Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher and a class mate matter..August 19, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. THE SAME OLD SOUTH A few disgruntled politicians and preachers of the race profess to see so little difference between Republican and Democratic policies, so far as the Negro is concerned, that thy go so far as to advocate the support of Governor Cox for the Presidency, for the reason that it will be a rebuke to those Republicans who have been false to the principles of the party. The trouble with this kind of argument is that it involves the acceptance of a greater evil to cure a lesser one. The endorsement and support of Governor Cox means the retention in the saddle of the solid South, with its avowed policy of the debasement and disfranchisement of the Negro. The South is the dominating factor in the Democratic party, and so far as the Negro is concerned it remains the same old South that it has been for the past half century. Evidence of this is furnished in almost every Southern State in the position taken on the Nineteenth Amendment. Instead of accepting woman suffrage as conferred by the constitutional amendment as the law of the land, applicable to women of all races, the politicians of the South are prepared to disfranchise the Negro women, as they have done the men of the race. Senator Hardwick, who will probably be the next Governor of Georgia, boldly avowed this criminal intention in a speech made before his constituents at the Wilkes County courthouse, when he said that he had helped make it impossible for Negro men to vote in Georgia, and that he was ready to help lead the fight to "handle the Negro woman vote." He continued: "This is one of the most serious tasks that will confront the next legislature. With the help and cooperation of Tom Watson and Hoke Smith, we disfranchised the Negro men and the same job must be done over again as far as the Negro women are concerned." That Hardwick and Watson represent the prevailing white public opinion of their State is to be gathered from the fact that they polled the largest number of votes in the recent Democratic primaries, completely overwhelming the more decent element of the party. That similar efforts to "handle the Negro woman vote" will be attempted in other parts of the solid South is shown by letters received from individuals in other localities. For instance, a correspondent in Norfolk, Va., writes: "Our colored women who attempt to register have to stand an examination that requires a pretty intimate knowledge of local politics, state and national affairs and civil government, while some who were mistaken for white were not even questioned. Of course, that discrimination will, in the long run make our women far better qualified as voters and citizens." Another correspondent sends us this inquiry from a town in North Carolina: "I am interested in the matter of registration and I want to know whether the Negroes in North Carolina are entitled to registration or not. The whites will tell nothing and the colored people do not know very much." SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 1920 We can only say to this inquirer that the Negroes are entitled to register under the same qualifications as white voters. If a poll tax is necessary for registration, as we think it is in that State, the Negro must pay his tax the same as the whites and meet the other requirements of the law as to age and length of residence in his election district. From the indications shown there is a renewed awakening on the part of the race in the South to the importance of the ballot, and strenuous efforts will be made to exercise it, both on the part of the men and the women. It is no time for the Negroes of the North to discourage such efforts by voting for a continuance in power of the Hoke Smiths and the Tom Hardwicks, through the support of Governor Cox for President. Rather should they unite their efforts to put true Republicans on guard, with the avowed purpose of enforcing the Constitution, with all of its amendments, in all sections of the country. A vote for Harding and Coolidge is a vote against Hardwick and Tom Watson and Hoke Smith.—New York Age. THIRD PARTY AND DEMOCRACY As pure and noble of purpose as were the promoters of the Progressive party in 1912, the actual leader of which was the matchless Theodore Roosevelt, yet it was a third party in the body politic of this country, and while it may have caused the Republicans to clean house, yet, like all third party movements, it was not strong enough to change the final results in its own favor and only made it possible for a worse enemy of the public affairs of this country to gain the ascendancy which is a hundred times over more detrimental to the public than the party the third party desired and yea verily, did punish. Eight years of Woodrow Wilson Democracy in the United States have not improved conditions over what they were under Taft Republicanism. A third political party is again seeking voting recognition and is receiving much consideration. The present third party has no more show of winning the presidency than it has of bridging the Atlantic ocean. If it accomplishes anything at all it will only be the defeat of Harding and election of Cox and thereby further demoralize the public affairs of our government, which, God knows, are bad enough. Better by far that the United States government be under the control of organized labor than under the control of Southern Democracy as it has been for the past eight years. Yea, indeed, we would prefer the Socialists to control the affairs of the United States than the murderous Democrats, who under all conditions always present a Solid South to the electoral college, which they are able to do by having murdered innocent colored men, womne and children to prevent them from voting against them. The Soviet of Russia is a model, yea even an ideal government in comparison to the government the Southern red-handed Democrats have given to us. The colored man who will vote the Democratic ticket this year possesses no more common sense than the wild Indian, who will trade his birthright for a string of shiny beeds. The necessary thing for the voters of this country to do at the coming election is to slaughter old Bourbon and then continue to do so as long as he insists on bringing to the electoral college a Solid South. The colored voters of the North are sufficiently strong to accomplish this and they should without any equivocation do so. VOL. V, NO. 18 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS October's usual Puget Sound cerulian Indian summer has been completely absorbed by the usual November Oregon mists. Farmer, the heavyweight Northwest boxer, may draw the color line in his boxing bouts, but he drew the yellow streak when he gave Langford the once over. If speaking straight from the shoulder and calling a spade a spade makes of a weekly publication "a red hot weekly" then Cayton's Weekly not only pleads guilty to the allegation, but thanks the allegator It may be crossing the bridge before we get within two miles of it, yet we are thinking, if President Wilson issues a Thanksgiving proclamation this year, what will we do for a national bird for the occasion? Doubtless Governor Cox is running for president on the theory, "I know I will not be elected, but I will have a hell of a lot of fun out of it at the other fellow's expense, and I do not give a tinker's damn who the other fellow is." A colored man was recently arrested for selling salt for dope and we are curious to know what crime he has committed in so doing. But come to think of it, the crime may have lain in the fact that, it was not real dope. Some of the Republican nominees of King County may have a close call at the polls in November, but it will hardly be Claude Ramsay and Tom Dobson, as their opponents do not seem to be much more than political figureheads or ticket fillers Cleveland has won the world's baseball series and the question is, which bunch of gamblers is responsible for the unexpected turn of affairs, and that can not be fully determined until another grand jury gets busy. Whenever the U. S. Census fails to give to Seattle as many persons as meets the fastidious ideas of the real estate sharks of the city then that bunch of highbinders gets busy and Polk's Directory is called upon to make up the deficiency and, believe me, when it gets the dough Seattle has a hundred thousand more residents in a jiffy. As a stump speaker W. H. Wilson is quite equal to any occasion and the Republican campaign committee of this state might add spice as well as novelty to the present campaign in this state by billing him for some of the real big shows in addition to the side shows where he has been playing to full houses. Apparently Judge Black is as bitterly opposed to Bridges, politically speaking, as Bridges is against Hart, but as we see it, Black and Bridges are two of a kind and from a party standpoint Black is even more objectionable than Bridges. If this country has a real enemy within, it is found in the Democratic party. Col. Roland H. Hartley, who came the nearest to defeating Gov. Hart for the Republican nomination for governor, is the first of the sextet to take the stump for his election, and thus does Hartley demonstrate that he is always a Republican, and uncomplainingly submits to the wish of his party, but what of the five others? In touring many states of this union, giving exhibitions of her musical ability, which ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` is far above the average musical exhibitor, Mrs. Lorenza Jordan Cole is being chaparooed by the Seattle Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. The organization fosters a worthy subject and the lady has a noble organization as her advocate. When we think of sugar selling today at twelve pounds for one dollar and remember of it only six months ago selling at three pounds for one dollar, we have no hesitancy in saying, the real thieves of this country are those who take advantage of conditions and circumstances and profiteer at their fellow man's expense. In changing her residence from Seattle to New York City Bettie Brainard is accused of saying, "the great white way of New York for me," and if what we recently read in the daily press about her be true, the great white way was entirely too pacific for her and she quickly shifted from the great white way to the great black way. Despite the fact that the Democratic party has been directly responsible for the most of the woes and worries hat the citizenship of this country have had to confront and contend with, yet the leaders of that party of political buccaneers hope to saddle another four years of a like dose upon us. In it we have a Caesar and our prayer just now is for a Brutus. Some seventy-five or more persons attended the call meeting of the King County Colored Republican Club last Sunday afternoon and yet the leaders thereof prayed for an opportunity to attempt to raise $135 for campaign purposes, when $1.50 from each person present would have turned the trick. It appeared to be another case of looking for work, but praying to God to never find work. In this country we can fully understand why the average white man demurs at granting to the colored man social and business equality, but it gets our goat to explain, why, with all of their superior intelligence, white men will conspire together to have an ignorant as well as innocent colored man wrongfully treated, yea even lynched and evidently for no greater offense or pardonable excuse than that he is black. For the Republican voters of the State of Washington to think of, to say nothing of electing, Bob Bridges and defeating Louis F. Hart for governor of this state is so damnably absurd that all such alleged Republicans ought to be bundled up and sent to the insane asylum, but why dwell on such, as no Republican contemplates doing anything of the kind. NEGRO. ALL THE SAME BRUTE To call the attention of the average fair-minded white man's mind to the systematic and united effort the great metropolitan press puts forth to poison the minds of the white citizens against the colored citizens the following article, which appeared in the Post-Intelligencer last Wednesday morning, is reproduced verbatum et literatum: Police and Negro fight for lives on brink of roof. Black, finally shot, falls five stories to street as spectators watch.—By Associated Press. New York, Oct. 12.—Patrolman Martin Gill today struggled for twenty minutes on the roof of a five-story building with a San Domingo Negro he was trying to arrest and then shot his antagonist to save himself from being hurled into the street. The Negro, with a bullet in his stomach, slid off the roof, falling into a basket of wash left on the sidewalk. There he died a few minutes later. Scores of pedestrians stood on Sixth Avenue, transfixed, watching the struggle. Finally a former sailor dashed upstairs to the roof and caught Gill by one leg just as the Negro was about to roll him into the street. The Negro, identified as Rafael Cotin, by this time had obtained Gill's pistol. He fired at the patrolman, wounding him. The sailor cracked Cotin on the head with a piece of wood, and Gill, regaining his weapon. fired twice as the Negro made his last furious rush. Gill said he had attempted to arrest Cotin on complaint of a woman that he had insulted her." It will be observed that the man's class designation is pointed out in this brief dispatch seven different times, when one, if any, would have been ample. Had Cotin been a mad dog or an escaped tiger instead of a human being his designation would not have been more pronounced. But, what harm does that do? you ask. It first of all warns white men of the danger of going after a bestalized Negro and to always be ready to shoot him down like a beast, and secondly, in writing about him to educate the public up to the fact that a "Negro" and a beast should be kept in the same class. Had Cotin been a Japanese, an Indian, a Turk or any of the other darker peoples of this world he probably would have been class designated in the beginning of the article and that would have ended it. In the United States it seems almost as difficult for the colored man to get an even break in life's routine as it is for the proverbial "camel to go through the eye of a cambric needle." He is always looked upon as guilty of any crime that he may be wrongfully accused of and is always a bad brazen beast though he has given no evidence of actually being such. Once upon a time the editor hereof called upon the publisher of the Post-Intelligencer to register a protest against a similar article, which had appeared in its columns, but of a local nature, and the publisher admitted the injustice of such articles, but plead the inability of either the publisher or editor of remedying the evil, because the reporters turned in their news stories so written, which was but admitting that the average white reporter was not inclined to give a colored man a square deal, and that reminded us of the old, old story of "the nigger and the po white trash." We have it by hearsay that the present managing editor of the Post-Intelligencer is a man, who has all of an hundred dollars laid away for a rainy day, is largely responsible for such articles appearing in that publication, but why individualize, they all do it, and the ideal colored citizen gets no more consideration than the really objectionable one. But being so fair and generous in so many instances it does seem to us that the educated Christian white man would refuse to try to beastalize even a black skinned human being. NATIVE RULERS FOR AFRICA The action of a recent race convention held in New York City a few months ago, in electing a provisional president for Africa, was on a par with the unprofitable venture of sending coals to Newcastle. As a matter of fact, Africa is not only dominated by the great European powers under the guise of mandatories and protectorates, but it has a generous assortment of native rulers, whose powers have been restricted from time to time through the progressive encroachments of the white man's sphere of influence. Outside of Abyssinia where the successor of King Menelik still holds sway under the ancient native title "Negus," but little real power is exercised by these native rulers. Nevertheless, they have a strong hold on the affections of their people and exert no little influence on their conduct in civil and political affairs. An example of this was furnished by an article in the Lagos Weekly Record, giving an account of a large meeting summoned by the Prince Eleko some months ago, at which both the Mohammedan community and the Pagan element were present. The closeness of the relations between the native rulers and their people may be gathered from the tenor of the remarks with which the Prince closed his audience. He concluded as follows: "I am your Prince, whether you be Christians, Mohammedans or Pagans. I am your head and this House is the origin of you all, but you must not refer your religious disputes to me any more from today. It is not within the area of my privilege to interfere with a question purely affecting the religious susceptibility of the community, whether Christians, Mohammedans or Pagans, but if the question is political, that is within the area of my privilege and in that respect I am responsible to the Governor. Should any section of you choose to bring to me for my recognition any of its officers or officers after they are duly elected by that section, I shall signify my approval in accordance with my hereditary rights." When it is understood that there are hundreds and perhaps thousands of native rulers like the above exercising their hereditary rights with the consent of their people and the approval of the mandatory powers, the futility of electing a provision president for Africa becomes apparent .In view of the increasing power and progress of the natives in Africa, and the ability manifested by the native leaders, such action on the part of those removed thousands of miles away becomes an impertinence. If a provisional president is requisite to the redemption of Africa, her native sons can be relied upon to provide one at the proper time. Africa has the material for real rulers. She cannot be fooled by the spurious article. New York Age. THE PASSING THRONG Recently I took a seat on a street car which was more or less crowded and the white man I sat down by looked me over and then jumped up as though a bunch of small pox had blown in upon him. I smiled and moved over into his good corner seat and for one time an overdose of race prejudice worked well for me. I had no sooner moved over when a well dressd white lady flopped down into the cramped quarters and I said to myself, you pays your money and takes your choice and to myself I quoted that time-worn saying, "What fools we mortals be." All of the passengers sitting in close proximity had observed the whole scene and when I looked up there was a general titter among them and when the fellow who so suddenly rose from his seat saw the horse laugh being passed around at his expense, while he was practicing the art of strap hanging, a disgusted look beclouded his face and he signalled the conductor for off at the next crossing and as he passed out a disgusted look beclouded the faces of even those who smiled a moment before, which being interpreted in words was—damphool. Persons so constituted are to be pitied rather than punched in the jaw and to avoid such scenes they should learn the lesson of "when in Rome do as Romans." *** Speaking about "What fools we mortals be" reminds me of an incident that occurred at the New Richmond hotel of this city a few days ago. Dr. Leroy Bundy and his wife, both light mulattoes in complexion and with features varying between an Indian and an Italian, walked up to the counter to register for rooms. The clerk gave them the once over to decipher their anthropology and not being able to satisfy his curiosity or perhaps antipathy for colored persons, refused to longer remain in ignorance, and then looked them square in the face and catechised them as follows: "Be you niggers or coons or both? fur if ye be either yer can't stop here." Mr. Bundy is a man that does not quickly lose his head and he retorted. "Neither." Whereupon the clerk became thoroughly satisfied that they could pass and immediately assigned them to rooms and they were shown the same courtesy as the other guests. What I mean to get out of this story is, that clerk became perfectly reconciled to the applying guests as to their class identification as soon as he learned from them they were neither "niggers" or "coons." That there is nothing in a name did not go with that clerk and had Dr. Bundy said I am a Negro accommodations would have been denied him on the gorunds that Negroes as guests in the hotel are objectionable to the white guests. "What fools we mortals be." Dr. Bundy did not deny his racial identity as is accepted all over this land of the free and home of the liar in replying that he was neither a nigger or a coon for no human can be either of those things even when such human being is 16 Under the auspices of the Seattle Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. Mrs. Lovenza Jordan Cole will give a farewell musical next Monday evening at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and with her will appear a number of musical artists. She leaves for a year's tour through many of the states of the Union and this musical will be something of a farewell to her. Mrs. Cole possesses rare musical ability and the Seattle Branch is delighted to give her an opportunity to get a good send-off from her home town. The admission fee will be fifty cents and the Branch feels that those who attend will get more than they pay for. Mt. Zion Baptist Church Monday evening October 18th, at 8 o'clock. Admission 50 cents. Julian G. Herkimer of the Anti-Saloon League said in a Pittsburg lecture: "A Pittsburg woman, in the days before the state went dry, took a bath one winter evening and then as she felt chilled she swallowed a tablespoonful of whisky. Afterward she prepared her little daughter for bed. She was bending over the youngster, unbuttoning her frock, when the child gave two or three sniffs and said sharply: 'Why mother, you've been using father's perfumery!' John Bunton was certainly a steady man; but he was a bit too steady for Clara Hopkins. They has been engaged to be married fifteen years, and still he had never asked her to name the happy day. One evening John called in a romantic frame of mind, and asked Clara to sing something tender and touching—something that would move him. After a moment's thought she sat down at the piano and sang an old ballad with meaning. It was entitled, "Darling, I Am Growing Old." A conceited Welsh student-pastor was preaching in English in a Derbyshire chapel. To impress his English hearers he said he would recite the first words of the Bible in twenty languages. What he did was to recite different passages in Welsh each time. Suddenly he saw a man laughing at him "And twelfthy," he said "as the passage goes in Arabic, 'Oschi Cymro peidwch yn chwerthin a caewch eith eg,'" which means "if you're a Welshman, stop laughing and shut your mouth." In an ancient mansion which recently changed hands on account of the ups and downs of war-time fortunes there dwells and works a parlor maid of very expensive and rather cultured and superior type. Her mistress does not mind the expense, but is often much bothered by the culture, this being on too high a plane for her understanding. "Ma'am," said the maid, meeting her mistress in the hall, "there is a mendicant at the door." "Then tell him," said the mistress of the mansion, "we have nothing to mend." Will Rent nice five-room cottage, close in, suitable for small club, at $35 per month, to party buying furniture. Price $600. Address: "Rent", Cayton's Weekly. Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of Cayton's Weekly, published weekly at Seattle, Wash., for October 1, 1920. State of Washington. County of King—ss. Before me, a notary public, in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Horace Roscoe Cayton, who, having been duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor of Cayton's Weekly, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, editor, managing editor, business manager, Horace Roscoe Cayton, Seattle, Wash. 2. That the owners are: Horace Roscoe Cayton, Seattle, Wash. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. 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That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is 500. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of September, 1920. CHARLES M. SILVER, Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, (My Commission expires November 4, 1923). The LAUREL APARTMENTS is being renovated, redecorated and otherwise made ready for WINTER TENANCY and you and each of you are invited to call and inspect the various apartments and if you are in need of such accommodations for the coming winter you are solicited to become a patron of the house. The Laurel Apartments is one block from Jackson Street and one block from Yesler Way on Twenty-second Avenue South, 303. Every apartment in THE LAUREL is an outside one and without a single dark room in the building. It is steam heated and sufficiently furnished for immediate occupancy. In fact you can be in living possession of one of the apartments within a few hours after having rented the same. The halls, lavatories and heating apparatus are all well cared for by competent persons. Come and see for yourself. LAUREL APARTMETS Telephone Beacon 1910 at 303.22nd Ave. South Register and Vote In order to enjoy life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, the Republican Party must be restored to power, with a Republican President, Senate and House of Representatives. The entire Republican State and County ticket must be elected. This can only be accomplished by registering and voting solidly the Republican ticket. Vote the straight Republican ticket. King County Colored Republican Club IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. National Grocery Company, a corporation, Plaintiff, vs. Richard Koska and William Koska, co-partners, doing business as R. Koska & Son, Defendants.-No. 144529. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington: to the said Richard Koska and William Koska, co-partners doing business as R. Koska & Son; You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 4th day of September, 1920, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff at their offices below stated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to determine and adjudge the amount due upon a claim of the plaintiff against the defendedants, founded upon the sale and delivery of goods, wares and merchandise from the said plaintiff to said defendants, which claim is in the sum of $274.55, together with interest thereon at six per cent per annum from May 26, 1920; and to secure a judgment therefor, together with the costs of this action, against the defendants and each of them, Richard Koska and William Koska, co-partners doing business as R. Koska and Son. BRONSON, ROBINSON & JONES. Attorneys for Plaintiff. 614 Colman Building, Seattle King County, Washington. Date of first publication: Sept. 4-Oct. 12, 1920. CAYTON'S WEEKLY (Office 303 22nd Ave. South) Regular, Reliable, Republican, Readable Wants 500 New Subscribers This is a Sample of what it sends out Every Week No Friends to Reward or Enemies to Punish A Publication of Ideas Rather Than Personalities Read for Yourself and Be Convinced