The Gazette
Saturday, October 26, 1912
Cleveland, Ohio
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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SENATOR JOSEPH 2. FORAKER,
OUR GREATEST AND BEST WHITE FRIEND,
SAYS THE “BULL MOOSE” IS FLIRTING
WITH THE “LILY- WHITES” OF THE
SOUTH, AND THAT OUR HOPES FOR THE
FUTURE ARE CONCENTRATED IN THE
REPUGLICAN PARTY--THE TAUTH--HOW
WE SHOULD VOTE!
October 7, 1012.
Hon. Harry C. Smith, eaitor Gazette
Deai Mr, smith: ‘in accordance
vith your request 1 herewith send you
4 copy of my letter to the Colored
Haptist Ministers of this City, as pub:
‘sued In the Gommercial Tribune ‘and
the Ulneinuad Union,
1 am glad to know that you think
of reproducing it in the columns of
The Gazette.
T do not like to take upon myself
the eewponsibility of being “my broth-
‘st's Keeper;” but under all the cir-
Sumstanees ‘I hope it was pardonable
for me to make the suggestions in
this answer to te inquiry sent me,
With kindest regards, 1 remain,
Very truly yours,
ae Su Béieker
ee ee ee
The Baptist Ministers’ Union’ of Cin-
clanati, 02:
Gentlemen have before me a copy
of tho resolutions adopted by you yes
Yerday in which you vecite taut the
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt has Injected
nto tals campaugu “an issue OL vital
impofiance to tie Neero race, snd the
Negross generally we in a confused
state of tind 48 to the meaning aud
oMlect Of S4ld {sane on thelr rece and
ag to tholr duty in tho coming olec-
fHon," raid askuie sb6-"80 wave you
18th s hat Iw any of taion te the moai
ing ant effect as applied to the Negro
race of the issue thts raised and the
fly sf, the Negros in the coming
lection.”
“ j04 Bigd asked me to state with
oat “Titleation the meaning of the
issue you mention I should have ue
shied to undertake to give an answer
fo your taquiry, for no matter What 1
might hive thus sald ns to its mean-
ing 1 would probably have been
charged With amisrepresentation, ut
Taasmuveh ag you ask for only my
hiorgonak opinion of what It raeang 1
presume 1am safe, at least from the
Charge of misrepreseatation, In saying
that in my opinion It means to maxe
of the Progressive party in the South
& white man’s party for the purpose
of popularizing the party with the
Wwhte 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,
ag you term it, it has no novelty.
From time to time of late years ef-
forts have been made in a number of
Soythern states to organize among
Republicans a so-called “Lily-White”
party. ‘The wellknown hope and pur-
pose of the advocates of this move-
Ment have been (0 overcome the
prejudice on account of the Negro, of
the walte Democrats of the South
against becoming Republlenns and
thus make it possible for the Repubii.
cans to captare from the Democrats
some of the Southern states,
T have never had any sympathy
with this “Lily.Waite” movement
Ymong the Republicans, because it in
volved a denial to the Negro of his
political rights, and for the same rex-
Sou 1 have to sympathy with Mr.
Roosevelt's. proposition.
‘Obnoxious Proposition.
Tt does not help the matter to con-
fine the proposed ruie to the South:
orn states, ‘The “Lily While” Reput:
Heans did -ure same, O: the contrary.
it mikes the proposition more obnox-
fous, ince it sectionalizes the coun-
try and denies that equality of polith
cal right under the constitution and
‘the laws of the country that it is just-
ly the proud boast of the Republican
th bave conferred. Besides it
would, tn my opinion, be but an en-
tering wedge to further denials of
Fight to the Colored people, not only
inthe South but also in the North.
You have only to recall the vote in
‘Ohio at the recent constitutional elec:
tion( whereby an overwhelming ma:
jority was registered against striking
‘out the word “white” from the Ohio
Coustitution—a word that has been
dead letter ever since the war amend:
meats to the constitution of the Unk
con
roused against the Negro here in our
‘wa state, where we are supposed to
have outlived everything of suci un-
Worthy character. The degree of
prejudice thus manifested here indi
cates how easy it would be to extend
the denial of equality of right to the
Negro of the Southern states, that Is
Row proposed, to a denial of that same
equality of fight in the Northern
States. The whole proposition is in
conflict with Republican sentiment,
and Republican principles, and. Ke:
Dublican achlevements, und Republi-
can beliefs, and should not, in my
Judement, be given any countenance
fat all by any one who calls himself a
Republican,
‘A good deal bas been said recently
about the battle of Armageddon. In
view of this proposition, if I were a
Colored man I would want to hear
Jess about Armageddon and more
about Appomattox,
Deeds That Count.
‘The greatest of all the achievements
of the Republican party was the abo-
tion of slavery and the entranchise-
ment of your whole race, and the
planting of them on the same plane of
political equality with the white peo-
le of this country in the presence of
the coustitition and the laws. ‘To xo
back now to undo that in whole or
in part is not progress, but retrogres:
sion, and retrograssion’ of a character
that'Is wholly Inconsistent with the
spirit by which all are actoated who
are “battling tor the Lord.”
Nobody knows more than I do or
feels more keenly than I do the fact
that the Republican party has not at
ail times done its full duty by the
Negroes, who -haye almost without ex
ception ‘been 0 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
hope the Negro has of fair politiea!
treatment. It is the only party that
has stctuaily and practically done any-
thing to better his political status and
to Improve his opportunities.
I need not cite any testimony to
support this statement as to the Dem-
ceratic party. The leaders of that
party not only admit, but they Justify
all that is eafd and suggested. ‘So far
as the Progressive party Is concerned,
whatever they may say or propose is
neutralized by the proposition you
mention, which cannot be othersiise
than the beginning that would lead on
to results far more disastrous and ex-
asperating than any one has yet sug-
gested,
Ship and Sea.
(Much, therefore, as the Repudtican
party may lave fallen short of what
it should have done in this or that or
the other iustance, it remains that {t
is the only political organization to
which the Nezro can look with hope
for the future. In other words, it ts
as true now os when Arst stated (by
the Hon, Frederick Douglass) that for
the Negro ‘the Republican party is
the ship; all else is the sea.”
T rezard the approaching election as
one of (le most important ever held
in this country in time of peace. It
invoives for al! of us the very lite of
the protective tariff polley under
which We have had such great pros:
perity, It involves also the very form
itself ‘of our xovernment. We are
glibly told that the constitution made
Sy Washington and Hamilton and
Madison and their associates is a
“stage-conch constitution,” ot sutt-
able to modera conditions: and our
@istinguished mayor is reported in the
newspapers to have told the law class
he was addressing a few nights azo
that our written constitution should
be so amended as to prohibit the
courts from setting aside as unconsti-
tutional any legislative enactments.
Others tell us of the superiority: of
the Buglish constitution because acts
‘of parliament are beyond question in
the courts. Such talk fs dangerous.
For more than 100 years our personal
iberties and rights, as well as our
Pesery rights, havo been protected
‘and 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
Srould be in vain if the courts were
ts suggested, stripped of thelr coustt
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1912.
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After careful thought and review of
the triangular political situation in the
present presidential campaign, we
ave decided to remain in the ranks
of the republican party and support
ts candidates, or a3 many of thetn a8
‘we can, in this fall's campaign, Our
‘reasons for this, are:
First: ‘There is absolutely nothing
{for the Afro-American hi the ranks of
domocracy. ‘This is as It always has
deen, excepting that this fall, for the
first time since the war of the rebel
lion, southern democracy is “in the
saddle.” not only controlling the
party's candidate for the presidency
native southerner, but also dominat
“ing the organization to such an ex
tent as to make perfectly clear what
the- condition will be, as far #8 our
people are concerned, after election tn
November, im event of the cievation
‘of Gov. Woodrow Witson, of New Jer
[sey, to the presidency. It is hardly
necessary to explain to our readers, oF
our people generally, what “domina:
tion of the solld south” means. ‘They
know entirely too well that about all
the ills of our people, in (his country,
are directly tracoable to this very
same domination, Wholesale barbaric
lynching, mob violence, distranchise:
ment, “jim-crow” railroad and street
cars, a general assault upon our citi-
‘zon's rights and privileges, and_hun-
dreds of other ills that time will not
‘permit us to enumerate, are not all by
great deal, But are quite enough to
make it simply impossible for The
Gazette to support the candidacy tor
the presidency of Gov. Woodrow Wil
son,
Second: As. to Col. Theodore
“Brownsville” Roosevedt and his Third
or “Cure-All” party which, in one
breath, bleats so loudly of “its cause
being the welfare of humanity, of be-
ing the foe of every form of injustice
and oppression, of advocating social.
industria! and human liberty, of being
imbued with the ideals of buman
rights and wishing to serve thelr fel:
low beings,” etc., ete., and in the very
next breath bars from representation
im tis first national convention in Chi-
cago, the 6,000,000 Afro-Americans of
the southland who have suifered, and
are suffering in every way, more than
all other elements (combined) of the
cosmopolitan population of this coun-
try, in addition to Roosevelt's lynch-
murder and subsequent persecution of
“The Black Battalion,” more need not
be said to the average, thoughtful
member of tho race who has a spark
of loyalty, manhood, seit and race re
spect. If southern Afro-Americans
Yotes for delegates to “Bull Moose”
national conventions are refused, us
they are by that party, no member of
the race, north or south, should so far
forget himself as to cast a vote for its
candidates, especially its candidate for
the preaidancy, on election day in No
vember. ‘The’ mans. “human its
whieh our people throughout this
country, particularly in the south, su
fer, do not, materially concern “Col
“Prownsville” Roosevelt and his party.
Therefore, race loyalty, manhood, self
and race respect make it absolutely
impossible for The Gazette to leave
the ranks of the republican party (6
espouse only the white mon's cause,
being so eloquently pleaded by the
Progressive (2) or “Third Party.”
‘Third: While the malor poriion of
the first term of President Wiliam
Howard ‘Taft has been @ bitter disap
pointment to ofir people in several re
spects, nevertheless, he has said and
done some good things for us which
are of stich recent occurrence as to
make it unnecessary for us to par
tioularize at this time, We are free
to confess that he has male 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 socalled progressive party
Noither the socialist nor the prohtbi
tion parties’ candidates for the presi
dency “are positive factors in the con
test, this fall, ‘Therefore, are not to
be considered. Here, in Oho, at the
head of the slate ropublicsn tleser. we
have in the pemon of thn Wt U
Brown of Zanesville, a veteran of the
war of the rebellion, @ lifelong lent
of the rice, and x sennbliean of the
old school.” mach ax ts his cc mrade
and lenjctime friead, our xteat ven
tor, Joseph Penson Foraker, The rest
of the state ticket aud nearly all th
various county rupmslican’ canines
in Ohio, this fall, an: so iniiuitel
preferable to these of either the sem
peratie or socalled popsrvssive parts
that it mates it much exsier for oth
ors, as it hn for The Gazette, to reach
a conclusion such as it has, alter
Tittle careful thought and review of
the potitieal situation In tation, state
and county.
es
SRANER EEE RE DRED
Don’t Overlook
that subecription. if you
fare in arrears remember
‘that we can always find
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tre MONEY
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SUMMARY
|
WEERS EVENTS
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 determin
ing the probable volume of such traf
fe through the Panama canal
‘The total amount of internal ret
enue collected in the Philippine ts
lands last year was about $10,600,000
an increase of nearly $1,000,000 over
the collections for 1911. ‘The Philip
pine collector of customs reported an
Increase of $625,600 iu import duties
Regulations to further restrict the
size and fimit the weight of personal
baggage of travelers, adopted by sub:
stantially all railroads in the United
States, was suspended by the inter
state commerce commission until
April 29.
Elihu Root at Washington has ac.
cepted the honorary presidency of the
American Institute of International
Law, formed to promote friendly re
lations among the Latin-American
States, A provisional bureau has been
opened, with James sirown Scott, sec
retary of the Carnegie Endowment
for Internations! Peace, as president;
Alejandro Alvarez, counselor to the
minister of forvign affairs of Chile, as
seeretary general, and Louls Anderson
of Costa Rica, treasurer,
On recommendation of Secretary of
the Interior Walter 1. Fisher, Prest-
dent Taft has decided to reappoint as
governor of Hawaii Walter F. Frear,
against whom charges were made last
spring.
Domestic
‘Fhe toeurgent faction of tae ee
em Woodmen of America scored #
vietory in their first attempt to pre-
vent the putting into elfect of a new
and higher schedule of rates adopted
by the head camp when Judge Brad
shaw of the equity division of the dis
trlet court at Des Moines, la, handed
down a decision, holding the proposed
change to be null and void.
‘The Lake Mobionk Conference ot
Friends of the Indian and Other
Dependent Peoples opened with
Chancellor B. EB, Brown of New York
university presiding
©. B, Dawson, a farmer of Skid:
more, Mo., was fined $250 in the fed-
oral court, by Judge Van Valkenburgh
for selling hogs affected by cholera
on the St. Joseph rmarket
‘The quiet routine of life at Saga
more Hill was picked up again. by
Colonel Roosevelt and his family, fol
lowing thelr cip trom Chicago, as
thoveh it hai not been interrupted
by the fring of a shot meant to, kilt
he master of the house
Five men are under arrost and a
posse is” seurching for eight others
Milo atiacked Aix Lillie Mullane of
Richmond, Va, near Aunapolis, Mo.
Several persons were injured, some
seriovsly, shen spreading rails wreck.
fd the Denver express on the Chicago
& Alton railroad, one mile west of
Hopedale, Ml
‘A general olarm was sent by wite-
loss 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 fs believed “hat the steamer
was disabled tn the recent gult storm.
The Nicaragua, with Captain Eche-
vara anda crew of 2% men, salled
Might October 11
Jack Johnson, the pusilist, was dr.
rested tu Chicago on a charge of ab-
ducting Lucille Cameron, a nineteen-
year-old white girl, already under ar-
Test on a charge of disorderly conduct.
‘The warrant for Johnson's arrest was
sworn out by the gitl's mother, Mrs.
F. cameron Séleonet of Minneapolis.
‘Taken by flye men in an antomobite
to a lonely point on the main rosd
petween Bridgeport ani Stratford,
Conn., Rose White, a young and hand
some women, was deliberately shot
to death. ‘The wotive for the kitting
isa blank mystery
‘he telat of Clarence S._Darrow
the Chicago lawyer who defended the
YieNamara brothers, was set at 10s
‘Angeles for November 25, ou the in
dictinent charging him with the bri-
dery of Robert E. Bain, a Juror in the
MeNemara trict.
| The Beach note! xt Lakeside, Mich.
fa favorite summer resort among Chi
Eagoans, 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
Siiesaeiiinliee al dan Se oa gihnene te
Aroused over the labor conditions in
tue United States the exceative coun.
ait of the Amerioua Federation of Lar
Wespingten to" consider the. various
Pode cil Ge. abutting. siceaton
pibeesbhy cro nd titeanrers
ope ‘heen braving fire on board
the Merchants and Miners’ steamer
Berkshire for 36 hours, were takea
off the burning liner by the revenue
cutter Seminole, in Lockout cove,
North Carolina.
Andrew Rowan, the Arkansas negro
who murdered Policeman Carl Rosal-
ski, was sentenced to life {mprison-
ment at Decatur, 1
It became known for the frst time
stuce the shooting, the exact location
of the bullet fired by John Schrank
In Milwaukee last Monday. The bul-
let, it was found by a new X-ray plate,
is lodged outside, instead of Inside,
the fractured rib, and ean be removed
at any time Colonel Roosevelt desires,
A broken rail caused a Woodmen of
the World excursion train on the Ik
nols Contral to leave the tracks six
miles out of Hopkinsville, Ky., and at
least fitty people were considerably in-
Sured, while all of the hundred and
eighty passengers aboard were badly
shaken up,
The police of Detroit are Investigat:
ing the record of Wilford D. Trembel,
who, they assert, gave himself up to a
traffic officer, confessing that he had
murdered 4 brakeman named Gregg in
a Paragould (Ark.). restaurant three
years ago,
‘The International Dry Farming con-
gress opened in Lethbridge, Alberta.
distinguished detegates being present
from all parts of the world
Baikan War
The first of the dreaded ‘Turkish
tnassacte by Turks is reported from
Girono, where 150 Bulgarian peas:
sats were forced to lie on the ground
and then shot
Dispatehos received jn London
stated that several Turkish army doe-
tors have heen sent from Constant
nople to Janina, a eity near the Greek
frontier, with # supply of typhus and
cholera’ germs for the purpose of
spreading disease among the troops
of the cuemy.
Foreign
Sarah Bernhardt celebrated her
sixty-eighth birthday in Lendon and
Was presented with an address of
congratulation by her British admir-
ers.
Commander Charles F. Hughes of
the United States cruiser Des Moines,
who arrived in the port of Vera Cruz,
Mex, has taken coffiplete charge of
the complex political situation fn that
city
The typhoon which swept over sev-
eral of the Philippine Islands October
16 resulted in the death of more than
a thousand persons. Four wnidenti-
fled Amerieans—three men and a Ite
tle girl—were among those kilied.
William Marconi, the wireless
telegraph inventor, whose right eye
was removed last Thursday at Spezia,
Italy, has developed alarming aymp-
toms, Notwithstanding « reassuring
ulletin, it {8 feared the complications
are threatening the other eye.
Helen Craggs, the English militant
suffragette, was sentenced to nine
‘months’ lard 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 Uluea, an island in
the harbor at Vera Cruz, Mex., have
Joined the revolutionary fosces of
Fellx Diaz. Several refugees on the
Island were Killed by the shells from
the gunboats
Politics
Gov. Thomas Marshall of In
diana, Democratic candidate for viec
president, interrupted his campatzn-
Ing in San Franciseo to select a site
for the Indiana building on tpe
grounds of the Panama Pacific expost-
tion in 1915
Personal
Mre: C. W. Post, the divorced wife
of the Iiattle Creck millionaire food
manifacturer, was found dead in bed
atthe apartment of Mrs. Joseph
iireckons in Washington, D.C,
whore she was a guest
Mabel Ifite, the actress and_wite
of Mike Donlin, the baseball player,
died suddenly at her home in New
York city of biood oixoning
Charles 11, Sent, former associate
of the avemeyers in the sugar bust
hose, loft an estate valued at $12,000,
000, according to the appraisal just
filed in New York, Mr Sent! died
August 25, 1911
President Lillian M. N. Stevens
called to ‘order the annual convention
of the National Woman's Christlan
Temperance union in Portland, Ore
The goverument has settled a bill
for a soldiers’ pay nearly fifty years
old, W. H. Webb, of Uk City. Kan.
has received a check for $2.10 due
him sinee August 16, 1865
The fue library of Beverly Chew,
noted in New York and abroad for
its remarkable collection of rare and
valuable copies of early English au-
thors, has been sold to Henry E.
Huntington. ‘The price, it was am-
nounced, was $500,000.
Willie Ragh, the crippled newsboy
of Gary, Ind, who gave Bis withered
feg for amputation that the life of
Miss Ethel Smith, whom he never be
fore liad sven, might be saved, is dead
from pneumonia
Drown MeMillin, son of Benton Me
Millin, Democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Tennessee, is dying of inflam.
mation of the bowels in a hospital i
Bristol, Tenn.
1 neither authorized nor knew o
‘any such statement being conte
plated by anyone, and am tot at pres
ent addressing my mind on that sub
fect," said Secretary Knox, referring
to a published statement that he ha¢
declared his intention of declining t
remain in public life after March ‘
ext, regardless of political changes
SHIRTWAIST TO REIGN
WILL PLAY IMPORTANT PART IN
DRAMA OF FASHION.
Designers This Season Have Outdone
‘Themacives In Producing Attrac:
tive Garments—Tallored Shirt
eee oa obine
| yew YORK —The shirt waist 4s
| scheduled to play an even more
Important role in the drama of
fashions than ft has assumed for
| many a season. And, aa if to make
good her part, the shirt waist of the
| hour fs tore appealing, more alluring
and more bewitching than it has
shown itself for several seasons.
| Strict Tailored Shirt.
| ‘The woman who oes in for the se-
| verest of tailored effects orders her
shirts built on the same lines as those
the wise haberdasher makes the nee-
essary changes for the feminine fig
|re, bat the results are so nearly iden-
[teal that the customer is satisiled.
[These shirts will be devcloped iu a
heavy white sili, a flannel or one of
“the wash silks. For those who do
[not repeat year after year the same
[order there are slight changes wich
Gistinguish the effect this tall trom
that of the sprtag. ‘The principal dix
|Unetion lies tn the collar, for the roll
ling, comfortable Robespierre collar
[has been adopted with success for the
tailored shirt, The deep cuffs are an-
lester yeest ot digerencs Bens of
“the socalled lallored walste boast cuts
Selth turnovers of black silk, generally
tafe, to match Ce high stock of the
| same imaterial
Semi-Tailored Blouse
‘There are numerous blouses, which
have all the simplielty of the severe-
‘iy tailored shirt, and yet are explolt:
ed in such truly feminine stuffs that
they' only hulf deserve the Utle of
Sembtaflored shirt walsts, Take, for
instance. a blouse which mey be tash-
HHonec. trom ether one of the heavy
nev allke or a flannel. Tt ts practi
‘cally devold of @imming, except tor
‘the froht plece, whieh is cleverly ex-
‘tended to the top of the collar. Only
‘an outline of stitehing aud the but
tons, which figure on every. blouse of
the ‘hour, with prombent button
holes, lend even the suggestion of
trimming to this front piece ‘There
ts the low shomtder seam, which ts
not seen, perhaps, nthe severely
tailored suirt, but whieh adds the up-
Htodate touch to ine out of ten
jot the fall blouses, and the deep
cults
A trig Utde blouse made trom taille
silk is auother example of the sexl
tailored blouse of which there are in-
numerable plays among the shirt
“waists of the Hour, On the blouse the
Tevers are of the material edged with
‘lace, and the plainness is broken by
‘the buttons and buttonuoles. There
is the same pointed Robsplerre, or
Directoire, collar of the material. ‘The
olor note may be ounded by the
flitehing tn a contrasting shade. The
‘epaulettes which lend the much de-
‘aired long shoulder line, are likewise
Hightened by the colored stitching.
There are numerous examples ey-
‘erywhere you turn of this style of
louse. ‘The favorite type is the
blouk with the low shoulder seam,
the rovers, either of the material oF
‘colace, plats, enhanced with a clever
‘iyt of embroidery, or trimmed with
buttons, and the pointed low Robe-
splerre collar. When this type of
wulst Is not desired the blouse with
‘the vest is selected, One of the sin
plest, and yet one of the dalutiest, of
these waists was shown this week in
jan exclusive French shop. ‘The watat
‘wis fashioned from a cream chailie
“with dainty Dresden pink and blue
‘ove design. It was cut with the usual
ow shoulder seam. and the long
leaves wore softened at the welat
With a Gil of net extending searly to
“the elbow. From the neck to the hem,
[there was a narrow vest of white
satin, with tiny auber buttous, flanked
on either side by narrow white satin
Turnbek revers. It was simplicity tt
‘self, but very dainty and very appeal:
tng.
Waist for the Suit.
‘To wear with the suit of cloth or
velvet, « good looking walst ts a nec
fasity. Although the waists of today
/do not match as completely the ekirt
vas they did last winter, there is a
“clear conneeting link. ‘The favorite
fabrics for these blouses ave net, chif-
fon, lace, silk, brocades, the bewitel:
ing new erepes, fallle silk and other
materials of the silk alliance
For the everyday blouse to wear in
the morning, crepe, taffeta and satin
[are the tsaterials saually chosen, and
the blouse tellows the lines of une of
ihe simpler styles. A blouse of char-
ieuse auatebing In coler the skirt, 1s
an excellent style. The vest Is a prom
inent feature of this blouse, and vests
are very mich in demand this season.
‘The eravat of plaid taffeta isa hapes
thought, lending just the right touet
of coler It outlines the vest. loss
itself under the fastening of the blouse
and reappears in the tablike ends
hanging over the belt. The shaping
of the shoulder seem suagesta the
raglan shoulder, which is again popular
this eeaeon, ‘The cuff is unusually
deep, <xtending almost to the elbow.
Tete open on the outer seam and
trimmed with buttons. The other
blouse of the same material, which
should match the skirt of the sult in
| Coloring, dlsplaya a vest of the plald
taffeta with enes projecting over the
| patent feather belt
‘A vory che blouse to complement
the tailored suit {s of satin, in a mash
ing tone. with @ Onely tucked chem
bara ngpaoad saa raga near A
Ornamental Baskets.
Waste-paper baskets with a bold de-
sign of cretonne flowers almost cov-
ered with long stitches in colored
ullke are ornamental. Only a little
oves alt of the basket is covered,
and the design artistically appliqued
on. The design fs first roughly cut
out, fitted to the basket, worked over,
and then cet away to the edges and
attaches to the wicker. All sorts of
pretty floral sprays can be thus dis
played, the basket becoming beautt
ful.
so that i: gives one very much the
appearance of the tucked shirt worm
by a man im evening dress. The high
collar ‘orn with this blouse is of
Unen, with toraback corners, and fe
finishea at the neck with a narrow
cravat of black velvet ending in a tit.
tle pump bow. The sleevs, tong, of
course, are set into a slightly enlarged
armbole and are finished with a car
row turnback cu with three large
fancy buttons matching the four but-
‘tons which fasten the blouse and the
pelt. It is severe, but very suappy.
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
aueer. rubtle colorings which entered
into their make up. One was of an
old gold cotton ratine or agarie. tt
opened in the front over a vest of
white satin with brilliant royal blue
satin buttons, The vivid color note
struck by these battons was further
secontuated by pipings of the same
hue wnich marked the low shoulder
Ream and edged the collar of the ma-
terial A new idea, which hitherto bas
been shown only in coats, fs the stitch
ing, cf this collar to the foundation of
the! waist in the back
Another was of cream tinted Ince
with dretelies of the ecru agarle—
which Icoks just like Turkish towek
ing. one woman remarked. These
bretclles extended to form a deep col-
lar in the back. Stil another was of
a figured ratine in a King's blue and
strong red. There were revera of
black satin which extended over the
shoulders, deep culfs of the satin
reaching even above the elbow, and
a high crushed collar of the same ma-
terial, The blouse was, frankly speak-
Ing. more unusual than attractive, but
it is cortainly the herald of many of
these seyarate blouses fashioned from
ratine and fabries of this type.
‘Touch of Fur.
No blouse is too filmy to eseape the
touch of fur In fact, it is seen more
often on the delicate creation of chit
fon and lace than on the waist of silk,
One deliciously creamy chiffon blouse
displayed a vest of white satin, which
ie
oS GaP
«ail is
See Re er ee Te Rater ee ee te eee a ee
skunk fur This fur was extended on-
to the collar and appeared again as @
finish for the long sleeves. Ermine tm
used generously on many blouses, an-
swering as it does so admirably the
demand for black and’ white effects.
Indoor Blouses.
‘The first 18 a simple style in white
Grilt; it has one wide tuek taken over
each shonider, stitched to waist baok
and front; for the collar and cuffs
butcher blue drill is used; a rounded
tab is cut in with right front, this ta
taken over to left where a button und
loop trina it; plain material forms the
singlet
Materials required: 142 yards urilt 86
Inches wide, ¥% yard bricher blue, 1
button
In the second sketeh Is shown @
dressy blouse in apple green foulard
striped with black; a panel with the
stripes cut to run horizontally ie ta-
ken down center of front, which ts
trimmed at top by a "V" of lace out-
lined with a fold of black satin. The
collar is of lace, also the cuffs, and a
strip edged with @ binding of the satin
is taken over shoulders to’ waist, back
and front
Materials required: 2 yards foulard
40 inches wide, 113 yards lace 18
inches wide.
ee ee
Some of the prettiest little frecks
this season are of silk in a close nar
row stripe of light green and dull
pink, alternating with white. This te
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 Mitte
blouse corsage fastening down the
middle of the front upon a plain band
of green spliced siik into the gown,
‘The long sleeves are similarly trim-
med, and the skirt is finished with
two guthered frills at the foot, making
a very young and girlish ensemble.
Sinshed Hems.
‘The new slaehed hem, however, has
removed one of the greatest difficul-
fies of the extremely narrow skirt,
xiviug a much desired freedom tn
walking that sensible American wom-
en insist upon having, in spite of fash-
ion's edie:s, sys Harper’s Bazar. in
thi modified form the slashed skirt
is entirely practical, as the slash ts
not apparent except when the wearer
is in motion, when a plaited undor
section of the material {s revealed.
When Caught in a Shower.
\C your hat gets wet in a sudden
hower, take it off and turn it upside
/down t0 dey. The fowers and follage
Fe then remain In their upright pos
ton,
RANI
; iiaiitins eile ee
You may have your powder puff in-
geniously concealed in your little stlic
Jabot, if you wish. Pretty little ailk
handkerchiefs, In tones to match the
new fall suits, are gathered in the
center to close around a wee flu of
a powder puff, the four corners fall:
ing loosely into a dit of dainty neck
gear. Or the little handkerchief may
be tucked into the pocket, if pre
ferred. The colors are dull blue, tay.
ender, tobacco brown and other fall
ndan: