, against disfranchisement, and the re-enacting of a national Civil Rights bill. I told the Committee that if Mr. Taft would agree to make such recommendations that I would cease my opposition to him, and do all I could to assist his election. But unless he was willing to agree to do this, in case he should be elected, I shall feel called upon to do all I can, in opposition to his election, down to the last minute, until the ballots are cast. It does not take long for the President to say yes or no, and it does not take long for you to communicate with him; but if I do not hear from you with reference to this, I shall feel as I said-called upon to oppose his election, to the last ditch. GREENER'S VIEWS ON THE PROBLEM Well Known Educator and Former United States Consul to Russia Explains His Attitude In Public Affairs and Declares That He Will Forever Remain an Independent Voter. Chicago.-The open announcement of the allegiance of the Hon. Richard T. Greener to the national Democratic ticket, which recently occasioned a sensational surprise here, ought not to have been unexpected. Mr. Greener was a constant attendant on the national Republican convention and also at the Progressive convention. When greeted by old Republican friends he remarked as to his attitude, "I am sitting on the fence at present watching the procession." When asked again, "Is it Roosevelt or Taft?" he replied, with a smile, "Why, the fence I am on has Taft and Roosevelt on one side and Wilson and Marshall on the other." When asked for an interview Mr. Greener said: "I am not posing as a Democrat. I am still, as I have been since 1977, when Hayes handed the Negro over to the tender mercies of his supposed enemies—the southern people—an independent Republican. "I advised the colored people of South Carolina then to accept General Wade Hampton, although I took part in the campaign and risked my life against him. Why did I do this? Because I could see then as clearly as I do now that the Demococratic rule of the south was to last for a generation at least; that the temper of the Republican party was to let the Negro shift for himself." "But you continued to vote and advocate the Republican national ticket in various campaigns from 1880 until 1890?" "Yes, I did, and I was pretty roundly abused as a knuckle close Republican on that account. "I do not claim any special merit now in my advocacy of Democratic candidates. I am well aware as many P. HON. RICHARD T. GREENER. are not) that intelligent Negroes, some of the ablest men we have had from 1872 until the present time, consistently and strenuously fought for the Democratic party, in some cases being rewarded with offices and in most cases being more fairly dealt with than many of the colored Republicans have been by their white Republican leaders. I could mention distinguished colored men who were in the Greeley movement of 1872, in the Mugwump movement in 1880-1884 and with Cleveland in 1892. They helped to educate the Democrats. "I look back on the promises and platitudes of Republican platforms from 1803 to the present time and see that, so far as the colored, people are concerned, the Negro planks are mere 'sounding generalities.' So far as the Republican party is concerned, it is no more the same party today that it was in 1876 than the Democratic party is the same today. The new day brings new duties; new men, new views of policy. "In the new day and in the new time the men who are to bring the country back to sane and sober counsels, it seems to me, are in the Democratic party under the leadership of Governor Wilson and Governor Marshall. So far as the colored people of the country are concerned, their only hope lies in the supremacy of the Democratic party. The Democratic party alone can make possible and guarantee the rights and proper treatment of the Negro in the south. "I am acting not only on conviction of what is best for the whole country, particularly for the welfare, political and social, of the colored people, but I am paying back also some debts of gratitude and regret for not having supported long since by my voice and influence Democrats of the stamp of Grover Cleveland. And I want to say a word for that sterling Democrat, love of humanity, fair play and free speech, Congressman Sulzer, whose record I have watched with great interest since his first appearance and who I predict will be the next governor of New York." THRIFTY INSTITUTION. Batisfactory Growth of the Downing Satisfactory Growth of the Downing town Industrial School Noted. Downingtown, Pa. - The Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural school of this town recently opened under the most favorable circumstances in its history. The enrollment of students for the first three weeks was three times more than for a similar period since the beginning of the school. The dormitories are all filled, and the faculty has had to refuse admission to scores. The Lincoln university preparatory class is the largest in the history of the school. The growth of the school has now enabled the management to properly divide the institution into several departments, each having its own principal. The school is fortunate in securing the services of the Rev. Samuel J. Branch as principal of the department of education. Professor Branch is an expert in his line and brings to the school not only skill and knowledge, but years of experience as a successful teacher. Miss Bessie Collins is in charge of the domestic science, millinery and dressmaking departments and is well qualified for the position. Miss Collins was formerly supervisor of the industrial work under the management of the Jeanes fund. Downingtown deems itself fortunate in securing her services. The commercial department is under the direction of Mrs. Eilee Palmer King, who is not only qualified through training and years of experience, but indeed has inberited from her illustrious father, Dr. John M. Palmer, marvelous adaptability in her line. Dr. Palmer is secretary of the trustee board. The Rev. William King is in charge of the agricultural department and is also principal of the night school. The double work gives him the largest opportunity for the display of agricultural skill and literary pursuit. A number of improvements have taken place under the expert skill of Professor Samuel H. Byrthewood, principal of the department of mechanics. Under his management the artisan well has been installed, the new laundry completed, hot and cold water connections have been introduced into the buildings, and a magnificent silo and an eight horsepower portable engine have been installed. One of the great problems of all mixed schools is to secure the right kind of a woman as matron. Girl students have rejoiced as never before over the management and discipline already brought into being through the new matron. Mrs. Martha E. Botts. Mrs. Botts is the wife of Professor J. W. Botts. She is peculiarly adapted for the position of matron. Mrs. Frances E. Branch, formerly a teacher in the Virginia Normal and Collegiate institute, Petersburg. Va., is in charge of the literary department. It was with great reluctance that the Virginia Normal and Collegiate institute gave up Mrs. Branch. Miss Estelle Jarrott. Miss Estelle Wills. Mrs. Anna C. Bythewood and the efficient secretary. Miss Bertha C. Burnett, are among the older teachers, President William A. Creditt continues his enthusiastic management of the entire institution and has the hearty cooperation of the faculty, board of trustees and friends of the school. PUBLIC APPROVAL FOR LIBERAL CULTURE CLUB. Chicago Organization Seeks to Broaden Its Field of Usefulness. The Liberal Culture club of Chicago recently entered upon its third year of usefulness. The club is composed of professional men and women, mainly graduates of high schools and universities. The meetings of the organization are held once a week on Friday night from October to July. The motto of the club is humanity, not sex, not creed, not race. The club has for its object the mutual benefit of its members along intellectual lines and discusses questions of public interest—scientific, literary, theological, racial and social. The members have been favored with the most hearty co-operation of the leading ministers, laymen and other persons of note who take pleasure in giving the club the benefit of their opinion upon questions of public moment. This group of intelligent men and women, though small in number, truly representative of a larger and increasing class of progressive persons among the colored people of Chicago Organizations of this kind should be more widely known and also larger in number for the inspiration and help of the great throng of educated young men and women, many of whom have no definite social or literary intercourse with one another outside of business or church relations. The club cheerfully invites the cooperation of those who are interested in the work. Nonmembers may take part in the meetings as speakers on special topics, lectures and in other helpful ways. Communications may be sent to any of the officers at 3226 Prairie avenue. The officers are Professor Richard T. Greener, president: E. D. Brown, M. D., vice president; Dr. C. H. Knight, treasurer, and H. Evelyn Mosley, secretary. Football Teams Matched For Big Game The Delaware league' football team of Pittsburgh is scheduled to play the Wilmerforce (Q1) university team in Pittsburgh on Thursday, Nov. 28. Bort teams are studying the fine points of the game and practicing regularly. MADDEN DEFENDS RIGHTS OF THE COLORED SOLDIER. Strike Down the Color Line, Says Militant Illinois Congressman. The attempt of Congressman Roddenbery, Democrat, from Georgia, to have the government create Jim Crow soldiers' homes throughout the country for Afro-American veterans in an impassioned speech in congress last May was replied to in a masterly way by Congressman Martin B. Madden, Republican, from Illinois. The house had under consideration at the time the conference report of the Sherwood pension bill (H. R. 24,010, granting pensions and increase of pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain widows and dependent children of soldiers and sailors of the said war. Mr. Roddenbery offered an amendment which provided that no pensions should be allowed inmates of national soldiers homes unless whites and blacks are cared for in separate domiciles and grounds. Congressman Madden in his speech against the Roddenbery amendment said: I am astonished that any man on this floor would introduce such an amendment as this to a bill seeking to pay pensions to soldiers who served their country. I cannot sit here without saying a word in opposition to such an amendment. It ought not to be considered by the house for a moment. I hope with all my heart that every vote in the house will be cast against it. No men fought more bravely than the black men entitled to their own credit for preserving the nation. You say their liberties were at stake? Yes, and so was the liberty of every person in the land. Thank God the close of the war brought liberty alike to the north and to the south, to the whites and to the blacks, and that today we live in a land where slavery is no more, where every citizen is a sovereign. I grieve to see the gentleman from Georgia express such bitterness toward the Negro. He should be one of the colored man's ablest defenders. He should be advocating measures to help the Negro to help himself. American has made wonderful progress, considering his lack of opportunity. He is a good citizen, a gallant soldier. He has made no resilient. Who led the successful charge at El Caney at San Junn Hill? Was it not the colored man? Who questioned his color then? Did any one revile him? Not at all. All praised his valor; all applauded his intrepidity. He is brave; he is fearless; he is easily led; he makes a good soldier; he is entitled to be honored no less than his white brother. The colored veteran soldier should receive the same tender care in his declining years that we are proud to accord to the white men who rendered equal service to the nation. We should know no color in ministering to the wants of those who gave their all in defense of the country. Gentlemen, strike down the color line. Defeat the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia and let the news spread into every home in this broad land of the free that congress will tolerate no discrimination in the treatment of the country's veteran soldiers on account of the color of their skin. Hatmaking at Prairie View College. There are many industries taught at the various industrial schools for Afro-Americans in the south—chair causing, matmaking, wheelwrighting, blacksmithing, laurassmaking, brickmaking, etc. The latest achievement, however, is the making of hats by hand at the Prairie View Normal and Industrial college. Prairie View, Tex. The superintendent of the hat department recently sent two sample hats to the editor of Farm and Ranch, by whom the hats were pronounced as being of excellent workmanship and correct in style. Success of Mrs. Laura A. Hamilton. The appointment of Mrs. Laura A. Hamilton to the position of postmaster at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., in July was made solely upon her merit. Two white men were her competitors. Mrs. Hamilton passed a creditable civil service examination and is the only Afro-American ever appointed to a similar position in the state. She is a woman of excellent business tact. Sam Langford's Success Abroad. Claiming that Sam Langford, the heavyweight pugilist, fouled him in the eleventh round, Sam McVey of California refused to continue the contest with his opponent, which occurred recently at Perth, Western Australia. The decision, therefore, was given in favor of Langford, as the contention of McVey was ruled out. "We denounce the profligate waste of the money wrong from the people by oppressive taxation through the lavish appropriations of recent Republican congresses, which have kept taxes high and reduced the purchasing power of the people's toll," declared the Democracy in the Baltimore platform. Whereupon, that job being out of the way, the Democratic congress proceeded to pass more appropriation bills, producing a net increase over the last Republican congress of $9,553,201.94 Two Little Birds Stowawa: I was riding along the shore of Bear lake in Utah one afternoon a, coming suddenly over a rise of ground surprised a grebe in the edge of the tubes. She swam into the lake, turning and calling repeatedly. Then two little grebes appeared and, swimming low with only their heads and backs visible, hurried after their mother. As they overtook her each one reached out and catching the feathers of her back in their beaks they drew themselves alongside and quickly huddied under her wing, completely hidden. Had I not been a spectator of the act I should never have suspected her of carrying two little "stowaways" as she hurried off.-J. Alden Loring in Outing It was in the days of illicit distilling in Kentucky. A man riding along a road in the eastern part of that state, reaching a snug farmhouse, drew rein "I'm looking for a farm to buy," he said. "Do you happen to know of any good bit of land about here with some buildings on it?" "No; I don't," said the woman, who was both young and comely. "There ought to be good farming about here." "Stranger," said the woman, "you hain't looking for farms. You're a revenue man after stills." The man was astonished. He had supposed he was playing a very successful game. "If you'd root out the stills the people about here would go to farming instead of making whisky." "I can't root out the stills," replied the man, "unless you people help me." "What kind o' help do you want?" "Information." "Well, come in and have a snack. Perhaps my husband'll be coming along soon, and he may do something for you." The revenue man dismounted, led his horse to the stable in the rear and entered the house. He chatted with the woman freely about the illicit distilling, said that it helped, the few and wronged the many. A district where it was notorious never prospered. It was under a ban; no credit; no production of crops; no comfort for anyone. She appeared to agree with him and when he had finished said: "Did you ever hear of Joe Comstock's still?" "No, I'm a new man; just put on to this district." "That's the only one we could get you on to here. If my husband don't come home purty soon I'll tell you all about it." Her husband didn't come home. She said she supposed he had been layed. So after supper she said she would tell him where the Comstock still was, and if he liked he could go and clean it out. It was the only one left in that immediate vicinity and most of the people thereabout would be glad to see it shut up. The woman after she had cleaned away the supper dishes sat down beside the stranger and on a piece of paper drew a diagram of the route to Comstock's. It was rather a zigzag course, extending over several miles. The stranger asked if there was no more direct route, and she told him that there was none that could be made plain to one who was not familiar with the country. When it was dark he got out his horse, mounted and, thanking the woman for her hospitality, was about to ride away when she asked: "You going to take Joe Comstock alone?" "That's just what I'm going to do." "You're a plucky one." The man rode away, following the route exactly as it had been laid down by the woman. He was most of the time climbing a mountain side, and, though the distance was but a few miles, he was two hours getting to a point just beyond which he had been told he would find the Comstock still. He was to recognize it by the crossing of two mountain roads, a peculiarly shaped ank tree on the point of one of the angles. From the crossroads he was to pass through an opening between the trees, go over a stone wall, follow a tunnel a short distance down the mountain and he would come upon the still. Leaving the crossroads, he moved on as directed. He was moving very quietly down the stream when he dislodged a stone that betrayed his approach. He paused, but, hearing nothing, moved forward again. Suddenly he heard the words come out of the darkness. "Hands up!" He knew that he was on an elevation that showed the sky line beyond him and that doubtless his enemy could see him, while he could not see his enemy. He held his revolver in his hand cocked and, hoping to at least disconcert his opponent, fired into the darkness. The only response was a bitter laugh. It sounded like that of a woman crazed. Then came a voice which sounded distinctly feminine: "Drop your weapon. I can kill you if I like!" The revenue man hesitated a moment, then thought it best to do as he had been hidden. Suddenly a bullseye lantern was dashed in his face. "You're not the coward the other one was to come here and surround the place and kill my Joe. You're a brave one if you are a revenue. I'm Miss Joe Comstock, the woman who sent you here. I knew you were a revenue right off, and since I've been wishing for a chance to get even with you government men I gave you a roundabout way, coming myself straight up the mountains. I intended to kill you, but I couldn't. You're too plucky." "Well, then, since there is to be no killing, suppose we shake hands and say no more about it." "You go your way and I go mine. Good night." The next afternoon the stranger again rode up to the Widow Comstock's house and after a long interview perused her to give up a still that she had been running ever since her husband had been killed. There was something persuasive in his makeup, something that took hold of the widow's better side, and instead of bunting stills he bunted for her heart. He captured it in time, and they are now well to do farmers. I THINK I'LL VOTE FOR WILSON AND FREE PARK. THIS TIME THE NEW PARKING IS ENTERTAINED YOU HON! YOU CAN GLASS, SHOW MUCH I PAID FOR TICKET MORE, WANT A LOT OF HONEY I SPENT ON PORNITURE AND HOW MUCH OUTFITS, WAS A LOST ME, AND FOOD! WON I CAN REPRESENT MONTH. —From St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Who can furnish a funeral for $10.00 and up; caskets for $3.00 and up. He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Receptions, etc., from his own stables at the most reasonable rates. You need not come to see him, just call Wish to announce to the generous public that I am still doing business at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Thanking the public for all past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same. Carriage for hire for weddings, parties and funerals, and special attention given to all orders day or night. Yours, ALEX, HEMSLEY, No Branches. Not Connected with any other [firm A reward will be offered for the detectionof persons doing business under the name of Felix B. Pye Sr. BALTIMORE LIFE INSURANCE CO. F. S. Strobridge, President Home Office: Cor. Charles & Saratoga Sts., Balto., Md. The Leading Life Insurance Company in Maryland Life Insurance Policies issued on ages from 2 to 79 Premiums collected weekly from the homes of the insured Issues The Best Contracts The Old Reliable TO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL! BUTLER.—Most Equipped Repair Shop Up Town 211 DRUID HILL AVE. Phone, Madison. 3778 M. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. CALL AT THE AFRO=AMERICAN CO 620 N. EUTAW ST. C 142 W. Hill Street and 826 Druid Hill Ave. Mt. Vernon 2578 Main Office. GEORGE H. HOLLAND, Manager. C. & P. Phone:692 Madison. We are living in the progressive age. That is what the Singer Sewing machine company stands for. All men of progressive ideas stand for advancement and peace of conscience. The old idea of machinery is a thing of the past. We find the purchaser of the old idea of machinery, has been a failure. The seller proclaims they will serve you satisfactorily but time and again they have found themselves in the same old state of affairs, and a year or so such machines for a new Singer We Singer agents stand for des which is cheaper in the end. See that you get the Singer 50 per month only at THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF MARYLAND News Gathered By Our Correspondents In Various Parts Of The State. J. P. Evans Receives Ovation From North Carolinians In Easton (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Fairfield, Md., Nov. 1—The Progressive meeting at Green's Hall last Thursday night was largely attended. Mr. Joseph P. Evans made a speech that caused everybody to applaud at times. As most of Fairfield's people of our race are from North Carolina, Mr. Evans received an ovation. When he told the audience that he hailed from North Carolina 32 years ago, the cheering was led by Wm. Brown, of Fairfield. Mrs. Martha Wilson and her daughter, Miss Laura, were out to see Mr. and Mrs. Isaac J. DeShields Monday. Mrs. Pinkey Henderson and Mrs. Rev. Torrence of Salisbury, N. C. were here visiting their daughters Mrs. M. Neely, R. Torrence and R. Patterson and Mrs. Annie Litaker. Mrs. Florence Burse has returned from Mocksville, N. C. Messrs. J. F. and L. F. Brown, brothers of W. W. Brown left Tuesday for their home in Mocksville, N. C. The Stork visited Mr. and Mrs. John Litaker last week and left a big fat girl. Mrs. A. Litaker is on the sick list. Successful Women's Day Rally at St. Michaels (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) St. Michaels, Md., Oct. 31 -Woman's Day was observed at Union M. E. Church last Sunday. The program in part was as follows: Morning Services presided over by Mrs. Mary A. Coulbourne, papers by Mrs. T. E. Roach of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Mrs. Bertha Dickerson of McDaniel, Mrs. Martha Haskins of Bellevue, and solo by Miss Clara Gardner of Bellevue. Evening services presided over by Mrs. Annie E. Jones, paper by Mrs. Lavinia Young, address by Mrs. Helen G. Turner. The collectors were Mrs. Georgeta Young for the women and Messrs. Walter White and Gustavus Jones for the men. Collection $252.83. Madam Anna Lee Slade of Washington, D. C., gave a very high class concert at Union M. E. Church on Tuesday night. Rev. T. E. Roach, of the A. M. E. Zion Church, is preparing for a contest rally. Rev. J. H. Robinson of Baltimore, worshipped at Union M. E. Church in the morning, and at the A. M. E. Zion Church in the evening of last Sunday, preaching at the latter church. Taft Sentiment on the Wane (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Frederick, Md., Nov. 1 — Taft sentiment is on the wane among the colored voters of this city and county. A meeting was called in the interest of Taft a few evenings ago, and there were only eight persons present, and four of these were men who had been employed to scatter bills announcing the meeting. "It is all Roosevelt up this way," says Dr. U. G. Bourne, "and Taft will have very little show among the colored voters. The voters seem to be alive to the situation, and as result we expect to see Roosevelt far in the lead." Petersville, Md., Nov. 1—A fine concert was rendered by the public school of this place Oct. 21, at Union Bethel A. M. E. Church, for the benefit of the school fund. A neat little sum was realized. Miss Fisie Thomas is the principal of the school. Snow Hill Gleanings Snow Hill, Md., Nov. 1—Mrs. Laura Craddle, of Baltimore, is home for a few weeks. Rev. J. W. Fenderson preached all day at the M. E. Church Sunday. The Harvest Home at the M. E. Church was a success. Mr. John Parker, has returned from Boston. Mrs. Carolina Hayward has gone to Wilmington, Del. to spend the winter. Miss Maggie Tingle was the guest of Miss Maggie Henry, at Berlin, Sunday. Hagerstown Notes Hagerstown, Md. Nov. 1-- Last Sunday was rally day at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. $301.50 was raised. A steam heating plant is being installed in the church. Rev. David Johnson preached to large audiences. Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Baltimore, preached an able and inspiring sermon to the auxiliaries of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church Wednesday night. The political sentiment of Washington county is strongly Progressive among white and colored voters. Enthusiastic mass meetings are being held and they are well attended. Weddings have been solemnized in this city during the last two weeks. Many of them were visitors. All the preachers are smiling as the result of marriage fees as some of them received $5.00 for a service. Master James Thompson, agent for the Afro-American Ledger, has entered Storer College as student. His mother has assumed the agency. The Afro-American Ledger is a potent agent in molding political sentiment for Roosevelt and Johnson in this city. Mrs. Matilda J. Matthews was elected superintendent of Ebenezer A. M. E. S. S. last Monday night and Mrs. Mollie Robinson assistant. The Second Christian Church has just closed a successful Rally, Rev. F. C. Cothran is the pastor. The A. C. E. League will open with its new president, Miss Regina Jackson, next Sunday evening. Much Roosevelt Sentiment Here. Thomkinsville, Md., Oct 30 There is considerable Roosevelt sentiment in this section of Charles county. A big meeting was held here a few nights ago, and strong addresses for the Progressive cause were delivered by A. Jackson, of Baltimore; John R. Coombs, and Frank Middleton, both of this place. A club was also formed with John R. Coombs as president. A number of ladies including Mesdames Addie L. Coombs, Ella Burroughs, Mary E. Fowler and Miss Rosa Fowler, attended the mass meeting. Catonsville Notes Catonsville, Md., October 30— Amy, the 7 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Simms, while playing Sunday, fell and severely cut her tongue. Miss Sedonia Ray attended the Frederick Fair last Thursday. Mrs. Edward Pye, who has been confined to her bed for several weeks, is out again. Easton Notes (Special to the Afro-American Ledger) Easton, Md., October 31st— The Harvest Home Service was preached by Rev. Cooper and followed by Rev. Fichellt at 3 p. m., and Rev. L. S. Flagg at 7.03. It will close Friday night with a literary program. Among the visitors here are Mr. Ernest Pardon and Miss A. Frye, of New York, and Miss Nannie Holliday, of Cambridge, Md. Misses Nina Gibson, Emma Spouse and Edith Jenkins, have returned from Baltimore after spending a delightful time with friends and relatives. Mr. Hoffman Richardson left for Philadelphia Monday, accompanied by his mother, Mrs Florence Richardson. He will be examined for the navy. Revival services are still going on at the Union Baptist Church, Halmington town. Mrs. Mary Poney is quite ill at her home. Mrs. S. Georgia Howard is still on the sick list. Rev. Charles Bailey of Preston, Md., preached at Bethel Church Tuesday night. Nanticoke Happening. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Nanticoke. Md., Oct..31—Quite a number left for Philadelphia and Washington this week, among them being Misses Laura Jones, Annie Barclly, Sarah Nutter Blanche Barclly, Annie M. Barclly, Dorothy Carter, Miss Nutter and Annie L. Nutter. A musicale was held here. Those taking part were Mrs. Annie Dashield, Miss Norello Nutter, Miss Bertha Dashield, Miss Lottie Nutter, Mr. Samuel Nutter and Rev. Theodore A. Johnson. D. D. Jolly and Mr. Pryor delivered addresses. THE AFRO=AMERICAN-LEDGER P. BISHOP H. BLANTON PARKS Who comes out in a strong statement this week in favor of Roosevelt, Johnson and the Progressive Party. juries at James Lindsay's lime kiln. Mr. Brittain was riding a lime kiln car when the accident occurred. He sustained a broken jaw, a fracture of the skull, seven ribs broken, and a broken leg. The doctor states that he is on the road to recovery. The Trustees held a very successful rally Sunday. Roosevelt Lauded Hagerstown, Md., Oct. 29—Rev. Dr. R. D. Johnson, of Baltimore, Md., aroused an audience to high pitch of enthusiasm at Good Samaritan Hall last night, where a big Roosevelt-Johnson mass meeting was held. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Roosevelt League, and was presided over by John Williams. "Theodore Roosevelt is a man in the full sense of the word," said Dr. Johnsoh. "He stands for square deal for all men; he would ameliorate the conditions under which all labor, and he has an intense feeling for the plain people, white and black." After going exhaustively into a discussion of the principles for which the Progressive Party stood; he explained Roosevelt's letter to Julian Harris, saying that it was statesman like in that it paved a way for increased political and civic power for the race.Taking up President 'Taft's administration, he sharply criticized its defects, especially its attitude toward the race. Enthusiastic applause and cries of "We are all for Teddy," greeted the close of Dr. Johnson's eloquent plea. Prof. Elijah Freeman and Rev. J. C. Newman also delivered addresses. The speakers were entertained at supper by Chairman Wiliams following the meeting. Winchester News (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Winchester, Va., Nov. 1 — The bazar and anniversary services held at John Mann M. E. Church last week, was a success. The funeral of Robert Washington took place from Mt. Carmel F. E. Church Monday afternoon, Rev. W. P. Fisher officiating. The Union Meeting held at Shiloh Baptist Church on the 3rd Sunday was a success. Many preachers were present. Rev. C. E. Hodges conducted Quarterly Conference at John Mann M. E. Church last Friday. Howard University Proscribed Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 1 — The State Board of Medical Examiners has barred future graduates of a large number of medical schools in this country and Canada from practicing in the State unless they conform with the requirements laid down by the board. Howard University Medical School, Washington, the College of Physicians and surgeons, Baltimore, Vanderbilt University and he Hahneman Medical College are among the schools proscribed against. Extract from statement of Mr. Roost- velt dated Nov. 8, 1904: "On the 4th day of March next I shall have served three and one-half years; and this three and one-half years constitutes my first term. The wise custom which limits the president to two terms regards the substance and not the form. Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination." "What Washington would not take and Grant could not get no man shall have." There's plenty of happiness in sight, but getting it is another proposition. Atlanta Journal. ...EDUCATION... Instruction given in Hair Work, Facial Massage and Manicuring. Alsc in the making of Braids, Puffs, etc. Combings made up. MADAME M. A. HUNTER, 737 George Street. FRIENDS ALL WANT IT. Mrs. D. B. Simmons of Silex, Ark., writes: "I tried one bottle of Ford's Hair Pomade and found it to be the best preparation I have ever used. 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A... - Next Tuesday will be the battle of the ballots, Let every man be ‘a missionary for the Progressive Party and freedom from political slavery. ‘ i The Progressive Party is here to stay. Let usget that im our heads It is the party of the people; for the people and by the people. ——_— ‘There is no way of keeping the Negro out of the councils of ‘the Progressive Party. He was there when it was born and made the christening prayer. He is part and parcel of the concern. There isa saying that you can not keep 2 good man down. Both parties have been fighting Col. Roosevelt and: the Progressive Party but itis going to the front just the same. Watch itgrow. ~ ‘We see that provision has been made for any number of streets that are-to be paved out of the pav- ing Joan... Now we voted for that Joan and we are taxpayers and ought to'be’alive to our interests Very few of the streets to be paved are in'the -colored district. Why is this? It seems to us that some- body. vught to get busy. We sug. gest that-City Councilman Cum- mings the only-representative we have in the city.government ough! to get busy and call a meeting of the-taxpayers.in his baliwick and call on the powers. that be and see if something cannot be done. Jé any ‘street inthe city. needs paving ‘Druid Hill: avenue: and Ar. gyle avenues. surely stand ia need of:that very thing. Somebody get ‘on ‘the: job. A VICTIM OF RACE PREJUDICE, “> We:have not the least sympathy “in:theSworld with” the “carryings ‘on: 6f "Jack ‘Jokinson.”” And we sre far from: indorsing’ that little “elique:among the Negro race who .geem’ distresséd "because. they can- ‘not’ mingle’ to the heart's: content, ‘with: white people, in those’ things 'gnd-affairs commonly associated ‘grith'‘‘gocial”” concerns. ° Having “gaid:as much, nevertheless, we -can “not fail'to:realize the fact that Jack “Johnson‘is a victim of ‘‘Race’Prejn- ‘Gice."”; Such-teprehensible doings ‘as are charged against’ him are. of Se RS frequent occurence; and excite but passing notice. as recorded constant: ly-in the-daily-press:-~But_ because “Jack Johnson,’’.a “Negro, is the distinguished. “champion of ‘the world in the puiglist‘e arena, cap- ital'is made of his moral short- comings, and, incidentally, it is sought to reproach the-entire race of which he-is a-member.-‘We feel towards the conduct of Johnson just as we would feel towards the low an despicable conduct of any man, black or white. ‘The one principal lesson the race should Jearn from the career of Jack Jobnson is to the effect that the race, especially our leaders of thought and action, must give in- creasing attention to moral foun- dations in their individual lives. ——— . THE DAY NURSERY. | Another active and most needed charity, after many struggles, has ‘ueen opened: by Colored People, for ‘the benefit of their own race. This charty is the Day Nursery, located onDruid Hill avenue near’ Preston street, and Mrs, Cornelia Ander- son is-the president of the Asso- ciation. The association owns the ‘building in which it is conducted, which has been improved and rend- ered most attractive and“ inviting. This good work has the hearty co- operation of some of the best women of the white race, such as Mrs, Cabell Bruce,, Miss Elizabeth Gillman, Mrs; Hollander and others of that class. We doubt not. that ‘the poorer. mothers of the” “race, compelled today labor, will read- ‘ily lake advantage of the-accoria: dation and help so generously ‘offered:them. Women having very young children, even babies, can leave them at the Nursery as they goto their work in the mornings, and on'theirsreturn from work in ‘the evenings’¢an obtian them, after hhaving been carefully looked after during the day. The small charge for this service is almost insignifi- ant, but of tremendous help to the poor womer: who are compelled to labor out for their living. In as much as the amounts paid for the care of the little ones could hardly be expected to meet the expenses of conducting such an institution, the Christian.public is given the bless- ed privilege of contributing to the funds of the institution, towards making up that,lack which the insufficiency of the revenue thus secured renders necessary. A visit to the institution will certainly in- spire other’ women of the race to take some active part in minister- ing to the ‘many social needs of their needy people, as well as con- vinee them that is more blessed to give than to receive. ‘The affairs of this Association are in good hands, and are faithfully and hon- estly managed. When one consid- ers the evident need along this line, it'gis only a question of a short time when the institution will be compelled to increase its accommodations so as to care for the multitude of worthy poor moth- ers who will only be too glad to avail themselves of the opportuni- ties of such a well condacted and praise worthy institution. Let every one help such a worthy and indispensable charity. THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. ‘The fight of the escape runaway slave, during the late civil war, furnished food and inspiration for those who were battling with a gi gantic enemy threatning to destroy the very foundations of American government. Even in this day, remote from the thrilling incidents which en- livened that great moral crusade, the stories of Frederick Douglas and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and others, awaken the greatest in terest and enthusaism. It was the storv of flesh and blood in noble in surrection and” confederatior against the powers which woulé deprive them of bodily. freedom. It comprises, “indeed, a thrilling chapter in American history. That it all wasno mistake is fully attest. ed by .the ever. expanding moral ‘and ititelectual miracle of the ris ing nianhood of the black man, sc Jong held down. in the house ‘of bondage.’ But as glorious’ as. wai that ‘grand. march from _humar bondage, the resent battle o freedom is of vastly -more signif cance to the whole American people [than that picturesques uprising, of humanity. wafting -the.refrain o! "Soh Brown's body.’ = When “a ,man. (bas. gained “his physical-freedom, when'he has had a taste of the good things insepar. ably connected with Liberty, wher there has awakened in him’a stil more. glorious vision in surround ing himself with the boundless ‘treasures and blessings which Prov. idene has placed within his.reach, his “inspiration to fight . to the last diteh'to prevent industrial chain: from being . placed around him arrést the realization of the fruits of the: wonderful vision drawing foutvall’his, powers; and.with such THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER. .a ‘dauntless chief a Theodore Roosevelt-to blaze the way on-be- half of a ‘‘square deal’ for all the oppressed sons of earth, with- out regard to nationality or sex, the fight for a higher and « noblet freedom will move forward. to vic- tory with a sure shout of triumph. Such is the sinificance of the is: sues involved in the present cam- paign. ‘The earth is the Lord’s and the fuliness therevf’’ is the firm and.unshaken belief of men of all races who believe in Human Brotherhod; and theirs is a noble effort to prevent ‘‘trusts’” and all other unholy combinations from mis-appropriating to a few what the Almighty has bequeathed to the ehildren of men. Those who ridi- cule the idea of meeting out social justice can hardly be exepeted tc realize a condition which they be: Nieve altogether impossible. He who feels not the great mass of humanity seeking for God througt justice and fair play of thier fel- lows, can hardly be dependent up ‘on{to apply those principles .o! equity and righteousness which will lead to the haven of content- ment and peace. But, the Pro: gressives, with their matchles leader are consecrated to this ‘‘im- possible’? task of, realizing peace aud good will: among all men bj making the golden rule rather thar the purse of gold the standard o: measurement man to man.. Oui principles are eternally rigint, anc because they are right they must triumph. Freedora is worth fight ing for. yea, it is worth dying for. Shoulder to shoulder, then, le every Progressive march forward to victory. Amsterdam News Scores Wilson and Taft. | The Amsterdam News, published iin New York city, takes a fling, editorially, at Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic Presidential eandi- date. Charges President ‘Taft with fost- ering race prejudice, and eulogises ‘Theodore Roosevelt in last week’s issue. ‘The editorial concludes: Nobody charges President Taft with race prejudice. But under President Taft nobody will deny that race prejudice could not have heen less impeded or’ more rampant in the country; that it could have injected its hydra-headed fangs of race poison in more directions and more disastrously tu the best in- terets of the colored race. Under President Taft, the color line ‘has not only eliminated the colored office holder from the South. Through its elimination of the col- ored census supervisor it gave the colored man an unfair and partial census. The color line under Pres- ident ‘Taft has not only entered ‘the eivil and the consular. service, but, receiving its inspiration from on high, has permeated every insti- tution and every community in the Northern States. Under President ‘Taft the colored citizen has largely lost his civil rights. He has com- pletely lost political hope. The false friends of the colored man, the lily white Republicans at pres- ent have honey-combed the nation’s igovernment. Should colored men | vote.for a continuance of this reg- lime? Should a colored man vote for President Taft? The long and illustrious career of the third candidate for Presi- dent is too well known, too highly venerated by the black boys in the street, to need either encomiums orarecital. Seven years as Presi- dent, he successfully defied in the South the combined lily whites o: his own party and'the “Democratic party, and gave the colored citizer not only. political positions, bu civic hope; in the North, enforcing equality in the civil service, th thousands of black men there now can call him father. Dispensing internal revenue collectors, tistric! attorneyships amidst a host o: new positions for the race, ringing true at every call for thirty year on the American citizenship of ' the colored man, he led the race farth est north toward the eternally cherished goal of an equal chance and civil liberty. While othe: things may be said for or agains that.eareer, whose author can cal color coward, whom none will nov deny is enlisted in the cause of the people, this in outline is the caree: of Theudor2 Roosevelt, These ar facts which no man of intelligenc and honesty will essay to deny. These are the three men fron whom you must choose at the criti cal-hour the President of the-natior for the next-four years. We’ ash every colored.man to consult hi econsienc and his God. WHICH SHALL IT BE? The Magothy Singing. Band’ anc fs are e a eat ee esa The Magothy Singing. Band’ and congregation visited Eastern M. E: Church last Suaday. Over -500. ‘people were present. A great re: vival. Five .penitents and one conversion, The collections amount- ‘ed to $25.00. BISHOP PARKS AND THE PROGRESSIVE. PARTY Chicago, Nov. 1 —In a strong statement Bishop H. B. Parks says he will support Roosevelt. The statement follows in. part: “*T regard the opportunity to sup- port the Progressive Party and to ally ourselves with the Progressive Party the greatest opportunity that has been afforded the citizens of this country—irrespective of color —to emancipate themselves from political slavery and oppressior since the days of reconstruction. “We must admit that the princi- ples for which the Republican Party at one time stood and contended for have been forsaken and instead of championing the rights of the people, it is a tool of the great interests of a wealthy few. If the rights and interests of this nation are to be preserved and the oppres- sive conditions that now obtain are to be thrown off, the voters of this country must unite witha party that is standing and con- tending for the overthrow of these conditions. “The Progressive Party is thus pledged. It comes into existence asa resistless necessity of condi. tions. Mr. Roosevelt, like many others, was a Republican of Re- publicans but the great demand tostcangle to death the destroying influences of powers of Trusts, as well as to change the economic conditions and the inequalities of the rights forced upon the labor- ing classes, weighed so heavy up- on him that he was compelled te anwser to the call of thousands of this nation who are determined to break ovt of this prison house of oppression in which they have been compelled to remain during the many years of fhe existence of these conditions. Roosevelt Stands for the Negro. ““] appreciate the statesman like position that he takes for all classes of American Citizens. He does not pretend to be a candidate whe champions the interest of any race 'éf ouc American citizenship, To the contrary, he.takes the higher and nobler position; equal rights tc all of the people. The Negro of this country is a laborer of it anc any position that will relieve op: pressive laborers of this country is by far greater, the move to be ad. mired and supported by him thar any other class of laborers. This truth is so very clear that it i: strange to my mind that.any sane mind should fail to apprehend it.” Closing Days Of A Strenuous Campaign Gonideudd Peon pase a Encouraging reports also come from the West. In fact, colored men have everything to gain_by supporting Roosevet and the Pro- gressives, I am highly gratified at the reports that I have received from Maryland that the colored voters there are overwhelmingly for Roosevelt. The Afro-American Ledger has been one of our staunch- est supporters. The general opinion among shrewd observers here is that Taft tias absolutely no chance of reelec tion, and these opinions come from men who live in various sections of the country. Roosevelt stock fias taken an upward jump. The great ovation at Madison Square Garden Wednesday nigtit wher over 30,000 people gathered in and around the garden, indicates that the great mass of people believe ir him. Many say that the great up hill fight that Roosevelt has made against odds that would discourage a less courageous man,and that the present trend of things presage the Colonel’s triumph, — {t may be said, however, that while you ‘have to hunt for the men who raelly be lieve that Taft will be reelected, there are many who are confident of Wilson’s election. Hedges, the Republican candi date for Governor of New York séems doomed to defeat. Sulzer will get all the Tammany Hall vote, and will also poll big Ne gro vote because of his genera attitude of fairness .toward the race. Straus will poll a big Jewish vote, a large upstate sup port and will also get the suffrage of many colored men allied wil the Progressive cause, . This has been a campaign: of breaking away from the old moor- ings and the Negro” will be ‘one of those that will be ‘in the van giiard of the breaktaway from th old fetich of party regularity; BABES IN POLIS. punctions, animated by like hopes, revealing” to each other mutual sympathies and memocies. ‘The urged tried methods of righting old wrongs and of estab- lishing social. standards in industry. For: three days together they defined their purposes and harmon- ized their wills into a gigantic co- operation, calling it the new polit- ical party, ‘born of the nation’s awakened sense of justice.’” ‘Tam happy to have been a dele- gate to this convention, because believe that the platform was a re- action to felt needs, and that with the establishment of equal suffrage, direct primarivs, the initiative and referendum, the polititeal organi- zation of the nation can never again get so far away from the life and needs of the people. Twenty Years of Service. Because for more than twenty years [ have lived in the midst- of the most perplexing industrial conditions, and haye seen many evils exist which in older and better governed nations have dur- ing that time been greatly ameli- orated, Iam setting down my ex- periences in a series of articles in the hope that they may be of value in showing the direct relation be- tween human needs and poiltical action. To write the first article about the children is to tell of those pit- eous tenement house babies whose deaths every summer register the low wages of their fathers and too often the ignorance of their heart broken mothers. . For years an effort to secure clean miJk upon which the health of city children so absolutely de- pends, But in spite of the fact \hat our health department a few months ago officially stated that 10,000 tubercular cows were supply- ing milk to Chicago, because clean milk demands an inspection of the dairy farms in Wisconsin, Michi- gan, Indiana, Iowa, as well as in Illinois, it has been almost impos- sible to secure it, Babies and Politics. Only when men in political power place humane legislators above financial interest will a_tu- berculin test for cows be establish- }ed in all of these states, and the in- spection of dairy farms be required ‘by_law. So, simple a matter of milk for babies enters directly into polities and interstate politics at that. Through many years of effort in Mlinois we have secured a fairly adequate child labor law, but al- though children are prohibited from working in the glass factories of our own great state, we have nc guarantee that the glassware we are using every day has not been carried to hot furnaces in other states by thinly clad little boys working at night, who easily con- tract pneumonia in the quick tran- sition from overheated rooms into the chill night air. We do not know that our coal has not been sorted by breaker boys, deprived not only ot their play and eduzation, ° but of the very . light ‘of day” who will later become a burden to the community, as our poorhouses are already filled with paupers who as overworkec ebildren consumed the vitality which should have made them vig. orous men. Menaced By Money Power. The Illinois child labor law is constantly menaced by there presen: tatives of state; is placed in unfait competition with other state: where the child labor laws are in. adequate. Certainly child labor entered in: to national polities when Senato: Beveridge attempted to bring it under federal control through the interstate commerce acts; that he still sees such need is demonstratec by his speech at the opening of the Progressive convention: ‘Childrer workers at the looms in South Car: olina means bayonets at the breast of men and women working in Mas sachusetts who strike for highel {owes Another Roosevelt Man. To the Editor: ‘ Tam for Theodore Roosetvelt and the Progressive Party because its principles give a square deal to all of its constituents It is the party created by the people for the people and of the people. As citi- zena and yoters,. let us rally to the standard’ and cast. our ballots for the ‘candidates of the. Progressive Party,elécting}them to preside over this gréat nation of ours, “ Yours Respeetfully, : W. H. Langley. * 2217 Druid Hill Avenue. CYRUS FELD ADAMS ~ SENDS RESNATN Washington, Nov. 1 — Cryus Field Adams, assistant Register of the Treasury, has resigned after nearly twelve years’ service in the position. J. D. Strickland, of ‘Arkansas, has been appointed to succeed him on the recommenda- tion of Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, Mr, Adams is now in New York asisting the Republican National Committee. He stands well with the Taft forces, and should ‘the President happen to be re-elected will be given another prominent federal appointment. "Mr. Adams has served as assis- tant register since January, 1901, and holds the record for continuous service here in a prominent federal position held by a colored man. Other colored men who filled prom- nent federal positions. for a long time include the late Blanche K. Bruce, who served as United States Senator for six years, as register of the Treasury during the Gar- field-Arthur administration, and who died within a year after his appointment to the same position by President McKinley; John C. Dancy, who served ten years as re- corder of deeds; Henry A. Rucker, collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia for 12 years, and Joseph E, Lee, collector of Internal Rev- enue at Jacksonville, Fla. for the past 16 years. Mr, Adams has been the com- ‘piler of the campaign text'book issued for colored voters during the past four national campaigns, and his knowledge of conditions among the race has always been eagerly sought by those high in the councils of the Republican party. He is a resident of Chi- eago, where he has been active in polities for many years. Rally on The Center ‘The campaign is over. the long roll kas sounded; the bugles have called boots and saddies; the boys have fallen into line, touched el- bows, and wait with eager impa- tience-to charge the'enemy. —° ‘The outposts have all been called in, and from Maine to Cahfornia they are rallying on the center with a courage that is invincible and a determination that presages victory. There is not a coward in our ranks; not a living soul who does not feel that next Tuesday night the Wilson party and the Taft part will both be routed, horse, foot and dragon, and will be scurrying hither and yon, utterly demoralized. Yagt and his cohorts will pass out of public notice and will be re- membered only as we recall some horrible dream that was filled with dire forebodings and impending disasters, God Almighty still reigns su- preme, and He will eontinue to guide and direct this country until ‘its mission has been accomplished. _ Negro Repudiation of Johnson The formal and public repudia- tion of the pugilist Jack Johnson by representative men and women of his race is too significant of the apsiraions of the American Negro to be passed without note. The cause of this sensitiveness on the part of the colored people is too plain to need explanation. By his suecess in the ring, Johnson became one of the most ‘conspicu- ous men of the country and was in- evitably regarded by someas a rep- resentative Negro. " Therefore when he turned away from his own people to seek associates among whites, and found them freuently among the most disreputable, there was a natural revulsion on the part of colored men, who undoubtedly had hailed him with. something of pride in his prowess. The promptness, of the repudia- tion is creditable to the race, It gives assurance of the maintenance of a standard: of opinion that it would be well if we could have adopted with equal firmnessby all whites. There need be no fears of the future of a race that sets its face so resolutely toward: the | ebe as is evidenced in this case. War of Roses Rally The rally at Asbury Church. Rev. C. G. Cummings, Pastor, was a gratifying success. Red Rose Army, Gen, H.R. Hooker, $179.84; Gen. Frank Armstrong,. $98.14; White Rose Army, Gen. J. H. Gilmore, $145.58; Gen, Henry "Henson, $137.24; the Pastor, $26.10; Ladies’ Aid, $15.00; Class 11, $4.25; Ser- vice by, the blind, "$5.01; . Miscel- laneous,’ $6.79, and Total, $667.95; Veteran Actor Retires. New York Nov. 1. — Sam Lucas, the veteran comedian has been compelled or retire from active work on the stage, because of an affection of his left side. The trouble has worried him for the past four years, and doctors do not seem able to reach the cause of the trouble. He will continue, however, entertain at private theatricals and festivals. Lucas has been before the footlights since 1873 when he started out with Callenders' Original Georgia Minstrels. He was born in Washington, 70 years ago. He has been appeared all over the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia in various shows. Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, of Baltimore, filled the pulpit twice Sunday at St. Mark's M. E. Church. W. Ashbie Hawkins, of Balti- W. Ashbie Hawkins, of Baltimore, grand supreme chancellor. Robert N. Wood, chief of the New York State Democracy, is able to be out after a brief illness. W. Monroe Trotter, editor of the Boston Guardian, was in the city this week. James Lewis Williams, a well known resident of St. Luois, was in the city this week. C. Henry Jenkins, of Baltimore spent Sunday in the city. J. Truley Wilson, grand organizer of the Elks, has been in the city for the past three weeks. Successful Woman's Day. Frederick, Md., Oct. 31. — A successful Woman's Day service was held at A. M. E. Church last Sunday. $101.80 was raised by the pastor. Rev John Porter. A successful fair has just ended at Asbury M. E. Church. $864.00 was realized. Prof. John W. Bruner, supervisor of colored schools, is visiting the county schools. Presbyterians Elect Officers. Newark, N. J., Oct. 31 — The nineteenth annual session of the Afro-American Council of Presbyterian Churches, ministers, elders and laymen, came to an end at the Thirteenth Avenue Church Sunday after an interesting session. The next session will be held at the Madison Street Presbyterian Church, Baltimore. Officers were elected as follows: Rev. B. M. Ward, York, Pa., president; Rev. J. T. Colbert, Chambersburg, Pa., vice president; Rev. P. H. Armstrong, Philadelphia, treasurer. Erecting $100,000 Y. M. C. A. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 1—The new $100,000 building for the Colored Y. M. C. A. is in course of erection. Though Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, gave $25,000 and other whites contributed, colored people have subscribed a large proportion of the money. Mme. C. J. Walker gave $1,000. Reisterstown Notes. Reisterstown, Md., Nov. 1 — The St. George Social Club was entertained by Mr. Jacob Lee at the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lee, last Wednesday evening. Those in attendance were Misses Beulah Madden, Jane Burns, Blanch E. Tucker, Alma A. Jones and Blanch E. Thomas, Messrs L. O. Thomas, R. L. Jones, D. Harris, J. R. Lee, O. Dutton, Mrs. W. H. White and Mrs. H. E. Morton. Miss Janie Tillman, who was run over by a horse on her way to school, is now convalescent. Mrs. Mary Fairfax Brown, of Philadelphia, was the guest of Mr. Edward Jonhson Tuesday. The Junior Choir will render music for St. Lukes M. E. Church on Sunday. Messrs. Charence Carter, Bird and Ringgold was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Carter on Wednesday. Miss Leona Carter, who has been away on account of illness of her grandfather, has returned home. The revival services, which have been going on at Piney Grove, have been quite a success. Colored Policemen Appointed. Little Rock, Ark.. Nov.1 — Evil doers along West Ninth street will fall into the strong clutches of Paul Clancey if they don't watch out. Upon the petition of representative colored citizens he has just been appointed a policeman by Mayor Taylor. He is the first colored policeman appointed by the present municipal administration. Samuel Speights was a member of the detective force for a number of years. An enthusiastic meeting of others of Batilmore and Howard counties was held at Mt. Gilboa, Md., Wednesday night. Addresses extoling Roosevelt Johnson and the Progressive principles were delivered by Oden Williams, Rev. R. D. Johnson, Rev. S. S. Crockett, andFrank- IN MEMORIAM In sad but loving remembrance of Anne E. McCann, who departed this life one year ago this 29th day of October, 1912. Gone but not forgotten. By her husband, William H. McCann. 2342 Stockton street. PERRY—In loving but sad remembrance of my dear husband and father, Frank Perry, who departed this life one year ago today, November 2, 1911. "The dpeth of our sorrow we can not tell, The loss of one we loved so well; And while he lies in peaceful sleep, His sacred memory we willkeep" By his wife and children, 2114 Druid Hill avenue. In loving remembrance of my der husband, Warren Ball, who departed this life three months ago today, July 29th, 1912. Oft times I sseem to be happy, By the beautiful gate he stands and waits. My dear hubsand from pain set free; I shall clasp his hand and feel his kiss, When the hinges turn to me. By his loving wife, Mrs. Mary A. Ball. Gassaway—In loving memory of my friend, F. A. Gassaway, who departed this life one year ago October 29, 1911. Gone but not forgotten. By his friend, John H. Terrell. In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband, George Harris, who departed this life one year ago today, November 2, 1912. Days of sadness still come over me, Tears of sorrow silently flow; Fond memory keeps my husband near me, Though death claimed him one year ago. God called him home, it was his will. But in my heart I love him still; His memory is as dear today, COATES—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband, Abraham Coates, who departed this life, 5 years ago the 24th of October, 1907. 'Tis finish'd, 'tis done, The spirit is fled;` The pris'ner is gone, The Christian is dead; The Christian is living, Through Jesus' love, And gladly receiving A kingdom above. By his, loving wife, Elizabeth. SPECIAL NOTICES Rev. A. Young will deliver his famous railroad sermon at the Centennial M. E. Church at 11 a. m. accompanied by his singing and praying band. Rev. D. W. Shaw, Pastor. The Rev. A. Young will preach his famous railroad sermon at the A. M. E. Zion Church, Pennsylvania avenue, at 8 p. m. this Sunday, accompanied by his choir and congregation. Dont miss the train. Rev. J. McDonald, Pastor. Moving Pictures of the sinking steamer Titanic, which went down with nearly two thousand on board. The prehistoric animal will also appear Monday Nov. 4, 1912, by the Delaware and Maryland Stereoptican Co. Tickets 10 cents, given under the auspices of the Stewardesses of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. The Sunday School Institute of the Eastern Division of the Hagerstown District A. M. E. Church will convene in Mt. Winans A. M. E. Church on November 8, 9, and 10, 1912. An intersting program has been prepared. Every Sunday School worker is invited. The institute will be in charge of Mr. Elmer A. Henderson, District Superintendent. Come and see the Mock Session of the Washington Annual Conference at St. Paul M. E. Church, in the main auuditorium of the church, Saratoga street near Carey, on Thursday evening, Nov. 7, 1912 at 8 o'clock. Under the auspices of the Pink Carnation Auxiliary of said church. Admission, 10 cents, refreshments on sale. Mrs. Mamie Stewart, Chairman, Mrs. Jamie Thomas, Presiding Bishop, Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor. THE AFRO=AMERICAN LEDGER Read! Realize and Profit. We understand our business, both theoretically and practically; have studied it in all its phases and for years have given it our whole time and attention. We have specially equipped offices, fitted with every modern convenience for accurate Eyesight Testing. We are giving wonderful results in the Eyeglasses and Spectacles we are producing for One Dollar. Why not change your old style glass to our Shur-on mounting? INVISIBLE BIFOCALS The Greatest Glasses in the world for Far and Near Seeing. No lines to show or worry you. Our prices ANNUAL BAZAR OF A. M. E. Church WILL OPEN Night, November 4th Union of the Merits and Demerits the Presidential Candidates TAFT ROOSEVELT Miller, Miss Sarah R. Jackson Mrs. Ruth Collett Em. Interspersed with National Airs Event each night as follows: 1. Mrs. Rebecca Palmer & Co. 2. 6th—Mrs. Mary S. Roberts & Co. 3. 7th—Mrs. Mary A. Jones & Co. 4. 8th—Mrs. Addie Fowler & Co. 5. Edw. H. Barnett & Co. 6. 7th—Misses Esther and Violet Hill & Co. 7. Mr. and Mrs. James, Dockins & Co. 8. 14th—Mrs. Lydia Burke & Co. 9. 15—The Sunday School Rally decorated will be stocked with all varities of the market. Your Lunch at the Fair. 25c. Single Tickets, 5c. President. Secretary Vice President Wilson, Treasurer Bell Burke, Assistant Secretary V. D. G. Hill, Pastor Mr. Gough McDaniels will deliver the Paul M. E. Church, W. Saratoga St., Rev. On Monday Evening, Nov. 11th, 1912, at Liberia and Its History." All are invited, and under the auspices of the Brother- irmah of the Committee. Cut Rate Optical Co. 309 == North Eutaw Street == 309 THE ANNUAL BAZAR Monday Night, November 4th With a Discussion of the Merits and Demerits of the Three Presidential Candidates WILSON TAFT ROOSEVELT By Mrs. A. R. H. Miller, Miss Sarah R. Jackson and Mrs. Ruth Collett Come and Hear Them. Interspersed with National Airs Entertainment each night as follows: Tuesday, Nov. 5th—Mrs. Rebecca Palmer & Co. Wednesday, Nov. 6th—Mrs. Mary S. Roberts & Co. Thursday, Nov. 7th—Mrs. Mary A. Jones & Co. Friday, Nov. 8th—Mrs. Addie Fowler & Co. Monday, Nov. 11—Mr. Edw. H. Barnett & Co. Tuesday, Nov. 12th—Misses Esther and Violet Hill & Co. Wednesday, Nov. 13—Mr. and Mrs. James, Dockins & Co. Thursday, Nov. 14th—Mrs. Lydia Burke & Co. Friday, Nov. 15—The Sunday School The Booths, beautifully decorated will be stocked with all the varities of the market. Take Your Lunch at the Fair. Season Tickets 25c. Single Tickets, 5c. Mr. P. Morton Chase, President. Mrs. Grace Westcott, Secretary Mrs. Lydia Burke, Vice President Mrs. Nancy Wilson, Treasurer Miss Annie Bell Burke, Assistant Secretary Rev. D. G. Hill, Pastor SPECIAL NOTICE! Mr. Gough McDaniels will deliver the Second Lecture at St. Paul M. E. Church, W. Saratoga St., Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor. On Monday Evening, Nov. 11th, 1912, at 8:30 o'clock. Subject: "Liberia and Its History." All are invited. These lectures are Free, and under the auspices of the Brotherhood. Mr. Tilden, Chairmah of the Committee. Ladies' latest style trimmed hats, all shapes. Also untrimmed hats, birds, feathers and flowers. Call and examine our stock. MME. R. CREDITT 1137 N. Carey Street. OLD STYLE NEW STYLE are the Cheapest. THE ANNUAL Bethel A. M. —WILL Monday Night With a Discussion of the of the Three Presi- WILSON TARP By Mrs. A. R. H. Millen- and Mrs. L. Come and Hear Them. Intro Entertainment ea- Tuesday, Nov. 5th—Mrs. Rebe- Wednesday, Nov. 6th—Mr. Thursday, Nov. 7th—M Friday, Nov. 8th—M Monday, Nov. 11—Mr. Edw. Tuesday, Nov. 12th—Miss. Wednesday, Nov. 13—Mr. and Thursday, Nov. 14th—Mr. Friday, Nov. 15—The The Booths, beautifully decor the varities Take Your Lun Season Tickets 25c. Mr. P. Morton Chase, President, Mrs. Grace Westcott, Secretary, Mrs. Lydia Burke, Vice Pr Mrs. Nancy Wilson, T Miss Annie Bell B Rev. D. G. I SPECIAL NOTICE! Mr. Ge- Second Lecture at St. Paul M. E. S. H. Norwood, Pastor. On Mon 8.30 o'clock. Subject: "Liberia" These lectures are Free, and un- hood... Mr. Tilden, Chairmah o Extraordinary Musical Offering Logan Dennis' Tabernacle of Gal- ilean Fishermen, presents The Famous Juvenile Troubadours Mr. L. E. Tooney, Director. Galilean Fishermen Auditorium Monday Eve, Nov. 11th The Allen C. E. League of Waters A. M. E. Church will render a fine program this Sunday at 5.45 p. m. Good Singing. Everybody is welcome. Mamie Woolford, President C. A. Carey, Secretary Y. M. C. A. at ELKS' HALL, Hoffman street, near Druid Hill Avenue. Meeting for Men,Sunday,November 3rd, 4.30 P. M. BISHOP JOHN HURST will address the meeting. All men invited. Thomas H. Franklin, President. One Furnished Room For Rent to Gentleman. Apply 532 Laurens street. FOR SALE. Selling out—Singer, $4, W. & W. $6, Standard, $6, White, $5, N. Home, $5, Domestic, $5. Mainland (new), $12. W. & W. (new), $20. Edison, $7, Household, $4. 937 W. Lexington street. Opening of Fail Display of ...Millinery... Cantata Extraordinary! Catabuta Extraordinary. The rendition of the "Beautiful City" under the direction of Mma Helen A. Cooper, at Eastern M. E. Church, Monday evening, Nov. 29, at 8 p. m. sharp. Beautiful decoration, powerful calcium light and entrancing music. Admission, 10 cents. Rev. S. R. Hughes, Pastor. CHURCH NOTICES WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts."King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. Darius Johnson. Holy Communion 3 p. m., Sunday School. 4.30 p. m., Epworth League. 8 p. m., Pastor and choir will visit Zion A. M. E. Church. Pennsylvania Ave. Subject: Railroad Sermon. Everybody welcome Miss E. M. Cooper, Pres. W. C. Tongue, Supt. Rev. S. R. Hughes, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. Mrs. Ida Nelson. 2 p. m., Sunday School. 3 p. m., Women Crusade to Eastern M. E. Church. 500 Women wanted. Sermon by. Rev. Dr. Hughes, subject: "A Square Deal for Women". 6 p. m., Epworth League. 8 p. m., Platform Meeting by local clergy. Come early to get seats ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH Saratoga and Carey Sts. Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by pastor 2 p. m., Sunday School 5 p. m., Epworth League 3 p. m., Special sermon to the Board of the Aged Home by Rev. F. K. Williams of Perkins Square Baptist Church 7 p. m., Special services led by Bzo. Ben Harrod 8 p. m., Sermon. Semi-annual Rally continued Lexington and East Sts. Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D. Pastor 9.30 a. m., Bible Class 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor 2:30 p. m., Sunday School. 3 P. M., Sermon by Rev. Fax. 5 p. m., Epworth League. 8 p. m., The Lord's Supper. Strangers Cordially Welcomed Chas. T. Stewart, Supt. Mrs. Lena Thomas, Pres E. L R. A. Green, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor 2. 30 p. m., Sunday School 8 p. m., Sermon by stranger. Weekly prayer meeting Friday 8 p. m. S. E. Swann, Supt GENTENNIAL M.E. CHUROH Cor. Caroline and Bank Sts Rev. D. W. Shaw, D. D., Pastor 10. 00 a. m., Old-fashioned Love-feast conducted by Kings' Hill Singing and Praying Band. 11 a. m., Rev. Alfred Young will preach his famous Railroad sermon 2. 30 p. m., Sunday School. Wm. L. Gibson, Supt. 4 p. m., Epworth League. Mme. Helen A. Cooper, President. Devotional and Literary. 8 p. m., Annual sermon and memorial service of Nonpareil Beneficial Assembl Grant, Woody, Harrison Co. Moving Pictures Monday Night. AMES MEM. M. E. CHORCB Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2 30 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. Every possible attention given to strangers-Seats Free W. A. Jones, Supt. Have you heard John Wesley choir? If not hear it Sunday morning, Nov. 3, at 11 a. m, Dr. Ernest Lyon will preach at that hour. Subject: "Retribution," or "Sowing and Reaping." Several features in the service. Come, if you want to be benefitted. Those who come are being benefitted, why not YOU? John Wesley stands for the common people, the plain people and the toiler. Neither frills nor ruffles, come just as you are and hear the Gospel preached—Ernest Lyon. SUNDAY SERVICES A great day at. St. Lukes M. E. Church Sunday November 3, 1912. 11 a. m., Preaching by the Pastor. 3. p. m. Baptizing at Pools. Four persons to be immersed. 7-8 p. m. Epworth Leauge. 8 p. m., Special Sermon followed by communion. The Junior Choir will render the music for the day. Mrs. M. J. Carter, Directress. All are invited to be present. Rev. L. A. Carter, Pastor. Sunday, Nov. 3, at 3 p. m. A square deal for women a crusade to Eastern M. E. Church, McElderry and Patterson Park avenue. The First Sunday in November. 3 p. m., Special sermon by Dr. S. R. Hughes, pastor. All the women of the city are cordially invited to be present. Vigilant Committee. Carrie Brooks, Josie Wilson, Hattie Wilson Hattie Barnes, S. R. Hughes, P. C. Furnished or unfurnished room for rent. Apply 559 Laurens street. CHURCH NOTICES BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Druid Hill Ave and Lanvale St. Rev. D. G. Bill, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. All welcome to services ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. Bertha Fleming, Supt. 6 p. m., A. C. E. L., Chas. Roberts, President. 7.30 p. m., Preaching. ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington and Carlton St. Rev. P. J. Jordan, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by pastor 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 4.30 p. m., Allen League. 8 p. m., sermon by pastor and Communion TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH, Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 3 p. m., Holy Communion 6.30 p. m., A. C. E. League. 7.30 p. m., Sermon to Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star. T. J. Holliday, Supt. Amelia Martin, Pres. of League EBENEZER A. M. E. CHUROH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor Stewardesses Day, Mrs. Jennie Dough- ty, President 10 a. m., Pastors Bible Class. 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. James A. Briscoe. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 6 p. m., Allen C. E. League. 8 p. m., Sermon by Rev. W. M. Ivy. Communion. Gleaning of Rally 11 a. m and 8 p.m. All are invited. John Murray, Pres. of the League. Herbert Frisby, Supt. HANDY MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. Baker and Bruce Sts. Rev. John Offer Custis, Pastor. 1514 Druid Hill Ave. 10 a. m., Biblical Missionary Institute. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 6.30 p. m., A. C. E. League. Mr. Samuel E. Robinson, Pres. 8 p. m., Sermon by pastor. All are welcome. H. W. Hiner. Supt. WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. M. F. Sydes, Pastor. 427 Aisquith Street 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. B. F. Watson. D. D., See'y of Church Extension 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 3 p. m., Sermon by Rev. Ida Nelson 5.40 p. m., Allen League. 7.30 p. m., Rev. Aculia Brooks. Class Day Service 10 a. m., Under direction of Mr. Geo. Ellis. 8 p. m., Under direction of Mr. Wm. Carpenter. Thursday night the great Evangelist Rev. Lena Mason will preach. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10 a. m., Class 11 a. m., Preaching by Rev. Ivia. 2 p. m., Sunday School. 6.30 p. m., C. E. L. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor to Kings' Daughters. Communion G. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. L. CHRIST INSTITUTION Ensor Street. Rev. Dr. G. W. Kennard, pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. Richard Thomas, 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 8 p. m., Sermon by Pastor; All invited. ST. JAMES U. A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. G. B. Singleton, Pastor. 808 W. Pratt street. Don't fail to come to see the intelligence of our small colored children in our Baby Drill Monday night, Nov. 4. The smallest soloist in the city. You cannot afford to miss hearing her. Don't forget the date, Nov. 4. 1912. Rev. G. B. Singleton, Pastor. Mrs. Emerson, Superintendent. Colored Young Women's Christian Association, 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. You are cordially invited to attend the regular service on SUNDAY, NOV. 3d, at 5 P. M. Mrs. Stovile. Superintendent Johns Hopkins. Orphanage, will deliver an address. Mrs. Laura Turner, presiding. Mt. Olive United Christain Church, Walnut street near, Preston and Druid Hill avenue, will begin their November revival meeting Sunday November 3rd, 3 p. m. The Union Communion; 8 p. m. regular Communion. Preaching every night and Sunday 3 p. m. First week, Rev. Howard A. Jones. Second week, Rev. George O. Washington. Third week, Rev. Edward D. Gray. Fourth week, Rev. G. H. Whittaker. All welcome. Rev. G. H. Whittaker, pastor. Jas., A. Bell, Clerk. ADVERTISE Cannot Afford to Support Either The Republicans or The MUST FALL IN LINE WITH PROGRESSIVES Is Invited to Enter The Party, Not as a Negro, But as A. N. FIELDS The Negro cannot afford to vote the Democratic ticket, because the election of the National Democratic Party is so infrequent, that it is impossible for this Party to learn how to manage the National Government in the interest of the people. Because the Democratic Party is undemocratic, in professing to be a party of the people and at the same time excluding millions of citizens, because of color and race, from participating in governmental affairs. Because the Democratic Party is dominated by that faction of Democracy which openly opposes the constitutional rights of colored citizens to take part in public and civic matters, because, not with standing Democracy has a Northern candidate,—if he should be elected,—he would be controlled by reason of its strength by this same faction of Democracy, which he believes and acts upon the principle that the Negro is entitled to no civic and political rights as other citizens. Because the Democratic presidential candidate, as president of the United States has known unfriendliness would do incalculable harm to colored citizens in their present struggle to regain their lost liberties. A. H. Who is directing the colored Progressive forces throughout the country. Kentucky Colonely Thinks The Negro Will Soon Become a Factor Instead of a Football In Politics Louisville, Ky., November 1. In an editorial in the Louisville Courier Journal, Henry Watterson, in commenting upon the recent reception that Bishop Alexander Walters received from white and colored Democrats say that the emancipation of the Negro voter would make the Negro a factor in politics 'instead of a football. Colonel Watterson says, in part: "A Chicago letter to the National Conservator tells of the cordial reception of Bishop Alexander Walters 'upon his arrival in the West upon his mission' to make the Negro vote a factor." Bishop Walters is a Kentuckian, born in Nelson county, who has made his mark and won the friendship and respect of a wide circle of white men by his ability and sincerity. "The emancipation of the Negro voter would make the Negro a factor in politics instead of a football, as he has been termed by Booker T. Washington. It was not to be expected that the Negroes would declare the political independence within a generation after the beginning of their freedom. Upon the other hand, it is not believed that they will continue in a state of political bondage much longer after a half century of freedom. The indications are that the Negro vote polled in the election of 1912 will show that the Negroes, under the leadership of a few men of their race who are not seeking office, are beginning to take an independent view of candidates and issues, and that the Republican machine can no longer count upon anything approaching a solid Negro vote in State or National election. There will follow, naturally, greater independence among the Negro resident of cities in municipal politics. When that development is reached municipal campaigns in Southern cities will be free from the deliberate stirring up of race friction that is inevitable where Negroes vote the Republican ticket, without reference to their own interests or the welfare of the municipality. "The common reply of Republicans who are charged by Democrats with coddling the Negro for his vote—the coddling covering a brief pre-election period only is that the Democrats would be just as glad to get the Negro vote if they could get it. Of course they would. But when the Negro awakens to his opportunities and votes as a freeman—No longer as a freed slave—neither Democrats nor Republican can hope to get his support by making up to him for a few weeks before elections, or by giving petty offices to a few Negroes after elections. The party that wants the Negro vote must then promise voters something that Negroes, in common with other bread-winning 'citizens, ought to have. The party that retains the Negro vote must make good such promises. The second emancipation of the Amercian Negro will make him a man—no longer a chattel of a political machine as he was once a chattel of a plantation owner. His resultant awakening to a livelier interest in issues will improve the quality of his citizenship and be of a material value to his country. We print the news While it is news THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGE W. L. FITZGERALD'S MESSAGE A Call to Vigorous Action IN the matter of business through which the whole world is energized and sustained, we have as yet made little headway. It has been well said that Business is the science of organization and directing men; of controlling the forces of Nature and using the products of earth for the benefit of the human race. In this great field of activity we have seriously lacked organization and concerted action. It is, however, gratifying to note that our people are beginning to encourage enterprises founded and managed by colored men and women, and are thus helping to create opportunities in the Business World. SEVERAL years ago I entered the real estate field. My policy was to give the most faithful attention to all business entrusted to me, and to practically apply the "Golden Rule." I put into the business the best that was in me, and it gives me pleasere to say these humble efforts have been crowned with success. I have in this time striven to please the landlord and the tenant, the buyer and the seller. That my service has been satisfactory is well shown by the wonderful increase in my business from year to year. II. FIRE INSURANCE PRESENT the German Fire Insurance Company of Belle Meadow City, whose Capital and Surplus are over ONE MILLION DOLLARS, ($1000000.00). If you are not insured with me; and when your present insurance expires with me. The cost is very small. I can insure you use for $1000 for 1 year for $2.50; your furniture for $500 for $2.00; you can get a cheaper rate if you live for 3 or 5 years at a time. REPRESENT the German Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore City, whose Capital and Surplus are over ONE MILLION DOLLARS, ($1000000.00). If you are not insured, insure with me; and when your present insurance expires, renew with me. The cost is very small. I can insure your house for $1000 for 1 year for $2.50; your furniture for 1 year for $500 for $2.00; you can get a cheaper rate if you insure for 3 or 5 years at a time. III. EMPLOYMENT in the Good Service Employment Bureau and I am strife to be of general service both to those who need work those in need of help. My prime object is to bring the hard industrious worker in touch with the kind and consise employer and in this way save each much trouble and expense. I consider idleness our greatest sin and the bus of much crime, therefore, getting the people to work certain way of reducing crime. RUN the Good Service Employment Bureau and I am striving to be of general service both to those who need work and those in need of help. My prime object is to bring the home and industrious worker in touch with the kind and considerate employer and in this way save each much trouble and annoyance. I consider idleness our greatest sin and the breeder of much crime, therefore, getting the people to work is a certain way of reducing crime. FINAL WORDS indeed very grateful to the people who have reposed their confidence in me by giving me their business. In return I have my best to get such results as they desired. But the gone and it is to the future so rich with possibilities as I am looking with a lively hope. I WANT YOUR BUSINESS alone for my own sake, but because of the opportunity I give me to employ many of the young people graduate from our higher schools who can find nothing to do in keeping with their training. Since September 6th, you have can be to add two new clerks to my office force. I have no more if you will furnish the work. I AM indeed very grateful to the people who have reposed confidence in me by giving me their business. In return I have done my best to get such results as they desired. But the past is gone and it is to the future so rich with possibilities that I am looking with a lively hope. I WANT YOUR BUSINESS not alone for my own sake, but because of the opportunity it will give me to employ many of the young people graduating from our higher schools who can find nothing to do in keeping with their training. Since September 6th, you have caused me to add two new clerks to my office force. I have room for more if you will furnish the work. LOCATION Located at 1206 Druid Hill Avenue, near Dolphin State, my spacious offices occupy the entire first floor of the Writzgerald Building. They are well lighted, well ventilated and extremely comfortable, and I have every modern air space for the proper transaction of business. 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The Maryland Electric Shoe Repairing Factory, 705 Druid Hill Ave. Bet. Orchard and St. Mary Sts. SAMUEL WAGENHEIM. Proprietor. C. F. PATTERSON LADIES AND GENTS TAILOR CLEANING, PRESSING, REMODELING Call at the Patterson Dye Works 1300½ Argyle Avenue THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER. --- TRUE MEANING OF EDUCATION BEST METHODS ARE NEEDED. Necessity For Capable, Intellectual Leaders Shown by Results and Capacity For Higher Learning—Two Classes of Thinkers Represented In Great Field of Effort and Duty. By GEORGE E. HAYNES. Ph.D. In the preface of this article on the function of higher education a clear definition of "higher education" is necessary, because the confusion of many discussions comes through a double meaning of the term. In its best sense education means the development of the powers of the individual which will enable him to meet the duties and opportunities of work, leisure and friendship. Now, in coupling the word "higher" with the word "education" one of two meanings must be implied, either that there are certain systems of development which are "higher" than others, that are lower, or that the character of the education received is higher than the other. The confusion usually arises in forgetting that the criterion of education is the relation of the result of education to the capacity for reception and power for use of those receiving it. If, then, we take our point of departure from those who are educated we shall very probably come to the sound conclusion that education is "higher education," so called, both in system and character, which develops or tends to develop to the full extent of his capacity to receive and power for use of the one educated. Results and Systems of Education. The results should be farreaching. Any system of education, whether called higher or lower, that does not so develop is not education. We should measure any system by this criterion of results. Whether the education is given with tools, in shops, in laboratories or in library and literary halls, if it does not develop the powers of the student so that he may meet the duties and opportunities of life better prepared it is not education at all, higher or lower. The capacity for the many for development is far below the capacity of the few. The opportunities of life for the capacity of the many can best be met by a system of education which will prepare them for the most intelligent labor, for the masses of mankind must be lifted higher than they are. And for this purpose the capacity of the few must be developed and brought to the service of the many. Progress must keep up full speed, and head and heart are the double cylinders that must furnish the power. In a word, intelligence and emotion move the world. And the function of higher education is to develop the intelligence and give control of the emotions. Two Principal Classes of Students. Let us apply this to our college and university systems. By general agreement, students may be divided into men and women of thought and men and women of action, accordingly as the dominant capacity of their minds is intellectual or emotional, or in more academic language, as they belong to the visual type or motor type of mind. The duties, opportunities and privileges of life which will confront these persons are those of leadership in thought and action. The thought leaders become the scientists, the great physicians, jurists, inventors, the writers, the men and women who think the great Creator's thoughts after him. The leaders of emotion are the statesmen, the preachers, the prophets, the artists, the idealists, in many fields, the men and women who dream the dreams and see the visions no mortal ever dared to dream or see before. This class furnishes the militant leaders who sally forth like Joan of Are and Gaul of Tarsus to execute the call of their captain. The University as a Place of Nurture. Our colleges and universities, our institutions for "higher education," must be places of nurture for such men and women. If they are not such places, they betray their trust and their plants had best be turned to the use of so called common schools and industrial schools and their facilities sent to other occupations than that of the exalted station of the teachers and inspirers of our talented youths. While I am an optimist, candor leads me to say that our American colleges have sainted grievously in this matter. In the case of the Negro college, four factors have emphasized these influences—viz. first, the belief that the only Negroes who could profit by a liberal education were a few franks; second, the presumption that the Negro people can advance without such leaders of action and thought; third, the conceited idea that such systems of development were not designed for black men. The fourth and last is the deliberate and selfish conclusion that such instruments of uplift should be kept out of our hands lest we rise from the depths of savagery and slavery. These and other notions have been the crosses upon which many of the endowment aspirations of Negro colleges have been crudified. INDEPENDENCE IN VOTING. The Political Situation as Viewed by Lawyer James L. Curtia. In twenty-two states of the Union, where the bight of constitutional amendments has neither eliminated nor rendered negligible the Negro vote. 327 electoral votes hang in the balance to preponderate according to the way the Negro casts his ballot, says Attorney James L. Curtis of New York. Suppose it be conceded that in the dawn of Negro citizenship the race found itself obligated to the Republican party for rights conferred in the shape of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the federal constitution and thereafter resentfully sought to avenge itself on the Democratic party for its attitude in opposition to the conferring of these rights. Is there any reason on this account why the Negro should further be influenced by rights granted fifty years ago, when it is apparent that they were conferred not as a result of the unselfish pursuit of right and justice by its sponsors, but as a political expedient to perpetuate itself in power, and that the other party that opposed the conferring of those rights, conversely, did so not as the result of a malevolent pursuit of wrong and injustice, but as a political expedient to gain the reins of power? In every crisis of the nation in which the Negro has been called upon to participate he has always allied himself on the side seeking the greatest good to the greatest number and on the side demanding "equal rights for all and special privileges for none." This campaign is a fight of the masses against "special privilege" as typified in the exponents of the high protective tariff advocated by both the Republican and Progressive parties. The Negro in this crisis will stand, as he has always stood, with the masses as against the classes, with equal rights for all as against special privileges for some. There is abundant evidence at hand from every section of the country that the Negro has an adequate appreciation of the function of the ballot. It is therefore a safe conclusion that he will not use his ballot in this campaign to any appreciable extent in response to the thrills of sentiment, but with grim vlssage and serious mien will employ this boun of citizenship, as the result of soler thought and calm reason, to the benefit of his home and family, to the credit of his race and to the glory of his country and his flag. CONCORD HONORS DODSON. Sunday School Celebrates Superintendent's Twentieth Anniversary. The Sunday school of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn held special exercises in honor of the twentieth anniversary of Mr. N. B. Dodson as superintendent on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20. Assistant Superintendent Edward H. Wilson presided. There was a large gathering of distinguished visitors present. Edward L. Faulcon delivered the greetings from the various departments of the school. Mrs. R. P. Hamlin spoke on "N. B. Dodson as Superintendent" and G. H. Carter on "The Superintendent as a Financialer." The Rev. Dr. Moss on behalf of the church presented Mr. Dodson with an envelope containing a dollar for each year of service, and W. K. Taylor for the school presented the superintendent with about the same amount. The M. DR. A. CLAYTON POWELL. Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell read a set of resolutions from the New England Baptist Sunday school convention, of which Mr. Dodson is president. He also presented him with a check representing a dollar for every year of his services as president of the convention. Mrs. Anna Skerritt, representing the Abyssinian Baptist Sunday school, New York, presented Mr. Dodson with a large bouquet of twenty white carnations and $5 in gold. The superintendent was the recipient of many other tokens of esteem. Among the other distinguished persons who spoke in praise of the superintendent's work were Mr. George E. Wibecan, Mrs. M. C. Lawton, Mr. E. V. C. Eato, Mrs. L. C. Smith, Mr. James H. Anderson, editor of the Amsterdam News; Mrs. Sylvia A. Harris, W. H. Taylor, superintendent of the Abyssinian Baptist Sunday school, and Mr. Wesley Norman, vice president of the Sunday school convention. Grace Church to Build New Edifica. The laying of the cornerstone of Grace A. M. E. church in Catonsville, Ind., on Sunday, Oct. 27, was a most interesting event. The new building is to be of brick and stone and will replace the edifice which was destroyed by fire last spring. The Rev. C. H. Murray, pastor of the congregation, is a member of the financial board of the A. M. E. church. WILSON AND LABOR. Contraast the Slurring Remarks of the Academician and Theorist With President Taft's Views Based on Actual Experience. Efforts on the part of Candidate Wilson and his managers to placate labor do not seem to be meeting with much success. The candidate's real opinion of labor is too well known to cause laboring men to grow wildly enthusiastic over him. In a baccalaureate address to the graduating class at Princeton on June 18, 1900, Dr. Wilson said: "You know what the usual standard of the employee is in our day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standardized by the trades unions, and this is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the average workman can do. In some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum. I need not point out how economically disastrous such a regulation of labor is. It is so unprofitable to the employer that in some trades it will presently not be worth while to attempt anything at all. He had better stop altogether than operate at an inexpensive and invariable loss. The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable under its present regulation by those who have determined to reduce it to a minimum. Our economic supremacy may be lost, because the country grows more and more full of unprofitable servants." Contrast the statement of Candidate Wilson with the following statement made by President Taft in a speech at Cooper Union, New York: "The effect of the organization of labor, on the whole, has been highly beneficial in securing better terms of employment for the whole laboring community. * * * I have not the slightest doubt, and no one who knows anything about the subject can doubt, that the existence of labor unions steadies wages." Candidate Wilson was talking as an academician and theorist, with characteristic lack of exact knowledge. President Taft was talking out of actual experience and knowledge gained from primary sources. The contrast in the statements emphasizes the contrast in the men. INTERVIEW WITH THE CADILLAC. Do You Want to Send Our Automobile Business to Europe? Detroit, Mich.—"The American Protective tariff system is of vital importance to every American factory, workshop and industrial plant. Because this is a fact the writer has given the question of protection much study for the past few years. During that time there has been no effort to lower the tariff rates or any really concerted effort to change them that has not resulted in a serious industrial depression, with the further result that thousands of American work men have been laid off and factories closed, or worked on short time, and a material reduction in the number of men employed. As a nation we are paying the highest wages paid to mechanics and operatives anywhere in the world. Our prosperity is largely due to our tariff, which protects us against the cheap labor and cheap material of other natious. "To illustrate: Take our business in the manufacture of automobiles. If we were assured that free trade is to prevail in this country we could close out our business here and transfer it to Belgium, Hungary, China, Japan or some other country where wages are at the present time from 10 to 50 per cent of what they are here and where the material used is also much cheaper than in this country. We could then, after paying freight, put these same automobiles down in New York for perhaps 50 to 60 per cent of the cost to make them in this country, and the competitor in the United States who continued to manufacture a car to compete with us in price and quality would have but one course left open to him, and that would be to close his place and go out of business. What we could do with automobiles could be done with the manufacture of boots, shoes, sewing machines, guns, machine tools, locomotives and nearly everything we manufacture in the United States. "It is so forceful and convincing in any thoughtful person when he reasons it out that if we buy an automobile, for instance, in Belgium, then we have the automobile, and they have the money, and when the automobile is worn out we have no auto, and Belgium still has the money, and if we buy an automobile that is made in this country then we have the auto, the same as before, and we also have the money, and when the auto is worn out the money is here to buy another one. The enormous advantage to the American workman and business man is obvious. "And the illustration applies with equal force to almost every article that can be manufactured in the United States." "Our long experience and our best judgment tell us that if we elect a free trade or tariff for revenue congress and administration it will be followed by a serious depression in all kinds of business, except the importers' business; that thousands of workmen will be without work, that many factories will close and others will go on short hours. (Signed) "HENRY M. LELAND, "Advisory Manager Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich." HON. JAMES S. SHERMAN. Vice President of the United States who died at his home in New York last Wednesday night. M. H. WOULD LOSE WITH WILSON. Lose Our Prosperity, Lose Our Jobs, Warns Taft, Who Says the Very Name Is Reminiscent of Free Trade Disaster. Beverly. Mass.—President Taft has written a letter to John Wanamaker at Philadelphia, thanking him for his efforts in behalf of the Republican party. Mr. Taft says: "There are certain facts that stand out so prominently in this campaign that I cannot conceive how a majority of our voters can fail to apprehend them. They are that a vote cast for the third party is a vote cast for the Democratic ticket, and that a vote cast for the Democratic ticket is a vote cast for economic experimentation, which, under the most favorable circumstances, would mean lack of business confidence, the calling of loans, a stringency of the money market, the suspension of manufacturing, the destruction of the market for farm products because the people had no money to buy and untold suffering for the wage earner and his family. "I want to thank you for the splendid work you are doing for the success of the Republican party in the approaching election. I thank you not for myself alone, but for the people at large, who have so much to lose, so little to gain, from a change of administration, who will indeed suffer if a Democratic president and Democratic congress secure the opportunity to make good their platform pledges, and an extra session of congress is called next March to change the tariff from a protective to a revenue basis. "We have experimented in the past with the tariff theories of our Democratic friends. You will recall as clearly as I do the distress which followed the passage of the Wilson bill. Is there not a certain significance in the fact that it is another Wilson who would again subject us to such an experiment? - Wilson and prosperity are words that refuse to go together in our American history. "You recall the report of Mayor Gilroy on conditions in New York when he and his Democratic administration conducted an investigation into the hardships and sufferings which prevailed in 1894 and found that 185,000 persons were dependent on charity because 52,000 men and nearly 15,000 women who under normal conditions experienced no difficulty in securing employment were out of work. You can recall the days when, as the result of just such tariff 'readjustment' as our Democratic friends now propose, there were soup kitchens in every large city, when abledobed men were compelled to bug from door to door, while women and their little children died of starvation or were stunted in their development from the privation they were compelled to undergo. "The election of a Democratic president would mean the election of a Democratic senate and house, and the present congress has proved how savagely and with what recklessness the Democrats would deal with the tariff if they were in full control of the executive and legislative branches of government. I cannot understand how any American voter can fall to see that by throwing away his vote on the third party or by voting to put the Democrats in power in the White House and in congress he is assuredly courting disaster as is the small child playing with matches. And so Mr. Wannakerman, far above any personal consideration. I am grateful to you and to all who, like you, are helping the Republican cause this year." Largest Gold Nugget. Men have found a mass of native copper weighing 420 tons, and they have discovered a chunk of pure silver weighing one and one-half tons, but the largest nugget of gold that has yet been seen weighed only 190 pounds. And gold seekers are informed that larger finds in the future are unlikely. Mr. Business Man: There are fully twenty thousand people who read the Afro=American Ledger every week. Twenty thousand people who believe in supporting race enterprises whenever they have the opportunity. We know this by experience. What do they know about you or your business? Why not let us tell them? House For Sale Rooms for Rent Old Clothes for sale Furniture for sale Are you a Shoemaker Are you a Tailor Are you a Dressmaker Are you a Grocer 628 N. EUTA Or Call up Mt. Vernon 2833 See me first! I am ready for a Big Business! Wm. H. Dodd 1131 Pennsylvania Auenue Dealer in New and Second-Hand Furniture Stoves, Oilcloths, Mattings Carpets, etc. Packing and Shipping to any part of the city or country. Moving Wagons for Hire Cash prices for your old Antique Furniture C. & P. Phone Mt. Vernon 4010-M 12m-14-in OLIVER J. CAULK ..House Painter.. And Paper Hanger... 2143 Druid Hill Avenue. Madison$1029. House Painting Glazing, Graining Enameling, Floors Stained-Varnished or Waxed. Leaky Roofs Cemented and Painted. The attention of the public and pleasure seekers is called to the New Good Hope Hall, West Lexington St., between Pearl and Pine Sts. Patronage is solicited. Before booking your date for entertainments for the season you will be benefitted by consulting us. SPECIAL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC: We hereby give notice that the renting of the Fishermen Auditorium, 401 W. Biddle Street, which has a seating capacity of 650 persons with improved facilities has not changed the price of rent as alleged. Secure your dates early for your fall and winter entertainments. We also have very fine, well ventilated lodge rooms for rent. Come and look us over. For information see Janitor or Columbus Gordon, President of the Joint Stock Association. Weight! Tuberculosis!! Are you losing weight? Do you feel worn out, tired and drooping? If so, have your lungs examined. A stitch in time saves nine. 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He was one of the most popular of his class, and served as class president. The bride was valedictorian at the class day exercises, and had just entered the Teachers' Training School. Brilliant Wedding At St. Peter Clavers The wedding of Miss Mary C. Brown and Mr. Joseph I. Wade, took place at the St. Peter Claver Church, Fremont avenue, on last Wednesday evening at 4 p. m. The bride entered the church leaning on the arm of her brother, Mr. A. J. Brown. Wedding march was played by Prof. Johnson, the ceremony was performed by Rev. J. J. Nally, rector of the church, assisted by Rev. Fathers Evers of St. Barnabas Church, Levatois, Clark, McKeevey and C. R. Uncles. The bridesmaid was Miss Eliza Stanley. Mr. Isaac Davis, best man. After the wedding a reception was held at the home of the bride, 215 Division street, which was beautifully decorated with palms and cut flowers many useful and handsome presents were received. Miss Annie Hall Married at St. Barnabas Miss Annie Hall, daughter o Mrs. Fannie Collins, of Owingsf Mills, Md. was quietly married to Mr. Wililam Smith of Baltimore on Monday, October 21, at the parsonage of St. Barnabas. Chruch at four o'clock by Rev. Father Charles Evers after which a reception was held at the bride's home. The bride was attired in old gold mesaline, the bridesmaid, Miss Alverta Norris, wearing pink silk pongee. The bride will be at home to her many friends Sunday, November 3, 1912, Owings Mills, Md. T. W. Turner Offered Mr. Thomas W. Turner, teacher of biology and nature study in the Colored High School has been offered an associate professorship in the same subjects at Howard University, Washington. It is unlikely that he will accept, however. Mr. Turner was graduated from Howard University in 1901, and received the degree of mster of arts from the same institution four years after. He has made a specialty of biology, and has taught at Tuskegee Institute, Sumner High School, St. Louis, and in the local schools. Reception At Catonsville Mrs. Ella J. Smith of Catonsville, gave a reception recently at Hall's Cottage, Ellicott City, the residence of her cousin, Mrs. Amelia Hall in whose honor the reception was given. Those present included: Rev. E. W. S. Peck, Mesdames Lydia Hughes, Mazie W. Lane, O. Ashand and other out of town guests. Delicacies of the season were served. Mrs. Ashland of Ellicott City, was at home on Wednesday of last week, in honor of her friend, Mrs. Ella J. Smith of Catonsville. A beautiful repast was served. A Delightful Reception Mr. and Mrs. Strong, 1211 Mullikin street, gave a delightful party, October 27, 112, in honor of her two daughters, Lillina and Frances. The table was delightfully arranged with fruits in season, ices and cakes and was much enjoyed by the little folks among which were Myrtle Adams, Wm. P. Dean, Hilda, Ethel and Charles Harris, Freest Lee and Clarence Davis. THE TEMPLE OF MIRTH By the Famous Juvenile Troubadors Mr. L. Ellsworth Toomey, director, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of Ames Memorial M. E. Church, Carey and Baker Streets, Thursday evening, November 7th, 1912, in the main auditorium. Admission 15 Cents Children pay 10 cents at door. Louis Jones, pres. Mamie Curtis, sec. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. 26-2:0 J. MURRAY RALPH CALLED TO REST I. Murray Ralph, one of the oldest, and best known members of the Masonic fraternity in this State, died at his home. 2023-Oak street, Wednesday after a brief illness from a complication of diseases. The deceased had been in feeble health for the past five years. He was a native of the south eastern section of this city, where he resided until a few months ago. Mr. Ralph was a great reader, and delighted to tell of how he had to sneak up to the news stand at the corner of Baltimore and North streets to buy Horace Greeley's New York Tribune in the days before the Civil War. The Tribune was a great abolition paper, and would be regarded as incendiary literature if seen in the hands of any colored person: He was one of the few intimates of the late Frederick Douglass, and the statesman always made his home with Mr. Ralph when in the city. As president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Association, the deceased succeeded in raising the funds necessary for the placing of memorial window to Douglass in Centennial M. E. Church. It was through his efforts that Mr. Douglas bought the old property of the church in Dallas street. The deceased became a member of St. John's Lodge of Masons in 1857, and at the time of his death was a member of all departments of the order, besides being one of the few thirty third degree active members in Maryland. He was a past grand high priest of the Royal Arch Masons and was serving as grand prelate of the grand commandery at the time of his death. He was the father of the Adoptive Rite of the Order of the Easter Star. He was also a member of St. Lukes, Odd Fellows, Jobs and Good Samaritans, having served as past brand chief of the latter. The Scottish Rite Masons will conduct services at the late home of the deceased at Sunday midnight Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander Robert L. Pendleton, of Washington being in charge. Theremains will be taken to Centennial Church Monday morning, here they will lay in state from 10 to 1. Funeral services will begin at one o'clock. Interment will be in Laurel Cemetery. Anniversary Celebration The Wesleyan Circle Celebrated their 12th anniversary and opening for the season at the home of their President, Mrs. Amelia E. Davis, 1310 Division street, Friday, October 25th, which was well attended. Among the visiting guests were the Honorable Ex-Consul Gen. Dr. Ernest Lyon, D. D., wife and son. After the repast was over, the Consul general made an address in which he said he hoped that the circle would do better work in the future than they had done in the past, and wishing them a more prosperous season than they have ever had, which was responded to on the behalf of the circle by Wm. E. Davia, Sr. Menu was as follows: Menu was as follows. Fruit Salad, oysters and cold slaw, ham, potato salad, chicken salad, Maryland biscuit, cake, cream and coffee. President, Mrs. Amelia E. Davis; Secretary, Mrs. Rachel Tucker; Mrs. Emma Cotton, Treasurer. Death of Miss Sarah Coston Miss Sarah Coston, daughter of Mr. George Coston, departed this life, Tuesday, October 22, 1912, after a short illness. Miss Coston made her home at the Colored Young Women's Christian Association for several years and was known to be a good christian young woman. She was loved by the matron, inmates and members of the Association. Her, body was taken to her home in West Over, Md., for burial, and sermon was preached by her Pastor, Rev. J. W. Waters. She has left a father, sisters, brother and friends to mourn her loss. At Young's Hall Druid Hill Ave. and Robert St. Sunday, Nov. 3 at 4 p. m. Tobacco Strippers E OF MIRTH Mrors Mr. L. Ellsworth Toomey, di- Ladies' Aid Society of Ames Me- Baker Streets, Thursday evening, in auditorium. Admission 15 Cents Louis Jones, pres. Mamie Curtis, or. 26-2:0 POPULAR PRICES DERRY'S venue Corner Oxford U G S Dr. I. Garland Penn of Cincinnati, Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, addressed the Baltimore Methodist Preachers' Meeting at Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church last Wednesday. This was his first visit here since his election to the important office he now holds. His subject was "The Out look of Methodism." In addition to his duties as corresponding secretary of the Board of Freedmen's Aid, Dr. Penn has been detailed by his board to lead up the co-operative benevolent appeal of Methodism for the Colored Conference, acting under the Commission of Finance appointed by the General Conference. Cooperating with him in this big task are Drs. I. L. Thomas, of the Home Mission Board; C. C. Jacobs and E. M. Jones, of the Board of Sunday Schools, and others. The Commission on Finance will hold a great Church Congress in 1913 in all parts of Methodism and in these Congresses the entire benevolent interests of the church will be put before the laity in a cooperative and united way, similar to the Quadruple Convention plan of 1911. Baltimoreans will remember that the first convention of this quadruple movement in 1911 was held here. Dr. Penn told the ministers that the collections for the Freedmen's Aid Board for the conference now meeting were all in advance of last year. This, he said, was particularly true in the three colored conferences which have met thus far, the collections for Negro education through the Freedmen's Aid Society being $3,035 this year as against $1,445 last year, an increase of $1,590. The last General Conference ordered that 1913 be observed as the Jubilee year of the Society and that the church raise a half million of dollars for the endowment, and equipment of the twenty-two schools operated by the Freedmen's Aid Board. Sermon to Progressives The members of the Progressive Party to eeor sermon by an able speaker Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. A great time is expected. Come out. Ladies are invited. Read and Resbond WM. H. TRUSTY The Expert Shoemaker is doing everything that can be done in the business. Shoes made to order. Old shoes made like new. Rubber work a Specialty. Where? Why! At 633 Druid Hill Ave. WANTED On Fillers and Binders Good Pay. Steady Work. EL DALAO CIGAR FACTORY For Congress 4th District Wards 9, 10, 11, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19 and 20, and and Pretincts 1, 2, 3 and 12 of the 18th Ward JACOB F. MURBACH Tuesday, November 5th, 1912 For Congress, 3rd District Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 22 and Precincts 9, 10, 11 and 13 of the 18th Ward. Albert M. Sproesser, Republican X Election, Tuesday, Nov. 5th. Polls open 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. FIRST: VOTE FOR THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIRAM JOHNSON. ONE MARK OPPOSITE THEIR NAMES IS SUFFICIENT. SECOND. VOTE FOR YOUR CONGRESSMAN. THIRD. IN BALTIMORE VOTE AGAINST THE SEWER RENTAL LOAN; VOTE AGAINST THE LIGHT STREET BRIDGE LOAN AND VOTE FOR THE CONDUIT LOAN. The old established stand of "The Myrtle" have been rebuilt and thoroughly renovated. No pains having been spared to make this the best eating house in the city. HOUSES FOR SALE on terms to suit on Druid ision St., Argyle Ave., Myn Carey St., Calhoun St., St. every cross street from I buy before seeing my list, phone, or drop a postal. J. Welsh, 2024 W. Sarat 2253. Call from WANTED---LABOR HANDLERS. App Brick Co., end of Westport. so suit on Druid Hill Ave., Etting, Argyle Ave., Myrtle Ave., Carro Calhoun St., Stricker St., Mount street from Hoffman to Bald seeing my list. Call and see r drop a postal. , 2024 W. Saratoga St., Telepho 2253. Call from 7 to 9 P. M. LABORERS AND ERS. Apply Westport Co., end of Westport t. on terms to suit on Druid Hill Ave., Etting St., Division St., Argyle Ave., Myrtle Ave., Carrollton Ave., Carey St., Calhoun St., Stricker St., Mount St., and every cross street from Hoffman to Baker. Don't buy before seeing my list. Call and see me, or telephone, or drop a postal. J. Welsh, 2024 W. Saratoga St., Telephone Gilmor 2253. Call from 7 to 9 P.M. WANTED---LABORERS AND BRICK HANDLERS. Apply Westport Paving Brick Co., end of Westport car line, Westport. You Can Own Your Own Home By adopting our plan of home getting, which provides for actual ownership in the shortest time and at the least cost. 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J.WESLEY PARKER, Local Agent Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices JOHN H. OWENS Undertaker & Embalmer Complete $73.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white, plush; highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 My price $73.00.....$75.00 Saving you $61.00.....$63.00 ```markdown ``` Hill Ave., Etting St., Divi- tle Ave., Carrollton Ave., Picker St., Mount St., and offman to Baker. Don't Call and see me, or tele- oga St., Telephone Gilmor on 7 to 9 P. M. RERS AND BRICK by Westport Paving Westport car line, You Can Own Your Own Home By adopting our plan of home getting, which provides for actual ownership in the shortest time and at the least cost. You merely pay each month a small payment and at the end the home is yours. = balances. Loans made be paid at any Six months grace in case of adver- d loss when you can secure a home, ow pay. ```markdown ``` Mr. John Lewis Pullen and Miss Carrie L. Jackson, were quietly married on last Wednesday night. The couple went, to thier home, Roland Park. Mrs. Annie E. Johnson, of Easton, Md., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edwards, of 1619 McEldrery street, this week. Mr. Basil F. Hutchins, a well known funeral director of Boston, Mass., was in the city this week visiting relatives. Mrs. W. A. C. Hughes, who has been ill at her home, 637 Mosher street, for the past six weeks, is in such a greatly improved condition that she may be able to leave the house within the next two weeks. Miss Sadie Langston, of Atlantic City, is visiting Miss Elizabeth Tolson, at 1219 Argyle avenue. Mrs. H. W. Simmons of 318 W. Preston street, is spending three weeks with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary E. Simmons, 130 Main street, East Orange, N. J. Mrs. Lucy Dorsey of Wilson, N. C. is visiting in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Brown of 1514 Druid Hill avenue. Mr. James R. Norfolk who has been confined in the Mercy Hospital for three months is now out again. Mr. William Summerville, of 522 Dolphin street, met with a serious accident last week, about lost one of his eyes. Can be seen at the Franklin Hospital on Franklin street near Pearl. Miss Lucille Sterrette, of New York, formerly of this city, has returned home after spending a month visiting her sister, Mrs. John W. Goines, of 1204 Druid Hill avenue. Mr. Julius C. Johnson is leading in the affair, which promises to be a notable one in local Odd Fellowdom. Mrs. M. Cook, of Lakewood, is visiting relatives and friends in the city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Lottie Ash, of 1707 N. Dallas street. Mrs. Cora B. Holmes, of 212 Myrtle avenue, has recently returned from Brooklyn, N. Y. and Connecticut. A Letter From Mr. Joseph P. Evans To the friends of the State of Maryland, Greeting:— As President of the City and State Wide-Movement of the Progressive Party, I take this method of conveiving to you my sincere thanks and gratitude for the loyal patriotic, courteous and christian like manner in which you have so nobly rallied in our struggle for a righteous cause, I am sincerely touched by the noteworthy sacrifice and devotion which has been displayed in all parts of the State by our people. Language fails me in expressing the fulness of my thanks and gratitude to the men in the following counties. Anne Arundel, Allegheny, Baltimore, Carroll, Cavert, Charles, Cecil, Dochester, Frederick, Kent, Harford, Tollot St. Marys, Somerset, Prince George, Washington, Worcester, Wicomico, Montgomery, Queene Annes. Big Odd Fellows Coming Here Local Odd Fellows are preparing to give a big reception for Grand Matser Edward H. Morris, and Grand Secretary, James F. Needham, who will be here on Sunday of next week. A banquet and reception will be tendered them at Odd Fellows' Hall, 49 W. Biddle street. A shirt factory which will employ large number of our girls and women will be opened at Gold and Calbourn streets, within week or so.— --- Jacob F. Murbach candidate for Congress in the Fourth district has made a most energetic campaign. He has made many friends, during the campaign, especially, among the colored voters. FENNELL'S PHARMACY, DRUID HILL AVE. & BIDDLE ST. 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