The Gazette

IN GOD WE TRUST THIRTIETH YEAR WILLIAM H. President of PRESIDENT TAFT'S DEER I am fully alive to the heart that suffering from the contemptuous either in point of intelligence or injustice that has oftentimes burdened that his rights have been treatment rejected solely because of the Howard Taft. "I KNOW THE BURDEN I know the burdens you have vantages under which you labor, otherwise, and humiliations. I owe hard they are to bear, but I want people in this world who sympathize help you in your hard course.—Fried Industrial School, Ga., May 1, 1911 ETH YEAR. NO. TAFT'S DEEP SYMPATHY FOR WILLIAM HOWARD T. President of the United States. TAFT'S DEEP SYMPATHY FOR WILLIAM HOWARD T. President of the United States. THE BURDENS YOU HAVE TO burdens you have to bear. I can understand what which you labor. I know of your suffer- miliations. I can understand what bear, but I want you to know that their world who sympathize deeply with you a hard course.—From Speech of Presid- Ga., May 1, 1912. THIRTIETH YEAR. NO. 14. M. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. President of the United States. PRESIDENT TAFT'S DEEP SYMPATHY FOR THE RACE. I am fully alive to the heart pang that a colored man endures when suffering from the contemptuous insults of white men not at all his equal either in point of intelligence or devotion to duty. I know the sense of injustice that has oftentimes burned itself into his breast when he realizes that his rights have been trampled upon and his claims to fair treatment rejected solely because of the color of his skin—President William Howard Taft. "I KNOW THE BURDENS YOU HAVE TO BEAR." I know the burdens you have to bear. I can understand the disadvantages under which you labor. I know of your sufferings, mental and otherwise, and humiliations. I can understand what they are and how hard they are to bear, but I want you to know that there are a lot of good people in this world who sympathize deeply with you and are anxious to help you in your hard course.—From Spesch of President Taft at Georgia Industrial School, Ga., May 1, 1912. THE DOOR OF HOPE—1902. I cannot consent to take the pe opportunity—is to be shut upon any the ground of race or color.—THEOI t to take the position that the door shut upon any man, no matter how color.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT. I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope—the door of opportunity—is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the ground of race or color—THEODORE ROOSEYLT. TEN YEARS LATER—1912. It would be much worse than a party in these southern states, where pealing to the Negroes or to the men standing from leading and manipula VELT. such worse than useless to try to build ern states, where there is no real Rep- es or to the men who in the past had ing and manipulating the Negroes—T It would be much worse than useless to try to build up the Progressive party in these southern states, where there is no real Republican party, by appealing to the Negroes or to the men who in the past have derived their sole standing from leading and manipulating the Negroes — THEODORE ROOSE PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL CONVENTION THE OPEN DOOR Adapted from the Philadelphia Lodger. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1912. GIRL IS MURDERED BY THE ROADSIDE GIRL IS MURDERED BY THE ROADSIDE YOUNG WOMAN TAKEN BY FIVE MEN IN AUTO TO LONELY POINT AND SLAIN. VICTIM IS SHOT TO DEATH Five Bullets Are Fired Into Female's Body Which Was Clad in Costly Attire and Valuable Jewels Had Not Been Taken. Bridgeport, Conn.-Taken by five men in an automobile to a lonely point on the main road between Bridgeport and Stratford, Conn., a young and handsome woman was deliberately shot to death by the roadside. The victim, when found with five bullet wounds in her body, was clad in costly attire and her valuable jewels had not been taken. The motive for the killing is a blank mystery, although on learning that she had come recently from Chicago the police formed a theory that she might have been a dangerous witness in some criminal case there. Three Men Captured. After shooting the girl, the five men, who had sent the chauffeur on ahead in the car, abandoned the machine and fled into the woods. Three of them were captured within two hours. Two of these were traced by a Stratford posse of constables and citizens to Bilberry swamp, two miles from the scene of the tragedy. They were hiding in the thick undergrowth and were completely exhausted from running through the forest. The men said they were Francisco Pizzicheni, a restaurant keeper at 29 Union Square, Bridgeport, and James Mattio, of No. 130 South-av, Bridgeport. The third man was captured on the main road, a mile from the scene of the girl's death, by Herbert M. Booth of Startford. He carried a $3 calibre revolver, which had several empty chambers. He was in such a condition that he could not give his name. All were taken to the Bridgeport jail. The police learned that the five men drove up to the restaurant at $3 Union Square early in the evening and had the hired car wait for them. When they left the restaurant, the girl was with them. They ordered the chauffeur, William B. Hall, to drive to the Stratford Inn, at Stratford, but when they got there, they told him to drive on toward Paradise Green. They had taken champagne along in the, car and were laughing and in loud voices. Posse Is Organized. Arriving at Paradise Green, Hall was told to "just keep on going" and they did not stop until they reached a dark and lonely strip of the road in the Putney district, seven miles from Bridgeport. There all the men and the girl left the machine. One of the men said to Hall: "Now you just drive up the road a piece and then come back." Hall had gone about 400 yards when he was startled by the reports of five pistol shots in rapid succession. He heard no other sound—not a cry, not a spoken word. He whirled the car and sped back. There was no sign of the men or the girl. He put on full speed and gave the alarm in Stratford. The posse was organized within half an hour. On the road they met a peddler who had found the body of the girl. He directed them to it and from there they followed a trail of broken bushes through the woods to Bilberry swamp where they came upon the two fugitives. Returning, they learned of the capture of the third man. Pizzicheni and Mattio told a story of having been invited by another man to take a taxicab ride and having been put out of the cab on the road. They said they hadn't seen any young woman. SHOW SIGN OF PROSPERITY Receipts of Internal Revenue $5,000,000 Greater So Far This Year Than for Same Period in 1911. Washington, D. C.—"The receipts of internal revenue are $5,000,000 greater so far this fiscal year than they were for the same period in the last fiscal year," said Commissioner Cabell of that bureau. "The figures show that the consumption of beer, spirits and tobacco is increasing immeasently, a sign that prosperity is at the flood. "The increase is general in all lines of our work. If business throughout the country is as active and prosperous as the industries we collect revenue from then everything is booming." Vaudeville Actress Is Dead. New York City—Mabel Hite, well known as a vaudville actress and as the wife of Mike Donlin, baseball player for the Giants and Pittsburg, dled in her home in this city. Miss Hite had been in poor health for more than a year. Last June she was operated on for an intestinal cancer. After the operation she did not rally and resorted to Christian Science treatment which seemed to improve her health for a time. Septicaemia developed a few days ago and was the immediate cause of death. BUILDER OF HOMES BUILDER OF HOMES HOW REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS HELPED AMERICAN CITIZENS BY LEGISLATION. Shall This Creative Work Be Checked by Democratic Misrule and Obstructive Laws—Government Will No phase of all the constructive legislation by the Republican party is pointed to with more genuine pride than that relating to the establishment and maintenance of our American home. From the passage of the homestead law, back in 1862, in the time of Lincoln, down to recent laws looking to the reclamation of our arid lands, the home construction work of the Republican party has been continued with patriotic persistence and enthusiasm. The party is responsible for all home-making legislation during the last half century. Some recent and important work along this line has been the national irrigation law, the measure authorizing the issue of bonds in aid of government irrigation projects and the conservation policies of the last few years. These all have for their object the development and reclamation of the fertile but arid west, and making it the home of millions of American citizens who will plant their feet permanently in the soil and call no man master. Not only has the party created these favorable conditions and established the homes under them but it has enacted laws favoring the tolar at every turn, and insuring him the largest rewards for his labor, as well as the broadest advantages, for his family. The Republican doctrine of a protective tariff is directly responsible for the industrial prosperity of the country, and the constant employment of millions of people in the manufacturing districts at remunerative wages. The employ's liability act in the interest of the working man, our rural free delivery. The eight hour law, the movement, for the development of our inland waterways, the parcels post, and many other measures, all tending to enable the people to establish and maintain attractive and healthful homes, are the result of the thoughtful constructive work of the Republican party. The people—the masses—in the United States are better clothed, better fed, better housed, better protected by law and are happier and more hopeful than any other people. The fathers of our country firmly believed that the policy of protection was as necessary to the commercial independence of the United States as the army and navy are to win and preserve its political independence. It is not without significance to patriotic Americans, that our first protective law was signed by George Washington on the Fourth of July, 1789. Protection has been our national policy with a few temporary interruptions from that day to this. Under its operation, we have grown from a few states along the Atlantic coast, to a nation of one hundred million of the most progressive and home-loving people in the world. From a position of dependence upon Europe for manufactured products, we have become the foremost manufacturing nation, and are now challenging England for supremacy in the markets of the world. Nothing but a misapprehension of economic facts, and a culpable indifference to the welfare of our country, can suggest any radical change in a system which has produced such stupendous results. Are the people of America really seriously to consider changing those magnificent conditions of home and country and the future beckoning them on with alluring hope for the mocking delusions and historic incompetency of the Democratic party? The Democrats are united only on one thing; they favor the destructive policy of free trade. Are we, as intelligent, home-owning, home-loving American citizens, to jeopardize our homes, our families and our future, by trying another experiment with the disastrous old Democratic party? Professor Wilson, its leader, is no bigger or better than his party, and is hopefully wedded to its idol of free trade. The workingman has a good, steady job at better wages, or salary, whichever he chooses to call it, than he ever had in the history of this country, and from all reports from the ranks of labor. Mr. Workingman has no desire to make a change. Lower Prices. Lower Wages. Our Democratic free trade friends are telling us how much cheaper some things can be bought in Europe, but they forget to tell us how much lower wages are in foreign countries than in the United States. If Republicans Will Work There is abundant evidence on every hand that President Taft is gaining in strength every day. What looked a few weeks ago like an almost hopeless contest, now promises certain victory if every loyal Republican puts his shoulder to the wheel—Eric (Pa.) Times. He'll Feel Worse Later. "I feel as if I had been in a crucade," says the colonel. A few weeks hence he will feel as if he had been in a wreck — Kansas City Journal AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS A bill is in the hands of Congressman J. I. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn calling for the appropriation of $250,000 for an exposition to celebrate the emancipation of the colored race in America on the approaching fifteenth anniversary of the writing of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. It is urged by those supporting the bill that such an exposition would show the progress of the colored race in the United States in the half century just past. They hold that it would encourage the colored people themselves to greater efficiency and inspire them to greater effort. The progress pointed out is along many lines. In 1860 the colored population of this country was 4,000,000. In 1910, with practically no increase through immigration, the population is 10,000,000. In 1860 they were practically all slaves and all illiterate. In 1910 their illiteracy was reported to be 30.5 percent, smaller than the white population of Spain, Russia, Portugal, Roumania, Hungary and many other European countries. Moreover, in Pennsylvania, where the illiteracy of the foreign population has increased from 15 to 19 per cent in twenty years, that of the colored population decreased from 29 to 15 per cent. Practically no negroes were practicing in the professions fifty years ago, it is pointed out. Today they are more than 75,000 working as physicians and surgeons, clergymen, teachers, professors in colleges, lawyers, journalists, artists, literary and scientific specialists. The colored population, practically penniless fifty years ago, has gained in worldly goods, until today they own more than 400,000 homes and farms valued at more than a billion dollars. Fifty years ago they were chief farm laborers; today there are as many farm laborers as there were then, and in addition there are 225,000 negroes who own their farms, and over 1,000,000 farms operated by colored farmers. There are today colored graduates representing all the leading universities of the country. The race has produced also 6,000 authors whose books are copyrighted and registered in the Library of Congress, and more than 1,000 patents for inventions. Negro banks have been organized all over the south, the census of 1900 reporting more than 200 colored bankers, brokers, and officials in banks. There are many large manufacturing plants, such as cotton mills, turpentine stills, hosiery mills, printing establishments, conducted by negroes, and nearly 300 newspapers. One of the chief promoters of the proposed negro exposition is Maj. R. R. Wright of Savannah, Ga. An instrument for measuring the nocturnal terrestrial radiation of heat has been invented by a Danish scientist. The negroes of the British West Indies are unalterably opposed to the plan which suggests the federation of their country with Canada, which would mean the end of British rule over the island, and there is not much likelihood that the proposed federation will be effected for many years to come. Although there are 1,644,000 negroes in the West Indies and British Guiana to 125,000 whites, yet it is found that color prejudice is increasing instead of diminishing, according to Sir Harry Johnston. Fashion is the greatest of tyrants. Anyway, there was never a tyrant which put so many Christians to the torture. Through some peculiarities the negro race exercises apparent indifference as to the magnitude of things about him, and unlike other races fails to take advantage of accorded privileges and establish for his people such conveniences as are helpful and instructive. Hence, if entrance to the abode of amusements is refused, or adequate accommodations are denied, he should be grateful if necessity compels him to rely upon his own expedients and reap the rewards which diligence secures. Atlantic City is deserted and the crowds that lined the boardwalk and thronged the beach go back to their daily avocations and work doubly hard to make up for the dollars they spent in order to have it said. "I saw Mr. or Miss or Mrs. So-and-On on the boardwalk at Atlantic." These things come high, but we must have them, and not to go to Atlantic City is an almost unpardonable sin. We must be seen on the boardwalk. Sure!—Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. Many a man would be willing to give up his wife for his country. After hearing a song to the effect that every race has a flag but the colored man. Rev. J. Lennox of this city, a bishop of the Zion African Evangelical church, designed an official emblem which he said his church has decided to adopt. The flag has twelve stars in a field of purple and twelve bars of red, white and blue. The purple represents the robe Christ wore before the crucifixion; the red, "our sins that shall be made white as snow," the white, the purity of the apostles, and the blue, the negro's loyalty to the United States. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Don't be deceived by the argument that whisky is your worst enemy. Ignorance is the name of the gentleman who is causing all the trouble. Prohibitionists exhibit a zeal in thus laboring the colored brother which is worthy of a better cause. Already the colored man is being too much prohibited and he should take that view of the case. Of course the improper use of strong drink is unquestionably an evil; but it is one of those evils which law makers cannot remedy. The people must get the training at home. The lack of home training has not only filled the land with drunkards, but with murderers, thieves and criminals of lesser caliber as well, and sending them to the penitentiary and the scaffold does not seem to much deter their companions, who daily follow in their footsteps. Less legislation and more of the "rod which spoillock not the child," is the crying need of the country.—Exchange. If you've done something wrong don't waste time repenting; do something useful. There are some big, open-hearted people living in this age that really seem to think that the negro needs and deserves a flag of his own. It's too bad that white men of this happy, generous spirit will have to go down to their graves with this burden on their minds. Believe this, these men or any set of men who think that the negro needs a flag of his own are men whose cranium, if examined, would show conclusively that they needed brain much more than we need a flag. The Stars and Stripes are as much to the negro and ever will be as it is to any Anglo-Saxon who ever trod American soil. The negro has stood with his broad breast with a courageous heart in the forefront of many bloody frays in honor and defense of the nation's pride. The old flag, why should we not call it ours? —Zanesville Advocate. Philosophy is something you hoist on the other fellow when he's not looking. Like most instruments, a razor is useful in its place and dangerous out of its place. For instance, it is useful to shave with but dangerous to carve with. Of late, over in Philadelphia, there have been several distressing cases of carving with the razor among negroes which required the attention of the police and the undertaker; but the saddest case was that of the two youngsters, brothers, six and eight years old, who went into the garret of their home, armed with the parental razor, and cut and slashed each other nearly to death, to see how it was done, before they were caught in the act. Did they inherit the razor-carving habit? It looks that way. Jealousy is a painful exhibition, but it gets very little sympathy. The sooner the negro can be taught that it is impossible for him to escape punishment for his wrongs, the sooner he will so live that the impression prevailing in the minds of most white folks, that all negroes will steal, may be thoroughly dispelled. Of course, the better class of white people know there are honest negroes as well as honest white folks, and there are dishonest white folks and dishonest negroes, but they know how to separate the wheat from the chaff—Newport News-Star. A wind storm, possibly of a jealous disposition, visited Braymer, Mo., a few days ago and wrecked the homes of two well known auctioneers. We sincerely hope that our business men will throw aside petty jealousies, cast off some of their narrowness, and lay aside personal pride; join in with all movements that will benefit the people, lend their presence to those meetings that will uplift them and push our young men to the front in every way possible, where they prove themselves worthy and we believe the time is not far distant before we will have numbers of buildings like the New Alabama Penny Savings bank, Echols & Strong and Dr. Gordon's all over the city. We earnestly hope that our business men will be more cosmopolitan in their way of doing business.—Birmingham Wide-Awake. No matter what sort of man a woman's husband is, she's blamed for his faults always. Man's wisdom often consists in knowing just how long to stay away from home. The settlement of the negro question lies in the colored men and women living their lives as negroes being patriotic, working hard at useful occupations that they are fitted for, always being unassuming and honest, respecting themselves, and trying to bring their children up to be useful Christian men and women. Some men are very convenient adjuncts once tamed to dish washing. Housekeeping for two sometimes gets to be just solitude. PETER H. Toledo Attorney Who is Candidate for Judge of Supreme Court, Short Term. GENERAL SHERWOOD ON THE THATCHER CASE. We are pleased to give the following extracts from the speech of General Isaac R. Sherwood, civil war veteran, and member of Congress from the Toledo District. Mr. Sherwood comes from the home city of Mr. Charles A. Thatcher, candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, Short Term, and is thoroughly familiar with the facts. Among other things, General Sherwood said: "I have not been asked by Mr. Thatcher, either by voice or letter, directly or indirectly to speak in his behalf. * * * * If Courts and Judges expect to command the respect and confidence of the people, their official proceedings and judicial edicts must be fair and regular. Lawyer Thatcher's entire life has been a combat. He thus developed very aggressive fighting qualities. From boyhood he had supported himself. By his own efforts he put himself through college and prepared for admission to the bar, where, by 20 years of hard work, he acquired a large and lucrative practice. Thatcher early became identified with the prosecution, rather than with the defense of suits brought by those whom the juggernaut of modern industry had maimed or disabled. Experience led him, finally, to think, that corporate interests were actually intrenched in some of the courts, and could not be dislodged without evicting some of the Judges. In 1908 he decided to appeal to the people. * * * * Where else since the time of Jeffreys shall we look for Judges so impartial as to sit by proxy at the prosecutor's table in which they were necessarily full of animosity toward the unfortunate victim of their ultra-judicial indignation." * * * * THE RIGHT TO CRITICISE THE COURTS By a petition signed by more than 20,000 electors the people of Ohio will have the chance to vote for Charles A. Thatcher of Toledo, Judge of the Supreme Court, Short Term. Mr. Thatcher is a Toledo lawyer, who criticised Judges four years ago and because of this was disbarred by the Supreme Court of Ohio. In a speech recently delivered at Youngstown, he said: "The Judicial ermine cannot make over a man. If he has infirmities before, they may appear after he is a Judge. If these infirmities exist it is not only the right but the duty of every citizen to make them known. "The Judges have the final say in determining cur rights, whether of life, liberty or happiness. "Not being divine, they will make their mistakes and the utmost freedom should be allowed us to tell of these mistakes. "When you throttle the freedom of Speech in discussing the fitness of a Judge for office you then create a distrust in the minds of the people as to the integrity of the Courts. "The worst enemies that our judicial system has are those who throw a cloak over the acts of the Judges and say 'Thou shalt not discuss them.' "I believe in respecting our judicial system, but reserve the right to tell of the errors of those who sit in authority to administer this system. LAWYERS AFRAID. The action of the Supreme Court of Ohio in disbarring Charles A. Thatcher, the Toledo attorney, for criticising courts, has had the effect of intimidating many Ohio lawyers. They now feel that if a man can be dragged from Toledo to Columbus and put on trial before the very men whom he had criticised, that no lawyer is safe in expressing his views concerning the unfitness of Judges. Such a condition is deplorable. More than 20,000 voters have signed petitions, nominating Mr. Thatcher for Judge of the Supreme Court and his election seems assured. This gives the people of the State a chance of expressing themselves on the subject of Free Speech and a Free Press. The result of the judicial election will be watched with great interest. One Year. $1.50 Six Months. 1.00 Three Months. .50 Subscribers are requested to rem- mit by postoffice money mon- der or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afre-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. President Taft has denounced lynching in more vigorous terms than any other President. He advocated the rope for lynchers. Our Chicago contemporaries are wrong when they announce that the "Windy City" has the honor of first appointing a member of the race to the position of lieutenant of police. Cleveland has been in possession of that and several other similar honors for a number of years. Will our esteemed contemporary, the Chicago Defender, make proper correction, at once, please? The fundamental law of the United States prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, but in portions of the South where the Democrats rule, lawless people have taken advantage of the lax observance of civil rights as applied to the Afro-American and have held their darker-hued brethren in a state of peonage. This practice has been very common, but under the Taft Administration, the Department of Justice has prosecuted a number of the miscreants, who may now be addressed, "Care Federal Prison, Atlanta, Ga." Peonage is not so popular as it used to be in the Democratic South. While there is undoubtedly some truth in the series of daily newspaper articles being published about Jack Johnson and white women, these days, the fact is the great mass of the stuff being hatched up by sensational-craving reporters in Chicago, is untrue. Our people generally should not be misled by it because the batch of infamous lies that are being published are manufactured for the larger purpose of increasing the prejudice against the race rather than to prove very harmful to Jack Johnson. The bottom will drop out of it before long and Jack Johnson and his white girl or girls will go free. Watch and see how correct this prediction is. MISERABLE "ACCOMMODATION." The residents of Central Ave. and adjacent territory, as well as the business men of that thoroughfare who do not live either on the avenue or in the territory in the immediate proximity, ought to have a series of delegations call upon Tractioner Peter Witt and Mayor Newton D. Baker and insist upon a routing of the Central Ave. cars that will at least land them in the heart of the business section of the city instead of a quarter of a mile away from it, and insist upon a different arrangement of the stops on the avenue. From E. 24th St. to E. 30th St. is about a half mile. There are other stops equally, if not quite as far apart, if not further. This may not seem so bad while the weather is good but when winter weather sets in, with its deep anows, thaws and other bad weather, the inconveniences that the patrons of the car line are now put to, will not only be aggravating in the extreme, but positively dangerous to health. It begins to look as if those in charge of the street car lines have taken on the notion that the people were made for the convenience of the street cars rather than the latter for the former. One sure thing, the new routing of the Central Ave. cars, the designation of stops, a half mile or more apart, and the western terminal of the line, fully a quarter of a mile from the heart of the city, will cost Mayor Baker thousands of votes next year, if continued. REMAIN IN THE REPUBLICAN RANKS! The Cleveland Gazette in its last issue announces that it is determined to follow the old Party. The more one thinks of it, the more there seems nothing else to be done. It would be a good idea to have our newspapers one by one follow The Gazette's example and tell the people why. This action will be a great help to the puzzled voter who is yet up in the air—Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, editor Chicago Fellowship Herald. The Omaha (Neb.) Enterprise and many other race publications express the same sentiment and endorse The Gazette's "stand." There is no question as to the wisdom of our action—at least in our mind. It is simply impossible, under the circumstances, for intelligent, loyal, self and race-respecting Afro-American voters to affiliate with either the democratic or the so-called "progressive" party. The former is again hopelessly in the clutches of the "solid south," while the latter has been so busy "kowtowing" to the "lily-whites" of that section that there is precious little difference between the two as far as our people are concerned. Certain it is, we would be a very foolish people to commit our vital interests along a citizen's rights' line to the questionable care of either of the parties named. The republican party, at this time particularly, is decidedly the best for our people, and most to be trusted, of the three. Of this, there is absolutely no question in our mind. Do not be missed by democrats or "Bull Moors!" The "Open Door" cartoon is a political sermon without words, in itself; isn't it? In Cuba the Afro-American soldiers astonished the world for their bravery and coolness under fire. They were fighting to help free the beautiful isle from the Spanish yoke. It was a Republican President, McKinley, who commissioned 266 men of the race to lead their men to and in battle. Captain Walter H. Loving, conductor of the Philippine Constabulary Band, receives annual payment amounting to $2,525 in American gold, and quarters. He is an Afro-American. His original enlistment was dated January 13, 1902. The musicians in the band are Filipinos. "Censuring to be a slave, the former victim has become not only a man but a citizen, admitted alike within the pale of humanity and within the pale of citizenship. As a man he is entitled to all the rights of man, as a citizen he becomes a member of our common household, with equality as the prevailing law. No longer an African, he is an American; no longer a slave, he is common part of a Republic, owing to it patriotic allegiance in return for protection of equal laws. Insult him is to insult an American citizen. Dishonor him is to dishonor the Republic itself. Our rights are his rights; our equality his equality; our privileges and immunities are his great freehold."—Charles Summer. PETER H. HARRIS CHARLES A. THATCHER. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR AND ONE OF HIS FRIENDS. Incidents in the life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who by his story and song did much for the race, are called to mind in Ohio this fall. When Dunbar was an elevator boy in Dayton struggling to eke out an existence for his widowed mother and himself some of his verses came to the notice of Charles A Thatcher, a Toledo law firm. That attorney was truck with his merit and at once asked Dunbar to call upon him at his first opportunity. He was even more impressed upon meeting Dunbar and at once fered to raise funds to aid Dunbar in completing his education. Later on he procured the assistance of Dr. Toby and with him published Dunbar's first book, "Lyrics of Lovely Life." A copy of the book is in the G. Gollom collection, who gave it to William Dean Howells and in turn Mr. Howells published such favorable notice of Dunbar's work that his future success was assured. Do you want to know why the willingness to help one of the race was not unlike efforts which he put forth to aid many who were unfortunate in their lives. He fought cases for those injured upon the railroads and upon behalf of the widows and children of many who were killed in railroad work. He came to find that many of the judges were too friendly to railroad interests. Four years ago, thinking that free speech was permitted he published the records of some of these judges who were candidates for office. The judges were able to provide opportunity to be rid of him. They brought proceedings in the Supreme Court of Ohio, and some of the very judges whom he had criticised were seated in judgment on him and disbarred him from practicing his profession. For four years he has kept up the fight to restore to the people of the state the right of free speech and through the demand of many who were disbarred from expressing their views, he has consented to stand as a candidate for election to the supreme court of the state, short term. In a speech which he recently delivered in Cleveland, among other things he said: "The Pilgrim fathers left England to enjoy religious liberty. Their descendants adopted a constitution which provided for free speech. It was not, however, until more than one-half century later that they came to see the injustice of keeping human beings in bondage. Today, however, in Ohio our liberties are denied if we happen to discuss the unfitness of a judge for his office. If we were to award him a president and of other officials, but there seems to be a halo around the head of the judges. I am not a candidate solely to secure the office but rather to break the shackles that bind the minds and to loosen the tongues of those who wouldn't speak the truth of men in high places. If it took our forefathers more than one-half century to awaken the conscience of the people and release the Negro, it certainly ought not to take the men of this century on store shelves and to judge them on speech and to judge that they must not sit in judgment in a case in which they have a vital interest." Mr. Thatcher stands as a non-partisan candidate for judge, having been nominated by petitions, signed by more than 20,000 Ohio voters. Many who believe in freedom are rallying to his support. It is confidently believed that our voters will not only show their belief in the principles for which Mr. Thatcher stands, but will also show their appreciation for what he has done for one whom they hold in fond memory. Do not forget to vote for Charles A. Thatcher, Esq.—Adv. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1912. DISFRANCHISEMENT. President Taft Deserves Much Credi mous Sehersa of Maryland Demonstrat e For the Defeat of the Nefarious Schemes of Maryland Democrats. The Republican party wrote into the organic law the declaration which proclaims the civil and political rights of the Afro-American people. The Democratic party has enacted in the southern states, which it controls, laws which, by means of various devices, are really aimed at the disfranchisement of the race for reasons of color alone. Three attempts have been made by the Democrats of Maryland to disfranchise the colored voters of that state. The Maryland Republicans have stood solidly against every attempt at disfranchisement, and in two of these rights which have occurred since Mr. Taft's election as president, they have had his active support. In December, 1908, just after Mr. Taft had been elected and before he had been inaugurated, in answer to a letter of the Hon. William F. Stone, collector of the port of Baltimore, for the purpose of obtaining his views, the president made the following reply: Taft Opposes Disfranchisement. "My Dear Mr. Stone—I have your letter of Dec. 9, but have not been able to answer it until now. I don't think any one can read my North Carolina speech with any care and on that base the belief that I would favor such a bill as that proposed in Maryland. The provision that the first class of eligible voters shall be those persons who on the 1st day of January in the year 1860, or prior thereto, were entitled to vote under the laws of Maryland or any other state of the United States wherein they then resided, and that the male descendants of such persons, as a second class, shall be entitled to vote, was intended to exempt the persons thus made eligible from the educational or property qualifications which follow in the descriptions of the fifth and sixth classes of persons who shall be entitled to vote. "The same thing may be said of the third and fourth classes, which include foreign born citizens of the United States naturalized between Jan. 1, 1869, and the date of the adoption of the proposed section and the male descendants of such mentioned persons. This is in order to exempt such immigrants and their descendants from educational or property qualifications. "Now we know the first four classes include no Negroes at all. In other words, it is intended to free the whites from educational or property qualifications, but to subject all Negroes to them. "The whole law ought to be condemned. It is not drawn in the spirit of justice and equality, having regard for the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, and I sincerely hope that no Republican who desires equality of treatment to the black and white races will vote for it. Sinceely yours. "WILLIAM H. TAFT." The Afro-American and His Debt to the Republican Party If the Afro-American citizen recalls the past he must acknowledge that every privilege he has in this country came to him at the hands of the Republican party. The Democrats opposed every proposition looking toward his welfare during the long struggle over the Negro question in the years following the slaveholders' rebellion. The history of the United States tells a conclusive story on these points. Freedom, manhood, education, suffrage opportunity, were given by the party of which Taft and Sherman are the standard bearers. To the Democratic party the race owes 250 years of slavery, peonage disfranchisement, Jim Crowism, lynching, curtailment of educational facilities, segregation, humiliation and degradation. NO CLASS LEGISLATION. I emphasize as my party's creed and my faith that in legislation and administration favor should be extended to no class, no sect, no race. To foster class hatred, to foster discontent, is un-Republican and un-American. Our party stands on the declaration that all men are created equal regardless of its will. We no part in the enactment or execution of any law that does not apply alike to all good American citizens.-Vice President Sherman. Extract From Republican Platform. The Republican party reaffirms its intention to uphold the integrity of the courts, both state and federal, and it will ever insist that their powers to enforce their processes and to protect life, liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate. We call upon the people to quicken their interest in public affairs, to condemn and punish lynchings and other forms of lawlessness and to strengthen in all possible ways a respect for law and an observance of it. In Cuba the Afro-American soldiers astonished the world by their bravery and coolness under fire. They were fighting to free the beautiful isle from the Spanish yoke. It was a Republican president, McKinley, who commissioned 266 men of the race to lead their men to battle. The progress of the Afro-American people in fifty years of freedom has been greater than that of any other race similarly environed recorded in history. A great deal of this progress should be credited to the Republican party. FOR SALE Houses and lots in Oberlin, Ohio, and in most desirable locality; roundings excellent; cheap and on easy terms. Address or see D. C. Fisher, 554 Broadway, Lorain, Ohio. Phone, residence, 555; office, 385. A STANZA ON FREEDOM. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR. Toledo, O. Oct. 32, 1913 Toledo, O., Oct. 23'12. Dear Editor Gazette!--Major Pond of New York made a contract to put Dunnar on the platform, but failed to do so. He was a public recital in the Lyric Theatre, which the various critics were present. The reports of this recital were very flattering. A little later, however, Miss Pond offered to take him to Europe with a view of giving recitals in England. He wrote Dr. Toby and me, asking our views on the matriarch. The matriarch was rebelant of having him so I wanted that he would be of great value. He went to Europe and there met many people of note. I cherish a letter which he wrote me soon after he arrived. He said that he had been entertained at dinner at the Great Savage Club as the guest of the Secretary of the Royal Historical Society for more than a year, more than gratified that he was called to take part in the after dinner speeches, as the audience was very critical, but he received two recalls. He also described a tea that he attended at the home of Henry M. Stanley, saying that he met some decent people, but the men did not understand what he said, so each had one suck in the corner of his eye. He also secured an English publisher for his work. On returning to America he issued one or two volumes of fiction, which were well received. He described, with a great deal of moment, a meeting in New York in which he was in charge of the Negro education was held to discuss the higher education of the Negro. A gentleman had come from Boston to discourage the higher education of the Negro. After he heard Dunbar speak he subscribed $1,000 to the cause. Paul would smile when he related the story and state that the man evidently thought that he had received the benediction of the Bible while in fact he had never been higher than the high school at Dayton. About this time the dread disease, consumption, took hold upon him, and gradually he declined until finally he was laid away in his last resting place at his old home in Dayton. The people who, when he was a struggling elevator boy, lent him but little encouragement, were now ready and willing to do honor to his memory. A teacher of the contributions made by the public and is today pointed out as one of the places of interest to those who frequent that city. It must be conceded that he was a genius and while it is not to be expected that all who were born in his station can acquire the position which he held, at the same time his life and example do offer encouragement to others and simply show that the color-line is gradually but surely wiped away. This allows him to recognize men of worth and that the Creator in His wisdom saw fit to bring them into the world—those who varied in physical appearance but whose minds were opened to cultivation and who, by efforts, could be blessings to the race. CHARLES A. THATCHER. "JUMPING OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE." prancing for Roosevelt, the white man is looking on and seeing what a fool the Negro can make himself. He is making this plain—that if you want to win his support, kick him and the harder you kick him the more ardently he will love. The Negro is going on record. As to men like our friends, Senators Foraker, Crane and Root, they do not mention them at all. They are certain class Negroes—job hunters—whose life for the future of the race, is measured by a political job. It's not for principle, or the race's standing among men. It is not that, they want to make our position, one equal with all men. I am of the opinion that the reason that most of the Negroes for Theodore Roosevelt are for him because they think that, with them more jobs than Taft. What should be concerned about is a standing as men—the basis of manhood. When we get that, the jobs will necessarily follow. I am Yours sincerely, G. L. Cheatham DOINGS OF THE RACE Prof, Albert F. Mando of N. Y. City, is dead. Among the guards on John D. Rockefeller's N. Y. estate are eighteen armed Afro-Americans. There are seven flourishing Afro-American banks in Mississippi, located at Bayou Bayon, Greenville, Jackson, Columbus, Natchez, Yazoo City and Shaw. In Memphis there are 500 Afro-American families owning homes each valued at $5,000 and upward. One widow owns an estate of $300,000 and a letter-carrier is worth $150,000. The Solvent Savings Bank has over $100,000 in deposits, and there are sixty American letter-carriers in the postoffice. Macon county, Alabama, has a larger area of land held by our people than any other county in the south. In 1910 they owned 61,688 acres. In Liberty county, Ga., the next largest in Afro-American land was in Louisiana county, Virginia, the third county in this respect, our people there owned 53,268 acres. John H. Ceboll of Indianapolis, Ind., has been granted a patent on his invention of a non-puncturable tire for automobiles. His tire can be punctured with a six or eight penny nail without necessitating stopping for repair. The War Department has announced that five bandsmen of the United States Army will soon begin a year's course of instruction at the Institution of Musical Art in New York City. The bandsmen will be admitted on scholarships offered the Army by Frank Damrosch, the men selected having won their honors by a rigid competitive examination. Over 100 bandsmen were Alfred J. Thomas, Afro-American, chief bandman of the Teeth Cavalry. The Orgen Realty & Investment Company, Incorporated, Houston, Texas, has recently purchased a building in the center of the business district for $100,000. The company has total resources, including their recent purchase, of over $200,000. It was organized eight years ago and has earned $200,000 to its stockholders. This company is owned and controlled by Afro-Americans. Bishop G. W. Stewart of the C. M. E. Church has been suspended, pending a trial, on the charge of being short $10,000. The trial will be held by the next General Conference of the church. Bishop Jason has announced that he has accepted the offer of $50,000 to fight Sam Langford and Sam McVey in Australia, made by Hugh D. McIntosh. He will leave Chicago on October 25th for Australia and will train there. He will fight Langford on December 26. Clarance Cameron White, formerly of this city, has written a "becausece" for violin with piano, which has been published by the Thompson Music Center of Boston. No political party has ever succeeded that was brought into existence for the benefit of one race—like the "Bull Moosers." No political party can succeed that is not possessed of some height and breadth of principles. To desert the Republican party, which has done so much for the benefit of the nation, would not derelict, and unworthy of enjoying what this party has done for us—Warron (Ohk.) American. Chicago, like Cleveland, has an Afro-American lieutenant of police, Sergt, Wm. Childs having been promoted, last week, by Mayor Carter Harrison. (dem.). John Anderson, Cleveland's Afro-American lieutenant of police, was promoted from Sergeant, five or six years ago, and has always been one of the very best officers on the force. Cleveland also has one Afro-American detective—Arthur McFarland, and the secretary to the chief of police, Charles Smith, is also a member of the race. The annual meeting of the national Baptist convention resolutions were adopted indorsing the Taft administration and advising all citizens, and Afro-American Baptists in particular, to vote the Republican ticket straight. Judge A. W. Fite of the Cherokee circuit, Ga. has been hined $500, or 10 days in jail, for criticising in a newspaper article the Court of Appeals for twice reversing his decision, sentencing an Afro-American to twenty years in prison for an uprising on a white woman. Mrs. Annie Wilson, Washington, D.C., after four years of marriage and the birth of two children, recently applied to the Juvenile Court of that city, for an order requiring her husband to support the children. In her petition she said that they were married in Boston, that he was a mulatto, that she discovered this when his mother came to visit them for the first time, and that she was as descent, and that she intended to apply for a divorce. Mrs. Wilson returned to Boston. Robert K. Richardson, vice-president and general manager of the Christian Food Co. in reply to his wife's suit for divorce, alleges that she is an Afro-American. Mrs. Richardson denies this, of course. She says she is descended from Bourbon stock on her mother's side, and the Seminole Indians on her father's side. This case has reached the N. Y. supreme court. Her attorney says she is prepared to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court and attack the constitutionality of the Tennessee and other states' statute which prohibits intermarriage. It would simply be a question, in the last analysis, whether the federal or state constitutions is supreme. Theodore B. Green, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 508-510 Superior Building. Office, Main 3076 CLEVERAND, Eddy 2086-R. CLEVERAND, O. BUGKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO THROUGHOUT OHIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. Ashtabula.—The Autumn Leaf club gave a very successful supper recently. Quite a nice sum was realized. The club met at Mrs. T. C. Green's on the 17th, and will give a Halloween party on the 30th—Mr. Erling is sojourning here. — Mrs. Webster who spent the summer here, has returned to Washington, D.C., where Balinese merchants to our city are living at 38 Gerry St.-Mrs. J. E. Jackson of Cleveland is visiting her brother, J. E. Johnson. — Dan. Williams has moved into his new home on Oliver St.-Mrs. Art Returh has returned from a two weeks' stay in Buffalo and Canada. — Mrs. E. H. Green spent a week at her old home, Conneaut, visiting her aunt, Mrs. Granville Thomas was here Monday. Smithfield.—Rev. Geo. W. Maxwell, P. E., will hold his first quarterly conference and meeting, of this conference year, here Saturday evening and Sunday morning, and at Melntyne in the afternoon. It is hoped that all members and well-wishers will be present.—Mrs. George Davis and daughter, Annie, were in Steubenville, from Saturday until Monday—Mr. Faithful of Harrisville, was Miss M. Beall's guest, Sunday—Mrs. Chas Adams and daughter, Recha, and Ver. Spencer and Palmer of Fernwood, spent Sunday with Mrs. Abbie Palmer, —Ernest Jackson, Fred Carter, Chas Thompson and several others went to Steubenville, Sunday, to see the baseball game. Correspondents must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write, also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the town, and their names less this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be on application on Monday, and we will send them in advance during summer. Sandusky. The editor of The Gazette will speak tonight at Neil St. A. M. E. church. Be sure to hear him.-Mrs. George Scott was called to Elyria, last week, by her daughter, Mrs. Nelson Bolding's illness, and Mrs. Josie Thomas to Cleveland by her brother, Mr. Corom's illness.-Roy Smith and Arthur Alexander were royally entertained in Fremont Sunday and missed their car. Mrs. Gardner is entertaining Rev. J. C. Turner and Mrs. John Turner, Mrs. Susan Taylor and Mrs. Henry Richards for their club, was a success.-Mr. Cecil Shadd attended the meeting for the first time. Friday evening. He has been ill a long time.-Rev. Turner preached Sunday morning and evening.-M. J. Thomas is the steering committee of the Taft Republican club. It will be very active from now until election day.-Mrs. Ida Jones, son and husband have been ill.-Patronize J. W. Johnson of Columbus Av. and, O. W. Johnson of Columbus Av. and D. Smith preached an able sermon, Sunday evening. Two joined the church-one for baptism, Sunday at 10:20 a.m. Youngstown.—The following societies, Gold Leaf Co. D, U. R., and Logan Lodge, K. P.; Buckeye Lodge, Elks; Mahoning Valley Lodge, Odd Fellows; headed by the Mahoning band acted as an escort for Covenant Lodge, F. & A. M., to Oak Hill Av. church, Sunday, where exercises were held and a collection taken. Then proceeded to the new property of the Third Baptist church where the Masons laid the corpse of the late Rev. James Heath, aged 67, to be erected. The collection netted $451. The rally will end Sunday in the town hall—Thomas Barber is ill—Misses Wilma Guyder and Carrie Grimes were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Grimes of Beaver Falls for three days; Mrs. Annie Shaw of Pittsburgh was Mrs. Chas. Jackson's guest, recently, John Heath, aged 67, died at his son's, Thursday evening. He had been ill since May with a complication of Virginia, Virginia and had resided in Akron, many years. Nine weeks ago he and his wife came here to live with a son, James. He is survived by his widow and the following children: John and Chesley, Wadsworth; James and Douglass and Mrs. Angie Howard, this city. A daughter, Martha, died in April. Mr. Heath was a member of the Baptist church in Akron and was well liked by all who knew him.—The funeral services of Leora Bell Kemp were held in Hill A church. Dr. William O'Brien officiating. They were largely attended and there were many beautiful floral offerings. The pallbearers were: George Harvey, Earl Davis, William Snowden, Frank Leece, Raymond Johnson and Bennie Ferguson.—A party was given at Mrs. Lucy Reed's, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Holliday, nee Mary Mary Peterson, of Columbus, who were married recently. The early marriage of Elmer Harvey and Irene Holliday was announced. Rev. M. Gilmore, the new pastor of Oak Hill, was presiding elder of the western district of the north Ohio conference of the A. M. E. church for years, and has pastored some of the largest churches in this state and West Virginia. Dr. Gilmore is and has been for years a general officer also, of the church and is one of its leading clergymen. We are pleased to have him here. When your Gazette are not delivered on Friday mornings, call at your Central Postoffice General Delivery Window for them in the afternoon of the same day. —Editor. THE NEGRO'S CRISIS. The result of this presidential campaign is of deeper concern to the Colored race than that of any campaign since the adoption of the war amendments to the Constitution. In the outcome of this contest is the race's crisis. Republican success will settle all agitation and fear respecting our legal rights vouchsafed by the Constitution. Democratic success will prevent individual of acquitted those rights, and the ultimate restriction or annulment of those rights. This is made clear by the attitude of the Democratic party respecting the war amendments; the indicated aim of that party to introduce in Congress a bill to repeal them, in the event of its securing control of the presidency and the two branches of Congress, and the prospect that Governor Wilson's suggestion that the 32th, 14th and 15th amendments are unconstitutional. Again, the result of this campaign is of very grave concern to our race for the reason that the Democratic party proposes, in the event of its success, to emulate the action of its majority-contingent in the South by enacting Jim-crow legislation that will apply as effectively in the North as that party's Jim-crow state legislation applies in the South. For proof of this statement one has only to enter the introduction of three different candidates produced by the present Democratic House of Representatives and Washington to house Colored people on street cars, and the startling anti-fraace speeches, on the floor of Congress by several Democratic congressmen. With a contest on between President Taft, who is open and honest in his utterances and acts in favor of the race, and Dr. Woodrow Wilson who, himself and antecedents, have been consistently opposed to the race, any member of the race who will vote for an candidate other than President Taft, will simply vote for race advancement. And any Colored man, or man, who work for or in the interest of the Democratic candidate, or any other candidate, other than President Taft, is chargeable with having received the thirty pieces of silver that once influenced a Judas. And this is said without any apology to Bishop Walters and his purchaser to indigent or illudited Colored men who have been Democratic Headquarters in New York City. Twice within the past four years the Democrats of Maryland did attempt to disfranchise the Colored voters in that state. Each time President Taft, in unequivocal terms, with robust desire to disfranchise, and To his opposition, timely and forcible, is due the defeat of the measures by the people in that state. The Colored man in Maryland will now vote against President Taft, after he has twice saved to him the vote of the majority of serves disfranchise, and his reward will come sure and swift in the event of Democratic success in November. The Colored man, in any state, who does not feel a debt of gratitude to the President because of his protest against the Maryland disfranchise measures, an ungrateful meritis repudiation by his own race. In Ohio the count shows that the recent defeat of the amendment to strike from the constitution of that state the word "white" is at the door of the Democrats and Progressives. Democracy and Progressivism are synonymous terms when the rights of the Colored man are involved. The opposition has been against the race born before the Civil War. Their opposition was reaffirmed during that war, and it has been reaffirmed every year since that war. The Progressive party went on record against the race at its birth at Chicago in August last. Not before, or since his nomination has Woodrow Wilson given utterance to a single word to which the Colored man can pin a hope of security. His silence is ominous of his opposition to the race. It is ominous of unjust laws to follow his election. In the Taft column are words of sympathy, helpful support, and deeds of justice. In the Wilson column are words of opposition and total absence of deeds performed.-Adv. Ralph W. Tyler. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Newark, Chicopee, Chicago, Leeds, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Plum, Columbus, Cambridge, St. Louisville, Wilmington, Portsmouth, Washington, C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Rendille, Urbana, Delaware, M. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middleport, Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blockstone building, Cleveland, O. and others will be sent promptly. Readers will be urged us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities saumed above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. 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Business should have the patronage of Afro- virtise is assurance that they want Local reading notices (advertisements) For Rent.—House at 8906 Blaine Av. Enquire of Mr. Walker at that address. FOR RENT.—Houses—If you have places to rent or you want to rent —notify The Gazette. For Rent.—Pleasant furnished front room with bath for couple or two gentlemen. 2237 E. 49th St. 22 NOTARY PUBLIC—For such services call at The Gazette office, No. 2 Blackstone Building, No. 1422 W. 3d street, near Superior avenue. For Rent—To two gentlemen, nicely furnished room with light, heat and bath. 3867 Carnegie Ave. Fourth house west of E. 40th St. next to the grocery. Mrs. Chas. Good visited in Oberlin, recently. "Father" Adams who has paralysis, is much improved. Mrs. Florence Corum has returned from Windsor, Can. Silas Dickson and Elmer Dillard visited in Younsestown, recently. Mr. T. Gordon visited Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Turner in Detroit, recently. Mr. Joseph Todd, who has been quite sick at the Marine Hospital, is improving. Mr. Geo. Greenbrier has been very ill for a week, threatened with pneumonia. Mrs. Cassie Jones of Windsor, Out. Can, visited her mother, Mrs. Geo. Haggins, recently. Our City Federation of Women's clubs will meet at Mrs. S. C. Green's 3525 Cedar Av., Thursday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p. m. sharp. Mrs. J. S. Thomas, agent for Bliss native herbs, has moved from E. 30th St., to 2352 E. 34th St., where she will be pleased to see her old friends. Do not fail to read The Gazette's advertisements. All who advertise in this paper, want your trade and will treat you better in every way than those who do not advertise in The Gazette. The C. A. of C. M. (Iyceum) lecture by Dr. Thwing will be given at St. John's church, Sunday at 3 P. M. Everybody welcome. Admission free. Go and hear him! Do not fail to read carefully Senator Forsaker's splendid letters on page 4, this week. They contain food for much thought, and will help you to reach a sane and correct political decision. Rev. Chas. Bundy has started another rally. St. John's church has been organized into a church and he paid the debt of $1900, this winter. He raised last year, $8365, breaking all former records. At Mt. Haven Baptist church, Sunday, at 10:45 a.m. m. Rev. J. L. E. Burry, pastor, will preach on The Study of "uberniosis and the 7 Days of "heaven's completion in Christ". S. at 12:30 noon; B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m. The editor of The Gazette, Judge B. E. King and Geo. W. Ritter, candidate for prosecuting attorney of Erie County, were the speakers at a republican mass meeting of our people held in Nell St. A. M. E. church, Sandusky, last evening. The Cleveland Association of Colored Men will open its lecture course for the winter with Dr. Chas. F. Thwing, president of Western Reserve University, as speaker. Subject: "The Afro-American of Today." Everybody welcome. Admission free. Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, recorder of deeds, Washington, D. C. is a resident of Atlanta, Ga., a leader in his profession and one of our leading men. Do not fall to hear him, at ideal hal, this Friday evening. Mr. Johnson is a fine man—a credit to the race. The Kentucky and Ohio conference closed its session, Sunday evening, Rev W. G. Webster was returned to Lane Memorial church for his fourth year. Before returning, he will visit his sister in Paducah, Ky., the west Kentucky conference, and in Jackson, Tenn. Mr. Geo. Sutton is teacher in one of the nighschool classes in Harmon school, corner E. 20th St. and Woodland Ave. Everyone desiring a good knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic is asked to attend his classes. Absolutely free. Mr. Sutton is a member of the race. Cory M. E. church is actively engaged in working for the rally to be held the last Sunday in Nov. The Ladies' Aid clubs are continuing the work of the Men's club and hope to raise $400. The pastor is much encouraged by the work of the Epworth League and S. S. Ladies' Aid No. 2 will meet Wednesday. The W. M. S. elected Mrs. V. Allen, president. They will hold special services Sunday evening. All invited. Some members of our school are taking a training course at the "Old Stone Church." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1912. The annual ingathering of our Home for Aged People will be held at The Home, 2520 E. 39th St., Thursday, Oct. 31st. Donations of money, coal, clothing and food will be thankfully received. Dinner (35 cents) will be served from 12 M to 8 P. M. Mrs. C. F. Nickens, president; Mrs. G. G. Jenes, corresponding secretary. The most popular pictures in all moving picture theaters, these days, are those of the west. Western pictures of the most pleasing nature will hold forth at the cosy Alpha Theater, Sunday. Do not miss them and tell your friends and acquaintances of them. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper.-Adv. The local in last week's Gazette was not intended to insinuate that the speakers named, Messrs. Alex H. Martin, Equu, Rev. H. C. Bailley and Dr. J. K. Nickens, were receiving or soliciting political funds, but to announce that some of the "Bull Moose" workers were making ineffectual efforts to secure some to continue their meetings of that Central Av. hall, near B. 32d St. There will be a republican mass meeting this Friday evening, Oct. 25 at Ideal (old Woodifl) hall, 2400 Central Av. Speakers: Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D. C., Hon. Harry C. Smith, Hon. F. Taft, Hon. Henry T. Williams, William J. Green and candidates. You are urged to be present. Bring your friends. Ladies especially invited. Thomas W. Fleming, Chairman. Bishop C. T. Shaffer, the newly elected bishop of this, the Third Episcopal District of the A. M. E. church, preached at St. John's church, Sunday morning and evening, and on Monday evening delivered an excellent lecture on "The Voice of the Hour." The church tendered him a reception in the lecture room. Rev G. A. Sisleke, minister of the ministry of Chishaund, Mrs. Marle T. Perkins, in the behalf of the church, said: "The church welcomes you, not only because you are the bishop of the Third Episcopal District, and bishop of Ohio, but also because you are of Ohio, we welcome you as Our Bishop." Bishop Shaffer has the distinction of being the only man who has ever occupied the seat of bishop who was born, reared and educated in Ohio. Mrs. Anna Fowler sang in her pleasing manner. The ladies of the church served a delightful repast to the bishop, who was a baker, a cream and cake to the friends. The bishop left at 11:25 for his home in Chicago. EDITOR JOHN MITCHELL, JR. Writing of his recent visit to Cleveland, Editor John Mitchell of the Richmond (Va.) Planet, said recently: "I finally decided to go to the Colonial Theatre. I approached the ticket office. Only a white boy was there and he soon left the window. I called for a reservation. 'All right,' the reply, 'except in the gallery.' He did not look at me directly, but from the tone of his voice, I understood and bowed myself out of the lobby of the playhouse. I wandered up the brilliantly lighted street and entered one of the attractive moving picture shows where my money was accepted and where I sat where I pleased until I met Mr. John P. Green City House, where I soon reached my pleasant quarters. * * * It is hardly fair to tell Mr. (John P. Green)'s happiness and of his ability to do the "kissing act" for all of his family. He plainly intimated to me by his actions that he could kiss all of them and he proceeded so to do, while I looked on with unfulfied amazement and amusement. "The two single brightest women. They just stood in womanhood, and the only unkissed members of that family were the male ones, and I presumed that he left them for my attention, but I did not take the hint and after many apologies for my hasty exit, started for the front door." FRANK R. LANDER. Republican Candidate for Re-Election for County Surveyor, asks for your support on Nov. 5. His name will be the third from the bottom on the Republican ticket. Mr. Lander has a member of the race in his employ in the person of Mr. Leroy Fowler, appointed nearly几年 ago. The Gazette urges our men to vote solidly for him. He is thoroughly competent and deserving of the vote for Frank R. Lander, Republican candidate for county surveyor. PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL CONVENTION AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF From The North American, Aug. 5, 1870. THE OPEN DOOR JUDGE CLARENCE G. WASHBURN. Candidate for Circuit Judge. Without regard to party affiliations, we can heartily recommend Judge Washburn to the voters of the district as a capable and conscientious judge. He has been Common Pleas Judge in the district composed of Summit, Lorain and Medina counties. He is a well-respected reputation for integrity and ability. He is 65 years old, a hard worker and different student, and is possessed of good common sense. In Lorain County, where he is known and respected by all, he will receive the substantial endorsement that he justly merits, and we hope and confidently expect that he will be elected. Under the new non-partisan judicial law, the names of candidates for judicial offices are to be placed on a separate ballot, without party designation, and the only way to vote for a judicial candidate is by placing an X mark opposite his name on the ballot. To insure the election of Judge Washburn, the ballot should be marked in the following manner: For Judge of the Circuit Court (Long Term) (One to be elected) CLARENCE HWBURN Adv. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., of The Gazette, published weekly at Cleveland, Ohio, required by the Act of August 24, 1912. Note: This statement is to be made in duplicate, both copies to be delivered by the publisher to the postmaster, who will send one copy to the Third Assistant Postmaster General (Division of Classification), Washington, D. C., and retain the office in the files of the postmaster. Name of Editor, H. C. Smith.....Cleveland, O. Managing Editor, H. C. Smith.....Cleveland, O. Business Manager, H. C. Smith.....Cleveland, O Publisher, H. C. Smith.....Cleveland, O Owners: (If a corporation give names and addresses of stockholder, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock): H. C. Smith (Cleveland, O. 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I am glad to know that you think of reproducing it in the columns of The Gazette. I do not like to take upon myself the responsibility of being 'my brother's keeper' but rather all the circumstances I hope it was pardonable for me to make the suggestions in this answer to the inquiry sent me. With kindest regards, I remain. Very truly yours, J. D. Foraker. Oct. 1, 1912 The Baptist Ministers' Union of Cincinnati, O.: Gentlemen—I have before me a copy of the resolutions adopted by you yesterday in which you recite that the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt has injected into this campaign "an issue of vital importance to the Negro race, and the state of mind as to the meaning and effect of said issue on their race and as to their duty in the coming election," and asking me "to advise you as to what in my opinion is the meaning and effect as applied to the Negro race of the issue thus raised and the Negroes in the coming election." If you had asked me to state with our identification the meaning of the issue you mention I should have defined to undertake to give an answer to your inquiry, for no matter what I might have thus said as to its meaning I would probably have been charged with misrepresentation. But much as you ask for only my personal opinion of what it means I presume I am safe, at least from the charge of misrepresentation, in saying that in my opinion it means to make of the Progressive party in the South a party for the purpose of popularizing the party with the white people, especially the white Democrats of the South, and thus make it possible to break up the solid support of the Democratic party by the Southern states. So understanding this new issue, as you term it, it has no novelty. From time to time of late years of forts have been made in a number of Southern states to organize among Republicans a so-called "Lily-Wilde" party. The well-known babe and purse of the party has been to overcome the prejudice on account of the Negro, of the white Democrats of the South against becoming Republicans and thus make it possible for the Republicans to capture from the Democrats some of the Southern states. I have never had any sympathy with this "Lily-Wilde" sympathy among the Democrats because it in denial to the Negro of his political rights, and for the same reason I have no sympathy with Mr. Roosevelt's proposition. Ohnoxious Proposition. It does not help the matter to confine the proposed rule to the Southern states. The Likelihood Republicans did not. On the contrary, it made the proposition more obnoxious since it sectionalizes the country and denies that equality of political right under the constitution and the laws of the country that it is justly the proud boast of the Republican party to have conferred. Besides it would, in my opinion, be but an entering wedge to further denials of right to the Colored people, not only in the South but also in the North. You have only to call the vote in Ohio at the time an overwhelming majority was registered against striking out the word "white" from the Ohio constitution—a word that has been a dead letter ever since the war amendments to the constitution of the United States were adopted—to see the extent of the prejudice that can be aroused against the Negro here in our own state, where we are supposed to have outlived everything of such unworthy character. The degree of prejudice thus manifested here indicates how easy it would be to extend the denial of equality of right to the Negro of the Southern states, that is now proposed, to a denial of that same equality right in the Northern states. The whole proposition is in conflict with Republican sentiment, and Republican principles, and Republican achievements, and Republican beliefs, and should not, in my judgment, be given any countenance at all by any one who calls himself a Republican. A good deal has been said recently about the battle of Armageddon. In view of this proposition, if I were a clever officer would want to hear less about Armageddon and more about Abomopatmos. Deeds That Count. The greatest of all the achievements of the Republican party was the abolition of slavery and the enfranchisement of your whole race, and the planting of them on the same plane of political equality with the white people of this country in the presence of the constitution and the laws. To go back now to undo that in whole or in part is not progress, but retrogression, and retrogression of a character with the spirit by which all are actuated who are "battling for the Lord." Nobody knows more than I do or feels more keenly than I do the fact that the Republican party has not at all times done its full duty by the Negroes, who have almost without exception been so steadfastly loyal to our government and institutions and everything the Republican party has represented; but notwithstanding all such shortcomings, the fact remains that the Republican party is the only party that has actually and practically done anything to better his political status and to improve his opportunities. I need not cite any testimony to support this statement as to the Democratic party. The leaders of that party not only admit, but they justify all that is said and suggested. So far as the Progressive party is concerned, whatever they may say or propose is neutralized by the proposition you mention with such authority that the beginning that would lead on to results far more disastrous and exasperating than any one has yet suggested. Ship and Sea. Much, therefore, as the Republican party may have fallen short of what it should have done in this or that or the other instance. It remains that it is the only political organization to the which the Negro can look with hope for the future. In other words, it is as true purpose as any other. (Frederick Douglass) that for the Negro "the Republican party is the slip; all else is the sea." I regard the approaching election as one of the most important ever held in this country in time of peace. It involves for all of us the very life of the protective tariff policy under which we have had such great prosperity. It involves for all of us the very environment. We are gibly told that the constitution made by Washington and Hamilton and Madison and their associates is a "stage-coach constitution," not suitable to modern conditions; and our distinguished mayor is reported in the newspapers to have told the law he was wary of the constitution and our written constitution should be so amended as to prohibit the courts from setting aside as unconstitutional any legislative enactments. Others tell us of the superiority of the English constitution because acts of parliament are beyond question in the courts. Such talk is dangerous. For more than 100 years our personal liberties and rights, and proper property have been protected guaranteed by the bill of rights that is a paramount part of every written constitution ever made in this country. All these bills of rights would be in vain if the courts were as suggested, stripped of their constitu THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1912. Washington The Latin-American division of the state department is observing closely export trade from the United States to South American countries on the Pacific coast with a view to determining the probable volume of such traffic through the Panama canal. The total amount of internal revenue collected in the Philippine is lands last year was about $10,600,000 an increase of nearly $1,000,000 over the collections for 1911. The Philippine collector of customs reported an increase of $625,000 in import duties. Regulations to further restrict the size and limit the weight of personal baggage of travelers adopted by substantially all railroads in the United States, was suspended by the interstate commerce commission until April 29. Ellin Root at Washington has accepted the honorary presidency of the American Institute of International Law, formed to promote friendly relations among the Latin-American states. A provisional bureau has been opened, with James Brown Scott, see retary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as president; Alejandro Alvarez, counselor to the minister of foreign affairs of Chile, as secretary general, and Louis Anderson of Costa Rica, treasurer. On recommendation of Secretary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher, President Taft has decided to reappoint as governor of Hawaii Walter F. Frear, against whom charges were made last spring. Domestic The insurgent faction of the Modern Woodmen of America scored a victory in their first attempt to prevent the putting into effect of a new and higher schedule of rates adopted by the head camp when Judge Bradshaw of the equity division of the district court at Des Moines, Ia., handed down a decision, holding the proposed change to be null and void. The Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples opened with Chancellor E. E. Brown of New York university presiding. C. E. Dawson, a farmer of Skidmore, Mo., was ined $250 in the federal court, by Judge Valkenburgh for selling hogs affected by cholera, on the St. Joseph market. The quiet routine of life at Sagamore Hill was picked up again by Colonel Roosevelt and his family, following their trip from Chicago, as though it had not been interrupted by the firing of a shot meant to kill the master of the house. Five men are under arrest and a posse is searching for eight others who attacked Mrs Lillie Mullane of Richmond, Va., near Annapolis, Mo. Several persons were injured, some seriously, when spreading rails wrecked the Denver express on the Chicago & Alton railroad, one mile west of Honeydale, Ill. A general alarm was sent by wireless to vessels at sea asking that search be made for the tramp steamer Nicaragua, seven days overdue at Port Arthur, Tex., from Tampico Mex. It is believed that the steamer was disabled in the recent gulf storm. The Nicaragua, with Captain Echevarra and a crew of 23 men, sailed light October 11. Jack Johnson, the pugilist, was arrested in Chicago on a charge of abducting Lucille Cameron, a nineteen-year-old white girl, already under arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct. The warrant for Johnson's arrest was sworn out by the girl's mother, Mrs. F. Cameron Falconet of Minneapolis. Taken by five men in an automobile to a lonely point on the main road between Bridgeport and Stratford Conn., Rose White, a young and hand some woman, was deliberately shot to death. The motive for the killing is a blank mystery. the trial of Churece S. Darrow, the Chicago lawyer who defended the McNamara brothers, was set at Los Angeles for November 25, on the indictment charging him with the bribery of Robert E. Bain, a juror in the McNamara trial. The Beach hotel at Lakeside, Mich., a favorite summer resort among Chicagoans, was destroyed by fire. The damage was $15,000. The hotel was under lease to Mr. Truitt of Chicago, and was patronized last summer by several hundred Chicago families. Aroused over the labor conditions in the United States, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor began a secret conference at Washington to consider the various phases of the disturbing situation. Passengers, crew and life-savers, who had been braving fire on board the Merchants and Miners' steamer Berkshire for 36 hours, were taken off the burning liner by the revenue cutter Seminole, in Lockout cove, North Carolina. tutional power and duty to protect us in their enjoyment. Bill of Rights. In addition to these great serious questions for the Colored man there is involved in this approaching election the additional question to which you have called my attention. The Colored man has the privilege and bids of rights are as important to the Colored man as they are to the white man, for what affects the one affects the other. But over and above all else the Colored man has the further question to consider, about which you have asked me to express an opinion, and that question is sufficient of it, as I indicate to make it the duty of every loyal, self-respecting Colored man in the nation to rally to the support of the Republican party and vote its ticket, from President Taft at the head of it down to the last man on the county ticket. "WHERE WE STAND." After careful thought and review of the triangular political situation in the present presidential campaign, we have decided to remain in the ranks of the republican party and support its candidates, or as many of them as we can, in this fall's campaign. Our reasons for this, are: First: There is absolutely nothing for the Afro-American in the ranks of democracy. This is as it always has been, excepting that this fall, for the first time since the war of the rebellion, southern democracy is "in the saddle," not only controlling the party's candidate for the presidency, a native southerner, but also dominating the organization to such an extent as to make perfectly clear what the condition will be, as far as our people are concerned, after election in November, in event of the elevation of Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, to the presidency. It is hardly necessary to explain to our readers, or our people generally, what "domination of the solid south" means. They know entirely too well that about all the lilies of our people, in this country, are directly traceable to this very same domination. Wholesale barbary lynching, mob violence, distranchement, "jim-crow" railroad and street cars, a general assault upon our citizen's rights and privileges, and hundreds of other lilies that time will not permit us to enumerate, are not all by a great deal, but are quite enough to make it simply impossible for The Gazette to support the candidacy for the presidency of Gov. Woodrow Wilson. Second: As. to Col. Theodore "Brownville" Roosevelt and his Third or "Cure-All" party which, in one breath, bleats so loudly of "its cause being the welfare of humanity, of being the foe of every form of injustice and oppression, of advocating social industrial and human liberty, of being imbued with the ideals of human rights and wishing to serve their fellow beings" etc, etc, and in the very next breath bars from representation in its first national convention in Chicago, the 6,000,000 Afro-Americans of the southland who have suffered, and are suffering in every way, more than all other elements (combined) of the cosmopolitan population of this country, in addition to Roosevelt's lynchmurder and subsequent persecution of "The Black Battalion," more need not be said to the average, thoughtful member of the race who has a spark of loyalty, manhood, self and race respect. If southern Afro-Americans votes for delegates to "Bull Moose" national conventions are refused, as they are by that party, no member of the race, north or south, should so far forget himself to cast a vote for its candidates, especially its candidate for the presidency, on election day in November. The many "human lilies" which our people throughout this country, particularly in the south, suffer, do not materially concern Col. "Brownville" Roosevelt and his party. Therefore, race loyalty, manhood, self and race respect make it absolutely the ranks of the republican party to espouse only the white men's cause, being so eloquently pleaded by the Progressive (?) or "Third Party." Third: While the major portion of the first term of President William Howard Taft has been a bitter dispairment to our people in several respects, nevertheless, he has said and done some good things for us which are of such recent occurrence as to make it unnecessary for us to particularize at this time. We are free to confess that he has made some serious mistakes. He frankly admits them and gives assurance that he will rectify them as far as it lies in his power, should he be re-elected. While this condition may not suit all, the question recurs, where are we to turn in the present presidential campaign, to find as good assurances or better? Surely not to the democratic party nor to the socialized progressive party. Neither the socialist nor the prohibition parties' candidates for the presidency are positive factors in the contest, this fall. Therefore, are not to be considered. Here, in Ohio, at the head of the state republic ticket, we have in the person of Gen. R. B. Brown of Zanesville, a veteran of the war of the rebellion, a lifelong friend of the race, and a republican of the "old school," such as is his comrade and long-time friend, our great senator, Joseph Pemen Foraker. The rest of the state ticket and nearly all the various county republican candidates in Ohio, this fall, are so infinitely preferable to those of either the democratic or so-called progressive party that it makes it much easier for others, as it has for The Gazette, to reach a conclusion such as it has, after a little careful thought and review of the political situation in nation, state and county. Don't Overlook that subscription. If you are in a scream remember that we can always find good use for the MONEY Latest News of Interest Boiled Down for the Busy Man. --- . . . Andrew Rowan, the Arkansas negro who murdered Policeman Carl Rosalski, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Decatur, Ill. It became known for the first time since the shooting, the exact location of the bullet fired by John Schrank in Milwaukee last Monday. The bullet, it was found by a new X-ray plate, is lodged outside, instead of inside, the fractured rib, and can be removed at any time Colonel Roosevelt desires. A broken rail caused a Woodmen of the World excursion train on the Illinois Central to leave the tracks six miles out of Hopkinsville, Ky., and at least fifty people were considerably injured, while all of the hundred and eighty passengers aboard were badly shaken up. --- The police of Detroit are investigating the record of Wilford D. Trembleb, who, they assert, gave himself up to a traffic officer, confessing that he had murdered a brakeman named Gregg in a Parasould (Ark). restaurant three years ago. --- The International Dry Farming congress opened in Lethbridge, Alberta, distinguished delegates being present from all parts of the world. Balkan War The first of the dreaded Turkish massacre by Turks is reported from Girnono, where 150 Bulgarian peasants were forced to lie on the ground and then shot. --- Dispatches received in London stated that several Turkish army doctors have been sent from Constantinople to Janina, a city near the Greek frontier, with a supply of typhus and cholera germs for the purpose of spreading disease among the troops of the enemy. Foreign Sarah Bernhardt celebrated her sixty-eight birthday in London and was presented with an address of congratulation by her British admirer. --- Commander Charles F. Hughes of the United States cruiser Des Moines, who arrived in the port of Vera Cruz Mex., has taken complete charge of the complex political situation in that city. . . . The typhoon which swept over several of the Philippine islands October 16 resulted in the death of more than a thousand persons. Four unidentified Americans—three men and a little girl—were among those killed. William Marconi, the wireless telegraph inventor, whose right eye was removed last Thursday at Spezia, Italy, has developed alarming symptoms. Notwithstanding a reassuring bulletin, it is feared the complications are threatening the other eye. Helen Craggs, the English militant suffragette, was sentenced to nine months' hard labor on the charge of attempting to set fire to the residence of Lewis V. Harcourt, secretary of state for the colonies. Following a bombardment by rebels occupying the federal gunboats, the soldiers of the Twenty-first battalion, garrisoning Fort Uluce, an island in the harbor at Vera Cruz, Mex., have joined the revolutionary forces of Honduras several refuges on the island were killed by the shells from the gunboats. Politics Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana. Democratic candidate for vicepresident, interrupted his campaigning in San Francisco to select a site for the Indiana building on the grounds of the Panama Pacific exposition in 1915. Personal Mrs. C. W. Post, the divorced wife of the battle Creek millionaire food manufacturer, was found dead in bed at the apartment of Mrs. Joseph Breckons in Washington, D. C., where she was a guest. Mabel Hite, the actress and wife of Mike Donlin, the base-ball player, died suddenly at her home in New York city of blood poisoning. Charles H. Senff, former associate of the Havemeyers in the sugar business, left an estate valued at $12,000,000, according to the appraisal just filed in New York. Mr. Senff died August 23, 1911. President Lillian M. N. Stevens called to order the annual convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union in Portland, Ore. The government has settled a bill for a soldiers' pay nearly fifty years old. W. H. Webb, of Elk City, Kan., has received a check for $3.10 due him since August 16, 1865. The fine library of Beverly Chew, noted in New York and abroad for its remarkable collection of rare and valuable copies of early English authors, has been sold to Henry E. Huntington. The price it was announced was $500,000. . . . Willie Rugh, the crippled newsboy of Gary, Ind., who gave his withered leg for amputation that the life of Miss Ethel Smith, whom he never before had seen, might be saved, is dead from pneumonia. Brown McMillin, son of Benton McMillin, Democratic candidate for governor of Tennessee, is dying of inflammation of the bowels in a hospital in Bristol, Teen. . . . "I neither authorized nor knew of any such statement being contemplated by anyone, and am not at present addressing my mind on that subject." said Secretary Knox, referring to a published statement that he had declared his intention of declining to remain in public life after March 4 next, regardless of political changes. SHIRTWAIST TO REIGN WILL PLAY IMPORTANT PART IN DRAMA OF FASHION Designers This Season Have Outdone Themselves in Producing Attractive Garments—Tailored Shirt in Feminine Stuffs. NEW YORK—The shirt waist is scheduled to play an even more important role in the drama of fashions than it has assumed for many a season. And, as if to make good her part, the shirt waist of the hour is more appealing, more alluring and more bewitching than it has shown itself for several seasons. Strict Tailored Shirt. The woman who goes in for the sewerest of tailored effects orders her shirts built on the same lines as those of her brother or husband. To be sure the wise haberdasher makes the necessary changes for the feminine figures the result is so nearly identical that the customer is satisfied. These shirts will be developed in a heavy white silk, a flannel or one of the wash silks. For those who do not repeat year after year the same order there are slight changes which distinguish the effect this tail from that of the spring. The principal distinction lies in the collar, for the rolling, comfortable Robespierre collar has been adopted with success for the tailored shirt. The deep cuffs are another point of difference. Some of the so-called tailored walts boast cuffs with turnovers of black silk, generally taffeta, to match the high stock of the same material. Semi-Tailored Blouse There are numerous blouses which have all the simplicity of the severely tailored shirt, and yet are exploited in such truly feminine stuffs that they only half deserve the title of semi-tailored shirt waists. Take for instance, a blouse which may be fashioned from either one of the heavy new silks or a flannel. It is practically devoid of trimming, except for the front piece, which is cleverly extended to the top of the collar. Only an outline of stitching and the buttons, which figure on every blouse of the hour, with prominent button-holes, lend even the suggestion of trimming to this front piece. There is the low shoulder seam, which is not seen, perhaps, in the severely tailored shirt, but which adds the up-to-date touch to nine out of ten of the fall blouses, and the deep cuffs. A trig little blouse made from failie silk is another example of the semi-tailored blouse of which there are innumerable plays among the shirt waistals of the hour. On the blouse the revers are of the material edged with lace, and the plainness is broken by the buttons and buttonholes. There is the same pointed Robespierre, or Directoire, collar of the material. The color note may be sounded by the use of the epaulettes which lend the much desired long shoulder line, are likewise lightened by the colored stitching. There are numerous examples everywhere you turn of this style of blouse. The favorite type is the blouse with the low shoulder seam, the revers, either of the material or lace, plain, enhanced with a clever lot of embroidery, or trimmed with buttons, and the pointed low Robespierre collar. When this type of waist is not desired the blouse with the vest is selected. One of the simplest, and yet one of the daintiest, of these waists was shown this week in an exclusive French shop. The waist was fashioned from a cream chalice with a dainty Dresden pink and blue rose design. It was cut with the usual low shoulder seam, and the long sleeves were softened at the wrist with a frill of net extending nearly to the elbow. From the neck to the hem, there was a narrow vest of white satin, with tiny amber buttons, flanked on either side by narrow white satin turnback cuffs. It was simplicity itself, but very dainty and very appealing. Waist for the Suit. To wear with the suit of cloth or velvet, a good looking waist is a necessity. Although the waists of today do not match as completely the skirt as they did last winter, there is a clear connecting link. The favorite fabrics for these blouses are net, chiffon, lace, silk, brocades, the bewitching new crepes, faille silk and other materials of the silk alliance. For the everyday blouse to wear in the morning, crepe, taffeta and satin are the materials usually chosen, and the blouse follows the lines of one of the simpler styles. A blouse of charmeuse matching in color the skirt, is an excellent style. The vest is a prominent feature of this blouse, and vests are very much in demand this season. The cavat of plaid taffeta is a happy thought, lending just the right touch of color. It outlines the vest, loses itself under the fastening of the blouse and reappears in the tatlike ends hanging over the belt. The shaping of the shoulder seam suggests the raglan shoulder, which is again popular this season. The cuff is unusually deep, extending almost to the elbow. It is open on the outer seam and trimmed with buttons. The other blouse of the same material, which should match the skirt of the suit in coloring, displays a vest of the plaid taffeta with ends projecting over the patent leather belt. A vory chic blouse to complement the tailored suit is of satin, in a matching tone, with a finely tucked chemisette of linen. This chemisette is low, reaching almost the waist line. Ornamental Baskets. Waste-paper baskets with a bold design of cretonne flowers almost covered with long stitches in colored silks are ornamental. Only a little over half of the basket is covered, and the design artistically appliqued on. The design is first roughly cut out, fitted to the basket, worked over, and then cut away to the edges and attached to the wicker. All sorts of pretty floral sprays can be thus displayed, the basket becoming beautiful ful. so that it gives one very much the appearance of the tucked shirt worn by a man in evening dress. The high collar worn with this blouse is of linen, with turaback corners, and is finished at the neck with a narrow cravat of black velvet ending in a little pump bow. The sleeves, long, of course, are set into a slightly enlarged armhole and are finished with a narrow turnback cuff with three large fancy buttons matching the four buttons which fasten the blouse and the belt. It is severe, but very snappy. Unusual Blouse The blouses which called forth the exclamations of surprise, then words of praise, from women in quest of clothes, were distinguished by the queer subtle colorings which entered into their make up. One was of an old gold cotton rattle or agaric. It opened in the front over a vest of white satin with brilliant royal blue satin buttons. The vivid color note struck by these buttons was further accentated by pipings of the same hue which marked the low shoulder seam and edged the collar of the material. A new idea, which hitherto has been shown only in coats, is the stitching, of this collar to the foundation of the waist in the back. Another was of cream tinted lace with bretelles of the ecru agaric—which looks just like Turkish towelling, one woman remarked. These bretelles extended to form a deep collar in the back. Still another was of a figured ratte in a king's blue and strong red. There were revers of black satin which extended over the shoulders, deep cuffs of the satin reaching even above the elbow, and a high crushed collar of the same material. The blouse was, frankly speaking, more unusual than attractive, but it is certainly the herald of many of these separate blouses fashioned from ratine and fabrics of this type. Touch of Fur. No blouse is too filmy to escape the touch of fur. In fact, it is seen more often on the delicate creation of chiffon and lace than on the waist of suk. One deliciously creamy chiffon blouse displayed a vest of satin, which SHELLS was outlined with a narrow strip of skunk fur. This fur was extended onto the collar and appeared again as a finish for the long sleeves. Erine is used generously on many blouses, answering as it does so admirably the demand for black and white effects. Indoor Blouses. The first is a simple style in white drill; it has one wide tuck taken over each shoulder, stitched to waist back and front; for the collar and cuffs butcher blue drill is used; a rounded tab is cut in with right front, this is taken over to left where a button and loop trim it; plain material forms the singlet. Materials required: $1\frac{1}{2}$ yards drill 38 inches wide, $1\frac{1}{2}$ yard butcher blue. 1 button In the second sketch is shown a dressy blouse in apple green foulard striped with black; a panel with the stripes cut to run horizontally is taken down center of front, which is trimmed at top by a "V" of lace outlined with a fold of black satin. The collar is of lace, also the cuffs, and a striped with a binding of the satin is taken over shoulders to waist, back and front. Materials required: 2 yards foulard 40 inches wide, $1\frac{1}{2}$ yards lace 18 inches wide. Striped Silk Frocks Some of the prettiest little freaks this season are of silk in a close narrow stripe of light green and dull pink, alternating with white. This is made in the plainest form possible, the stripe providing the trimming, while for relief there is a turn-down collar of plain green silk, the little blouse corsage fastening down the middle of the front upon a plain band of green spliced silk into the gown. The long sleeves are similarly trimmed, and the skirt is finished with two gathered frills at the foot, making a very young and girlish ensemble. Slashed Hems. The new slashed hems, however, has removed one of the greatest difficulties of the extremely narrow skirt, giving a much desired freedom in walking that sensible American women insist upon having, in spite of fashion's edicts, says Harper's Bazar. In this modified form the slashed skirt is entirely practical, as the slash is not apparent except when the wearer is in motion, when a plaited under section of the material is revealed. When Caught in a Shower If your hat gets wet in a sudden shower, take it off and turn it upside down to dry. The flowers and foliage then remain in their upright position. Powder Puff Concealed You may have your powder puff ingeniously concealed in your little silk jabot, if you wish. Pretty little silk handkerchiefs, in tones to match the new fall suits, are gathered in the center to close around a wee furf of a powder puff, the four corners falling loosely into a bit of dainty neck gear. Or the little handkerchief claw be tucked into the pocket, if preferred. The colors are dull blue, lavender, tobacco brown and other fall shades.