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WE CAN NOMINATE OUR CANDIDATE! FORTY-THIRD YEAR WE C THIRD YEAR No. 51 E CANN FORTY-THIRD YEAR No.51 MARY JANE! 2180 E. 83d St. 'Phone Gar. 815-M HOSTESS HOUSE Will Serve or Rent to Weddings, Pa Six O'Clock Dinners, Dally, DINNER FROM 3 TO 6 and ALL KINDS of Sandwiches MRS. MAUD W. COLOUR LUNA 'Negroes' o from Luna hall, roller sh bathing-poo That ought to self and race res Do not be coa Park for any c thing else! REMEM YO FRI At the Prin Serve or Rent to Clubs or Private Parties for Weddings, Parties or Receptions. Stock Dinners, Daily, by Reservation. ALSO SUNDAY FROM 3 TO 6 and Supper From 6 to 9. LUNCHES, NDS of Sandwiches and Salads. Ice Cream and Ices. RS. MAUD W. RHODES, Proprietor COLOR-LINE LUNA PARK Negroes' only are barred in Luna Park's dance- , roller skating rink and thing-pool. at ought to be enough for all and race respecting "Negroes". not be coaxed to go to Luna for any celebration or any- else! REMEMBER YOUR FRIEND the Primary Aug. 10 Will Serve or Rent to Clubs or Private Parties for Weddings, Parties or Receptions. Six O'Clock Dinners, Daily, by Reservation. ALSO SUNDAY DINNER FROM 3 TO 6 and Supper From 6 to 9. LUNCHES, ALL KINDS of Sandwiches and Salads. Ice Cream and Ices. MRS. MAUD W. RHODES, Proprietor 'Negroes' only are barred from Luna Park's dance hall, roller skating rink and bathing-pool. That ought to be enough for all self and race respecting "Negroes". Do not be coaxed to go to Luna Park for any celebration or anything else! REMEMBER YOUR FRIEND In all his public career United States Senator Frank B. Willis, has never failed to deal justly and honorably with the interests of our citizens. His memorable action, as Governor, in excluding the film, "The Birth of a Nation" at a cost of thousands of votes to himself, is well remembered. He dealt honorably and fearlessly at a time when it cost to so act. As Senator, he has a part in every battle effect secure legislation giving on Virgin Islands, in the sess letters of appreciation I found him an interested BE ON HAND TO AT THE PRIMARY PUTTING AN Senator, he has been on hand to take effective every battle effecting our interests. His fight to legislation giving citizenship to the people of the islands, in the session just closed, brought open of appreciation from our leaders there who him an interested listener to their plea. IN HAND TO SHOW APPRECIATION THE PRIMARY, AUGUST 10TH, BY GETTING AN "X" BEFORE THE NAME OF FRANK B. WILLIS. As Senator, he has been on hand to take effective part in every battle effecting our interests. His fight to secure legislation giving citizenship to the people of the Virgin Islands, in the session just closed, brought open letters of appreciation from our leaders there who found him an interested listener to their plea. BE ON HAND TO SHOW APPRECIATION AT THE PRIMARY, AUGUST 10TH, BY PUTTING AN "X" BEFORE THE NAME OF FRANK B. WILLIS. Inserted by a Friend of Senator Willis. THE GAZETTE FRANK B. WILLIS ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926 CARTER'S NEWEST RACE HISTORY Has Intensely Interesting and Rare Letters Written by Banneker, Douglass and Others. A Secretary of Peace First Recommended by the Former—the Latter's Scathing Letter to Thos. Auld—Then His Letter of Congratulation—Douglass in Ireland—John Brown, Frances Watkins and Jourdon Anderson. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written By "The Old Reliable" Gazette's Correspondents What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical— Marriages, Deaths, Etc. Washington, D. C.—What our people thought in the early days of the republic has just been made public in "The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters written during the Crisis, 1800-1880. 1800—The Negro as Repaired in Letters written by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson, director of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1538 Ninth St. N. W., Washington, D. C., and retails for $5. Among the raceletters published are those by Benjamin Banneker, noted Maryland astronomer and mathematician; Frederick Douglas, one-time Maryland astronomer; Ellen Watkins Harper, Charles Redmond, Henry Highland Garnett, and J. W. C. Pennington, and many other members of the anti-slavery party. Banneker's letter to Thomas Jefferson, urging him to make the declaration of independence apply to black as well as to white, and to be as well as in which he recommended a Secretary of Peace in the President's cabinet to have equal authority with the Secretary of War and to direct education of the republic, are notable examples of what this early Maryland freedman thought. Nearly 50 pages are devoted to letters by or about Frederick Douglas, his wife, his brother, his former master, Thomas Auld of Maryland, in which he inquiries for his three sisters and only brother as well as his 80-year-old grandmother whom "you turned out like an old horse to die in the woods." "Are they still recorded on your ledge?" asks Douglas, "or perhaps they have been sold to human flesh mongers to fill your own ever hungry nurse." A letter to Auld the following year congratulates him that he has freed his slaves and taken aged Grandma Douglass into his own home. Letters of Douglass on his trip abroad are also featured. He FRESH OR Written By "The Gazette's Co What Our People Are I Personal, Social, Lodge, Marriages, YOUNGSTOWN,—Miss Violet M. Robinson is visiting her cousin, Miss Bessie Logan, in Erie, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. F. Taylor are proud parents. It's a 9½ pound daughter, named Esther. Mrs. Taylor was a Cleveland girl—Vernon, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Gordon, Jr., died, Wednesday. Infantile paralysis. And Andrew Bryd spent Sunday in Cleveland with the Elks and Mr. Floyd Davis was at Niagara Falls and over in Canada, that day. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Harvey have moved into their newly built home. WARREN—The following delegates were present at the 32nd Annual N. O., conference A. M. E. S. s. institute of the Youngstown district which opened, Tuesday: Hannah Goens, Dorothea Peterson, Isabel Lottler, Mrs. A. Hogan, Mrs. D. Lynch, Mrs. S. Smith and Mrs. S. Scruggs. Convention members: Mrs. W. Wall, Mrs. M. Rosalind H. and H. W. Irvin of Youngstown. Delegations from Sharline, Steubenville, E. Liverpool and Wellsville, and Prof. C. H. Johnson of Wilberforce were present. Dr. J. C. Anderson, pastor Bethel A. M. E. church, Pittsburgh, was a visitor.—The Brown's Star team defeated the Buckeye at Moose ball-park. Saturday, 3-2. JAMESTOWN—Rev. T. J. Carter and Mr. Bryant Carlisle represented Zion Baptist S. S. at the state convention in Xenia. The latter, supt. of the local S. S., made an excellent report, Sunday.—Mr. Charles Bell, the only ice man in our city, is kept very busy during the hot weather. Being thorny dependable, he is a good teacher. Prof. S. G. Hough, who visited his mother, Mrs. Arnetta C. Hough, and other relatives for five weeks, has returned to Kimball. W. Va, where ```markdown ``` ells of a near riot on ship when the captain invited him to tell of conditions in slavery. Of Ireland, he said, the Irish cabins are worse than American slave huts. "Men and women, married and single, lie down together in much the same situation as American slaves. The Irish houses, he said, are of wood, 6x10, straw roof, no floor, no windows with a three foot hole before the door into which is swept the fifth of the hut and upon which collects a green scum. The immediate cause of poverty and beggary in Ireland, he said, is intemperance. "Most of the beggars drink whiskey. Frederick Daughlass, crippled for not alding John Brown in on Harper's Ferry, wrote friends: "Let every man work for the abolition of slavery in his own way." Frances Ellen Watkins, Maryland woman, was among those who wrote John Brown while in prison: "You have rocked the .bloody Bastile; and I hope that from your sad fate great good may arise to the cause of freedom * * * I have written your dear wife and sent her a few dollars—I will continue to assist her." After The War of the Rebellion. Jourdon Anderson who escaped to Dayton, Ohio, from slavery answered oldest sister, Anderson, of Big Spring, Tenn., who urged him to come home and work for wares: "I served you faithfully 32 years and Mandy, my wife, 20 years. At $25 a month for me and $2 for Mandy, deducting clothing and doctors' bills and adding interest, you owe me $11,680. Please send by Adams Express. "If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises for the future." OHIO NEWS The Old Reliable" correspondents Doing Each Week—Church, Literary and Musical— Deaths, Etc. he is principal of Keystone-Eckman Junior High school. -Rev. S. E. Atkins, pastor of the A. M. E. church, on a on-two-week vacation. -Mrs. Mellie Carlisle has opened an ice-cream parlor and grocery store in the east end and the people in the north have the A. V. vision, then proceed. -Rev. Forrest Mitchell and family paid several visits to Jamestown while en route to and from the state S. S. convention. -Mr. and Mrs. Rosa Strange visited Mrs. M. Walker, Sunday. SHARLINE -Rising Sun Lodge, F. and A. M., gave a lawn-fete at stop 26, Thursday afternoon and evening. -Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Mercer, Somerset, are guests of Mrs. C. U. Murray, Mrs. Mercer is the latter's daughter. -Miss Emma Edwards, of Owensboro, Ky., is the guest of Atty, and Mrs. R. B. Crumpler. -Mrs. Burke was hostess to members of the Blue Bird Embroidery club, Thursday. -Rev. J. H. Canada, a former local pastor, is here visitant and B. & P. clubs are refusing to support candidate for sheriff Tom Causby. -That man in the White House, we call "Cal", the President of the U. S., is too silent for us. Our people here and in Youngstown ought to help defray the expenses of our candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. We learn to be practically the entire expense alone because he is striving to help them and not himself, says Mr. D. D. Dancy of Youngstown, and he is right! HILLSBORO.—Rev. R. L. Bray and J. J. Burr and Mr. Lang Young attended the state Baptist S. S. convention in Xenia, last Wednesday. Mrs. S. Payne of Bainbridge visited her daughter, Mrs. Charles Eas- "THE WHOLE NATION IS WATCHING". Jersey City, N. J., July 26, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. My dear Mr. Smith:—Please accept my congratulations upon your entrance in the race for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. The fair-minded citizens of the state have an opportunity to register their votes on the side of merit Dr. Wm. A. Byrd and statesmanship in voting for you. Colored citizens especially should give the world an example of voting solidarity in their support of your candidacy at the primary, August 10, 1926. Political America has never given your group and mine a square deal in the matter of holding offices and sharing in the administration of affairs. The whole nation is watching with anxious eye the steps of the colored voters in Ohio. Sincerely yours, (Rev.) Wm. A. Byrd. By W. C. Howells. Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer Bureau, 21 S. High Street. COLUMBUS, O., July 7, 1926. There are twelve Republican candidates for governor and the most present lies among four of them: Secretary of State Thad H. Brown, Treasurer of State Harry S. Day, Atty. Joseph B. Sieber (K. K. K.) of Akron, and Myers Y. Cooper (K. K. K.) Cincinnati realtor and candidate of the Hynicka organization. Politicians are making their selection from among this selections of the mayor, the mayor eight, however, offer opportunity for expression of almost any sort of view. Their Opportunity! Harry C. Smith of Cleveland, for six years a member of the Ohio Legislature and for forty-three years editor of The Gazette, a newspaper published in the interests of the Negro race offers that minority an opportunity to unite and nominate its candidate. He has twice been a candidate for governor and once for secretary of state (polling 61,081 votes); his name is by no means unknown. There are probably 175,000 colored voters in the state, all Republican. AT THE WEEK WE TRIED AT THE POLLS, THEY WOULD NOMINATE THEIR CANDIDATE IN ALL PROBABILITY. ton—Felix Johnson of Monroe Mich., was here, this week—Rev. R. L. Bray preached for Rev. S. Hester in Greenfield, Sunday afternoon. Others who attended were Mrs. Oliver Young, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highwarden, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Williams, Mr. J. Evans, Rev. Burr, C. M. Gragston, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Highwarden, Mr. and Mrs. H. Harry C. Smith, for Governor, at the primary—Mrs. Beryl Slaughter of Covington visited her mother, Mrs. Amanda Trimble—Mrs. Ol. Young and Charles Easton spent Monday in Washington C. H.—Rev. M. McClendon, pastor of the A. M. E. church, going to New York to visit Rep. Harry C. Smith, for Blanche Glilmore, of Cleveland, returned home, Sunday. They visited their parents. Their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Trimble, entertained. Thursday evening, with a family dinner in their honor—Mrs. Myrtle Taylor and children of Indianapolis are here for extended visits. Mrs. Clara Evans—Baldwin Mitchell of Dayton was here, Thursday. One Found On The S-51. Philadelphia, Pa.—George H. Martin, officer's cook, on the submarine, S-51, was the only Afro-American victim when the submarine was rammed and sunk by the passenger boat. His body together with the bodies of 18 whites was recovered, recently, and buried from his home at 1905 Federal St., this city. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS 470 Frank G. Carpenter, Republican candidate for judge of the court of common pleas, for the six year term, has practiced law continuously for nearly twenty-five years, the last fifteen years in Cuyahoga county. He was born on the banks of the Ohio River in Indiana. Dearborn 3rd, 1879. He practiced law about ten years in his native city and was elected two terms, on the Republican ticket, to serve as county prosecuting attorney. In 1905, Mr. Carpenter married Florence Hathaway, a welcoming Indian daughter, Lucile, Margaret and Priscilla. While attending Hiram College, he won a national reputation as a great basket-ball player. He was captain of the Hiram team that won games from Yale and all Ohio college teams. Mr. Carpenter has been president of the Yale Athletic Association since June, 1925, having recently been re-elected for a second time. He has always been a Republican. AN APPRECIATION! Unstinted Praise For Senator Willis From the President of the Virgin Islands Congressional Council. New York City, July 24, 1926 Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Clerk of the Court Sir:—The recent editorial in The Gazette on my article, entitled "Senator Willis and the Virgin Islands" was indeed a splendid one, and I hasten to express my thanks on behalf of the thousands of Virgin Islanders in New York for your statesmanlike presentation of an important public issue. The praise which you accorded in that editorial to the senator senator from your state is a tribute richly merited. Senator Willis, by his stand on the Virgin Islands and by his generous services on behalf of an outraged and down-trodden people, deserves the good will, gratitude, and support of all our people. Here was a case which it would have been comparatively easy to ignore, for the Virgin Islands are not in danger of being taken away by a statesman saw the path of public duty clear and trod with a certitude which affords the finest index to his character as a great American. He not only devoted his own time and labor to our cause but he also exerted his influence upon many of his fellow senators to the same end. And if today the cause of the Virgin Islands is nearer to a final resolution, we feel that we owe that beneficial result more to the labors of Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio than to those of any other man. It is not much that we can do for him in return but we will at least keep his memory green in our grateful hearts and hand it down to our posterity who will live to enjoy the blessings of that civil government which he has done and is doing so much to establish for us and for them. Sincerely, Casper Holstein, President Virginia Island Congressional Council. 114 And 110 Years Old. Van Buren, Ark.—Having discarded his corn-cob pipe for cigarettes forty years ago "Uncle Jimmy" McCann celebrated his 114th birthday, three weeks ago. Baltimore, Ma.—Mrs. Rebecca Green, age 110, of 13 Ware St., this city, was born during President Madison's administration. A physician who examined her, recently, said she's as sound as a dollar, only a little weak. The lesions She has had 126 descendants, including 16 children and 8 great, great grandchildren. Rah! for "Grandma" Green! Dead at 108. Urbana, O.—Mrs. Elizabeth Cross age 108, born at New Liberty, Ky. in Oct. 1817, died at her home, here, the first of the week. She had lived in Piqua and Urbana for the last thirty-six years. IN UNION IS STRONGER COPY FIVE CENTS DATE! K G. CARPENTER Binding Members of the Bar—Born "on Nominated—Highly Recommended. Mr. Carpenter is a member of the Cleveland, Ohio State and American Bar Associations, as well as the Masonic orders, K. of P., Knights of Malta, High Noon and Cleveland clubs. The Citizens league and board of the board of the Euclid Ave. Christian church. There are five Republican candidates for the six year term of common pleas judge, four to be nominated and elected. We believe the Republicans of this year will do well in selecting a Carpenter as a ace of the nomination for this most important position as he is well qualified by reason of long, continuous general practice of law, and is a man of the highest integrity, who would give everyone a 'square deal.' The Gazette recommends Attorney Carpenter to our voters in the Cleveland bar association to make the kind of judge we need and want because he is a gentleman and a real friend of the race. ASSURES HIS LOYAL SUPPORT! Cleveland, O., July 16, 1926. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. My dear friend Smith:—I am very glad that you have decided to yield to the request of your many friends, and have definitely entered the race for the Republican nomination for Governor of the state of Ohio. For this, I wish to congratulate you. It is needless for me to say that the position of governor of this state needs a man of your sterling worth, ability, and character. Our many years of experience in public life especially the six years you spent in the legislature of the state of Ohio, very aptly fit you for any position of responsibility and trust, in the state's service, you may seek. Your good work, done while you were there, shall forever stand out as a living monument to your everlasting credit. With your many friends and well-wisher, not only in the city of Cuyahoga county but also throughout the entire state of Ohio, we have an abiding faith that truth, fair-play and justice will get a hearing and that you will win. In a country of the free, there is no reason why all American-born citizens should not have a right to担任 any position of responsibility and treat the people, in proportion to their qualifications and merits. Please be assured that you have my full confidence and support. I am Sincerely yours, (Dr.) E. A. Bailey. Yes, God Save the Women! London, England—Mrs. John Knox Gilmer (white) of New Zealand, who has twice been presented at royal courts during twenty-four years last Saturday, she will not risk a third appearance. "In 1902," she explained, "it was considered awful for a debaute to show her toes. This time they showed their legs. I dread to think what it will be like at a 1940 function." Dr. Barret's Endorsement. Waterloo, Iowa, July 22, '26. Hon. Harvey C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Friend Smith: I do sincerely hope you will receive the nomination and be elected. If the Negroes of Ohio will stand back of a true and tried champion of the race as they should, you will surely be nominated. Sincerely, Dr. (Dr.) Samuel Barrett. Church Raised $600,000. Chicago II, Rev. L. K. Williams, Master of Olive J. Baptist church, was feted at the mortgage burning at the church, recently. Reports showed the church had raised $600,000 in ten years. A chair of 200, under E. H. Boatner, sang. --- O-OH GOODIE!--I've GOT A GREAT IDEA!--LET'S CHANGE SUITS, THEN GO DOWN TO THE BEACH AND FOOL ALL THE BOYS! DOES IT FASTEN HERE, SIS? NO!--HOOK IT ON THE OTHER SIDE! NOTICE! WHILE THE GIRLS ARE CHANGING BATHING SUITS WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE MUSIC! NOW WE'RE ALL SET! LET'S GO! WON'T IT BE FUN?--THEY'LL ALL THINK I'M YOU AND YOU'RE ME! GEE, YOU LOOK CUTE, MISS GEEVUM! OH BOY! OH LADY! LADY! Tim Early 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 826 W. Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. (Bell Phone: Cherry 1259) 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 or circulated in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will im- mediately 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. Prof. Carter G. Woodson's latest book, a race history, is invaluable and ought to be read by all of our adults, at least. --- Norfolk, Va., has a judge of its police court who has twice declared invalid a segregation ordinance of that city. Somebody must call that Detroit, Mich., judge's attention to this and make him feel "cheap". (Harry Wills), pugilist de luxe, and his manager Paddy Mullens, surely have made it exceedingly uncomfortable, these days, for one Jack Dempsey, champion heavyweight "pug". More power to you, Harry and Paddy. It seems Dr. H. C. Bailey put "Boss" Maurice Maschke "in a political hole" so deep that the latter "lost his head completely" and fathered the endorsement of a Ku Klux candidate (Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati) for the Republican nomination for Governor. At least two southern state courts and one Detroit court have recently rendered decisions in residential segregation cases that are in direct conflict with the U. S. Supreme court decision in the Warley case (1917). Of course, the decisions will not stand, if carried to that court, as they certainly should and doubtless will be. --- We are publishing only a very few of the many letters received anew our candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor because we want Ohio Afro-American voters, both male and female, to know what the thoughtful leading minds of the race, at home and in other states of the Union, think and how they feel about it. President Coolidge has referred that sad case of Private M. Smith of the 24th U. S. Infantry to the Secretary of War, a former California judge. We are hopeful that something will be done to avenge the brutal murder of an unarmed soldier and the aggrivating insult to the country whose uniform he wore when shot to death by a Georgia "cracker". --- Atty. Joseph B. Sieber of Akron was the acknowledged candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, two years ago, of the Ohio Ku Klux Klan and is one of their four candidates this year. Mr. Sieber does not deny this. The other three "Kluxer" candidates are Cooper, Brown and Buchanan. So pass the word along to all you meet. According to the People's Legislative Service, of Washington, D. C., "U. S. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, a dyeed-in-the-wool reactionary, is leading the great drive (in forty-five states) against the popular vote Primary system of elections". This, if true, means that "big business", with headquarters in New York City, wants to return to the old "boss-ridden" convention system for reasons obvious. If the people are wise they will retain the popular vote primary system of making nominations. The brutal murder, a few weeks ago, of Private Smith of the 24th U. S. Inf., by a Georgia "cracker" (an account of which appeared in The Gazette, last week), is being investigated "by the President's direction". We shall await the outcome with considerably more than the usual amount of interest because Mr. Coolidge has made it a rule, ever since he became President, to evade or dodge every issue put up to him by our people just like he has the federal segregation issue. Editor Wm. E. DuBols has written a chapter on "Negro" literature for the Encyclopedia Britannica and gone to Europe to lecture in Germany and Switzerland. DuBois is a splendid writer and a man of ability but showed just how dependable from a race standpoint he was during the Wilson administration when our leading men of the country were invited to Washington for a conference by Dr. Emmett J. Scott, then a special assistant secretary of war. DuBois was after a captaincy in the intelligence bureau of the war department at that time. FRANK B, WILLIS. Those people out there in the Virgin Islands, who are suffering most from the American southern Democratic "cracker" naval-control, are our people, and in spite of his Dutch name and temporary residence in this country, Casper Holstein is one of them. He speaks with authority, being president of the Virgin Islands Congressional Council. So when he tells you, as he does in his letter published elsewhere in this paper, what our senator Ohio U. S. Senator Frank B. Willis has done, has tried to do and is still trying to do for the Virgin Islands you can believe him. Our old colleague in the Ohio Legislature of 1900, the Senator, was Governor Frank B. Willis when we went to him, years ago, in the first successful effort of any state in this Union to bar that vicious and infamous "Birth (Rape) of a Nation" from its confines, and he "made good right off the reel". We did not have to beg and plead and make a great long argument, either, to get him to do his clear duty in the matter. Several times in recent years we have had to call on Senator Willis to keep prejudiced Democratic and Republican officials at the nation's capital from mistreating and dismissing high-class clerks (men and women) of class, and as usual he "made good" promptly every time, and, too, without "a whole lot" of begging and pleading. That's great big (both physically and mentally) Frank B. Willis and just so long as he remains that kind of a real practical friend of the race, just so long will "The Old Reliable" Gazette and its editor be real practical friends of the Senator. No measure of importance to the race that comes before the august body he graces as a member fails to secure his support. No individual of the race whose appointment to office has been considered by the U. S. Senate while Senator Willis has been a member has failed to get his support. What more can we ask? Well, we know, and we are going to ask and get it for our people, when the proper time arrives. Line up and vote for the Senator's renomination and re-election—in August and November. COOLIDGE SEGREGATION! We are wondering if some people can NOW see why the Gazette has for many months kept standing on its fourth page its "SEGREGATION AN OUTRAGE" articles which were specially written per by the most wretched man on the egal Afro-American at the nation's capital. This paper took the lead in that matter and for many months was alone in its public protest to President Coolidge against the contemptable, insulting practice. Month after month it publically called upon the race press and our national press up the hill in behalf of the race it was many months before any of them made a move toward doing so. Now comes the National Equal Rights league and performs a duty that our people of the entire country should not be slow to recognize and give unstinted praise, particularly Editor Wm. McCarthy, moving spirit. It is time, too, and has been for a long time, for others of our "national" organizations and race publications to awaken to a full sense of their responsibility in the matter and give our people some aggressive action against feared extortioners, going to get anywhere in this country, as far as our rights and privileges are concerned, until we are far more active in our own behalf. SENATOR WILLIES MAKES STRONG PLEA FOR JUSTICE IN OUR VIRGIN ISLANDS (Pastor, Nova, Service) (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C. July 23—During the rush hours, when the last Congress was about to close, many bills to die or obliterated. John Willis, who has always proves himself a champion for the right and a strong advocate for justice, made a strong and successful plea in the Senate to have a commission investigate conditions in the Virgin Islands. Senator Willis said in part: "Mr. President, I beg an oppor- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926. unity to make a brief statement to the Senate. I wish I might have the attention of every member of the Senate touching the concurrent resolution. Here is the situation: The Committee on Territories and the Senate touching the concurrent resolution very hard upon the question as to what ought to be done with reference to the Virgin Islands. It is a shame that these islands have been practically forgotten and neglected by the Government of the United States. There are 24,000 people who are living under what is tantamount to an autonomic government. These people came under the control of the government in the house. They have been neglected. Our committee has done the very best it could to reach a solution of the matter without such an investigation as is here proposed. We have taken testimony and investigated conditions as thoroughly as we could at long range and without personal touch with the situation. My own committee was that we had sufficient information to warrant immediate legislation for the establishment of a civil government, but the majority of the committee were of the opinion that careful personal investigation on the ground was desirable. Casper Holstein, president of the Virginia State Bar, a civil, who of course has been greatly interested in this legislation, writes Senator Willis as follows: "I wish to thank you both personally and on behalf of the thousands of natives of the Virgin Islands here (and there) for the very unselfish interest which you have taken in our behalf." Additional Locals Father and son were killed, July 17, as the result of an altercation over a girl. Willie Calloway, age 21, of 2670 E. 63d St., was found dead early one morning, last week, at E. 63d and Beaver Ave., having been stabbed through the heart by his father, Jason Calloway, age 63, it is said, who was later shot and killed by police of the E. 79th St.-Woodland Ave. station when trying to get away. The Co. Manager we said to have quarreled over a girl in the kitchen of their home. The father, said to have been under the influence of hooch, drew a knife and stabbed his son through the throat and chest. Young Calloway was taken to St. Luke's hospital and died there. After being stabbed the young man staggered to the street and fell unconscious. When police arrived, the father was fleeing from the house. Police Sergeant Neilson ordered him to halt FREE CANDY CIGARS FLOWERS WITH OPENING DAY PURCHASES ANNOUNCEMENT WEAVER DRUG CO. will open its new Drug Store. Branch No. 3 in the palatial lobby of the Majestic Hotel, E. 55th St. and Central Ave., on or about SATURDAY, JULY 31. 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WYNNE & EASLEY Funeral Directors 2262 E. 55TH STREET 'Phone, Ran. 6466 but the order was unheeded. The sergeant fired as Calloway was about to jump the fence in the rear of 2707 E. 644th St. and the latter fell dead with bullets in his head and neck. He was taken to the county morgue and then to Forbes Brother's undertakers establishment on Woodland Ave. Our local Elks are all ready for the annual national session of our Grand Lodge of the I. B. P. O. of E. of the W! This the dedication exercises and opening of the new $100,000 home of Cuyahoga Lodge, at 2226 E. 55th St. Saturday and Sunday, showed beyond all question or doubt. It was a great success, as planned by Dr. Leroy N. Bundy, chairman of the collection committee of exceptionally fine grade of local fraternal orders was a feature of the exercises and Grand Exalted Ruler, Editor J. Finley Wilson of Washington, D. C. was in attendance, too. The new home is one of the finest of its kind in the country. 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The American Woodmen are making preparations to attend their district convention in Detroit, carrying their prize-winning band, two uniformed ranks, nurses and juveniles. Frank Taylor, age 39. E. 40th St. and Scovill Taylor, was charged. Monday, by police with shooting to kill James Everhard who was THE GEEVU LISTEN PARLOO NOO SH TH THE GEEVUM GIRLS *M. KLEINMAN'S 2928 Central Ave. *THE S. & S. DRUG CO. 7325 Central Ave. The Gazette regularly should notify copy delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette n. 226 West Superior Ave., oppo- you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's purchases. Business men who have the patronage of our people. assurance that they want it. education in current issues of The by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that advertisements accepted until C. SMITH, Avenue, Cleveland, O. Kel Cleveland. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1259 (Call in the Afternoon.) Department . . . WANTED—Ladies—to finish silk underwear, at home by hand or machine. 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Tuesday evening, the senior chair of Antioch Baptist church was presented by the senior chair of St James A. M. E. church, rendering "The Holy City", a beautiful cantata, under the direction of Prof Henderson, its organist and chorister. Dr. and Mrs. J. K. Nickens entertained at dinner, at the Mary Jane Hostess house, 2180 E. 83rd St., Sunday, Mrs. Nickens' birthday, Dr. and Mrs. Armen G. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Seth Nickens, Mrs. T Don Berry and daughter, Lillian, of Youngstown. In the absence of the rector, Rev. W. B. Suthern, of St. Andrew's P. E. church, Sunday last, a large and intelligent congregation, mostly young people, listened with much interest and enjoyed Deen's reading of the service and delivery of an address on the subject, "Unseen Forces Within Our Grasp". The speaker, like wine, seems to improve with age. St. John's vacation bible class is making a splendid display under the guidance of the following named teachers: Mrs. Lenora Bedford Craig and Mrs Dorothy Scott, kindergarten department; Mrs. Vasilch Clarke Scott, primary; Mrs. Bertha Austin, intermediate, and Mrs. W. A. Seventy-five pupils are enrolled and more are joining daily. The moth-eaten and dust-covered "gag" about the proverbial mother-in-law falls flat when you consider Mrs. Julia Thomas, 1730 E. 84th St., the mother of Mrs. Chester K. Gillespie. Atty Gillespie is a candidate for nomination as a state representative, and his mother-in-law is M GIRLS DAD!--GO IN THE SHE AND ASK MISS DIE TO COME HERE! MES THE GIRL WITH THE LOW NECK GOWN WHY SURE, DEAR! THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926. campaigning for him. Last week Thursday night, she delivered a good campaign speech at the East End Political club meeting in her son-in-laws behalf. The local Republican organization has endorsed Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati, one of the four Ku Klux Klan candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. He has never held public office and therefore is not fit for the place. He is committed Gov. A. V. Donley will surely defeat him and easily, too. Do not vote for Cooper! Be loyal and vote for our own candidate. U. S. Senator Frank B. Willis will be one of the principal speakers at the opening session of the annual conference of our National Business League which convenes here, Aug. 18 to 20. Other speakers include Mayor John D. Marshall, Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee, Ala. N. & I. school and president of the league; T. K. Johnson, president of the S. L. & C. Inse Thomas; Columbus; Councilman Thomas W. Fleming and Herbert S. Chauncey, president of the local branch of the league and the new president of the Empire Savings & Loan Co. Mrs. Maude W. Rhodes, well and most favorably known, has opened the Mary Jane Hostess house at 2180 E. E. 38rd St.; phone, Gar. 815-M. Associated with Mrs. Rhodes is her sister, Mrs. Grace W. Brown, both expert caterers and chefs. There are none better, of any class or race in this city. Mesdames Rhodes and Brown are just as well experienced in housekeeping, too. The result is the most fashionable one of the nearest, nicest, and best places of the kind in the city. The Gazette recommends it highly to all. Be sure to read the Mary Jane Hostess house advertisement elsewhere in this paper. Cleveland's alumni chapter of the Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity may in office of Dr. V. O. Beck, recently, and its reports clearly indicated the splendid progress being made under the leadership of Dr. Oliver A. Taylor, polemarch. The most encouraging indication of business progress any of our people in this community has evidenced in many years is being given by The Weaver Drug Co., Dr. F. H. Weaver (manager) and Dr. A. J. Pope. In addition to their two splendid stores in Woodland and Cedar Aves., they are opening, today, in the lobby of the Majestic Hotel a new drug store, officially designated as "Branch No. 2," which ought to and should doubleless will prove popular with the large number of our people living in that vicinity. Sincerest <congratulations and best wishes, from "The Old Reliable" Gazette, Drs. Weaver and Pope. The funeral services of Thomas W. Walker, age 84, of Pine Ave., one of our oldest residents, were held, last week Wednesday, Rev. W. B. Sutherland of St. Andrews Episcopal church and local Knights Templar officiating. The deceased was a former senior warrior and one of the oldest Masons in the church. Mr. Walker died, July 17, at 2233 E. 84th st, the residence of his son. After the episcopal service the body was escorted to St. John's A. M. E. church for the masonic service, the order's band heading the funeral procession. 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For instance, almost all parks President Wilson never troubled, but the present administration has found time and desire to introduce it even there. To many people, segregation is a Democratic scheme of insult, but such is not the case. Mr. Taft introduced it in the bureau of engraving. He segregated the census-takers in this city in 1891 by giving black white people, and black to black, often duplicating work as most blocks had white and black residents. And, worst of all, an announced in his official capacity that Negroes should not hold office where white people complained. Segregation, then, is a hard situation and not Democratic one. Negroes are by Republicans, and carried on to its all-enbracing extent by Republicans! There is far more of it in the departments, today, than at any time since the Negro first appeared, close upon the close of the Civil War. The picture requirement in the civil service, which makes it next to impossible for a colored lady or gentleman to enter the civil service, since their color is disclosed in their photograph which must accompany their papers, is tenaciously held by our Republican President. Only last week, a colored girl appeared after having passed the best examination, and having been telegraphed by the department. The photograph had failed to tell her true color, and they flatly refused to appoint her when she appeared, and they saw her complexion. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau with thousands of clerks will not appoint a Negro clerk, and his word is law there, as he is the special favorite of Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge. From North Carolina, the home of the other favorite and leader of the segregationists, Col. Sherrill, superintendent of buildings and grounds, it is no use to complain of either of these southern gentlemen. The colored people here who know the President could destroy segregation in the departments of the government, and the photograph requirements in the civil service by the mere nod of his head, are at a loss to understand why he does not put the official declarations on memory into operation here where it would not even cost him a single vote and where he has full power and absolutely no opposition. They wonder if he is not a firm believer in segregation, especially since segregation is one of the great sets of ethics which has its "welcome home" in the Republican party, and receives no condemnation from the Republican President. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—In the postfive olympiad is rampant. The faithful colored clerks work under constant humiliation and physical disadvantages. The department maintains a spacious cateria for whites only, where these inferior white clerks can buy appetizing luncheons and chat in comfort while eating, while the colored clerks must bring cold luncheons from home and eat them any place they can. The physical discomfort, disadvantageous as it is, is far less galling to the colored clerks than is the thought of their government taking their taxes, as it takes those of the whites, for the comfort of the latter, and bringing them off as though they were loosened. The injustice stings all the more when they predict that they are far more liable than the whites, and for the government more intelligent and efficient service—the white man of their attainment being able to get far more lucrative employment. The department goes even farther in its solicitude for whites and neglect of colored. It maintains a well-appointed club room with pool tables and other games, comfortable lounges and other equipment for rest, sociability, and recreation, and nothing for these same colored employees. This private club is in the magnificent postoffice building, built and maintained by ALL of the people. In the lockers there is segregation and segregation is even attested in the toilets. And all of them is against the most dependable and faithful employees. Last year the white employees passed around invitations to the white employees, in the very presence of the colored, to attend a reception to the heads of departments, including the postmaster general, in the postoffice building. It announced dancing and a pleasant social evening with the officials for "the postoffice employees," yet not one was delivered to the colored clerks. I hurried a protest to the postmaster general the day before it was come off, and he ordered the postmaster to invite the colored as well as the white. These clerks get around their colored co-workers by giving the function at a local hotel. It is inevitable that the wicked spirit of segregation would express itself in appointments, assignments, and salaries. Colored applicants are often passed over though their examination was superior. No Negro, however efficient or old in the service, must ever dream of a promotion to a directive position. The hard, unyielding caste passes with him, one after another, though many of the colored employees have won contests of quickness and accuracy in handling of mail. The colored clerks have dared to form a union which meets regularly and often sends manly and intelligent protests to the postmaster, and often appeals from his decisions to the postmaster-general. It has secured some improvement in their working conditions, but they are still bitter over the huge injustice done to them for nothing else than the color of their skin. (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 color. 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 difference in this huge structure, where all of the employees may be, but there are 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 bars promotions. Here, as elsewhere, the law requires that 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 spunky attitude in 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 who have a social class, and then dismisses a trump-up charge. He was a night-employee, hence he carried a pistol. Right after the dance incident a 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 one for carrying concealed weapons for such an immediately discharged. 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 pariah 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, but never given a shining name! The decision to take 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 THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, QSATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926. is so well settled upon it, and the complainants cannot bear witness (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.-Segregation in the bureau of engraving and printing has an interesting history involving President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and members of his family, three heroic young colored women who lost their positions as a result of their protest, and the noble wife of Senator Robert La Follette. Shortly after the accession of Mr. Wilson to the White House, a member of his family visited the bureau where she saw white and colored girls working together in perfect harmony, oblivious to any thought race. After a came an order for segregation of the city and a white lady who had been noted for her philanthropy among our people and who was upon intimate terms at the White House appeared at the bureau to tell our girls to be contented with the new order as "a great Negro leader had taught colored people to stay in their places." Three of the young ladies resisted the order to the last ditch and were summarily dismissed! Senator La Follette lodged a protest with Secretary McAdoo to no avail, and his noble wife began a crusade against the undemocratic innovation. She took the platform here in Washington and Boston before the famous Twentieth Century club. She used the columns of the Senator's magazine, sparing neither space nor vigor of utterance. She thundered against it in our local white press, and addressed the national gathering of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in New York. When our people here were so profoundly discuraged, she came out one stormy afternoon to the Y. M. C. A. to urge them to be at the crises, Oswald Garrison Villard came to town to attack White House and Cabinet and arouse our people, and the Nation Association secured publicity in over six hundred influential white papers in the country. The fight checked what was thought to be the intention of the segregates, namely, the elimination of the colored employees from the bureau altogether. The same segregation which some of our people think is the cherished institution of the Democratic party is still there, in all of its fullness, under the administration of the party that Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass are helped to found. Our girls are employed there in far larger numbers than in any other branch of the public service. THEY ARE SEGREAT the rooms, toilets, and working stations, of all of none are ever thought of for promotions to executive places. They are girls from our best nomes, most of them with high and normal school training, and fine culture. The white girls are of no such grade, as there is no segregation for them in the great world of things. They have unlimited fields at high wage for even mediocre talents. The best of our girls must take these inferior positions, the inevitable result of segregation. They have no training for the issuance of an order destroying this iniquitous practice in all of our government departments, for it not only humiliates the best of the government servants but impairs the government service. (Special to The Gazette) Washington, D. C.—The treasury department, according to the President's recent acceptance speech, is now under the ablest financial genius since the days of Alexander Hamilton. It is to be remembered that the President was a man of indies, and in that long sweep of history that the President traversed are the mighty Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury in Lincoln's cabinet, who, in a national extremity such as this country has never been a system which financed the Civil War; and Ohio's master financier, John Sherman. These men never knew what segregation was! The present head of the department of internal revenue, Mr. Blair from North Carolina, has not appointed a colored clerk since his incumbency. While his predecessor, Mr. Daniel Roper, a Democrat from Texas, appointed and promoted several of them. Since the income tax legislation and the numberless new taxes that the recent war necessitated, this has been the main source of the taxury, employing several thousand clerks. Yet Negroes are so scarse there that they can't be noticed. There is the same general complaint here among our clerks and other employees as there is in the other branches of the government—failure to recognize their efficiency when promotions are due; ability to go so far and no farther. The various forms of segregation exist here as well as elsewhere—the restaurants closed or divided along color lines, and special toilets, locker rooms, rest rooms, etc., set off for colored. The toilets for the colored rooms are not in the same locker. Hence, the segregated clerks are forced to endure physical inconvenience at times, and are forced to travel long distances when they desire the use of them. The department maintains a huge, magnificent cafeteria, in the splendid sweep of woodland along our national drive. Every class can come to rest, dine, and socialize at afternoons and evenings at minimum costs. The white press of the city is constantly telling of the thousands who take advantage of this "delightful retreat," and the festive scene that their presence creates. It seats two thousand diners with space to spare; but not one Negro! His only share is in the taxes he is forced to pay for this luxury for another group! The registries of the treasury, which Republican Presidents have given the Negro since Garfield appointed Blanch K. Bruce, is now filled by a white man, and the colored people are congregated in a separate room which is publicly proclaimed as "a colored division." When it is discovered that Negro clerks are "working as white" in other divisions, they are promptly transferred to this "colored division." Our people fear that protest against this segregation would result in the abolition of the division among; so they remain in a dilemma, fearing to act. Our clerks must accept segregation or elimination, and being poor, with no other opportunities in this southern atmosphere, must take the former. They are depressed at the wrong, but economic stress compels endurance of it. By a single stroke of his pen, President Calvin Coolidge can stop every bit of this damnable segregation, just as he can condemn that lawless organization the Ku Klux Klan. ENDORSES OUR CANDIDATE For the Republican Nomination for Governor—The Newburgh Independent Republican Club (White). The Newburgh Independent Republican Club, Turney and Warner roads and Broadway S. E., July 15, 1926, elected officers and indorsed a state of local and state candidates. The state approved includes: Judge James B. Ruhl, Judge Samuel H. Silbert and Judge Thomas H. Kennedy for common pleas court; Judge George S. Addams for probate court, George Wallace for county clerk, Joseph E. Chizek for state representative, Hon. Harry C. Smith for governor and Hon. H. I. Emerson for lieutenant governor. The Association is by the club as Carl Wilson, white, and Dr. W. S. Staniford, secretary-treasurer. Both Thanks The Club Cleveland, O., July 16, 1926 Dr. W. F. Staniforth. Sec., The Newburgh Independen Ben. Club. I have just noticed in the morning paper the Newburgh Independent Republican Club's very kind and thoughtful endorsement of my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor and wish, thru you my long-time friend, to express my thoro appreciation of the same. And also to say that it is very encouraging indeed to see you win. I have lived for more than sixty years, leading in this respect. For more than forty years I have been an active participant in the efforts of the Republican party of Ohio to win success at the polls. Always trying to help others without regard for race or religion and am greatly pleased to note the fact that the Newburgh Independent Republican Club found, as the result of broadminded consideration of individuals, as well as issues, in its endorsement of candidates for office. Sincerely trusting that success will be ours at the primaries, Aug, 10, 1926, and again thanking you, one and all. I am sincerely According to daily newspapers, the local Republican organization is accusing Secretary of State Thad H. Brown of Columbus, Joseph B. Sheber of Arkansas Myers, and John A. McCarthy of Representative Ross J. Buchanan of Carrollton, all candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, of being Ku Klux Klan candidates. Our people thrust the state should keep the people in the garden of what political leaders, black or white, may say to you. --- Smith, Our Candidate! Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette for forty-three years, has filed his papers for the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio. There are about forty candidates in field for the same position. If Mr. Smith is nominated and elected he will make one of the best governors Ohio has ever had, as he believes in a fair deal for all races, whether in prison or out. Public improvements will go on, the laws will be upheld, the farmers will be encouraged, business men encouraged to buy industrial plants and hire more of our people so that the outside world will buy more from this part of the land. Success to you, Mr. Smith. We need such a man as you as governor.—Dr. James K. Nickens, Cleveland correspondent of The Pittsburg Courier. No Dempsey-Tunney Match! New York City—New York definitely slammed the door on Tex Rickard's alleged orphan heavy-weight championship Dempsey-Tunney match, last week Tuesday, when the state athletic commission, by a 2 to 1 vote, tabled an application to reconsider its stand in opposition to Dempsey-Tunney championship bout, this fall. Then it will be Wills vs Tunney. Chairman James A. Farley and Commissioner George H. Brower, Democratic members of the board, cast the ballots which pigeonholed Commissioner William Muldoon's motion to reopen the case and that's that. Thus endeth the "steenth" effort of the prejudiced, pro- Dempsey sport-liter-writers, and their provincial coworkers, Will Wills, to "bull" the N. Y. athletic commission and President B. C. Clements of the Chicago Collegiate Athletic club into sidetracking Harry Wills for "Easy-meat" Tunney, at best would be but a "set-up" for either Wills or Dempsey even though the latter has "gone back" some as of class; for there is more, other than Dempsey's massacre. Will Wills, the official accused of poor newspaper "fish" have turned their guns on Clements, and the commission again. This time by way of Chicago, while Tex Rickard, whom they so often allege to speak for, keeps discreetly silent and "saws wood," saying nothing. You sure must take off your hat to Commission者 A. Farley, for he is as broadminded as he could, the official to his "fellow-irishman," the artist-dogger, who some say enlisted in the War and some are mean enough to say he did not, and undertake to tell how and why he did not, going so far as term him a "slacker." Elites. Lose. As. Usual. The Cleveland Elites fell before the crack Homestead Grays, 15 to 3, at Hooper field, Sunday afternoon. Errors accounted largely for the victory of the Pittsburgh nine. The Elites were not baffled by the shoots of Leffy Streeter, the Gray's pitching ace, gathering thirteen hits, including two doubles and a homer. Sensational fielding by the visitors held the Elites to three. Great spite of their fiery hitting, the Grays scored fourteen hits and were considerably aided in the early innings by poor fielding. They will play the General Tires at Akron, tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon. More About the Wills-Dempsey Match Chicago, Ill.—B. C. Clements, Tex Rickard's rival stands firm in his position that he holds a contract calling for a Dempsey-Wills match here—a contract made to him of $10 money for the $10 of $10 spot cash for his signature and calling for $300,000 on Aug. 5 and $500, 000 more the day Dempsey steps into the ring with his master challenger. The $300,000, said Clem- mert Rickard Proffered to Dempsey on the specified date, about a forty-night hence. Wills And Dempsey to be Licensed. Meanwhile Mullins, Harry's manager, will be asked, upon his arrival here, to register Wills with the lately created Illinois boxing commission, to have him licensed as a boxer, and to otherwise make ready for the Dempsey-Wills combat here at Soldiers field, or elsewhere if the Illinois boxing commission rules against the contest, between Sept. 16 and 20. Dempsey has been notified, sold Clements, to take similar steps, and to appear for free to the tournament, and to Aug. 6. If he fails to comply, the promoter declared, coercion will be brought to bear in the nature of court action preventing the champion from appearing under the Rickard banner until he has fulfilled his obligations to Clements and the Chicago Coliseum club which he represents. Dempsey Kidded Rickard Dempsey Kidded Rickard. "Dempsey must have been kidding me when he signed a contract with me at Ft. Worth, Tex., last spring." The statement came from Tex after he had sent to Milwaukee for Ray Cannon, former attorney for Dempsey, and after Cannon informed him the Coliseum club's contract with Dempsey was legal. Wills Got $50,000 The original articles for the Dempsey-Wills match were drawn in South Bend, Ind., and signed in Niles, Mich., last September, under Promoter Fitzsimmons' direction. Dempsey has not received any consideration (other than the $10 mentioned) for signing that set of arrows in the image, paid by Andrew M. Weisberg, a South Bend hotel man, and so far as is known Wills still holds the money Sure he does! The Brown Store Win Warren O. In a great pitcher's battle here, Saturday afternoon, between Walker and Hoff the Brown Stars downed Pete Henry's Bulldog Clowns, 3 to 2. Going into the eighth trailing, 2 to 0, an error, a base on balls followed by a double and triple accounted for all of their runs. Chairman Farley "Stands Pat." New York City, July 29.—"I still stand pat on my attitude against a Dempsey-Tunney bout," said James A. Farley, chairman of the New York state athletic commission, when told of Tex Rickkard's announcement that he would bring the bout back to New York and appease the commission in response to Commissioner George Brower's wired invitation. "Rickard couldn't put it over in Chicago and he won't be able to do it in New York, either," declared Despite Rickard's coralling of an additional supporter in Commissioner Brower, those wise in the technical ways of the boxing body saw an insurmountable obstacle or barrier in Rickard's path. John J. Phelan, as chairman of the license committee, holds the official control over all proposed bouts, it was pointed out. The commission now, by a vote of 4 to 1, recommends that he match the acceptance accord or reject the recommendation as he may see fit. Phelan is rated a hard-and-fast Fareley adherent, so that the granting of a license for a Dempsey-Tunney bout over the wishes of Fareley would reflect even a greater about-face than Brower's desertion of Fareley, and is not at all likely to be done. And then there is another technical match, which would be before Tunney can face Dempsey in the ring. Tunney, at the present time, is not a licensed fighter in New York state, having allowed his certificate to lapse. Then, too, President Clements of Chicago can go into the U. S. courts and stop such a contest, as the result of his contract with Dempsey and Wills. Folks who have been invited to the board of Brower and Muldoon, the chairman of the license committee, Col John J. Phelan, retainer that the license committee would refuse to grant a license for a Dempsey-Tunney bout. He threatened Rickard with loss of license if the promoter persisted in his plans, and that that's that! Harry Wills manager Maddy Mullins, said he would pay $50,000 withdraw the Wills challenge but had refused it. He said the offer was made by a man who said he was talking for Tex Rickard. U. N. L. A. Buys College. Claremont, Va.—Smallwood-Corsey Industrial Institute, consisting of 66 acres in Surry county, fronting a mile on the James River, with nine buildings, one a four-story brick class room building which cost $100,000, has been purchased by Marcus Clement, will be opened as a college. The property is assessed at $250,000 and is mortgaged for $53,000. DO NOT SIGN! The politicians are trying to knock out the popular vote primary now in effect, claiming that "only 10 or 15 percent of the total vote of the people is cast at primary elections". This is not often true, but if it were the popular vote primary is infinitely to be preferred to a return to the old convention, dominated by one of the major parties, what is they want again and are working for when they ask you to sign petitions to resubmit the matter of popular vote primary elections to a vote at the next election. This has been done, several times, in the past with the result the pollsters voted down and the popular vote primary endorsed and retained. It is far better to have nominations made by 10 or 15 percent of the total vote than to have them dictated by the political bosses who do not constitute one per cent of the population of thinking voters have not so soon forgotten what forced the "junking" of the old convention plan of "making nominations". It's rottenness and baneful results, too often, brought about the "junking", and ought never to be lost sight of for the convention plan of the popular primary with its few imperfections is far and away superior to the convention plan of making nominations for reasons stated and others, and until a better popular vote plan is found, the one we have should and doubtless will be retained, regardless of the political bosses and ouriliar members, for the sole purpose of substituting the old or any convention plan, and regaining control of nominations for public offices. Ohio Afro-American voters, of all others in the state, would be most harmed by a return to the convention plan of making nominations because it would stop any of our number in this state from being a candidate for public office of any consequence. Whether we are elected or not, we should at least, in common with all other classes or races of voters, be permitted to stand as candidates for any public office, and should not in this state be allowed to be we always were under the old convention plan. Do not be misled by any specious argument of politicians or others into signing the petitions now being circulated throughout the state which ask that the popular vote primary be resubmitted to a primary election. Surely you know that the political bosses are depending on the notorious crookedness (they more than anyone or anything else is responsible for) which is invoked on primary election day, to do away with the popular vote primary. Make yourself committee of one to ex-convince this to all you come in contact with. THOMAS SENDS TEN DOLLARS! To Help Increase the Campaign Fund of Our Candidate For the Republican Nomination For Governor—Prof. Neval H. Thomas. Washington, D. C., July 14, '26. Hon. Harry C. Smith. My dear Harry:--I am happy to know that you have entered the gubernatorial race again, and I certainly hope our people of our state (Ohio) will rise to their opportunity and nominate you. In your long career of devoted service you have never faltered in your trust. You have sold out to the company which a man of your commanding influence among our masses could have done many times and made large pecuniary rewards. Since first I could read, I have read "The Old Reliable" Gazette which through the long years has thundered like a mighty trumpet for the oppressed of men. Above all, the gubernatorial temper it has stood like granite against the onward march of our country's cursed caste. As a statesman, you have enriched the legislative annals of the state, by giving us two great bulwarks of personal liberty—the Civil Rights law and The Anti-Lynching law—legislation that has protected statesmen, Wade, Sherman, Chase, and Foraker. No white candidate running against you can, or will, rise to the bigness of such achievement. There is only one thing for our people to do, and that is to resist the appeal of the time-serving, self-seeking politician who is palked in pale colonies on the magic names of Lincoln, Grant, Sumner, and Frederick Douglass. Segregation, that strangling monster that was invented to huddle a great people into a ghetto, destroy his self-respect and make the dominant group hold him in contempt, is the order of the day here in both the national and the municipal governments. It goes on without any abatement whatever; in fact, we are getting new cases of it frequently. Our people must array themselves against it with more determined purpose and more solidarity of action than ever before. Certainly, the election of men and women of office and the curie intelligence and racial loyalty that such election develops and displays, will serve beyond measure to rid our country of this undemocratic and insulting practice. I shall appeal to my black fellow-countrymen throughout the nation for small contributions to so worthy a cause, for no great movement can be built. Rapidly without material support, I will deny my own cheque for ten dollars as patriotic contribution to my race and country, for this is the cause of democracy, the only basis upon which the nation can endure. Neval H. Thomas. DR. BAILEY "CALLS MASCHKE'S HAND" Cleveland, July 12, '26. Cleveland, July 12, '26 Mr. Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman, Cleveland, Ohio Six times. Sometimes ago you said that you would not "endorse any Republican candidate for Gov- ernor unless Cuyahoga county enter- ed a candidate"—something it has done in the person of the Hon. Harry C. Smith, our Cleveland can- did. Now Mr. Maschke keep your promise and you are a man of your word by endorsing Mr. Smith whom you long ago styled one of the best campaign speakers this town or county had produced. His six years' service (three times) makes him eligible for nomination to any state office and his ability to perform the duties of the office has never been questioned. Six years ago, as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Secre- tory of State Mr. Smith polled over 61,000 votes. Yours truly, (Rev.) Horace C. Bailey, 2244 E. 43rd St., City. The intensive politician drive to obtain 250,000 signatures in less than forty days on the initiated petition for an amendment to the Ohio constitution which will eliminate the popular vote primary system, now made mandatory by the basic law of the state, is under way. DO NOT SIGN! "AN OUNCE OF GRATITUDE". Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, My dear Harry:—The Civil Rights and Anti-Lynching Laws, placed upon Ohio's statutes through your efforts; the forty-three years of splendid service rendered by The Gazette in championing the Afro-American's cause, fighting prejudice, segregation and injustice of every description; your clean public record and spotless character; these services and more, should prompt every Afro-American who has an ounce of gratitude within him, to support you in every way possible in the fight the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. Accompanying our earnest wishes for your success is the enclose check for twenty dollars. Sincerely, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cook