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AT Antioch Baptist Church 24th and Central Sunday, November 11th 3:30 P. M. spices, Cleveland Branch, N. A. A. C. RE-ELECT Congressman Robert CROSSE Congress—21st Disc Able, Independent and Courageous His Constituents Can Always Reach His "Republican Effici FORTY-SIXTH YEAR. No.13. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY To learn Dickinson Shorthand in three to six weeks, for a better position. Send for free information. Your Manuscripts Nearly and Accurately Typed. Prompt, Efficient Service at Reasonable Rates. Dickinson Shorthand is the shortest of shorthands—the modern way to better pay. The simplest system of rapid writing, the most natural and logical way to take dictations. The shortest simple system before the public, today, and you can learn it in from three to six weeks. SEND FOR FREE INFORMATION R. B. MAXWELL, Authors Agent, P. O. Box 270, Blocton, Ala. ADDRESS By— William S. Pickens Field Secretary, N. A. A. C. P. AT Antioch Baptist Church 24th and Central Sunday, November 11th 3:30 P. M. Auspices, Cleveland Branch, N. A. A. C. P. To County Offices Republican Eff has made possible the living conditions, idale protection of those living in Cuyahoga eight candidates for on the Republican offices has a record Each candidate is w Republican Efficiency in Coun- tries possible the steady growth, in- ditions, ideal surroundings protection of the home and fa- fing in Cuyahoga County. Ea- candidates for election and re- publican ticket to the eighth was a record for public achi- cidate is well equipped for it Republican Efficiency in County Offices has made possible the steady growth, improved living conditions, ideal surroundings and complete protection of the home and family for those living in Cuyahoga County. Each of the eight candidates for election and re-election on the Republican ticket to the eight county offices has a record for public achievement. Each candidate is well equipped for the office to which he was nominated by his party: Re-elect GEORGE WALLACE CLERK Present County Clerk Re-elect J. H. HARRIS County Commissioner Present County Commissioner Elect JOHN G. TOMSON SHERIFF Former Commissioner of Streets Elect L. G. COLLISTER TREASURER Member of Ohio Senate 6 Years Elect FRED R. WILLIAMS SURVEYOR Present County Sanitary Engineer Elect WALTER E. COOK County Commissioner Present County Treasurer Elect ARTHUR H. D A Y PROSECUTOR Former State Senator Elect DR. ARTHUR J. PEARCE CORONER Present County Coroner Vote November 6th for the Republican County Candidates THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1928. "Jim Crow" Cage at Democratic Convention 8 How the Smith-Robinson Convention Received "Negroes". RE-ELECT JUDGE POWELL! Chief Justice Powell of Our Common Pleas Court Has Made it the Best Trial Court in the Country. Judge Homer G. Powell, now chief justice of our common pleas court, has helped to make that court "The Best Trial Court in the United States." Under his administration as chief justice of the common pleas court of Cuyahoga county: The average cost per case has been reduced from $38.25 to $21.30, a net reduction of 44 per cent to each litigant. The segregated section for "Negroes" at the democratic national convention at Houston, Texas, which nominated Gov. Al. Smith and Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas, was built with children-wife and coased many hardwarnings among our people who had been trapped into believing that Smith and his supporters would treat them fairly, at least decently! No "Negro" delegate was allowed in the convention, either, and the convention was virtually opened with the lynching of a "Negro", as all know. JACKSON WILL STAY ON BALLOT No legal recourse is open to defeated Republican legislative candidates by which they might remove the name of Perry B. Jackson, nominee for the General Assembly, from the ballot, next Tuesday, Attorney General Edward C. Turner declared Monday. The question of Jackson's status in the election, next week, arose when Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown, in his formal state- Since 1922, a saving of $1,030, $33.59 has been effected. The savings to taxpayers for petit jurors since 1922 totals $125,952.50. Cuyahoga county common pleas court has nationally recognized probation, domestic relations and psychiatric departments. In 1922, the court disposed of 10,923 cases. In 1927, the same court, under chief justice system, disposed of 20,347 cases. Cuyahoga county common pleas court has developed into "The Best Trial Court in the United States," so recognized in the American Judicature Society Journal, June, 1924. Born in Hancock County, Ohio, Jan. 29th, 1869. Education at Ohio Northern University; graduate of Michigan University, 1895. Attmitted to the bar game year, and practiced law until 1914. Judge G. Powell is up for re-election. Tuesday, and our people should vote for him. The editor of The Gazette, who has known him well for many years, urges all to do so. Adv. The segregated section for "Negroes" at the Democratic national convention at Houston, Texas, which nominated Gov. Al. Smith and Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas, was built with chicken-wire and caused many heart-burnings among our people who had been affected by the Smith and his supporters would treat them fairly, at least decently! No "Negro" delegate was allowed in the convention, either, and the convention was virtually opened with the lynching of a "Negro", as all know. A party which cages "Negro" visitors like animals to teapers at its national convention, as the Democratic party did at Houston, Tex, a few months ago, and which permits "Negroes" only in "jim-crow" headquarters and organizations, is a party from which every "Negro" who possesses a spark of decency and self and race-respect, must turn in loathing and disgust. A party which convenes under the shadow of the hanging body of a "Negro" who was taken from a hospital and brutally lynched, and which utters not one word in condemnation of this terrible deed, is certainly not a party that "Negroes" can support. - Geraldyn Dismond, editor N. Y. City "Inter-State Tattler." OVER $100,000 Spent by "Negroes" Supporting Smith and Robinson—Ransom, Thompson and Dickerson, Leaders. New York City.—Wm. Gaston, treasurer of our Smith for President league, with headquarters at 126 W. 45th St., this city, reported, up to Oct. 25, receipts of $100,750 and expenditures of $98,604. This is all from the Democratic National Committee except $250, given by Wm. Eno of Connecticut. The expenditures, "which have been widely distributed," have largely gone to Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom for activities in N. J.; to W. J. Thompkins, in charge of the activities for our voters at St. Louis; and E. B. Dickerson, regional director at Chicago, in charge of activities there. N. Y. Herald-Tribune, Oct. 30, 1928. Fred R. Williams, Republican candidate for county surveyor, recently announced to the old employees of the office and the department that as they did against him at the primary election, and he is electe he would retain all of them. This is very encouraging, indeed, especially so to our employees. JACKSON WILL STAY ON BALLOT No legal recourse is open to defeated Republican legislative candidates by which they might remove the name of Perry B. Jackson, nominee for the General Assembly, from the ballot, next Tuesday, Attorney General Edward C. Turner declared Monday, the election of Richard status in the election, next week, when Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown, in his formal statement ousting the Board of Election officials, declared that the carelessness and non-fearance of board members resulted "in the improper certification of Perry B. Jackson as a candidate for representative in the General Assembly of Ohio." Jackson stood seventeenth among Republican legislative candidates in the unofficial count of the August primaries, but was declared nominated over the unofficial count of the October vote in the official count. Inasmuch as Jackson has been officially certified as a regular party nominee, there is no legal process by which his name can be kept off the ballot, Turner said. In case Jackson is elected, next Tuesday, his seat is virtually certain to be contested, however, it is said. Both Secretary Brown and Attorney General Turner pointed out that Jackson was in no way involved in the "improper certification of his election." ELECT ROBERT FISHER, JUDGE No Better Candidate in the Field- Exceptionally Equipped by Temper- ment and Training—Nearly Thirty Years a Lawyer— Atty. Robert Fisher, born and reared in this city, made his own way to writer and lawyer. He has practiced law continuously for nearly thirty years and previous to that was court house, city hall and political writer for local daily papers. Mr. Fisher has rendered notice to the community is not the candidate of hisique. Nearly a people singed his petitions in about two weeks which makes him a real choice of the public-at-large. A man of the people, he will know no master but them and will be able to show real freedom and independence. The editor of The Gazette has known Mr. Fisher nearly all his life and can vouch for his faith and faithness to all people, recommends him in his possible man-力. Let all of our people vote for him. Fisher for judge! "A Man Of and For the People." or Next Preside Next Vice-President SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Our Next President M. Our Next Vice-President W. H. HOOVER AND SMITH. The "chicken-wire" picture on our first page is a sermon in itself. You cannot vote for Al Smith for president without voting for that "cracker". U. S. Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas, because there is only ONE set of electors for both candidates. Every member of the race understands this. More: Smith and Robinson represent national Democracy, the head, body and control of which is and always has been southern Democracy, the bitterest enemy of our race. Northern Democracy is but the tail, and no one ever heard of the tail wagging the head and body of either the animal or national Democracy. Governor Al Smith has never done anything for our people, but twice "UNCLE SAM" AFTER TOM! Criticism For Councilman Fleming —U. S. Commissioner Releases Woman-Prisoner—"Ygot Any Money?" Inquiry into why Councilman Tom Fleming appealed before U. S. Commissioner Martin J. Monahen and waived hearing for a man charged with violation of the narcotic laws was to be made, Friday of last week, Monahen said, the day before, after the prisoner asserted Fleming was not representing him. John Nixon and his wife, Dorothy, were arrested by federal narcotic agents in their room at the Majestic hotel on a charge of possessing an opium pipe and possessing arraigned, last Thursday, Nixon pleaded guilty and claimed ownership of the supplies but declared his wife was innocent and knew nothing about his having them. Then Monahen told --- THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation in Ohio, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. President Vice-President vetoed the Assembly bill giving Harleen, N. Y. City, a police judge. Harleen, you know, is where the bulk of our people of the Empire city reside. Herbert L. Hoover has never done anything against our people but did help our flood-sufferers in the South and eliminated segregation from the census bureau of his department when he was U. S. secretary of commerce. Thus it will be seen that the odds are in favor of the Republican candidate for the presidency, all things considered, and this includes the organizations conducting the campaigns of both parties. So, if you vote at all, the thing to do is to choose the lesser of "the two evils" from a race standpoint and vote for Hoover and Curtis. Nixon that Fleming had previously appeared and waived hearing for them. "When I was in jail, Fleming came to me and asked if I had any money, and I told him no," Nixon told the court. "Then he wanted to know if I could get any, and I said I could not, and then Fleming told that he could not do anything for me." "Well, if Fleming doesn't represent you I want him in here to explain how it is that he appears before me for a client without authority to do so," Monahen said. The commissioner, late Saturday, ordered the release from county jail of Mrs. Nikon and criticized the actions of "Tom Fleming, who Thursday waived preliminary examination for the woman and requested she be held for federal grand jury action. "I cannot understand why Fleming would do such a thing," Monahen said. "I have not been abl- yet to talk to him about the matter." IN-UNION WE IS STRONG 10,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1928. We want to ask our readers to vote for Judge Florence E. Allen and Judge Robert H. Day—on the non- partisan judicial ticket. They are far and away the best candidates, from a race standpoint. Remember! You simply must not vote for Cooper or Gelger. Indeed, you cannot vote for either or both without too great a sacrifice of self and race-respect, manhood and womanhood. The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. calls upon its members and all of our voters, male and female in this community, to vote against the city hospital bonds for reasons so often stated in The Gazette that there is no need of a repetition at this time. The editor of The Gazette stands squarely behind the, local branch in its opposition to the city hospital bonds, the lake-front stadium bonds and all the others, including the increased levies asked for, with the lone exception of the bonds for a new county jail, noted elsewhere in this paper. Vote for them! Last winter when hundreds of our people of the city of Cleveland were in dire circumstances, many suffering for the necessaries of life, Street Commissioner Jack Tomson, encouraged particularly by Councilman Herman Finkle and our life-long friend, Atty. Alex Bernstein, then a member of the local board of elections, came to their relief, employing at as long periods as possible at different times hundreds of local Afro-Americans. Our people of this community must not forget this, at least when they go to the polls to vote on Tuesday. Tomson is the Republican candidate for sheriff. Please remember this. While in Congress, former U. S. Senator Theodore E. Burton actively supported the Dyer Anti-lynching bill; fought successfully, Senator John Sharp Williams' proposition, to exclude "colored" immigrants from the West Indies; supported the appropriations for Howard University, helped confirm the nominations of Judge Terrell (deceased) of Washington, D. C., the nomination of Hon Chas. Cottrell (deceased) of Toledo for collector of customs at Honolulu, Hawaii, and did many other things of interest and value to the race Be sure to vote for Mr. Burton, candidate for re-election for the U. S. Senate. VOTE FOR DAYS J. G. Tomson, 49 years of age, was born and educated in Parma, Ohio, lived all his life in Cuyahoga County and thoroughly understands public service. In 1910, he was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Street Repair and a year later was promoted to the position of Superintendent of Sidewalks. Following that he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the City Council from the 21st Ward. In 1916 he organized the Division of Streets, the purpose of the new organization being to eliminate duplication of work, inspections, etc. Under Mr. Tomson's direction, the Division of Streets of Cleveland now has a national reputation for efficiency and economy and is recognized as one of the best, if not the very best, organizations throughout the country. As Commissioner of Streets, Mr. Tomson delivered to the citizens of Cleveland service unsurpassed by any other administrative official. When elected to the office of County Sheriff, Mr. Tomson will continue to give the same devotion to the affairs of the County office as he did to the office of Division of Streets, and thereby assures the people of Cuyahoga County the best administration of the Sheriff's office it has ever enjoyed. well to note that Arthur H. Day proved his ability as a public official before being nominated by his party. Whereas Ray T. Miller, without any public record by which his ability could be judged, was endorsed by the Democratic organization and nominated for the important office of prosecutor. A vote for Mr. Davey for Governor means two votes against color-line Republican candidate for governor, Myers Y. Cooper, of Cincinnati, because it adds one to the former's total and takes one from the latter's. This is the easiest, best, and the surest way to defeat Cooper, something we must do, if possible, for reasons so well stated elsewhere in this paper. We are thorouly convinced that he is guilty of the color-line charges brought against him. Indeed, there can be no question as to this in the light of Miss Hetty G. Taylor's letter and Rev. J. Franklin Walker's statement, published elsewhere in this paper. Both are long, if not life-long residents of Cincinnati, Mr. Cooper's home town and where he has conducted his color-line real estate business for many years. Pay no attention to the charge that Martin L. Davey is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The same charge was, made, two years ago against Myers Y. Cooper and is being made again in this campaign. We have never seen any denial of the charge made by Mr. Cooper. On the contrary, Mr. Davey, several weeks ago, in a speech at Hotel Cleveland, this city, publicly announced that he had "never accepted the support of the Klan, and that he had defeated a Klan-endorsed candidate for Congress in two campaigns." This is something, as we have already said, we have never heard of, falling from the lips of Myers Y. Cooper, the color-line Republican candidate for Governor. And we say this, too, as a Republican, active in the campaigns of the party, as all know, for more than a quarter of a century; and still a Republican. We quite agree with the Cleveland Daily Press which in an editorial, Oct. 24, '28, says: "Cooper has no standing in this campaign whatever except what he gets from having the support of the elements which make up the Anti-Saloon league and the Ku Klux Klan." In a speech at Toledo, Oct. 23, '28, Martin L. Davey said: "I have never had any connection with the Klan, either directly or indirectly. In 1926, Cooper tried to buy the support of the Klan with $20,000." That's plain language, that all can understand, and a flat denial from a business man and Congressman for years whose standing in the business and political world is of the very best. Let us so vote on election day, next month, as to do what we did, two years ago—defeat Myers Y. Cooper! We repeat, the easiest, best and surest way to defeat him is to vote for Martin L. Davey, Democratic candidate for Governor. DO YOUR DUTY as loyal members of the race with self and race respect, manhood and womanhood! BLOCTON, ALA., News Miss M. E. Vandergraft of Birmingham is spending the week-end to bounce back. F. E. Vandergraft of W. Blocton—Mrs. C. M. Hayden is visiting relatives in Jackson, Miss.—Mrs. S. Johnson is very ill. We wish her speedy recovery—Mrs. H. Y. Calhoun, who recently gave birth to a 12-pound boy-baby, is improving rapidly. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1928. FRESH OHIO NEWS ning take the ing package! for Dr. FRED Palmer's Preparations—be sure you n't let the clerk hand you age. Hundreds of people received — just because they Dr. FRED Palmer's. The FRED Palmer's Skin Preparations have proven their you buy them, you know the best. 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Mrs. Lizzie Trimble of Hillsboro is in the city visiting her daughters. Miss Martha Frye of Springfield has located in this city, temporarily. Mrs. Elmer F. Boyd, of Dexel Ave., is at home recovering from an operation at St. Luke's hospital. Mrs. Gunn, wife of Dr. E. J. Gunn, E. 100th St., has returned from an extended vacation in New York city. Joseph McPherson, one of our pioneer residents, uncle of Mrs. P. W. Lemon, was buried, last week Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Wallace of Cadiz was called to Cleveland by the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Cross. Mrs. Victoria Kliner Hubbard was moved home recently from a local hospital, following a successful operation. Edward L. Snyder, real estate and insurance man of St. Louis, was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Ellis A. Dale, E. 40th St., while in the city, recently. Mrs. L. S. Bradley, E. 84th St. gave a benefit supper, last Thursday night, for Mt. Zion Cong. church. There were forty-five friends and members of the church in attendance. As recognition of her ability and seniority of service, Miss Eleanor Alexander has been changed from Warren Rd. school to Charles Dickens school, where she has charge of the music. St. John's Galilean Sailors' Male Chorus and Choir participated in a Music Day celebration at the church, Sunday afternoon and evening. Several child soloists and instrumental artists were on the program. Shiloh Baptist church dedicated its new $2,000 choir stand, Sunday, the seating capacity of which is more than 100 persons. The church is to install a $10,000 pipe-organ next year. The dedication program included interesting talks by Rev's J. R. Yewell, J. H. Hill, and the pastor, Rev. A. L. Boone. If you are not reading The Gazzette regularly, each week, you are missing much. Start immediately to enjoy Ohio's oldest, most reliable and most interesting race newspaper. It tells you the truth about persons and things, without fear or favor, all the time. This is generally known and acknowledged. Tell your friends! A $20,000 campaign in which members of the Economy Welfare Association, 9305 Quincy Ave., hope to enroll 5,000 new members will be held from Nov. 4 to Nov. 18. The organization plans to establish East End community service center and settlement home on a basis similar to Hull House, Chicago, Rev. Edw. N. Williams, founder of the Community Center at E. 28th St. and Scovill Ave., is sponsoring the movement. Motion for a new trial for innocent Joseph Weaver, now awaiting execution in the death house at Ohio penitentiary, will be heard, Nov. 26, before the court of appeals here. Weaver was sentenced to die when he was "convicted" of first degree murder, last January, in connection with the slaying of a product of the Midland Sheep Company. plant in Albany,bury, but his counsel, Alyss. Nathan E. Cook and Wm. F. Marsteller, have since waged a strenuous fight to save him from the chair. Mrs. Eugenia Brewer Mayo's concert, last week Friday evening, at Triedstone church was an artistic success as anticipated. Mrs. Mayo has a fine mezzo soprano voice which she uses splendidly. The audience received her most enthusiastic encoring her instantly and presenting her beautiful floral tribute close of the concert. She was assisted by Robert Nolan, accompanist; Faye and Bernice Crowler, planists; Almeda Hayes, reader, and S. H. Webb, violinist. All acquitted themselves creditably, indeed. The list of patrons of the concert lengthy, showing the high regard in which Mrs. Mayo's vocal ability is held. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Thomas have returned from Albuquerque, N. M. where they spent six weeks with their son, Dr. Charles Crowler. The doctor accompanied them as far as St. Louis, and then joined them in a landed en route to New York city to visit his sister, Miss Florence Thomas, public school teacher. Wm. Pickens of New York City, field secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., will speak for the local branch of the organization, Sunday, Nov. 11 at 3:30 P. M., at Antioch Baptist church, following an apperance the City Club for the preceding day. The club is a noted writer and splendid speaker and has a large following in Cleveland. The local branch also announces that THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1928. FOR SALE. — Cheap! Two new low-pitch A. N. B. clarionets in perfect condition; 15 keys and two rings. Original cost, $80. Will sell them for $40. Call, Wash. 1619-M, or see August F. Meyers, 3678 E. 142d St. Walter White, assistant secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., also well-known in Cleveland, will spend two days here during the week of Nov. 18, conferring with local branch officials regarding arrangements for the 20th annual conference here, next June. Hon. Harry E. Davis is chairman of the local conference committee. The annual meeting of the local branch will be held Nov. 20. The nominating committee for 1929 officers and members of the executive committee at work upon its recommendations. C. Morgan Dabney, chairman. Any suggestions or viewpoints regarding the personnel of the officers and executive committee will be welcomed by Mr. Dabney. JUDGE GEIGER CALLS! Last week Thursday afternoon, Oct. 18, '28, the editor of The Gazette while absent from the office was called on the 'phone by Judge Frank W. Geiger of Springfield who said he was at our office and wished to see the writer. We made an appointment with him and later returned to the office where we wereferred for more than an hour. The Judge gave him a number of the controls of a number of things he and his people had done for ours, just as Myers Y. Cooper did, on Monday, Oct. 15, '28, only it took the latter much longer to do so. We listened carefully to all he had to say and at him his conclusion was forced to tell him that he had said nothing to change our decision as to his candidacy because as a participant in the Fulton School fight and up by the congressional (publisher) in the Gazette written by its leaders, residents of Springfield, his home town, we held him guilty of the failure, when common pleas judge, to deal to our people or that city even-handed justice in the case resultant from the Ku Klux Klan's vain effort to install "jim-crow" schools there, several years ago. He left our office saying he hoped we would find support to change our views and support his candidacy for the seat on the State Court. Court bench. Saturday, Oct. 20, '28, the following letter was received from him: Republican State Headquarters, Columbus, O., Oct. 19, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Smith. — I appreciated your letter, giving your weekday afternoon. If you should finally conclude that your first impressions are not born out of the facts, I was wondering whether it might be of value to have some sort of display of the prominent colour of the prominent colour of the people of Springfield, for one of your later issues. You can let me know about this at Springfield. Fairbanks Blug., Springfield, Ohio. My dear Judge:—Your letter of Oct. 19th, 1928, received. I regret very much to have to say that it would be impossible for me to publish a display or any other kind of advertisement for you with the matter standing as it is. If the charges of our various respondents from Springfield were refuted, that would be in a position to comply with your request, and justify in the eyes of my people throughout Ohio, such publication. Use Irish Accent! Montserat, West Indies. — Many of the native blacks of this British island claim descent from the Irish settlers who flocked in large numbers before the abolition of them speak with a strong Celtic brogue. A tourist recently from Dublin returned to his ship and remarked: "I met an Irishman on shore who said that he had been here before and believe the powers of the tropical sun, that Irishman was as dark as my hat." "WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD"! Cleveland, O., Aug. 28th, 1925. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette. Dear Friend:—I have read the latest copy of The Gazette through and after reading it, I can truthfully say: It is worth its weight in gold! I admire true manhood—a man who, seeing injustice and oppression, within the law, to expose it, and if possible smite it. It and I have frequently, during the forty-two years since the birth of The Gazette, been, as the Scotch would say, like two McNeils, but when I find a man, such as you, who consistently, and persistently, through nearly half a century, puts his race foremost in his life struggle. I take off my hat to him, as being a true friend of our class. Long life to you and The Gazette. Yours for the right, John P. Green. (Former Member, Ohio State Senate.) RE-ELECT JUDGE ALLEN! Helped to Decide the Dayton School Case Right — One, of the Best Judges on the State Supreme Court Bench—An Exceptional Career. Judge Florence E. Allen, who, as a justice of the supreme court of Ohio, holds the highest elective office in the world ever accorded a woman, comes up for re-election on the non-partisan judicial ballot, Tuesday, Nov. 6. Since graduating from the College for Women, Western Pennsylvania had a very interesting career. For three years, Judge Allen served on the editorial staff of the Cleveland P. Plain Dealer, and later studied law at Chicago and New York University Law schools, graduating from the latter institution in 1913. She was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1914, and five years later was appointed assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga county elected to the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county by the greatest vote ever given any judicial candidate of that court. For the past six years, she has been judge of the supreme court at Columbus. While on the supreme bench, she has had a successful and worthy servant, one whose well-thought out and carefully worded decisions have won her the commendation of the legal profession and interested citizens through the state. She is a firm believer in the non-partisanship of the judicial system and the primaries. For that reason her name was placed on the ballot this year, as before, by petition. The Ironton (O.) Tribune in an editorial recently, said of her: "Judge Allen's standing and service as a jurist is pre-eminent. She asks no odds because of her sex—she has done as well as any man on the jury in a case of its male members. She is not only a lawyer of exceptional ability, but she is a sociologist of great breadth of vision and understanding. She brings to the supreme court of Ohio a graceful dignity, deep perception and understanding, cleanliness, humanness, justice, freedom from demagogic technique and a zeal for work and service. She is very wide, and right thinking people everywhere will find real joy in her success at the polls." Running on the same platform that she did when she was given such an overwhelming majority six years ago, that of law enforcement, justice for all, business methods applied to the courts, efficient work by public servants, respect for law, order and the court. Judge Allen has made during the past six years. That record is one which challenges the attention of every right-thinking voter, and the people of Ohio on election day will remember that record and the fact that it is an unwritten law to return to the supreme bench of Ohio any judge whose service has been satisfactory. The Gazette readers will recall that in the case of the Board of Education of the City of Detroit, the City Attorney vs. The State, that Judge Allen stood out in her demand that our children should not be discriminated against, even though a school board was willing to furnish "a separate and well equipped school building." In plain words, she voted squarely against segregation in the public schools of Ohio. Judge Allen is a product of Cuyahoga county and is her mother, while the supreme court is in session, she lives in Columbus with her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Allen and a sister, Dr. Esther Gail Gaw. It will be of special interest to many of our people throut Ohio to know that Judge Allen has ever been a true friend of the race, and that she has been a member of the N. A. A. C. P. for several years. Judge Allen will speak at St. James A. M. e. church, Cedar Ave. and E 84th St. tomorrow (Sunday) and E 84th St. p. m. Our readers should not fail to grasp the need to see and hear you. You will never regret having done so for she is an exceptionally fluent and interesting speaker. The editor of The Gazette unqualifiedly endorses Judge Florence E. Allen's candidacy and urges all of our men and women to vote for her on Tuesday, election day—Adv. You simply cannot vote for Myers Y. Cooper, Republican candidate for Governor, and Frank W. Geiger, Republican candidate for the State Supreme Court, and retain your self and race respect, manhood and womanhood. Pass the word along to all of our people in Ohio. Race interests overshadow political interests. Vital race interests, your rights and privileges under the law, are paramount! Keep these facts ever before you. Our progress as a race, in the future, is now wholly dependent upon our own efforts. Guaranteed and Efficient Work TWENTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 'Phone: Randolph 5870 Sundays by Appointment CONGRESSMAN Martin L. Davey CONGRESSMAN MARTIN L.DAVEY Democratic Candidate for GOVERNOR During eight years of service in the national house of representatives, Congressman Davey has demonstrated his fairness to every race and to every human being. He has served all people alike. No distress call to him has gone unanswered. YOUR FRIEND IN NEED YOUR FRIEND IN DEED He Is the Most Deserving, the Most Efficient, and the Fairest Heilthol is a real fall tonic. Any one who has used it will tell you so. Try it and be convinced. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper. PETER H. pany for fair-dealing. They will treat you right. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper. Beware of the paid-political worker of color, or other, who comes to you urging you to vote for the color-line Republican candidates, Myers Y. "One Good Term Desi REPUBLICAN CA X FOR SECRETA CLARENCE TERM DESERVED PUBLICAN CANDIDATE OR SECRETARY OF JEANCE J. (SECOND TERM) Endorsed by the Editor "THE GAZEEN" General Election, N Clarence J. Brown Camp e's Fair To Everyone CONGRESSMAN Martin L. Davis CONGRESSMAN MARTIN L. DAVIS Democratic Candidate GOVERNOR eight years of service in the nation, Congressman Davey has dem- every race and to every human be- people alike. No distress call to L FEND IN NEED YOUR FRIEND at Deserving, the Most Efficient, a Everyone PRESSMAN DAVEY CANDIDATE NOR in the national ley has demonst ry human being. ress call to him OUR FRIEND IN Efficient, and th Endorsed by the Editor of This Paper, "THE GAZETTE." Home Town Davey-For-Governor Club Kent, Ohio. --- Cooper or Frank W. Geiger, and the traitorous "Negro" who would have you vote for that Arkansas "cracker," Joe Robinson, candidate for vice-president on the Democratic ticket. Drive such W. F. N.'s away from you as you would a mongrel dog with the mange. 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 It JUDGE FRANK W. GEIGER WHAT HE REALLY DID AND DID NOT DO IN THE "Jim Crow" School Fight at Springfield, Ohio, Several Years Ago—Our People Must Not Vote for Him and Cooper. The three letters below this one are self-explanatory and are in answer to the following communication: Cleveland, O. Oct. 2, '28 Dear Friend, I Judge Frank W. Geiger, the city writes us, taking exception to our editorial note of his candidacy, in a recent issue, which you have doubtless read. He says that he has always treated our people of your city with the utmost consideration and that our city of Springfield has taken this record to justify the position against his candidacy The Gazette has taken, and asks me to make a thoro investigation. This I am trying to do. In the memorable Fulton school case in your city, some years ago, he claims to have "granted the prayer" of the petitioners prompt after the preliminary hearing. My memory is that this time, but that he failed to see that the petition was carried into effect, thus delaying the oath to the fight for weeks and until he was defeated for re-election and his successor, Judge Krapp, took office and "made good" on the petition he, Judge Geiger, had granted but refused to carry into effect. My memory is that this information came from you in conversations we held at different times in your city. What about it? Is Judge Geiger entitled to the support of our people of your city and the state, or isn't he? If not, why not? Oblige me with an immediate reply, please. Yours for the race. Harry C. Smith. Springfield, O., Oct. 3. '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Edition Gorgette, Cleveland, O. Dear Friend:—In my file of the Gazette, of the period of the Fulton school fight, I find that its issues of Sept. 30, Nov. 4 and Dec. 2, 1922, and Jan. 6, 1923, contain the record of Judge Geiger's action, the deprived phases of the fight and the interpretations we put upon them. The application for an injunction petitioned among other things that "all transfers (of pupils in or out) heretofore made be declared null and void. On Oct. 30, a jury conviction by Comon Pleas Court Judge Frank W. Geiger which, as stated from the bench and reported in the daily pa- FRANK GEIGER pers, restrained Supt. McCord and the Board of Education from any "further transfer of children in or out of the Fulton school." At a meeting of the managers of our C. R. P. League, on the evening on which this decision was handed down, Atty. Geo. W. Daniels pointed out that the decision did not mean any thing as there were no transfers then being made and that the chief demand that those "already made be declared null and void" was not mentioned. There being no formal record of the decision, as it had not yet been entered in the records of the court, a committee visited Judge Gelger at his home and got a statement from him that the injunction granted "all petitioned for. When the decision was made, the R. P. League and the School Board met to agree on the form of entry of the case, Mr. M. Ray Weikett, representing the Board of Education, contended that the decision, as he understood it, was the same as that reprinted in the daily papers as being announced from the bench. Notwithstanding, Judge Gelger ordered that the entry be made as including the vote of the board. This the eve of the election in which Judge Gelger was a candidate and against whom a decided opposition was forming. From this time on to the end of the year, when his term expired, Judge Gelger made no attempt to have a hearing for a final injunction altho, as stated by the attorneys for the League, a request that he do so was made every Monday morning. Subsequently, to a committee of ministers who ed him to see why he had been told to hold them he is reported to have told them that there was nothing before him and that they should see the lawyers of the League, and further that the temporary injunction only restrained the further transfer of children to or from the Fulton school. This in brief is Judge Geiger's record in the Fulton school case as taken from the accounts written at the time. When Judge Geiger occupied the bench in the Juvenile Court, he took occasion to denounce real estate dealers who would be the two siblings involved to white and colored people, respectively. Also in a civil rights case, in which he did not sit, yet by other acts he showed his disapproval of a verdict favorable to the plaintiffs. I have asked Atty. Geo. W. Daniels to write you in regard to this case as he represented the plaintiffs. There are other matters of which he knows that do not inspire any hope for you in these cases, involving their rights, would have to be decided by Judge Geiger. Signed. X. Y. Z. Springfield, O., Oct. 6, '28. Hon. Harry Clay Smith. Erie University. Dear Friend Herr," I am in recollection of letter of Oct. 2, '28, concerning the candidacy of Judge Frank W. Geiger of this city. I wish to say that, if my memory serves me right, your impression is correct that Judge Frank W. Geiger did "grant the prayer," in the famous Fulton school case, about forty days before the November election, that year, and he refused to put the same into effect during his term of office. I know that Judge Frank Knapp executed Judge Geiger's decision immediately after he took office on the first day of his school, believing it was during the first week that he closed the Fulton school. I do not know just what Judge Geiger's idea was for handling the matter in that way, but I do know that it appeared to the citizens of Springfield that he was side-stepping the issue until after his election. And I also know that because of the fact that Judge Geiger did not execute his ruling, he lost out in the election to Judge Krapp by a very small margin. Had he done what Judge Krapp did, he would have been elected by a substantial majority at that time because the Colored citizens simply refused to vote, and there were enough votes in my precinct alone of those who did not vote to have elected Judge Geiger. These are the facts in the case, and in my best judgment. With these facts I believe you will be able to arrive at a decision as to just how you want to proceed. Personally, I had always been an admirer of Judge Geiger until that time, and I pled with him for weeks not to lose the election in the account. Bill. Atty. Sully Jaymes called on him at his residence, the night before the election, and pled with him to close the Fulton school on election morning, and assured him that if he would do this, his election was assured. My recollection is that he lost by only 128 votes or at least a very small number, and you can read, see less, and have been to put him over at that time if the Colored people had felt so disposed I was very pleased indeed to receive a letter from you, and have been wondering why I never hear from you. With my best wishes, I remain. Yours very truly, Chas. L. Johnson, Pres. Charles Funeral Supply Co. (President, C. R. P. League, 1922 and 1923.) Springfield, O., Oct. 8, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Friend Harry:—Now as regards Judge Geiger. Your statement of the case is substantially correct, and can be verified by the court records here. I conferred with Chas. Johnson about this matter, last Saturday. Geiger did overrule the demurrier the McCord school-board crowd, which in effect was saying that our petition, from a legal viewpoint, was correctly brought. But it was impossible for us to get Judge Geiger to do the case; we could set a final decision on its merits and close the school. During all of this time McCord, in contempt of Geiger's decision, was continuing to run the school as a "jim-crow" school. We were insisting that he (Geiger) enjoin the operation of the school, pending a final hearing. This he refused to do, because he was up for re-election and was anxious to the support of the Ku Klux Klan. He colored people. He raised out in this, because the Negroes here passed resolutions condemning him and refused to vote for him, and he was defeated by a very small margin. He has never had much use for Johnson, Attty Daniels and myself since, but we don't give a d'about that. I have nothing personally against him, but above are the real facts. The night before the day of election I headed a committee to advise him to house and tried to advise him that the counsel tried would not oppose him unless he gave the order closing the school before election. We could not convince him. But as soon as his successor took the bench, we made this motion and Judge Krapp sustained us and closed the school. Geiger is shot full of race preju- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1928. Ice and the colored people her know it. They have never support ed him, and ninety per cent of them will vote against him in November. I can substantiate every statement made in this communication. Yours very truly. U. V. W. MYERS Y. COOPER GUILTY! It is not a question of how many "Colored people" Myers Y. Cooper, color-line candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket, this fall, employs or has employed through his many years in the real estate business in Cincinnati, his home town; or how many ministers or churches he has sought to subsidize by gifts of money, up to building a home for a "Negro" minister who is now campaigning for him; or what he does in any other way. His color-line activity in his business, extending over many years, so well pointed out by Miss Hettie A. Taylor in her statement labeled "To Whom It May Concern", published on the first page of this paper, is what Ohio Afro-Americans with self- and respect, mind, and womanhood, do. It is really an insult for any man, treating any class of people in such a way, to come to members of that class asking them to support his candidacy for anything. If a candidate for office were to treat any other class of Americans in such a way would or could they regard the matter in any different light from that in which all loyal and sensible members of our race, who know the truth, regard it? Cross Cooper's and Geiger's names from your ticket when you go to vote in November. And many who have mercy on the "Negroes" who now know the truth, yet persist in the candidacy of either one of these two color-line candidates. Beware of them and "the prominent Negroes" who are being paid to come into Ohio to speak for them during the remainder of the campaign. MR. COOPER CALLS. Accompanied by the Hon. Harry D. Silver of Columbus, assistant state auditor and chairman of the State Republican Executive committee, and a Mr. Fetterman, his local political manager, Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati, Ohio's Republican gubernatorial candidate, called at The Gazette office, Monday, Oct. 15 at 11:30 a. m., for a conference that lasted until 1:30 noon, Mr. Silver being compelled to leave before its close in order to catch a train. Mr. Cooper enumerated in detail about all the things he claims to have ever done for our people of his home-city during his business career of years, in the business business, two years ago talk by saying that two years ago when he was first a candidate for Governor and was defeated, he had been advised not to confer with the writer who led the fight against him at that time, as far as our people were concerned, just as he is doing in the present campaign. Mr. Cooper said the advice was a mistake, that this time he was doing what he wanted to do, two years ago, and furthermore that leading Republicans, mutual friends, had assured him that the editor, The Gazette, the writer, was right, would treat him unfairly. We told him that it was not a question of service he claims to have rendered various members of the race by giving some of them employment, etc., but it was a question of rights and privileges he has denied our people in the conduct of his business and the mistreatment of others who had purchased property of which he sought to dispossess them solely on the ground of color or race or both. We told him also that complaints of this nature had been sent The Gazette by very reliable members of the who live in his home city, Cincinnati, who had been hired for the job. Taylor of 2352 Ave. Cincinnati, published on the first page of this paper, Myers Y. Cooper is guilty as charged and must not be elected governor of Ohio. No Ohio voter of color who respects himself or herself, and their race, and has the manhood or womanhood we all should have, can possibly vote for him in November and retain the same. We must defeat him again just as we did, two years ago. It is going to require greater effort, so do. this time, owing to the face that this is Presidential year which always brings on increased Republican power. But we must do this no matter of self and race. No man unfriendly to the race should be elected to public office that we can defeat and we can defeat Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati and Judge Frank W. Geiger of Springfield. Be MEN and WOMEN and not political bootleaders, traitors to the race you are one of. We owe this to our children and young folk more than to ourselves, if this be possible. Defeat Cooper and Geiger! Pass the word along to all you meet. Subscribe Now Prime Sport News Champion El Quafi Wins Again! New York City - El Quafi of Africa. Sunday night proved his right to wear the crown of world's champion marathon runner in a gruelling race over the twenty-six mile route. Garden for twenty-three miles he and "Cocky" Joie Ray raced like a tandem team. It was merely a question of which would "crack" under the heart-breaking pace and it was the American, and not the brown-skin African, who wilted. Starting the twenty-fourth mile, Ray began to drop back and before in the last Olympics, had again sealed his doom. El Quafi won first prize, $4,000, while Ray received $1,000. Howard Loses to West Virginia. Washington, D. C.—Howard University's team, Saturday, was defeated by the Yellow Jackets of West Virginia Collegiate Institute at the Howard Stadium, 21-7. The West Virginia first touchdown occurred within one minute after the kickoff, when on the very first play, Washington recovered Ross' fumble on Howard's 35 yard line and galloped through an open field for the initial score. Gaps Victor Over Palmer Gans Victory Over Palmer. New York City —Baby Joe Gans of Los Angeles, weight 193½, won the decision Brooklyn, Nick Palmer of Brooklyn, weight 148, in the main bout at the Broadway Arena, last Saturday night, Gans won every round, save the first, which was even. Dundee Defeats Walcott Langford, Philadelphia, Pa.—Joe Dundee of Baltimore, weiterweight champion, won the decision over Walcott Langford of Chicago in a slashing ten-round bout at the Arena, Saturday, and Dundee's title was not at stake. Langford, although punished severely, apparently was fresh at the finish and looked as though he could have gone another ten rounds. Clark Defeats Morehouse Atlanta, Ga. — Clark University, with its team of flashy backs, met the big Maroon team here, Saturday, in a game unequaled in thrills during the game. The final whistle blow the count was found standing 7-6, in Clark's favor. Champs Fall Before State's Team. Orangeburg, S. C. — The "Bull-Dogs" of South Carolina State bleu out in grand style, Saturday, and swept the football forces of Paine College into a complete shut-out 19-0. Striking the invading Georgians before they had time to get their bearings, State Bull-Dogs crawled out in front with a second quarter flush 13-0. Lefty Grove Their Victim Baltimore, Md.—The Black Sox, our famous baseball team of this city, recently added Lefty Grove, Athletics' southpaw ace, to the long list of big league pitchers they have defeated. Flowers vs. Wallace Billy Wallace (white), local fighter, and Bruce Flowers will meet in the main event at Public Hall, Nov 7. Flowers is our lightweight who has made quite a rep for himself in eastern rings. Jones vs. Finley. Akron, O.-Jimmy Finley (white) of Louisville, Ky., and Gorilla Jones fought ten rounds here at the Armory. Details in next week's Gazette. Ray Defeats El Quafi. Philadelphia, Pa. — Joey Ray (white), American star, defeated El Ouafu, French Algerian Olympic marathon champion, in a sixteen-mile indoor race at the Arena, Monday night. Ray's time was 27 minutes, eight and one-fifth seconds. He finished four and one-half laps ahead of El Ouafu. Ray's victory establishes a record for 15 miles which he made in 22 minutes and five seconds, it is claimed. The race was originally scheduled for 15 miles, but just prior to the start was changed to 16. Dundee-Thompson Fight Off. Baby Joe Gans and Joe Gilch (white) will clash here, Nov. 16. "Tut" Challenges Johnny. Fremont, O. — "Tut" Jackson, our Washington C. H. heavyweight, has challenged Johnny Risco (white) Cleveland's contender for the heavyweight boxing title, to a ten-round bout here, Nov. S. The challenge has been accepted. "I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all! "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. Attention! Readers! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Editor. copy of The maintenance wh Rev J. Franklin Walker Says the Republican Candidate for Gov- ernor Is a Segregationist— Interesting! Cincinnati, O., Oct. 22, '28. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—We never heard of Myers Cooper's "friendship" for the race until he was nominated for Governor, two years ago. He was elected then and now, his record, were opposed to him then on general principles, and are likewise opposed to him now. One thing we know definitely is that he is opposed to Negroes getting decent homes; only in segregated districts. He doesn't believe in Negroes having a right to determine their cases where he opposed Negroes' buying homes in certain sections. One was published in the Gazette of Oct. 20, 28—that of Miss Hettie G. Taylor, 3052 Delaware Ave., this city. This case shows Cooper's attitude toward Negroes, and his idea of segregation, he is elected to the board. He is represented by his way of thinking are elected to the legislature, they will very likely pass a segregation law for the state of Ohio, and if such a law is passed, he will be sure to sign it. He wants to live in the Governor's mansion at Columbus, while he has Negroes living in segregated districts. I know of one house in Cincinnati that he built for a Negro preacher who is campaigning for him! I have made inquiries about the Christian church that he claims to have helped finance. It is said that he contributed $25, a very small part of their problem. It is also rumored that he allowed the Klan to have the fair-grounds in Carthage, a very small amount. When Negro fraternities hold meetings there, they pay a large sum for the same grounds. That alone might suggest that he is either a member of or a sympathizer with the "hooded class", the Klan. You may judge for yourself. "Birds of a feather, fowl together. Negroes must learn to treat them, for parties, for a party means nothing if the principles of righteousness are absent. (Rev.) J. Franklin Walker. FRANK W. GEIGER GUILTY! FRANK W. GERKE GUILTY Judge Frank W. Geiger is wrong and trying to mislead, in his latest letter to The Gazette. It published elicited evidence that the Attorney General he rendered a decision, which was not sufficient, and refused to hear our attorneys in the Springfield "jim-crow" school case, week after week thereafter, when they appeared in his court seeking to extend it so as to secure the action in full they absolutely needed. This was weeks before the election and had nothing to do with the matter of votes. The Judge was simply a side-step-delaying the final outcome of the contest, so the November election, the Ku Klux Klan element in that city that was sponsoring the fight for "jim-crow" schools. In plain words, Judge Geiger, by refusing to do as our Springfield attorneys (Messrs. Jaymes and Daniels) asked repeatedly, every Monday morning, kept the "jim-crow". Fulton school open for many weeks, so we could "Negro" pupils, that Color-line pupil. If they forced into it, it could be kept there. He could and should have done what his successor Judge Krapp did promptly—compiled with the request of our attorneys and rendered a full decision, closing the school, and thus DO HIS FULL DUTY to our people of Springfield. But he wouldn't! More, he would have been re-elected to the common pleas county of Clarke county and would have been defeated by only over 100 votes! He has only felt that justice should be delayed or deferred (to promote his election) out of deference to any person or organization, least of all the Ku Klux Klan of Springfield and their prej BEN DAVIS! The Republican meeting at St. Paul's Zion A. M. E. church, this city, Tuesday evening, was addressed by former National Committeeman Ben Davis of Atlanta, Ga. The most remarkable statement in his speech was that the 'race owed everything to the Republican party' by his statement, even for a southern Negro to make. Our people paid that debt with compounded interest a dozen of the rebellion. And even Ben Davis ought to recognize this fact. They paid it with more than fifty years of loyal support. The race owes the Republican party nothing, Davis was one of our two members of the Republican National Committee who failed to utter a single word of protest; a selection of colorful Kansas City, Mo., as the placing place of the last Republican National convention. And it was the "illy-white" control of that convention, that forced Ben Davis out of the Republican National Committee. Such the "old time" speech as he, Bishop Wm. T. Vernon and a few other non-programmen, a pallor orator, of the state are committing themselves of in these days, are far more harmful to Hoover and Curtis and the helpful. And we say this as a Republican, too. That "old time romance is unnecessary as well as harmful, and any speaker who can give good and sufficient reason Hoover and Curtis should be preferred by our people when it comes by timing, next Tuesday, ought not to be allowed to so question their intelligence and insult them by unbusing themselves of any such dogereler as Ben Davis and Bishop Vernon imposed upon them in their speeches in this city, this and last week, respectively. STOP IT. Patronize Our Advertisers WE HAVE SEEN NO DENIAL OF THE RUMOR THAT HE IS A KNIGHT OF THE INVINSIBLE EMPIRE. Didn't Dare Permit the Editor to Investigate—Miss Hettie G. Taylor's Letter Fully Explains the Cooper-Color-Line. To Whom It May Concern! the rear of our house. These and other indignities were thrust upon us until we engaged Squire Dumont to defend us, after which we heard no more until Mr. Cooper went to Mr. F. M. 46-1225 MYERS Y. COOPER. to show our people that Mr. Myers Y. Cooper is a bitter enemy to the Negro. Very truly yours, HETTIE G. TAYLOR. 3252 Deleware Ave., Cincinnati, O., Oct. 15, 1928. dered.) You undoubtedly have an auto which could be placed at my disposal. To make the trip and give the time necessary for the investigation, this week Friday and Saturday, will interfere greatly with the conduct of my business here, but I will be at your assistance of that fact, providing you meet the requirements set forth in the foregoing. I assure you that I quite agree with you that it would not be a fair investigation without giving you "full opportunity to refute any statements made" to me along lines pertinent to the matter in controversy. When The Gazette went to press Thursday morning, we had not heard from Mr. Cooper, his local manager or any of his representatives rela- tive to the foregoing or anything else. A Baby in Your Home The Remarkable Influence of a Doctor's Prescription After Years of Cruel Disappointment A Hundreds of married women, child- less for years, suddenly find them- selves in a state of the most blissful of all ages. They are the only one a doctor's most wonderful prescrip- tion. Mrs. Annie M. Middleton, Gle- ton, of New York, who is the indiune what Dr. Erders' prescription can do as I had longed for a baby and two years ago I took a six weeks treat- ment. I was a baby boy. He is eighteen months old. I haven't words to express how much this medicine has done for me." Ev- ry mother should children should at once write to the doctor and get a free trial of this children should at once book of instruction. For your convenience fill out the coupon and mail it today. PRESCRIPTION COUPON ™ H. Will Elders 871B Ballinger Blvd. St. Joseph, Mo. Please send me a free trial of your treat- ment for Sterility and Instruction on how to use it. I enclose 10c for postage and packing. St. Address R. F. D. B. City.....State Cooper, Republ- for Governor of cause of great my sister, Miss or, and me, 12 July. We pur- years ago last chased a home in a sub-division where he c ontrolled a great deal of the property. When he found out we were colored people, he sent a lawyer to buy us "out," telling us we would make things very unpleasant for us if we insisted on living here. Finding this visit of the lawyer met with no success, they had an indignation meeting just opposite our house, across the street, mak- loud remarks and trying to intimidate us, On another occasion, Mr. Cooper sent three or four men to survey the back lawn, saying they were going to cut a street through our premises to Carlin St, which faces In the face of the foregoing, from Miss Hettie G. Taylor of Cincinnati and our personal experience with Myers Y. Cooper, the last three weeks, we are inclined to believe the rumors that were current, two years ago and have been quietly circulated in recent weeks, to the effect that he is either a member of the Ku Kui Klan or at least registered for the theatrical's racial and color-line tenets. Since two weeks ago, Monday, and particularly since Monday of last week, when we answered the following telegram from him, the editor of The Gazette has waited patiently for him to accept our offer to go to Cincinnati and make a thoro investigation of the color-line charges against him, Mr. Myers Y. Cooper. There is no question in our mind that that an American would place the color-line Republican Candidate for Governor of Ohio, Myers Y. Cooper, in an even worse position, as far as he and our people are concerned in this campaign. The following is self-explanatory: Myers Y. Cooper's "Huff." (Telegram) Columbus, O., Oct. 21, '28. Hon. Harry Clay Smith, Editor Gitzel, Cleveland, O. I wish further to make my position relative to our conversation perfectly clear. I court your most thorough investigation of any colorline charges real or imaginary that may have been reported to you. Most anxious to have you come Cincinnati, Monday, or some other days agreeable to you. Only request I make is that you give our office as full opportunity to refute any statements made to you as you do those who have reasons best known to themselves who make unfounded statements to you. Immediately upon receipt, October 22, '28 of the foregoing telegram, we sent Mr. Cooper the following letter, special delivery, and supplemented it by calling the Cleveland manager of his campaign requesting him to get either Mr. Cooper or his Cincinnati headquarters on the long distance phone, immediately, requesting them to forward at once, the cost of transportation for the trip to Cincinnati. Cooper's "Hand Called"! Cleveland, O. Oct. 22. '28. Myers Y. Cooper, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dear Sir:—Your telegram of yesterday (Sunday) just received, owing to my absence, the last night (Monday). As I said to you when here in the office, last week Monday noon, it is impossible for me to leave my business during the week on other than Friday and Saturday. It is to be regretted that you did not reach a conclusion promptly, last week Monday, after the investigation, to make the investigation, Friday and Saturday of last week. I will make the trip, Friday and Saturday of this week, providing you will forward at once the cost of transportation to and from Cincinnati, which will include the cost of sleeping car accommodations and about 40 miles of transportation about the city of Cincinnati while investigation is being made. (There will be no charge for services ren- Russell, our principal at Douglass school where my sister and I taught, and tried to have Mr. Russell insist on us buying in a neighborhood close to the school-house. Failing in this attempt, he visited Sup't. Condon (white), and asked him to see that we left his sub-division. Mr. Cooper cares nothing at all for Negroes only to use them as menials. Use this letter in any way Harry C. Smith.