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THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR. NO. 15. Why the South Is "In the Saddle" The Birth and Significance of the Grandfather Clauses. Give White South Greater Power In Greater Nation Than Before Civil War-An Issue Which Should Be Met-Reason Hughes Is Better Than Wilson. By W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS. 1. RECONSTRUCTION. The history of Reconstruction has yet to be written. What we have today are theories of reconstruction colored according to the birth and race of the believer. We can easily realize that the status of four million enunciated slaves was not one easy to be settled. We will have to deal with the fact that citizens expected these freedmen to become citizens and voters and that the radical pro-slavery folk expected them to remain slaves in all but name. Colored Citizenship Gave South First Public Schools. 2. THE FREEDMEN. Manifestly there were difficulties in engaging the status of the freedmen; they were ignorant; they were inexperienced say along certain narrow industrial lines it was widely believed that they had little capacity as compared with other human stocks, and they had long formed in the thought of the nation and in their own thought a distinct and separate caste. That there were answers and remedies to these disabilities many persons asserted. The remedy for IGNORANCE was SCHOOLS. THE NEGROES THEMSELVES AND THEIR FRIENDS ESTABLISHED THE FIRST REAL PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT THE SOUTH EVEN HAD. Beyond any similar group in modern days the Colored people were eager for education and children and adults locked to the schools. The schools, however, never were and are still incomplete. The many teaching of Colored people—the teaching of reading, writing and aphibia of ignorance while it has begun is still incomplete. EXPERIENCE is a matter of time and for now fifty years the Colored people have been sharing in wider and wider areas of the organized life of the civilized nation. They are still so hemmed in by law and convention that it is impossible for them to get the widest social education, but they have gotten some. Have Demonstrated Equal Capacity Where Given Chance. Their native capacity as compared with other groups is still a question in the minds of many people, but it is a different question than it used to be. There is no doubt about their ability to work as free laborers, to save and accumulate property, to receive education even in higher lines, and indeed in most things where they have had a chance and been tried it is impossible to deny them the same general capacity that other human stocks have. It is only where they have not had an adequate chance that their inferiority is still believed. They are still a caste, a caste partially by reason of their own litterary and inexperience as compared with the built of the nation, but more especially a caste because of deep-sented opinions and prejudices on the part of their fellow citizens. Five "Legal" Methods of Disfranchisement. 3. DISFRANCHISM. When now, the South, finding these people could not be kept virtually as shaves and being themselves unwilling to govern by force and fraud looked about for methods of "keeping the Negro in his place" and at the same time not transgressing the law, they hit upon five expedients: In the FIRST place they made CRIME and even petty crime (like "petty arcey" in Virginia) a reason for disfranchisement knowing that the poor and ignorant are relied upon to conviction for such crimes. This means the disfranchisement against poverty and ignorance and not PER SE against race; it could only be questioned as we question the responsibility of the State for poverty and ignorance—and we do question it. and we are going to question it a good deal more as we get more common sense. Property Qualifications. SECONDLY, the States adopted PROPERTY QUALIFICATIONS. This was a distinct reversion to the days when property was considered a peculiar indication of virtue and ability. Today most civilized countries have done away with this qualification. Nevertheless we can easily imagine a situation where the mass of people are so poor and ignorant and the chance to accumulate property so easy for the ambitious that a property qualification is not an unfair qualification for a voter. While there may be considerable argument against it in the South, the mass of the Colored people themselves do not make a single objection against the property qualification. The payment of POLL TAXES was a THIRD method of enfranchisement and is chiefly a petty technical matter requiring the keeping of receipts for periods of years and on the whole unworthy of a State. The best and most defensible of the qualificent' was the EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION. If coupled with a decent school system it was fair to require that every person who wished to vote should be able to read and write. The FOURTH method is to allow certain persons to vote because they had voted previously or rendered certain services to the State such as serving in the Army. This was unfair to the Negroes because they had not had the right of suffrage originally and had not a chance to serve in the Army, but nevertheless it applied on the whole to a small class. This compulsion might even go so rag as, for instance, in Alabama, where for a limited time any persons "of good character" and "understanding the duties of a citizen" could be registered for life—a manifest sop to local prejudice and unfairness. Grandfather Clause the Worst. Grandfather Clause the Worst. 4. GRANDFATHER-LEGISLATION. All of these distinctions, however, could have a certain defense. Even though they discriminate against the lowly, the poor, the ignorant and the careless, and although local administration could and does easily factor the white at the expense of the black, nevertheless on the face of the law the discrimination is not purely racial. Even these distinctions did not satisfy those who finally reconstructed the South and they placed upon the State statute books between the years 1808 and 1900 a qualification for the elective Translise which is "without doubt the most outrageous attack upon Republican government that this nation has ever seen; and it is a pointed commentary upon the peculiar dangers of not setting the Negro problem right to realize that this legislation was allowed to stand upon the statute books for nearly twenty years and in fact still stands and is being enforced because of the peculiarity of the way in which it works. The statutes to which I refer are known us the "grandfather Clause." The first GRANDFATHER CLAYE appeared in the Constitution of LOU-ISANA, adopted in 1898. This constitution was never submitted to the people and enacted not only an educational qualification and a property qualification, but in addition contained this section: The Louisiana Grandfather Clause. SECTION. No male person who was on January 1, 1867, or at any date prior thereto, entitled to vote under the Constitution or Statute of any State of the United States, wherein he then resided, and no son or grandson of any such person not less than 21 years of age, was naturalized prior to the first day of January, 1898, shall be denied the right to register and vote in this State by reason of his failure to possess the education or qualifications of this constitution: Provided, he shall have resided in this State for five years next preceding the date at which he shall apply for registration, and shall have registered in accordance with the Constitution, for the purpose of Registration, 1898; and no person shall be entitled to register under this section after said date. This was promptly followed by NORTH CAROLINA, whose Constitution, adopted in 1890, said: Carolina Grandfather Clause Carolina Grandfather Clause. SECTION 4. But no male person who was, on January 1, 1867, or at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any State in the United States, or under the legal line descendant of any such person, shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this State by reason of his failure to possess the educational qualification herein prescribed, provided he shall have registered in accordance with the terms of this section prior to December, 1908. Provided he shall have registered for the registration of all persons entitled to vote without the educational qualifications herein prescribed, and shall, on or before November 1, 1908, provide for the making of a permanent record of such registration, and all persons, so registered shall forever thereafter be entitled to vote by persons by the people in this State, unless disqualified under Section 2 of this Article: Provided, such person shall have paid his poll tax as above required. Alabama and Virginia Grandfather Clouse In 1001 ALABAMA adopted a Constitution which said: Those who have served in the army, or navy of the United States or of the Confederate army in time of war, THEIR LAWFUL DESCENDANTS IN EVERY DEGREE, etc. can vote if registered prior to December 20, 1902. The Constitution of VIRGINIA in 1902 contained a curious variation of the Grandfather Clause: It such registrations every male citizen of the United States having the (Continued on Page 4) ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. C MORRIS THOMAS 1890 CHARLES E. HUGHES. "I stand for equality before the law. I stand ever against unjust discrimination against any man on account of his race, color, religion, national origin of his race, account of anything. We are all together in this country working out our salvation under the greatest plan of self-government that the world has ever seen. It was founded for the purpose of equalizing opportunity. Its foundation principle is that all men are equal in the world, that all equal rights and equal opportunities, and with an equal chance to get the rewards of industry and integrity, with equal chance to win the reputation that is due to manhood and honor and decency to life and honor in all the activities of life."—Extract "from The Constitution" (Chelsea, 1996) delivered in Luther A. M, E, church, New York city, Nov. 4, 1906, when candidate for governor of the state of New York. "I am and always have been friendly in my feelings to the Colored people. I have expressed it in this city at a meeting held with reference to Dr. Washington. I know the burdens and problems of your people. In what I say as to brotherhood and, opportunity denied to none because of race, I am ordered American and am mindful of your problems. There are parts of my career I can not bring into politics, but in the position that I have taken to be seen my principles as to equal rights. Americanism is a spirit. It means equality of opportunity, character, intelligence. In intellect, in character, in equity of opportunity there is no, there can one color line. That is the Americanism for which I stand."—Ion. Charles E. Hughes, to a delegation of Afro-Americans, at Astor Hotel, N. Y. City, on August 2, 1916. "I say to you that I stand, if I stand for anything, for equal and exact justice to all. I stand for the manhood and the rights of all citizens, regardless of race or color. The one word that I love above all others is the word 'justice.' We want in this country what is right. I am sure you do not wish particular things done because of color. You want what is right and fair. I desire to see such fair and decent and just treatment in manhood and wanniness."—Charles E. Hughes in an address at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1916. We don't want any lynch law in this country. We don't want any lynch law in criticism. We don't want any lynch law in newspapers. We don't want any lynch law in spirit that manifests itself in lynch law anywhere.—Hon. Chas. E. Hughes. [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. COLORED OFFICE-HOLDERS TURNED OUT; PLACES FILLED BY WHITE DEMOCRATS Under Last Republican Administration at Washington 5,836 Colored Employees of U.S. Government Received $3,768,360 Annually HENKY-LINCOLN JOHNSON, Recorder of Deeds ..... 1.500 RAVALH W. TYLER, Auditor for the Navy Department ..... 1.500 C. A. AYAMS, Assistant Register of the Treasury ..... 1.500 JOSEPH E. LEE, Collector of Internal Revenue, Pekosville, FI ..... 1.500 N. HENKY-LINCOLN ER, Register of the Land Office, Montgomery, AL ..... 1.500 H. HENKY-LINCOLN, Recorder of Internal Revenue, Pekosville, FI ..... 1.500 G. HENKY-LINCOLN, COTTILL, Collector of Internal Revenue, Pekosville, FI ..... 1.500 T. N. MEALEJ ER, Recorder of Public Monies, Jackson, Miss ..... 1.500 ROBERT SMALLS, Collector of Bedford, S.C ..... 1.500 JAMES A. COLE, Special Assistant District Attorney, Washington ..... 2.000 HENKY W. FURNIS, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Fonpio SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS New York City. The following figures have been taken out by the Colored Advisory Committee, Hon. Charles W. Adlerson, chairman, showing the number of Colored officers, CHAS. W. ANDERSON. clerks and other employees in the Government service at Washington under the last Republican administration, and the salaries received by them: Diplomatic and consul service 15 $38,400 State 26 79,360 Treasury 926 588,801 War 176 130,380 Navy 74 52,610 Post Office at Washington 187 118,173 Interior 187 583,112 Justice 43 28,640 Agriculture 164 89,816 Commerce and Labor 139 34,800 Washington Navy Yard 139 94,000 Government Print- ing Office 364 228,454 Interstate Commerce Compliance 41 22,080 United States Capitol 115 73,100 Library of Congre ss 46 24,920 Washington, D. C. City Post Office 171 174,000 District of Colum- bia, including unskilled labor- ers 2,413 1,479,000 Miscellaneous 194 104,114 Total ..... 5,836 $3,763,360 Under the present Democratic administration the race has lost thousands of dollars as a result of the reduced reduction in ranks of colored office-holders, who were discriminated against solely because of their color. Positions of honor heretofore capably filled by Negroes are now held by white men. The only notable exception in which a colored man succeeded one of his race was in Ohio. He was made minister to Liberia. Hungry white Democrats, mostly Southerners, even inspired to the Liberian post, but as such a strong protest had been made against the appointment of an ineffable white man to succeed Henry W. Wurniss as Minister of Justice. Kingston officials believed that to send an inefficient Liberia would be an insecure move and also one that would not meet with the favor of the Liberian Government. TEN REASONS WHY. Following are ten reasons why colored voters should support CHARLES E. HUGHES for PRESIDENT and NOT Woodrow Wilson: 1st Because the Republican Party was conceived in the interest of the Negro and was born for his emancipation, while the Democratic Party sought to stile its birth. It is, therefore, the NEGRO'S party and he should be called 2nd. It is the only party that has ever done anything for him. It freed him, enfranchised him, educated him, and guaranteed to him civil, religious and political equality before the law, while the Democrats opposed each of these measures. 3rd. It has recognized the Negro in the distribution of Federal patronage in the service rendered, while the Democrats have failed to do so. 4th. It has placed no discriminatory laws upon the statute books of State or Union, while every measure hostile to the Negro was passed by the Democrats. 5th. It has never attempted to insult and humiliate the Negro by inflammatory and vulgar speeches in Congress and legislative halls, while the Democrats have never lost an opportunity to do so. 6th. It has appointed colored men as Assistant Attorney General, Registers of the Treasury, Assistant Attorney in the Navy Department, Collectors of Port, Revenue Collectors and Ministers to Hawaii. Mr. Wilson has removed colored men from all these positions. 7th. While the Wilson administration has practiced the segregation of colored and whites it took good pains to send them to Hawaii, a Negro minister resided in Hawaii, a Negro republic, because of the fat salary. 8th. The Republican party has tried to keep its promises to the colored man, and when it failed, has been called to task and the injustice remedied, while the Democrats and Mr. Wilson in particular, have broken every promise made. The Mr. Wilson declares that he will be the President of the whole people, irrespective of race, color or creed, while the Democrats declare for a white man's party, and a different construction and enforcement of law for different races. 10th. Mr. Wilson and the Democrats are a sectional crowd, passing sectional legislation and engendering sectional animosities, white Mr. Hughes stands for the broad, impartial nationalism. So vote for CHARLES EVANS HUGHES as against Woodrow Wilson. Vote against southern democracy. Vote to put Wilson out.—N. Y. Age. URGED TO SUPPORT HUGHES. The following open letter has been issued by the members of our Advisory Committee to the Republican National Committee, urging our voters throughout the country to support Charles Evans Hughes for president at the polls in November. The members of Colored Citizens selected from the country at large as advisory to the Republican National Committee having, met this day in New York City and desiring to express to the colored voters of the country the necessity for supporting the Republican Party candidates for President, Vice-President, Senate and House of Representatives, addresses the "700,000 colored voters and the thousands of political voters whose duty it is to register in order that they may perform their duty to the country in this national crisis. This is the Presidential year. The time has come to hold the Wilson Administration and the Democratic Party to a "strict accountability." Are you ready for the fight? Or do you desire four years more of what the New York State Republican Party is doing at Washington?" No campaign since that for the second election of (Continued on Page 3) SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. The Issue of This Campaign That Interests Most Our People—Crucified Upon the Cross of Southern Race Prejudice—"Wilson" Segregation, Insulting Bills and Treatment—Vote for Hughes! Few Afro-Americans are as capable of speaking for the Republican party in all matters relating to it and its policies, and to stalk as accurately the hopes and aspirations of the Afro-American people, as the Ion, William J. Lewis of Boston, Mass., whom President Wilson removed as soon as he could get to it from the high and honorable position of Assistant Attorney General of the United States. In as a sort of climax to the Democratic policies, a bill was submitted to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments—to the Constitution of the United States. "Four years ago the President said, during his campaign, 'The government of our country cannot be lodged in any special class.' The administration has, nonetheless, excluded ten millions of Italians from Presidency. In the national government, 'Bring the gros ```markdown ``` HON, WILLIAM H. LEWIS. an address on "The Administration and the Colored Citizen" in this city, last week, Mr. Lewis said so many good and true things applicable to the present campaign that The Gazette readers will have great pleasure and information in reading and digesting the news from the address. Mr. Lewis said: "I speak for ten millions of Americans, 'undiluted,' and, for, the most part, 'unbleached,' who have never had another allegiance, and have no fatherland to a division of their loyalty to their country. I speak for ten millions of people whose title deeds to citizenship are the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth to the Constitution of the United States. I speak for a citizenship that cost the American people over one million lives and twelve thousand millions of dollars." One of the issues of this campaign is whether the American people are ready to surrender to Southern race prejudice the principles and equal rights, for which they paid so dearly in treasure and in blood. "President Wilson solicited the support of the black men, and then crucified them upon the cross of Southern race prejudice. No sooner than he had been elected and inaugurated President, he and his cabinet officers began to repudiate every promise that had been made, orally and in writing, to the President. Alexander Walters and his associates presented to the President a slate for the federal offices held by Colored Republicans under the Taft Administration. Mr. Tumulty treated the whole matter as a joke, and handed the slate over to the newspapers. For weeks and months and years the 'faultiful' put the open door for a chance to see President Walters and an audience. They were not considered among 'deserving Democrats,' to be rewarded for their services. The 'Colored brother' must wait. They have waited. They are waiting still. One by one the Presidential appointments held by our men under the Republican Administration were various. The Southern Democrats put in their places. I found no fault that our office-holders were asked to resign, but I did find fault that no Colored Democrats, sufficiently 'deserving,' could be put in their places. The final answer to the appeals of Afro-American Democrats was that appointments to office positions that no Colored Democrats, sufficiently 'deserving,' could be put in their places. The usual and popular excuse for the President's tergiversation in politics has been that the President has changed his mind. The laws of this country recognize no distinction of race or color. The spirit of Jesus knows neither bond nor free. The President of the United States is President of the United States, and citizen by his race or color, and has absolutely no right to measure the rights of one class of citizens by the prejudices of another class. "To make permanent the segregation policies of Burleson and McAdoo, Democratic members of Congress introduced five bills to provide for segregation in the state. A bill was also introduced to forbid the appointment of 'Negro' officers, commissioned or non-commissioned, in either the army or navy—of the United States, and to provide timewars was the District of Columbia. And finally, as a sort of climax to the Democratic policies, a bill was submitted to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments—to the Constitution of the United States. "Four years ago—the President said, during his campaign, 'The government of our country cannot be lodged in any special class.' The administration has, of course, ordered citizens from 'representation' in the national government, 'Bring the government back to the people,' was his slogan. Are we a part of the American people, Mr. President, or not? "Not only has the administration had a different kind of freedom, a different kind of justice, a different quality of humanity, for ten millions of American citizens of color, but it has taken upon an entirely different principle that the neighboring black republics to the south of us. In his speech of acceptance the President said: "We have professed to have believed, and we do believe, that the people of small and weak states have a right to be dealt with exactly as the people of the big and powerful states would be." Did you surrender that principle, Mr. President, to the case of Santo Domingo? Do you still presume in the principle of intangual justice in the same way, that you believe in arbitration and surrendered the principle to the railroad brotherhoods? The administration was too proud to fight Germany, too sympathetic to fight Mexico; but it was NOT too proud or too sympathetic to fight Haiti and Santo Domingo. This nation is prepared to put away the study and the typewriter, and substitute for it a government fully prepared and courageous enough to act, when need be, for the maintenance of American rights and American honor. "Ten years ago Gov. Hughes said to our citizens of New York: "We want no lynch laws in this country, or the spirit that manifests itself in that are segregation, discrimination against, and disfranchisement, but manifestations of the spirit of lynch law?" "There are million Negro votes in the great states of the border, the East and the middle West, that may be cast and counted in this election. Our voters of the Nation have the opportunity to put their own salvation, to restore the administration at Washington to the party of Lincoln, and Grant, and McKinley, to aid in the redemption of America to the high place she has always held among the nations of the world. Nowhere, at our homes and firesides, in our churches and societies, let us pray, even as our fathers did, for deliverance from the tyranny and oppression of the present administration at Washington: 'As God was for our Fathers, so will He be for us.' And, on the 4th day of March, next, with Charles Evans Hughes as President, will be another day and a new era of progress for our race and country." The readers of The Gazette will appreciate, as we do, the splendid presentation of the Afro-American's case, and the finely contrasted points of difference between the policies of Republican leadership and that of Democratic leadership towards them. Let us vote to turn the Democratic raals out of power and to put the Republican party in a simple matter of voting, save yourself from the common enemy. Let this be your slogan: "I am against the Democratic party because the Democratic party is against me." EVERY NEGRO TO BE LYNCHED. "How is the white man going to control the government? The way we do it is to pass laws to fit the white man and make the other people (Negroes) come to them. . . . If it is necessary every Negro in the state will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy. . . . The Fifteenth Amendment ought to be used. We will fight to then why don't we -do it -Ex-Governor James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, now U. S. Senator-elect. "We stuffed ballot boxes, we shot them; we are not ashamed of it"—Senator Tillman, in a speech in the United States Senate. One of the most infamous acts committed under the present Democratic administration was the segregation of veterans of the civil war in the soldiers' homes in the North. The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. meeting at Antioch Baptist church, Wednesday evening, to hear the report of the committee that conferred with the governor of Southern Afro-American laborers urged the unanimous support of Hughes and Fairbanks upon the part of our people. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY | SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in Advance) One Vear......01e2+seeee+-81.80.. Bix Monthe...cesesseesese 1.00 | ‘Three Months.........c0..0. 50 @ubscribers are requested to re- mit by postotfice money on der or registered letter ‘Entered at the portoffice In Cleveland, ‘Ohio, as second-clase matter. ‘Address all communications te HARRY C. SMITH. Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Bullding, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 te 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 ‘THE GAZETTE Is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper In the Interest of Afro-Americans, published Im the state of Ohio, and comparison with any. will immediately. establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans.. 160,000 in Ohio, ; 20,000 in Cleveland. ~BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1916. DARE TO DO YOUR DUTY. “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith Tet us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand IL”— ‘Abrabam Lincoln. Fall in and forward to victory. Vote for Hughes if you value Justice A few more days to wait and Wilson will know his fate. Let us see what a big majority we can give for Hughes and Fairbanks. If you desire the election of Hughes and Fairbanks, vote for them and get your friends to do likewise A score of Afro-Americans have had the honor to sit in the Congress of the United States, and every one was sent there by the ftepubllcan party. Be sure to'make a vigorous fight for the Republican candidates for Con- gress in every district. A Republican Congress is needed to uphold a Re- publican President. ‘The Afro-American who sees fit to vote against Hughes and Fairbanks and to seek protection from Wilson, Ben Tillman, Jim Vardaman and Tom Dixon; may have a lot of good sense and political sagacity, but we fail to ee Do you wants war? This is the “pogie man” which the Democrats are using in an attempt to frighten the people into re-electing Thomas Wood- row Wilson. It is on a level with that other “lowdown” and contemptible Southern Democratic slogan: “Do you want your daughter to, marry a nig. ger?” Democratic managers are pinning their hopes on Ohio, Indiana and Wis- consin, ‘These three States have fifty- two electoral votes and to gain them would make up for the loss of New ‘York, which is virtually conceded. We regard these Democratic hopes as vain ones, There are more Republicans than Democrats in each of these Stetes, there is ho resiam wy any of these Republicans should vote for Wil- son—and without Republican yotes, ‘Thomas Woodrow Wilson cannot carry ‘any Northern State. cisions on the civil and political status of the Afro-American made by the U. 8. Supreme Court began with the Hon. Charles E. Hughes’ presence ‘on the Supreme bench. The first of these was in the Alabama Peonage case. Mr. Hughes wrote the decision, ‘and did so in language that gave new life to the paceath Amendment. ‘The Alabama ge case was fol: lowed by the Oklahoma and Mary- lund Suffrage cases and the Oklahoma “jim-egow" case, in all of which cS took a’ most important part. There’ is an eight-hour law govern- ing the labors of letter-carrlers. They may work no more than eight hours a @ay. They cannot work overtime, even If they do not demand pay for it. ‘That is a real eight-hour Jaw. The Adamson law for railroad mev, which the President tries to describe as an eighthour law, contains no such pro- vision, It simply fixes eighthours’ work for ten-hours’ pay as the basis of computing wages. If the Paesident wanted a real elghthour af. why didn’t he turn to the postal Ihws for his model? Mr. Hughes has shown his unselfish- ness and his breadth. of vision by his repeated pleas for the election of a ‘Republican Congress as well as a Re- publican president. He is not for “Hughes First." He is for Republican principles first, realizing that theses- tablishment and maintenance of those principles is essential to the perma- nent welfare and prestige of the na- tion, He wants a Republican Con- gress to enact the laws which a Re- publican President will sign, restoring to this country the sound’ economic policies upon which our lasting pros- perity“has invariably been founded. ‘Keep this in maind when you vote. ‘The Harrison law is very strict @ its regulation, by federal authority, of the sale and use of narcotic drugs. It fs a pity that there is no such an en- actment to prevent the> altogether too free distribution of the dope, “he keps vs out of war.” The wre of thip so gan is os bad as the drug habit. It tends to lethargize the public mind. » VOTE FOR HUGHES AND FAIRBANKS, Even Afro-American Democrats have “turned their bac! Thomas Woodrow Wilson's candidacy. Indeed, we canno SANE member of the race can vote for him, A southerne with all the prejudices that one of that section can possib and his southern controtied administration and Congress Yery much to harm our people during the past three years tus twenty-five years to overcome it under ‘the most. favo: under President Hughes and Vice President Fairbanks, thei ministration (that is sure to come) and a Republican ( the children of the race, old enough to know anything, K a crime against the race for any member of it to east a v for the Democratic efectors—for Wilson. Tell it, brother, white or black—you meet that needs to hear and know them good.” Even Afro-American Democrats have “turned their backs” on President Thomas Woodrow Wilson's candidacy. Indeed, we cannot see how any SANE member of the race can vote for him. A southerner and Democrat, with all the prejudices that one of that section can possibly entertain, he and his southern controlled administration and Congress have done 80 very much to harm our people during the past three years that it will take us twenty-five years to overcome it under the most favorable conditions under President Hughes and Vice President Fairbanks, their Republican ad- ministration (that is sure to come) and a Republican Congress. Even the children of the race, old enough to know anything, KNOW that it is a crime against the race for any member of it to cast a vote in November for the Democratic efectors—for Wilson. ‘Tell it, brother, to every one-— white or black—you meet that needs to hear and know it. It will “do them good.” ; OUR BOUNDEN DUTY. - Fellow citizens and voters, again we are asked to respond to duty's call, The sacred responsibility of choosing the best man for the highest official trust confronts us in a manner not less binding now than in the most urgent demands of our country, Every citizen is expected to do his full duty and every vote involves an obligation to elect such men as ‘we conscientiously believe shall best conserve the public weal. The call comes to us to be vigilant, active and untiring in an effort to re-establish and maintain those measures and policies which shall again warrant a good, a stable and prosperous national government. Let us be up and at it, and let us prove our loyaliy and devotion to those principles which shall secure to ourselves the stability of free institutions. We must not falter now, we must not halt between two opinions—strong and true men are before us for our suffrage. Being duty-called and nominated by the party of the peo- ple, WE MUST ELECT HUGHES AND FAIRBANKS! They represent the highest exponent of Republican ideas In the past Republicanism stood the test and triumphantly led the way to universal peace and universal pros perity. It did a glorious work for ourselyes and for our posterity. We can not again afford to yield the laurels to hands less faithful to the trust so long reposed to our. keeping. In the language of the immortal founders, we cannot indéed pay the debt which is upon us but by a firm and unshaken adherence to those principles and policies which never failed the people Democracy’ is too moribund and unsafe to again be asked to assume charge and direct the affairs of popular government. We want a clean and a strong government, one that knows no compromise, that has no fear of doing the right thing, at the right time and in the right place. We must elect such men to office, who spum the arts of the demagogue, who stand for EQUAL JUSTICE, EQUAL PROTECTION, and EQUAL LIBERTY TO ALL MEN, irrespective of race or nationality. Such men, such candidates we have in Charles B. Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks. We have not yet passed the danger line. We must avert the perils of a growing party prejudice which still threatens the peace and integrity of the nation and the citizen-rights of our people. Let us as Republicans stand firm and go to the polls, Tuesday, and do our duty. It sets up false visjons in the brain, like those of opium and hasheesh. It destroys the sense of values in poltfcal thinking, It means the destruction of the national spirit as surely as the continued use of morphia means the destruction of the individual. spirit, ‘The cure is to amt it President Thomas Woodrow Wilson tries to make it appear that what he terms “the special interests’ are be- hind Hughes. ‘The irony of the at- tempt is heightened by the fact that the President raises the question in speeches. made at Shadow Lawn— Which was the country seat of John A. McCall. He, it will be remembered, was president of the New York Lite Insurance Co, at the time Hughes made his first impression on the coun- try as counsel for the legislative com- mittee which was investigating the in- surance prgblem in New York. If the “special interests” are “behind” Hughes, they are as far behind him as the date of that investigation, at least. —* WILSON’S CHANGES OF MIND. A compilation of the various sub: Jeets trom which’ President ‘Thomas Woodrow “Wilson has changed his mind during his term of office shows the following: One term for President, Presidential primaries, Free canal tolls, Protective ‘Tariff, Tarif Com- mission, Forms of revenue, Neutrality, Warning Americans, Mexican policy, Being too proud to fight, Serving Mex- ico first, Phillippine Islands, Prepared. ness, Army appropriation, Navy appro- priation, ‘The trusts, Immigration, Child labor, Rights of Union labor, Economy, New and useless. offices, Woman suffrage, Bryan, Civil Service, Blection of U. S. Senators, Lobbying, Central bank, Publicity, Congressional Caucus, Popular Government, Regula: tion by Commission, Free Sugar, Free Wool, Low Tariff and Cost of Living, Tariff revenue, ete. A TERRIFIC INDICTMENT. | Among the first bills introduced in the 63rd Congress by a Democrat was one to repeal the Fourteenth and Fit teenth Amendments of the U. S. Con- stitution, which confer eltizenship up on the Afro-American, This. wat fol lowed by other bills, introduced by Southern Democratic congressmen and senators, to provide “jim-crow” cars for our people in the District of Columbia; to segregate the races in the governmental departments at Washington, D. C.; to repeal the crim: inal statute which punishes as a crime, conspiracy to injure, oppress, threat: en or intimidate any citizen; to forbid the appointment of any Afro-Amerl- can soldier as a commissioned offieer of the army or navy, and to prevent our enlistment in the military service. Add to this the fact that President ‘Thomas Woodrow Wilson has taken from us evéry appointment in the dip- lomatieservice and every Presidential appointment in“the federal service at home, but one or two; and hundreds of minor positions, to give to South- ern Democrats; and has encouraged all sorts of humiliating and insulting discrimination against the race, and you have “the truth in a nutshell.” NEW JERSEY AGAINST WILSON. ‘That the President's own state, New | Jersey, is against him is evidenced by |; the result of the primaries held, re- | ‘ently. For some time there has been |: developing a factional division in the | Democratic paty ot Ney Jersoy—| Wilson und antiWilson. This division | was the chief feature of the recent pri- | maries, the fight centering on the | nomination for United States Senator. || ‘The National Administration candi | date was John W. Wescott, the Attor- | ney General of the State; and the|! anti-administration candidate was the || present U.S. Senator, James EB. Mar-| tine. Wescott is on very clese per- | sonal relationship with the President, |: and he has twice placed\ Wilson in| nomination. It is illustrative of the queer whirligigs of politics, that when Wilson was Governor of New Jersey six years ago he forced his party to accept Martine for the Senatorship.| From being great friends, Wilson and |, Martine have become open antago-| nists especially in the matter of con-| tro.'ing New Jersey politics, When | making bis campaign for re-nomina- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, NOVEMBEX* «, 2916. S AND FAIRBANKS, on Mexico at Vera Cruz ask the moth- ee rs and fathers of the boys who were FRESH CHIC ave “turned their backs” on President | killed on the streets of that Mexican ¢ the past three yeare that it will take |war with Mexico, | Gazette's Corre nder the most favorable conditions Ask the relatives of the eighteen ent Fan, he epena| Ameri, ay th! woe | pee asia Hepuican’ Congrase, ‘ven, |ored ar Saath Yeaba to know anything, KNOW that it is | Ask the relatives. of the unitea | THROUGHOUT T mer ato asm rome |S rn ne Cer | za 00 Meat and Enow ie ‘Ne wil "do | A mtr nt ter of tn |e cd who were slaughtered in the raid at a eee! Ue aera mac an a cece a eS a, codge, Literary tion Martine used to frankly say that he would rather be defeated than have to make daily pilgrimages to the White House to receive orders. Mar. tine has amazed Administration cir- cles by wiming out by 16,000 plurality. ‘There is only one conclusion to be drawn from this result, and that is that the President is very unpopular in his own state. That the Republic. ang will carry New Jersey on both the National and State tickets Is among the probabilities. ener UNACCOUNTABLE TASTES. By virtue of being the balance of power in several Northern states, the Afro-American is exercising a very great influence upon the course of po tical events; and this is the greatest leverage he has. Upon this, and this alone, we must depend to secure for ourselves any consideration in Con: gress, in the courts, or from public sentiment. Would it not then be ab: solutely suicidal for us to recklessly Throw this advantage away? Yet that 4s just what some men of the race are doing when they comuette with the Demoeratle party. How ean our men prefer Wilson and Marshall to Hughes and Fairbanks? Hughes has shown himself to be a decided, unwavering defender of the rights of our people and so has Fairbanks, while Wilson has done more to injure us than any president the country has ever had. The political associates of Hughes are the old and tried friends of the race Among the political associates of Wil son may be named McAdoo, the tollet segregationist; Burleson, the Texas Negrophobist; Vardaman, who would repeal the Fifteenth Amendment; Till man, the hell-fire scatterer, and many other queer animals in the American political menagerie. Verily, for an Afro-American to choose for his politi eal companions such an outit, is the most unaccountable of unaccountable tastes. Thank God there are but very few who Qitve these strange tastes, WILSON NOT OUR FRIEND. The wisest man can not assign a single reason for supposing that Wil- son's re-election would effect any good whatever for our people, for it can not be shown that he lias done a single thing to demonstrate his’ friendliness to the race. Not only has he failed to do anything for our people, but he has done many things against us, in spite of his pre-election promises of fair treatment. He has been greatly. in- terested in liberty and self-government in the Philippines, but he has no re- buke for “Hoax” Smith of Georgia, Tillman of South Carolina and Varda- man of Mississipp! who have done everything in their power to restrict the liberties of our people of their re- spective states. He is greatly inter- ested in the welfare of the immigrants who have come to our shores to es- cape the tyrannies of Europe, but he is callous and indifferent to the wrongs inflicted upon our people of the South. If by any single incident, suggestion or saying he has shown any concern about the welfare of Afro-Americans, the history of his administration has failed to record the fact. On the con- trary he has done many things which were inimical. He permitted the seg- regation of our civil service employes of the government by subordinate offi- see sod whist ne astesiad aealaet su¢h un-American treatment he defend- ed the principle of segregation, and un- able to make further Teply to Wm. Mp roe Trotter's rebuttal, declared that chat gentleman had “insulted” him. Our people have more to fear than any other class from the evils the re: election of President Thomas Wood: row Wilson would produce. He has ondoned segregation and has deprived che race of its just representation in nigh official positions. As Mr. Hughes ruly said, he has undone in three years the work of fifty years of Re- publicanism. ‘Tuere is nothing in Wil- son's policy for the Afro-American, nor joes he pretend there is. “KEPT US OUT OF WAR.” Democratic speakers throughout the country have the effrontery to keep on claiming that the President has “kept us out of war.” This preposterous claim has not fooled the people of the United States, if anyone doubts that we made war ‘on Mexico at Vera Cruz ask the moth- ers and fathers of the boys who were; killed on the streets of that Mexican seaport. : ‘Ask the wives‘ahd mothers and se ters of the Mexleans who. Were killed at Vera Cruz whether Wwe were at war with Mexico, Ask the relatives of the eighteen American civilians who were butch- red at Santa Yeabel, ‘Ask the felatives. of the United Biates soldiers who were treacherous: Iv plate at Cacrleal Ask the mothers and sisters of those who were slaughtered in the raid at Columbus, New Mexico, whether we were at war with Mexico. “Ask the citizens of Brownsville, Red House Ferry, Progeso, and Los Peladas whether the President “has kept us Out of war.” ‘Ask the women and ¢hildren who were threatened with death at Tam: leo by an tnturlated Mexlean mob. ‘Ask the thousands of American elt zens who were called upon to aban- don their property in Mexico and to return forthwith to the United States whether the President haw "kept. us Ask the hundreds of those refugees who are in the. United States, today, practically penniless and in want, who were forced to leave their property and homes in Mexien because the Wit son administration refused to. give them the protection to which they were justly entitled. Ask the thousands of peaceful Mex- feans who have suffered famige dur: Ing “watchful wating.” ‘and, finally, ask the wives and chit dren, the dependent mothers, fathers tnd sisters of the 260,000 National Guardsmen who are encamped on the Mexican border whether the President has kept us out of war with Mexico. It the Democrat lator pro clathed this high sounding doctrine “The constitutional rights of Amer tean citizens should protect them on our’ borders, and go. with them fhegugtout: tie) world, bad. every American citizen residing or having | property in any foreign country is en- titled to and must be given the full protection of the United States, Gov ernment, both for himself and for hi property.” i |" After’ seversi” years of “watchful waiting” Secretary of State Lansing \neat o tetnr tofu! need ot thee | taeto government of Mexico in which ‘egurs thls remarkable language ili. Fomsans pl toe sevalatien: te Mexico: Continuous ‘bloodshed. and alsorders have marked Ita! progress For three years the Mexican Republic has boon lore wen civ strife? lives Jof American and other aliens have [been sacriteed: vast propeyles devel oped by Ameriéan capital and enter- | prise have veon deptroyed or rendered |onproduetive; bandite have been per | mitted to roam at will through the ter- fitory contiguous to the United States and to #elze, without punishment. or without ‘effective attempt at punts [ment te property Gt Americans wit | the lives of citizens of the United | States who ventured to remain in Mex- [ican territory op to fetuen there, t Brvtect their thlerests ats Noon Taken ahd in aoeiat casas arwaroaly taken’ and the murderere have nelther been apprehended nor brought to jus- tee, 8 “It would be tedious to recount in Outrage, atrocity after atrocity, to 1 fusteate the tru nature ana extent of the widespread ‘soudlilons of lowlene ieee and violenon WElch fave. pre walled. * * * Not pnly were these | murders characterized by ruthless bru. | tality but uncivilized acts of mutila- dan etainerpeeaiaa.” "This is the indictment of the Wilson administration in Mexico by its own Secretary of State, CONFESSES MURDER OF YOUNG WOM se ly Wilkesbarre, Pa. — Thomas Wil- ams, aged 45, married and father of four children, broke down and con- ‘fessed that he is the murderer of Ida “May Brown, 18, of Sebastopol, whose ‘body was found in Carpenter's creek on the night of Oct. 18. Williams confessed to County De- tectives. P. J. Connolly, Bernard Me Cabe and William Moyles and Assist- ant District Attorney Leo J. Schwartz koft while a coroner's jury was delib; erating on evidence given at an in- quest. Williams, known as “The Rat,” at- tended the inquest as a witness. The authorities had woven an almost tom- plete chain of circumstantial evidence about him, but had failed to produce a single eye-witness to the murder. ‘While the Jury was deliberating the authorities quizzed Williams and he finally broke down. He confessed be- fore the Jury, which brought in a mur- ‘der verdict. He was placed under arrest and taken to the Luzern county Jail. Williams declared he attacked the girl when he found her alone in the ‘wood through which Carpenter's creek runs, She resisted him and he choked her. Not knowing whether or not she was dead, Williams said he carried her body’ to the creek and threw {t into pra Aierats Government Agents Unearth Big Munitions Conspiracy on *. . Mexican Line. El Paso, Tex. — Federal officials have arrested Dr. G. R. Servid, 2 naturalized Spanish-American, at Tuc- son, Ariz., on the charge of conspiring to ship arms to revolutionists in Mex- ico. , Written by ‘The Old Reliable 4 - Gazette's Correspondents THROUGHOUT THE STATE | What: Our People. Ace: Ging. Eau Week—Church, Personal, Social, codge, Literary and Mu- ‘sical — Marrages, ‘Deaths, Ete. |p CABIZ=-A number of our citizens were in Steubenville, Monday, to hear | Hon. Charles B. Hughes.—Mr. James | Pettress ‘ias returned from” Brown | Summit, N. C., and brought a bride | with him. Congratulations and. best wishes for «happy Iife.-The. “Busy | Hees” met at James Smith's, Sunday. |A good attendance.—The Lucas Sis: | ters of Martins Ferry, gave an enter: | tainment, Friday evening, at they A. M.'E. church that was largely attend: |e othe cua ont onereanee a membership contest with the Newark | chureh, Sunday. Dr. J. 8. Campbell | will be the: speaker, Sunday evening, dat the apeotal erecciars CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at. their main postottice sufliciently easly on Mon: day (or Sunday) of each week to have them teach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that, of their city’ or town on th outside of the wrapper about returned copies, Un- less this latter is done, proper eredit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, ete, obituary no: tices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, in- quiries for relatives and advertise. ments of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid tor in advance at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line, Our rates for ‘display advertisements will be sent on ‘application, YOUNGSTO WN.—Hon. Wm. H. Lewis, of Boston, Mass., assistant U. 8, Atiorney General under President Taft, and Rev. Moore spoke to a large gathering in Excelsior parlors, Friday evening. in the interest of Hughes and Fairbanks. Mr. Lewis’ speech, in the main, will be found on the first page of this paper. It was fine.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Neal, of Memphis, ‘Tenn,, have located here.—Mrs, Bias is visiting in Wheeling and Steubenville, this week. Mrs. Chas. Jackson spent, Saturday and Sunday in Pittsburg—St, Augus- tine Mission “Iadies’ entertainment, Monday, in Odd Fellows’ hall, was quite a’ success—Chas.) Williams. is improving —Mrs, Sarah Saunders fell a couple of steps and Injured « wrist and Himb—Be sure to read carefully Your copy of The Gazette, this week, and then let your friends see it be fore Puswdas. HILLSBORO.—Mothers’ club meet- ing, Friday afternoon, Noy. 10. Bach meiber and friends are requested to attend as business of great import. ance is to be transacted. A special program and refreshments. Mrs, Lucy Donaidson, pres.: Mes. J. J. Burr, sec. —Mr. Josse Gains is sick—Prof. 8. G. Hough and Rey. J. J. Burr attended the 8. S, convention at Batavia,—Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Smith have returned from Lexington, Ky.—Revival_ serv- ices, ut the Waptist church. Rev. Devaughn is assisting with the serv- fees. ‘The second Sunday in Nov., Dr. Wyatt, of Cineinnatl, will Dreach—-Miss Bessie Stern, of Cin- cinnati, was the guest of Miss Lillian Smith from Tuesday to Sunday.—Mr. Joseph Jenkins, of Columbus, is. vis- iting his sister, Mrs. J. J. Burr—Rev, J. G. Orr attended the Ministerial In- stitute at Mt. Sterling, last week. SANDUSKY.—Miss Bessie Brown, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Robert Davis were guests of Mr, and Mrs, James Davis. Also Master James and Mrs. George Harden of Indianapolis. A glo- rious day was spent celebrating Mr. and Mrs, Davis’ fifteenth marriage an: niversary. Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Smith Joined the company in the evening. ‘The former married them and wishes them 0 more years of happiness and success. They are a positive help and credit to the community, especially to the Second Baptist church. He trains the S. S, teachers and Mrs. Alberta Davis ts teacher of class, No. 3. Both churches and S. S. were well attended, Sunday, and both pastors preached able sermons—Mrs. Harvey Clark, of Hamitton, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs, 8. Wallace—Mrs. Chas. Se- lee is home again with her boys.—Mr. Wm, Jones is preparing a boat for fishing, Come back, Rey. D. Phillips of Columbus and Rey. W. O. Harper Ot Veunwetnen: __ SMITHFIELD.—Dr. Chas. Bundy, of Cleveland, whom we are more than pleased to have as our presiding elder again, was the house-guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Veney, last week, and was highly entertained by Mesdames H. and B, H. Harris, M. Mitchell and J. ‘Smith. He preached eloquently, Sun- day morning, and conducted _com- munion services. In the afternoon he was at Mcintyre, Mrs. Rhoda Veney elaborately entertained at dinner, Sun- day, in his Honor; G. Davis, ’ Wm. /“Munts, Rev. J. M. Williams, H. Harris, 'E, L. Smith of Mcintyre, Mrs. B. H. and Mary Harris.—R. Tyler; Simpson and Steward brothers went to Flush: ‘ing, Saturday evening, in the latters’ car and called on several young ladies. —E. H. Giles, L, Brooks and J. Rhen, of Mt. Pleasant, were here, Friday evening.—Dr. Bundy and Rev. Wil- liams visited in MeIntyre and the for- mer’s mother in Mt. Pleasant, last week—Jas. Harris, jr., visited in Steubenville, Sunday.—The trustees’ and helpers’ entertainment, Friday evening, was a suecess.—Meésdames E. H, and H. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hargrave attended Mcintyre quarter- ly meeting, Sunday.—Mr. Frank Smith has the grip and We H. Veney is also il—Mrs. D. Christian was in Steu- benville, Friday. Mr. and Mrs, Otto Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and Mr. H. Goens, of that city, attended church here, Sunday evening. ~ BATAVIA.—The first district S. S. convention was held here, Oct. 27, 28 and 29, ‘The meeting was a success, spiritually and financially. ‘The schools were represented by ‘dele- gates: Minnie Burr, Mamie Moore, John Bullard, Georgetown; Myrtle Calloway, Mr. Bailey, Ripley; Georgie Moore, New Richmond; Perfecto Mor- ton, Biehn; Rev. W. Jackson, Higgins- port; Prof. S. G. Hough and Rev. J. J. Burr. Hillsboro.—Through the agent at Hillsboro, “The old reliable” Ga. zette will be sent to the following per- sons: Minnie Burr, Georgetown; Georgie Moore, New Richmond: Myrtle Calloway, Ripley; Laura Sut- ton, Batavia, Don’t fail to pay for your copy every Saturday and ask Your neighbors to take the paper.— Rev. Ed. Zimmerman, of Chicago, preached an able sermon here, Friday evening.—Prof, 8. G. Hough, president of the annual S. S, convention, gave an @xcellent address; subject, “Music in the Home.” Rev. J. J. 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This makes the mass of gelatinous consis- teney, which renders it entirely safe. ‘The material may be lighted with @ mateh, but it will burn so slowly that there is no danger of disastrous re- sults, The oll may be brought to its original state by treatment with al- cohol or other solvent. ar icles ok ce aa In Japan the nursery is still pro- tected from the inroads of measles and other Infections by means of an inseription over the nursery door stat- ing with exquisite urbanity “this child 1s not at home.” In the Well- ‘came Historical Medical Museum, says the London Lancet, a moweTascinating exhibition 1s on view, illustrative of “Japanese charms, amulets, votive of- ferlngs, and objects of medical inter- est,” among which these nursery tiotices ocenpy an important place. 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Jackson, of E. 93d St., left Thursday for N. Y. City to visit Mrs. G. Chesnutt. Mrs. Lucretia McDowell and little daughter, Rosa May, of Youngstown, were guests of Mrs. Woodson, of E. 31st St., last week. Mrs. E. C. Williams and son, of Washington, D. C., will remain here, this winter, in order that the latter may attend a local high school. Mme. Azalia Hackley, of Chicago arrived in the city, last week, to plan a folk-song festival. She is stopping at a local museum. Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Harris, of Pittsburgh, mother of Mrs. M. Harris, has returned home after a pleasant visit with Mrs. James Naylor of E. 82d St. Miss Mary Rathburn, sec. of the Y. W. C. A., spoke at the vesper service of the P. W. home, Sunday. Her subject was "Service." Dr. Alice Butler will speak tomorrow. County Prosecutor Locher, Saturday, sued to collect $850 and given the $2529 Central Ave. for Alte Cunningham, held as a suspicious person. Locher says Cunningham skipped. The editor of the Gazette settled a case for Mrs. Laura Tann, against the Cleveland Railway Co., last week, securing her a very satisfactory sum. She was hurt by the closing doors of an E. 105th. St., car. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, of Columbus, former resident of London, O., was the guest of Mrs. John Graves, of E. 82d. St., several days the first of the week. The ladies took schoolmates in their younger days. W. P. C. Ransom, editor of the A. M. E. Quarterly Review, will preach at St. John's church, Sunday, and spoke at ideal hall, Friday evening, with Rev. C. G. Fishback, Congressman Emerson, Harry L. Vail and others. Mrs. Wm. H. Wilson's suit for divorce was heard in Judge Stevens' court, last Friday. It will doubtless be granted at the expiration of sixty days as required by law. She is a waitress in the Palace restaurant, Central Av. and E. 28th St. The Doric Masonic club gave an enjoyable reception to their wives and friends at its rooms, 3845 Central Av., last Wednesday morning. Club"effil- deries with Wilson, pres.; W. H. Durcher, wise; S. W. Tyes, sec., and J. E. Branham, treas. Judge Robert H. Terrell and wife, Mrs. Mollie Church Terrell, of Washington, D. C., well known in this city, and Oberlin where she attended school, graduating from the college many years ago, celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Oct. 29. Mrs. Henry Jackson and daughter, --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1916. *SAM FERTMAN'S, 3608 Central Ave *MRS. DESSIE KITZMILLER'S 3943 Central Ave. ERNEST JACKSON'S, 3969 Central Ave. UNDAYS. The Gazette regularly should notify the delivery promptly. business matters to The Gazette's of- fice you wish to see the editor call there, fully examine The Gazette's adver- sor. Business men who advertise in image of our people. The fact that they want it. attempts) ten cents a line (six ing space, fifty cents an inch, single current issues of The Gazette, must USDAY of that week, at the latest. Personal "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it as a law of nature."—John Stuart Mill. ******************************************************************************* Of Chicago, who visited her brother, H. S. Jackson of E. 37th St., St. last week, left Sunday night for Leroy, N. Y., to visit other relatives. They will return here when enroute home, the last of next week, for a few days' stop. Our folks who are employed in "the house of the city" or are in that section about noon time are busy time; the day, should not fall to patronize Blair's Lunch Room at 720 W. Frankfort Ave., between W. 6th, and W. 9th Streets. Home cooking, quick service and above all a race enterprise."—Ady. "A Subscriber" sends the following with a request for its publication. In the future, the subscriber will please send her name and address as that is absolutely necessary to secure the publication of any item in The Gazette: "The subscription masquerade party given under the management of Mesdames C. Berry and L. Hall was an overwhelming success. The costumes were very gorgeous and in keeping with the beautiful decorations." The police "pulled" a small game blimp place in Central Ave, between E3.1st, and E3.1st, last week, and have recently "pulled" several places conducted by Jewish gamblers in that vicinity. They are not near so bad as that alleged Clayton block gambling hell, "the biggest one" in that section. Our Ministers' Alliance should form a delegation, call on the mayor and DEMAND that it, too, be "pulled" and closed. Until this is done, nothing will be accomplished. It is NOT "a difficult matter to get into this alleged Clayton block gambling hell" if you want to do so and all know it. Cory's W. H. M. S. was royally entertained at Mrs. Burens', E. 33d. St., last Wednesday afternoon. The literary program will be rendered at Mrs. Victoria Allen's, E. 35th St., Wednesday evening and refreshments served the auspices of the "Mite Boxes". Shiloh Baptist教堂, Sunday, $125.57. Director Beman spoke after Thursday's services but did not tell why the mayor refuses to appoint even one 'Afro-American clerk at the City hall'. Director Bernstein, a plea to the mayor, is the most popular City Director, also spoke. The Home Restaurant, 111 Bolivar road, near E. 9th St., is our only well-conducted one in that section of the city and is convenient to our hundreds of "down-town" employees. It ought to have the major portion of this patronage, and the people of our people, who can, to patronize the Home Restaurant—Ady. Undertaker Howard Slaughter is being warmly praised for his splendid efforts in helping to rescue the body of Mrs. Adele Randolph from a local medical college. She died at the City hospital, Oct. 17, and was buried from Slaughter's funeral. Rev. G. V. Clark officiating. Thanks are also due Cory M. E. church members, the "Silent Workers" S. S. class, and all friends who furnished flowers, and assisted Mrs. J. S. Thomas in any way to see that the body received a Christian burial. The Gazette suggests that something than thanks are due Mrs. Thomas, one of the best Christian workers in the city. Dr. C. L. Reason, representing Polster's in the City Interroom Three-Cushion League, defeated Art King, of the Calumet room, last week Friday night 30 to 19. King played for 28 games in the league, and won the Seaborn (28) last Saturday night in Helm's interroom three-cushion billiard tourney, 34 to 20. The game was close until the last few innings, when Reason scored twelve points in six innings. Reason had four runs of three and Seaborn one run of three. Frank Blackmore and Dr. C. L. Reason each won two games and lost none, until, Wednesday evening, when they played a game at Polster parlors. W. H. Judd Malvin, who as a boy lived in this city, died Oct. 27 at his home in Washington, D. C. Pneumonia. A widow survives him. Captain Malvin was a "high" mason and Odd Fellow, and for many years was one of the best clerks in the war department. He was a varietious doctor, which he belonged, titipated in the escort of the body to Lincoln Memorial church and Harmony cemetery, that city, Sunday afternoon. He resigned from the National Guard of the District of Columbia in 1883. At that time he was quartermaster of the First Separate Battalion. Captain Malvin was an old friend of the editor of The Gazette which extends heartfelt sympathy to the sorrowing widow. The executive board of the N. O. company of the W. M. M. S. met Monday, at St. James A. M. E. parsonage. Mrs. Elizabeth Culpher of Lockland and Mrs. Linnie Guy of Steubenville, were present. The new --- constitution was read and the work put in operation; the program for the annual meeting arranged and other business of importance discussed. The opening missionary meeting, Sunday afternoon, was a grand success. Mrs. Rosa Johnson, president presided at each meeting and gave an enthusiastic address, Sunday afternoon. Dr. Chas, Bundy, P. E., and wife attended the board meeting and rendered excellent service. Mrs. Johnson left, Wednesday, for Sandusky, Fremont and other northern Ohio points. The copy of the Common Pleas court "Journal Entry," April 18, 1913, furnished The Gazette by Mrs. Jessie R. Cowan, 719 E.105th. St., former Mrs. Jessie R. Chinn, reads as follows: "The court finds that the said allegations of non-support and gross neglect contained in the answer and cross-petition (of Mrs. Chinn) are true, and that the said defendant ( Mrs. Chinn, now Mrs. Cowan) is entitled to the divorce from said plaintiff (Clarence Chinn). It is agreed, that the adultery, and it is requested," etc., Mrs. Chinn was given household furniture and utensils, the custody of their child, Thelma, and Mr. Chinn was also ordered to pay her attorney. The "Journal Entry" also states plainly that the court found untrue the allegations in Mr. Chinn's petition affecting Mrs. Chinn's character, etc. So it will be seen that Rev. B. W. Paxton, rector of St. Andrews' Episcopal church, contrary to his Church's rules, as we understand them, married Mr. Chinn and the former was a divorced man and the court had wiped out the adultery charge from Mr. Chinn's petition against his wife, now Mrs. Cowan—Ady. SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS (Continued From Page 1) Abraham Lincoln has been more vital to the liberty and happiness of the 10,000,000 of colored citizens than is the present campaign for the election of Charles Evans Hughes for President, and a Republican Congress. Four years ago a considerable number of the race helped elect a Democratic President. This was done under fair promises of just treatment, "not grudgingly given but in generous fashion." The result has shown the experiment to have been the utmost political folly and race-suicide, and the result has been that the candidate cannot be trusted to deal fairly with our race in this country. The votes of the men of color for the Democratic candidates for President were obtained by fine phrases and false pretenses. No sooner had the Democratic Administration come into power than Mr. Wilson and his advisors entered upon a policy to eliminate all colored citizens from representation in the Federal Government. The offices of Assistant Attorney General, Rep. Richard Nixon, Treasury, Auditor of the Navy, Minister to Haiti, Collectorships of Internal Revenue in New York, Florida and Hawaii were vacated and filled by white Democrats. There were no "deserving colored Democrats" to be found in the country. Not only did the Administration proceed to demote and in eliminate the Negro from the Civil Service of the United States by removing it from the service, but also to make impossible further appointments by requiring the race of the applicant to be shown by his photograph. The reason assigned by the Administration for its policies has been that "Southern people would not stand for Presidential appointments of Negroes to office" and "that segregation was for the benefit of humanity." The President was "too proud" to "fight" Mexico but did not hesitate to conquer the Black Republics of Haiti and Santo Domingo, and has practically established protectorates over them. There was one policy of international justice for Mexico and another one toward the Negro Republics to the South of us. The President has been called the "enslaved men and women of Mexico," but has found no words of sympathy for the colored citizens of America. "The New Freedom" does not include the Negro. "Humanity," for which the President has expressed such great love, does not include the colored race. The President said in a notable address that "the man who seeks to divide man from man, group from group, and interest from interest is striking at the very heart of America. No man has done so much since the Nation into groups, and to eliminate the colored race as a representative group of Americans as has the President himself. Colored men, we must arise! Those who vote and those entitled to vote must strike for their liberties. This is a campaign for the restoration of the rights, privileges and immunities that we have heretofore enjoyed under the Constitution of the National Government. Four years more of President Wilson will mean our complete elimination from American politics. We submit that the man who is ready to die for his country at Carrizal is fit to serve his country at Washington; and that the man who is fit to be buried in the National memorial at Arlington is fit to serve his country in the Capitol of the Nation. The Republican candidate for President, Charles Evans Hughes, has shown himself to be a man of highest character and of absolute sincerity in his devotion to the cause of liberty, justice and humanity, and when he is elected President of the United States we may confidently expect from him a square deal and complete protection in all our sacred rights as citizens, and the full enjoyment of the opportunities to which we are justly entitled, under the Constitution and Laws of our Country. SIGNED— Charles W. Anderson of New York, Fred R. Moore of New York, William Oscar Payne of New York, Andrew F. Stevens of Pennsylvania, W. Justin Carter of Pennsylvania, Charles A. Cottrill of Ohio, Charles A. Cottrill of Ohio, William P. Dabney of Ohio, William H. Lewis of Massachusetts, W. C. Matthes of Massachusetts, Richard M. Bolden of New York, Junius M. Green of New York, Gilchrist Stewart of New York, Harry G. Tulliver of Connecticut, Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon of Maryland, Harry S. Cummings of Maryland, Charles Colburn of Delaware, Philin Waters of West Virginia. Whitfield McKinley of District of Columbia. Cambridge James A. Cobb of District of Columbia Charles Pieckett of District of Columbia R. R. Church, Jr., of Tennessee, J. C. Napier of Tennessee, A. A. Felding of Tennessee, Henry Lincoln Johnson of Georgia, Perry W. Howard of Mississippi, Joseph E. Lee of Florida. "Heart of City Lunch Room 720 W. Frankfort Ave. Between West 6th and West 9th Sts. BEST HOME COOKING QUICK SERVICE T. E. BLAIR, Prop. LEGAL NOTICE. The Wyoming Land and Credit Co., a corporation, whose principal place of business is Laramie, Wyoming, is hereby notified that E. O. S. Brown has filed his petition in Case No. 152,106 in the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, against the above named defendant and sets forth therein that he is the owner in fee simple and in the possession of the following described premises: Situated in the village of West Park, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, and known as being sub-lot No. 20 in the Scott Hall-Cheekton township, Section No. 1. Sald sub-lot No. 20 has a frontage of 40 ft. on the north side of Wainfeet St., and extends back of equal width. — feet. That the storesaid defendant claims an ownership or some interest in the above described property adverse to the said plaintiff but that he has none in reality. The prayer of the said petition is that the claims of said defendant may be adjudged null and void; that plaintiff's title to said premises may be quieted and for such other and further relief as may be just and equitable, said defendant is required to answer said petition on or about Dec. 9, 1916, or judgment will be taken against him. E. O. S. Brown, by Carver & Thompson, Attorneys. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. Do not leave notes, letters, items for the paper, etc., at the editor's home. Send or bring them to The Gazette office, and call THERE when you wish to see him, please. THE Limited Restaurant 3854 Central Ave. WALKER & BURROWS, Proprietors Regular Meals and Short Orders Try Our Special Sunday Dinners STEAKS A SPECIALTY Central 2477 K. Phone, Prospect 441-J. 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THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, St. Paul St., BOSTON, MASS. 52 ISSUES A YEAR CUT THIS OUT and send it (or the name of this paper) with $2.00 for The Companion for 1917, and we will send you FREE ALL the remaining pages of THE COMPANION for 1916. FREE THE COMPANION HOME CAL- ENDAR for 1917. THEN The Fifty-Two Weekly Issues of THE COMPANION for 1917. BOX 754 ATLANTA, GA. 100 AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Doctor Woodson, in his book, "The Education of the Negro Prior to 1801," tantalizes with constant references to people and events of which the reader would like to be more fully informed. Rev Josiah Henson, for example, is mentioned only twice, and then in a most casual way; as an exemplar of the "ante-bellum" thinking Negro he deserves a liberal allowance of space. Although he lived until 1881, "Father" Henson, as he was called, was born in the eighteenth century, probably June 15, 1787. This pure-blooded Negro, native of Maryland, was brought up in slavery and supplied a model for Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom. As a young man he接 to his fellow slaves, and once took his master's "people" over into Kentucky, to prevent their being attached by the planter's creditors. He had a master named St. Clare, whose young daughter probably suggested the "little" Eva of the story. Henson had paid $500 toward the price of his freedom, but was taken to New Orleans to be sold by his master's son. The white man being stricken with fever, the black man nursed him and took him back home. Finally Josiah escaped; and he and his wife and children made their way cross-country through swamps and all to Cincinnati, and at last got to Canada. "Father" Henson was prominent in a colored community there. In 1842 or so he learned and write. He met Mrs. Stowe and told his story to her. In 1858 he published his autobiography, with an introduction by Mrs. Stowe. In 1850, 1852 and 1876 went to England, lecturing and preaching, and, as the books of reference note with pious care, he was entertained at Windsor castle by Queen Victoria. Henson may be read with more entertainment and not a bit less profit than Woodson. Of the colonization movement the author writes more freely and more connectedly than of other parts of the history. The idea of segregation or colonization was of early origin and found footing both North and South. In 1779 Jefferson was a member of a committee appointed by the state legislature that reported a plan providing for the instruction of slaves in agriculture and the handicrafts to prepare them for liberation and "colonization under the supervision of the home government until they could take care of themselves." Most Southerners conditioned their theoretical concession of the Negro's right to education with the practical assertion that when educated he should be separated from his fellows. Some who had scruples against compulsory expatriation to Africa favored colonization in "some part of the United States," which meant anything west of the Alleghanies.—New York Sun. A few earnest Negro-music students have studied the man—so broad, genial and human—carefully and thoroughly. Some Negroes have real musical accomplishments. Harry T. Burleigh, a pupil of Dovrak, is bartone solost at St. George's church, New York city, sings in the choir of the Jewish temple, Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, and is musical editor at Ricordi's. Mr. Burleigh's songs are published by Ricker Co. G. Schirmer, the leading publisher of America, and Presser of Philadelphia. Nathaniel Dett, a very young man, recently from Oberlin School of Music, and now director at Hampton, has in his developed "Listen to the Lams," published by Schirmer, proved his right Better housing conditions and the establishment of an open-air school for Negro children will be two of the principal endowers of the St. Louis Tuberculosis society this winter. This was decided at a meeting of the board of directors. A survey has been made showing the death rate of Negroes from consumption in St. Louis to be four to one white person in proportion to the population. Mrs. E. A. De Wolf, who originated open-air school work in St. Louis in 1000, is head of the committee for the establishment of the fresh-air institution. Dr. S. T. Lipszitz is the physician in charge. Boston's newest post office, the Back Bay postal station in Huntington avenue, opposite Symphony hall, is fast nearing completion. In architecture the new building is a replica of the Wall street branch of the New York post office. Tests have shown that the best sound deadening partitions for buildings are those made of two walls of tile with an air space between. Adelina Patti made her debut in Santiago de Cuba, and thence in the summer of 1850, she made her first appearance in New York, at Castle Garden, and created a furore in America. In a costly watch made for exhibition there is a wheel that makes a revolution but once in four years, operating a dial which shows the years, months and days. A machine has been invented for re-making typewriter and adding machine ribbons. To enable a fisherman to get some rest a bracket to be clamped to the side of a boat or any convenient ledge to hold his pole has been invented, a portion of it also acting as a brake on the reel. Oil obtained from seeds of Brazilian rubber trees has been found an acceptable substitute for linseed oil by British paint makers. To sow seeds in geometrical figures a perforated roller has been patented, through holes in which the seeds drop. to be taken seriously by his musical public. Carl Diton, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, a student for two years in Germany, now teacher in Atlanta, Ga., is a thorough master of the science of music. Melville Charlton, both because of temperament and technique, is considered as ranking with the first organists of New York city. Last, but greater than all of these, I must name a comedian, not a musician, George W. Walker, the late lamented partner of Bert Williams. His has been the greatest influence in the development of modern Negro music. At twenty-eight he could not read a note and could hardly write his name, yet day and night he talked Negro music to his people, urged and compelled his writers to give something characteristic. Each year he wanted bigger and better things. He engaged the best Negro voices in the United States, and their success in ensemble singing was as great in London, Paris and Berlin as in New York, Boston and Chicago. Dvorsk would have been proud to know such a man. In all reverence—Dvorsk—George Walker. They had high ideals and they showed the way. Perhaps in the vast hereafter, these two men may meet. The rough, uncouth, but genial Bohemian master; the uneducated but highly-polished, ebon-hued African, with the gleaming ivory mouth. Do you doubt that with one impulse their hands will join and the mastiff-like smile of the Bohemian will match the lazy grin of the American Zulu, as they both whisper the one word—"brother"—7-New York Sun. Music brought forth from a large choir under modern chanter methods did not appeal to R. H. Boyd, an aged delegate of Nashville, Tennessee. Sunday night at a mass meeting of Negroes attending the national Baptist convention at Kansas City. The song under protest was an old southern religious plantation melody. "That's not the way my mammy used to sing it down in the cotton fields of Mississippi," declared Boyd, interrupting the chanter. He then drilled the chorus and audience in the ancient song with a hearty accompaniment of amens from the older members of the audience. Convention hall, the largest auditorium in the city, was the scene of continued mass meetings Sunday for the various branches of the convention. A Sunday school meeting in the morning drew 2,000 delegates. The evening service was in charge of Dr. W. S. Ellington of Nashville, Tenn., and Dr. E. H. McDaniel of Chicao. Fernald O. Everett of Anburn, Me., has discovered a gold mine on his farm in East Poland. He recently had samples from a ledge on the farm assayed by the state assayer at Orono, and it yielded from $5 to $10 in gold to the ton of ore. The makeup of the ledge, a combination of feldspar, quartz and lava, makes it difficult to work. A Kansas City electrician claims to have perfected electrochemical apparatus for producing gasoline from kerosene and natural gas at a fraction of its present cost. Experiments on the Philippine island of Mindanao seem to indicate that the finest qualities of rubber can be produced there with profit. In the town of Belgrade, Me., live Mr. and Mrs. Warren P. Cummings. Mr. Cummings was eighty-eight February 24 this year, and Mrs. Cummings was eighty-six February 25. They settled on the farm where they now live when they were married, 68 years ago. Mr. Cummings still takes his goods to market two or three times a week. The considerable demand for antimony during the last year has stimulated the development of certain Alaska deposits of that metal, from which ore to the value of about $74,000 was mined and shipped during 1915, according to a report published by the United States geological survey. A government chemist in Hawaii has discovered a method for neutralizing the harmful action of manganese upon pineapples grown on land impregnated with that mineral. The Thames carries to the sea an average of 1,865,903 cubic feet of sediment a year. A machine has been invented for chopping out young cotton plants at the same time the crop is being cultivated, work that heretofore has been done by hand at much expense of time and labor. The motor of the automobile which carries it operates a new machine which bores four holes into the ground at once for posts or other purposes. During the first half of last year more than $22,000,000 worth of diamonds were produced in South Africa. Fan brakes, to displace the air beneath a car and that retard its motion and also to keep the hub brakes cool, have been fitted to some automobiles used on mountainous portions of Switzerland. An internal combustion locomotive of German invention that uses crude oil for fuel frequently attains a speed of 60 miles an hour. The manufacture of the Missouri corcob pipe represents an industry of $500,000 a year. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1916 (Continued From Page 1) qualifications of age and residence required in Section 18 shall be entitled to register, if he be: FIRST. A person who, prior to the adoption of this Constitution, served in time of war in the Army or Navy of the United States, or of any State of the United States or of the Confederate States; or SECOND. A son of any such person. Southern and Northern Votes Compared. Take, for instance, the presidential election of 1912, and let us compare South Carolina and Massachusetts, two hereditary friends. To choose her eighteen electors Massachusetts cast 488,156 votes; South Carolina cast only 50,348 votes, but for those she cast Mr. Hughes' Words Him Better to Vote Mr. Wilson "There seems no escape elusion that to hold the even possibility for his subject would be but to the Fifteenth Amendment not the self-excelling too Oklahoma and Georgia Grandfather Clauses In 1907 OKLAHOMA adopted this qualification: No person shall be registered as an elector of this State or be allowed to vote in any election herein unless he shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution of Oklahoma; but no person who was on January 1, 1907, or at any time prior to the election, was vested in a four government, or who at any time resided in some foreign nation and no linear descendant of any such person shall be denied the right to register and vote because of his inability to so read and write sections of such Constitution. In 1900 GEORGIA by an amendment to her Constitution required that: An elector must have served in land or naval forces of the United States or the Confederate States of the State of Virginia, fully descended FROM SOMEONE WHO DID SO SERVE. Such must register before January 1, 1915. Mcant Hereditary Privilege—Unre- 5. SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS LEGISLATION. Thus the six clauses came upon the statute books of the leading Southern States. Several things must be noted about this legislation: FIRST—It establishes for the first time in any modern government pretending to be ruled by the people the principle of HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE. There cannot be the slightest doubt that bad any one but the Negro been the immediate victim of this step that the nation would have been convulsed from end to end. This shows that if of any species of deception or falsehood a grave injury to the cause of democracy can be hidden behind the excuse of racial hatred; it can be carried through practically without protest. In the SECOND place—from the peculiar nature of the legislation—it is practically impossible to repeal it. The Supreme Court decided in June, 1915, that the Oklahoma Grandfather Clause was unconstitutional, but at that time there were thousands of white men exercising the right to vote for life in a registration already closed in LOUISIANA, NORTH, CAROLINA, ALABAMA, VIRGINIA, OKLAHOMA and GEORGIA. How are these men to be stricken from the rolls? They cannot be. Moreover, Louisiana, after her registration of white filibiterates under the Grandfather Clause had closed, actually had the impudence to amend her Constitution and allow a further period for registration under the Clause. Understanding Clause and White Primary Disfranchise Colored. 6. EFFECT OF "GRANDFATHER CLAUSES." The result of this legislation does not show itself upon the Negro race. By legal and extra-llegal methods outside the working of the Grandfather · Clause the Negro has been and is disfranchised in the States South of Mason and Dixon line. In Louisiana, for instance, where there are over 60,000 male Negroes of voting age WHO CAN READ AND WRITE, less than 2,000 of them are registered voters, and that proportion probably holds true in most of these Southern States. This has been accomplished by legal methods which permit the local registrar to register almost any white man under the "understanding" clause and to refuse registration to almost any Negro, no matter how well educated he may be. Also, beyond these there is the extralegal method of the WHITE PRIMARY-that is, an arrangement of primary laws by which a single party dominates the State. Its primary election becomes the real election, and into the hands of the party managers the States put the power to determine who shall vote in the primary. This is, of course, outrageously illegal and some time will be declared so by the courts, but at present it is a method of disfranchising even the registered Negro voters. The effect, then, of the Grandfather Clause is, as I said, not upon the Negro voter. He has been disfranchised by other methods. The full effect of the Grandfather Clause falls upon the Southern white man, and it falls with crushing force. Effect of Grandfather Clauses Is on White South. Consider our present political campaign: we hear of Mr. Hughes speaking in California, Wisconsin, Maine and even in Tennessee; we hear of Mr. Wilson speaking in New Jersey, Illinois and Kansas and we might go to Kentucky, but we do not even conceive of these or any other candidates speaking in Louisiana, Mississippi in Georgia. There is no presidential campaign in those States; there can be no presidential campaign. They are as much outside Republican government in this nation as though they were separated by a Chinese wall; they are a province outside the United States; they are not a part of our political machinery and yet in spite of the fact that they are thus silently but definitely and irrevocably outlawed they have a voice in the administration of our government far more potent than that of any other section of the Union. Comparisons showing this have often been made, but it will not perhaps be out of place to remind you of a few comparisons based upon the election of 1914: Bones and Teeth. The existence in infants and older children of simple malnutrition of the bones, a common malady in young farm animals, is not well established; and the prevalent imperfections of children's teeth are not certainly related to deficiencies in the diet, but seem rather to be caused by lack of exercise (due to the fine milling of our cereals and the chewing of our meat with a sausage mill), the increasing use of sugar (a readily fermentable, acid-producing food) and increasing use of fruits, the organic acids of which soften the tooth enamel. Southern and Northern Votes Compared. Take, for instance, the presidential election of 1912, and let us compare South Carolina and Massachusetts, two hereditary friends. To choose her eighteen electors Massachusetts cast 488,156 votes; South Carolina cast only 50,348 votes, but for those she sent nine electors to the electoral college. This means that the South Carolinian cast five votes to the New Englander's one. To this we may add the following facts: Georgia and New Jersey each had 5 electors. Georgia cast 121,532 votes for hers. New Jersey cast 452,534 votes for hers. Louisiana, casting 70,372 votes, had 10 electors; Rhode Island, casting 77,624 votes, had 5 electors; Oregon, casting 137,040 votes, had 5 electors. Kansas and Mississippi each had 10 electors. Kansas cast 305,444 votes for hers; Mississippi cast 64,319 votes for hers. Alabama and Minnesota each had 12 electors. Alabama cast 117,888 votes for hers; Minnesota cast 334,219 votes for hers. New York cast 1,587,983 votes for her 45 electors. Georgia (14), South Carolina (9), Alabama (12), and Mississippi (10), cast 354,087 votes for their 45 electors. Each white voter in the South casts from 3 to 13 votes to each Northern man's one vote. Congress has just convened with the South still in the saddle, still leaders on the floor and heading 21 important committees. Why? Because in the congressional election of 1914 equal representation under the laws was a force in the South. Let us compare, for instance, Alabama and Minnesota. Each elected ten members of the United States House of Representatives. The votes cast in the elections were as follows: ALABAMA Total Vote First district—Grey elected.....4,651 Second district—Dent elected.....7,470 Third district—Stegal elected.....7,561 Fourth district—Blackmorner elected.....5,441 Fifth district—Heffin elected.....8,160 Sixth district—Oliver elected.....9,758 Seventh district—Burnett elected.....16,781 Eighth district—Almon elected.....6,314 Ninth district—Huddleston elected.....8,072 (One Congressman at large.) MINNESOTA. Total Vote First district—Anderson elected ..... 24,180 Second district—Elsworth elected ..... 24,180 Third district—Davis elected ..... 26,823 Fourth district—Van Doke elected ..... 20,758 Fifth district—Smith elected ..... 20,825 Sixth district—Lindsey elected ..... 20,825 Seventh district—Volstead elected ..... 28,815 Eighth district—Miller elected ..... 28,069 Ninth district—Stewerson elected ..... 31,625 Tenth district—Seahall elected ..... 32,630 322,811 Mississippi and Kansas make an even more striking comparison: MISSISSIPPI KANSAS First district—Anthony 61,127 Second district—Taggart 68,123 Third district—Campbell 74,203 Fourth district—Doolittle 50,821 Hartford district—Hartford 61,125 Sixth district—Connell 88,199 Seventh district—Shouse 68,861 Eighth district—Ayres 46,185 It would seem that each Mississippi voter (and only white men vote in Mississippi) cast thirteen votes where a Kansas voter cast one. We ask in all candor how long is Republican government going to endure under such circumstances? How long is this, the most burning question of American democracy, going to be "let alone" by patriotic Americans? South Exercising Greater Power Then Before the Civil War 7. THE FUTURE. This is a situation that calls for action. I am not one of those who is unwilling to grant many things of accomplishment to the present Democratic government. I believe in their banking legislation, in their tariff legislation and in their child labor law, but against all these I place the one fact that a man like President Wilson, cognizant as he must be as a Southerner, of the fortunate, contradictory, absolutely impossible political situation in the Southern United States, has nevertheless remained silent and indeed broken his own promises rather than to interfere. The present political arrangement in the South cannot endure. A change must come. The South today by counting the Negro population as a basis of representation and disfranchising it at the polls exercises greater political power in a greater nation than it did before the war. The question, therefore, before us is shall this be changed by quiet, reasonable thought along the lines of democratic development as shown by world history of the last hundred years, or are we going to continue to treat the so-called Negro problem in silence, allow a president like Mr. Wilson to dodge it, keep it out of the campaign, keep it out of the newspapers and magazines and simply ride on heedlessly until we have smashed Republican government on this great rock? Argue strongly as you will that there were insuperable difficulties in making the Negro a voter in 1865, there can be no such question today. There is absolutely no doubt that tens of thousands of Colored people can meet any reasonable qualification for voting, such as could or ought to be applied to the white population of the United States. Let then such qualifications be made; let them be applied with absolute fairness to all American citizens; do away with discrimination as to race and sex and then let us start forward to a real democracy and not a sham democracy. I am free to say that for leadership in this direction I see much more hope in Mr. Hughes than I do in the Democratic Party under Mr. Wilson, and I base this on these words of Mr. Hughes written when he was a Justice of our highest court in the decision which declared the outrageous "Grandfather" legislation wild and void. Wanted the Materials. "Will you start up that fireless cooker, Norah?" said the lady of the house. "Sure I will, mum," replied the green girl. "Where's the matches?" -Yonk Mr. Hughes' Words Which Make Him Better to Vote For Than Mr. Wilson: "There seems no escape from the conclusion that to hold that there was even possibility for dispute on the subject would be but to declare that the Fifteenth Amendment not only had not the self-excusing power which it has been recognized to have from the beginning, but that its provisions were wholly imperative because susceptible of being rendered inapplicable by mere forms of expression embodying no exercise of judgment and resting upon no discernible reason other than the purpose to disregard the prohibitions of the amendment by creating a standard of voting which on its face was in substance but a revitalization of the conditions which, when they prevailed in the past, had been destroyed by the self-operative force of the amendment. * * * It is true it contains no express words of an exclusion, from the standard which it establishes, of any persons on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude prohibited by the Fifteenth Amendment, but the standard itself inherently brings that result to existence, since it be based purely on a period of time before the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment and makes that period the controlling and dominant test of the right of suffrage. "We are unable to discover how, unless the probabilities of the Fifteenth Amendment were considered, the slightest reason was afforded for basing the classification upon a period of time prior to the Fifteenth Amendment. Certainly it cannot be said that there was any peculiar necromancy in the time named which engendered attributes affecting the qualification to vote which would not exist at another and different period, unless the Fifteenth Amendment was in view." Not Easily Excited. There was an explosion of a gas tank in a local factory that caused consternation among the employees without injuring any or doing great damage. In the wild rush to escape it was not noticed that one of the old clerks picked up his desk and carried it out through a passage and set it down in the rear of the lot. When quiet was restored and the desk was discovered outside the wonder grew as it took three mea the better part of the afternoon to get the desk back into the building. And the man who performed the feat had the effrontery to declare that he had got accustomed to those explosions and they did not disturb him greatly any more. Man's Heaviest Burden. It is what a man has to do for a living that pails on him. If it were to become the custom for ball teams to pay rooters, it would not be long before there would be a rooters' union that would demand a reduction of innings, more wages and a pint of suds per capita between innings.—Houston Post. Novel Eskimo Belief The Eskimos have an original superstition. They say that one day Aniga, the moon, chased his sister, the sun, in wrath. Just as he was about to catch her, however, she turned round and threw a great handful of ice and snow and then escaped him, and of that sob he bears the traces to this day. Song That Attracted Stella. Five-year-old Stella was fond of going to Sunday school and she liked especially the singing. "Did they sing any pretty songs at Sunday school?" asked grandma of the little girl upon her return home. "Only one," replied the youngster. "It was something about Greenland's ice cream mountains."—Musical America. Rube Was Homesick Conductor. "Come out of it, mister. You got to change here—this car goes to the barn." Rube (seeing New York and hair asleep) "Go right ahead, sonny! I ain't red a hog or milked a cow in over a week, b'gosh. I'll help you do the chores this evenin."— Puck. Had Been Unfortunate Old Gentleman (engaging new chaufeur)—"I suppose I can v*ite to your last employer for your character?" Chaufeur—"I am sorry to say, sir, each of the last two gentlemen I have been with died in my service."—Punch. Not a Soothing Explanation. "What do you think of his nerve?" exclaimed the old man, who was notoriously tricky in business. "He called me a barraced robber" "Oh, well," replied the man who knew him. "probably in his excitement he didn't notice your mustache." Home of the Black Opal What are known as black opals, among the most costly of jewels, are found in only one place in the world, a small tract of land in New South Wales. Possible to Be Too Close. A man may hang on to money so closely that he gets about the same pleasure from its possession that a slot machine does. All Things Work Together for Good The merely moral is not the only good! Righteousness is not the only virtue! Love is not all, justice is no all, charity, patience, humility, theses are not all. It may be that in some future consummation—in the kingdom of heaven if one will—there is place for the fruits of wickedness, sober that they were begotten of power. In deed he who has lived out his three score years has discovered in his own progressing selfhood, that life's whole does not lie in gladness or in sorrow only, or in duty only, or in reaching or renouncing the heart's desire, or in accomplishing the beheld achievement of the mind; but perhaps in all of these, and in much besides that seems unrelated to any good, but rather connected with palpable lapses—Henry Oshborn Taylor, in Atlantic SMART GARMENTS FOR AFTERNOON BRIDGE PARTY. Also Well Fitted for the Street—Side Flare Feature of Skirt—Bodice of Plain and Embroidered Net. For wear at an informal afternoon bridge or tea a dressy silk skirt and smart blouse of dress or net is liked by the average woman. With a smart light-weight topcoat, a woman so gowned is properly outfitted for the street, and she may go directly from a morning's shopping and luncheon downtown to her informal social function and be perfectly comfortable and happy. The sketch illustrates an exceptionally smart skirt, employing satin for its makeup, with hand embroidery in self color as the only trimming touch. This skirt features the side flare, which is commended in fall skirts, the rather low flaring drapery giving a graceful hip line. For this skirt, which measures at the bottom three yards, 5½ yards of satin, 36 inches wide, will be required. The skirt is, of course, unlined. Lightness of weight is a characteristic of all present-day apparel. The bodice is of plain and embroidered net. The sleeves, as will be noted, are plain. 1 Dressy Skirt and Blouse for Early Fall. puff of plain net, and the high-back collar is also of plain net. This bodice has one of the flat, plastron fronts, which are considerably approved and becoming to a rather slender figure. The season's waists have a decided tendency to conceal their fastening, wherever this is possible, and in the waist shown, while the underneath lining of thin net or silk fastens frankly in the center front, the waist proper has an underarm and shoulder closing effected by snap fasteners. To make this blouse, $1\%$ yards of embroidered net and a half yard of plain iet will be required. The sleeves are, of course, unlined, and for the bodice lining one yard of net or silk 36 inches wide will be required. Blouses in colors to match the suits with which they are worn are to be extremely fashionable this fall and winter, but waists in pastel shades continue popular also. Gray, pale blue, maize, wistaria, etc., in sheer crepes, crepe de chine and like material are popular. Frilled blouses will also continue to be fashionable through the coming season. These front or side frills are so graceful and so generally becoming that women refuse to allow their fashion to wane. Hail the Russian Blouse. A veritable boon for short-waisted figures are the Russian blouse dresses, all in one from neck to hip and made of soft googreette crepe, chiffon cloth or crepe de chine. The straight Russian blouse falls over a skirt of the same material and a long girdle, also of the soft fabrie and weighted with tassels or passencene balls, holds the blouse in against the figure below the natural waistline. In very pale gray, pink or white chiffon, these dresses are particularly graceful and Sweater Remains in Vogue. It seems from present indications that women are to go through the winter in a sweater, just as they have gone so garbed through the summer. Of course, it is quite improbable that they shall wear their sweaters, and their attendant sport accessories, to winter tees and matinees, as they have worn them to summer garden parties and morning concerts. But, nevertheless, women shall all count to their credit as many sweaters as they can afford, fortified by the knowledge that they shall be able to wear them all threadbare before spring. Quite naturally, the sweater will be most worn for outdoor sports. And that skating is to be the chief of outdoor sports seems quite probable. Skating by no means outlived its appeal to fashion last winter. So it is quite likely that we shall see some charming skating costumes consisting of sweater, with, perhaps, velvet cap and skirt to match. One such costume already designed shows a heavy bright blue knitted sweater. charming. They are often trimmed with satin in softseitone; a band at the foot of the skirt, lightly faced with some resilient stiffening to give the soft skirt a little flare and with collar, cuffs and groups of tiny satin buttons. Have you noticed how many of the newcoats and tailor-mades are trimmed with stitching—rows and rows of stitching in straight lines and all sorts of convolutions in curves and geometric figures? White stitching on black, or black on white, is accorded favor. The stitching is done with silk, so that it shows up handsomely in lustrous lines on a fabric of wool, silk or mohair weave. Even on linen tailleurs the stitching is done with silk thread to insure the desirable richness and brilliance of effect. Handy for Feeding the Baby. Suspending a baby's bottle on a sort of troley is the idea on which Emil Sylvester Kolb of Philadelphia has received a patent. He would attach a rod to the cot, with sleeves silidably mounted on the rod, rings on the sleeves and a cord looped through the rings, with a wire basket to hold the bottle at just the right height and angle, hanging to the cord. This would obviate the necessity of holding the bottle to the baby's mouth or of laying it on a pillow off which it easily rolls. It will always be just where the baby can get it. Boat-Shaped Veil. The new boat-shaped vell is at its best when draped over a rather small hat, also elongated in shape. The vell is thrown over the hat so that the point in front falls well below the bust and the sides and back of the vell drape over the sides and back of the hat. These vells are made of fine hexagonal mesh with scattered designs in dots and hand-run sprays or vines. A favorite style in the boat-shaped vell is in black mesh, very fine, with black velvet stars all around the edge as a border, and a well-scattered diamond-shaped device in chenille dots, disclosing a delicate flower spray. Health and Good Looks. In the very fit of the nightgown health and looks are concerned, all authorities agreeing that the sleeping garment must be loose so that the flesh may be lapped with the air it needs. They say, in fact, that even a close-fibered material is bad for the night dress, while the tight neck and wrist bands, are the height of folly, as in sleep it is of supreme importance that the skin of the body should have the chance to breathe that the clothes have denied it all day. Broadcloth Coat. Coat of maroon broadcloth lined with satin of the same shade. The cardinal cape is an unusual feature that will be the style this fall. The walking stick for women is rapidly finding favor with milady. The coat conforms with the latest fashion decree from Paris, which calls for rather slim hips. with collar and cuffs of black angora, a black and blue striped velvetleen, with tan gloves and boots. Under the sweater either a blue silk blouse or a blue velvet one is to be worn, according to the temperature. Black Persian lamb collar and muff are in addition for very cold weather. Embroideries. Among the newest ideas is the use of embroidered metal designs on colored silk net. Delicate silver patterns appear on blue, and gold is used on soft, tawny taupe, or on a rich sea green. Designs in Chinese colors, such as orange, blue and jade green, are embroidered on net flouncings, bands and edgings. Traveler's Wash Line. A useful little article for the traveler who desires to wash a few light articles is a wash line packed in a folding case of cretonne. There are eight clothes pins, each about three inches high, and a thin cord.