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THE BROAD AX GOVERNOR CHA Republican Candidate for Re-election Great Army or Legions of Warm His Triumph at the Polls Tuesday 1889 Republican Candidate for Re-election for Governor of Illinois Who With His Great Army or Legions of Warm Friends and Supporters, Feels Sure of His Triumph at the Polls Tuesday, November 5. PETER M. HOFFMAN. In 1904, Peter M. Hoffman, one of the most popular German-Americans, in Cook County and a big leader of the Republican party, after a red-hot contest with John E. Traeger, defeated him at the polls and was elected to his present position and for the past eight years, no public official of Cook County has served its citizens and tax-payers with more ability than the present coroner. This fact was demonstrated, when he was re-elected in 1908, without much strong opposition, showing, that the splendid record he has made in his office, is highly appreciated by the people in general. Since assuming, the duties of that office, he has instituted and worked out many beneficial and important reforms. PETER M. MOFFMAN. Popular German-American Citizen. Who Is Well and Favorably Known Throughout Cook County. Republican Candidate for Re-election as Its Coroner. Vol. XVIII. He has cleaned or weeded out the majority of the quack or fake doctors and in every other way, his services have been of great value to the citizens, in all walks of life. In an up-to-date and business like manner, he has held many important inquests and made many thorough investigations into the various causes leading up to the death of many Chicagoans. As stated before he is well and favorably known throughout Cook County and with an official record that will stand the light of day—one that his best friends and supporters need not feel ashamed of. He is therefore, entitled to re-election as the coroner of Cook County.—Adv. HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 2, 1912 Profesional and Business Workers Form a Body to Come to the Aid of Deneen TAKEN FROM MOOSE RANKS. A new and potent force entered the field in behalf of Charles S. Deneen for governor the first of this week, known as the Professional and Business Men for Charles S. Deneen for Governor association. Numbered among the officers and members are several former progressives, including Ralph C. Otis, chairman of the committee on arrangements for the progressive national convention, and Dr. Thomas A. Woodruff, secretary of the Boosevelt League of Illinois. Prominent supporters both of President Taft and Gov. Woodrow Wilson are also among the membership. Officers of the New Body. Officers of the new organization are as follows: President—William Holabird. Secretary—Dr. Thomas A. Woodruff. Executive committee—John H. Hardin, Joseph E. Lindquist, A. G. Mills, Ralph C. Otis, Lawrence O. Hayworth, Martin Roche, Frank L. Shepard, H. S. Duncombe, H. S. Dale, J. E. Verree, Edward M. Skinner and Charles E. Rollins, Jr. Vice-presidents—Joseph E. Otis, W. C. Cook, Arthur J. Ainsworth, T. B. Swanson, Leeds Mitchell, J. C. Whitney, F. H. Hess, Hugo P. Uhlmann, A. O. Burdick, Dr. Frank Billings, Dr. Frank Allport, Charles Cromwell, Dr. Casey A. Wood, E. G. Pauling, John Crerar, Thomas G. Vent, C. C. Stringer, Charles E. Ummach, Michael O'Connor, George B. Limbert and John Burns. Reviews Record of Deneen. On behalf of the executive committee Dr. Woodruff gave out the following review of the record of Gov. Deneen and his opponents as a reason for the support of the governor by the organization: "The Professional and Business Men's association is for Gov. Deneen because it believes in rewarding honesty and efficiency. He gave us a direct primary law, passed against terrific opposition. He gave the state a merit NATION WILL PAY HOMAGE TO DEAD VICE PRESIDENT. Taft and Cabinet Members to Attend Sherman's Funeral Saturday at Utica. President's Proclamation on Death of Sherman. To the People of the United States: James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United States, died at his home in Utica, N. Y., at 9:42 o'clock on the evening of October 30, 1912. In his death the nation has lost one of its most illustrious citizens and one of its most efficient and faithful servants. Elected at an early age to the mayorship of his native city, the continued confidence of his community was shown by his election for ten terms as a representative in the national Congress. As a legislator he at once took and retained high rank and displayed such attributes of upright and wide states- manship as to command him to the people of the United States for the se- cond highest office within their gift. As presiding officer of the Senate he won the respect and esteem of all for system which took 80 per cent of the employees out of politics. He adopted business methods for the conduct of the state affairs. He rehabilitated the state institutions. The state's resources have been conserved. The University of Illinois has been raised to a high state of efficiency and prosperity. The farmer has been benefited by wise legislation. The workshops and the factory have been made safer. Railroad Rates Lowered. "Railroad and express rates have been lowered. Railroad travel is cheaper because of the 2 cent law. Insurance laws protecting the policy holders have been passed. The standard of education has been raised. A model pure food law was enacted and has been rigidly enforced. The national guard is on a substantial footing and is splendidly organized. Cities may adopt the commission form of government and improve their local conditions. "Chicago has profited from having a chief executive that knew its needs. The justice shops are no more. In their place we have the Municipal Court, which is recognized as a model. The Lincoln Park and west park systems have been rehabilitated and extended. Our park system is now the pride of our great city and state. "The unfortunates have been transferred from the county poor farms and placed in state institutions, where they are given good care under a centralized board. The Dunning institution was taken over by the state and now is the Chicago State hospital. In all fairness to Governor Deneen, each and every citizen within the confines of this state no difference what his political views may be must give him great credit for working out and bringing around these many valuable and lasting reforms, which are a great blessing to all the people, rich and poor alike residing in the grand old State of Illinois. His private life was noble and good. His genial disposition and attractiveness of character endear him to all whose privilege it was to know him. His devotion to the best interests of his native land will endear his memory to his fellow countrymen. In respect to his memory and the eminent and various services of this high official and patriotic public servant, I direct that on the day of the funeral the executive offices of the United States shall be closed and all posts and stations of the Army and Navy shall display the national flag at half mast and that the representatives of the United States in foreign countries shall pay appropriate tribute to the illustrious dead for a period of thirty days. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 31st day of October, A. D. 1912, and of the independence of the United States the 137th. WILLIAM H. TAFT. By the President: Alva A. Adee, acting Secretary of State. Governor. [Image of a man in a suit with a tie, facing slightly to the right. The background is a blank, light-colored surface with no visible text or details.] The successful banker; high class business man; long and steadfast friend of the Colored race and Republican candidate for State Treasurer of Illinois. Andrew Russel, candidate of the Republican party for Treasurer of Illinois, was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, on June 17th, 1856, and has spent all his busy life in this state. After receiving his education at the public schools and at Illinois College, Mr. Russel began a successful business career in 1874 as a book-keeper in the Jacksonville National Bank. He has been in the banking business ever since, and is now Vice-President of the Ayers National Bank of Jacksonville. Mr. Russel has always been found to be clean, careful and unprejudiced, No. 5 standing fearless for justice to all men, and particularly interested in the moral, social and industrial uplift and advancement of the Colored race. He is not a stranger to the voters of Illinois, having filled the office of State Treasurer from 1908 to 1910 to the entire satisfaction of the people. He gave the office his careful and personal attention, and during his term increased the net profits to the state almost 100 per cent. He is presented to the voters with entire confidence in his fitness, and there ought not to be the slightest doubt about his election.—Adv't. ae a, oe eee So 8 es Sorc, | oa act as Ne poo a SS os z - my 5, | : — aks : : HON. THOMAS GALLAGHER. Democratic Candidate for Re-election to Congress from the 8th Congressional ‘District, Who Voted and Worked in Congress for an Appropriation of $50,000 to Aid the Colored People to Property Oclebrate the Fiftieth An- aniversary of Their Freedom in 1913 and Every Colored Voter in His Dis- ‘trict Should on Tuesday, November 5, Assist to Re-elect him to Congress. y i i F ea - * ie 4 me ee yh as ae ae Pia i id “ae . Aj BU iE, i ~~ Mes Raine sg F Se i eae f sees hc Pam ceae EHD So iy SE EE a Ca et aR : te a ae 2 ie ae iat a ties La BS a Tee % VN | : “ oa ‘Yopular wey ‘Bias ‘ Republican Candidate ‘With AD the Citizens ‘this Btate and - o ‘for Secretary of State ef Timois, i Rev. Jas. Higgins, Pastor. Services 10:45; 7:45. 8.8. 1:45. Mrs M. Clark, Sapt. > C. E. 6:45. Mrs. L. Jones, Pres. 745. Bev. D. L. McGriff will preach. Monday Eve. Rev. Cato of Elgin, will begin services and continue all the week. ‘Toesday Eve. General Class. Bunday, Nov. 10th, Quarterly Meet- ing. Bev. W. D. Cook of Quinn Chapel will preach at 3 o’clock, also Quinn Chapel Choir will sing. ‘THE APPOMATTOX CLUB. THPORMAT. DANCING PARTY AT Thureday evening, November 3, an informal dancing party will be given at the Appomattox club, 3441 Wabash avenue. Each member of the club will be entitled to invite one couple-as his guests. John T. Morton, Prof. William Emanuel, A. McGowan, H. F. Catlin, and P. Herrin, committee on entertain- ment. Col. Daniel Moriarity, head of the fighting 7th Regiment Illinois National Guard, is gaining much strength each day in his costest for one of the com- missioners of Otok county, and as he ‘has many friends in all parts of it; he Jooks like an easy winner. ‘ ao Mrs. Charles Lapsley of Chicago, who for the past three years has been living in Prince Rupert, British Co- Iumbia is en route here from Seattle. COLORED PREACHER IN MIGHTY POOR BUSINESS. When the clerk of the court called the name of Mrs. Mary Hart, Tuesday, October 29th, probably the oldest prisoner ever in the Desplaines street court was arraigned before Municipal Judge Torrison. Mrs. Hart, 1858 Car- roll avenue, is a Colored womah one hundred years old. She was arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct on the complaint of D. J. Clemons, 3534 Vernon avenue, a Colored minister. Knowing nothing about the trouble between Rev. Clemons and Mrs, Hart, but it seems to us that it was very unmanly on his part to have her ar- rested and dragged into court. ‘Mrs. Coleman was agreeably sur. prised when at an early hour her friends came in to remind her that God had spared her to see 76 years of age, being of a retiring nature as her daughter made no mention of the Day, she thought it had been forgotten, and decided to just let it pass by unnoticed but as she afterward remarked, ‘All things come to he who waits,’” those present were, Mrs. Taylor, 5628 Wabash, Mrs. Harris, 5208 State, Mrs. Beasley and daughter, 4719 Evans, Mrs. Pope, and Mrs. Johnson, 5402 State, Mrs. V. Johnson, Mrs. Scott, 5360 State, Mrs. Howell, 4315 Calu- met, Mrs. Tolkins, 5124 Dearborn, Mrs. Bond, Mrs. Parish, 5208 State St, dainty refreshments were served and s pleasant evening spent, Mra Pearl Randolph presided at the piano. Taft And Sherman ‘To Win The Colored Voters ~ Will Stand by The Grand Old Party ‘The end of the most interesting presidential contest the nation has wit nessed since the celebrated Jefferson Burr contest of a hundred years ago, brings the Colored men of the country —in the North and South alike—foce to face with the political crisis prom. ised in 1896, when the bourbon South began the insiduous campaign fer the subjugation of the Colored citizen—a campaign, as all men now see, that culminated in the amazing attitude of Theodore Roosevelt, and in the bold and wicked daring of the captains sur- rounding him, who are notorious 20 less as enemies to = democracy to in- elude all men of all races than as buccaneers on the high ses of political plunder. Six weeks ago Colored men had political blind staggers. They saw all things and discerned nothing. They heard a name and saw a-form. They did not realize that that name, once a sign of justice, was become a byword in the seats of the dishonored; and that form, oncé © majestic figure, was now but a shadow of » mighty man! ‘Theodore Roosevelt, in the first blush of a new political stroke, appealed to tho imagination of the great mass of Colored people. But as his plans and purposes unfolded themselves before the people, under the logic and fearful eloquence of leading Colored men, aroused for their people’s sake, Mr. Roosevelt's part in the chief political conspiracy of the century became clear. Zeal gave way to thought, and thought did its work. From Santa Cruz to Nahant, and from the tell-tale waters of Niagara to El Paso, Colored men sre now in dread battle against two forces of evil arrayed with like power wgainst them and against their chil- iren—Mr. Roosevelt and his cohorts mm the one hand, and on the other, the ncient enemies of the state, the party rearing the label of Democracy, but eally floating the fiag of oppression. The charge has often been made that jolored men follow personalities— novipg figures in the political arena— nd that they care little for platforms] nd principles. That this charge is} HON. JOHN =. MILHOLLAND, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ETECUTTVR COMMITTEE oP THE CONSTITUTION LEAGUE. Strikes At Joseph Medill Patterson “The (Tribune’’ Chicago And Booker T. Washington. The Hon. John E. Milholland, chair- man of the National Executive Com- mittee, of the Constitution League of the United States, with headquarters in New York City, which has for its motto, ‘Equality of Rights is the first of Rights,’ strikes at Joseph ‘Medill Patterson, ‘‘The Tribune’ ‘Chicago, Illinois, the copy of the tele- gram following and also the copy of the letter to Booker T. Washington, respecting the Jack Johnson affair. Philadelphia, October 25, 1912. Joseph Medill Patterson, “*The Tribune.’’ 2 * Chicago, IL If you can persuade the Governor to call out State Militis, I might try to induce President Taft to mobilize the Army in Cook County, and the Fleet on Lake Michigan. This with the Attorney General in personal charge of, Federal prosecution would possibly protect chaste Chicago, and immaculate Minnespolis from the de- moralising influence of that Hell loathed creature, Jack Johnson, whose primary offense of failing to got him- self born white, has been supplemented by daring to become the gamest and most scientific fighter since Castor and Ppllox, sind finally, by venturing upon a love affair without the consent of all the Common Councils and Boards of Trade in Ilinojs and Minnesota. ‘The spectacle of two great American cities lashing themselves into the fury of s Georgia Iynching mob, over an alleged offense as deplorably common ‘among whites, as campaign lying, is & record exhibition to this old gray world of canting hypocracy, especially, on, the part of » Nation with three millions mulattoes, qusdroons and oc- taroons among its native bor: popula- te, sad that bee made ite. mapnig and divorce an established institution display of mediaeval race preja- ce it tiptocs up. to the Jew baiting "King John's time in ld , a without foundation is seen in the al ‘most unanimous rejection by Colores men of the principles of the Progress ive party—particularly of a platform that ineludes a pledge to every cause save the cause of the American Negro —and their return to the principles and platform of the Republican Party that has stood unmoved against all the changing years, and that now suffers the bitter opposition of the voters be- cause the party leaders refused to betray or desert the Colored Repub- licans of the South. Colored men know that the woeful possibilities of the Initiative, for by that sign the Democratic party in the South, twin-devil with the Progressive party, disfranchised the Colored men of the South, starting in Mississippi in 1890, Colored men are alive to the evil consequences of the Referendum, for under that star the ignorant white electorate of the South put their seal of approval upon the crimes of the Democratic constitutional conventions that had annulled the spirit and de graded the letter of the amendments to the organic law. Colored men understand the sig- aifieanee involved in the acceptance and adoption vf the Recall, for they have seen the judiciary of an entire sation tremble when they should be strong in the law against the ignorant wrangle of the mob. Colored men are aware that the property and personal and political rights of the Negro race would in no wise be secure or sacred f a Reeall by the prejudice-drunken populace awaited a judge who dared 0 be true. ‘These are, principles, eternal prin- ples, and Colored men everywhere are wake to them, their importance, their ignificance and their possibilities. Rooker T. Washington, himself a great Republican, and an ardent advocate of he re-election of President Taft, is ight: the interest of the Negro every- here is one, and he is again right rhen he boldly takes his place under he Republican banner as the safest helter from political storm—Adv. pression, and as much worse than Johnson’s alleged offense as the Ar menian Massacres, or Russian atroci- ties surpass in degree, a barroom row in Bath House John’s bailiwick. JOHN E, MILHOLLAND. COPY OF LETTER. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 28, 1912 Dr. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama. Dear Doctor: Considering the terrifie strain you recently put upon the confidence of your friends do you think it quite in keeping with the eternal fitness of things for yaieto assume to sit in judgment upon poor Jack Johnson! Is he not as much a victim of race prejudice as any man to day within or without the boundaries of Christen- dom! For if he were not Black would a word have been heard about the whole affair? Of the_ninety millions of people in this Nation you, it seems to me, should be the very last to assume the role that you felt called upon to play on this occasion, ‘Very traly yours, JOHN E. MILHOLLAND, Mrs. Anna French Roberts, wife of Mr. W. B. Roberts, died Mon. Oct. 28th at 8:10 o'clock, A. M. at Grace Hos- pital. ‘Mrs. Roberts was much loved and leaves a host of friends and relatives. ‘She was a niece of Mr. Peter French, js cousin of Misses Laura and Nettie ‘Frengh, who have lived in Chicago for 87 years. ‘Miss Carrie Barnes, a cousin of Mrs. |Boberts and « trained nurse, from Chi- cago Provident Hospital also died in K. C. Missouri a few days ago. ae from Proti- Obareh We Oct. Doth at 11 A. Oe ar e 1 stele . mek eas rane friend ‘of Roger ©. Sullivan, een P. | is willing” * down 0 Tite’ “s ig on the ‘election of a to the Presidency of if ~ : L Bud JOSEPH BE. BIDWILL, JE. Clerk of the Circuit Court and Republican Candidate for Re-election to ty same Position Tuesday, November Sth. Commended by all the judges ist Bureau of Efficiency. a Fe Coes ieee : ze * a ie i ee k Ld Sse oo a : ' ee a am babe. ; : oa ; ‘~ <a ; ; ee ‘ ge ee age nes oC er ‘HON. WILLIAM SULZER. The Great Champion af the Rights of the Plain or the Common People snd tb? 3 ‘ext Demoerstic Governor of the Empire State. Joseph E. Bidwill, Jr. the present efficient clerk of the Cireuit Court, and Republican candidate for re-election t ‘the same position, Tuesday, November 5th, was born in this city July 1, 1883 His parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E ‘Bidwill, were also born in Chicago ‘and have witnessed its marvelous growth, from a fair sized country town, to one of the best and one of the largest and most enterprising cities in the world. The present clerk of the Circuit Court; received his early education in the publie schools of this great city; finishing it or rounding it out, at St. Ignatius College, Loyola College of Law and the Lewis Institute. After graduating with the usual hon- ors, from these various educational in- stitutions, he started out, well forti- fied along these lines, to make a mark for himself, in this busy and bustling world. For some years thereafter, he was employed as a clerk, in the Chicago National Bank.’ Later on be served in the same capacity, with the Harris Brothers Trast Company. Like his father, he always took to polities, as easily and as readily, as duck takes to water and in 1906, he beeame the nominee of the Republican party for Clerk of the Cireuit Court and was elected with a handsome ma- jority and from that time to the pres- ent; be has been one of the few high class, public officials in this county and he has at all times, discharged the du- ties of his office, with considerable ex- ecutive ability. THE HONORABLE ANDREW BUE- SEL'S LETTER TO THE REPUB- \ LICANS OF ILLINOIS. The honorable Andrew Russel, Re- publican candidate for State Treasurer of Ilinois, has addressed the follow- ing letter to the Republican voters of this state: Dear Sir: After a vigorous campaign, I was selected on April 9th at the state-wide direct primary, as the standard bearer of the United Republican party, for State Treasurer. ‘There is and has been no complaint The following, judges of the Cimz Court; Frederick A. Smith, Jesse 4 Baldwin, John Gibbons, Merritt ¥, Pinekney, Adelor J. Petit, B. 8. Te hill, Kickbam Scanlan, Thomas ¢ Windes, Charles M. Walker, Edvard 0, Brown, Frank Baker, Lockwood Hm ore, George Kersten and Jobs P, MeGoorty; all join in highly comnead- ing Mr. Bidwill, for the efficient naz ner, in whieh he bas conducted the af fairs of his office and for volustarly ‘turning over to the county all the ix terests received by him on trust funds deposited by him. Aside from this high endorsement by the judges of the Circuit Court; he has ‘been endorsed by over one thousand lawyers, the Chicago Bar Association, the Bureau of Efficiency, and he stands on his record. Less than two years ago, Mr. Bid- will became united in marriage to Miss Mae Connery, one of the highly sc complished and beautiful daughters, of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Connery, 5233 Sheridan Boad, and Mr. and Mrs. Bid- will, are so far the proud and happy parents of one bright little daughter and they reside in an attractive home, at 5120 Sheridan Road. ‘Mr. Bidwill, is » prominent member of the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters, Charter Meher Chicago Court and on Tuesday Nove ber Sth, many voters regardles of their past political affiliations, will s+ sist to re-elect him Clerk of the Cir euit Court of Cook County—Adv't. 4s to the fairness of this primary, s¢ anyone desiring to be a candidate for any office had at that time the oppor tunity to present his name. It thu seems to me, from a strict sense of Justice, that the candidates who wert successful at said primary should be the ones who are voted for at the lee tion on November 5th. Believing that you will take this view of the case, and trusting that you will support me at the coming ele:tios, I am, Very traly yours, ANDREW RUSSEL ee as _ en oe eg . a ae ae oe feces é A eS ae , eee eg y ea a! : eat 2) i eek aes F Seal of : : ad ae a te : Es os | : : | | : : HON. THOMAS GALLAGHER. Democratic Candidate for Re-election to Congress from the Sth Congressional District, Who Voted and Worked in Congress for an Appropriation of $50,000 to Aid the Colored People to Properly Celebrate the Fiftieth An- utversary of Their Freedom in 1913 and Every Colored Voter in His Dis- ‘trict Should on Tuesday, November 5, Assist to Re-elect him to Congress. 5 yi. ~~ fe # : ge a Pe ae ee ete $ Zs Ze = P ii: i i ye i i - ei. ee geod oe | Re a Cae Ste S Z ay Hi 9 = “Ee oe, a | bila 2 . Ss aaa . A Popular Wht se Farms Sassi Se ean sot Deartaiees Cunangate ST. MARY'S A M. E. CHURCH, ‘5251 Dearborn St. ‘Rev. Jas. Higgins, Pastor. ae. Oe, a, Sa. Services 10:45; 7:45. 8.8. 1:45. Mrs. M. Clark, Supt. * GC. E 6:45. Mrs. L. Jones, Pres. 7:45. Rev. D. L. McGriff will Preach. ‘Monday Eve. Rev. Cato of Elgin, will begin services and continue all the week. ‘Tuesday Eve. General Class. patentee cer 206 easily seo Rev. W. D. Cook of Quinn Chapel will preach at 3 o'clock, also Quinn Chapel Choir will sing. THE APPOMATTOX CLUB. INFORMAL DANCING PARTY AT ‘Thursday evening, November 3, an informal dancing party will be given ‘at the Appomattox club, 3441 Wabash avenue. Esch member of the club will be entitled to invite one coupleas his guests. John T. Morton, Prof. William Emanuel, A. McGowan, H. F. Catlin, and P. Herrin, committee on entertain- ment. Col. Daniel Moriarity, head of the fighting 7th Regiment Ilinois National Guard, is gaining much strength each aay in his contest for one of the com- missioners of Céok county, and as he has many friends in all parts of it; he Jooks like an easy winner. ‘Mrs. Charles Lapsley of Chicago, who for the past three years has been living in Prinee Rupert, British Co- Jumbia is en route here from Seattle. COLORED PREACHER IN MIGHTY POOR BUSINESS. ‘When the clerk of the court called the name of Mrs, Mary Hart, Tuesdsy, October 29th, probably the oldest prisoner ever in the Desplaines street ‘court was arraigned before Municipal Judge Torrison. Mrs. Hart, 1858 Car- roll avenue, is a Colored womah one hundred years old. She was arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct on the complaint of D. J. Clemons, 3534 Vernon avenue, a Colored minister. Knowing nothing about the trouble between Rev. Clemons and Mrs. Hart, but it seems to us that it was very unmanly on his part to have her ar- rested and dragged into court. ‘Mrs. Coleman was agreeably sur. prised when at an early hour her friends came in to remind her that God had spared her to see 76 years of age, being of a retiring nature as ber daughter made no mention of the Day, she thought it had been forgotten, and decided to just let it pass by unnoticed but as she afterward remarked, ‘‘All things come to he who waits,’’ those Present were, Mrs. Taylor, 5628 Wabash, Mrs. Harris, 5208 State, Mrs. Beasley and daughter, 4719 Evans, Mrs. Pope, and Mrs. Johnson, 5402 State, Mrs. V. Johnson, Mrs. Scott, 5360 State, Mrs. Howell, 4315 Calu- met, Mrs. Tolkins, 5124 Dearborn, Mrs. Bond, Mrs. Parish, 5208 State St, dainty refreshments were served and a pleasant evening spent, Mrs. Pear! Randolph presided at the piano. Taft And Sherman — ‘To Win The Colored Voters ~ Will Stand by The Grand Old Party ‘The ond of the most interesting presidential contest the nation has wit nessed sinee the celebrated Jefferson Burr contest of a hundred years ago brings the Colored men of the country —in the North and South alike—tae to face with the political crisis prom ised in 1896, when the bourbon South began the insiduous campaign for the subjugation of the Colored citizen—a campaign, as all men now see, that culminated in the amazing attitude of Theodore Roosevelt, and in the bold and wicked daring of the captains sur- rounding him, who are notorious no less as enemies to » democracy to in- clude all men of all races than as Dbuceancers on the high ses of political plunder. "Six weeks ago Colored men had political blind staggers. They saw all things and discerned nothing. They heard © name and saw a~form. They did not realize that that name, once a sign of justice, was become a byword in the seats of the dishonored; and that form, oneé a majestic figure, was now but a shadow of a mighty man! ‘Theodore Roosevelt, in the first blush of a new political stroke, appealed to the imagination of the great mass of Colored people. But as his plans and purposes unfolded themselves before the people, under the logic and fearful eloquence of leading Colored men, aroused for their people’s sake, Mr. Roosevelt's part in the chief political conspiracy of the century became clear. Zeal gave way to thought, and thought did its work. From Santa Cruz to| Nahant, and from the tell-tale waters of Niagara to El Paso, Colored men are now in dread battle against two forees of evil arrayed with like power against them and against their ehil- iren—Mr. Roosevelt and his cohorts yn the one hand, and on the other, the sncient enemies of the state, the party wearing the label of Democracy, but eally floating the flag of oppression. The charge has often been made that Jolored men follow personalities— novipg figures in the political arena— nd that they care little for platforms nd principles. That this charge is] CBAIBMAN OF 255 SAMUNAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CONSTITUTION LEAGUE. ‘Strikes At Joseph Medill Patterson “The (Tribune’’ Chicago And Booker T. Washington. The Hon. John E. Milbolland, chair man of the National Executive Com. mittee, of the Constitution League of the United States, with headquarter: in New York City, which has for its motto, ‘‘Equality of Rights is the first of Rights,’ strikes at Joseph ‘Medill Patterson, ‘‘The Tribune’ Chicago, Illinois, the copy of the tele- gram following and also the copy of the letter to Booker T. Washington, respecting the Jack Johnson affair, Philadelphia, October 25, 1912. Joseph Medill Patterson, “‘The Tribune.’’ 2 * Chicago, DL If you can persuade the Governor to call out State Militia, I might try to induce President Taft to mobilize the Army in Cook County, and the Fleet on Lake Michigan. This with the Attorney General in personal charge of Federal prosecution would possibly protect chaste Chicago, and immaculate Minnespolis from the de- moralizing infinenee of that Hell loathed creature, Jack Johnson, whose primary offense of failing to get him- self born white, has been supplemented by daring to become the gamest and most. scientific fighter since Castor and Pollox, and finally, by venturing upon a love affair without the consent of all the Common Councils and Boards of Trade in Illinois and Minnesota, ‘The spectacle of two great American cities lashing themselves into the fury of = Georgis lynching mob, over. an alleged offense as deplorably common among whites, as campaign lying, is & record exhibition to this old treed af canting hypecrser, npachiy, Syletes * ee ae ten oa icecream > wite, swapping Aa a. display of os mace preje aoe ot Maiene. =P , t King J ty Bagienl seta conetand nanaaran zation. It is contemptible b = without foundation is seen in the al ‘most unanimous rejection by Colore: men of the principles of the Progress ive party—particularly of s platforn that includes a pledge to every caus save the cause of the American Negr —and their return to the principle and platform of the Republican Party that has stood unmoved against all th changing years, and that now suffer ‘the bitter opposition of the voters be feause the party leaders refused to betray or desert the Colored Repub- lieans of the South. Colored men know that the woeful possibilities of the Initiative, for by that sign the Democratic party in the South, twin-devil with the Progressive party, disfranehised the Colored men of the South, starting in Mississippi in 1890. Colored men are alive to the evil consequences of the Referendum, for under that star the ignorant white electorate of the South put their seal of approval upon the crimes of the Democratic constitutional conventions that had annulled the spirit and de graded the letter of the amendments to the organic law. Colored men understand the sig- nifieanee involved in the acceptance and adoption wf the Recall, for they have seen the judiciary of an entire nation tremble when they should be strong in the law against the ignorant wrangle of the mob. Colored men are aware that the property and personal and political rights of the Negro race would in no wise be secure or sacred it a Recall by the projudice-drunken populace awaited a judge who dared to be true. These are, principles, eternal prin- ciples, and Colored men everywhere are awake to them, their importance, their Booker T. Washington, himself a great Republican, and an ardent advocate of he re-election of President Taft, is ight: the interest of the Negro every- where is one, and he is again right when he boldly takes his place under he Republican banner as the safest helter from political storm—Adv. pression, and as much worse thar Johnson’s alleged offense as the Ar menian Massacres, or Russian atroci ties surpass in degree, a barroom row in Bath House John’s bailiwiek. JOHN E, MILHOLLAND. COPY OF LETTER. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 28, 1912 Dr. Booker T. Washington, ‘Tuskegee, Alabama. Dear Doetor: Considering the terrifle strain you recently put upon the confidence of your friends do you think it quite ix keeping with the eternal fitness of things for jameto assume to sit ix judgment upon poor Jack Johnson Is he not as much a victim of race prejudice as any man to day within or without the boundaries of Christen- dom? For if he were not Black would a word have been heard about the whole affair? Of the_ninety millions of people in this Nation you, it seems to me, should be the very last to assume the role that you felt called upon to play on this occasion, Very traly yours, JOHN E. MILHOLLAND, ‘Mrs, Anna_French Roberts, wife of Mr. W. B. Roberts, died Mon. Oct. 28th ‘at 8:10 o'clock, A. M. at Grace Hos- pital. ‘Mrs. Roberts was much loved and leaves a host of friends and relatives. She was a niece of Mr. Peter French, ® cousin of Misses Laura and Nettie Frengh, who have lived in Chicago for 87 years. ‘Miss Carrie Barned, a cousin of Mrs. Boberts and a trained nurse, from Chi- cago Provident Hospital also died in K..C. Missouri 2 few days ago. ‘Mrs. Boberts was buried from Proti- dence Baptist Church Wednesday Oct. ee Hunt, who is “dose friend of Roger oes ‘and ‘the’ Hoa! John P. ee ene aes the ‘election of Wilson, to the Presidency of fas JOSEPH EB. BIDWILL, JB. Glerk of the Circuit Court and Republican Candidate for Re-clection to thy same Position Tuesday, November Sth. Commended by all the judges a Bureau of Efficiency. 4 ee ce # fa cA a e we x. @ | é g . nN [eee aa ey ‘HON. WILLIAM SULZER. ‘The Great Champion of the Rights of the Piain ox the Common People snd tb - Mamh Democratic Governor of the Empire State. Joseph E. Bidwill, Jr, the present efficient clerk of the Cireuit Court, and Republican candidate for re-election to ‘the same position, Tuesday, November 5th, was born in this city July 1, 1883. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E ‘Bidwill, were also born in Chicago ‘and have witnessed its marvelous growth, from = fair sized country town, to one of the best and one of ‘the largest and most enterprising cities im the world. ‘The present clerk of the Circuit Court; reesived his early education in the public schools of this great city; finishing it or rounding it out, at St. ‘Tgnatins College, Loyola College of ‘Law and the Lewis Institute. After graduating with the usual hov- ors, from these various educational in- stitutions, he started out, well forti- fied along these lines, to make a mark for himself, in this busy and bustling world. For some years thereafter, he was employed as a clerk, in the Chicago National Bank.» Later on he served in the same capacity, with the Harris Brothers Trust Company. Like his father, he always took to polities, as easily and as readily, as a duck takes to water and in 1906, he became the nominee of the Republican party for Clerk of the Cirenit Court and was elected with a handsome ma- jority and from that time to the pres- ent; he has been one of the few high class, publie officials in this county and he has at all times, discharged the du- ties of his office, with considerable ex- ecutive ability. ‘THE HONORABLE ANDREW RUS- SEL'S LETTER TO THE REPUB- | LICANS OF ILLINOIS. The honorable Andrew Russel, Re- publican candidate for State Treasurer of Illinois, has addressed the follow- ing letter to the Republican voters of this state: Dear Sir: After a vigorous campaign, I was ‘selected on April 9th at the state-wide direct primary, as the standard bearer of the United Republican party, for State Treasurer. ‘There is and has been no complaint ‘The following, judges of the Cirmz Court; Frederick A. Smith, Jesse 4 Baldwin, John Gibbons, Merritt ¥, Pinekney, Adelor J. Petit, RB. 8. Te ‘bill, Kiekham Scanlan, Thomas ¢ Windes, Charles M. Walker, Edward 0, Brown, Frank Baker, Lockwood Ho: ore, George Kersten and Jobs P MeGoorty; all join in highly commead- ing Mr. Bidwill, for the efficient mux ner, in which he has conducted the at. fairs of his office and for voluataiiy turning over to the county all the ix terests reeeived by him on trust funds deposited by him. Aside from this high endorsement by the judges of the Circuit Court; he has endorsed by over one thousand lawyers, the Chicago Bar Association, the Bureau of Efficiency, und he stands on his record. Less than two years ago, Mr. Bid- ‘will became united in marriage to Miss Mae Connery, one of the highly se complished and beautiful daughters, of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Connery, 5228 Sheridan Boad, and Mr. and Mrs. Bid will, are so far the proud and happy parents of one bright little daughter and they reside in an attractive hom, at 5120 Sheridan Road. | Mr. Bidwill, is a prominent member of the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters, Charter Menber Chicago Court and on Tuesday Nove ber 5th, many voters regariles of their past political affiliations, will sist to re-eMet him Clerk of the Cir enit Court of Cook County.—Adr't as to the fairness of this primary, snd anyone desiring to be a candidate fot any office had at that time the oppor tunity to present his name. It tho seems to me, from a strict sense of Justice, that the candidates who wert successful at said primary should be the ones who are voted for at the elee tion on November Sth. Believing that you will take this view of the case, and trusting that you will support me at the coming election, Tam, ‘Very traly yours, ANDREW RUSSEL M. Barratt O'Hara was born at St. Joseph, Michigan, on April 28, 1883. For three generations his family has been active in behalf of Democracy, his grandfather, the late ex-Judge John O'Hara of Wisconsin, having voted for the first presidential nominee of the party and campaigned for every subsequent nominee, and his father, ex-Judge Thomas O'Hara of Michigan, having stumped the country for every nominee from Hanock to Bryan. In 1898, when just turned 16, he enlisted as a private in the Thirty-third Michigan Volunteers and took an active part in the stage of Santiago. He was in charge of the squad exchanging the Spanish prisoners for Captain Hobson and party, and for gallantry on that occasion was voted a medal by the national congress. He received a classical education at the Missouri-State University, and later pursued the study of law at Northwestern University and the Chicago Kent College of Law, receiving his degree in law from the latter institution. He was married to Miss Florence M. Hoffman of Cabery, Ford county, Illinois, and has three children. M. Harry Woods, the Democratic nominee for secretary of state of Illinois, has never held a political office. He was born in Canada in 1863, and came to Illinois with his mother in 1877, at the age of 14. He was called on by necessity to aid in the support of his mother, and found employment as a messenger. His rise in the commercial world was, like most of our American self-made men, slow. In 1890 he embarked in the grain trade and remains in it to the present day, and the interest taken in his candidacy by his fellow members, both in the Illinois and National Grain Dealers' Association, bespeaks his popularity and the esteem in which he is held by his associates in the grain trade. M. James J. Brady, Democratic nominee for auditor of public accounts, is a native of Chicago, and was born in the West Side district January 10th, 1978. He attended the public grammar and high schools, and after finishing his education he obtained employment with the Western Union Telegraph company in the operating department and subsequently was promoted to the position of wire chief, which position he now holds. Mr. Brady's success in the primary election was largely due to the unstring efforts of the members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers and the Commercial Telegraphers' Association of Illinois. He has always taken an active part in public affairs, is a member of several civic and social organizations. Mr. Brady is unmarried and residues with his mother and sisters at 2352 Shakespeare avenue, Chicago, IL. 1234567890 P. J. Lucey was born at the city of Ottawa, Illinois, May 2, 1873. Educated in the city schools, and graduating from the Ottawa High school in 1890, he went to the city of Chicago and studied law three years in the office of Duncan & Gilbert, and after being admitted to the bar of Illinois, returned to his native county of La Salle and became assistant to the state's attorney of La Salle county. In 1895 Mr. Lucey removed to the city of Streator and engaged in the general practice of his profession, and although Streator was and still is a Republican city, Mr. Lucey was elected city attorney in 1897, and re-elected in 1901. Three times elected mayor of Streator, Mr. Lucey's administrations were marked with the institution of great public improvements. Mr. Lucey has been a member of the executive committee of the Streator Commercial club since its organization and has been its president the last three years. J. James Hamilton Lewis was born in Danville, Va., May 18, 1866. He attended Houghton college and the University of Virginia and studied law in Savannah, Ga. He was admitted to the bar in 1884. He removed to Seattle, Wash., in 1886 and was elected to the territorial senate. In 1892 he was a candidate for governor of Washington and two years later was the nominee for Unite'. States senator. In 1896 he was the state of Washington candidate for the vice-presidential nomination at the Democratic national convention. He was a member of the Fifty-fifth Congress (1897-9) and was the author of the resolution in Congress in 1897 for the recognition of Cuban independence. In 1900 he was a candidate for the vice-presidential nomination at the Democratic national convention at Kansas City indorsed by the Pacific coast states. He removed to Chicago in 1903 and in 1906-7 was corporation counsel. He was a candidate for governor of Illinois in 1908. . William Ryan, Jr., was born in Danville, Ill., forty years ago. Finishing the course in the Danville schools he learned the trade of blacksmith and after four years at the forge entered college. Returning to Danville he started, with a partner, the manufacture of carriages, but in 1902 he took over the business and since that time has been in successful control of the Ryan Carriage company. His business naturally interested him in good roads. This also led to his selection as the Democratic nominee for highway commissioner of Danville township in 1911, and although the Republicans have a majority of 1,700, he was elected and still holds the office. He is a member of the T. P. A., the traveling men's organization. He is the first member of that order to receive a nomination on the state ticket of any party and is receiving their enthusiastic support. M. Lawrence B. Stringer is forty-six years of age, resides at Lincoln, Ill., and is a practicing attorney. He came to Illinois from New Jersey with his parents when he was ten years of age. Being thrown largely upon his own resources, he secured an education by working at the printer's case odd hours and during vacations. He is a graduate of Lincoln University, with the degree of A. B., LL B., from Lake Forest University. He was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1904, being but thirty-seven years of age, and ran nearly 10,000 votes ahead of his party ticket in the state. He carried every county in the state in 1908 as candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States senator and made a continuing fight for party regularity and primary integrity in the five months' legislative deadlock which followed. In the primaries of this year he was nominated for congressman-at-large by a majority of 60,000, carrying all but two counties in the state as against eight competitors. M. B. John R. Trevett was born in Chicago December 14, 1853. Four years later he removed with his parents to Champaign, where he has lived ever since. Mr. Trevett entered the public schools at Champaign in 1858 and matriculated in the University of Illinois April 1, 1868. For a year he worked as a clerk in a hardware store. He then became a bank clerk. His rise in this line of business was steady and he is now vice-president of the Trevett-Mattis Banking company. In Champaign he was at different times city treasurer, president of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, president Board of Park Commissioners, and president of the Chamber of Commerce (two terms). He has also served as chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee. He is a Past Exalted Ruler and now trustee of B. P. O. E. No. 398. Past Chancellor Commander and for the last twenty years M. of E. of Valient Lodge No. 130 Knights of Pythias. Mary C. Democratic Nominee for University Trustee. Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin was born in Portland, Maine. Both her parents were natives of that state. Later the family moved to New Haven, Conn. In 1868 Mrs. Henrotin was married to Charles Henrotin of Chicago, consul general for Turkey and consul for Belgium. When the Columbian Exposition was organized, it was necessary to secure a woman who would take charge of the committees of women to organize the auxiliary congresses. Mrs. Henrotin undertook the task. At the close of the exposition Mrs. Henrotin was elected president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of the United States. Mrs. Henrotin has been decorated by several foreign governments. From the Sultan of Turkey she received the order of the Charifat, from the French republic she was made "Officier de Tinstruction Publica" and from the Belgian government "Chavallier de l'Ordre de Leopold." J. Edward F. Dunne, Democratic nominee for governor of Illinois, was born at Waterville, Conn., on October 12, 1853. Within a year his parents moved to Peoria, Ill., and here the son spent his youth and early manhood. After graduating from the Peoria public and high schools, Mr. Dunne was sent to the world-famous Trinity College at Dublin to complete his education. While at work in his father's mill at Peoria, Mr. Dunne pursued a course of reading with reference to the legal profession. in 1876 he regularly began the study of law in Chicago and in 1877 was admitted to the Illinois bar. He withdrew from practice in 1892, upon being elected to fill a vacancy on the circuit court bench. He was re-elected in 1897 and again in 1908. In April, 1905, after serving thirteen years on the circuit court bench, Judge Dunne was elected mayor of Chicago. Judge Dunne secured needed increases in the pay of firemen and policemen and for the army of laborers employed upon the public works of Chicago. Judge Dunne was married to Elizabeth J. Kelly of Chicago, at Chicago in 1881. They have thirteen children, of whom nine are still living. HUBERT KILENS, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION TO THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS FROM THE FOURTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT. maintains his office at his home, 5026 South Ashland avenue, where he and Mrs. Kilens, and their two children hold forth and are well known to the neighbors. Hubert Kilens, Democratic candidate for re-election to the legislature of Illinois from the Fourth Senatorial district, which runs from 39th street to 55th street, State street to city limits west, and the first precinct in the 31st ward, was born in Chicago, January 19, 1875, and has lived in the Fourth Senatorial district for the past nineteen years. For more than twenty-two years he has been an expert optician and he HON. WALTER E. SCHMIDT. Among the various candidates, for member of the Board of Assessors of Cook county, none of them are better qualified for the position, than Walter E. Schmidt, one of its present members, who is seeking re-election to it, as the Republican ticket. For four years he was assistant county treasurer, theraby, enabeling him to become perfectly familiar with all of the affairs, pertaining to his present office. During his term as assistant county treasurer, he was ever ready to show his friendship for Afro-Americans, and the following were employed in his office by him. A. H. Roberts, Attorney A. L. Williams, James T. Brewington, Henry Harris, Robert C. Towne, Mathew Smith, Louis A. Jones, Walter Thompkins, James P. Waggoner, John Nelson, Sanford Harris, and George H. Woodson. At no time in the history of Cook county, have such a large number of Colored men served as clerks in that WALTER R. SCHMIDT. Member of the Board of Almonstons, a Friend of the Small Tax-payers and Republican Candidate for Re-election to the Position No Occupies at the Frumont Time. maintains his office at his home, 5028 South Ashland avenue, where he and Mrs. Kilens, and their two children hold forth and are well known to the neighbors. During his past term in the legislature he always cast his lot on the side of the working people. He voted for the Initiative and Referendum, employer's liability act, workingmen's compensation, ten hour law, and against the Trading Stamp bill. His record in the legislature in the past entitles him to receive the votes of the majority of the residents of the Fourth Senatorial district on Tuesday, November 5.—Adv. R E. SCHMIDT. office. This was owing to the broad mindedness and fair play spirit possessed by Mr. Schmidt. In appreciation, of his liberality in this respect, and his fitness for the position as member of the Board of Assessors, the following committee of Afro-American citizens, recommend his re-election and urge the Colored voters, throughout this city and Cook county, to loyally support him at the polls, Tuesday, November 5th. Dr. E. S. Miller, Rev. E. J. Fisher, Alexander Stephens, Louis Seldon, Col John R. Marshall, James T. Brewington, Jr., Hon. James A. Scott, Maj John C. Buckner, Atty. W. W. Johnson, S. B. Turner, Atty. W. G. Anderson, Henry S. Goins, Esq., Rev. D. P. Roberts, Hon. E. H. Wright, Chester Henderson, Maj. R. R. Jackson, Rev. A. J. Carey, Maj. F. A. Denison, Hon. F. L. Barnett, A. H. Roberts, Capt John L. Fry, R. S. Abbott, Thomas Motts, Rep. E. D. Green, Dr. M. J. Brown, Dr. L. H. Harland and T. M. Grant—Advt. James J. Townsend Chairman of the Campaign Commitee of the Central Commitee of the Democratic Party of Cook County PREDICTS A SWEEPING VICTORY FOR WILSON AND MARSHALL FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HE DECLARES THAT EDWARD F. DUNNE WILL BE ELECTED GOV- ERNOR OF ILLINOIS WITH A GREAT MAJORITY AT HIS BACK. THAT EACH AND EVERY CANDIDATE ON THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET IN COOK COUNTY WILL COME IN UNDER THE WIRES AHEAD OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. The memorable campaign of 1912 is drawing to a close, and in summiting it up James J. Townsend, chairman of the 1912 campaign committee of the central committee of the Democratic party of Cook county, predicts that 60,000 Democratic majority will be rolled up in Cook county, insuring the election of Edward F. Dunne for governor of Illinois and every man from the highest to the lowest on the county ticket, that Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall will be elected president and vice president of the United States. That on Tuesday, November 5th, Democracy will win a greater victory, such as she has not won since the days of Thomas Jefferson. That Woodrow Wilson will be the most intellectual president that has ever occupied the presidential chair in the White House. That Edward F. Dunne, as governor of Illinois, will be closer to the people than any of his predecessors, with the possible exception of the late Governor John P. Alkeld, that his humane side SHALL THE WHITE HOUSE BE MORTGAGED TO TRUSTS? Big Business Is Financing the Campaigns of Both Roosevelt and Taft—Vote for Wilson. When the trusts that fatten on government favor go out to buy the presidency for any man, you may know that that man will shape his presidential policy to suit the trusts. The trusts are not in the habit of getting the worst end of a bargain. When they pay out money in any cause, they expect to get it back with big profits. In 1904, and again in 1908, the trusts were united. They got the president and the policies which they wanted. This year the trusts have divided. Being human, trust managers sometimes quarrel. But observe this: Some trusts are backing President Taft, and some other trusts are backing Mr. Roosevelt—but not a trust in the land is backing Gov. Wilson. Gov. Wilson is the only candidate whose policies cannot be controlled by any trust. Therefore he is the only candidate whose campaign is not backed by any trust. Dan R. Hanna, son of Mark Hanna, gave $177,000 to the Roosevelt campaign in Ohio. Bill Flinn gave $144,000 to the Roosevelt campaign in Pennsylvania. George W. Perkins gave $122,500 to the Roosevelt campaign all over the country. Mr. Roosevelt must have had nearly a million dollars of trust magnate money to spend in fighting for the republican nomination. How much these trust magnates have given to finance the "progressive" party, heaven only knows. Does any person in his senses accuse Flinn, and Hanna, and Perkins of being carried away by enthusiasm? Does not everyone know that these are shrewd, hard-headed business men, accustomed to weigh carefully every investment they make? In 1904, trusts and corporations contributed 73 1-2 per cent of Mr. Roosevelt's huge campaign fund. The testimony before the senate committee proves that at least one great group of trusts is as anxious to elect Mr. Roosevelt now as it was in 1904. President Taft is nearly as deep in the mud as Roosevelt is in the mire. Charles P. Taft, the president's brother, has given $500,000 to his brother's campaign funds in 1908 and 1912. This is extravagant, but natural. Charles P. Taft is a very rich man; and any rich man may be excused for giving liberally to place his brother in the white house. But outside this contribution dictated by family pride, Taft's campaign fund comes as straight from trust coffers as does Roosevelt's campaign fund. President Taft is committed to a trust policy, a tariff policy, and a banking policy which will yield untold millions each year to the privileged interests. has always been on the side of the people. Chairman Townsend, in winding up, states that "On the eve of the greatest of all political battles, we find our friends, the enemy, or the Republicans, are preparing to throw away their guns and desert the field of action; that they are moving out of the way of the great host of Democracy; that now is the time for all lukewarm Democrats to hop into the band-wagon and assist in the fight, so as to be able to share in the fruits of the victory." John J. McGillen, chairman of the central committee of the Democratic party of Cook county and its secretary, George L. McConnell, are greatly elated over the fact; that a greater number of Afro-Americans are supporting the Democratic ticket this year than at any other time, and that thirty per cent of the Colored voters in Illinois will record their votes in favor of Edward F. Dunne and his running mates throughout the state and candidates in Cook county.—Adv. Gov. Wilson alone is pledged to a policy which the trusts, and tariff barons, and money monopolists hate and fear. Does the ordinary voter like to see trusts buy the presidency? Does the ordinary voter like to see trusts rule the nation merely by financing a candidate and a party? If not, then the ordinary voter should vote for Gov. Wilson; the one candidate free from all trust affiliations or taint. The dollars of the trusts can be offset only by the ballots of the people. Vote for Wilson—The Chicago Journal, October 30, 1912. HEALTH NOTES If the school room is sanitary it is safe; if not, it is dangerous. * * * The surroundings of pupils in the class room should be as bright, cheerful and attractive as they can be made, if the children are to make the best progress with their educational work. Don't forget that if health makes for happiness, happiness makes for health. So don't be a grouch, even if you don't feel just first rate. It may be safely assumed that the habitual grouch and grumbler has some chronic physical ailments, and the chances are, too, that the grouchy disposition tends to aggravate his physical troubles. So keep your temper, look on the bright side of things, take the sunny side of the street, get all the fresh air you need, and you will pull through all right. A few weeks more and the winter days will be here, also the snow will come down and the sidewalks will need cleaning. In Chicago, and especially in the resident districts the sidewalks are, as a rule, shamefully neglected. This coming winter let us all do better and keep our sidewalks clean and free from snow and ice. "Where is the health side of such advice as this?" you ask. Well, you will find it in getting out of doors in the fresh, crisp, wintry air, and in the exercise you will get by using the snow shovel for a half hour or so, after each fall of snow. Also, don't be small about it, and if your neighbor is not fully alive to his responsibilities, why clean his walk for him a time or two and make him asthmated of himself. Be sensible and cheerful, good-natured and kind. Don't worry. Keep your poise. Look troubles squerely in the face and most of them will turn tail and run. It is worry, not work, that kill. Live right and do right and you will be right all the time. Attorney Frank D. Comerford, with offices on the 9th floor of the Ashland Block. The silver tongued orator, feels sure of the calling and election of Governor Woodrow Wilson. Mr. MAJ. ROBERT R. JACKSON. It Makes Not the Slightest Difference dent of the United States, Tuesday Maj. B. R. Jackson, Republican C from the 3rd Senatorial District. It Makes Not the Slightest Difference Who You Vote for or Support for President of the United States, Tuesday, November 5th, Just so You Vote for Maj. R. B. B. Jackson, Republican Candidate for the Legislature of Illinois from the 3rd Senatorial District. Major Robert R. Jackson, the gallant soldier, one of our old time warm friends, and Republican candidate for the legislature of Illinois from the Third Senatorial district, has received the endorsement of every newspaper in Chicago. The legislative voters' league highly sings his praise and speaks of him thusly, for member of the lower house, Republican, third district (parts of wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5): Robert R. Jackson, 435 East 37th street, 2nd ward. Business manager, military commander. Born in Illinois, 1870. Married. Forty years in Cook county. Has been assistant superintendent in the Chicago postoffice. He is recommended as a man of in- HONORABLE JAMES T. McDERMOTT At the congressional election in 1906 after a spirited contest, with Charles Wharton, the Hon. James T. McDermott, was elected to congress from the fourth congressional district. He was re-elected in 1908 and in 1910, each time with increased majorities, showing that he stands high in the estimation of the voters in his district, regardless of their race, color or nationality and that a large number of independent and progressive Republicans at each election, record their votes in his favor, feeling that he is plenty good enough, to represent them in the halls of Congress. Congressman McDermott, not with any brass bands, in the past, diligently labored in Congress for the best interest of all the people, in his district, the six years that he has so faithfully --- JAMES T. McDERMOTT Who You Vote for or Support for Presi- ty, November 5th, Just so You Vote for candidate for the Legislature of Illinois tegrity and ability who would doubt- less make a satisfactory represen- tative. The first of this week the United Societies endorsed him and commended his election. In view of his eminent standing as a first class and up-to-date business man, for he is the president of the Fraternal Printing Company, 2551 South State street, the best and most extensive printing establishment conducted by Afro-Americans in Chicago, it should be a source of great pleasure to every Colored voter residing in the Third Senatorial district to place an (X) on Tuesday, November 5th, in front of his name. Elect him to the legislature and thus honor the race to which he belongs.—Adv. served them. This fact was largely manifested at the contest at the primaries last April. At that time with two opponents in the field, he ran in under the wire away ahead of both of them, with a good healthy majority at his back. Congressman McDermott, who always talks keen, sharp and right to the point; has in many ways in the past both in and out of Congress, shown his friendship for the Colored race, and we take much pleasure in stating, that many Afro-American voters in the Fourth Congressional district, as many of them supported him at the primaries; will on Tuesday, November 5th, assist, to re-elect him to Congress for the fourth term from the Fourth Congressional district, of Illinois.—Adult. --- THE WORLD'S FINEST WOMEN Miss Flora A. Watson, one of the Democratic nominees for university trustee, has a well deserved reputation throughout the state as an educator. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lake Watson, and was born on a farm near Iola in Clay county. She received her education in the Illinois Normal college, the Orchard City college and in the State Normal schools at Normal and Charleston. Miss Watson has been teaching for eight years and at present is connected with the city schools at Effingham. At the state Democratic convention Miss Watson was nominated for university trustee without a dissenting vote. She is well known throughout the southern section of the state. WILLIAM OSTROM William Ostrom, Republican candidate for re-election to the Legislature of Illinois, from the 3rd senatorial district, comprising all of the old third, part of the old 4th and part of the old 6th wards, was born in the old 4th ward in 1865, and from his boyhood days to the present time he has always resided in the very shadow of his birth place, he received his education in the public schools of this, his native city. Not being born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he learned and successfully worked at his trade that of a smelter and refiner. [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. WILLIAM OSTROM. Republican Candidate for Re-election to the Legislature of Illinois from the 3rd Senatorial District Comprising All of the Old Third, Part of the Old 4th and Part of the Old 6th Wards. Having a liking for the game of politics he entered it with all of his might shortly after he was able to vote and as it did not take him long to muster up a strong following in his ward and in time he was rewarded for his faithful services to his party with an appointment to a position in the sheriff's office. Later on he was selected as one of the deputy coroners of Cook county by Coronar Peter M. Hoffman, and he is still holding down that position with much credit to himself. He was elected to fill a vacancy in the Lower House, the first time and re-elected for a full term in 1910 and so for he has made a creditable record in that body. Several days prior to the convening of the 47th General Assembly he made himself solid with the four thousand Afro-American voters residing in his district by fighting in the Republican caucus for the appointment of Jesse Hawkins of this city of one of the assistant sergt, at arms of the Lower House at Springfield and he won out. For many years Mr. Ostrom has resided at 8186 Princeton ave. and the doorknob on his home always swing both ways for his friends and supporters who feel confident on Tuesday, November 5, of rebooting him into the Legislature of Illinois.-Advil. CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. The following are the candidates of the various political parties for President and Vice-President of the United States DEMOCRATIC—FOR PRESIDENT, WOODROW WILSON, OF NEW JERSEY. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, THOMAS R. MARSHALL OF INDIANA. REPUBLICAN—FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, OF OHIO. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN, OF NEW YORK. "WE STAND AT ARMAGEDDON AND WE BATTLE FOR THE LORD." PROGRESSIVE-REPUBLICAN TICKET. (S. J.) FOR PRESIDENT, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, OF NEW YORK. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, HIBAM W. JOHNSON, OF CALI- FORNIA. *PROGRESSIVE PARTY (FOR SO- CIAL JUSTICE.) PROHIBITION — FOR PRESIDENT, EUGENE W. CHAFIN, OF ARI- ZONA. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT—AARON S. WATKINS, OF OHIO. SOCIALIST—FOR PRESIDENT, EUGENE V. DEBS, OF INDIANA. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, EMIL SEIDEL OF WIS. SOCIALIST LABOR FOR PRESIDENT ARTHUR E. REIMER. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, AUGUST GILHAUS. It is the duty of the many readers of The Broad Ax, to intelligently study the platforms and the issues presented by all of the presidential candidates and their supporters, so that they will be better prepared to vote for their choice, for president of the United States, November 5. GEORGE W. ELLIS. Director Colored Western National Progressive Bureau Hotel La Salle. Hon. Edward D. Green, Republican candidate for re-election to the legislature of Illinois, from the First Senatorial District; is so well and favorably known, to the people, throughout the length and breadth of this state that he needs no long introduction to the many thousand readers of The Broad Ax. The terms that he has served in the legislature in the past, have been of lasting credit to himself and to the race which he has so eminently represented. The two most noteable pieces of legislation, which he successfully championed and had placed on the statute books of this state; which are in full force and of vital effect at the present time, are his Anti-Mob Law, which gives the governor of Illinois the power to remove the sheriff of any county from office, or other higher officials, who permit Mob and Lynch Law, to assume the functions of the orderly administration of the laws, in their respective counties or communities and his amendment to the "Civil Rights Bill" of this state; making it unlawful, for cemeteries, within its borders, to discriminate in the price of graves or burial lots, against any one, on account of their color, race or nationality. It is gratifying to state; that every Democratic member of the legislature except one, joined hands with Mr. Green, and heartily voted for this amendment to the "Civil Rights Bill." Showing, that he stands well with both parties, Democratic and Republican, proving that there is no deep seated hostility, on the part of the Democratic law-makers of this state against its Colored population. Therefore, the voters in the First Senatorial district; cannot confer any greater honor upon themselves, than to re-elect, Edward D. Green, to the legislature of this state on Tuesday, November 5th. R. S. C. Prominent and influential member of the Knights of Pythias and Republican candidate for re-election to the legislature of Illinois, from the first senatorial district. STATE SENATOR AL. F. GORMAN. State Senator Al. F. Gorman, who is a candidate for re-election, is a product of the Stock Yards district. He received his preliminary education in St. Gabriel's school. He completed his education at St. Patrick's Commercial Academy and at St. Ignatius College. For a number of years Mr. Gorman practiced architecture, designing many of the buildings in this neighborhood. In 1900 he was elected supervisor of the town of Lake and re-elected in 1901. One of the many warm friends of worthy Afro-Americans and Democratic candidate for re-election to the State Senate of Illinois from the 4th senatorial district. He was elected to the State Senate in 1908 and has made a clean, conscientious and intelligent representative, being especially active in favor of measures of interest to the men and women who work. He favored the measure which prohibits discrimination against Colored people by cemetery associations. In the last state senate he actively served on important committees and was very popular with all the members of both branches of the legislature. Adv't. THE WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. Continues to Do Effective Work for His Election to the Presidency of the United States. The western headquarters of the Woodrow Wilson National Progressive Republican league are located on the sixth floor of the McCormick building, in this city, and in the latest statement issued by the managers of the league, states that "As the campaign draws to a close, it is certain that Woodrow Wilson will receive more than 3,000,000 Republican votes for president. William Randolph Spreckels of San Francisco, president of the league, and Senator John J. Blaine of Wisconsin, one of the vice presidents of the league, are well pleased with the work accomplished by it and they are both positivov that: "A number of strong Republican states have been placed in the Wilson column by these men who said that Wilson would carry them with the aid of Progressive Republican votes. "Not only will the Progressive Republicans vote in large numbers for Wilson," said Mr. Spreckels, "but it is the intention of those who disapprove of Taft but who will not submit to Mr. Roosevelt's attempt to disrupt the Republican party, to go right along with the Progressive Republican movement, reorganize it and place it upon the same substantial footing it held prior to the national conventions this year when it was led by the fighting Republican insurgents in the United States Senate." A national convention of Progressive Republicans will be held next April in Chicago, at which each state will be asked to have representation. The movement will be reorganized and a four years' fight will be begun to purify American politics through the medium of the Republican party. Mr. Spreckels said that California would be carried for Wilson by the aid of Republican votes. Senator Blaine said that the same would happen in Wisconsin. Frank E. Packard, editor of the Bismarck (N. D.) Times, in a written report, said that Roosevelt will not get as many votes in North Dakota as he did at the presidential primary when he was defeated by Senator La Follette, and that Wilson will carry that state. Among the other Republican states placed in the Wilson column by Republican votes, according to the announcement, are Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Michigan and Ohio. The list of names gathered by the league has reached a total of more than 800,000. This number of letters, each containing literature, has been mailed from the headquarters. Progressive Republican organizers have visited the states where the Progressive Republican movement is strong. Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston, and other Progressive Republican speakers have been on the stump working for Wilson. The same work has been carried on in the East from the New York headquarters of the league in the Metropolitan building, and on the Pacific coast from the California headquarters in San Francisco. The members have chosen this method of rebuking those who left the Progressive Republican movement to start the Third Party. "The tremendous success with which our league has met indicates clearly that the Progressive movement lies properly within the Republican party and that the Third Party will fail." said Senator Blaine. Berean Baptist Church is the Church for "Strangers," a hearty welcome, good preaching and good singing awaits you at 4838 Dearborn St. Berean begins on time and dismisses on time. Evening service 8 P. M. don't forget Sunday School, classes for young and old. Mrs. Ella Wheeler, 5025 Armour has returned from a three weeks visit in Mendota, Ill. November 21st at 8 P. M. Berean Choir assisted by Rev. Braddon will render the beautiful Cantata, "David the Shepherd Boy," come and enjoy a pleasant evening. Sunday Eve. at 8:45 the B. Y. P. W. had their formal opening, an excellent program was rendered assisted by Mr. Harris from Shiloh Baptist Church and Miss Johnson from Providence. The Flower Club are doing good work, may it continue. Mrs. Frank White of 5360 State St., surprised her mother, Mrs. Matilda Coleman, Monday Eve., by inviting in a few friends to help make merry her 76th birthday. M. Hon. William Elsa Williams of Pittsfield was born on 5 farm in Pike county, Illinois, May 5, 1857. When a boy he worked on the farm during the spring, summer and fall, and attended the district school in the winter, until eighteen years of age, when he became a student in Illinois College. Later he read law, and was licensed to practice in this state in March, 1880. In 1886 he was elected state's attorney for an unexpired term of two years, and in 1888 was re-elected for a full term. After the expiration of his second term as state's attorney, he continued in the practice of his profession until elected to congress in 1898. He served one term, and was defeated for renomination in the famous deadlock convention at Jacksonville, Illinois. Upon retiring from congress he resumed his law practice. Mr. Williams and family are members of the Congregational church. J. M. M. PETER BARTZEN. One of the most prominent German American Citizens in Cook County and Democratic Candidate for Election as President of the County Board. Mr. Bartzen came to Chicago many years ago, practically unknown, and became a building mechanic, but with his energy and business shrewdness, within a short time he became a prosperous contractor, and so continued for years, until the Honorable Edward F. Dunne, mayor, was seeking for a man to enforce the building ordinance, he appointed Mr. Bartzen building commissioner, who took hold, with his characteristic vim, and DID enforce these laws, for the benefit of all, and it did not matter whether the powerful or the humble tried to evade the building ordinance, as was shown when Marshall Field & Co. thought they were too powerful to be compelled to obey the law, when Mr. Bartzen closed the establishment until compliance of the building ordinance was had. In 1910 Mr. Bartzen was elected president of the County Board by a plurality of over 46,000 votes. He attacked the glaring county abuses—discharged brutal attendants, as well as grafters—renovated the County Hospital and other institutions, which in some cases had not been done for seventeen years. He insisted on fire escapes on these institutions—cancelled contracts of those who were robbing the county by furnishing third and fourth grade food, clothing and coal, when their contracts called for first quality. Established food inspectors at the place of purchase, and at the institution where consumed—something heretetofore unknown. Established FOR SALE—3-story stone front house, steam heat, hardwood finish, modern in every respect. Sacrificed at $6,250.00 for immediate sale. Value $15,000.00. 5007 Wabash avenue. FOR RENT-3-story stone front house, steam heat, hardwood finish, modern in every respect. Bargain. 5007 Wabash avenue. the first free tuberculosis tent colony in the United States and raised the money for same, including twenty-five acres of valuable land, without a bit of cost to the county. Discharged county doctors that were secretly on the pay roll of traction and other companies who were using their professional influence over their patients, to force settlement for a few dollars, in violation of all medical and moral ethics. Stopped the inhuman cruelty practiced upon the insane at Dunning Stopped the body-snatching undertakers, who camped around, waiting for the bodies and who quarrelled among themselves, and when successful, charged exhorbitant prices to the deceased's relatives. He also championed the Mothers' Pension Act, which keeps the families intact, and preserves the indescribable mothers' influence over her children. This is done at about half the cost that public institutions could possibly care for children. Established branches of the County Agent's office in convenient neighborhoods to the poor. He also had stricken from the County Agent's roll, five hundred unworthy families. He has not taken a vacation since elected President, but spent his time so allotted, among the poor, furnishing free milk and ice. In 1911 alone, he forced the tax-dodging corporations to pay over $4,000,000.00 additional taxes. In bringing about these reforms, he necessarily made enemies of the privileged and powerful class, who have goaded a section of the Trust press of Chicago into unstinted abuse of him, but "BATTLING PETER" each and every time invites them to come on with their charges, and shows how ridiculous they are, to all fair-minded men, with the result that the more the Trust press abuses him, the more able and efficient the voters think him, and the more abuse, the more votes he receives, and November 5th will bring a marvelous plurality to "Doughty" Peter Bartzen. As the official head of the county commissioners Mr. Bartzen has been fair in his treatment of the Colored people, several of them holding good positions at the present time under his administration, and it goes without saying that many Colored men will on Tuesday, November 5th, record their votes in favor of his re-election. Vote twice for him, once as president and once as a member of the board of county commissioners.—Adv. JOHN H. HEUBEC. Republican Candidate for Re-election to the Legislature of Illinois from the Fourth Senatorial District Endorsed by the United Societies. Photo copyright by Harris & Hart JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN. Late Vice President of The United States Who Passed Away at His Home, Utica, New York, Wednesday Evening. He Was Much Beloved by His Fellow Citizens Throughout This Country and His Death is a Great Loss to This Nation. Photo copyright by Harris & Ewing Miss Bettiola Fortson, the dashing and talented teacher in "Tallaboo" was the only Colored girl who availed herself of the opportunity to participate in the tag day collection in the loop on Founder's Day for the Progressives. She was stationed at State and Madison streets, and her winsome manners won for her party quite a creditible sum. The Colored women who covered the south side wards under the capable leadership of Mrs. Lindsay Davis made very glowing reports on their collections. Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, 6450 Champlain avenue, the soprano soloist returned home Friday morning from Indianapolis, Ind., where she filled a singing engagement on Wednesday evening, at Bethel A. M. E. Church, under the auspices of the Senate Avenue Presbyterian Church. The seating capacity of this church, being insufficient to hold all the people, who were anxiously waiting and longing to listen to her vocal recital and they felt well paid and greatly charmed with her musical attainments. Mrs. Anderson, felt well paid with her trip to the Hoosier State. [Name] JOSEPH S. LABUY. High Class Lawyer and Democratic Candidate for Judge of the Municipal Court. Joseph S. LaBuy, democratic nominee for Judge of the Municipal Court, is of French descent, which nationality has always been friendly to the Colored people. He was born in the French settlement of Wisconsin known as Beaver Dam in the year 1876. Mr. LaBuy has always been friendly to the Colored people and has a large clientage and friends among them. Mr. LaBuy's uncle, a former Judge M. A. LaBuy, was a Past Commander of the Mulligan Post No. 308, serving with credit and distinction throughout the civil war. His father was an abolitionist and assisted many a slave to escape to the North prior to the breaking out of the war. Mr. LaBuy is a prominent lawyer and is fully capable and qualified to fill the office of Judge of the Municipal Court, to which he aspires. Be sure to cast a vote for him on election day.—Adv. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mrs. Elmer Nutting of Cambridge, Mass., is said to have the largest collection of postcards in the world. It numbers more than 30,000 specimens. Mrs. Chang, widow of a Chinese official, is the editor in chief of the Peking woman's paper, which is devoted entirely to subjects interesting to her sex. Mme. de Ronsard, a heroine who nursed British soldiers with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war, is now, at the age of eighty-four, living in an obscure quarter of Cairo, Egypt, in sickness and want, it is said. The Duchess of Fyfe, who recently attained her twenty-first birthday, is owner of one of the largest estates in north Britain, comprising nearly 250,000 acres of cultivated land, mountain, moor and forest. She inherited the vast estates and great riches of her father. The duchess is fond of outdoor sport. Mrs. Lydia B. Kemper, a scientist of note, has received unusual recognition in Germany, the emperor having recently conferred on her the title of "professor." Though born in Russia, she has lived practically all of her life in the United States and has occupied a chair at the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Kemper is now in Berlin pursuing scientific investigations. Sporting Notes. Danny Murphy, captain of the Athletics, owing to the injury to his leg probably never will be able to play baseball again, but he will retain his connection with the Athletics in the capacity of a scout. First Baseman Myers of the Spokane club of the Northwestern league has established a new league base stealing record, stealing 118 bases. The former record of 105 bases was held by Zimmerman of the Chicago Nationals. Ted Meredith, the champion runner, will not be on the Pennsylvania freshman football team this season. Meredith wanted to play, but after writing to Trainer Mike Murphy he learned that he would take on flesh if he played football and this might interfere with his running. Current Comment. Scientists are still trying to produce life artificially while moralists are lamenting that life is too artificial—Brooklyn Standard Union. All the country has spent on its schools does not appear to have gone far toward educating the hazing practice out of being—Denver Republican. Once more the time honored question arises, this time in Paris: What sort of a man understands women? The man who never boasts about it—Detroit Free Press. A speaker at the national congress of hygiene says the United States leads the world in deaths. The professor might have stated the fact more pleasantly by saying we lead the world to everything—New York Telegram. One Idea of Heaven. According to the ancient astronomers, heaven was seven or eight solid spheres, with a planet for the center of each. Some even ran the number up to seventy. The Huns. The first mention of the Huns in history is in China B. C. 210. They conquered that country and were afterward driven out by the Celestials and marched clear across Asia, penetrating the country now known as Hungary in 376 B. A. D. For a time they threatened to oarrun the whole of the continent, but were defeated in the heart of France and driven back to the banks of the Danube. FREDERICK W. BLOCKI Democratic Candidate for Member of the Board of Review. Frederick W. Blocki, Vice-President of the Miami Coal Company, and Democratic candidate for member of the Board of Review of Cook County, is a Chicagoan, through and through to the back bone, being born in this city, November 2, 1868, receiving his early and advanced education in its schools. In time he took a special course in engineering at the Lewis Institute, which stood him in good hand and became one of his very valuable assets, later on in life. Shortly after arriving to manhood, he became united in marriage to Miss Louise Woltersdorf, daughter of Louis Woltersdorf, one of the German-American pioneers, retail druggists of this city. So far two children have blest their happy union, Frederick and Ruth and grace their comfortable home 717 Ashland Blvd., where they have resided for a number of years. His father before him, being a noted chemist, John Blocki, the subject of this sketch followed in his footsteps and became thoroughly familiar in all the details as a manufacturer of fine perfumes, and the firm of John Blocki and Son is known not only to all the wholesale and retail druggists throughout the country, but also favorably known to millions of people, who have for many years, used their exquisite perfumes and other toilet articles and for a long time Mr. Blocki has been the guiding spirit or hand in actively managing the affairs of John Blocki and Son. He is also at the head of the Brennan Construction Company, general contractors, No. 8 N. La Salle street, and as mentioned before, he is vice-president of the Miami Coal Company with offices on the 18th floor of the McCormick Building, showing that he is engaged in various lines of profitable business and that he is not dependent upon politics for a living. Aside from his business interests, Mr. Blocki, has always taken a lively interest in politics, however, in April 1899, he was appointed by Mayor Carter H. Harrison, superintendent of the map department, of the city of Chicago, creditably serving the city in that capacity until the latter part of the same year. He was then advanced and promoted to deputy commissioner of public works and a little less than two years from that time, still greater honors were in store for him and he was selected by Mayor Harrison as commissioner of public works, being re-appointed in 1903 to the same responsible position, for two years longer. During his administration of this office he supervised some of Chicago's CONGRESSMAN MARTIN B. MADDEN It should be to the best interest of the majority of the Afro-Americans residing in the 1st congressional district to loyalty stand by Congressman Martin B. Madden, on the day of the election and assist to return him to the halls of congress, for at all times in season and out of season he has in a manly way stood by the Colored race. Every time any member of that body attempts to introduce any law or act which has no other object than to strike at the civil and the political rights of the Negro, he has the courage to stand up and fight against it to the bitter end. And for that and many other reasons the Afro-Americans, residing in his district should rally to his support on Tuesday, November 5. The Negro Fellowship League, Ida B. Wells, President, will at their rooms 2830 Stats street, at 4 P. M. Sunday afternoon, November 10, tender a complimentary dinner, to Maj. and ex-Congressman John R. Lynch. Plates $1.00. No doubt this will be a notable affair and many citizens will have the pleasure of meeting Maj. Lynch. Britain's Oldest Office The oldest office under the crown is that of lord high steward, which was in existence before the time of Edward the Confessor-indeed, some authorities say that it was instituted by Offa in 757. For a long period this official was second only to the king, and the office was for some time hereditary in certain noble families. The deadly nightshade in Italy and Spain is the emblem of falsehood. It is probable that the poisonous character of the plant had something to do with the symbolism. It is claimed to taste the perfume of flowers disappears as soon as the starch in the petals is exhausted, and it may, it is said, be restored by placing the flowers in a solution of sugar, when the formation of starch and the emission of fragrance will be at once resumed. great public improvements, such as building some of the first bascule bridges, which did away with center piers, among them being the North Western Avenue and Clybourn Place Bridges. These bridges were designed in the Department of Public Works, thus saving to the City the heavy royalty of about $20,000 usually paid for plans and supervision. The great intercepting sewer along Lake Michigan from 39th street to 71st street, was also built under his supervision, and was successfully completed. This was the first great improvement undertaken by the City by direct or day labor, and at its completion had not only saved the City thousands of dollars under the lowest bidder, but there were no law suits or claims for extras. In April, 1905, before the expiration of his second term, as commissioner of public works, he was elected city treasurer of Chicago, by a large majority, running on the same ticket, with former Mayor Edward F. Dunne, and the honest and splendid record he made in that office as city treasurer, will stand to his everlasting credit, as long as Chicago stands. When he became City Treasurer, the city was receiving only $1\frac{1}{2}$ per cent interest, but before the expiration of his term he had advanced the rate to 3 per cent, which was a greater rate of interest than the City has ever received. During the period that he was City Treasurer, the Police, Fire and other Departments were always paid promptly, and on one occasion it was necessary for him to personally borrow about $800,000.00 from the banks to pay the Police and Firemen before Christmas, as there was no money in the City Treasury available for that purpose. At the end of his term, he turned over to the City of Chicago $234,110.39 net, as interest after all office expenses and his own compensation had been deducted, thus earning for the citizens of Chicago over $100,000.00 more than had ever been earned during the term of a former City Treasurer. Mr. Blocki has also served as treasurer of the Cook County Democratic Committee and knowing thousands and thousands of people in all parts of this city and county and being ever ready to extend the glad hand to all comers, and being perfectly familiar with all the hardships and the conditions which have for years confronted the small tax payer, this class of property holders will have a good friend at court when he is elected a member of the Board of Review, Tuesday, November 5.—Adv't. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. @ by Moffett STATE OF NEW YORK "Nere," sighed the widow, pointing to a cottage. "is where my sweet romance ended." "Ah, dear, and did your husband die there?" "Tumpers is a quiet man." "Yes, indeed. Tumpers makes about as much noise as the letter 'g' in 'umbrogile'."—Birmingham Ana-Hould. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie, facing slightly to the right.] ATTORNEY W. G. ANDERSON Attorney W. G. Anderson, who is recognized as being the leading "habas corpus" lawyer of Chicago, who was recently sent to Virginia by the "Chicago Examiner" to plead for the life of Virginia Christian, the half-witted Colored girl who was electrocuted. Mr. Anderson has just added an- He was trying to make an impression on a pretty nursemaid who had a little boy out in the park. "I wish you were my governess," he simmered. Then he passed on.-Louisville Courier-Journal. Wash Day. When Eve held forth in Paradise She found much pleasure in it. For when she did her Monday wash It only took a minute. -Milwaukee Sentinel. And when the washing blew away Eve didn't fret or whine. She merely sauntered forth and picked New garments from the vine. -Springfield Ualon. She didn't scold the Jaundryman, She didn't give him slack. Because he happened to mistake To bring the wrong leaf back. -Yonkers Statesman. Insult and injury. "She's the most insulting woman I ever met." I never liked her myself. "Just think! The last time she visit-ed us she didn't wipe her feet when she came in, but she did wipe them when she went out."—Spokane Spokesman-Review. The Day of Days. Every dog may have his day, As the ancient saying is, But it does him little good. No dog ever understood Which day happened to be his. Yet why blame the foolish dog For his failures to perceive? If each man might know his day When it dawned how many, pray, Would have any cause to grieve? —Chicago Record-Herald. Irate Householder—Why can't you answer this bell sooner? The fire's out again. Where have you been? Mald of all work (resigned and leavings—I've been packin' up my things). I can't stop to do that. It'll light itself soon. The 'ouse is aifre—Punch. Or Hit by Falling Brick. Seems dangerous and scarcely sane. "Twere better to keep to the golden mean" "Twere better to plod the solid earth" "Twere better to see real" Still, the walker's lot is of little worth. If he's run down by an automobile! -Chicago News. "What are they rehearsing for, papa?" "For some pantomimes, my dear." "Is mamma to be in 'em?" "No, my dear; no one does any talking in pantomimes."—Yonkers Statesman. Oh, Fudgel A wild man who flourished a knife Was busily chasing his kwife. Said he, "I'm a nut, But I'm going to cut The ties that have bound us for kiffa." —Cincinnati Enquirer. "How much are these puppies, little boy?" "All a quarter, 'cept that one, and he's 35 cents. He swallowed a dime yesterday."—Puck. The lightning bug is brilliant, But he hasn't yet mind. He travels through the darkness With his headlight on behind. —Cornell Widow. "I don't know what to do with my son. He's so irresponsible." "Get him on the weather bureh."—Washington Herald. Mutual. Insult and Injury Just Wait a Little. Not In Them. Oh. Fudge! other laurel to his record by obtaining the discharge of Harry Frank, convicted of pandering and given one year and $1,000.00 fine, which would have kept him in the Bridewell for 4½ years. Mr. Anderson won this case strictly on the law, the point involved being a new one, novel and very intricate. Arctic travelers have noted the curious action of snow at low temperature. It dries garments and absorbs moisture. Within recent years seaweeds have been introduced into the English kitchen. The edible species, served with roast meats, have been found to be very palatable. Devonshire and Japanese seaweeds are employed largely in the London industry. The Asiatic town of Malwatch on the borders of Russia, is peopled by men only. Women are forbidden entrance there. The Theater of Dionysus What was probably one of the earliest theaters built was the theater of Dionysus, which was begun five centuries before Christ. The seating capacity of this remarkable building is said to have been 30,000. The theater of Dionysus was erected when Greek art and literature were in their prime. Here were presented to appreciative spectators the wonderful works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Our Men and Women. The average height of men in the United States and Canada is five feet eight and a half inches; that of women five feet four and a quarter inches. "Positivism" is the term applied to a form of religion invented or founded in France during the latter part of the eighteenth century. The members of the sect believed in only those things of which they had positive knowledge; hence the term. Bank of England Clerks. The patronage of the Bank of England belongs entirely to the directors, a clerk being appointed by each director in rotation until the vacancies are filled, with the exception of one clerkship in every seven, which is given to a son of one of the clerks of the establishment who has discharged his duties to the satisfaction of the directors. When wishing to keep vegetables—such as greens, lettuce, parsley, etc.—until the following day place, with the roots or where they have been cut, in a vessel containing water, exactly as you would a bunch of cut flowers, and they will be as fresh as if newly cut. محمد بن محمد بن محمد A. N. FIELD. Chief of the Publicity Department of the Colored Western National Pro- granative Burbank Hotel Le Salle. Arctic Snow. Edible Seaweed. Women Barred Positivism. Vegetables. eas ae eS PWNGR Sao oe. Be a ar me Be ee i ee ony ——S ow | r ee 5 reed \,_ ees pees 52 Peo — a - Se Lee hank J se ir-Victrola: Vv ee ‘ou never thought gauss 9 sue of getting a genuine ee ce Victor-Victrola for Wage $i5—yet here it is. a And it is of the same ; high quality and perfection ‘ ‘which - characterizes .all the products of: the Victor Company. _.. Come in and hear it—any time: Wg ‘Other styles $25.0 $200. 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(Old Line Lagal Reserve Co. ‘ Tals Be comms evn pasate ea ‘bolder more than axy other company for mame weekly premiam. $<. plaed nat to Weta nt Clic To Ore wil sDiformatign ol rissa pins your age, name 6d ‘The Americas Life Insurance Ce., of Iilinels ‘Yel, Randeish 5. ‘72 West Adame Street 7a SOLE st Artesian Pharmacy J. S. DORSEY, Druggist 2701 (Dearborn! St. CHICAGO Use Dersey’s fine Pomade for the hair. It [ms 1 oft nd slower. Preise > sarefelly componnded. Phone rent ORDERS ‘Phone Deasias S530 Seem: by Day a Wesb Room 25-88-S60 T Douglas Hotel — Fer tien Cole —— Bethe, Steam Heat, Kisetris Light (Bees & Mat Street (cm@cAco Silene hdl Cnsiand 1609 Ran Caled 60 An 795 HERRY €. BOMAR & SOM FINE;FURNITURE AND PIANO ‘MOVERS, [PACKERS AND SHIPPERS f 3 Teipe Datly te AlIDenots 4706 Indiana Ave. CHICAGO ‘Ren Deanal, 7990 Auto. 33-736 ATTORNEY AT Hh Seite 708, 186 Washington St. Notary Peblie CHICAGO, ILL. ne es ge | OfGce Phowe: Central 6624. Ree Phoos, Dows, 4997. , Wa, $08 East 36th Street, J. GRAY LUCAS Attorney at Law edhe 405, 45 Clack Ba (Gee. Randolph Sa Teh, Aidine 1529 Bn Clllen at Hight 6. MUGHT M0. 6.8. (Canada) ~—-PAYSIGIAN ARD SORGEOH Office Hous 9 00 11 A.M, 2005 P.M 3158 State Street, Chicago “erie (oom 7 P.M, wo 9 P.M. Setar be spectatmncnt A. THEO. B. MOZEE a | (4718 SOUTH STATE STREET hana, Onidaad 4662 Astematte 75055 rol John J. Dunn Coal ee Miles J. Devine Aone at aw Tol. Central 3143 Franklin A. Denison Attorney at Law 36 W. RANDOLPH STREET ‘Suite 708 ‘Deieware Balldiog (EcAGo _ A, D..GASH ATTORNEY AT LAW 118 North La Salle St.'Chicage Suite 615 to 616 ‘Telephone Main 3077 @P3> JESSE BINGA fa) 4BANKER ake $, E. Cor, State and 36th Place, Chicago : F Telephone Douglas 1565 GENERAL BANKING 3 per cent allowed on Savings Accounts Safety Deposit Vaults, $3.00 per Year sc caehipcihunseernieemtes cameen ial eb er saeiaee eee nee oe after assessments. Money to loan < _ Especially Invites the patronage of Chicago business men. The- Cranford Apartmeit Building, 3600 Wabash Ave, The finest building ever to Colored tenants in Chica: . . W. Casey; iz "Phone Randolph 803 = wane ite. A New Gas Light Invention from the Welsbach = | The Amber Glow Light | ‘This new Hight unit is the latest of _—that this huge volume of light ie ‘& thousand and one Welsbach pure Amber in color makes it inventions Itisthefinaltriamph certain that this unit is destined of the grest Welsbach Labora- to generally displace other home tories—the laboratories from lights throughout the city. whence came the first mantle light and nearly all the inventions —_ ‘To help introduce this new light we that have since brought gas light ‘are now distributing an “Amber foto universal use in city homes. Glow Book.” A book that is full ret tat ertionnnne Ser at all world's records. It yields © Amber light enhances harmonies measured volume of fill 357 of deen and decoration — why candies of genuine Amber colored amber light makes the skin look Hight while burning a tite less = got and smooth—why Mary than of a cent's worth of g88 © = Garden demands Amber light ee when she sings—why professional This je more light for less money «shooting experts wear Amber ‘than science has ever deemed it glasses and why Amber light is possible to produce. And the fact «most qoothing to the eyes \ Through special arrangements the Amber Glow Light will be sold in Chicago solely through The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company. “The first consignment of a shipment of 150,000 has just ‘been received and the Company is now giving free demonstra- ‘tions of the light in the homes of its patrons. You can phone ‘Randolph 4567—or write « postal to The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. Besureand ask, too, for the Amber Glow Ligtit book, ‘FLATS TO RENT. 7240-1949 Wentworth Ave, fizet fist, ‘7 Rooms and Bath, $20.00, Second fiat nothing better seven rooms and bath Rent $22.00. S754 Wentworth Ave, Rooms and Bath front fats $18.00 four rear fists, Rent $10.00 Stone front ‘S821 Shields Ave, 5 Rowms and $18.00 best resident district. Armow Ave, 22a $, 6 Booms jend beth, $16.00. 9412 La tale Btrest, S Rooms, $15.00. B - & RICHARDSON, 180 BH, Gh Ave, Room 606, Phétie POUR FLAT BRICK BUILDING FOR | SALE AT A BARGAIN. | For sale, four fist brick building, at = bargain, located on Armour avenue, near 36th Street. Rent $00 per month. ‘Price, 64,650. For further information, call on of ‘address Julius P. Taylor, 5027 Armout ‘avenne, Phone Drexel 4590. ‘This is & good investment and good Property. ; ‘teat en Room Stone Froct Hous. Bo doarapat on Aepec ter ad Es ch kanns 7 ye ace maya “Drexel 2404. Ps \ STORE FOREVE aa | HI Amana) et emg Sree ro EE fo as ——— Telephone Yards 693 JOHN J. BRADLEY Real Estate Loans Fire and Plate Glass Insurance The BELLE MEADE CLUB Buffet and Cafe FRANK H. LEWIS, Proprietor Sos9 Armour Ave Cor. Si1st Street, Chicago Phone Douglas 4482 Axutomatic Phone 74478 The La Verdo Cafe and Buffet 3100-2 STATE STREET, CHICAGO Fisst Class Chinese and American Restaurant in Connection High Class Entertainers : HARRY J. KELLY, Proprietor. — See ee Phone Aldine 3653 , EXotel Brunswick | Geo. W. Holt, Prop. BUFFET, POOL AND BILLIARDS. : : 3004 State Street Chicago Elite Buffet and Cafe 3030 State Street WILLIAM LEWIS, Prop. HENRY C. SNEED, M't'r 1} Phone Douglas 3309 Automatic 75-173 | MINERAL SPRING CLUB Bike ET AND. CAF SE 3517 S. State Street, CHICAGO HIGH CLASS INTERTAINERS EVERY EVENING G AMERICAN BANS =—=WILL Not Fau——— PAYS 8%, OW SALINGS ve souicrr YOUR PATRONAGE WauD. Neighbors, Cahir * 5. QF2B)/ Wabash Ave» Bh one (CHICAGO .