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THE BROAD AX HEW ON THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY FRANCIS D. CONNERY. ALDERMAN GEORGE F. HARDING. Member of the Judiciary, Schools, and other important committees of the ALDERMAN GEORGE F. HARDING Member of the Judiciary, Schools, and other important committees of the city council, who will be re-elected to that body from the 2nd Ward, Tuesday, April 6th. Vol. XIV FRANCIS Democratic Candidate Francis D. Connery, Democratic candidate for City Clerk of Chicago; was born in this City in 1867, and he began his career in the business world, by starting in to work in 1883, for King & Bogle, coal merchants, and he has been actively connected with the coal business from that time to the present. In 1901, he was elected to the city council from the 28th ward, and he was again re-elected in 1907 and at all times Alderman Connery, has stood on the side of the people, and recorded his vote for measures, which in his honest opinion would redound to their best interest. During his two terms in the city council he has served on some of the best and most important committees. At the present time he is a member of the Judiciary, Schools, --- HEW THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY Streets and Alleys West, Rules, Civil Service and one or two other committees of the council and the Municipal Voters league, says, Alderman Connery, is "finishing his second term, with a record showing independence, efficiency and integrity, and has shown watchfulness for public interest. Alderman Connery is married, a property owner and resides at 1523 N. Washtenaw ave., He is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Knights of Columbus, the Order of Columbian Knights. He is also a member of the Illinois Club, and the Illinois Athletic Club. And with his splendid record in the city council, and with his good business training and with his popularity among all classes of his fellow citizens, Alderman Connery will be the next city clerk of Chicago. Alderman Geo. F. Harding Alderman George F. Harding, Republican candidate for re-election to the city council from the Second Ward, sprang from one of the most highly respected families in the East and in the State of Illinois. His uncle General A. C. Harding, honorably served on the staff of General U. S. Grant, throughout the war of the Rebellion, and other near relatives of Alderman Harding, were founders of Galesburg and Monmouth, Ill., and they were quite prominent in the civil, social, political and the commercial affairs of this State. In his boyhood days Alderman Harding attended the public schools in this city, in time he entered Harvard College, where he graduated with high honors, he attended the Phillips Exeter, of New Hampshire, where he received the finishing touches to his classical education, and that is the main or the principal reason why he is a gentleman of culture and of high and splendid intellectual attributions. Returning to this city where he first saw the light of day, after finishing his education in the East, Alderman Harding took unto himself a highly accomplished helpmate, and resides with his happy family in'a beautiful home at 2536 Indiana ave., the house in which he was born. He always had a love for politics, and in the Spring of 1905, after a hard and bitter fight he was triumphantly elected to the city council from the Second Ward, many Democrats voting for him, and Alderman Harding served all the people residing in that ward, so well and honorably that he was re-elected in 1907, without the slightest opposition. It can truthfully be said to the great credit of Alderman Harding, that he has proven himself a valuable member of the city council, he is a member of the Judiciary, Schools, City Hall and public buildings, track elevation committees and he is also chairman of the committee on special assessments and general taxation, and being a heavy taxpayer and an extensive property-holder, he thoroughly understands the wants and the needs of the people residing in all parts of Chicago. His vote on public questions effecting the best interest of its citizens, has always been recorded against the grasping corporations and in favor of the plain or the common people, and this is to his everlasting credit. It goes without saying that Alderman Harding, is no respecter of persons and worthy Afro-Americans, are always greeted kindly by him when they call, either at his home or office and in the past he has been more than willing to go along ways in order to turn a good trick for them and with the votes of all the Afro-Americans in his ward at his back, and with many Democrats voting for him simply on account of his honesty and fairness, he will be elected to the city council, next Tuesday, April 6, with the largest majority which has so far been accorded to any alderman in the Second Ward. BROWNSVILLE BOARD APPOINTED. Democratic War Secretary Names Five Retired Army Officers As Washington, March 29.—Secretary Dickinson has announced the retired army officers who have been appointed members of the court of inquiry to investigate the qualifications for reenlistment of individual members of the 25th infantry, discharged for alleged complicity in the affray at Brownsville in 1906, as provided by the Foraker resolution. The officers are Lieut.-Gen. S. B. M. Young, Maj.-Gen. J. P. Sanger and Brig.-Gens. Theodore Schwan, Butler D. Price and John H. Wilson. Capt. Charles H. Howland, 21st infantry, was named as recorder of the court. It is expected the court will meet in this city in the course of a few days. Alderman P. J. O'Connell Akerman P. J. O'Connell has honorably and faithfully served all the people residing in the 31st ward, in the city council for three terms, and he is known as one of its hard working members. He is an influential member of the Finance Committee, of the Committee on Gas, Oil and Electric Light, and chairman of the Committee on Civil Service, and he is also a live member of one or two other committees of that body. The three terms that he has served in the city council, Alderman O'Connell, has in the long run voted to the best intrest of the citizens of Chicago. He can therefore, point with pride to his past record. He owns considerable property in this city, and is in hearty sympathy with every movement, with its improvement and its advancement. He is familiar with the wants and needs of its citizens, He is popular with all of his constituents, and as he has always been friendly with the Afro-Americans residing in the 31st ward, the majority of them, Tuesday, April 6th, will join with its other citizens, Republicans and Democrats alike, and assist to return him to the city council for the fourth time. MR, EMMETT J. SCOTT, OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, HIGHLY HONORED BY PRESIDENT By appointing Mr. Scott as a member of the Liberian Commission to investigate conditions there and to make recommendations for improvement in the management of that Government, President Taft pays a worthy tribute to one of our races progressive young men. For about ten years Mr. Scott has been closely associated with Dr. Booker T. Washington as his private secretary, and no doubt much of the success of the business management of that famous institution is due to Mr. Scott's talents and energy. The opportunity of going to Liberia is embraced by Mr. Scott solely because he hopes to be of some service in straightening out financial matters there, along with the other members of the commission, and we are sure of his success in that direction. This recognition on the part of the President is significant, because it undoubtedly indicates his intention to carry out his heralded policy regarding the "Negro appointments," etc. We heartily congratulate Mr. Scott, and wish him a pleasant journey. The other members of the Commission are Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York, and Mr. W. Morgan Shuster, of Washington, D. C. A secretary to the commission has been appointed by the State Department at Washington. CHATEAU RINK NOTES . April Fools day was a success at the Chateau and a large number of Chicago's best people was is attendance and witnessed a splendid program. Special features tonight and Sunday. Don't fail to attend. The Farewell Reception to the Leland Giants at the Chateau, Monday night, April the 5th promises to be a grand affair. All the politicians will be present to boast the boys before they leave for their Southern trip. Candidates upon the City and Aldermanic tickets will also be there to cheer the thing along and incidentally put a few finishing touches to their own campaigns. Come Monday night and see Rube Foster and his team mates. A good time awaits you. Mai. R. R. Jackson, Col. J. R. Marshall, Hon. E. H. Wright, Editor S. B. Turner, Robert T. Motts, A. A. Wells, J. L. Fry and all the big ones will be at the Chateau, Monday. Come out yourself and have some fun. Alderman John Downey is putting up the fight of his life to return to the city council from the 29th ward, and the indications are, that he will be a winner. IPEU The affable and popular chief clerk of the Board of Election Commissioners and Republican candidate for City Treasurer of Chicago. ALDERMAN P. J. O'CONNELL. Democratic candidate for Alderman of the 31st Ward, member of the Finance Committee, Chairman of the Civil Service Committee of the city Isaac N. Powell, Republican candidate for City Treasurer of Chicago, is well and favorably known to the people residing in all parts of this city. He possesses the true American spirit of honesty and fairness, and he judges all men by their character and ability and not by the color of their skin. This fact, makes it possible, for every Colored voter next Tuesday, irrespective of their political affiliations, to cast their votes for him, for he is deserving of the hearty support of all classes, of his fellow citizens. For more than 14 years, Mr. Powell, has been chief clerk of the No.26 I. POWELL. of the Board of Election Commis- for City Treasurer of Chicago. Board of election Commissioners, and during that period he has acquired a reputation for fair dealing and high administrative ability that has travelled far and wide to all sections of this great State. He is approachable and courteous and during the long course of his service in the Election Board he has never been known to wilfully offend any one who sought information or had business relations with his office. And with his past experience in this line, and being thoroughly trained along other directions, eminently qualifies Mr. Powell, to become the next City Treasurer of Chicago. Alderman Michael Mclnerney, the Stock Yards Statesman With His War Paint and Tomahawk Made A Terrific Onslaught in the City Council on Doctor Henry B. Favill And the Other Officials of the Municipal Voters' League. Monday evening at the meeting of the city council, Alderman Michael McInerney, introduced a resolution in favor of organizing the incoming new city council independent of the municipal voters league and other outside influences, and after a long and bitter fight which was participated in by Alderman McCold, Dixon, Cullerton, Burns, Zimmer, Snow, and other big guns of that body, the resolution was lost by a vote of 40 to 19. In speaking in its favor Alderman McInerney the Stock Yards, statesman with his war paint and Tomahawk, made a terrific onslaught on Dr. H. B. Favill, president of the municipal voters' league, and he spoke in part as follows. "In introducing this resolution I want to state that I believe the words as used by Edmund Burke in one of his speeches, when he said: 'I am not here by proxy, and I do not utter any word belonging to any man, but my own.' "I'll," he continued "the laws of this state which created this council count for anything, they should be obeyed by the men who are selected by their respective constituents to come here and perform the duties for which they assemble. I have no fault to find with the personnel of the committee which has been selected or tried to be selected by the Municipal Voters' league. I have nothing to say against any member of this council whether he has signed the pledge of that league or not; but it seems to me that there ought to be manhood enough in those who are selected to represent their people to carry on the business for which they were selected under the law, without any outside interference. "Mr. Chairman, it is seldom that I read any remarks that I may have to say, but for fear that anything I should say would be misconstrued I have reduced a few words in writings, giving in a brief manner the history of the Municipal Villifiers' league as I know it. "In supporting the motion, on the resolution just offered by myself, which provides not to allow any outside interference with the sworn duty to the people, I welcome the opportunity to give a brief history of this self-appointed censor of public morals. I blush for the backboneless aldermen who are willing to sell their birthright to this self-constituted body or from feelings of abject terrorism bow to the order of these pretended reformers who represent men who are mliking the city of Chicago year after year. "What does the league want? It wants to control the members of the city council and to create the fear of the vested interests in their weak hearts. "Who supports this league? The business men who come here and ask the city to transfer to them valuable city property and franchises for a song. I venture to say there is not a single big business man who has dealings with the city who does not contribute to the support of this organization from time to time. "They say: 'Give us the city's property and we will give you our moral influence and support.' That is the motto of this league and I can prove it." At this point Alderman Melnerney took on a heavy load of steam and fired several big guns at the Holden court vacation to Marshall Field & Co. and accused the league of all sorts of bad things in connection with it. He declared that Charles Crane, at one time president of the municipal voters league, could tell something about the money which was passed around in connection with the Crane switch deal. "Here we find Ald. Walter Fourfusher Fisher," "After Mr. Fisher got through wih the vilification of the city council members, what did the council do for him? They appointed him to a job which paid $10,000 a year as city traction attorney. There is on a jot or title of legal wisdom emanating from Mr. Fisher on traction litigation that could not as well be handled by the corporation counsel's office. His time is his own; his duties are few and far between. He got a job paying $10,000 a year of the people's money and we are still in the control of that scorpionlike body, the Municipal Voters' league. "We had a few secretaries of that league, most of whom are now drawing salaries from the taxpayers of the city, or the drainage board or Cook county. We had, to begin with Hoyt King, an eminent reformer. He is now secretary of the drainage board. He was one of the censors of public morals; that is until he got a berth, and he is now sucking the public tit. "Mr. George Sikes was secretary for a number of years. The city council made an appropriation for him for several years, paying him $10,000 a year to perform something that any clerk in any department in the city of Chicago could perform; and it shows you how he stands before the people of Chicago. He made an effort here a few weeks ago to be nominated for alderman in the Thirty-fifth ward. He went so far in his bigoted way, in his narrow minded, bigoted condition, which goes to make up the man who is to be so good to the people. "He even thought he was living in a neighborhood of bigots who were prejudiced against the name of Sullivan and be brought Sullivan's name into the campaign, though Sullivan did not live in the ward, thinking that these people whom he misjudged would vote for him because Sullivan was against them. But he reckoned without his hosts, and the returns will show. They speak for themselves as to what the people of that ward though of George Sikes and his servitude. He was not nominated for alderman." "Now, we come to the president, of the Municipal Voters' league, Dr. Henry B. Favill, or Fable, whatever his name may be." "The public press, I am sorry to say, has given him a lot of notorietty that in my humble opinion he does not deserve, and I deprecate much the publicity that the public press, and some of them, who are his pretended friends, have given to a so-called affidavit that has been supposed to have been circulated in this community. "I have nothing to say against the man's character, either public or private. I do think that the newspapers of Chicago make a mistake when they assail any man's private character. They give the matter more publicity than it deserves. I am satisfied that I will not tread on any man's corns when I say that there is some time in his life, if he has any red blood in his veins, that he will be guilty of some indiscretion of youth. And if he is not, and he imagines that a young man will not make mistakes or stub his toe in some part of his life, I believe, Mr. Chairman that sort of belief in that way is an indication of sanity. "It puts me in mind of a man with one leg finding fault with some young man when he beats him on the field playing football or baseball, and it is unbecoming of the press or any one else to find fault with some one because he has made a mistake in his youth. "His profession has held out to him many temptations, which it takes a strong man to resist." Cites Ten Commandments. "I brought with me for convenience sake the ten commandments," "I am under the impression that all civilized ALDERMAN MICHAEL R. INERNEY The man of all hours to his constituents at his office 4541 Lowe avenue Phone Yards 2053. Alderman McInerney, recently assisted Alderman John Burns, to secure 417 new electric lights for the 30th ward, and he is doing everything in his power for the improvement of its streets, and he will be re-elected to the city council April 6th with both hands down. governments, all free governments, their constitutions, and especially ours, are founded on the ten commandments. I challenge any of these reformers who pretend to set an example for the rest of us, to deny that they have not ever been guilty of violating one of those commandments. his daughter, and a son who has a grand future before him weighed so heavily on his mind that he could not get over it, and on the impulse of the moment he took his own life. 'What right have they to say that Joe Kohout or any other member of the city council has a bad record?' having contracts with the city. Prominent officials said they would support a man by the name of Hobart P. Young against Mr. Foreman in the Third ward. Suddenly there was a change of heart. What caused the change? Dr. Favill can tell better than I and I am not going to venture THE KNIGHTS OF TEMPLAR'S GRAND EASTER BALL Thursday evening April 16th, Knights of Templars, will give the annual grand Easter ball, at the Regiment Armory, 16th Street 'For fear you men who have got stale and did not have time to study them like myself, I will read them for your information. I will begin at the Seventh commandment and stop. We will let the others go. 'Thou shalt not steal.' Well, we will let the sixth go because I am afraid somebody will be offended. The Eighth is, 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.' "What are these people doing? They are bearing false witness against their neighbors. They are criticising the actions of public servants by innuendo. They have not the courage to come out and specify. They cannot specify, but they will throw out hints, and they publish to the people of the world that certain aldermen are bad and not fit to represent the people of their wards. "It is only a few weeks ago that one of our honored members, one of our most esteemed members, one of the ablest members of this or any other council—his name was published to the world and it was declared he had a bad record. I charge here and now that the Municipal Vilifiers' league has been the indirect cause of Joe Kohout's death, "It published to the world his record as bad. "Whether it was to his credit or not. I thought it was, that he was one of the members of the twelve apostles who stood up against the traction company. They did not give him any credit for that. No, no, no; they accused him of voting to ram an ordinance through here that was considered for two years before it was acted on by the council. That was the only fault that was found with Joe Kohout. The fact that his name was published to the world as having been a bad alderman and read by his wife and ALDERMAN MICHAEL McINERNEY. ents at his office 4541 Lowe avenue R for the 30th ward, and he is doing with both hands down. his daughter, and a son who has a grand future before him weighed so heavily on his mind that he could not get over it, and on the impulse of the moment he took his own life. "What right have they to say that Joe Kohout or any other member of the city council has a bad record? They cannot prove it. They don't and they won't specify, and they are entitled to the condemnation of every reasonable citizen in this city." Alderman McInerney after reviewing the unfair methods the Municipal Voters' league resorted to in conection with the death of the late Alderman Joseph F. Kohout, lift into the traction question by exclamation: "How long, for God's sake, are you going to be hoodwinked? There is an interview with Fairbanks, where he says this agitation is got up against Dr. Favill to blind the eyes of the public. I think this agitation, while I do not believe in it from a personal standpoint, will bring money to the coffers of this league, and they will last for a few years longer, and that their hirelings whom they have sent around to spy on public officers will still feed at the crib, and in a few years from now, when other public questions come up, they will be able to secure a position of emolument so they can live for a few years more. "One of the questions they asked of the aldermen who are seeking re-election, is that they will pledge themselves to appoint experts like Sikes, experts like Fisher, appointed from their own body to get the money of the people of Chicago to do something that any ordinary clerk can accomplish. Should Keep Halo in Repair. "Now, we have the attacks from our friend Dr. Favill, a former citizen of Madison. Wis, I have nothing to say against the doctor, only if he wishes to pose as a halo bearer he should keep his halo in first class order and repair. "Recently the league, under Dr. Favill's signature, denounced Ald. Foreman and hinted at his connection with public corporations and firms ```markdown ``` having contracts with the city. Prominent officials said they would support a man by the name of Hobart P. Young against Mr. Foreman in the Third ward. Suddenly there was a change of heart What caused the change? Dr. Favill can tell better than I, and I am not going to venture a guess." Alderman McInerney's speech was the greatest thing that has been pulled off in the city council for many years, and after all that is said and done the people admire any man who has the moral courage to speak out against permitting certain individuals posing as moral reformers, and the grasping corporations from robbing and plundering the common people and growing fat, rich and arrogant at their expense. That is one reason why the great majority of the voters residing in the 30th ward, of all colors and nationalities are in favor of his re-election to the city council and it is all over right now with Alderman McInerney, but the shouting for after April 6, he will continue to answer when its roll is called. INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH The Institutional Church will as usual on Palm Sunday observe the Day by an appropriate service at 10:45 A.M. and will give at the evening service an illustrated Sermon "Steps in the life of Christ leading up to the Passion Week." This will be one of the very best illustrated services ever given at the church and is worth seeing. Preparations have been made to make the Easter Service at 5 o'clock Easter Sunday, helpful an instructive. APPOMATTOX CLUB April 9th promises to be a good day at the club. The Club will soon move into its new quartern. See next weeks announcement. THE KNIGHTS OF TEMPLAR'S GRAND EASTER BALL Thursday evening April 16th, the Knights of Templars, will give their annual grand Easter ball, at the 1st Regiment Armory, 16th Street and Michigan Ave. It will be the most elaborate ball to be given, immediately following the Lenten season. Admission 50 cents. CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. M. Elizabeth Weackley desires to return her heartfelt thanks to the relatives and friends who by their presence and their beautiful floral offerings expressed their sympathy with her in her great bereavement in the loss of her dear husband and companion the late John Henry Weackley who passed away at his home 1691 88th Place, on Wednesday, March 24th, 1909. ALDERMAN MICHAEL ZIMMER. Member of the Finance, Local Transportation, Streets and Alleys west, Rules, and other committees of the city council, and being one of its most valuable members, he will be re-elected to it from the 12th-Ward with no opposition. Booker Taft Washington, the Great Beggar of Tuskegee, Alabama Favors the Disfranchisement of the Negro in the South. He Has Succeeded In Having His Man Friday, Little Emmett J. Scott, Selected As One of the Liberian Commissioners ALDERMAN JAMES H. LAWLEY. "There is a vast difference as between the illiterate whites of the North and those of the South. The illiterate population of the North is made up of foreigners of various nationalities. From the ranks of this population is largely recruited the criminal statistics" of that section. "It is not so of the uneducated people of the South. In the mountain counties of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and other Southern states is where may be found the largest percentage of white illiteracy. These people are, for the most part, farmers. With the exception of the very remote settler, who now and then disquitts the monotomy of things with a bit of home manufactured corn whisky, these people are exceptionally a law observing people. "Many good men are there in this locality, that is in this immediate section, who do not read books, or newspapers, but they have made a study of men and of the things about them until they have become men of good and sound common sense. Here and there can be found men who are looked upon and counted as good citizens, but who can not read or write. These men are very far from being a menace to good government and in fact they are very close in resemblance to that element of men who composed the body of the army of the American Revolution. The country has nothing to fear from these plain people. "Although there is vast distinction, as between the illiterate people of the North and those of the South, there are those of the South, among the Democratic party leaders, who appeal to the people of the North, in palliation of the wholesale disfranchise laws, that these laws are proper for the reason that the illiterate are eliminated from the voting. This appeal has strong weight with the North in that there is somewhat of an actual problem in the North in its dealing with an illiterate and unAmericanized foreign element. In the North, however, they are reaching this problem by educating these masses. In the South there is the usual building up of the educational facilities of the classes and the neglect of the hill country white masses. The bourbon leaders not only neglect these white people, but they join in with Booker T. Washington and uphold disfranchisement as not objectionable when both races are hewn down. The people of the North are led to believe that these whites of Alabama, who are out of the voting, are com- parable to the vicious of the undesirable foreign element of the North. It is an unjust and cruel inference that these people get from this Democratic party leadership and press of the South. "Booker T. Washington knows the situation, talk all that he may about not objecting to disfranchisement just so it cuts into both races alike. No man knows better than he that the motive, the spirit and the enforcement of these so-called laws is partisan in design and that this design is not merely the disfranchisement of the Negro or of the illiterate white man, but the obliteration of the very possibility of opposition to the oligarchy by and through the strategy and subterfuge and cunning of this peculiar system. "In the bolstering up of its political chicannery, in the beclouding of the actual conditions that it environs, this oligarchy in the South has no better or abler ally in its work of keeping the eyes of the country from looking right into the facts than is Booker T. Washington. And Booker T. Washington knows that he is eternally damning the political rights of the Negro in the south as he commits the future of the Negro to the oligarchy. He knows that the Negro was disfranchised because he was and is a republican more than for the reason that he was and is a Negro. He knows that the Negro is not going to be let into the voting again by the oligarchy that let him out and that the same reason will keep him out. Out of the nearly 200,000 Negroes of voting age in Alabama there are not over 2,000 Negroes who vote or who can vote. Away with this foolishness of Booker T. Washington! What most concerns The Southern American is that Booker T. Washington, his tremendous influence, has gone far to help fasten this disfranchising slavery on white citizens. It were enough that this Negro should carry his own race back into this new Confederacy. Here, however, we have a Negro, a former slave, exercising a mighty power of world influence to help keep submerged the white as well as the black masses of the South. The Southern American, Alexander City, Alabama, March 26, 1909. Editor Manning has drawn the bee line on Booker Taft Washington, who favors the disfranchisement of the Negro in the South, and is willing to have him reduced to serfdom, in every way, just as long as he can pull in the money to enable him to shell it out to that class of pin-headed Negro editors, who are constantly tout- FOR RENT 6440 Evans Av., 6 Rooms, 2nd Flat, Bath and Gas, Furnace-heated, $15.00 45th & Evans Av., 8 Rooms, 1st Flat, Bath & Gas, Steam-heated, $37.50 45th & Evans Av., 8 Rooms, 2nd Flat, Bath & Gas, Steam-heated, $40.00 45th & Evans Av., 8 Rooms, 3rd Flat, Bath & Gas, Steam-heated, $40.00 37 E. 37th St., 8 Room (House) 2 story, Bath & Gas, Furnace-heated, $35.00 5021 Armour Av., 6 Room, 1st Flat, Bath & Gas, Stove-heated, $18.00 2838 Armour Av., 6 Room, 1st Flat, Bath & Gas, Stove-heated, $18.00 3929 Dearborn St., 4 Rooms, 1st Flat, Bath & Gas, Stove-heated, $15.00 3929 Dearborn St., 4 Rooms, 2nd Flat, Bath & Gas, Stove-heated, $15.00 3929 Dearborn St., 4 Rooms, 3rd Flat, Bath & Gas Stove-heated, $15.00 4912 Wentworth Av., 6 Rooms, (Store & Barn for 2 horses), $30.00 WM. D. NEIGHBORS @ CO., Suite 64, 95 Washington St., Chicago Branch Office, 3220 State Telephone 4566 Central ing him up as the greatest Negro in the World. The great beggar of Tuskegee, who aspires to be the political boss of the entire Negro race, who claims that the Negro does not care to vote and that he is willing to let his best. white friends, (nft;) in the South to do his voting for him, has succeeded in inducing president Taft, to select his man Friday little Emmett J. Scott, as one of the Liberian commissioners, and in all honesty little Emma Scott, is no more entitled to serve this country in that capacity, than the boss devil has in conducting a Sunday School for he has never accomplished one thing for the advancement of the Afro-American race, and Scotty, would not have been honored with that position if he was not Booker Taft Washington's Jumping Jack. Keep up your manly fight Ed. Manning on Booker Taft Washington, and possibly in time he will cease his effort of endeavoring to barter away the civil and political rights of the Negro, for large rolls of easy money and for a mess of bitter pottage!—Editor. Alderman James H. Lawley Alderman James H, Lawley, Republican candidate for re-election to the city council from the 14th ward, is one of the most popular city daddies on the West Side, this has been proven time and again, in 1905 he entered the race for Alderman of that ward against Dan V. Harkin, and he came mighty near in running all over him: in 1906 he ran up against Alderman Wm. T. Maypole, and he came awfully close in putting one over him; in 1907 he succeeded in making a home run against Alderman Dan Harkin. On becoming a member of the city council Alderman Lawley, has been one of its active workers, he is a member of the committee on streets and alleys west, and chairman of the committee on printing and being active and full of business from the word go he is in every way fitted to continue to represent all the people in the 14th ward in the city council. The Municipal Voters' league speaks of his valuable services to the city in the highest terms and it states in plain language to the effect that "no mistake can be made by the voters in his ward by re-electing him. Alderman Lawley has ever been friendly to deserving Afro-Americans and Rev. Wilson, pastor of St. Stephens church, Geo. O. Jones, the undertaker 692 West Lake street and the great majority of the better class of Afro-Americans in the 14th ward, are working with might and main to return him to the city council at the coming election. CHIPS Major John C. Buckner, honored Mr. and Mrs. Julius F. Taylor, with a pleasant call last Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Carr, have removed from 6452 Evans ave., to 533 West 56th st., where they will be pleased to meet their many friends. Morton A. Mergentheim, Democratic candidate for Alderman in the 3rd ward. Seems to be growing in favor, with its voters each day. He is developing considerable strength from unexpected quarters, and it would not be surprising to some of his friends to see him come out the victor in the contest against Alderman Milton J. Foreman. J. W. Anderson, 79 East 32nd st. entertained a box party at the Pekin. Tuesday evening, in honor of Mrs. Bert A. Williams, who has been the guest of Col. and Mrs. John R. Marshall, 3630 Calumet ave., since leaving the hospital. Mrs. Williams left for New York Thursday, where she will join her husband. Thanking her many friends for their kind treatment to Fifty-First St. and Armour Ave. RAIL YARDS: 1st St. & L. & M. S. Rp. 2nd St. and Armour Ave. CHICAGO A Pleasant Winter Evening. ARE YOU IN SEARCH OF ONE? Then Visit the "Chateau," 5324 State Street, Tonight. There is a fine Picture Show, Roller Skating, Dancing and superb music, refreshments and a jolly good time for good people. No prescription. Special prize program every Saturday and Sunday. Admission, 10 cents--one dime LELAND GIANTS' BASE BALL AND AMUSEMENT ASS'N. Sunday afternoon at 6 o'clock, Mr. A. N. Fields, Associate Editor of the Chicago Advocate, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Sons of Mississippi, an organization composed of young Colored men from the State of Mississippi, devoted to the uplift of the Southern youth of the city, which meets at Odd Fellow's Hall, 3335 State St., on the first and third Sunday in each month, Mr. L. W. Washington, who has been recently elected President of this organization, extends a cordial invitation to the public to attend these meetings, MODERN FLATS TO RENT. Strictly modern lower 5 room flat and one upper 6 room flat. Both flats newly decorated, to rent to families of adults. 5025 Armour ave., call 5028 Armour ave. JACOB L. PARK9. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, Editor of The Broad Ax. 'Dear Sir:—In as much as there have been false rumors circulated that Mr. J. L. Parks who has been under my care for nervous prostration since March 17th, is demented and has been sent to the Detention hospital and in as much as such rumors are calculated to injure Mr. Parks, I deem it my duty as his physician to denounce such rumors as unqualifiedly false and without any foundation in fact. You will do Mr. Parks a great kindness and oblige me exceedingly by publishing the foregoing in the column of your valuable paper. Very truly your, E. S. Miller, M. D. Chicago, March 31. '09. A certain small boy of six is rapidly assuming manly ways. Not long ago his "room" at school planned an entertainment. There were to be little songs and recitations and a mysterious grab bag. The small boy waxed eloquent concerning the coming glories of this show, and more especially the part he would take. On the morning of the entertainment his mother suggested that he should take his little sister, aged four, with him. He hung his head. "Don't you want to take her?" his mother asked. "Cause there ain't none of th' other fellers has to bring their children"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ahead of the Game. Byker—I attended a successful sleight of hand performance last night. Pyker-So? Byker-Yes. I lent the conjurer a counterfeit dollar and he gave me a hook a good one—Chicago News. (No Acid Needed. Weary William Rhoades—Say, Happy, wot's de difference between us an' new fall cider? Happy Harry—Search me. Weary William Rhoades—Day don't have ter put no acid in us ter keep us frum workin'." At which the dry hay in the mow burst into a furious fame—Ehawan PATRICK H. O'DONNELL WILLIAM DILLON CLARENCE A. TOOLEN Tel. Central 4660 O'Donnell, Dillon & Toolen ATTORNEYS AT. LAW Suite 1218-1219 Ashland Block RANDOLPH & CLARK STREETS CHICAGO JAMES J. GRAY ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 1518 Ashland Block RANDOLPH AND CLARK STREETS CHICAGO Tel. Central 4723 Residence 57 Macallister Place Telephone Ashland 363 Office Telephones Central 1239 Automatic 5940 MILES J. DEVINE ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 318-320 Reaper Block CLARK AND WASHINGTON STS. CHICAGO. Phone Main 4153 NOTARY PUBLIC Phone residence, Gray 5670 Walter M. Farmer ATTORNEY AT LAW Suite 708, 171 Washington St. Res., 485$ Langley Av. CHICAGO JOHN E. OWENS ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW 323 ASHLAND :BLOCK TABLEPHONE CENTRAL 908 CHICAGO A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago Suite 615 to 619. Telephone Main 3077. Dr. W. E. MACKEY 4842 Armour Avenue. Phone, Blue 6571. CHICAGO. Hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 4 p. m.; and Nights. THE ELITE BUFFET FINE WINES, LIQSORS AND CIGARS 3030 State Street CHICAQ Phone Oakland 1528 F. A. Rawlins The Modern Embalmer UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR When his work is finished you have no displeasure. 4817 State Street CHICAGO Phone Douglas 1550 THE BROAD AX CAN BE FOUND ON SALE AT THE FOLLOWING NEWS STANDS. From on and after this date, The Broad Ax can be found on sale at the following news stands: A. F. Tervalon, a cigar store and news stand, 5004 State street. George I. Martin, maker of fine cigars, and news stand, 342 31st street, near State. Mrs. Nellie Phelps, cigars, notions and news stand, 131 W. 51st street, near Dearborn. W. S. Cole, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 354 31st street. J. R. Peters, cigars, tobacco, laundry office and news stand, 338 27st street. T. B. Hall, laundry office, cigars, tobacco and news stand, 281 29th street. Mrs. A. M. Baker, notions, cigars They Had Will Power. I was sitting one morning in a quiet corner at Monte Carlo when two elderly men sat down beside me. One was evidently a Scotchman, and the other, I gathered, was from Yorkshire. The former remarked, "I have just managed it." This, I discovered, meant a win of 20 francs. Their daily routine was to appear at the same roulette table at an early hour and play the lowest stake of 5 francs on even chances—that is, on black or red or on the odd or even numbers. They would lose and win and win and lose, but they remained calm and self contained and persevered until they had each 20 francs to the good. I observed them daily. Some mornings they scooped in the amount in twenty minutes, and at other times it was a tough struggle until luncheon time before they managed it. I never saw them fall once, and I learned that they had pursued the same plan for four months. One thing was clear—nothing could tempt them to go beyond the modest stake, and they had the will to stop when they won the stipulated amount. It was really one of the best illustrations of will power I have ever seen, for few, indeed, who enter the portals of the casino are able to resist the compelling atmosphere of the tables to play on if losing and to plunge if winning—Chambers' Journal. Schoolmaster (to his wife)—My dear, I wish you would speak more carefully. You say that Henry Jones came to this town from Sunderland. Wife—Yes. Schoolmaster—Well, now, wouldn't it be better to say that he came from Sunderland to this town? Wife—I don't see any difference in the two expressions. Schoolmaster—But there is a difference, a rhetorical difference. You don't hear me make use of such awkward expressions. By the way, I have a letter from your father in my pocket. Wife—But my father is not in your pocket. You mean you have in your pocket a letter from my father. Schoolmaster—There you go with your little quibbles. You take a delight in harassing me. You are always taking up a thread and representing it as a rope. Wife—Representing it to be rope, you mean. Schoolmaster—For goodness' sake, be quiet. Never saw such a quarrelsome woman in my life—London Scraps. _____ Pretty Slow. Horace L. Moore was lieutenant colonel of the noted Nineteenth Kansas cavalry. He could lead men for a longer period without rest on a single ration of cheerful good humor than any other officer. Though not given to tokens, he was the reputed author of as many astonishers as the great Lincoln. One time, on the march, he sent an orderly with a message to an officer at some distance. Before the man was out of hearing Moore shouted: "Hey, orderly! Come back here!" He came galloping back, sitting limply in the saddle. Moore dropped his voice and, assuming a half confidential manner, inquired, "Orderly, in the course of your life have you ever seen a small?" "Yes, sir," was the astonished reply, "You met him, then," replied Moore, "for you'd never overtake one!"—Kansas City Journal. His Business Ability In the Adriadorecks lives a man too lazy to work, but evidently of great business ability. One winter when he was sitting around smoking his family came so near starvation that some of his neighbors, who could ill afford to help him, took up a collection and bought for the suffering family a barrel of flour, a barrel of pork and a load of wood. They were not considerate enough to cut the wood, but the business man knew how to manage. He hired some of the neighbors who had not contributed to his donation to cut the wood and paid them with half the pork and half the flour--Lippin- Admiralty equipped. Cardinal Mezzofaud, the famous Italian linguist, who died at the age of seventy-five, knew and could speak more than fifty languages. He could entertain his English friends with specimens of the Yorkshire dialect and his French or German visitors with the patols of their respective countries. "Dear me!" exclaimed Lord Byron, to whom this was told. "He ought to have been the custodian of the tower of Babel!" Breakfast Months. A traveler stopped at a hotel in Greenland, where the nights are six months long, and as he registered asked a question of the clerk. "What time do you have breakfast?" "From half past March to a quarter to May."—Harper's Weekly. A Bone. "What sort of an after dinner speaker is Bliggins?" "One of the kind who start in by saying they didn't expect to be called on and then proceed to demonstrate that they can't be called off."—Ex-change. Hicks Story. It was in 1847 that Hicks first made a county name as a witty raconteur. In that year Sir Samuel Spry, who had been member for Bodmin since the great reform bill, lost his seat and in a petuian mood took legal proceedings against Hicks on the ground that he had abused his official position to influence voters at the poll. In the course of the trial Hicks was called upon to state what he had to say in his defense. In the course of his statement he asked leave of the court to illustrate his position by a story. His request being assented to, he related how a few days previously he had been to see a lad whom he knew well who was laid up from a fall from a vicious donkey, which had kicked out all his front teeth. The lad, said Hicks, had taken the matter in the most kindly way and had said to him, "Tisn't the fall, Mr. Hicks, and 'tis not the vally of the teeth what annoys me, but 'tis the nashy, ghastly, wishous disposition of the jackass." Sir Samuel Spry sprang up in the well of the court in a fury and exclaimed, "He has called me a jackass!" The court was convulsed with laughter, and Hicks was promptly and fully acquitted of the trumpery charge brought against him—Cornhill Magazine. Great Wars From Trifles. Great wars, pregnant with bloodshed and all the horrors accruing thereto, have very often been the outcome of trifling incidents which might, had they been treated properly, have been smoothed over and the slaughter averted. More often was this the case in earlier times than it is now. Every one knows that William the Conqueror lost his life in France through his horse treading on a redhot cinder while he was superintending the burning of Mantes, but few people know the fact which gave rise to the campaign that cost William his life. During the latter part of his reign he became abnormally stout and consequently the laughingstock of not only his subjects, but his neighbors across the water. One day his contemporary, Philip of France, compared him to a fillet of veal on casters and suggested that he should be exhibited at a prize monarch show. This so enraged William that he straightway made war upon his ridiculer, and the loss of thousands of lives was the result—London Tit-Bits. Gestures Part of Talk. There is a man who from a very early age has lived in countries where Spanish is the almost universal tongue. From force of this training he speaks Spanish perfectly. He has not the slightest trace of an English accent, and persons who do not know that he is of American parentage are willing to believe he is a Spaniard, merely from hearing him talk. He is so perfectly bilingual that it shows even in his gestures. When talking with English speaking persons he sits quietly and does his conversing with his mouth alone. Only in case of making a point most emphatically does he use a gesture. But the moment he drops into Spanish his every word is accompanied by a movement of the hands or arms. It is interesting to watch the change from the English to the Spanish side of him, because it comes so suddenly. He really can't speak Spanish without gesturing.—New York Sun. * Some Slang Words. A remarkable fact is that many slang words have a classical origin. For example, the word "mill," a vulgarism for a fight, is traceable to the Greek word "hamilla," which means a combat. "Uncle," the affectionate term for a pawnbroker, is derived from the Latin "uncus," a hook on which the article pledged was hung. To go before "the beak" is a distinct reference to the old Roman custom of adorning the platform from which justice dispensed with the beaks of ships, which platform came to be-called the rostrum, that being the Latin for a beak or prow. Cruel. The rich bachelor sighed and looked at the beautiful girl fixedly. "Things are at sixes and sevens with me. I feel the great need of a woman in my home, one who could straighten out my tangled affairs and make life worth living again." Her glance spoke an interest which approximately expectation. "Yes?" she queried softly. He blurted out, "Do you know of any good, abledobled woman whom I could get to clean house?"—Argonaut. A Sure Scheme. 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