The Gazette
Saturday, April 22, 1922
Cleveland, Ohio
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What Our People Are Doing Each Week - Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc.
CHRICHISVILLE——The Sunday school rendered an excellent program. Easter, at St. Johns A. M. E. church. Many out-of-town visitors present.——Mr. and Mrs. Massey Meid and son. Paul of Walright spent Easter here.——Mr. and Mrs. A. Smith and sons. Raymond and William, motored from Philadelphia road and spent Sunday here.——Mr. Wm. Christian of Connotton spent Easter with his daughter, Mrs. F. A. Truman.——Mr. and Mrs. George Miller and Mrs. Charles Christian of Cadiz visited Miss Annie Olmstead who is seriously ill.——Miss Blanche Smith 'spent Easter with her aunt at New Philadelphia.——Mrs. Virginia 'Pierson is visiting her grandmother.——Mrs. Grace Brandon spent the week-end with her father. Mr. Charles Jordan, at Connotton who is quite ill.
WILMINGTON.—The Easter programs wondered at the A. M. E. and Second Baptist churches, Sunday evening, were greatly enjoyed by large audiences. Too much praise cannot be given Mrs. Minnie Taylor and Mrs. M. G. Duggar for faithful and efficient services in the Sunday school.—The Cantata at the Baptist church, Monday evening, was a success.—Mrs. W. L. Tolliver trained, about 20 persons whose work reflected great credit on their leader. The church was well filled with representatives of the best people of the city. Wilmington has some fine talent: Miss Hattie Crockett's mother, who was taken ill suddenly, Monday, is better at this writing.—Mr. Martin, a student of Wilberforce, attended the cantata.
CADIZ.—Mrs. Rebecca Redman an aged resident, was buried from her son Jesse's. Sunday. Rev. W. P. Meyers officiating. Mr and Mrs. Virgil Blanchard and Arthur Redman of Pittsburgh were called here by the death of their grandmother.—Simpson M. E. church, Rev. A. L. Holland, pastor, had a "Tag Day," Saturday. He leaves for conference. Monday.—Easter at St. James A. M. E. church drew a large attendance. Collection. $35.70—Thomas Mason died. Wednesday; and was buried. Saturday, Rev. W. H. Lucas officiating, assisted by Rev. W. P. Meyers. He was a substantial, upright man and wielded a splendid influence. Many relatives and friends mourn his death. Mrs. Kate Smith of E. Liverpool and Wesley Mason of Monnesson, Pa., were called here by his death.—P. T. Brown of E. Liverpool visited his family, Sunday.
MAMIE SMITH
And Her New Jazz Revue to Play Here at the Temple Theater, Next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings.
A real treat is promised all who love jazz music, when the famous Manie Smith and her big aggregation of Afro-American syncopators, singers, and comedians visit this city on the first three nights of next week. This company has gained fame throughout
the United States as the cleanest and snuppies race attraction on tour. No pains have been spared to make this revue one which will please all classes of amusements-goers. Beside Mamie Smith, the greatest Afro-American "woman phonograph-star" in the land, the company comprises favorite entertainers of the race from the largest vaudeville circuits and the ranks of musical comedy, one of the most popular features perhaps being the original "Mamie Smith Jazz Hounds," whose name stands for the last word in jazz music. Many novel features have been introduced in the show this season and all the latest hits from "Jazz-land" will be included on the program here. This company has been playing to crowded houses everywhere and indications point to a capacity audience. at The Temple
HILLSBORO)—Miss Alice Bennett is here, visiting her mother.—Miss Rachel Williams entertained Mrs. Charles Hardister at dinner. Sunday.—The Baptist S. S. rendered a good Easter program Sunday evening.—Mr. Joe Williams of Sardinia is here visiting.—The entertainment and reception at K. D. hall. Friday evening, was grand. The music was excellent.—Mr. John Vaughn is visiting in Toledo and White. House.—Mrs. Mabel Jamison of Columbus visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams, Sr. Easter.—Misses Marguerite and Martha Jones are here visiting relatives.—Mrs. Belle and Miss Ella Hardin. Donald Highwarden, Dorsa Minor spent Saturday to Monday in Columbus.—G. L. Holland and Miss Marie Coler convalescent. Mr. Robert Williams of the Dayton Soldiers homie is visiting his brother, S. E. Williams and family. He has not been here for sixteen years. Miss Bessie Craig of Columbus spent Easier with her parents. The remains of Private Ots Taylor, who died over-season, arrived Friday and were interred, Saturday noon. The services at the grave were conducted by Rev. Burr and comrades of the deceased.—Rev. Stephenson of Columbus, was here with his congregation (Wesleyann). Sunday. The S. S. rendered a tuneful Easter cantata. Mrs. Ida Brown and spin of Detroit are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Nelson.—Miss Ada Williams is ill. Mr. Peyton, of Va. is visiting his cousin, Mr. Clifford Lamb.—Mrs. Mary McGinnis of Dayton is here visiting relatives.—Mrs. Williams and Roger, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams and daughter of Fairfax were guests of Mr. and Mr. (C. M. Gragston, Sunday.
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Theater on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. There is one thing all must say for Manager Maurice Bolasny, of the Temple Theater and that is he certainly brings to Cleveland the very best of talent and he surely has made no mistake in this instance. All roads lead to The Temple Theater, the first of next week.
MOTOR-DRIVEN SHIPS A SUCCESS.
The experiments conducted by the Shipping Board with motor driven ships have proved a huge success. The motorship, William Penn, recently completed a cruise of 197 days, cogering about 28,500 miles. She left New York for a trip around the world, touching at Yokohama and other Far Eastern Marsellas, London Rotterdam, and Liverpool. Despite the fact that many steam driven vessels have been laid up for months because they could not be profitably operated, the William Penn has shown a fair return to both owners and operators. It is said that her voyage developed a saving of about $70,000 in fuel, the elimination of all repair expenses, the release of much extra cargo space needed in other vessels for boilers and coal, and a great saving in labor in the engine room. After she returned to New York her machinery was found to be in perfect condition, and she could have put to sea again immediately after filling her fuel tanks. The Board is entitled to much credit for conducting such a conclusive demonstration of the merits of the new type of ship propulsion. The Government is going to retire from the shipping business in the very near future, and will not reap the benefits that are sure to follow the successful experiment. but private ship operators will take advantage of the lessons, much to the profit of themselves and the American merchant marine.
The annual memorial services of Cuyahoga lodge, Elks, will be held, April 30. Geo. Wibecan of Brooklyn; N. Y., G. E. R. will be the speaker of the day. More will be said of this.
WHY NOT A GOVERNOR?
Brazil Has a President of Color—Dr. Lane Given "Segregated Work"—"Muzzle Not the Ox"
Special to Cincinnati (O.) Enquirer, Columbus, O. O., April 10. It developed today that an incident in connection with the appointment of Dr. J. Aubrey Lane, of Cincinnati, to be a state veterinarian, in charge of state institution herds had tended to inflame the race issue in connection with the Republican primaries. The issue was called up—when Ohio Afro-Americans demanded that former Representative Harry Clay Smith, of Cleveland, become a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Governorship. There his supporters have issued numerous denials of the charge that he was brought into the race to defeat the Secretry of State, Harvey C. Smith, Back of the candidacy of Editor Smith is a question of recognition. Plans to mobilize this by the appointment of Dr. Lane have been upset by the fact that his selection produced a crisis in the Veterinary Bureau of the Department of Agriculture it was not passed until Director L. J. Taber gave "segregated work" to Dr. Lane. Other veterinarians are reported to have asserted that they would not work with him and resignations were threatened. His Barring Reported.
He is reported to have been lingered from the branch of St. Lawrence dealing with inspection of certified birds because the veterinarians usually are entertained at the houses of the dairymen whose birds are inspected, and from the State Serum Farm at Reynoldsburg. The place at state institutions was finally formed. As the story of the incident has leaked out, Ohio Afro-American Republicans have not been pleased by the treatment accorded to Dr. Lane.
Muzzle Not the Ox.
Editor Columbus Ohio State Journal:
Several weeks ago your news column carried a press dispatch from Cleveland which stated that Harry Chase Smith, editor of a newspaper, was considering the advisability of encouraging himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio. The suggestion seemed so novel and surprising that the item was carried in a "boy" on your first page under the capitation of Look Who Is Here! "Permit me to ask why an Afro-American should not aspire to the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio or another Republican state. The Republican party certainly owes everything to the Afro-American vote. It ridden into power on his back before the civil war and has been astrode his neck ever since. In the more than 40 years that have been a close observer of political matters the Republicans have elected their candidate for president but three times—1872, 1904 and 1920—when they could have won without the aid of the Afro-American vote and the same limitation applies to Ohio and many of the other Republican states which have been held in the Republican column year after year solely by this vote.
The good book warns us: "Muzzle not the ox that treads out the corn" and reminds us that "the laborer is worthy his hire," so why shouldn't that great party of "moral ideas" be willing to give the Afro-American his share of the "spoils?"
Why not an Afro-American governor nor for Ohio and any other Republican state? Brazil has a colored man as President of that republic. Why not an Afro-American in any position to which he may aspire and which he has the ability to fill Echo answers "Why not?"
KORA F. BRIGGS.
Columbus, April 13.
Possibly Our Richest Girl.
Kansas City, Mo.—Although she is only 20, Sarah Rector has handled the more than $750,000 worth of property she owns with such astuteness that an application for the appointment of a guardian for her has been denied. Sarah's wealth was derived from her allotment in the great Cushing oil fields, one of the richest fields in Oklahoma.
A Veteran Educator Speaks.
AKRON, O.-Prof. J. Silas Harris, president of our National Educational Congress, and known as one of our foremost educators in this country, addressed a large audience at the Second Baptist church here, Monday evening, under auspices of the Knight Republican club of Summit county, Mayor D. C. Rybolt delivered the address of welcome. Following his introduction by B. H. Andrews, president of the club, Prot. Harris pleaded for a higher standard of education for our people in America, stressing the need for greater educational work among us.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Harrison McKoil Smith—Died April
21st, 1921—Only Sleeping.
In the light of God we see you.
Each night we lay down.
We hear your voice as when on earth,
And so each smile and frown.
When we are called to join you,
This world and we are thru.
We pray the Lord to let us go.
As peaceful and brave as you.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Chris, Mason, of South Woodland Bld., are the owners of a fine 1922 model seven-passenger Paige car, purchased recently.
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A Clarion Call to Southern White Women to Stop the Debauching of Colored Women in That Section.
Jersey City, N. J. — In a statement issued by the Committee on Race Relations, located at Nashville, Tenn., it is shown that some progress in bringing the South around to a decent respect for law and order is being made. However, this committee does not go far enough. Besides there is no misunderstanding between the races in the South. Each race has determined upon a course of action without regard to law. The white race for years decreed that our race should not share with in the administration of the laws of the South. Every kind of device known to the genius of political demagogues was adopted to exclude Negroes from governmental functions. The rape of the Negro's franchise is the crime of crimes which the South is not willing to atone for by ordering it. All attempts to have the relations of the races good in the South while political white demagogues are permitted to gather around them the hoodlums and trash of the white race and fire them with hatred against our race, must legitimately fall. The white ladies of Texas and other southern states can correct this evil by refusing them to office to office and by composing such laws as bar Negroes from the franchise and the juries of the courts. The trouble is this committee on Race Relations is attempting to have peace between the races with a status quo (to conditions) and it will never come. It may be argued that Negroes, as such, are not competent to use the franchise. The answer is, they never will be so long as force and brute strength they are kept out of it. Every citizen has the right of franchise until it is forged through crime. One no race in America has a right to arrogate the laws without regard to other races among them. The Negro is unprepared in the South, but it is not his fault. The school system was framed for that purpose—to keep him ignorant of government. It the loudly announced policy of "white supremacy and Negro inferiority" is another reason for his unpreparedness. Neither is the white South, as such, the most capable of trouble there between the races. Any whather's nominated in the primary, is elected in November. The Negroes are kept out of this primary. The sentiment of the South is solidly against any political party coming into or ruling it. Save the Democratic party which by its laws and customs are directly responsible for lynching, ku kluxism, mob violence and a traumat of civils. This, too, in face of the fact that the laws are in the hands of, white Democratic office holders. The South has no confidence in itself. Its courts are not considered competent because whites know they can be made do anything with a black man a mob desires and if they do so with black people they will do so with white people if a necessity in their judgment calls for it. Ladies of the South, restore the confidence of the people in the courts! To do so
Doings of the Race
George Thompson was lynched near Indianapolis, Ind., recently.
The American Church Institute Board of N. Y. City (white) has appropriated $102,000 for our Okolona, Miss. Industrial school.
Charles Gilpin will go to England in June to play "Emperor Jones." It is harmful to the race (the play).
Matt. Henson, who was the only one to accompany Commander Robert M. Pearce (deceased) to the North Pole is old and in need of help, says an exchange.
John A. Baker, a former Justice of the Peace, has been appointed postmaster of Buxton, Iowa, a small town populated almost wholly by miners of the race.
In a scenario contest, with an entry list of 20,000 authors who submitted "over 27,000 stories," Helen K. Perry, a Chicago school teacher, has been rated 30th, winning a cash prize of $500.
Editor Harry C. Smith, the brilliant editor of The Gazette, will make the race for governor of Ohio, this fall. There are 125,000 Colored voters in that state - Tulsa (Okla.) Sun.
We appeal to the race and all friends of the race to stop using the word "Negro" and instead use "Colored." "African" or "Mro-American." N. Y. News Amen!
For the first time in the history of Kansas City, M.C., six African Americans sat in the Democratic convention, held recently. A. V. Mulholland, G. O. Smith, Mrs. Hattie O. Brown, Mrs. Hannah Hudson, John Bibbs and James Tyler.
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E OF CRIMES!
Franchisement Says
L. Byrd
White Women to Stop the
Women in That Section.
make your courts a citadel of justice. The South is unprepared to be just, at least the white South. Treat the colored man as a man with the same rights and privileges that you wish for yourselves and children. Colored people will never take kindly to the South so long as this bar-
barric condition exists. Colored people do not believe your religion, have no confidence in your justice andabor your narrowness and prejudice.Negroes are not saints. There are many bad ones but the marvel is that we have so few of them. You have begun well, now have the hardship to go to public schools and state problem to the South. The problem is a white one, and not black. With all your opportunities and control of the law a state of barbarism exists in the South. We are glad to see white women recognizing the hypocrisy of their men. This cry of "separateness of the races" is all rot, for white men are consisting with colored women at every opportunity and the colored women they are consorting with are the vilest of the race and in many cases the scourf of the population." The increase in mutat- to children, recognized by the white women of Texas, is due directly to the immorality of white men. There is no pure white race in the South, for in too many cases white men are supporting a colored wife and her children in one quarter of the town and a white wife and her children in another. These wretches are often the first to help lynch a colored man who may be suspected of molesting a white woman. If white men delight in mating with colored women why should not white women delight in the mating with colored men? Decency and self-respect demand that neither of these should exist but that both races should grow side by side with the highest regard and respect for their women. One standard of virtue for men and women and that standard for all races!
(Rev.) Wm. A. Byrd.
President-elect Nilo Pecamha of Brazil was born in Petropolis, Brazil, April 7, 1868. His mother was a Brazilian "Negro" and his father an Italian. He entered public life in 1898, when he was elected mayor of Nithony. He was elected to the Brazilian parliament in 1900 and in 1902 he was elected governor of the state of Rio de Janiero. In 1904, he was elected president on the Federalist ticket, by a majority of 200,000. He became premier of Brazil on February 23, 1917, and will be inaugurated on May 1, 1922.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
William H. Van Dusen, former well known local business man died, recently, at Rome, N. Y. After retiring from business here, over a year ago, he returned to his old home in New York state. He leaves a widow and an adopted daughter, Harriette Van Dusen Barre, a school teacher in Brooklyn, N. Y., to mourn his demise. He was a member of St. Paul's E. church, Erie, Pa. The patients were taken there for interment. The widow and daughter have the sympathy of a host of friends here. The Uptown Globe (white) carried an excellent outfit and wore up of the deceased.
Dr. W. E. Richie is a high school and McHarry Medical College graduate and was a practitioner in Chicago for the years before coming to Cleveland about a year and a half ago. He is also a registered pharmacist and was with the Brown Drug Co., E. 28th St. and Central Ave., for a year. Dr. Richie has opened dental-parlors, equipped with all the modern appliances, at 2258 E. 55th St., over the Royal Inn
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THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and
has ihe largest bona fide circulation
double that of any newspaper in the
interest of Afro-Americans, publish-
ed in the state of Ohio, and compar
ison with any will immediately es-
tablich ite rank ag one of the NEWS
IFST AND BEST in the country.
10,000,000 Afro-Americans.
350.000 in Ohio.
35,000 in Cleveland.
; APRIL 22, 1922
Luis Borno, a prominent Hai-
tien attorney and member of the
present President’s cabinet, has
been elected President of the Re-
public of Haiti by a unanimous
vote, in succession ‘to President
Sudre D’Artiguénave, whose term
expires, next month, The latter
was a8 putty in the hands of the
American occupation officers in
Haiti. It is sincerely hoped that
Borno is of a different. mold.
Jobu A. -Murpliy; “Sr.,/ dean of
the Afro-American press and editor
of the Baltimore (M0) Afro
American, dled recently. Editor
Murphy was one of our ablest and
most successful edltors, and. for
many years, a personal friend of
the editor of The Gazette. His
death is a great loss to bur peo-
ple, He was one of our most Toya
leaders — firm, conservative and
‘successful.
al a
U. 8. Senator Atlee Pomerene
writes Atty. Chester K. aillespio of
this city that he has not yet decided
to vote for the Dyer Anti-Lynching
bin and that "there are grave con
stitutions) questions involved tthe
Billa it passed the (National) House
of Repretontaives.” This, our Tea
ers ‘will remember, The Gazette
called attention to repeatedly, long
before the bill was drawn.
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CHILDS NOT THE ONLY ONE.
Cleveland, O., April 13, '22
Editor Chicago Whip, Dear Con-
frere:—Anent the statement, in
‘your Issue of April 8, 722, relative
to the recent retirement of Lieuten-
ant Childs of the Chicago police
department, permit me to say that
he is NOT “the only man of color
in the United States to attain the
rank of lieutenant of poliee.”
Fifteen or twenty years ago,
Cleveland, Ohio, had an Afro-Amer-
fean Meutenant of police, in the
person of John ‘Anderson, who
“wore the uniform,” was frequently
“In command [of stations, tune-
Mloned actively as a police Meuten-
ant" and performed ALL the duties
of the position until placed upon
the retired (pension) list, some
years ago, because of twenty-five
years of splendid service in the
police department of Cleveland, 0.
Anderson was a patrolman (po-
Nieman), sergeant and finally a
Veutenant. He was rated one of
the very best officers on the force
and no attention was pald to his
color (mulatto) or race connec-
tion,
Mundreds of “white” patroimen
(policemen) served under him dur-
ing his service as a sergeant and
lieutenant and I have yet to meet
one of them that did not refer to
him as one of the best officers
ever to serve in the Cleveland,
Ohio, police department.
Wishing the Chicago Whip con-
tinued success and desiring to be
kindly remembered to Business
Manager Mac Neal, T am
TIMOR the the sacs,
Harry 0. Smith.
Me Pe eas
CIVIL, SERVICE AND THE BASIC
IDEA,
First Assistant’ Postmaster Gon-
eral John H. Bartlett, formerly
head of the Civil Service Comm's-
sion, has given his views on the
intelligent interpretation of the civil
service law, He believes the law
was intended to protect the routine
employees of the government, who
should not change from one ad-
ministration to the other. “But,”
declares Mr. Bartlott, /“executive
and administration officials whom
the President must rely upon to
carry out bis policies must change,
fe order to carry into full effect
the expressed will of the people
in a popular government.” The
position taken by Mr. Bartlett can-
not be successfully assailed. If it
is wrong, then our system of rep-
resentative government is wrong
also. It would be meaningless for
the people to elect a President of
one political party if his executive
acts are to be rendered impotent
by a horde of officials of another
party with whom the law might
compel him to surround himself.
When the voters of the country put
& Republican President in the White
House they mean that they want
the Government conducted accord-
ing to Republican policies for the
next four years. Congress never
enacted the civil service law or any
other law with the intention that
it should be so constructed as to
defeat that basic idea of our gov-
ernment. Of course the Democrats
are going to cry “spoils” every time
an official of their faith is turned
out of office to make way for one
in full sympathy with the Presi-
dent's {deas, but such demonstra-
tions should ‘have no more effect on
the carrying out of Republican pol-
feles than the cries of a spoiled
child who 1s foreibly removed from
the pantry after Alling himself with
jam,
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DRAWING A COLOR LINE!
The Gazette deeply regrets to
announce that a separate parish to
minister to Catholics of color has
been established -here in Cleveland
by “the new local bishop, Rt. Rev.
Joseph Schrembs. Rev, Thomas
McKenney, assistant priest in St.
Philomene's church, 1. Cleveland,
who lived in the South, years ago,
for a year has been assigned, on
his own &pectal request, by the bishop
to assomble local colored Catholics
and to minister to them. Location
and name of the new church bave
not been decided. The new parish
starts out with a good financial
backing, Of course! AN SUCH
backward (segregation) moves do
Establishment of the new mission
was put under way-at a meeting in
St. Bridget’s parish hall, last week
Tuesday night. Bishop Schrembs
made the principal address. It is
2 most-unfortunate step, one that
will lower the great Catholic
chureh in the estimation of our
best people in Cleveland and thru-
out the country, Little wonder
then that Atty, and Mrs. Wm. R.
Green, and other leading Afro-
American Catholies of this city,
carried their protest. against the
establishing of the “new parish,”
}0 Bishop Shrembs who, we under-
stand, at once called attention to
vackward people of the race who
came to Cleveland from the South
in recent years and who had asked
for a separate parish. Even that
Jdoes not justify the good bishop,
who but recently came to Cleveland
(from Toledo), in 40 affronting all
of our people of this community in
‘any such way and, too, without
even consulting any of them, The
statement that other Churches have
made the same great mistake is not
justification for the great Catholic
Church's doing anything of the
kind. One of its proudest boasts
to our people thruout the country,
for many pears, has been that it
was free from any such harmful
segregation here in the North. How
the mighty have fallen here in
Cleveland! Lord, have mercy!
IS IT OF ANY USE TO CON-
TEND FOR RIGHTS?
Colored Americans are the
only race, responsible members
of which are in favor of sub-
mitting to discrimination on
the claim that their race “al-
ways will be discriminated
against.” The Jews are still
contending, after over 1900
years of universal discrimina-
tion, and are winmng even so-
cial ‘rights today. The Irish at
home have contended for 700
years and are winning because
they will die rather than sub-
mit, The race that says it's of
no use to resist, downs itself
and the world then will say,
“N ‘are not worthy of
equal sights; ‘they are by na-
ture without self-respect and
have no ‘guts.’” The world re-
spects only those who resent
and resist proscriptions for
race.
Let us be worthy of the abo-
Utionists, worthy ef our own
fathers who have ded in every
war to vindiente the title of
their race to equal liberty, and
forever resist denial of richts
in our native land, however
Jong race diserimn ation may
continue. To submit is to de-
serve contempt. — Boston
(Mass.) Guardian.
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PROBAbL: CANDIDACY), ,
Of Editor Harry C. Smith Now Feared! |...
Bepublicon ‘Leadesa Alarmed ‘That Olevelander May ven
Seek the Governorship, Ae
» Unquestionably the Cleveland
Plain Dealer and the Cincinnati En-
quirer are the two leading daily
newspapers in the state of Ohio.
‘That is why The Gazette has gone to
considerable trouble aud some ex-
pense’ to secure’ and publish, 1iber-
ally, excerpts from them whlch treat
of tie matter of an Afro-American
candidate for the Republican nom-
ination for Governor of Ohio. Care-
fu) roading of these excerpts will
stow that what they and leading
politicians of the state regarded
Nightly, ton days ago, has developed
into something more than.a “Joke”
and is really a very serlous matter
for them, as they now freely admit.
All this, particularly, after they had
read The Gazette's leading editorial
{hour tant aque, © Therecare’ “otter
eauons for this, yo. t-te more
than the rule that the state primary
and election Snmediately. following
& Presidential election show a woe-
ful shrlikage in the vote of both
paiva, Np one expoils @ iarne
vole, thf year. Tadeed, ine Re
publican outlook is anything but
good and all keiow it. whether they
admit “it or not ‘There ts a large
field of Republican candidates tor
the Republican nomination tor Gor-
prnor agi whether the umber
Pall oe sear a doesn one wo
eeures the great honbe, with the
posible exception of the Afro:Amer-
foun (candidate, iil win. with Tess
than 45.000 votes! fue number. that
renominatad Goy.. Frank 1B. Willis,
four yents ago, The Afrn-Amor
can candidate, with, over _ 125,000
votes of his: Own ‘people, and--maany
friendly white: Republican. votes. to
ldraytrom/lougbt <gaily taipell more
than’ 45,000 voles. in’ view of the
fact that with omy about three
weeks, two years ago, in whieh to
campaign he polled 61,081 -votes as
aeandidate for a sekber oftce, that
ot secretary ot state of Ohio, and in
fled of but three cundidates, The
larKer the fleld’ of candidates, ‘the
easier it will be for our. candidate
to win tho nomination.’ n-th many
Inseks to’ come, tetore the idaysot
the primary eleétion, there ts plenty
of time for our eandidate to reach
every section of the state In person
thru the mails and otherwise, and
make a thoro campatgn. Something
impossible two yeats ago. What say
you “brothers and sisters,” shall the
battle be fought? WE THINK IT
OUGHT TO BE bat want to hear
from more of you.
By James W. Faulkner,
(Special to Cincinnati Enquirer)
* Columbus, O., Apr. 5.—Congress-
man Knight's fight for the Repub-
lian nomination 'for Governor is a
vehicle for attack on the party, ac-
cording to “organization men,”
while Editor Harry C. Smith’s entry
Is cause of more worry because in-
dependence (on the part of the col-
pred vote) is feared by them.
Nor is there any disguising of
the concern eaused by the announce-
ment of Raitor Harry C. Smith, of
Cleveland, relative to becoming the
candidate of the 125.000 Negro vot-
ers of the state. Smith specifically
repudiates the innuendo of the sup-
Porters of the Secretary of State,
Barvey C. Smith, of Zanesville, that
he proposed coting into the’ race
merely to aid and abet the defeat of
that state offteiat,
Big Vote Polled By Negro,
Tn doing 56 Mr. Smith invites at-
tention to the fact that the same
charge was made against him two
years ago, and that he was forced
to appeal to the legal authorities
(Ohio Supreme Court) in order to
obtain a place upon the Republican
primary election ballot, At that
time he recelved 61,081 votes, or
‘nore than 15,000 more than ’the
total vote cast for Willis in 1918,
as candidate for renomination for
the Governorship.
Faitor Smith says that “Ohio Re-
publicans seem to be determined to.
continue to ignore (until near elec-
‘ion day) the more. than 125,000
Afro-American voters in this state.”
Apparently they seem to think, he
says, that the Nerrs is entitied to
no consideration until after all. the
nominations are made from among
white aspirants, and the demand for
hinok yotes becomes adite. Two
Yours ago, asserts Mr. Smith, he
tried his best, through standing as
a candidate for the <ocrstnreshtp Of
vate, to make Ohio Republicans see
the tmportonce of treatine the Nowra |
voters differently. It nov ts elev,
he continues. that the cane mnst be:
enme active in its awn hovatt and
Mop writine for the other. fellow
rolimtarily to etre tq ® that to
which it ts entitied ent nut of
whinh tt hae ben Sant whhout any
enenvsarine outlank
to wht @ ‘race
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over the prospect of his entrance.
Not that it is thought that he wil
be nominated, is this concern being
manifested, but because of the com-
plications it will cause, especially in
Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Ak-
ron and Toledo,
In Cincinnati it is taken for
gtanted that the Republican organ-
ination will be able to deliver the
Negro vote in more or less bulk
fashion to the primary election tick-
et it selects, but elsewhere in Ohio,
as in Greene County, Cleveland and
in Lorain, this will be a problem for
white leaders.—Cincinnati Enquirer
Ry W. C. Howells
(Special to Cleveland: Plain Dealer)
Columbus, 0., Apr, 7.—Not a few
Republican leaders here are frankly
alarmed over what appears to be the
grave possibility that Harry C. Smith,
Cleveland, editor of The Gazette,
may enter the race for the governor-
ship nomination, In addition to this
tangle, further complications - ap-
peared today when John H. Arnold,
Columbus, former lieutenant gover-
nor, told friends he would seek the
Republican senatorial — nomination.
Against him, in all probability, will
be Congressman Simeon D.. Fess,
Yellow Springs. and possibly Atty.
Wm. H. Boyd of Cleveland. The
possible Editor Smith gubernatorial
candidacy was not taken seriously
until receipt here of editorfal utter-
ances in the Cleveland man's pub-
Vication (The Gazette) which yirtu-
ally promised, if assurances of sup-
port continued to he received, he
would enter
“The only question is, do our peo-
ple of Ohio want such representa-
tion (on the ticket) at this time,”
the statement declares,
“If they do. let them continue to
say so and the writer knows a man
‘game enough’ to make the try—
one who carries no one’s ring in
his nose and one in whom the Afro-
American people of Ohio have ¢on-
fidence, Wiat do you think about
it, reader? —Ask your friends and
acquaintinees of color, partien-
larly.” ‘
‘The editorial says that hope of
suceers for the Cleveland man’s
cause is far from beyond reason. It
points out that four years ago Sena-
tor Frank B. Willis, receiving a to-
tal of 45,000 votes at the primary,
Was nominated; and that, two years
ago, Editor Smith, then a candidate
for the nomination of secretary of
state, received “61,081 votes in a
field of three. At ‘that time it was
charged that Mr, Smith was put In
the race by political enemies of Har-
vey C. Sinittt, secretary of state,
who were determined to defeat him
by confusing the voters with names
that were so similar. ‘The secretary
of state, charging “collusion and
conspiracy,”” ordered the Cleveland
man's name removed from the bal-
lot, but in this he was overruled by
the state supreme court. The present
situation is,now further complicated
because the secretary of state again
finds himself confronted with the
possibility of having to make an-
other fight—this time for the guber-
natorial nomination—with the same
handicap. Carmi A, ‘Thompson,
Cleveland, and the secretary of state
are regarded as the two leading con-
tenders for the place at the head of
the ticket, thus there may be
three Cleveland men in the fight:
Col. ‘Thompson, Senator Arthur H.
Day and Hon, Harry C. Smith,
(Special to Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Columbus, 0., April 9.—“We do
not know that’ Judge Clevenger of
Wilmington will consent to. become
a candidate, but ff he does, he
ought to sweep this section of the
state. “Northern Ohio, hogging the
ring, has ceased to be a joke.”
The Nogro issue again is called up
prominently in the proposed candt-
dacy of Hon.- Harry Clay Smith,
Cleveland editor and former State
Representative, and his candidacy
likewise has ceased to be a Joke
among Republicans. ‘The Negro
solidarity ts being shaken. It is
understood well that the Afro-
Americans have not been pleased
with the American treatment of
their kindred in Haiti and Santo
Domingo. Still tess do they rel-
ish the manner in which the white
Republicans have traded on the
solid bloc vote that they have de
livered year after year.
Policy, of 1920. Recalled,
Moreover, the desertion of five ot
the six Negro candidates tor the
General Assembly by the Republic-
an party in the 1920 election was
a blow to their Sense of justice
that remains with them, For this
reason the proposal of the Hon.
Harry C. Smith to enter the race
has ied to more of a situation than
appears upon the surface. Friends
ot Secretary of State Harvey
Smith are more or less apprehen-
sive as to what the presence on
the ballot of another name like
his would do to his chances. On
he other hand. there are reports
Judge Smith's backers are inclined
to. blame Colonel ‘Thompson's
‘riends for the entrance of the
Negro, and threats of retaliation
have been heard.
NEW FORM OF MUSIC.
J. Q. Dixon Invents New Method of
Publishing Sheet Music
J. Quallan Dixon, head of the
Sovereign Pub. Co., Buffalo, N. Y.,
is the inventor of a new sheet music.
It is known as Dixon's Double Al-
bum Sheet, has one fold and contains
two complete songs. It is said that
this new type of music requires less
paper, staye lines, plates and en-
graving. The double sheets carry in-
structions by which they each can
be made individual pieces.
‘The name of songs on said sheet
will be seen in classified advertise-
ments, We wish him success as it
will make, all music much more rea-
sonable in price.
All persons in the city who have
knowledge of illegal voting in ward
11 on election day, Nov. 8 '21, or
residents of that ward whose ballots
were not promptly deposited in the
ballot-box or were opened and read,
‘or who were not permitted to vote.
or who were in any manner shown
discourtesy, or who saw any irregu-
larities at the polls on Nov. 8, 21, are
requested to notify or come to The
Gazette office, ‘phone Cherry 1259.
215 Blackstone Bldg., 8. W., cor. W.
‘Third St. and Frankfort Ave. just as
soon as possible between the hours of
3 and 6:80 p.m. and their complaints
will be heard and properly attended
he
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CORRESPONDENTS WANTED.
“The Old Reliable” Gazette desire=
an active agent and correspondent in
every city an town in Ohio and
neighboring sthtes having a number
of Afro-Ameriean residents. Only
little time on Fridays or Saturday:
is required.
We are especially desirous of hear-
ing from persons in the following
‘named cities: Toledo, Springfield.
Dayton, Piqua, Lima, 0., and othe
places, particularly in Ohio, where we
have none.
pattie 12 the eitor of The Gazette
Blackstone building, Cleveland, 0.
‘and terms will be sent promptly. Our
readers will oblige us greatly by
sending at once the addresses of per
sons is, the cities named, and others
in the state, to whom we can write
relative to the matter.
“HUMAN NATURE'S
FOULEST BLOT.”
My ear is pained
My soul is sick with every day's
report
| Of wrong and outrage, with
| which the earth is filled.
| There is no flesh in man’s ob-
durate heart,
It does not feel for man: the
natural bond
| Of brothernwod is severed as
; the flax
, That falls asunder at the touch
of fire. :
; He finds his fellow guilty of
| Not colored like his own: and
having power
| To enforce the wrong, for such
a worthy cause
| Dooms and devotes him as his
HIRD preve USP oe
- Thus man devotes his brother,
} and destroys:
| Tis human nature's broadest
; " foulest btot.
—Cowper.
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the world, with Ignorant, In-
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the hearts of friends grow
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FOR GOVERNOR!
Our People Thruout Ohio Organizing
To Promote
» "he Candidacy of One of Their Number for the
Republican Nomination—Determined to
Force Recognition.
How Long, Lard, O! How Long!
Will the South’s Inhuman Barbarities
Continue?
America’s Christianity and Humanity is Being Ques-
tidned—We Must Fight for Our Rights!
A GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE
Four years ago, Frank B. Willis
was nominated, by the Republicans
of Olio as their candidate for Gov-
ernor, with a vote of 45,000. Two
years ago, the editor of The Gazette,
with but three weeks in which to
stand as a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for Secretary
of State, received 61,081 votes. Any
one of the many Republicans seck-
ing the nomination, this year, that
receives’ 45,000 votes will be the
nominee just as was true four years
ago. ‘The foregoing are facts well
known. ‘There are more than 125,-
000 Afro-American voters in this
state. Tho leaders of our party
seem determingd to go on in the
same old way, ignoring our people's
right to representation on the state
ticket. ‘Therefore, it 1s up to us to
get It in any honorable way we can
and there is such a way. One-third
of the total Afro-American vote of
Oblo east for a member of the race
at the approaching primary election
‘will make that person the Republi-
can nominee for Governor, Can
that many votes be secured by one
of the race? Well, we received
more than 50,000 of them, two
years ago, and it can by done again.
‘The only question fs, do our people
of Ohio want such representation at
this time? If they do, tet them con-
tinue to say so and the writer
knows a MAN ‘game enough” to,
make the try, one who carries no
one’s “‘ring in his’nose” and one in
whom the Afro-American people of
Ohio have confidence. They said so
over 50,000 strong, two’ years ago.
‘What do you think about it, reader?
‘Ask your friends and acquaintances
of color, particularly.
(Special to Cincinnati Enquirer)
Cleveland, Ohio, March 29.—Ohio
Afro-American Republicans are con-
ueting meetings for the purpose of
organizing to support one of their
number for the Republican nomina-
tion for Governor, this fall. There
are more than 125,000 Negro yoters
in the state, more than 10,000 of
whom are in Cleveland.
‘The fact that Harry C. Smith, for
nearly 40 years editor and publisher
of The Cleveland Gazette, the organ
of the Afro-American yoters of the
state, and for six years a member
of the Ohlo Assembly from Cleve-
Tand, received 61,081 votes as a
candidate for the nomination for
Secretary ‘of State in the fall of
1920, ‘naturally inclines his people
to look to him as their choice for
Governor.
Mr, Smith has received many tet-
ters in the last ten days from men
and women of his race in Cincin-
nat; Springfield, Dayton, Columbus,
Xenia, Toledo, Akron, Youngstown,
Sandusky, Zanesville’ and smaller
places, calling upon him to stand as
a candidate. When asked what his
intentions were, he replied that he
would announce his decision later.
Mr. Sniith was recognized through-
out the country during the two
Harding campaigns for Ohio's in-
dorsement—tor the Republican nom-
ination and for the Presidency—as
the national Harding leader of his
race. He also led those in the state
with his paper, in the support they
gave to the candidacies of Frank B.
Willis for the: United States Senate
and Attorney-General Harry M.
Daughertf for delegate-at-large to
the last Republican National Conven-
tion.” His ability as a campaign
speaker 1s well-known in the state,
particularly in Cleveland and north-
ern Ohio. Editor Smith's feature-
accomplishments, as a member of
the Ohio Assembly, in the estimation
of his people, are Ohio's Civil Rights
Taw and Ohio's Mob Violence or “An-
thignebiag law, thé latter the basis
(Special to The Gazette.)
Jersey City, N. J.—The civilized
world is now’ turning its attention
from Ireland” to the southern
states of this country, People in
‘every country on the globe are
barbarities to continue in the
south. ‘The administration of the
Watching to. find out how long
America will permit. the inhuman
laws of the south bas become a
stench in the nostrils of the world.
‘America’s attempt to lead civiliza-
of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill re-
cently passed in the U. 8. House of
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Cleveland, ©., April 3.—Having
reference to the statement from Co-
lumbus, published in The Enquirer,
last Thursday, that “friends of Judge
Harvey C. Smith,” Secretary of
iState, and one of the candidates for
the Republican nomination for gov-
ernor of Ohio, “say they expect to
ascertain what set of managers are
responsible for the promotion’ of
Editor Harry C. Smith’s candidacy
for the Republican nomination for
‘governor, Mr. Smith said to an En-
quirer representative today that he
and his people only are responsible
for his candidacy as was proven to
be the case two years ago in the
State Supreme Court when he forced
Secretary of State Smith, as State
Supervisor of Elections, to place his
name upon the primary ballots after
he had ordered It to be left off of
them. In further explanation of his
probable candidacy, Editor Smith
called attension to. the following,
the leading editorial in his paper.
‘The Cleveland Gazette, of Saturday,
April 1, 1922:
A Gubernatorial Candidate
Ohio Republicans seem —deter-
mined to continue (until near elec-
tion day) ignoring the’ more than
125,000 Afro-Ametican voters in
this state. They do not seem to
think, even yet (in the face of their
experience of two years ago), that
our. people are entitled to any other
consideration except that which
comes after they have nominated
all thelr candidates (white) for the
various. offices being sought and
“the colored brother" is needed to
help elect them. Two years ago,
the editor of ‘The Gazette, with the
backing of our people of this state,
tried his best, as a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Sec-
retary of State, to make Ohio Re-
publicans see the importance of
treating us differently and, as a re-
ult, according us greater considera-
tion and some recognition. Those
61,081 votes we’ received, two years
ago, was a Warning which, it seems,
has not been taken seriously enough.
Four years ago, the Hon. Frank
B. Willis was nominated as the Re-
publican candidate for governor of
Ohio, receiving but 45,000 votes.
Two years ago the editor of The
Gazette received 61,081, votes as a
Republican candidate for Secretary
of State; over 15,000 more votes
than Mr. Willis received in 1918,
Remember there are more than
125,000 Afro-American voters in
Ohio and then draw your own con-
clusions. S
Since it {= perfectly clear to all
of our thoughtful that we must be-
come active in our own behalf, at a
proper time, and stop waiting on
the “other fellow” to voluntarily
give us what we have so long been
entitled to und kept out of without
‘any encouraging outlook, don't you
thiok It about time for us to. bealn
to try to help ourselves? Remem-
‘ber! the Lord helps those who helps
themselves! We thought so, two
years ago, and are still in the same
“frame of mind.” THINK!
vHE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., APRIL 22, 1922.
the south accords us is a shame
upon theymanhood of any race, At
the present time, America is a
polyglot nation. The different con-
stituencies. of ‘our nationality are
not welded together in. a unit.
Every. group is. fighting for {ts
rights and must fight, if these
rights are gotten. Only the cow-
ard, the sluggard and the drone
among races accept anything less
than absolute fyeedom and equal-
ity. Political “connivance is one
reason why this shameful butchery
of human beings is being carried
on in the south. Then, too, deep
down in America there is the feel-
ing that this country owes our peo-
ple nothing but the position of
4 slave. All political parties shy
When onr people are mentioned.
Deliberately, all parties allow the
south {to remain a solid Inwless
group of states where it is conceded
that an Afro-American can be
treated as a white man pleases,
and no one has aught to say about
it. The south is impudent in. its
attitude, going even to the utmost
parts of the earth and secking to
ket the world to adopt its potley
of treating "the race. Come it will
and come it must, when either the
‘Afro-American’ will be treated as
L man or the south be again de-
laged ‘with human blood. The
ime has passed when any man has
the right to use the law to crush
another. ‘The church, as now
managed by the south, is coward:
ly and compromising. At the bot-
tom of the south's - lawlessness
stands the church with the policy
that Afro-Americans are not_broth-
ers to be treated as such. Sexrega-
tion, ostracism and clannishness
find their most fertile field in. the
churches of the south, The eduea
Vion of the south given the race fs
one of servility and fear. Many
Afro-Americans who are educating
others of the race in the south are
agents of the south to preach sub-
mistion, ‘This is déne partly for
“the Joh” and partly because of the
spirit of fear and lack of manhood.
Children begin school at six, with
the express understanding that they
niust be taught that they are inferior
to white ‘children. ‘The streets of
the elty must be given to whites and
anything {in the south) a white man
desires no one of the race must con-
tend for it. This is the damnable
policy of a country of hypocrites
ind murderers. Our Teaders in the
South dare not protest loudly. | Our
clergy there accept it, If the clergy
of the south would do as did the
Clergy of Ireland, this abominable
policy would soon stop. Our men
Outside of the south object strenu-
ously to the treatment atcorded our
people because every man of the
Face there is a target for the preji-
dice and humiliation handed out by
these wretches. Any Afro-Ameri-
can. of distinction, standing and
ability, going through the south,
must receive what the vile cracker
gives him. Some of our southern
men object to northern Afro-Ameri-
cans’ denouncing this treatment, be-
cause they say it makes it harder
for them in the south. This ery of
ignominy and cowardice , will no
longer work. The souhern Afro-
American, accepting this treatment,
is very much mistaken if he thinks
those outside of the south will take
it and keep their mouths shut. It
is now time for our people in and
Out of the south to do as did Ireland
and its friends, and cause America
to cease this outrage against human
beings.
(Rev.) Wm. A. Byrd.
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Ohio’s Anti-Lynching Law
Leads the Country in Legislation
Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The
Work of a Member of The Race
—Also Ohio’s Civil Rights Law.
18 lynching”, defined
3278. “Mob” and “l ing” L.
6279, “Serious injury” defined.
6280. Damages in case of assault.
6281, Damages in-ease of Iynching.
6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching.
6282. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another.
6284. Limitations of action.
6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy.
6986, Guardian's ‘custody. ete, fees.
6287. County's right of action agaitst member of mob.
6288 County’s right of action against another county.
aoee, Nooreliel ‘from prosscotian.
Our mob-violence or anti-lynching
bill was imtroduced in the Ohio leg-
islature in 1894 and re-introduced in
1896. It took Hon. Harry C. Smith,
the editor of The Gazette, just, three
years to secure its enactment into
Section 6278. A collection of peo-
ple assembled for am unlayful pu
pose and intending to do damage or
injurv to any one, or pretending to ex-
ercise correctional power over other
persons by violence and without au-
thority of law, shall be deemed a
“mob” for the purpose of this chap-
ter. An act of violence by a mob up-
on the body of any person shall con-
stitute a “lynching” within the mean-
ing af this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.)
Section 6279. ‘The term “serious im
jury,” for ths purpose of this chap-
ter, shall include such injury as per-
manently or temporarily disables the
person receiving it from earning a
livelihood by mamual labor. (98.
161 8.)
Section 6280. A person taken front
officers of justice by a mob, and as-
saulted with whips, clubs, missiles or
in any other manner, may recover, a3
hereafter provided, a sum not to ex-
ceed one thousand dollars as damages
from the county in which the assault
is made, (98 v. 163 4.)
Section 6281. A person assaulted
and lynched by a mob may recover,
from the county in which such as-
sault is made, a sum not to exceed
five hundred dollars; or, if the in-
jury received therefrom is serious, 2
sum not exceeding one thousand dol-
lars; or, if such injury result in per-
manent disability to earn a liveli-
hood by manual labor, a sum mot to
exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v
182 B.)
Section 6282. The legal represen-
tative of p-rson dying from: injuries
received from lynching by « mob, may
recover of the county im which’ such
injury occured, a sum not to exceed
five thousand ‘dollars damages for
the family and educotior of the minor
children of such person so lynched, if
any survive him, until such children
such unlawful killing. Such sum
shall be applied to the maintenance of
are pf legal age, and then be distri-
buted to the survivors, share and
share alike, the widow receivimg an
amount equal to a child's share. If
there be no widow or minor children
surviving such decedent, such sum
shall be distributed among the next
of kin according to the laws of the
distribution of the personality of ax
intestate. Such sum so recovered
shall not be a part of the estate of
such person s0 lynched, nor be subject
to any of his liabilities. (98 v 162 6.)
Section 6283. A person suffering
death or injury from a mob attempt-
ing to lynch another person shall come
within the provisions of this chapter.
He or his legal representatives shall
have a like right of action as one pur-
posely injured or killed by such a
mob. (98 v 162 6.)
Section 6284. Action for the re-
coveries provided for in this chap-
ter must be commenced, within two
years from the date of such lynching,
gy court having original juris:
diction of an action for damages for
malicious assault. (98 v. 162 7)
missioners of a county, against which
such recovery is had, to include it with
the costs of action, in the next suc-
ceeding tax levy tor such county.
shall he a part of the judgment tn
every such case. (98 v. 1628)
Section 6285. An order to the com-
Section 6286. If the decedent so
lynched has minor children surviving
him, the fund shall be turned over to
a regularly appointed guardian.
guardian shall administer such fund
under the direction of the probate
judge, allowing not more than five.
hundred dollars for counsel fees in
the action for such recovery. (93 v.
162 9.)
Section 6287. The county, in which
a lynching occurs, may recover the
amount of a judgment and costs
against it in favor.of the legal rep-
resentatives of a person killed or ser.
iously injured by a mob from any of
the persons composing such mob. A
person present, with hostile intent, at
such Iynching shall be deemed a mem-
ber. of the mob and be liable to such
action. (98 v. 162 10.)
Section 6288. If a mob carries a
prisoner into another county, or
comes from another county to commit
violence on a prisoner brought from
such county’ for safekeeping, the
-ounty in which the lynching is com-
Sens cant aa th aeemenh ad he.
law, The Obio Supreme Court has
several times upheld the law which
has been very effective. | Only, ome
other state (illinois) in this country
has such a law and it is largely @
copy of our Ohio law. Here it is—
(ia the statutes) under the heading
7
d.
representative of victim of lynching.
ry by mob trying to lynch another.
costs in tax levy.
t member of mob.
it another county.
from which the mob came, unless
there was contributory negligence on
the part of officials of such county in
failing to protect such prisoner or dis
purse such moh. (9% v 16% 11.)
Section 6289. This chapter shall
not relieve a person concerned tn
Such lynching from prosecution {oF
homicia* or assault’ for engaging
therein, (93 ¥. 163 12.)
ae aie cee Vemma uae
Unon the request of many reader:
of ‘The Gazette we print below ty
text of Hon, Harry C. Smith's Ohio
Civil Rights law which the editor had
enacted while a member of the 71st
General Assembly, in 1894:
The General Code of Ohio:
Sec, 12940. Whoever, being the
proprietor or his employee, keeper or
manager of an inn, restaurant, eat
ing house, barber-shop, public con:
veyance by land or water, theater o7
other place of public accommodatiog
and amusement, denies to a citizen
except for reasons applicable alike
to all citizens and regardless of race
or color, the full enovment of the ac:
commodations, advantages. facilities
or privileges thereof, shall be fined not
less than fifty dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, or imprisoned
not less than thirty days nor more
than ninety days, or hotl
See. 12941. Whoever violates the
next preceding section shall also pay
not less than fifty dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars to the per-
son. aggrieved thereby to be recov
ered in any court of competent, jur-
isdiction in the county where such of
fense was committed.
This law has repeatedly been held
constitutional and good law by. the
Ohio Supreme court. ‘The trouble is
our people will not use it as often a=
they should, but expect it to do for
them what they should and must de
for themselves, under it, in the courts
Jodce Grant's Onision of the Lae,
Misled by the foolishly manufac-
tured outery for the passage of the
Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Ak-
ron Beacon Journal published an edi-
torial to which the editor of The Ga-
zette replied, calling its atfention to
the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights
law was good law and did not need
amending. The following letter from
Judge Grant, former presiding judge
of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth
District of Ohio, is self explanatory:
Akron, 0., April 25, 1919.
Hon. Harry C. Smith,
Editor The Gazette Cleveland, 0.
My Dear Sir: Observing your let-
ter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city,
4 venture to send you, under a sep.
arate cover, the Ohio Law Reporter of
Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of
the Court of Appeals in the Puritan
Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, de-
¢ided in Akron, last fall, in which a
judgment for ($500) five hundred
dollars was sustained. If the Beacon-
Journal kad known what was going on
in its own town, there would have been
no occasion for criticism, editorially.
THE LAW OF OHIO IS UNDER NO
REPROACH, nor our courts and
juries, in administering it. Not a
word was said by the Beacon-Journal
when the Forman case was reviewed.
Very truly yours,
" C. R. Grant.
Values in Business.
I believe thoroughly, as
everyone knows, in education
—in all phases of education. 1
Delieve, as well, in all the
learned and useful professions.
But somehow, I feel that the
Negro, like the rest of man-
kind, must learn to work out
more of his problems along
business lines than he has in
the past; he must learn as
others have learned, that a
great deal of the so-called race
problems can and must be
worked out at six per cent.
Dr. R. R. Moton.
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