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Our Two State Candidates! FORTY-FIRST YEAR, No. 51 M. C. L. SMITH and SHANKLIN One in Northern Ohio; the Other in Southern Ohio Their Platform-A Clarion Call to Our Voters to Organize Smith and Shanklin Clubs IN UNION 16 STRENGTH FORTY-FIRST YEAR Our SMITH and Live Candidates F Lieutenant-G One in Northern Ohio; the Their Platform—A Cla to Organize Smith Dear Friends:—The thing to do NOW, just as soon as possible, is to perfect the organization of Harry O. Smith For Governor Clubs in your city and county. There could be several of them if our men and women there so desire. We MUST have ORGANIZED support in order to secure the BEST results in this campaign for our candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. If only half of our 200,000 voters in the state of Ohio will cast their ballots for OUR candidates, it will be impossible for them to fall to secure the nomination at the primaries, August 12th, because of the large number of white Republican candidates. They will split the white vote of the state in such a way as to make it impossible for any one of them to win if only HALF OF OUR VOTERS in the state are loyal and vote for our two state candidates. There is no good reason why we should not win! Please make this clear to all you talk to because it is TRUE. We are never going to make any progress in politics until we learn the lesson of standing together and voting en masse for OUR OWN candidates. Two and four years ago they gave me a splendid vote. That same vote, with the white votes added that I am sure to get, because they have ALWAYS been given me when a candidate, will insure us the nomination at the August primaries. The thing we have to do is, to get our men and women to REGISTER and vote EIGHT at the primaries, August --- THE GAZETTE HON. HARRY C. SMITH 12th of this year. Please have the club members write their friends and acquaintances in other Ohio cities and towns, relative to the organization of clubs, and urge them to act promptly. Trusting you will take up the matter and ACT QUICKLY, I am sincerely HARRY C. SMITH'S PLATFORM. Former Representative Harry C. Smith, for forty-one years editor and proprietor of The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio, and a member of the 71st, 72d, and 74th General Assemblies of Ohio, filed June 11, 1924, as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor at the approaching primaries. Mr. Smith was one of the eight candidates, two years ago, receiving a larger vote at the primaries than two or three of them; and four years ago, as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State, polled sixty-one thousand and eighty-one votes.—Columbus (O.) Citizen Among the planks in Mr. Smith's platform are: 1. Taxation. (a) Equalize the duplicate by mandatory re-appraisement every four years... (b) Enforce the uniform rule of taxation at true value in money by placing the power and responsibility upon the State Tax Commission to direct and supervise a genuine appraisement of real estate and personal property. (c) Assist the county treasurers in the collection of the many mil- CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST, 9 1924 lions of delinquent taxes on some of their books. (d) A "pay as you go" basis for cities and counties. One-half of all taxes now collected go to meet interest charges and sinking fund obligations. No bonds for current expenses should be issued without the vote of the people. All bonds should be limited to the life of the improvement and no refunding of the debt beyond maturity. 2. Equal rights for women in appointment to executive and administrative State offices, particularly for State welfare work. Minimum wage for women workers. 3. Promote and protect the public school system, granting equal rights to all of school age, including crippled children and insuring the welfare of the faithful teachers. 4. More game, more fish, reforestation, conservation. 5. Highways. (a) Eliminate local assessments on land used exclusively for farm purposes. (b) Enact gasoline tax laws to provide funds for highway purposes. Reduce the license fees to a minimum. A citizen of Ohio traveling in gas-tax states, by which we are surrounded, helps pay for the construction and maintenance of their roads while thousands from neighboring states drive through Ohio, wear out the roads at our expense and contribute not a nickel to road repair or maintenance. 6. Strictest economy in the conduct of the various departments of the state government. (a) Elimination of unnecessary positions and expenditures. (b) Closer supervision of the latter by the state's Chief Executive. 7. The enactment of a law, on the lines of the new Louisiana law, providing severe penalties for all organizations that wear masks and robes in public. 8. Law enforcement. Signed, Harry C. Smith, Candidate for the Republican Nomination for Governor. Endorsed, Geo. W. Shanklin, Candidate for the Republican Nomination for Lieutenant-Governor. MR. GEORGE W. SHANKLIN ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since To the Support of the Candidacy of The Hon. Harry C. Smith for the Republican Nomination For Kansas City, Kan., July 29, '24. This is my hurried reply to Ohio friends asking a word for Editor Harry C. Smith. First, I shall say vote for Harry C. Smith because I witnessed him as a good son and a good brother. As a citizen of Ohio, he is first-class and cosmopolitan. Politically, he is clean. He has no oil odors; no personal slander. Why not vote for him? Before man made us partisans, God (is supposed to have) made us men. And MEN have backbones. I like that slangy answer of our doughboy in France — "I may look like a monkey to you, but I can not like a man." I enjoy the progressive idea of voting for a capable, decent, black man for anything, not because he is a Negro, but because he is not a bigot, is not a Nordic, nor Kian, nor "Kracker!" For years I have voted for white men not because they offered friendship or justice to me, but because they were white men—part of a "white supremacy" (which is gradually undoing the sublimate achievements of real white men like Summer and Frostman). I do not believe, in this land, raided, from the red men and redeemed by the black men, there should ever be "white supremacy." And no same person fears black supremacy. A vote for Editor Smith, a scholar, law-maker, business man, patriot, is proof that I am a first-class American, demanding character and not color. White race predestination is silly. Dark race proscription is unfair. The dark woman is proscribed—voted out generally by the white race. Why does the average white woman disown her darker cousins? Is she honest about sex justice? Should not sex rise above race and leave no woman beyond the pane of deceyery? "Race" does not spell virtue. Editor Harry C. Smith as governor, will defend womanhood, manhood and children of Ohio, regardless of race, color or creed. A vote for Editor Smith is SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS the only sure vote for an anti-klan governor. And that is more than you can vouch for in any other candidate, state or national. A word about— "Little Negro Leaders." Those little fellows never come out for anybody or anything (unless for a free political lunch.) They are hopeless dependents, political slaves, even ignorant of vest-pocket voting. They will pass away as have those mastodons of ages ago—all-bone and little brain. In politics, they never "make a king." All of them want the crown at once. In business, such leaders are "Booker's Bucket of Crabs." In schools and churches they are long on prominence and short on production. Look for their fruits! If they have achieved, who could lie about them—preaching "wet or dry" and teaching the world, flat or round. Their propaganda is dust-raising, fog-raising, log-beating, bulldozing, bewildering, yow yowing, full of phrase-spasms, white worship and black cowardice. "Let him pass"; breathed Portta, "God made him for a man." Mr. Smith can win by getting around the "old gang." They are not Buckeyes! They are barnacles, gummed to the bottom of the "Ship of State." If their boat lands, they come up for "pie." Happily, there are elements that will see the point, possessing the spirit of Columbus, seeking a new route to India and vote for Smith for governor of Ohio. A vote for Editor Smith is the only sure vote for an anti. If elected, he will be impartially governor of all the people. No other candidate can say this truthfully. The night of wrong is ended And the day of hope is here: I am the Captain of My Soul! The day of equal justice And of Freedom draweth near. We have suffered long and waited. We have fought the powers of lust. We have followed Truth and Honor In the battle for the Just. So we pledge our hearts to progress— To Harry C. Smith for governor— And in God we place our trust, for— I am the Captain of my soul! (Major) Allen S. Peal. (Formerly of Columbus, O.) IN UNION IT IS STRENGTH. E COPY FIVE CENTS ates! n. A SPLENDID MEETING. Kent, O.—Last Monday evening, our emancipation celebration was featured by an address by the Hon-Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, our candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, that will ever be remembered hereabouts. The beautiful park had a crowd of people of both races that showed its pleasure by repeated outbursts of applause that could be heard long distances. Our people here have Mr. Smith's pictures in the front windows of many of the business places on the main streets as well as in their residences. Also those of our candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. George W. Shanklin of Springfield. We propose to make a showing second to none in proportion to our numbers, on next Tuesday. Editor Smith spoke in Cleveland, Tuesday evening; Elyria, Friday evening; will speak in Wellsville, this (Saturday) evening, and East Youngstown, Monday evening. SHANKLIN VERY BUSY. Springfield, O.—George W. Shanklin, our candidate for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant-Governor, spoke in Xenia, Dayton, Middletown, Hamilton and Cincinnati, this week, and will close his campaign tour here on Monday evening. He and the editor of The Gazette have worked together beautifully, doing all in their power to promote the political interests of each other and the results at the primaries, next Tuesday, will surely be most satisfactory indeed. Let us all do our whole duty by these two progressive members of the race. Antioch Baptist church had its greatest crowd, Sunday, since the coming of the new pastor. The pastor, Rev. Mack T. Williams, preached two exceptionally able and interesting sermons, and special music was rendered in the morning by the Garner quartette, composed of parents and two daughters, and in the evening by Mrs. M Hurd of Kansas City, Mo., and Miss S. Ferguson of Wilberforce. Collection for the day, $265. Eleven joined church. Sunday evening, the pastor will preach a special sermon to the state grand lodge of 33d degree Masons. LIN The GAZETTE SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year. $2.00 Six Months. 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE (Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259) 211-245 Blackstone Bldg. 1426 W. Third St. Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1924 Ohio Afro-Americans surely have not forgotten how Harry L. Davis, when governor of Ohio, fooled them. They were promised and expected much from him in the way of appointments but were most greviously disappointed. It is an old trick of small boys in skating time to see how close they can skate to a hole without going in. There are some people in this country who want the United States to see how close it can skate to the Bolshiev hole without going in. Want to try it? Ohio daily newspapers, the past week, announced that 'the Ku Klux Klan of the state was supporting former governor, Harry L. Davis, a candidate for renomination at this time. Davis had little or no use for "Negroes" when he was governor as all know. Do not vote for him! HOLLAND AND PROTECTION. According to a cablegram Holland is about to repudiate her free trade policy and resort to protection. "The main object of this revision," says the report, "is to bring about a technical improvement of the tariff with a view to helping industrial and trade quarters interested in the import trade . . . only articles of consumption will be subject to duties, while the articles needed for productive purposes will remain, apart from a few exceptions, on the free list." The Dutch mind is slow but sure. ACT WELL YOUR PART. The pacifist song, "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier," has found its counterpart in a recent composition, "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Slacker." Now let somebody write a song telling what the boys are being "raised" for. Parents who are "raising" their sons to be good citizens don't need to have the fact advertised in song or story. Good citizenship does not include slackerism or professional soldiering, but it does include a readiness to take a place in the nation's defense line when our independence is threatened. --- DO NOT VOTE FOR GEIGER! No loyal Afro-American voter of this state can vote for Judge F. W. Geiger of Springfield, a candidate for a Republican nomination for associate justice of the state supreme court, and retain his self and race respect. Read our Springfield letter, elsewhere in this paper. That kind of a man, a member of that august body, would be a constant memo to our citizen rights and privileges. It is currently reported that the ku klux klan of the state are backing him for the nomination in return for what he did for the Springfield kluxers during the Fulton "jim crow" school fight there, year before last. Pass the word along to ALL of our people throut the state. HYLAN, HEARST AND HELL TO PAY. In counting their electoral votes for John W. Davis, the Democrats depend heavily on the forty-five votes from the state of New York. With Governor Smith, one of the most popular executives the state ever had, promising to "take off my coat and vest" and work for the Democratic nominee, it looked encouraging for a time. But the party in the Empire State is as badly shattered as in any other part of the country. William Randolph Hearst, one of the powers that be, is being called "a demagogue or a crackpot" by Smith, while Hearts entertains Mayor-Hylan of New York City on his California ranch. A day-or two after Smith's characterization of Hearst it was announced that Hylan might be a candidate for governor. So the spectacle looms of Hylan, Hearst, and Tammany arrayed against Smith for control of New York Democratic politics. What a merry row that will be, and how the Republicans will chuckle and how Davis will groan as it proceeds! "WAKE THEM UP" The police arrested 240 persons during week-end raids. Of this number, 103 were made by police from the Woodland Ave.-E. 377th St. precinct station, Wards 11 and 12. Twenty-four, charges were placed for gambling, twenty-seven for immorality, one for keeping a disorderly house, thirty-nine for violation of the liquor law, forty-nine for intoxication, fifteen for violation of the Harrison narcotic act, and twenty-one of suspicion. And our ministers and churches in those words still absolutely REFUSE to ask City Manager Hopkins to give the police protection necessary to stop much of the evil mentioned above and also stop so much shooting, cutting, killing and other crimes in that district. From three to a dozen young girls are ruined in those two wards, every week, too. Their immoral condition is about that of several years ago when the "Star-Tom" regime was "in the saddle." Will anything stir our ministers and churches in that section of the city to action? This includes St. Paul's, Zion A. M. E. and Mt. Zion Cong. churches. AND COOLIDGE RECEIVED HIM. When the Argentinian prize-fighter, Luis Angel Firpo, arrived in this country, recently, he was accompanied by a beautiful Spanish-French young woman. Both were taken to Ellis Island by government immigration authorities and examined. The result was the woman was deported, the authorities deciding that she was guilty. If that be true, then Firpo, too, was guilty. In a case of that kind, how could one be innocent and the other guilty of an infraction of the immigration laws? Later, Firpo was taken to the White House by Argentine's representative in this country and President Calvin Coolidge received him. The general supposition is that a charge of immoral conduct was made against the woman, Firpo's companion, who was deported as a result of said charge. If this be true, and the general public believes it is, the great American people, the decent ones, at least, have an explanation coming from the President that cannot be made too soon. They want to know, and have a right to know, why he received Luis Angel Firpo in the White House, recently. Speak up, Mr. President, speak up! NEXT TUESDAY! The editor of The Gazette spoke to the Republican women (white) of Elyria, last night (Friday); will speak to the Columbia County Republican club at Wellsville, tonight (Saturday) evening, and close his campaign at a great meeting in East Youngstown on Monday evening. The outlook for a great vote for him throut the state on Tuesday next at the primaries is splendid, much better than it was two years ago when he beat three of the eight white candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. Let our people of Ohio be loyal and active, and see to it that both the editor and Mr. George W. Shanklin of Springfield, our candidate for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant-Governor, get every Afro-American vote possible. Our women can be of wonderful service in this, if they will. We will never have a better chance to win than we have this time. Again there are eight-white candidates for Governor in the field, but as a whole they are not nearly so strong as candidates as those of two years ago and the voting conditions, this time, are also so very much more favorable to our cause than they were at that time. COLOR-LINE LUNA PARK! The. daily. newspaper statement, Tuesday morning, that there were "30,000 Negroes" at the Luna park "emancipation celebration." Monday, was far from being the truth. There were less than one-third that number of poor unfortunate "Negroes" there, that evening, and so few during the day that they were not allowed to use the dance-hall (which the whites used during the day) until after 6 p. m., so persons in attendance inform The Gazette. Five thousand would be a generous attendance estimate for the evening. Of course the bathing pool was closed to "Negroes," as usual, and the price of soft drinks, etc., doubled. Worse still, the drinking water was turned off, it is also said, so that the poor misguided, "Negroes" there would be compelled to purchase the soft drinks. The result was that women and children, especially, suffered for water to drink. Thos. W. Bird informs The Gazette that he saw little children lapping the little water remaining in the troughs, so thirsty were they, and that he approached Councilman Thos. W. Fleming, chairman of the committee in charge of the affair, demanding that he have the water turned on, and was told by Fleming that he could do nothing. Many of the poor mis- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1924 DO YOU KNOW WHY --- If You Want Real Rest --- You Can Stay Home And Work? INTERNATIONAL CARTOON CO. W. 377 Drawn for this paper By Fisher NOW I THOUGH NOW WITH A MOM AND THE LOVE HILE AND ILL EACH NEW GUY COME ON, FRED COME FELL IS LIME TO DRIVE YOU IN THE LOAD TREAD YOU PUST GUT DISTRIED FOR WINNER BE MORELL HOW YOU CAT FRED ARE ID LIKE TO FULL OFF THIS GOAT ON SHELTER LINE? THEN SAYS ISN'T THIS IDEAL FRED TO SO SATURDAY COLLY I'M GLAD TO GET BACK HERE AIR DEST guided "Negroes" who went to colorline Luna Park, Monday, are attendants upon our various churches, the pastors of which made absolutely no effort whatever to warn them to stay away from it. Shame, O. SHAME! A GAZETTE "ALUMNUS" Gives "The Old Reliable" Credit for Some of the Exceptional Success He Has Had and is Still Having. Orangeburg, S. C., July 28, 1924 Mon, Harry C. Smith Editor, The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir;—I can never forget the many years of training, received in connection with The Gazette, both as agent in Oberlin and as clerk in the office at Cleveland. The newspaper experience gained thereby has been one of the greatest assistance of my career. It taught me elements of perseverance, sacrifice, patience, application, knowledge of human nature, and above all a willingness to work and be of use to fellow men. I look upon The Gazette, today, as a mutual owner and I long to spend a part of some vacation period assisting you in the great work still being carried on. I trust some day this may be realized. My work here is progressing nicely. I seem to be enjoying the confidence of the people of both races of my state; hence I am trying to push ahead with the same energy and vision that have characterized all alumni of "The Old Reliable" Gazotte. I am, with best wishes always, Very sincerely yours, (Prof.) R. S. Wilkinson, President, State College, Orangeburg, S. C. PRIME SPORT NEWS Insures Wills and Firpo. New York City.—Promoter Tex Rickard has announced that Harry Wills and Luls Angel Firpo have been insured with Lloyds for $50,000 each against sickness or injuries received while in training or afterwards. Firpo was examined by Dr. Harry Britenstool, and Wills by Dr. John F. Daly. Both fighters were pronounced physically fit. The Browns' Narrow Escape. The Cleveland Browns hooked up with the Homestead Grays of Pittsburgh in a double header at Hooper field, Sunday afternoon. A three-run rally in the final inning of the second game saved them from a double defeat. The Grays won the first, 15 to 3, and the Browns, the second, 8 to 7. Shackelford got a two-baser in the first game and Harris's a home-run in each game. The Browns are on the road for a couple of weeks. Bluce Hit the Road: Cleveland has played at Valley City, Sunday, and played the Athletics at color-line Luna park. Monday. It is said that the management turned off the drinking water to make the poor, unfortunate, who attended the "celebration," buy more soft drinks. In addition to this, they were refused the use of the swimming pool as usual and did not use the dance hall, all day. Those "Negroes," who toled them to the park, ought to get from our decent, self and race-respecting people of this community what they have coming to them, and soon, too. MOVE TO STOP FREMONT FIGHT Ministerial Association Acts in Greb Flowers Protest; Harry Asks Delay. Fremont, O.—Aug. 6.—The Fremont Ministerial association today aligned itself with the Brotherhood Class of the First Methodist Episcopal church in protesting the proposed Harry Greb-Tiger Flowers fight here, Aug. 14. The protest, prepared at the meeting last night, was sent to city and county officials and Gov. Donahay. The ministers declared the fight would be a "contest of brute strength for money," and held it would be unfit to hold it here and would have a bad effect on the entire community. Injunction proceedings' are threatened, it is said, if officials refuse to act. Possibility of a postponement of the fight loomed today following a wire request from Red Mason, Greb's manager, that Greb be given an additional 10 days to prepare for his bout with Flowers. This request came, it is said, after Greb saw Flowers in action in New York. The latter is a Georgia "Negro." PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. P. C. D. H. 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The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it All reading matter for publication in current issues sf The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY ot that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until noon, WED- NESDAYS! . HARRY C. SMITH, 215 Blackstone Bidg. . Cor; W. Third St, and Frankfort Ave., Cleveland, 0. . Notary Public ‘ .Bell Phoye:. Cherry 1259 A TLD ARLE LBD dD DL ae patemee TY TT TT PAM TTD vee aN CHT UG OU HRNUD UP PLU ead sr (Classified Advertising *.*, Department .°. FOR SALE.—Two pieces of prop- erty in best location. Worth inves- tigating. Price right. Well finaticed, Inquire ‘at- 2166 B. 93rd St. Suite 2. CLEVELAND ‘Social and Personal Mr. W. C. Ball fs quite {ll at his home in Wickliffe. Mrs, Lottie Irving vordon, of 9611 Gibson Ave., is quite ill. Mrs. Wm. Webster, of 2187 86th St., Is visiting relatives in Vir ginia and W. Va. . " The. yellow ttekets Ueing circu lated for the primaries are the kx Klux klan’s ti¢kets, . Vote for all o our candidates, Miss Dorcethy Myers of Pasadena Ave., -has ‘been having a delightful visit’ in Chicago with Mrs, Camillc Cohen Jones and other frietids. Among the callers at“The Gazette sanclum, this week, was Mrs.. Jennie ©. Lee, director of music at Tuske- gee, Ala., Institute, accompanied by Mrs, J. Walter Wills. Frederic C. Seelig and. brother, Joseph, spent a week-end in Windsor, Ont., recently with their grand_par- ents, the Rev. and Mrs, R.. A. Ball oft Toronto. ~ | Miss-Martha Duke, of Shelbyville, Ind., is visiting her brother and sis- ter, Mr. John Duke, 2419-E. 82d St., and Mrs. Annic Womack,. 2465 ¥ 79th St. -The-editor of The Gazette ‘spoke in Kent, Monday evening; in Elyria, last evening; and will speak in Wollsville, today, and E. Youngs- town, ‘Monday. Lee Gilliam, 2176°E, 30th’ St., the well-known barber of Central Ave., 1g ill at. St. Vinceiit's hospital, cor. E; 22nd and Central Ave, -He is a llttle better at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Williams of Baltimore, former residents of Cleve- land, who have many friends here, ‘will arrive in the-clly, tomorrow, the loth, to spend thelr’ vacation. : Mr, Albert Mossey ‘arrived in the clty, Monday ‘noon, to . escort ‘the editor of Tho Gazette to Kent where he addressed a large celebration ¢rowd from’ geveral counties df the State, that evening. ‘Anyone knowing ‘the address of Scott Suber, last heard of in Cleve- land, will please communicate with Frank Stewart, 412 Lenox Ave., New York City.—Adv. + “ ; ‘Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Bass of Chicago, were here, recently,’ guests of Mr. and“Mrs. Phil S. Dennie, EB. 90th St. They were enroute: Bast. Mrs, Bass was formerly Miss Helen Scott of this city. FOUR MEN WANTED! Business qualities required. Purpdse,. form: ing a corporation, Must have $300 to invest. Address, Box 1, 215 Blackstone Bldg., Cleveland, °0.— Adv. " ts Mra. G. L.: Cheatham, son and daughter, her. mother-in-law, pre Caroline Cheatham; Dorothy, Dlivia, Agnetta and Robort Cheatham,’ of Detroit, enjoyed a boat trip to Buf- falo and Niagara Falls, recently. Mrs, Jennie Clapham, who lived here 22 years ago, niece and cousin of Mrs, Ella Brown, 2824 Pine Ave., and Walter L. Brown... 40th St., respectively, is spending the summer in Cleveland and Painesville. Mr. and Mrs, Wm, McNaughton, E. 69th St., had as guests, N. M.: con- vention week, Mr. and Mrs. Clarenco Cameron White and son, of Oberlin. Mr. White will take charge of the musical department of West Virginia Collegiate institute in the fall. Mrs, 8, T; Mitchell, E.. 95th St, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Bessie THE GAZETTE, OLEVBLAND,. 0. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9,°1924° DO YOU KNOW WHY--= They Aiways Sic The Family Album On You? av ngus Lo To A THATS UNCLE THAT WAS MAS NOUR TRAYS: 4EE THE ALeReD- HES 30D Pere news | (LEB eun) |’ \enesmte™ | \eoaecan wae my uintue f= OODENE} . (oFricitts eens ASSISTANT PIN ALFRED GEARS! yonse tact OF | | WITH A FACE! MER RIED. SHE THE ONLY} | DOG : TO Know ABcyT S BOY IN A” J Je STRIKING 91] Corp county: Like THAT 52} = igen TOWN?) WHICH) HER Fann BOWLING ALLEY RESEmBaNcE) || ror 4 ‘i : Pay za : 1S . iP ; TO A BABY J] YEARS. fs F : mie | Ge i v : oT NouP. 6 on ry ce 2 GIRAFFE * YE f ESYPLP3 : tie eee ei eH, Se Exe Gi s ’ y sey = SE me La Kern e As. GES a SET 5s Cee oo al Tea) Ol Gs sar ie er Le re tH = b ' ? oi Eat (= f7 re (Res COP =o : estan Ra \ A Ss ee YY way y NS enone oy (lO sscceretime Cras. \ brvERKA TIONAL CARTOON CO. FT. . . ° . oo ! oe * $F =| Watkins, in Wilberforce. Miss Pear) ‘Mitchell’ and brother, O'Neil, had as guests for the recent N. M. conven- tion, Harrison Farrell, the -violinist, and Mrs. Hutchinson of Chicago. Misa Pauline Ranson of Columbus, motored here with Mme. Cleota Col- lins, for. the N. M. convention, and were guests of Miss Ruth: Dean. Miss Colling was the soldist for St, John’s choir concert, one of their great, sa- ered recitals, Mra. H. E. Jones was 20 ‘severely Injured’ by an aitomobile, Sunday, at B, 88th St. and St, Clair Ave., that she ‘was taken to Mt. Sina! hospital for an operation and treatment. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Jones, for years, were. in the restaurant business {n Central Ave., until about a year ago, The. greatest opportunity to got HONEST! BARGAINS in the sery best of ali kinds of shoes, and at ex. traordinary low prices, is now being offered by. The Home Shoe: Co., 2577 K. 56th St.j near Woodland Ave. ‘The editor of ‘Tlie Gazette can vouch: for this big sale’ because ho. has pur- chased two: pairs of The Home’ Shoe Company's shoes at these sale prices and is delighted with them, ‘Tell your friends!—Ady, . ee | Why’ intelligent memvers of the race persist in invoighing our people to color-lino' luna park in order to make money for it and-a few “lousy” dollars for themselves or some, or- ganization, {s one of the most harm- ful things to racial progress in this community that The Guvetto finds tt difficult to explain. Have they lost ALL ‘selfand raco respect? Ask ‘them! No. person or people havc “any moré réspect for us, individuals ‘or collectively, than+we SHOW wc are deserving of. Walter: u. ‘rown has purchased the beautiful terrace on the -south- cast-corner of HB. 40th St. and Cédar Aye. It consists of 58 rooms, well furnished in 2 and 3 room suites for light housekeeping. . Everything nec- ‘éssary for such is furnished. All you have to do.is to move your trunk in. This terrace is known as the Brownley-Hayes Apartments, and is said by Sigsle & Blake. to be the best and most comfortable of its kind they have found in any of their travels. “Go and see, for yourself. Dr.-I. B. Scott, ‘retired “bishop of tho M. E. Church, and Rev. 0. H. McGowan of Painesville made. brief remarks and Prot. T,-H.. Reynolds, of Kansas City, rendered a splendid solo, at the morning service of Mt. Zion Cong. temple, Sunday. Rev. Saul A, Lucas of the American Bible Society, will preach, Sunday morn- ing. At 2:30 p. m., @ public meet: ing and sermon to Masons. At 8 p. m., a special meeting will’ be held ‘by tho Men’s club, featuring Dr. E,W. B, Abner, Supreme Com: mander of the American Woodman. There is: something radically wrong with.a group of people who refuse to help relieve thelr own bur- dens. The day of throwing bouquets is gone forever. Tiie American Negro must facé the facts as they exist. We won't gain anything by fooling our- selves into thinking that everything is all right. .Everything affecting the lives of the American Negro is all wrong. The sooner we face these facts, the quicker we will begin to work for- our qwn. salvation, the sooner will Wwe attain our rightful place as American ‘citizens.—Phila- delpbia Tribune. Cedar Branch Y. M. C. A. Cor, Cedar Ave. and B. 77th 8t.” A HOME FOR YOUNG MEN! jeeesunaie - HOME COOKING Individual Beds $2.50-$3.00 PAI RUAIee OUK ADVERTISERS * Ly 633 E. SIXTH STREET | : CINCINNATI, OHIO A Dealer’ In .Purs NEGRO | Books’ and Literaturo This is ‘all tho Prico List or | Catalog you need, and a money order. No. 7 in Ono Book, His- tory of the American Negro Slavery and the conditions of * South Africa and how Jiberia, Afriea should bo redeemed. A.—The Bible on the Rthiopian Black Man. B—A Business Letter, “iiow to’ make Money." CA Negro's Faults and, In- provements. Fi D_-The ‘Judgment of God at tho Last Day, and what our Women are to do in the Future, A speech for four } ‘hundred million Negroes. * E.—The Foresight of Negro Ships” This will all bo in- cluded with Book No.7, in ono price, $1.05 and W. Tr ) $1.10. \ 1—The Way to Always Havo ) Imck. { 2—Tho Key to Business Life. 3—Tho Way to Keep Well. 4—How to Keep a Friend. { 5—Tho Greatest Negro Wom- an in tho World, 6@—Tho Three Greatest Negro ‘Men in the World. * } 7—How to Master Your Ene- } mies, { &—Tho Way to Get Henled of } Dropsy., ) 9—The Way to Get-Healed of } Consumption, } No, 1:to No. 9 is explained ing printed business letters’ price $1.02. : It Is Time Now for Negroes to Trade With Each Other. ‘This ad. and price list is all you need; and a Money Order. | | 1 Peer CNG! og ae 5 Beautiful Girl. Reveals Secret Once my hair was anything: but long and silky soft as it is ‘now, and my complexion was sallow, ‘and there’ were often unsightly pimples:on my face. One day I heard of Exelento Quinine Pomade for,the hair and purchased jar. Almost imme- iately it. stopped all dandruff, made my hair grow long, soft and fine, and gave it a delightful sheen. ‘Because of the perfectly won- derful results I obtained from Ex- elento Quinine Pomade. I purchas- ed a jar of Exelento Skin Beauti- fier... It changed my sallow com- plexion to a clear, lovely skin, glowing with health, For pim- pies and,other skin blemishes, * it as no équal. iy If am as beautiful as people say, it is all due to Exelentoprep- arations. Exelento Quinine Po- made and Exelento Skin Beauti- fier may be obtained for only 25¢ at most drug ‘stores, or will be seit postpaid upon receipt of price by the EXELENTO MEDICINE CO, Atlanta, 62 AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE | Write For Particalars \ = : Overlook Beach Chautauqua Pe AT = . ‘ < - This Is Your Opportunity To Buy. - -LOTS: : ad -_ 3 e e : Located on the Shores of Lake Erie,.a | 3 short distance from Geneva on’The Lake, 7 . . 800 feet from fine golf course. : Tt connects witha chain of other beaches . and is on the’ Boulevard running from Cleveland to Buffalo. It is about one. mile from Woodland Park and Clifton Beach, about one-half mile from Lake Shore Park, : . which has the. finest Bathing Pavilion on : the Great Lakes. . Overlook Beach Allotment’ is destined from Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Akron to be the finest allotments for colored peo- “and Youngstown, and is surrounded by five ple in this county. It is located just East parks and golf courses. All city conven- of Ashtabula, Ohio, about equal distance’ ‘ iences are available. This Is A Real Investment ——————Inauire of The ———_—_ : : Overlook Beach Development Co. Room 1, Majestic Hotel _Cleveland, Ohio Phone Randolph 4511 a es. 3 es ’ ce , arming don’t take the © wrong package / . -. When you ask for Dr. Fred Palmer’s Skint Whitener Prepa- fations—be sure you get them. Don’t let the clerk hand you the wrong package. Hundreds of people have been deceived . —just because they failed to say Dr. FRED Palmer’s.. The original Dr. FRED Palmer’s Skin Whitener Preparations have proven. their merit and when you buy them, you know you i are getting the best. ‘Insist’ on Dr. FRED Palmer’s Skin Whitener ‘Preparations---AND TAKE NO SUBSTI. TUTE. — « ~ . Get Dr. FRED Palmer’s Skin Whitener % . a . Preparations from your druggist." . tia Ysk for and get Dy..Fred Palmer's — 1-4 REX) > SHIN. WHITENER. PREPARATIONS ___ Py\GSNey “8 pr. Fred Palmer's Laboratories, ai ” Ns So ED Atlanta, Ga. Please send me Name... s : SS SZ samples of your preparations. I a Ra 7 am enclosing 4¢ for postage and . Nal J wrapping. Address ene SEW AND SAVE WITH ; Kes . Best Six Cord Spool Cotton DRESSMAKING HINTS é For a valuable bookon = _ . dressmaking, send 4c. to ‘THE SPOOL COTTON CO.,, Dept. O ‘315 Fourth Ave,, New York OUR LESSON We must iearn to govern our- selves and ‘work together for. our own advancement. If we do not fearn to govern, our- selves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very ‘sure that we will be governed by others {n their own interést as well as worked by others for their own ad- ‘vancement and not ours.— George: W. Blount, . i ay FISRER Complete in Itself "Sharpens the blade in’ the razor without removing it. Quick Convenient. Easy . toclean. Complete sets— - razor, with strop and extra blades, $1.00 and up. . Valet AutoStrop Razor Segregation An Outrage! Help The "Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, But Give It to a Friend or an Acquaintance who Might Subscribe After Reading a Copy of It. In the Government Printing Office—Will the Self and Race-Respecting Negro Press of This Country Continue to Stand for This Sort of Thing? (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—The government printing office keeps faith with the government's universal scheme of segregation. Some of the best and brightest of our girls are forced to accept inferior positions there on account of the better and more lucrative avenues of employment being closed to them because of their col- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. or. The whites are generally of a very mediocre group, far from equaling our girls in educational equipment, culture, and working efficiency. Yet these superior girls are set off from the whites with the latter, of course, having the better working conditions, salaries and recreational facilities. There is a large cafeteria in this huge structure where all of the employees may go, but there are a few tables in an out-of-the-way section reserved for our employees. I am glad to say that few, very few, of our people patronize the place, preferring a little physical inconvenience to the open, semi-public humiliation of segregation. In toilet facilities, dressing-rooms, and work assignments, wherever possible, the law of segregation is in full force, and, of course, this same undemocratic practice reveals itself on the salary roll and in the hard caste that barspromotes white polices. In inferior whites pass over our superior employees to directive positions, and higher salaries. The whites have a large recreational center in this public building with many fine appointments for rest and amusements. During lunch and dinner hours they repair to this restful retreat for sociability and dance. Last fall, a young Afro-American with a splendid record in his work, felt the injustice of this exclusion of our employees so keenly that he secured the company of a young lady of the race to take part in the dance. As soon as this couple started to dance the music was abruptly stopped, and the young man reported for attempting to take part in an entertainment provided for employees. He was called to the office, lectured for being "one of those smart Negroes" before he "social equality," and then dismissed on a trumped-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a platoon light after the dance in the fire broke out in the office. He was quickly accused of setting the building, afire in revenge for his exclusion from the dance floor. Detectives came to the building to arrest him, and failing to secure any evidence searched him only to discover the pistol. They quickly dropped the arson charge and substituted one for carrying concealed weapons for which he was immediately dismissed. By this severe punishment our employees are taught that there is no way of escape for one who dares to resent the daily insults that their government (under President Coolidge) gives them. Many of the employees have expressed their deeply-wounded feelings to me at being considered a parish by the government whose institutions they are serving so faithfully, and I have taken up a number of cases only to be met by a denial that the conditions complained of exist, and a request for the names of my informants. I knew the fate these informants would suffer so I have never given a single name!! The department then taking the position that it cannot take up the case. It is perfectly clear that this iniquitous scheme of segregation is a difficult thing to fight, since the government is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness to it. My next letter will deal with the segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing. (Prof.) Noval H. Thomas. OUR BIGGEST POLITICAL ISSUE Is the Ku Klux Klan, Says Secretary Johnson At Philadelphia Conference—Urges Democratic Negro Vote in Indiana. Philadelphia. Pa.—James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., in an address here, recently, urged the Ku klux klan the main issue in the coming election. Mr. Johnson said: M. Secretary James Weldon Johnson. "The most imminent question before the Afro-American at the present time is that of his political responsibilities and opportunities. The biggest single political issue, before him is that of the ku klux klan. Afro-Americans should not be bullied into a feeling of security by the fact that the klan is seemingly no longer anti-Negro. The klan is as much anti-Negro now as it was the day it was organized. At present it is not spending much time in tarring and feathering or branding or mobbing individual Negroes. It is devoting its energies to a bigger job, the job of gaining political power, of gaining control of government. When it has done this, if it succeeds, it will again turn its attention to the Negro and it will then execute its policies not upon individual Negroes but upon the race as a whole. If the klan gains the power which it contemplates it will at once begin to the common rights of citizenship. That is one of its deepest laid plans. It is, therefore, the duty of our citizens in states where the klan is an issue and where our votes count and are counted, to discard sentimental political allegiance to any party and vote against candidates who are named or supported by the klan! The situation in Indiana is a case in point. There the Republican nominee for governor has the open endorsement of the klan, an endorsement which he has fully accepted. In that state, the Republican Senator, James E. Watson, who stands high in administration circles, openly confers and consorts with klan leaders. It has been left for the Democrats in that state to denounce and disavow the klan. It is, therefore, the plain duty of all our voters in Indiana to vote against the Republican candidate for Governor and against every other Republican candidate in that state who is touched with the tar brush of the ku klux klan. In the states of the North and the northwest, where the vote is close and where the Afro-American holds what may be the balance of power, we must use our votes in a manner which is demanded not only by common sense but by safety. We must make men and measures and not party labels the declending factor in casting our votes, in the coming elections." CADIZ—Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Tuck and son, Arthur, of Oberlin, en route to Wheeling, stopped in Cadiz, Saturday, for a brief visit. Mr. Frank Alexander of Zanesville visited relatives here.—Mr. Harold Lee was home from Oberlin, over Sunday,—Mr. and Mrs. Earl Skinner and mother were here, Sunday.—Mrs. Clara Ramsay and children are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Redmond. Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson of Canton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers and Mrs. Lena Jones of Massillon were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Redmond, Sunday.—Mrs. Zella Strother and Mrs. Bertha Madison are attending the H. of R. grand lodge in Cincinnati.—Miss Elizabeth Redmond of Redmond is visiting her parents.—Mr. and Mrs. Louis Johnson have moved to Harrisburg, Pa. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1924 SOME NEGROES KNOW In every Northern city, political activity is being aroused. Never before have so many people indicated an intention of breaking away from old traditions, from old party alliances. Gradually there is dawning or aborning, the knowledge that politics is a game in which a few control the many. Colored people as a mass have been the greatest victims. For many many years, through a sense of loyalty and because of ignorance, they have stuck to the Republican party, thereby making an enemy of the Democratic party! The Republican party gave them the shadow of official recognition, created laws apparently in their behalf, but seldom made the slightest pretense of enforcing them. They were jolled and used, only that and nothing more! In the South, the Democrats disfranchised them. They could do little voting and less office holding. In consequence, "jim crow" cars and other segregative conditions flourished. In national campaigns, the Republican orators and newspapers called attention to the disfranchisement, etc., as evidence of the deadly, damnable and destructive tendencies of southern Democracy, and told in tones of horror, tragic tales of the dangers that would result from the presence in the White House of a Democratic President. But Negroes who can think, Negroes who have moral courage, have learned their lesson and are brave enough to abide by it. Some Negroes know now, that the flood of eloquence that comes with every campaign flows from men who are paid to speak, or else expect to get some help, or else expect that as long as acting in saying not believe, as does the man who on the stage "does his stuff" for the money he gets. Some Negroes know now, that the newspapers will print, in proportion to the amount of money they get, awful stories of, coming disasters should those terrible Democrats get into power. Many years ago, when the Democrat, Cleveland, ran for President, Negroes were told that if elected slavery would, again flourish in the United States. Cleveland was elected, and instead of making Negroes slaves, they were appointed to high office and sent as U. S. representatives to white men's countries. When Wilson, the Democrat, ran for President, the same old song was sung, and Negroes terror stricken, forgot the dirty deeds of the Republican party and fled to the box lot they were against. He was elected, but Negroes were made slaves, and they fared under him as well as they have fared since. $^4$ Some Negroes have learned, that when the Democrats who owe them nothing, make laws against them, the Republicans do nothing except to talk about the injustice, in order to get the Negroes' vote. Sonia Negroes have learned, that though under Wilson the segregative system, already existing in Washington, was increased, yet under Gingrich and Coolidge, our Republican Presidents, it has not been demilitarized. Negrogs have learned that though under southern Democracy Negrogs have been disfranchised contrary to the Constitution of the United States, yet the Republican party and its official representatives, despite their oath of office, have never enforced the penalty for such violation and, through grace of our Republican friends, Congress is flooded with Democrats from southern states who have no business there. Some Negroes have learned that recognizing a few Negro delegates from southern states and putting a few on the National Committee means little other, than a little dope for campaign material. Some Negroes know the strenuous efforts the thousands of men employed and the billions spent to stop people from consuming alcoholic beverages, that is to enforce the 18th amendment, and they wonder why if the Republican party has the interest of the Colored citizens at heart—why is it that nothing is done to enforce the amendment made for their benefit. All people can be fooled sometime. Some people can be fooled all of the time. But all the people can't be fooled all of the time. The day has arrived when people both white and black are thinking they are going to do some acting. They have learned that both parties, Republic can as well as Democratic, are playing the great game of politics. Negroes have lost many years of valuable time. Had they voted for men instead of party they would have been better off. As slaves of the Republican party they have in all of these years been losing instead of winning. Under Grant the god magnificent start—but also the day not a single American Negro is holding high rank in the Navy or Navy Department in the Government. Not Negro in Congress! And yet they have fought, blod and died for a party that has had everything in its power since the Civil War, except during only two Democratic administrations. It is high time for the Negro to wake and split his vote. He should and must, if he would succeed, divide his vote by casting Re-nominate Him for County Recorder Republican Primaries, August 12th his ballots for men who will do the square thing regardless of the party to which they belong. A political slave is of no more consequence in a community than any other kind of slave. The 'hour has arrived' the Negro must divide' or be damned. Dabney in Cincinnati (O. (O.) Union, CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary, notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of '25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Show your race pride by placing pictures of our candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor in your front windows. Write either the editor of The Gazette, at Cleveland, or Geo. W. Shanklin, 440 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, O., for window-hangers (pictures) and they will be mailed to you at once. Final Clearance Entire Stock SUMMER DRESSES Two Lots for Quick Selection Lot 1 Lovely Cool Materials Formerly Sold to $12.50 $595 Lot 2 Beautiful Styles and Materials Formerly Sold to $27.50 $1095 Special Terms $100 A Week SPRITZ 2067 E. 9th St. Between Euclid and Prospect Next to Columbia Theater ```markdown ``` An occasional chair with solid mahogany arms. Upholstered in genuine imported tapestry. Walnut or mahogany and gum wood table; size 34 x 4$; folding top and S-leg base. Windsor chair made of solid birch, finished in brown mahogany; hand rubbed. Fibre, seat. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Rhoda Neuman of Lyndon is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Edward Jones.—Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bushon and Mr. and Mrs. O. Johnson have returned from Chicago.—The A. M. E. church will have a home-coming, Aug. 17.—Mr. and Mrs. Albert Williams entertained at dinner, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hurd and family, Mrs. M. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Dorssey Minor and Raymond Colter.—Mrs. William Johnson of Cleveland is here visiting relatives.—Mrs. M. Randolph is quite ill.—Mrs. Homer Hudson and children returned to Chicago last week. They visited her mother-in-law, Mrs. Alline Burton.—Mrs. Jarepta Goode of Cinchnati visited her parents, Rev. and Mrs. P. H. Smith.—Galloway Johnson and sister, Mrs. A. Bibbs of Chicago, visited here, recently. Mrs. Julius owens entertained her at dinner, Saturday.—Mrs. John H. Johnson of Cinchnati is visiting her mother, Mrs. Josephine Parson.—Mrs. M. Curtis and sons of Sardina visited her sister, Mrs. Ed. Green, Sunday.—Rev. J. J. Burr preached, Sunday, evening, for Rev. W. Blake.—Roy Kittrell of Cinchnati is here, visiting relatives.—Mrs. Ella Trimble has returned from Columbus.—Mrs. Jessie Kilgour, is no better.—Rev Forrest Mitchell, pastor of New Hope Baptist church, resigned, Sunday, to take effect, Aug. 31. He has accepted a charge in Chillicothe.—Do not fall, men and women, to vote for Harry C. Smith and Geo. W. Shanklin, our candidates for the Republican nomination for governor and lieutenant-governor, respectively, at the primaries on Tuesday. Everybody vote! GEO. WALLACE SEEKING RENOMINATION AS CLERK An official well meriting another term; is GEORGE WALLACE, candidate for Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas on the Republican ticket. Mr. Wallace is a product of Cleveland, having been born and reared here and received his education in the Public Schools of this city. He is an expert in this office, having spent many years as a deputy before assuming the head of the office. His improvements in methods Citizens Should Select, Then Elect! In an endeavor to assist in the nomination of strong candidates for the State Senate and House of Representatives the Cuyahoga Citizens' Committee endorse the following: For State Senators X CHESTER C. BOLTON X L. G. COLLISTER X L. L. MARSHALL X MAUDE C. WAITT (Mrs. W. G.) For State Representatives X LESTER J. ABELE X HARRY E. DAVIS X NETTIE M. CLAPP (Mrs. Harold T.) X JOHN B. DEMSEY X JOHN A. HADDEN X GILBERT MORGAN X LAURENCE H. NORTON X HORACE R. SANBORN We commend the twelve candidates, named for the State Legislature, to you and ask for your support at the Republican Primaries. Help nominate these representative citizens by voting for them at the Republican Primaries to be held Tuesday, August 12th. CUYAHOGA CITIZENS' COMMITTEE Executive Committee DR. G. A. BARRICELLI TYLER W. CARLISLE DR. ANDREW CHEVRNA RICHARD F. GRANT, Chairman PAUL HOWLAND H. C. ROBINSON, Treasurer VICTOR W. SINCERE SAMUEL SCOVIL ALLARD SMITH CORLISS E. SULTIVAN ALEXANDER S. TAYLOR F. W. TREADWAY HARRY L. VAIL, Secretary W. G. WILSON You Should Vote at the Republican Primaries Tuesday, Aug. 12, '24 at 1/4 off Deferred payments will be arranged for those having a satisfactory basis for credit. Furniture purchased will be stored gratis for four months. ```markdown ``` Tapestry or yellow upholstered; deep soft seat and high back; padded arms, nail studded and fringed. $25 Occasional Table, $18.75 Made of solid walnut and gum wood in two-tone finish. Octagon top and heavy base. Fifth Floor and the good service his office has given the public, with notable economy, are ample reasons why the voters should assure themselves of a continuance of this good work by electing County Clerk George. Wallace to another term. The following is a financial statement of Mr. Wallace's office: Collected and paid to County Treasurer ... $317,664.82 Office Expenditures ... 188,583.84 ```markdown ``` In walnut or mahogany combined with gum wood; drop leaves, separate tray; rubber tired wheels. Genuine mahogany and gum wood stand and chair; Italian design, finished, in antique shade: Genuine mahogany and gum wood table in. Tudor finish with 60-inch top and massive base. PAYER ..... $129,060.98 WON'T YOU GIVE YOUR SUPP TO CONTINUE THIS WORK? Mr. John Perry, of the Eleventh Ward, holds a very important position in Mr. Wallace's office. Mr. Wallace has always been a good friend of the Colored People. Adv.