Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON, Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, "Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South HARDING HITS HARD The following brief report of the "visit" of Senator Harding, Republican candidate for the presidency, to Oklahoma City, has been given to the press of the country, all of which bear out the previous reports that Presidential Candidate Harding stands pat on the equal civil rights of the colored citizens of this country: Men and women by the thousands, from all parts of Oklahoma, and from Texas as well, came with enthusiasm into a rally of red fire and torchlights on Saturday night to greet Senator Warren G. Harding, Republican candidate for president. This is a Democratic state, city and community, without a single Republican newspaper, yet Senator Harding received the most enthusiastic greeting of any given on the western trip which he has just concluded. And here also he ran up against what was intended as a troublesome and embarrassing question—a question submitted by the Daily Oklahoma—referring to the dangerous race problem. But with no hesitation the Republican candidate met the situation and gave his answer fairly and squarely. The Oklahoma asked: "Do you or do you not favor race segregation? Do you or do you not favor separate cars for the white and black races; separate schools, restaurants, amusement places, etc?" There was but one reason for the asking of this question, and that was to create an embarrassing situation for the candidate; it was the evident idea that an evasion would displease the colored Republicans while a direct, affirmative would alienate possible Democratic supporters and Southern white Republicans. Senator Harding met the issue without equivocation. He replied: "I have not come from older Ohio to tell you how to solve your peculiar problems of the South. Somebody asked what I would do about the racial question. I cannot come and answer that for you. That is too serious a problem for some of us to solve who do not know it as you do in your daily lives. "But I would not be fitted to be President of the United States if I did not tell you in the South precisely the same thing I would say in the North. I want you to know that I believe in equality before the law. That is one of the guarantees of the American Constitution. You cannot give one right to a white man and deny the same right to a black man; but while I stand for that particular principle, I want you in Oklahoma to know that that does not mean, and I do not ever intend that it mean, that the white man and the black man must be made to experience the enjoyment of their rights in each other's company." SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCT. 23, 1920 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Oregon mist continues to drown our Indian summer. Yes, constant reader, Cox is still running, but no one save himself seems to know it. "Taking a drink" these days is not so much due to the fact that you want a drink, but because you can't get a drink. Here is to a five dollar note that Gov. Hart will beat Bob Bridges not less than thirty thousand votes. You are on. When a white man says he is "farming an acre of ground on Lake Washington," it at once occurs to us that he is "raisin' hell" instead of hog and hominy. Apparently the field agent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to get poor Pickens in Seattle on his present swing around the circles. If you want to see the state of Washington put at the financial mercy of the cement trust vote for the Carlyon Road bill. Don't you do it, but vote no on Referendum No. 1. If on November 2nd Harding is elected business confidence will be restored and times will get better immediately, but if Cox is elected times will continue in a bad old way. In past presidential campaigns there has always been quite a crop of colored Democrats throughout the North, but that crop is a complete failure this year, and well it may be. There seems to be a good deal of monkeying with the booze question by both the state and federal courts in and about Seattle, which gives us the sneaking impression that there is something dead up the creek. We rather regret that, so far as the editor of Cayton's Weekly is concerned, the Rev. D. A. Graham has not surveyed any more Montana towns in the interest of the A. M. E. Church, or if he has he is pocketing his reports. Judging from the press reports the members of the Democratic party have as willfully slaughtered innocent Haytiian colored citizens as they have the colored citizens of our own Sunny South. Damn a Democrat anyhow. For the first time in the history of Seattle a colored woman is to preside over a Republican mass meeting composed of white and colored citizens and to whom eminent white and colored orators will speak on the issues of the day. Not even the rawhides and bloodbones "down south" Democrat could intimidate Presidential Candidate Harding into qualifying his "up North" allegations as to the legal rights of the colored man of this country. Harding simply hit them hard. If there be one good Democrat in the state of Washington it is Jesse F. Murphy, who is running for state insurance commissioner on the Democratic ticket, and while he probably hasn't a chance of election, yet he will get quite a few Republican votes. We grant you, for the sake of argument, that there are persons nominated on the Republican ticket not of the stripe that many, even a majority of us would have, but at that they are superior to their Democratic opponents at least from a party standpoint. Referendum No. 1 means the Carlyon bill steal, by all means vote no at the coming election. The farmers of the state do not want it and it is only being boosted by the rich automobile owners, the auto dealers and VOL V. NO. 19 the cement trust. Vote no on Referendum No. 1. Drunken automobile drivers are largely responsible for the many automobile fatalities that have been recently reported. As we have previously said, it should be a penitentiary offense for any one to drive an automobile while under the influence of strong drink. "Move on" has been sung to the "men about town" in Tacoma and they themselves are curious to know where to, as the same song has been sung to them everywhere else. Well, let us suggest to you an acre or more ground and there go to work yourself and then it will work for you. The Editor of Cayton's Weekly greatly enjoys being a Republican, but something always bobs up serenely to take all the joy out of life and so comes along Jay Thomas not only claiming to be a Republican, but one of its most active stump advocates. It is simply awful. Bob Bridges has always been a Democrat, and he is still a Democrat at heart, but is running on the Farmer-Labor party because that party seems to him to be stronger in numbers at this time than the Democratic party. He is still a good Democrat, which means that he is a mighty poor citizen. In the state of Ohio the colored vote was responsible for the Republican nomination of Davis for governor, Willis for United States senator and many other local party leaders. In the state six colored men have been nominated on the Republican ticket for the legislature. And the situation appears to be, the colored vote holds the complete balance of power. There may not be quite as much noise made in the present presidential campaign as in similar campaigns in the past, but there seems to be double the determination on the part of the patriotic citizen to vote and to vote the Repuplican ticket straight than ever before, which means that the State of Washington will give Harding two to one over Jimmie Cox. Since the press took a fall out of the Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt he seems to have gone into his hole and pulled it in after him. However, he may have taken refuge in one of the lavatories for "white men only" in Washington City to keep out of reach of the colored press, which was dead after him. Frank is a Roosevelt alright, but "believe me" he is not a Theodore Roosevelt. While the colored vote in the late primary election of the state of Washington did not go in a mass for any one gubernatorial candidate, yet they did support either Hart or Hartley and Hart lead with Hartley a close second, thus demonstrating the influence of the colored voter in this state. Governor Hart has already shown marked appreciation for the voting consideration he received at the hands of the colored voters and we have our suspicions that there is more to follow. Because forsooth the colored voters of the Middle West demand their civil rights, W. W. Jermain, a Washington City newspaper correspondent, construes it into a race problem up North, all of which can be interpreted that Jermain is himself badly tinctured with negrophobia and the wise is father to the thought. Whether North, South, East or West by giving the colored man equal justice the same as any other citizen of this country will work no hardship on no other class or element of our citizenry. --- James in Wurthen 9 THE PASSING THRONG Last Sunday morning I picked up a magazine and the first thing I saw therein was the caption of a story written by Edgar Lloyd Hampton, which gave me no particular concern for the moment, but, after reading a few paragraphs of the story, I again glanced at the head and at the name of the author, and it immediately occurred to me that Edgar Lloyd Hampton was none other than E. L. Hampton, erstwhile Seattle weekly newspaper man, with whom I was personally acquainted and with whom I had often exchanged journalistic compliments. I finished the story and thought it unusually clever, yes, far more clever than I had the slightest idea he could write. For some time I had lost sight of him, but I have recently learned that he is now devoting his entire time and talent to story writing and is classed as a literary man. Once, while talking with Hampton, he threatened to break into short story writing but my only reply was a significant grunt and a sickly grin. But he gave me an idea and I too decided to try my hand at short story writing and at once got myself busy on my initial number. It was finally completed, but as to its merits I have no comment, but I began to send it here and there for consideration of publishers and as often as I sent it just as often was it returned to me and frequently without a word of comment. Finally I read the story to a couple of friends and they were simply delighted, and advised me to send it to some high class publication, but I told them my story and like a flash one of them shouted, I have it, I'll get Jack New York to send it, which he did, and the stroy was not only published but the writer got a flattering compliment and likewise a fat check, all of which thoroughly disgusted me and I gave up the short story writing idea. All of that came vividly to my mind after I had read Hampton's story and I was soon in a deep reverie and after thinking for a moment, I got up and pulled on my street clothes and then got my car and drove twenty-five miles into the country to collect a two year subscription due Cayton's Weekly and got $2.50 of the four dollars at a cost of $3.20 for gas and oil, and as I made my way homeward an air of contentment came over me and I said to myself, If I can only live long enough I will yet set the world on fire. ** I see by the daily press that one James Hamilton Lewis stands a good chance of being elected governor of the state of Illinois on the Democratic ticket and I said when will wonders cease? Thirty years ago this self same James Hamilton Lewis was a struggling hot air artist practicing law in Seattle and, owing to his foppish ideas, was dubbed "Dude Lewis" by the entire population. He adopted a mannerism, which made you see him and talk about him. He was more or less the public laughing stock of the city and even the Northwest, which he quite enjoyed. He talked well, but wildly. He favorably impressed the uneducated and amused the well read person. But Dude Lewis persued the even tenor of his way. Then came the days of Populisms, followed by the Bryan 16 to 1 days and on the tidal wave of the combination he was elected to Congress from the state of Washington, but was miserably defeated for re-election two years later and was made so much sport of by the people and the press of the community that he left the state in utter disgust and settled in Chicago, where he took root downward and began to grow upwards almost from the very day he landed there. First he was elected corporation counsel, then United States senator, then candidate for the vice-presidency and now almost in reach of the governorship of the great state of Illinois and all that and still a Democrat. What strange fortunes seem to follow some persons. I have always more or less admired the political ambitions of Lewis because he always seemed to me to be a huge joke, but if there be a colored man or woman in the state of Illinois that would desert the political fortunes of Mayor Thompson for those of James Hamilton Lewis then such a designated voter to me has not enough sense to go into the house out of a hail storm. Claude C. Ramsay Seattle seems to be undergoing a financial, commercial and industrial crisis just now and everybody is charging the other fellow with being responsible for it. Organized labor declares organized capital is responsible and organized capital—Associated Industries—preach it from the hill tops, organized labor is wholly responsible for the awful state of affairs now prevailing in business circles of Seattle. Both of those organizations may have done their part to bring about the present condition upon us and each may have had a reason for so doing. During war times organized labor got the whip hand of organized capital and for a time it drove capital hard but capital seeing its predicament got busy and, it is claimed, organized a rule or ruin policy and from the demoralized condition of affairs it has succeeded running things with the view of taking its seat to undisturbedly rule. I heard a group of men, all of means, discussing the Seattle situation the other day and it was the unanimous opinion of all present that Los Angeles was the best city on the Pacific Coast, San Francisco the next, Portland the next, Tacoma next, Spokane the next and Seattle last. None of those discussing the point at issue were interested in either of the other cities, on the other hand all they possessed was tied up in Seattle and it hurt them to the heart to realize what they were up against. I tried to get a job for a friend of mine as a trucker at the Port Commission one day this week and was told by the man who hires that there were not more than fifty men employed there whereas not less than five hundred should be regularly employed and often as high as a thousand. The fight between organized labor and organized capital is largely responsible for the above state of affairs and it is daily growing worse. What fools we mortals be. For the past six months or more I have been shaving myself and giving Tutt's barbershop, where I had shaved regular for fifteen years, the grand go by, but I got a grapevine dispatch early in the week, which said something about a transfer down at Tutt's shop and so bright and early Monday morning I marched myself in with my eyes open and my ears pricked. Tutt must have suspected that I was there sneoping around and before I could get my breath he said, "Let me present to you the new proprietor of Tutt's barber shop in the person of Eddie Gardner." Well I had what I went for and why waste twenty-five cents for a shave, but I got it more as a matter of policy than of necessity. For fifteen years B. F. Tutt has operated the best shop in the West for the accommodation of colored citizens, but had tired of the business and had sold to Edie Gardner his foreman for the most of that time. "I have no plans for the future at present, but think I will go into something within the next few months," said Mr. Tutt. "It is my hope to not only con- Continued to Page Four Re-Elect, Hart Has Made Good SEATTLE'S FIRST HOME GETTERS. By P. FRAZIER. 316 Pacific Block SEATTLE'S FIRST HOME GETTERS. By P. FRAZIER. 316 Pacific Block Noting the advancement made by our people in a civic and economic manner, as is shown in previous articles, we can readily see the vast opportunity offered for commercial expansion. selves and in order to make opportunities we must establish business enterprises. In order to establish business enterprises we must have money. In order to have money we must save, and in order to save we must patronize some savings depository. When we patronize such an institution, we assist in making it possible to exist. Accumulative finances makes independence. Independence makes business. Business makes employment. Employment makes saving of money possible. The saving of money makes it possible for the existence of a depository for moneys. No group or individuals or race of people, no country, state or community has been able at any time, and the record of past will bear me out in this statement, to develop themselves in the commercial world, or to become an important aggregation in the community in which they exist, civially and economically, or to become important in the body politic, unless their interests were sufficiently united and allied finan- In the person of Gov. Louis F. Hart the Republican party has presented to the voters of the state a candidate for the governorship, for whom it has no apologies to make. For the past eighteen months he has been governor and he has made good. The opposition press charges that he has endeavored to build up a political machine to force his own nomination and election, but to the contrary he made haste slowly removing Gov. Lister's appointments, yea truly he has actually removed but few of Lister's appointees and only made new appointments in case of resignation of expiration. If its a crime for those whom he appointed to ardently support him then throughout this land and country a great many crimes have been perpetuated by persons appointed to office by men elected to office. In all of his appointments Gov. Hart has endeavored to select sane, safe and sound citizens with no political instructions, but do the best you can for the good of the state. He has religiously studied the needs of the various institutions of the state and has endeavored to make of them institutions worthy of the name they bore and from the time he assumed the duties of governor it is quite apparent that they had been sadly neglected by some one. Judge Claypool in speaking about the governor said, "I have known Louie Hart for a great many years and we have not al- were sufficiently united and affixed financially to make it possible for them to operate as a group in the commercial world. We are ever striving as a people to do those things and accomplish ourselves in the walks of life that tend toward elevation, advancement, and toward bettering our condition, to properly rear and educate our children in order that they might be fit and capable to cope with the burdens that this life places upon them, but in so doing it seems that we have utterly forgotten to lay the very corner-stone in the building of our progress. Negroes control real estate in the city of Seattle to the value of between two and two and one-half million dollars. About one-half of the real estate controlled by them is unemcumbered. They have on deposit in savings institutions and various banks approximately $300,000. They are paying 7 per cent interest on the encumbrance of their property. They are receiving 3 per cent on their savings. The bankers are using their savings, collecting from 7 to 10 per cent interest, brokerage, and other expense items, employing the services of their own people, and reaping all the financial and economic benefit with the exception of the 3 per cent interest. I have endeavored to show you in previous articles in Cayton's Weekly, from 20 years back, to date, the advancement we have made in our civic and economic conditions, and our position at present. We must make opportunities for our- [Picture of a man with white hair and a dark suit, wearing a white shirt and a dark tie. The background is black.] [The text is in a serif font, centered, and reads: "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES."] HOME GETTERS, By P. FRAZIER people in a civic and eco-articles, we can readily commercial expansion. People, no country, state, and the record of past develop themselves in the important aggregation in city and economically, or, unless their interests selves and in order to business enterprises. If we must have money, and in order to save when we patronize such possible to exist. A good Independence makes b-ployment makes saving makes it possible for [Name] P. FRAZIER P. FRAZIER ways agreed in politics, but during my entire acquaintanceship with him I have always observed that he always extended a helping hand to the ones who needed assistance. He has always been a conscientiaus worker for the uplift of his fellow-man and he has taken that determination into the office of chief executive of the state." The writer hereof can verify what Judge Claypool has said and add, he is a broad gauged, liberal minded man and is as solicitious about one class of citizens of the commonwealth as another. No person can afford to claim to be a Republican and vote against Gov. Hart, the party nominee. It is conceded that Harding and Coolidge will carry the state by not less than 30,000 over their nearest opponents and if that is true then Gov. Hart should carry it by even an increased vote over them. Neither the Democratic nor the Farmer-Labor parties is making any fight on any of the Republican nominees save Gov. Hart and this is being done because both of those party leaders think they can make political capital out of Gov. Hart's appointees. Washington is at heart a Republican commonwealth and if it is it should be from head to foot and therefore irrespective of the individual fight being made on Gov. Hart by the other parties. Let the Republicans rally to his support and put him over the top. The existence of such an institution makes it possible for you to control your own finance, tohypothecate your own securities, to pay your own interest and to collect the same at a profit. It means creditable business, beneficial employment and recognition in the commercial world. There is no town or community with 1500 or more inhabitants that has no financial institution. Why do they find it necessary to have such institutions? To have a place to take in the savings of said town or community, so that they can be used in that town or community to develop their own resources, and to build up their own commercial interest and a future for their families. If they do not protect the savings of their own town by taking care of them, they would have to send their savings to some other town. Where there is control there is power. In view of all these things, we as a race have allowed the other fellow to use all of our savings and to be master of our resources, and he will continue so to be if we do not wake up and take notice by preparing for ourselves a connection by which we can control at least a portion of our own finance, and by so doing offer better opportunities of livelihood for ourselves and our children. By taking savings and placing them in the hands of other people, where we have no control whatsoever, we are thwarting every possibility of our growth and development. We liken ourselves unto a small town, ambitious to become a great commercial center, yet sending the savings of its ```markdown ``` 1 energetic community to a neighboring town, simply because it is larger. By so doing it is taking the very foundation upon which its growth and development is depending and building other cities. By so doing we are taking the very life-blood from our veins, yet blindly endeavoring to become strong, to become an influential factor in our community, struggling vainly against the impossible. Why build up towns and remain the builder. I say build towns and be the master. There as a way. I only ask you to follow my articles—read, think and then act. Continued from Page Two tinue the busintess as it has been going but to even better it," said Mr. Gardner. Both men are quite popular and will do well. * * * Unless the signs of the times deceive me Claude C. Ramsay is going to get more votes in King county than the presidential candidate. Wherever you go its the one story. "I am going to vote for Ramsay. Oh, yes." the same voter will continue, "I am going to vote the Republican ticket more or less straight, but I do like the way that man Ramsey goes after things." In my opinion Mr. Ramsay is the most popular politician in the county and he will score a victory in the general election that will place him at the head of the eligible list in case he ever desires to go a step further in the political game. I have been knowing Claude Ramsay for thirty years and so far as I know he has always done unto others as he would have others do to him, which is one of the finest traits in the human character, and not only myself, but the general public recognizes that splendid qualification in him and I feel absolutely safe in predicting that he will lead on the Republican ticket at the coming election. The voters of King county would do themselves proud if on November 2nd next they would forget party politics and practically unanimously elect Claude C. Ramsay to succeed himself as county commissioner. *** Somewhere above I told you about driving twenty-five miles in the country last Sunday, and, that I may bring out the point I wish to present to you at this time, I drove to Newcastle by the way of Renton. It had been a good many years since I had been there and when I last visited the place it was not only tedious but dangerous to even walk to Newcastle from Renton and simply awful to try to drive there in a vehicle, but now the roads are in such good condition that an automobile can get out to Newcastle with almost as much ease as it can get around Seattle and as is the road to Newcastle so are the roads to other places and much of that state of affairs, from a public road standpoint, is due to the individual work of Thomas Dobson, county commissioner from the third commissioner's district. The first thing he did after taking his seat as county commissioner was to get acquainted with the other two commissioners, secondly to acquaint himself of the urgent needs of the county and thirdly to make it possile for the three commissioners to work as one person for the general good of the community, all of which may be termed team work. Good results have come from the united work of the commissioners and if that good work is to be continued the voters should re-elect Tom Dobson and thereby enable the commissioners to continue their team work. I trust Mr. Dobson will run neck and neck with Mr. Ramsay and I trust Mr. Ramsay will lead the Republican ticket. Up against a fight, is an ugly plight, in which to be, if you cant get free, and you scratch your head and wish you were dead, to dodge the worry and the awful hurry, that the other fellow's in because you are "thin", and because he knows, he's got your nose: But a stiff upper lip and an iron grip will give you the nerve to turn the curve, where the sun will shine on the blackest line, which will enable you to see, the stump of the tree, and save your craft from a broken shaft. * * * Up against a fight, without any sight, will cause you to shake, like an aspen quake, and call for help, to save your kelp, from a grizzly bear with long woolly hair, that lurks in the dark, to catch your lark, by a golden scheme that has no screen and grabs your arm without an alarm, but never lose your head, nor wish you were dead, but stand up straight, and meet your fate, then the bear will blush and take to the brush. * * * Up against a fight, on a dark rainy night, and you can't see your way your bills for to pay, gives you the blues, without any hues, and you wander about like a stupid scout, in search of a light that will lead to the right. Then the end seems near and you can not hear not one human sound nor the bark of a hound. Then is the time, to calm your mind, take off your hat, and stand quite pat, and the sun will rise and deceive your eyes and a big broad road will lighten your load. * * * President D. F. Cardwell of the Washington State Colored Republican Club was all smiles last Sunday afternoon at a meeting of the local club as he had succeeded in placing one of his lieutenants in a responsible position in the state capitol building and said lieutenant in the person of Roger W. Watts was there and would tell his own story, and that he did and did so in such a manner as to bring thundering applause from those present. In other words Gov. Hart had already made good and the Club should give him its unqualified endorsement. Mr. Watts spoke briefly and to the point and those present enjoyed his words of encouragement. W. H. Wilson, who had recently toured the state in the interests of the Republican ticket told about his trip and his reception at the places he visited and promised to finish his report at a mass meeting to be held at Washington Hall next Friday evening, October 29th. Rev. W. D. Carter is expected home from California one day the ensuing week. Mr. B. F. Tutt has disposed of his barber shop. 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 Mr. Edie Gardner and his brother-in-law Mr. Frank Wilson have purchased the barber shop formerly owned by B. F. Tutt. Steam heated furnished apartments at the Laurel Apartment, 303 22nd So. Mr. D. A. Graham expects to leave for Africa soon. Mr. George Green has entered school in Chicago. Mr. Roger W. Watts of Tacoma was in the city last Sunday. Rev. D. A. Graham is expected to begin his survey of Seattle about the 20th of November. Mr. John H. Ryan of Tacoma, who is a candidate for the legislature of the Farmer-Labor party in Pierce county, visited the city last week. GRAND RALLY AT Washington Hall 14th and Fir Friday Evening, Oct. 29 Under the Auspices of the King County Colored Republican Club and the Colored Women’s Republican Club of King County EVERY ONE WELCOME Speaking Begins at 8 O'Clock Sharp --- 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 ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Distributor of Mme. C. J. Walker's Hair and Skin preparations. Mail, postal and express orders promptly filled. 1201-3 Jackson St., Seattle, Wash.