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WM. (BIG BILL) TRAEGER FOR SHERIFF OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY---ELECTION TOMORROW EXTRA! EXTRA! 1879 CALIFORNIA EAGLE 1930 Gutter Campaign Sheet Excoriated As Being Only Food For Buzzards VOLUME 43 Gutte ON THE SIDEWALK BY C. A. B. If ye love me keep My Commandments: * * * * * In this present campaign to select a governor there are those among us who openly express hatred for the Rev. Bob Shuler. They deplore the fact that Rev. Shuler is espousing the cause of Pitts. They remember all of the bad things Shuler has expressed about the race, but not the good. Shuler has not only advocated the cause of Buron Fitts over the radio, but likewise the caniday of attorney Jennings, now it is justias reasonable to believe that Rev. Shuler will dictate to Mr. Jennings as judge, which we all know would be impossible, as he would to Mr. Fitts as governor. Friends lets learn to love even our enemies. * * * * * The Republican Study Clubs The Colored Womens Republican Study Clubs under the fearless leadership of Mrs. Betty Hill after a careful study of men and issues, have declared to the people of the state that their conclusions as to their choice for governor is the Hon. Buron Fitts. The mass meeting held last Sunday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church marked one of the most enthusiastic demonstrations of the entire campaign, as that bronz knight of Los Angeles Atty. Willis, O Tyler told the women of the Clubs why they should support Fitts; The pepure jammed the church in their eagerness to catch every word uttered by this outstanding barrister. * * * * A bevy of beautifully gowned ladies furnished the setting for a polite formal tea sponsored by the Los Angeles Art and Charity Club at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jones, 2167 W. 30th St. Sunday afternoon August 24th. In the receiving line were Mrs. Pearl Cooner, club president, Mesdames Willie Jones, Jewell Burns, Lillian Coleman, Beachie Sparks, Lucille Williams and Gladys Moore. The special distinguished guest was Mrs. William Samuel Braithwaite, of Boston, Mass. The attractiveness of the palatial West Side residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jones was enhanced by the cleverly worked out color scheme of blue and yellow. A brief talk on why Fitts should be elected the next governor of the state of California was heartily received. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! the managing editor of this publication and column will deliver her last message over K. G. F. J. this evening at 10:20 P. M. This courtesy has been granted by Mr. Curtis Mosby, who not only is one of the greatest producers, but a man ever ready to lend his support to anything that rings true in the interest of his racial group. Any member of the Colored group who would aid, abet or assist in any matter shape form or fashion in the distribution and propagation of the sort of mess sent out by the Coast Reporter should be classed as traitors to their race and to common decency. I Am For Jennings I am unequivocally for attorney Jennings for judge, because I believe that if he is elected to the Superior court he will be a credit to his group and a fit representative of all the people of the state of California. With good will toward all and mace toward none it is my candid opinion that the people of the 62nd Assembly District should concentrate on one of the four candidates running and that one should be the present incumbent, F. M. Roberts. The Rising Tide For Fitts Especially have the Young for Governor forces had cause to tremble in their boots, as the RISING TIDE of public sentiment for BURON FITTS manifested itself during the past week and the closing hours of the gubernatorial campaign. Try as they may, they cannot stop it ax it is sweeping the man of destiny the Hon Buron Pitts right on into the governor's chair. In sheer desperation they have resorted to everything imaginable even to downright chicanery and slander. They have resorted to the gutter newspaper which has no respect for the truth and who will even risk, criminal libel to carry a point. They have resorted in addition to the gutter sheet, the old last "minute-gag" (A Relic of By-gone Days") to stir up prejudice and hate in the minds of the superstitious and unwary. But their trick has been quickly trumped for the California Eagle ever on the job to meet just such occasions as this comes forth to hurl this pernicious, and unholy propaganda right back in their teeth. Truly the colored people are indignant at this brazen effort to circulate damnable unfounded lies, to gain an unfair advantage. They are disgusted and the few who had been persuaded by paid hirelings of the Young and Rolph forces are deserting these candidates, like rats deserting a sinking ship. The battle cry now from all over California is to the effect, so far as the Colored Voters is concerned, we are with you "Buron 100,000 strong and we will meet both Young and Rolph at the Tehacipi like the French soldiers met the Germans at the Marne, and like Joffre we are determined thou 'SHALT NOT PASS'." Therefore let us say to the Young forces, we resent your act in distributing your lies in the gutter sheets which are a stench to all decency. We have long since learned that the filthy, sinuous, stinking carrion which such agencies broadcast are but food for buzzards, and the thanks you will receive for it, is to more solidify the victorious army which will land BURON in Sacramento. Men and women of our group in all sections of the city and county were denouncing the vicious attack upon our townman. Buron Fitts, Republican candidate for Governor by a scandal sheet known as the Coast Reporter. Copies of this infamous handbill were placed at the door of colored citizens throughout the city with the hope of misleading colored voters and driving them into the Young camp, but instead, it served to strengthen Mr. Fitts with those who have been laboring for his nomination, and those who were leaning toward Governor Young, made a grand rush to climb into the Fitts band-wagon. This sheet is an insult to the intelligence of the colored people who are not mincing words in denouncing such low bred tactics: Picking up one of the sheets and addressing a prominent man in the ranks of the impending campaign, with a tinge of bitterness in his voice, he said: "I hope that YOU are not distributing this filth among the race! I admire any man for taking a stand politically or religiously and respect him for making a bold, clean, honorable fight, but when they hook up with convicted rapists, black-mailers and character assassians, such an individual or individuals should be ostracised by the self respecting citizens of the community. Buron Fitts, clean, honest, capable. Alexander Pantages, convicted rapist, Negro hater and apostol of segregation. For whom do you stand? It's Pantages' millions against true character and moral worth, and black men and women will not and cannot afford to sacrifice the honor of the race and community for the tainted gold of any man or set of men." Thus the scandal sheet is proving a boomerang to the low brow gang who seek votes at the expense of the honor and integrity of a group that has ever stood for honesty, justice and fair play. Under date of August 23, 1930, in what the publisher calls an "Extra" the Coast Reporter, a scurrilous and filthy-tongued political sheet, attacks the Honorable Burden Fitts, in an article entitled "Negro Voters Take Heed!" The purport of the article is first that Mrs. Young, wife of the retiring Governor, "now and always has maintained colored help in her home." It concludes, as to this point that (by implication) Governor C. C. Young is therefore the Negroes "friend," and ends by urging a vote for Governor Young next Tuesday. The Coast Reporter is of the gutter, by the gutter and for the gutter. Without doubt its general policy is to stoop to printed slander of a character and type so villifying, vulgar and scurrilous that no self respecting newspaper would even consider. The Coast Reporter has Box 878, Station C, Los Angeles for business address, and reference. It says one Fredric H. Girneau in its editor. In this the word "editor" is absurd; in publishing the Coast Reporter for a few dirty dollars during campaigns Mr. Girneau should call himself—character assassian and chief villifier, but editor? never! Since the article advocates "Young for Governor" this scurriulous paper and its content must have the sanction of the Young campaign committee, and it is to them the voters of Los Angeles who by race are Negro; reply. We are not concerned in this campaign with the fact that colored help are used in the Governor's household; about eighty per cent of the colored women who must work, are obliged because of the narrow and oppressive attitude of men in high places, such as Governor Young now holds and has held for years, places of high public office, like domestic work possibly 50,000 California citizens of Negro descent have no thought whatever of voting for Gov Young, next Tuesday and thus retaining him and his horde of open mouthed and hungry office holders in power because Mrs. Young employees colored help! We are not concerned with whom Mrs. Young employs in her private capacity as house-wife; we are vitally concerned with whom Governor Young employs as State Employees, in the multiple and various offices and jobs that he has at his disposal under the appointive power, the laws give him. Mr. Negro Voter will do his own thinking and his own choosing. It was the Girneau's as spokesmen and writers who deprived the Negroes of their personal and political freedom for 300 years. This type thought for the Negro and spoke for him; result—political slavery. An intelligent, progressive Negro press, now reflects the independent thought of the Negro in art, in social, economic and political affair! Not Girneau; not young's horde of campaigners; nor any "Coast Gutter Sheets! Nor does the fact that some servants of color are employed by Mrs. Young at all convince us that these very persons were not educated, and refined, but obliged to do domestic work, because they were refused work by the Governor as State Employees, but given domestic work in his private family! "The "issue" in the campaign, the "measure" for consideration, is not a domestic-servant problem. It is one Oculinating in more than the usual amount of bad feeling and bitter gubernial contest approaches the primary election with every indication of one of the most dramatic finishes in the history of California's turbulent politics. of plain citizenship rights. We are not to be side-tracked by inquiry as to who cooks for Mys. Young. Secondly; this gutter sheet says that the Fitts household in applying for domestic help, said they wanted first, white help; if no white help then, Jap, Filipino or Mexican, but "no niggers." A Living Object Lesson In Progress In the first place the statement is a great big lie made of whole cloth. The letter from the Fitts household proves this; the facts prove the falsity. Leon A. Whitaker—First Colored Man to be appointed to an important place in governmental affairs West of Chicago. His appointment as Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles County by BURON FITTS opens a new, door of hope and opportunity to the many thousands of Negro Men and Women of California. But let's go further. If Bunson Fitts were a Texan, in spirit, training or inclination he would have no domestic help but Negro. Here the villifiers of Mr. Fitts are caught in their own trap! With one breath he is scouraged for being born in Texas; with another for not wanting Negro domestic help, the ONE thing no Texan able to hire help will do without! Mothers and Fathers who are spending thousands of dollars educating their daughters and sons in the schools and universities of this State, let this be a living example for you. Where qualifications count BURON FITTS recognizes and rewards it. Contract this with 21 years of public office-holding by Governor C. C. Young, who in all these years of public service has not appointed a single Negro to one minor State Office. Nor, on the other hand has Mavor James Rolph Jr. in his 20 years of office holding, notwithstanding the fact that they have had hundreds of offices at their disposal But here again we are not concerned with a domestic-servant problem! Buron Fitts, as the District Attorney of the largest county in the West, appoints from the civil service list, a Negro deputy, (as he did) and does not "Jim Crow" him; puts him on a parity with ALL other employees, and accords him recognition as a fellow member of the bar, as a man and citizen, then in that act. Buron Fitts endears himself to the Negro voter. That is just what we are looking for, fighting for and voting for! Recognition of merit and ability in public service! Participation in State Government! This Governor Young has consistently denied. Mothers and Fathers, c.an you in clean consciousness support men of the character of Rolph and Young and their do nothing policies? Call the roll of the 300 attorneys appointed to serve Mr. Young'a multiplicity of boards and commissions. No Black Man will answer "present." Again call the roll of the 75 odd attorneys representing Mr. Rolph's boards and commissions in San Francisco and again the Black Man is conspicuous by his absence. The printed slander of Mr. Pitts and the high recommendation of Mrs. Young coming at the close of a bitterly fought campaign show the need, the value and the in dispensableness of a Nargo press; of Independent Negro Thinking! Call the roll of the attorneys representing the people of the State of California in the District Attorney's office in Los Angeles County, headed by BURON FITTS and at last one Black Man, namely Leon Whitaker can respond on the behalf of the 175,000 Negro citizens California, "present." Also One as Libarian in the District Attorneys Office. It shows that the old "clique" with its hands at the Negroes' throat in all things progressive in the political world, still thinks of him and still would treat him as a dupe—a fish to catch with the stale bait. -CAST YOUR VOTE FOR BURON FITTS FOR GOVERNOR- PRIMARY ELECTION AUGUST 26th. "Vote for Governor Young, his wife hires a colored cook," only. What we are fighting for is an open chance to complete in an open economic field! For opportunity for the educated or skilled to fill a State Job! For some of the Highway money to be spent in Southern California among and with colored labors and workers on the Highway! And don't forget there is a State Civil Service appointed by the Governor! But the only colored persons under that great body are a few janitors appointed or elected, or selected to their high places, before Young became governor! Friends, I want to make a statement regarding the help situation in the Fitts family. The article in the extra placed on your door-step printed and distributed by the Coast Reporter, is as anything else it prints, absolutely false concerning Mr. Buron Fitts. I am in a position to know the truth concerning this matter, being a relative of one who works in the Fitts family, not altogether in the capacity as a maid but I would say as a housekeeper. She is very emphatic in her praise of the kind consideration and friendly treatment accorded her in the Fitts family and would if necessary allow me to print her name and address. I am not doing so because I feel that my humble service to my people has gained the confidence of my friends and acquaintances to the extent that they will take the statement for the truth as it truly is. Avast, M. Grinean! Stay in the gutter, with Young's campaign committee which spends money for you and your dirty sheet to make a fool of yourself and of them when you and they attempt to advise the Negro to vote! When we vote next Tuesday we shall honor Governor Young and his hungry hordes with a long, long vacation. We shall elect Mr. Pitts! We shall save the Republican party in California from its dirty machine. We shall clean our gutters of the Coast Reporter! I am supporting Mr. Pitts on his past record and strength of services rendered to the people of this county to date. I do firmly believe Mr. Pitts has the courage to stand true to his own convictions and when he is elected I feel sure he will not only see that Southern California is properly represented but will stand as he has in the past and is now standing with the door of opportunity ajar for every citizen regardless of race or event.... POLITICAL MEANDERINGS Charles F. Reiche Candidate for Superior Court Office No.5 OPPOSING JUDGE HARTLEY SHAW Refiche believes the "lackadaisical attitude assumed by so many judges" is due to the fact that they are often "fairly well along in years" and cannot stand the strain of continuous hard work. M. perior bench," he says, "for new and somewhat younger timber that can stand the strain of hard work and bring along with experience some of the enthusiasm of youth to the problem of solving our present archaic and inefficient system of administering justice. The most important need of the bench today, however, is "an unfettered judiciary." Reiche thinks. "Too many of our judges are thus linked and only at election time do they manifest any interest in the lowly masses. This feeling on the part of the people as a whole is to my mind the fundamental reason for the present attitude of distrust toward our whole judicial system." Charles W. Lyons PETER B. INCUMBENT SENATOR IS CONSISTENT IN HIS PLATFORM VIEWS The platform adopted by Senator Charles W. Loyn at the outset of his campaign for re-election is said by expertsin state and economic affairs to be one of the most progressive and constructive ever offered by a candidate. It is the result of Senator Lyon's sixteen years of unbroken service in the California Legislature. He said yesterday it has been planned with especial consideration for the needs of Southern California and Los Angeles County. He has pledged himself to abide by this platform in every detail, in addition to working for the many others constructive measures in which he will be interested during the coming session. Following is Senator Lyon's platform: Economy and reduction of taxes. Big Bill Traeger is out in front as they come into the stretch by 12 lengths. Watch him as he wins. Page---Iwo Friends, this is my column and I am expressing my personal view on the political situation as I see it. The Editor and Managing Editor have granted me that privilege. I call your attention to the fact that Mr. Cole Salling is still active in directing the publicity of Mr. Kelly's campaign. You know how he has also been very active in every discriminatory movement against our group. Remember my people, our only weapon of defense is the ballot. Go to the ballot box and vote for the candidates that are broad minded and fair enough to accord the rights of citizenship vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States. After Tuesday it will be too late to remember these facts I call your attention to at this time. You owe this to the future generation of our group. Mrs. Oga Paulconer is truly the logical candidate for Office No. 11. She is well qualified to grace the Superior Court bench and should be elected August 26th. The meanderer accompanied Mrs Charlotta Bass, who headed a Fitts For-Governor Committee to Bakersfield Tuesday. The Kern County Civic Club held an open air forum at the Cain A. M. E. Church of which Rev. Gantt is pastor. Mrs. Bass made a most eloquent appeal for Mr. Fitts and stated some very impressive facts that seemed to have a marked effect upon the audience and we could see that our message had been well received. The sentiment for Buron Fitts for Governor is growing. Friends, please don't lose sight of the fact that a number of candidates now running for office are men of sterling qualities and truly merit your consideration. Tuesday will be the last day of campaign activities for the primaries. If you want to see your candidates nominated or elected, you must work now and dream later. We will lay aside all petty grievances and entertain but one great ambition and let that be to elect Buron Fitts for Governor. Don't forget to exert every effort to help us elect the two candidates of our own group. Mr. Roberts and Mr. Eugene C. Jennings. Judge Bishop was out making some last minute calls on a few of our representative citizens Tuesday afternoon. I am sorry it has never been my pleasure to meet the honorable judge but I have met Judge Walter B. Thompson, a very fine man who is opposing Judge Bishop and Attorney Roy Smith, who is also an opponent of the Judge. I am not in a position to recommend the incumbent, but I am asking you to vote for either of the two opponents. I have never been impressed with the record of the incumbent. Please consider seriously Office No. 1 of the Superior Court and vote for the incumbent judge. He merits your support. * * * Judge Valentine and Haas are both men of sterling qualities and I am noping you wil select one of these two judges August 26th. Atorney Charles F. Reiche is truly waging an intensive campaign and feels assured he will be on the ticket if not elected August 26th. He is opposing Judge Hartley S. Shaw. Vote for Reiche. Mr. Edward W. Hopkins is the incumbent assessor. He has served the people of this county for a number of years faithfully and honestly. He employs in his department eight members of our group. On election day No. I wil be printed beside Mr. Hopkins's name. Don't mistake other Hopkins on the ballot for Ed W. Hopkins. Let us retain him as Assessor. Judge-Dailey Stafford merits election to office No. 9. He is well qualified to grace the bench of the Superior Court. I ask you friends could you conscienciously east your vote for a man who ignores you unto the extent that he places in charge of a part of his campaign a man who is known as an avowed enemy of our group? A man is generally judged by the company he keeps and Mr. Kelly has surely fallen in with bad company since he left St. Joe, Mo. If he had kept faith with us he might have drawn some support from the colored voters. Under existing circumstances things look dark for him out our way. Nothing doing Bro. Kelly. If You Fail To Read--THE CALIFORNIA EAGLE--You May Never Know It Happened 1920 "There is urgent need on our su ED. W. HOPKINS FOR ASSESSOR HEADQUARTERS AT THE ROSSLYN HOTEL HEADQUARTERS AT THE ROSSLYN HOTEL A. E. Attention of all voters in Los Angeles county is directed to display advertisement noting the fact that Assessor Ed. W. Hopkins will have the numeral I before his name on the primary ballot in order to distinguish the incumbent from three other Hopkinses, among eleven other candidates filed for the one place. Ed. W. Hopkins has been assessor of Los Angeles county for 23 years. The unfairness of those who would seek to defeat him by the political trick of confusing the voters needs no comment further than the advice that an unanimous vote be given the honest, able, efficient, fair and square and long experienced public servant. Ed. W. Hopkins. Judge Sheldon Receives Endorsements T. To The Voters of Los Angeles County: We wish to call your attention to the able and fearless record as Judge that Judge Caryl M. Sheldon, now a Judge of the Municipal Court, has made in the years he has served upon the bench. We heartily endorse his candidacy as Judge of the Superior Court, Office No. 10, and know full well that in ability, courage and fair-mindedness, he will serve all the people regardless of religion, color, race or creed, or financial position in life, as ably in that office as he has in the past. WILLIAMS O. TYLER J. H. WILSON H. E. MACBETH C. A. JONES IVAN JOHNSON, III. 1930 Making a last minute whilwind drive for his reelection to the state senate friends of J. W. McKinley are very busy on the cast side. The senator is one, of the most popular figures in Los Angeles political life, and in addition to the people who support him for his senatorial record are many who are working for him because of his personal character and fine personal qualification. Atty. Roy Smith For Superior Court Office Number Six Opening a county-wide fight for judge of Superior Court, office No. 6, with unanimous endorsement of the United Veterans of the Republic and many other note worthy organizations, Roy H. Smith, prominent attorney, last night addressed Tax payers' League of Long Beach on judiciary problems. Endorsed by the veterans sets Smith off as one of only two attorneys in private practice to have received the support of more than 60,000 former soldiers resident in the county. He is opposing Judge E. T. Bishop for the office. JOHN B. HARRIS In his address last night Smith accentuated the necessity for speedier court actions, cleaner calendars and decisions more reflective of the law's spirit rather than the letter of the law. "Justice is a word that has almost lost its meaning here since certain men on the bench were elected six yars ago." Smith said. "Suits have met with delay after delay until, in many cases, litigants were unable to do on with their claims. In the time it took to reach actual trial most of their witnesses had either moved beyond reach or died. "The calendars should be kept clean so that actions may be brought and settled at once. Such delays as those recorded in the last six years are apparently inexcuseable. Walter B. F. Thompson Candidate for Superior Court Office No.6 W. H. Judge Thompson is well qualified to grace the Superior Bench. Vote for him August 26th. He is opposing judge Bishop. Judge William Hazlett Candidate for Re-Election to Office No.10 R. M. Judge William Hazlett was educated at the State University of Iowa. He practiced law in his native state for fourteen years, coming to Los Angeles in 1908, where he practiced until appointed to the Superior Court in April, 1926 to fill the unexpired term of Judge John M. York, who had in turn been appointed to the District Court of Appeal. There was then a little less than five years remaining of Judge York's term, which Judge Hazlett is now serving the concluding months. Charles E. Haas, Candidate for the Superior Court, Office No.8 Charles E. Haas, Candidate for the Superior Court, Office No.8 Judge Charles E. Haas, candidate for the Superior Court, Office No. 8, is at present incumbent municipal judge in Division No. 22. He has been a resident of Los Angeles for forty-six years and is a product of Los Angeles High School, Stanford University and George Washington University. He has served as a Deputy City Attorney of Los Angeles for seven years and as a Special Counsel and Deputy County Counsel of Los Angeles County for five years He has served by special assignment of the Judicial Council on the Superior Bench. Judge Haas, is a scholar and a Christian Gentleman. His past experience and his education make him well qualified to grace the Superior Bench. He should be elected to Office No. 8 of the Superior Court. Attorney Willis O. Tyler, Dr. J. A. Somerville, Lloyd Griffin, Mrs. Corine Smith, Dr. T. F. Jones, Rev. L. M. Curtis and many other members of the speakers bureau have rendered yoeman service to the cause of Mr. Fitts for Governor. Then again there are those who are going to meet the stand they are taking way up the road and woe be unto them. No person of the sense of appreciation that a sparrow possesses but knows whom they should by right support in this election. Oda Faulconer, Candidate for Office No.11 Oda Faulconer, Candidate for Office No.11 The Municipal League of Los Angeles has indorsed Oda Faulconer for election to Office No. 11 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, according to anannouncement yesterday from John Keogh, campaign chairman. The official indorsement of the League is as follows: Oda Faulconer, preferred. She has practiced law continuously since 1913 with many cases before the higher courts of this and other states. She is a specialist in title work and her keen interest in domestic relations leads her to champion the home in opposition M. to present day distintegrating influences. She is a proved leader and political alliances. She is backed by outstanding attorneys who have faith in her judicial temperament and competence." Other business, civic and fraternal organizations which have indorsed Mrs. Paulconer are the Los Angeles city and county Federation of the W. C. T. U. German-American Allied Societies. American Fruit Growers Association, San Fernando Valley Bar Association, San Fernando Lemon Growers, East Side Co-operative Improvement Association, Hollenbeck Heights Improvement Association, San Fernando Tax Payers League, Lincoln All-American League, Angeleno Heights Improvement Association. National Prohibition Defense League of Pasadena, Foreign Service Veterans Club Independent Order of Veterans and Southeast Public Affairs Association. THE NEW YORK TIMES Vote for Frederick M. Roberts for Assemblyman from the 62nd District. It is our only chance to retain representation in the Assembly. THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN Vote for Eugene C. Jennings for Superior Court Judge, office No. 4. Let's vote, solid for him. Judge Daily S. Stafford Candidate for Office Number 9 JOHN H. BURKE Judge Stafford is well qualified to fill the position to rwhich he aspires. He served as Judge for Covena for one term. Justice of the Peace of Covena Township three and one-half years, resigning to enter U. S. Army. He has been Judge of the Municipal Court for four years and has served as Judge of the Superior Court by direction of the Judicial Council. Organized Law and Motion Division of the Municipal Court and the first to preside in it continuously for nine months. Judge Stafford served with the Eighth Infantry in France for one year. Monday, August 25, 1930 ORIZON Wm. (Bill) Traeger Favorite to Succeed Himself as Sheriff of L. A. County As the primary approaches on next Tuesday the remarkable showing of Sheriff to succeed himself in the office of Sheriff for this county, has been one of the highlights in the local political situation. From all sections comes the same sentiment as expressed in poll after poll which have been taken in all sections of the County and City. The very fine record which he has made and the vast beneficial innovations, such as the honor camp for trustworthy prisoners, solution of the Sheriff Traeger food problem in the County Jail, Identification Bureau, Records, sub-stations, crime prevention, etc. This department of the county government is no longer merely a criminal agency, engaged in the apprehension of law breaking. It is much more since Los Angeles has emerged from a small county to one of the largest metropolitan counties in the nation. It is a business institution, manned by business men, supervised by business men and conducted on business lines. SHERIFF TRAEGER IS A BUSINESS MAN He has put business in the Sheriff's office. He has raised the office to a high plane of efficiency. Thruout the nation the sheriff's office of Los Angeles is noted for its business methods, for its effectiveness, for its efficiency. ENDORSED BY MANY ORGANIZATIONS Sheriff Traeger has the endorsement of scores of organizations, lodges, clubs, fraternities. Because Sheriff Traeger is a tireless worker, a real man who has demonstrated his fitness for the job he holds. Our big boss, contrary to the general belief, is not a resident of the 62nd District, where Assemblyman Roberts, Mrs. Bessie Prentice and Charles Olivier are doing battle. He is simply sitting on the side lines watching the battle from afar. Faithful to his Profession of Friendship- Just to his fellowman, even when he is within the throes of the law— SHERIFF WM. I. TRAEGER, head of the largest Sheriff's force in the United States, is truly the peoples' Sheriff. RE-ELECT WM. I. TREAGER SHERIFF At The August 26th Primaries And Let Him "Carry On." 1. Established honor camps for trustworthy prisoners, relieving jail congestion, helping prisoners morally and physically and saving money for the taxpayers. 2. Instituted new plan of purchasing food for prisoners, obtaining more and better food at less cost, and saving expense to the county. 3. Perfected one of the most thoroughly equipped, scientific identification bureaus of any police organization in the world. Inaugurated a bureau of records patterned after the most efficient plans in use by large and successful business corporations Monday, August 25, 1930 Faithful to Just to his throes of the la SHERIFF Sheriff's force Sheriff. RI At T 1. Established her lieving ju physically 2. Instituted new taining m expense 3. Perfected one identifica the world 4. Inaugurated a efficient p corporation BOB SHULER AND THE NEGRO Wholly lost for an answer to the direct charge of side tracking the Negro voters of this state in their official acts and as members of a clique that refused to recognize the loyalty of the Negro voters to party candidates, Young hordes and Robl hopefuls are howling - Shuler! - Shuler!, at Fitts supporters. This is like the old cry of "wolf!" "wolf!" when there was no wolf. In the first place Mr. Young or Mr. Robl supporters would gladly accept Shuler support, in fact any support from any place or source! The proof; The Young campaign hires one certain mud slinger, called Girneau and his low down sheet called Coast Reporter. The Rolph committee winks at the Volstead law or at least neither pledges support for it. Either position is worse that Shuler support for an honest candidate. Mr. Young accepts the Klan. He knows Rev. Bob Shuler wold not, could not support him after he as governor signed the radio bill making If You Fail To Read---THE CALIFORNIA EAGLE---You May Never Know It Happened Sheriff Traeger's Accomplishments certain remarks made over the radio punishable. Mayor Rolph knows Rev. Bob Shuler would not, could not support him because he is afraid to say that he favors the enforcement of the Wright Act. The Negro voter knows that Rev. Shuler has sense enough to baffle many voters. We know that he says many good things; some bad thing said about men and measures. Rev. Shuler has said hateful things about the Negroes, things calculated to inflame prejudice. He has many complimentary things-ihtgs helpful in framing the public opinion of his hearers and he has preached in Negro churches to large Negro audiences. Now, when wily campaigners try to scare us away from the only real Republican candidate and from our only chance, which is Buron Fitts, then this thought occurs to us: Rev. Shuler is only a preacher, holds no political office and seeks none; so far as we know. He will however, discuss men and issues. But we complain that Governor Young who disclaims Rev. Shuler, did nothing for us. Did Rev. Shuler influence him not to recognize the Ne- [Image of a man with glasses and a suit] 5. Established a department of economy, research and statistics, which studies all technical problems scientifically and promotes organization efficiency. 6. Solved problem of effectively policing 4159 square miles of the county by establishing substations and districts and organizing the county constabulary. 7. Instituted a public relations campaign to induce the public to take precautions against crime and cooperate effectively with the officers. gro voter and to temorize and play with him as though he were a child? What influence has Rev. Shuler had on Mayor Rolph? Did Rev. Shuler prevent the smiling Mayor from giving the Negro a chance in San Francisco? Why is Leon Whitaker actually in office if Rev. Shuler is such an arch preventer of Negro progress? The result is then Governor Young —Shuler foe (?) no worth while recognition, and Mayor Rolph in same boat. Because Rev. Shuler favors Buron Fitts we should not vote for the only one of the three candidates who has in fact made good. Negroes are not electing Shuler. We did help greatly to elect Governor Young and admitting Rev. Shuler had no influence with him (for argument sake) yet we got nothing real. Gov. Young had the office and power. Don't kid yourself. As close as this campaign is Mayor Rolph or retiring Governor - Young would be at the "Mourner's Bench" at Rev. Shuler's church double quick time, if Rev. Shuler but said two words for either. Well we are not frightened, Rev. Shuler endorsed Fred M. Roberts and E. C. Jennings. WILLIS O. TYLER. Established a rifle and revolver school under expert instructors and made sharpshooting a necessary qualification for all Deputies who serve under him. SAN DIEGO MEETING CRUCIAL POINT IN FITTS CAMPAIGN By MRS. E. B. WESLEY) San Diego, Aug. 23. (By California Eagle Reporter)—How would you feel, standing before an audience to make a political address, if you knew members of that audience had threaten to "tar and feather" you and ride you out of town on a horse rack? Now be sure to get the picture. San Diego the home, the first seat of European civilization in California is now in the midst of a "hot" political campaign. We put "hot" in quotation because after all is said and done, is if not true that as members of the Negro Race we should we must; we cannot if we are true fail to ever hold up, advocate and preach its advancement? Under the name of the "Douglass League" a group of our people, pretended to hold a political meeting in San Diego, Thursday, July the 31st. Dear reader, this narrow minded group disgraced the name of Frederick Douglass, under color of whose title they masqueraded! The Great and Noble Frederick Douglass stood for liberty, freedom, fair play and free speech. A few paid and bought political cowards in San Diego, in a fixed and paid for meeting tried to uphold "boodle," "bribery"—"votebuying" and dirty machine politics in this Gubernatorial campaign! Result, Rolph and Young speakers, bought and paid for a meeting of 12 persons and actually threatened to "tar and feather" that very dutiful and aggressive leader of voters of her race and of high womanhood and citizenship, Mrs. Charlotte A. Bass, of Los Angeles, if she dared to try and speak for the Hon. Buron Fitts at this bought and paid for meeting! It looked as if Galbraith and Anderson, had not only "sold out" to the enemy but had carried their point and were ready to "tar and feather" the wonderful speaker for Fitts, who was by the way Editor and Publisher of the California Eagle, one of the largest and most successful Negro Weekly Newspapers in the world. How under High Heaven can they Negro escape from political slavery under such base "bought and paid for" conditions? The worm turned, and with this turning the placing of San Diego Tallant Tubbs M. The People's Lieutenant Your Vote HEAR FITTS AT JEF- FERSON HIGH TONIGHT M. Who will close his winning campaign in a monster rally at Jefferson High School next Monday evening. This meeting promises to be the greatest of the entire campaign. Mme Outley has arranged a special musical program which will be an invocation for political meetings. Mrs. C. A. Bass will preside; Attys Joe Scott, W. O. Tyler and other notables will speak. County in the Republican Gubernatorial Contest. FITTS THE INSPIRATION! Mrs. Hutson and Mr. Tanner bolted, this 12 audience meeting and arranged one for Mrs. Charlotte A. Bass, on Saturday, August 23, at Masonic Hall! She game, so did the listeners, the hall was packed! The old "tramers" stood aghast! One third of the hundreds who came out were whites, curious to see, eager to learn of Buron Fitts. Mrs. Bass, spoke and convinced. She argued, she extolled, she won vote upon vote. What is more she put the "hoodle game" on the run. From 9 o'clock P. M. until 11:30, Mrs. Bass held the Rostrum. A task more trying than words can picture, a lone woman in a strange land among the unknowing, amidst the few "hirelings." Supposedly worn out from her strenuous activities as manager of the L. A. Fitts for Governor East Side Club! Having made Bakersfield, San Bernardino, Pasadena and two Los Angeles meetings in the same week, now and here stood a true champion of race political freedom. A hope that the Negro-boy and girl from college and university, from shop and field, and from the great ranks of labor would come to be recognized in State Party Councils for the loyalty of the Negro race to the Republican Party in California! Triumph could not fail her. Every point against Buron Fitts was met, answered and carried to a vote for our wonderful candidate Buron Fitts for Governor. Questions were asked, debated and Questions were asked, debated and answered. answered. (1)—Buron Fitts was born in Texas! Answer—Yes, but his father is an Irishman, his mother a French-woman and both are from Iowa and were merely sojourning in Texas, when Buron was born. Buron Fitts has lived in Los Angeles since he was 3 years old, is a graduate of the 20th and Central Avenue Grammar School of the Manual Arts High School and of the U. S. C. He knows, feels, and loves Negro people, men, women and children! He has done something for our new idea, our new idea is this. Negroes must be recognized in participation in state government; in state jobs! In citizenship, in respect. Gov. Young and May- --- Candidate For Governor is Solicited MAYOR JAMES ROLPH JR. AND THE NEGRO TO THE NEGRO VOTERS OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA GREETINGS (By The Negro Welfare League Of California) After eighteen years of "glad handing" in the beautiful city by the Golden Gate, San Francisco, where he has been supposedly serving the people of the city as Mayor of all the people, now comes Mayor James Rolph with a burning desire to be, so he says, Governor of all the people of the state of California, therefore, we are in this our number Two Bulletin pointing out to you just what it means to you if you are going to be a party to elevating one who has outlived his usefulness as Mayor of this city and now seeks to foist his political machine on the people of this state. Notwithstanding the fact that the Mayor has under his control all departments of the city government, which includes his Civil Service Commission, which commission is and has been continuously in the courts because of alleged infractions and violations of the charter, it is a well known fact that studiously as possible, the Negro citizens have been completely ignored, this in face of the fact that the honorable mayor has repeatedly said he desired to give all groups some part in the affairs of the city. This is further demonstrated with the knowledge that during these 18 years by reason of vacancies occurring on the Board of Supervisors, the mayor has had the appointing of not less than ten members to fill such vacancies and in making these appointments the mayor has seen fit to give what he called recognition to certain groups, consequently every nationality has been thus honored except the Negro. This holds true also as to the Mayor's other selections for other more or less important places in the city government. or Rolph have made it plain that this is just what they will not do! Their machine says no! Thus answered the leader for Buron Fitts! Taunted with the endorsement of Rev. Shuler for Buron Fitts. Mrs. anti-Bass pointed out that either other caress of didate would be glad of his suppo believe She said that Rev. Shuler, like oition to Saul who became Paul after conviterests sion, had suffered a change of he This is proven by his changed attitudimony toward the Negro, in that he endorseut to Frederick M. Roberts and E. C. Jen businings. "But", said the speaker, Mayoince Rolph and Gov. Young are complained seas against for what they have not done. Will Can either of them blame Rev. Shuler for what they have not done. We are not voting for Rev. Shuler, but for Buron Fitts. After speaking for two and one half hours, Mrs. Bass was surrounded by newly made Pitts voters who warmly cheered and congratulated her. MOB SPIRIT BREAKS OUT IN NEW YORK New York, Aug. 19—A.N.P.—The mob spirit broke out in New York when David Holland, 22, colored, of 211 Moore Street, Brooklyn, stabbed two white boys, Jack Bobchin, 19, of 233 Moore Street, and his brother, Harry, 18, Tuesday evening following a tilt over water throwing in the streets. The Fire Department had put a sprinkler in the streets for the children of the neighborhood during the recent heat wave. Holland passing on his way home, was showered with water by someone and when he resented it, Bobchin and his brother took exception and started a fight with the two boys coming out worse. Immediately, cries of "Lynch Him" Page----Four Don't fail to be SPEAKER Mr. J. H. Sha CLOSING GUN M. B. Buron Fitts Will Close His Winning Campaign in a Monster Rally SPEAKERS: Hon. Buron Fitts; Mrs. Helen Werner; Atty. Willis O. Tyler; Mr. J. H. Shackelford; Atty. Joseph Scott. Under the auspices of Eastside Fitts-For-Governor Club. Chairman: Mrs. Charlotta A. Bass Secretary: Mrs. Beatrice Johnson Special music FALLI IN LIN PARADE Special musical program by Madam Mozelle Te Outley. FALLI IN LINE 8TH AND CENTRAL, CALIFORNIA EAGLE OFFICE—MONSTER PARADE 6:30 P. M. 38TH AND HOOPER AVENUE—8 P. M. If You Fail To Read---THE CALIFORNIA' EAGLE---You May Never Know It Happened (Continued from Page One) having nothing to do with the contest itself, and others partaking of such an irresponsible and slanderous nature as to invite the condemnation affiliation. Taxation, representation, machine politics, official incapacity, personal veracity and the general scope of governmental activity have been debated from end to end of California by radio by pamphlet, by letter mail, by billboards, circulars, posters, newspapers and all and sundry other mediums deemed capable of attracting public attention. And while no certainty will ever attach to such conjectures, there are numerous logical reasons for believing that the reactive positions of the chief gubernatorial contenders have varied quite sharply during the three or four months' of intensive campaigning now virtually brought to a close. All the eleventh hour, last minute political maneuvers yet lurking in the fertile plans of the various political managers are unlikely now to change the destined outcome of Tuesday's balloting. The election is upon us. Due to the great preponderance of Republican party sentiment in California, the primary election in virtually all partisan contests will as heretofore, put an end to any reasonable doubt as to the identity of the people's selection and leave for the November ballot the mere formality of ratifying the Republican choices and retiring the Democratic nominee with the usual ration of party votes. NOMINATION MEANS ELECTION Perhaps it is unjust as well to emphasize this condition of California politics, as many voters not pausing to consider the fact, regard the primary merely as an elimination of party aspirants with the real contest expected to develop in November. In this State, the primary election is the most important from the standpoint of the actual results. Hence, as there is no contest for the Democratic nomination for Governor this year, Attorney Milton K. Young of Los Angeles being unopposed for the nomination, Republicans voting in Tuesday's election will, according to every reasonable probability, name the man who will occupy the Governor's chair in Sacramento for the next four years, beginning January 1st, 1931. From the time of their initial announcement of candidacy, Dist. Atty, Buron Fitts of Los Angeles, Mayor James Rolph, Jr., of San Francisco and Gov. C. C. Young of Berkeley have been the only serious contenders for the Republican nomination. A decision by Milton Young, lifelong Democrat, to take advantage of the primary law provision for filing a nominating petition with a party other than that with which the candidate is affiliated, added his name to the Republican list, and, for a time, seemed to cause much anguish to Gov. Young and the Governor's friend. A charge was made, and denied all around, that the Governor's Republican opponents had inspired the Democrat to enter the Republican contest for the purpose of confusing the voters. Later, Milton Young demanded the removal of his name from the Republican column, but his request came too late. There are two "Youngs" on the Republican ballot and, as this writer believes, if the people of California have not been able to identify their Governor, during his twenty-odd years in State politics, the last four of which have been as the State's executive, it really does not matter which of the two Youngs receives the casual exchange of misdirected ballots. According to the belief of virtually all interested observers, Gov. Young entered the contest with the advantage that comes from many months of careful and more or less undercover campaigning. He was such a favorite to win that many ordinarily wise politicians by no means in sympathy with his administration decided to cast in their lot with his candidacy for reelection and thus, as they saw it, be with the winner. The campaign has changed that happy situation for the Governor to such an extent that many astute gentlemen are disposed to list him as third man in the three-sided race. Regardless of his position with respect to Fitts and Rolph, it is a certainty that Mr. Young no longer is looked upon as a "sure shot" and the horde of political trimmers always present in a close fight are doing their level best at this writing to determine which way and how far, to jump. RITTS. IN FRONT The most consistent progress made by any of the candidates has been accomplished by Fitts. He has been under fire bbth from the Governor's camp and from the Rolph group from the start. The current campaign has been unsparing in the scope and latitude of charges and accusations which the oposing groups have uttered and, during the last few weeks, some of the opponents of Fitts have been unable to satisfy their antagonism to the Los Angeles District Atorney's candidacy and have employed the medium of the gutter journal to throw any quantity of political mud. Most exasperating to Gov. Young, apparently has been the critical analysis of State expenditures and general administrative functions during his social term. The Governor received the first few expressions of this kind with a certain degree of pained resignation. but his urbanity soon left him and he has progressed from a state of elaborate sarcasm to one bordering closely on exceeding bad temper. Gov. Young has not denied, or sought vigorously to refute, the repeated charge that he is not a strong Republican and that, as formerly, he actually prefers nonpartisan selection of State officers. This phase of the campaign, which opened more than two months ago, actually marked the beginning of the Governor's political decline, as the revelation that the Republican Governor, a candidate for reelection, was strongly in favor of wrecking the party organization in California worked considerable havoc to the Governor's standing among the general rank and file of Republicans throughout the State. Repudiation of the incumbent's candidacy reached such a pitch in So California as to result in formal action by the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee rebuke the Governor by resolution for his nonpartisan leanings and pledging the party members to support only candidates whose Republicanism was known to be above suspicion. Mayor Rolph to some extent likewise fell victim to the alert attitude of the Republican personnel when it was found that he, too, was strongly disposed to repudiate any responsibility to th Republican party and that on one occasion, at least, he had publicly announced that if elected Governor he would have a nonpartisan, not a Republican administration. The unequivocal pledge of party loyalty made by Fitts, with a record of party regularity to back it up not possessed by either of his chief political advisers, drew the issue sharply on this point and is credited in large measure with responsibility for the indorsement of the candidacy of the Los Angeles man by the San Francisco County Central Committee, which indorsed Young four years ago and which under the circumstances, was generally expected to come out for Robph. Mayor Rolph's rising hopes were very seriously dampened during the last ten days by a factual account of his nearly twenty years as the head of San Francisco's municipal government. Rolph invited the instigation of his record when he stumped the State promising to do for California as Governor the same things he said he had done for the Bay City as Mayor. The facts not only failed to measure up to Mr. Rolph's glowing account, but showed him in the light of an extreme optimist where his own accomplishments were concerned. His administration was revealed as medicore in the extreme chiefly intensified with failure in municipal enterprise and in dilatory and inefficient management of municipal business. Hurtful both to Young and Rolph also, has been a growing public knowledge of the fact that each is backed by the same general group of professional politicians forming the old Johnson-McCabe machine Young having a part of the clique in charge of his campaign and Rolph being urged by the remainder. The ability of Fitts and his supporters to show that the State machine, not Young or Rolph, would remain in control of State affairs, apparently, has had much to do with the increasing strength of Fitts in all sections of the State. COSTLY INEQUITIES Locally, for the first time in California's history, the people as a whole seem to have been inequities of the State's political structure and many ordinary alert citizens have just begun comprehend the significance of a situation that, year after year, has enabled Northern California politicians to name Governors, United States Senators, other State officers and almost the entire higher judiciary, with this part of the State furnishing most of the votes paying most of the taxes and receiving the smaller share of benefits. This appreciation of the situation has added greatly to the strength of Fitts the only Southern California candidate for Governor. The sponsors of Fitts have been able to show that their candidate has ability and energy in greater measure than is ordinarily found in public office. His conduct of the District Attorney's office through one of the most stressful periods of its existence, has not only been above reproach as regards honesty and integrity, but has been marked by steadily mounting efficiency, by higher standards of professional training in administrative costs. Thus, with much noise, a considerable amount of political by-play and a deal of angry assertions and remonstrances, the 1930 gubernatorial race winds stormily up to the ballot box. The outcome is by no means open to certain analysis, although disinterested reports from all sections indicate that Fitts is favorite, with Mayor Rolph in the position of runner-up. Most accounts agree that Rolph will lead the voting in Northern California and that Fitts will have the advantage in Southern California. If this be true, the result resolves itself into a question of which general region of the State will give its favorite the heaviest endorsement. Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz, distinguished weman attorney, is a candidate The Lowdown on The Political Situation The campaign will close on tomorrow which will decide the fate of the various candidates has been one of the most strenuous that has ever been conducted in this state. In it, the colored vote plays a very prominent figure. It has been sought for as never before. Particularly has the Young contingent waged an intensive campaign for advantage, closely followed up by Mayor Roloh. COULDN'T QUALIFY Unfortunately neither one of these statesmen could qualify. For be it known in 22 years sucking the tear at the public trough Governor Young, had never exhibited the least interest in his colored constituency. He went to sleep so far as they were concerned and ony woke up about two months before the primaries and had Mr. French to make two unclassified appointments at a salary below a living wage and medicine to the extreme. These appointments instead of drawing to the Governor any appreciable praise, or support got for him the horse laugh. As a matter of fact the thing was so course and patent, they are considered by the colored people more of a joke than anything else. SAME OLD STORY Readers of the California Eagle will remember the constant and telling fight which we made on Governor Friend Richardson four years ago, and urged them to defeat him on the ground that he miserably failed to give to them any sort of recognition in his administration. There is no question about it, that vote turned the tide and elected Governor Young. He expressed his apprehension and requested a list to appoint from: He kept that list so long; we began to make inquiries—we even went to San Francisco to see his managers, finally the word was passed to us; that the Governor said he could not afford to get himself in trouble by appointing our group on any of the Commissions, THAT THE TIME had not yet arrived for that sort of RECOGNITION FOR THE RACE. He said this in SPITE of the FACT that the colored vote in the black belt of Los Angeles was responsible for his nomination. FROM BAD TO WORSE Then there came a time when he really could have demonstrated his fair play to this people, and that came about in the Edward Glass case. The Oklahoma officers came here and asked extradition for Ed Glass, a colored man, who in the defense of his home killed an Oklahoma officer. The N. A. A. C. P., always on the job to uphold law and order, the deathly enemy to the mob and lynch law, sought a hearing for Glass and to protest against the extradition being granted. The Governor very graciously granted the hearing. The editor of the California Eagle was asked by the officials of the Oakland Branch to join the committee, which invitation we readily accepted. We journeyed with the committee to Sacramento, but instead of the Governor hearing the protest himself like he is hearing the BILLINGS AND MOONEY case he wished it off on his Secretary, Keith Carlin, who is now one of his campaign managers. The hearing was held in the Senate chamber of the State Capitol Building, at which time the attorneys of Glass were heard as well as the Attorney General, who backed up the request of Oklahoma. When this had been finished, this editor asked to be heard. We recited to the Secretary for him to relay it to the Governor, the fact that no governor or any northern state in the Union had ever granted extradition where there was any probability of a lynching or mob. We cited 99 lynchings in Oklahoma to show it was probable he would be the 70th one lynched. In fact we told the Secretary the history for Oklahoma was as black as the hinges of midnight for the ruthless meanderings of Judge Lynch and the mob and here we have the Oklahoma officers, their hands as it were dripping with blood awaiting to take their prey to his doom. All of this fell on deaf ears, for the Governor granted the papers and only from the fact that the colored people of California paid attorneys to take the case before the U. S. Courts saved Glass from the mob. The case dragged in the U. S. court nearly two years before he was taken back on Governor Young's act, time had been a factor and he was given a trial sentenced for life to the penitentiary, a short while after he was reported missing and it is freely contended and accepted he is gone to his long home from whence no man has ever been known to return. the victim of the sort of justice Oklahoma deals for the Republican nomination. Aside from the filing of her name and thus obtaining a place on the ballot. Mrs. Foltz has not actively participated in the contest and has been a negligible factor. Milton Young, candidate for the Democratic nomination, is well known in legal circles in Los Angeles, where for many years he has made his home. He has been identified with Democratic party activities here and elsewhere in the State and was induced to permit his name to go on the ballot by representatives of most of the factions of his party. He will receive the Democratic nomination by default and hence, will appear as the opponent of the Republican nominee in November. Upton Sinclair is the unopposed Socialist candidate for Governor. No candidate filed for the Prohibition party's gubernatorial nomination. -By Kyle D. Palmer, Sunday's L. A. Times). Monday, August 25, 1930 Last call the big Berthas have been turned loose, for results we must wait until the votes are counted. However, it is apparent Governor Young is on the run. It being generally conceded on all hands that he is the 3rd man in the race. The race is between Fitts and Rolph with Buron having the edge. This is not just talk neither is it guess work. It comes from a careful, scientific, state-wide poll conducted by experts. For our group Rolph is the end of the trail. He never has and he never will take us seriously in the affairs of government. No better line on Mayor Rolph is needed than his 19-year as mayor of San Francisco. There has been no reason advanced, why Fitts should, not receive our support. In fact opponents have been so void of argument they appealed to prejudice, ke old Ben Tilman of old—They hollered Texas. Such bunk is only practiced by the weak and silly, like the hill billys of the South. Negroes of today are intelligent and will fail to heed such silly prattle. We are proud to predict an overwhelming vote from our group to Buron Fitts. They are on their way chock full of appreciation for the past and the brightest hope for the future. Full of self respect, disdaining bought influence. They look over their shoulders and truthfully say— out and which Governor Young sent him back to receive. Paradoxical as it may seem, when we reported the situation here, the president, Dr. H. Claude Hudson, of our local N. A. A. C. P., was wrought up and shed tears; and exclaimed remember this when Governor Young sticks his head up again and meet him at the ballot box. Now this self same president is one of the managers of the Young campaign and asking the colored voters to vote for Young. Can you beat it? I'll say you can't. No wonder Young is trailing the field in his quest for our votes. MAYOR ROLPH KNOWS YOU NOT The genial Mayor of San Francisco has had 19 (nineteen) years in his present position and he simply knows us not. His company in San Francisco is the General Agent for the London Guarantee Insurance Company. It discriminates and in the case of Jas. Sims at Tulare, wrote him from San Francisco that their Company DOES NOT INSURE NEGROES. Strange indeed he will accept and campaign for Negro votes; but insure them against accidents—NO! BURON FITTS This situation brings us up to the Hon. Buron Fitts; he is the courageous and fighting District Attorney of Los Angeles County. He has demonstrated that he is the representative of ALL the people and gives to all groups their due. All honorable and upright people are just what they are and so recognized by Buron Fitts, all crooks look alike to him, the rich, the poor, the white, the black are all the same and receive the same breaks. This fact has made for him powerful enemies and a deal of them are millionaires who no doubt are spending fabulous sums to defeat him. Alexander Pantages, the man who first started race discrimination in the theaters of the Pacific coast, was convicted by Fitts for rape, consequently a gutter sheet which is defending him for his act, is a vicious enemy of Fitts. The rising tide for Fitts has made all such enemies so desperate they are stooping to anything to encompass Fitts defeat. But they can't make the grade, for the nobler sons and daughters of California have arisen in all their might and majesty, and say thus far and no further, humanity at the altar of truth will bow, and on next Tuesday will raise Buron Fitts to even higher estate and California will benefit thereby when all peoples will receive at his hand the noblest gift that man, can give—Justice and a Square Deal. To our group Buron Fitts is a natural, he should by all of the laws of reciprocity receive their support one hundred per cent. There is no guess work about him, he has demonstrated. He is his friend in war or in peace, we confidently predict for him a 90 per cent support. We want to compliment the various campaign managers upon the very high plane upon which they conducted their work of getting the best results possible. We have heard of no mud slinging and each one of the various heads prosecuted their work in a manly and gentlewoman manner. We trust at the last moment no one polluted their hands with the vile gutter sheet, gratiously given out to defeat certain candidates. Fred M. Roberts should indeed be benefited that his name did not appear there.