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THE FORUM VQL.12 - NO. 21 CHAMPAIGN NEWS Miss Lulu Carter has returned from Aurora where she spent a pleasant week, the guest of relatives and friends. Mrs. Julia Oliver is employed as Register Clerk in the Civil Service Department of the Uni. of Ill. Mesdames L. A-Riley, Ira Carter, M. L. Nickens and E. T. Dean attended the Pilgrim Sisters' Grand Session in Dan ville this week. Mrs. Dorcas Stevenson died Aug. 18, at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Scott Carter. The funeral services were held at the Free Baptist Church Sunday and the body was carried to Carbondale for burial. Rev. S. T. Clanton attended the N. Woodriver Assn. in Bloomington last week. Mrs. Steed and daughter are visiting in Tenn. Mrs. Effie Payne represented Ceborah Chapter No. 27, O. E. S. in Chicago last week. Mrs. Norah Knox is visiting in St. Louis. Harry Holmes was carried to the Hospital Sunday, suffering from a serious illness. Mrs. John Baxter and daughter are visiting in Nashville, Tenn. Among the patients on the sick list are E. J. Owens, John Wallis and his brother, Lester Johnson, Mesdames Perkins, C. Patterson, Mozella Barnett, Mrs. S. Hopkins' mother. D. Dean is having his vacation this week. Rev. Jackson was the guest of the Boy Scouts last week in their Camp at Homer. DANVILLE Danville is to be praised for the continued progress among colored people now in evidence. The progress is slow, but permanent. The colored people are buying property rapidly. The young people are taking advantage of the splendid schools—the not as they should. The two young boys of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaddy, Lloyd and Granville, formerly of Springfield, are doing exceptionally well—both are in high school. Lloyd is finished in carpentry and cabinet making, having made a fine quarter saewed oak library table. The Danville men whom the colored people are anxious to see elected will appear in our special edition. PAID IN ADVANCE How dear to my heart Is the steady subscriber; Who pays in advance At the birth of each year; Who lays down the money And does it quite gladly, And casts 'round the office A halo of cheer, He never says "Stop it, I cannot afford it— I'm getting more papers Now than I can read." But always says: "Send it; Our people all like it— In fact we all think The "Forum" we need." How welcome his check When it reaches our sanctum, How it makes our pulse throb, How it makes our heart dance; We outwardly thank him, We inwardly bless him— The steady subscriber Who pays in advance. Miss Ollie Taylor has returned from a pleasant visit in Chicago. Mrs. H. A. Donaldson and child who have been visiting in Hot Springs, Ark., for the past 11 weeks, arrived home last Thursday. The "hubby" and father was elated. Historical Society State House FROM THE BORDER Knee Deep. Somewhere in Texas. August 26, 1916. Do you remember how the frogs in the old pond, near the cemetery, used to cry 'Knee deep! knee deep! knee deep!' of afternoon and evenings? Of course, you do. Well, I feel just like one of those long legged rascals today, for we are truly knee deep in mud. I suppose you read in the paper about those storms down here. We broke Camp early Friday morning and started on the march to Leon Springs, some thirty miles away. We certainly looked good when we started out, a full brigade, with every man stepping just right to the music of the three bands but alter the first five miles we commenced to feel the heat, the lack of water, and the stinging insects. Finally in the afternoon we stopped at Ten Mile Hill for our evening meal, but some of our boys called it "Ten Mile H-ll." Just as we were in the midst of the evening meal, the rain came down, and rained unceasingly the rest of the night. After raining an hour or so, a terrific "tail end" windstorm came straight from the Gulf and proceeded to tear up tents, and to play havoc in general. After midnight we found the air so cool as to make it uncomfortable but in spite of our earnest endeavors our attempts at firmaking were baffled by the dampness. So we sat or stood, in the mud and water, until dawn broke gray and barren. I think that was the most miserable night of all my life. Out of mud and memories, we faced the rising sun and started on the last length of our journey arriving in Camp at Leon Springs about 4 p. m., August 19th exactly two months after the call for mobilization. We are as ignorant of our fate after our encampment ends here, as we are of the Fate of the Deutschland. The chaplain is reported to have said in church last Sunday that we would be back on State, St., in another two weeks. I can't give this as authority as I wasn't there being detained in my tent by an uncomfortable sensation in the region of my stomach, caused by eating canned goods they have been feeding us. The rations sure are rank. I throw the bread away often because worms and I never did agree face th face, and they certainly would have the advantage of me, if they got in my stomach, LOWDEN'S CANDIDACY The attention of the colored voters, in particular, is called to the candidacy of Frank O. Lowden, for governor. Mr. Lowden has been conducting a dignified campaign; has always been liberal in his employment, and is connected with an enterprise, the Pullman Car Co., which gives more employment to colored people, no doubt, than any other one business. His managers have been fair in distributing political advertisements among the colored newspapers and giving colored people a chance to work in this campaign. For these and other reasons, we commend him to the voters of Illinois and believe he will be a fair and just man to to all, should he be honored to sit on the "throne." The field is also full of candidates for coroner—evidently they figure that dead people are easier handled than the troublesome "live ones." Copies of the Forum in Peoria can be had at 211 Hamilton St., the Eagle Cafe. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., SATURDAY AUGUST 26, 1916 "Be Ye Doers and not Sayers only." JACKSONVILLE NEWS Among the excursionists to Chicago recently were, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Brown, Amos Sutton, W. Woodson, Mosco Sutton, Orie Moore, Mabel Saunders, Samuel Moss, Chas. Hogan, Roy Florence, Mrs Bradshaw, Leon Branum, Mrs. Brinkmon and son Lester, and grandson-son, Albert, Mrs. Alice Scott, little Helen Howards, Mrs. Fannie Johnson, Ollie Jones, Leonora Kennibrew, and Mrs. DeWitt. Mr. Walter Taylor has gone to Auroa Ill. Mrs. Mattie Carpenter is on the sick list. Mrs. Florence King is visiting her son Carl and wife in Decatur. Miss Genevieve Rogers was a Bloomington visitor recently. Miss Anna Lynch and daughter Faneta of Springfield, were recent guests of her parents. Faneta will remain for a short stay. Messrs. M. Saunders, W. Triplet, O. Wallace and A. Mosely motored to Springfield, August 19. All report a fine time. Joseph Mosely returned from Gary Ind. He was accompanied home by his daughter Reva. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nasby of Springfield, Ill., spent Aug. 20th. with Mrs Mary Nasby. Mrs. Mirra Price died Monday afternoon at the hame of her sister's, Mrs. Annie Swar's on South West St. Mr. W. M. Gray of Center St., is visiting relative in Miss. The Domestic Science Social Club met Aug. 18th, with Mrs. M. Banks on N. Diamond St. A neat purse was taken for Misses Alice Johnson and Helen Haithman who will leave for Ohio to attend Willberforce University. Both received a number of valuable presents. Mrs. H. H. DeWitt visited her son in South Bend Ind. William Elijah son of Mrs, Westly Davis of Marion St., is slowly improving. Mrs. A. J. Jones has returned from Quincy where she attended the S. M. T. session. Miss Matalene Moore of Pittsfield, has returned home. Mrs Louise Wright and daughter Margaret has returned from a pleasant visit in Frederickburg, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton Macky are residing on W. Edgmond St. "Read The Forum, It Gives All The Latest News. THE NEWSPAPER MANS PRAYER "O, Lord, I beseech Thee to forgive those who read our paper on a credit, and when the poor newspaper man comes to collect, they fly off the handle and treat the poor servant man so mean that he feels so humiliated that he doesn't know what to do. O, Lord, teach them that the paper cannot live without money; them that pay their subscription are paying an honest debt; teach them, Father, that the poor editor cannot live by promises and water alone; teach them that he is flesh and blood. Then, Oh, Lord, through your mighty power, have revealed this fact to them, permit them unto Thy kingdom where everything is free, where the unjust are not allowed, and the debts are paid, and the editor and readers are all at rest."—Amen. Rev. G. H. McDaniels, formerly of Springfield and President of Ambidexter Institute, but now of Chicago, manager of a similar enterprise, was in Peoria Monday, on business. SHERMAN vs GOMPERS United States Senator Sherman in the Senate last week, in a sensational vitreolic speech, branded Gompers the supposed leader and champion of the American Federation of labor, as a "public nuisance," and declared among other things; that Gompers was fortunate in not having been indicted with the McNamaras and others in the conspiracy to blow up the Los Angeles Times' building a few years ago. Sherman also challenged Gompers to debate—Gompers, in a hot retort, says he will accept the challenge. Senator Sherman has no good will for a man of Mr. Gompers' stripe. Gompers used his influence and high office, in 1914, to defeat Sherman for the U. S. Senate, but with the aid of Raymond Robins and the rest, failed Gompers said, "you have endeavored to call me before partisan political tribunal and and to convict of divers crimes, even without trial. You then advocate pitiless publicty and challenge me to answer like a man? I accept your challenge and will meet you in any public forum that you may designate, whether in Washington or in the Metropolis of the state you represent, in order that the people may be given a chance to judge as to the justice of your attack and as to the wisdom of the political policy of the American Federation of Labor." Senator Reed, of Missouri, later, before the August body, attempted to depend Gompers and read his challenge. Sherman replied that he debated with his peers only, and that he (Sherman) detested the American skunk not as much as he did Gompers. Gompers is awfully wrought up but he has met one of the ablest debaters and parliamentarians, in the person of Sherman, since the days of Calhoun, Clay, Douglas and Lincoln. Sherman will tear the last feather from the dead carcass of Gompers and fling the decomposed parts to the buzzards of the forest. The result of the Sherman attack on Gompers will be carefully watched. If any one thinks that the Negro has given up in his struggle to make for himself a large place of usefulness in American life, let him read the record of the Negro in the colleges of the country as presented in a recent issue of the Crisis. It is quite true that there are not more than 3,000 colored students in the college departments of all the colleges in the country and that only 360 received college degrees during the last commencement season, but this small percentage shows the mind of the race and something of its conviction as to higher training. Nearly every great institution of the country had one or more Negro students, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Dartmouth, Oberlin, the University of Michigan, Wellesly, Radcliffe, Wesleyan, and many others know something of the ability and character of the Negro through representative students who have graduated during the recent commencement season. In many instances the Nogroes carried off the prizes. William H. Haynee, who graduated from the University of Chicago, went on the winning debating team against the University of Michigan and also won the prize in the Julius Rosenwald's oratorical contest. It is entirely safe to say that in proportion to the entire number of students in the colleges, the Ne- DECATUR NOTES ENTERTAINED FOR GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harris and Mr. Whitten entertained last evening at 305 West Eldorado St. with an at home for their house guests, Misses Hallie, Elsie and Vera Ford, and Miss Georgia Osby of Springfield, Ill. Their lawn and porch were decorated with electric lights and Japanese lanterns. The evening was delightfully spent in music and games. Mr. Thomas Wagner furnished the music. Ice cream, cake, mints and orange frappe were served to the sixty guests. The following were present: Misses Hallie, Elsie and Vera Ford, Georgia Osby, Lucile Nickens, BertRa Houston, Carrie Thomas, Effie Goins, Marie Gray, Florida Markey, Goldie, Lucile and Hazel Phenix, Edith Thompson, Georgia Lefleet, Esther Brown, Stella and Nettie Walters, Miss Burton, Blanche Kelly, Miss Great, Gladys Thomas, Lozetta Robinson, Messrs Thomas Wagner, Dr. Ellis, Chas, Lee, Walter Hodges, Mike Covington, John and Chas. Lawrence, Harry and Fred Long, Carter Whitten, John Love, Harvey Blackwell, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Steward, Mr. and Mrs. R. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. George Goins, Mr. and Mrs. Cliffon Walker, Mrs. Robert Jackson, Mrs. Robert Earnest, Mr. and Mrs. Lann, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mrs. Thomas Glass. The Misses Ford of near Riverton spent the week end in the city, the guests of Mrs. Thos. Glass. They were entertained Wednesday evening by Mrs. Myrtle Harris, St. Louis, Ave. The principal event of the week was the marriage of Miss Ellen Moore to Mr Ira Walters, 1835 N. Church St., Tuesday evening Rev. Simon, officiating About thirty-five persons were present. E. Davis, "Raddler," who was shot is much improvised. The K. of P.'s will enjoy a public basket picnic Thurs. Aug. 31, at Fairview park, at which time and place there will be various kinds of atletic sports. Miss Florence Rumsey has returned from a trip South, visiting Louisville, Lawrenceville and other places in Kentucky. On her return she stopped over at Mt. Vernon, Ill., calling on her friend, Miss Sandsberry. Chef Robinson has relinquished his position with Greiders. You can secure a Forum at Lawrence's Cafe, 224 W. Main St. The Deatur Seals were defeated by the white team at Woodbine Park Thursday by a score: 11 to 5. Dr. J. C. Ellis and Clarence Johnson motored to Woodbine Chautauqua Thursday eve. gro gets more than his percentage of the prizes. The Crisis does the race a large service in assembling each year the honor students of the colleges of the country. The Negro press has always scored the white editor for neglect to speak well of what the Negro does. We now have an opportunity to praise the white press for the splendid tribute paid to the troops of the 10th Cavalry. No event or happening among Negroes has ever received so universal praise from the Metropolitan press both North and South. We are for once grateful to the press for this splendid showing up of the valor of our gallant boys. "All things come to those who wait." We believe the dawn of a better day is upon us. Let us labor and wait. ST. LOUIS CLARION. PRICE: FIVE CENTS Local Brevities R. S. Donaldson, trustee, and his son H. A. Donaldson, who have been working side by side in the interest of the betterment of the church, were foremost among the leaders of the day, H. A. Don aldson being master of ceremonie The program of the evening featured an address by Supt. H. S. Magill, a baritone solo by Elmer Neal, an organ selection by Mrs. A. R. Drennen, a piano solo by Miss Helene White, who was a substitute for Mrs. E. J. McCoo. Miss Alberta Moore favored the audience with a solo that was as good and more appreciated than some of the other numbers. The auditorium is a credit to the city, and some of the other churches should follow suit in remodelling and re-decorating. Miss Edith Scott, and sister, of Memphis Tenn., are visiting Mr. and Mas. Dan Price of E. Capitol Ave. Miss Helen Moore is visiting relatives in Decatur. Misses Hallye, Elise and Vera Ford were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Glass, of Decatur, this week. Miss Lillian Watson attended the Missionary Congress in Decatur last week. Miss Ethel Singleton, who has been in St. Louis for some time, is visiting her mother, Mrs. O. Singleton. She is accompanied by her nephew Master Gonzales. Mrs. R. P. Taylor and Mrs. C. A. Singleton were Chicago visitors, recently. New Hope Church will hold its annual basket meeting at Bunn Park Sunday August 27. Manager Mitchell will not attempt to rebuild the grand stand for the Union Giants' park this season, but will have a fine one, built to order and by carpenters who understand the work and will guarantee the solidity of the work. He purposes having it semi-circular and large enough to hold the people. All other games played this season will be played out of the city. The prospects for the next season are very bright, since there are now several good colored teams in this vicinity. Peoria, the second city in size in the state, is on a "punitive" boom. The new jail is nearing its completion, which will be a far more desirable place for you "jail birds" many of you will be glad to reside in the palatial place during the wintery weather when the great Illinois river shall be frozen over. A new cafe has been opened at 211 Hamilton St. The Jefferson Hotel has many colored people in its employ. J. W. Woodson attended the Grand Session U.B.F. at Quincy last week Baker is improving his lunch room. The Jefferson club baseball team spent Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday in St. Louis, playing ball with St. Louis Giants. A 12 story building is being erected at Main & Jefferson Sts. My! but politics seem as hot as the weather. Mrs. P. J. Walker is visiting out of the city. The colored Repubilcans met at 205 S. Wash. St. last Friday and organized a County Club. "Little Johnnie" has got 'em again. Block and Khul are making new additions to their department store Mr. Jones, "the Dummie," of the Jefferson hotel, visited in Springfield recently. Judge Hilton is again Congress—the Judge likes to run for office I. E. FOSTER ..... President E. I. ROGERS ..... Editor-Manager Entered as second-class mail matter Feb. 24, 1904, at the post office at Springfield, Ill., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. PULPIT DECORUM It would be a good thing for our Protestant churches if we could have something of the solemnity and the reverence which prevails in the average Catholic church. Not all Protestant churches are noisy and irreverent but some of them are, and much of this is due to decorum of the pulpit. We have seen preachers who during the opening prayer would be looking for hymns or even walk across the chancel and pass the number of the next hymn to the organist. We have actually known preachers in the pulpit to be talking during prayer. This is not only disgusting but is thoroughly wrong and is promotive of disorder in the congregation. We do not plead for the stiff, sanctimonious air of the priest, but we do insist that ministers in the pulpit should be orderly. Nothing is more indicative of pulpit laziness than to be hunting for the hymn and the Scripture lesson during the devotional service. No wonder the devotional service does not lead the people to a proper frame of worship when they are conducted with such disorder. We have further seen preachers jump across the chancel rail in order to reach hurriedly the main body of the church when as a matter of fact when the chancel was constructed gates or openings were made for the specific purpose of admitting ingress and egress into the pulpit. The minister does not need to be yelling "quiet" and "order" to the congregation if he is only orderly himself. While we are reading this little lecture to the guilty along this line, may we also call attention to the beautiful order of service which has been adopted by the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. This order of service should be held to strictly so that when visitors drop in they can enter into the service without embarrassment. A pastor has no right to change the order of service to suit his whims; he should follow the service laid down in the Discipline except perhaps on extraordinary occasions. There has been a decided improvement in many of our pulpits recently, but we call attention to these irregularities in the hope that there may be further improvements. Fom The SOUTH W. C. ADVOCATE. Evidently the South is tiring of their multitudinous populi ordinarily called "poor whites." In one of the leading periodicals, the southern newspapers are running a series of advertisements calling attention to the fact that the poor white element of the south has vanished so to speak. Statistics are quoted giving the population of the south and the relation that it bears to the country as a whole. The way they have it figured out the south is only 3 percent behind the north and is bringing up the rear faster than the Germans are marching to Paris. The number of school houses erected in the last few years are given prominent mention, to show no doubt, that the number of lynchings that occur yearly in the south has nothing to do with the matter of education. Of course when a person who is not acquainted with the ways of the south, reads of the numerous lynchings that hap- pen with a sickening rapidity, they are no doubt inclined to think the real reason behind the affair is a lack of education and overlook their barbaric tendencies. But the worm has turned, they do not want such erroneous ideas entertained, they want the world to know that the southern people have as much book learning as the next ones at the north. They want the world to know that even tho they lynch innocent men because of their color and race; threaten Governors with summary injustice, that they are educated or at least have schools houses and the children attend them regularly. We do not doubt but what they have school houses on a thousand hills and that the children attend them with a regularity that is characteristic of the sun, we do not doubt for a minute that the southern people are as book learned as the people at the north, but there is another thing that we are also as firmly rooted in; that the white people in the south having all these advantages, have not made as good showing as they should have, especially in the matter of lynching. For the last forty years they have been lynching the same kind of folk and using the same antiquated methods of accomplishing the desired ends. And from what we can understand, the same condition exists with the pretexts on which these folk are led to death. After schooling themselves in the gentle art of lynching for a half century, it seems to us that they ought to to improve. What in the name of common sense are schools for but to improve one's think tank? Does the south admit that book learning refuses to sink into their ivy domes? We have always felt sorry for the south, but after reading that advertisement, we be gan to have half an idea that our sorrows had been misplaced and the south was guilty of working a confidence game on us. All the time we wot the poor things had no intensive mental cultivation and low and behold they not only admit that they have but boast of having information factories by the dozen hundreds scattered all over the land. Such brazenness! The continued heavy migration of the colored laborers to the north is causing a deal of uneasiness among the planters of the south. The lure of the north is jobs that promise a decent living wage and not merely the fact that they are "coming north." If the southern planters and all those who are distressed at the going of the colored workmen will offer a living wage, it is highly probable that the wave can be stopped. There are thousands of Negroes in the south who toil daily and are in worse condition financially at the end of the year than they were at the beginning. It is such conditions that they hope to escape in coming to the north. The Negro has made the south what it is economically and the showing would be far better if the white "aristocracy" put in as much time working as they have in devising means of cheating the Negro out of the pittance that was promised for his labor. The ante-bellum system of having a score of servants around the house maintains in the south today, and as a result the majority of the southerners put in their time doing nothing with their hands or heads. Practically all the capitol invested in the south is of northern origin and the profits that capital belongs to northern capitalists and is taken out of the country. The south has offered practically no inducements to its colored citizens, but on the other hand has lynched and burned at the stake for every fancied grievance and otherwise insulted and by devious means sought to degrade the poor ignorant Negro at every opportunity. A chance to better his condition is now offered the Negro in the north, and because the black man is leaving, the southerners are ill at ease and in some localities, are FRANK O. LOWDEN MAN FOR GOVERNOR Sentiment of the State Shows Him as Choice of Majority of Republican Voters. Frank O. Lowden will be nominated as the Republican candidate for governor in the primary election to be held in Illinois, Wednesday, September 13. Sentiment in every part of the state demonstrates it. It is confidently predicted he will have a larger vote J. H. FRANK O. LOWDEN. than all other candidates for the place. This is a well-merited recognition of Col. Lowden's pledges to the people of Illinois. He has for many years been recognized as one of the leading Republicans of the state. As a man he is actuated by the highest principle passing laws designed to prevent the Negro from leaving the community. It is a remarkable situation; will not treat him half decent and yet unwilling that he should leave. The colored people of the south are to be congratulated on having been able to exist in the south and accumulate property and otherwise make themselves good American citizens. Now, living in the south and at the same time attempting to be a man, is alright as long as you don't make too much fuss about it. By, fuss about it, we mean quoting the amendments to the constitution that made the Negroes citizens as far as the law is concerned; attempting to vote on election day; failing to get off the sidewalk if when the "real" citizens want the right of way; telling anyone that you believe that you are as good as white men; in some sections, buying an automobile, a fine horse and rig; erecting too good a dwelling where it will attract notice; resenting insults offered the women by white brutes and so on for a mile or so. This is the season for the organization of colored political clubs. Colored clubs are a fixture even though some think that they are a nuisance. These clubs serve many purposes. The candidates seem to think that most colored clubs are not clubs but rather bludgeons. But they must remember that if it were not for these clubs, colored people would not get as much out of politics as they do. The most that they get now are promises and without the clubs it is doubtful whether they would get even the promises. The charge is made that colored clubs are for sale to any one that pays the price. This is wrong. we know of clubs that several persons have bought and paid for practically at the same time, but without knowledge of a prior sale, and the whole club switched political faith over night and voted for a candidate not a candidate in ciples and his ideals are those created in the invigorating atmosphere of the country. Made Friends By Conduct. While a candidate for Governor in the now famous deadlocked convention of 1904 and defeated for the nomination, he made hundreds of friends throughout the state. Knowing the circumstances and witnessing the manly way in which he accepted the situation, he established a closer personal friendship with men all over the state that has been possessed by any other man in Illinois public life in years. Col. Lowden did not allow his disappointment to interfere with the full performance of his duty to the nominees. He was one of the hardest workers in the campaign for the success of the party. A Worker In Every Campaign. In every campaign since he has been giving valuable service. He has filled every speaking assignment asked of him. The people know him as a worker, not a self-seeker. His course has brought to him the friendship and admiration of thousands of Republicans throughout the state and today, believing Col. Lowden has earned the nomination for Governor, they are for him. Active in Public Affairs. Active in Public Affairs Col. Lowden is a man of action and advanced thought. His experience in public affairs has not been limited to service in the restricted opportunities of a state legislature nor in holding of appointive office. He has declined all offers of this sort. He did serve his district in congress and he made an enviable record that has left his impress upon legislation that is today of benefit to the people of the nation. Principle Above Office. Principle Above Office. Big, brainy, high principled and scholarly gentleman that he is, he is conducting a campaign free from attacks, upon other candidates. Remembering there is an election in November, as well as a primary nomination in September, he is not asking the people for support upon false issues, mudslinging or a discussion of other candidates. He is pointing out the burdens of conditions in the state and telling the remedies he will apply to give the highest efficiency of government in Illinois for the lowest cost to the taxpayers. Every Republican in Illinois can support and vote for Frank O. Lowden for Governor on that kind of platform. the original sale of the club. But here is the way that occurred. The three way sale was made by different individuals who were members of the club. The club at its regular meetings voted to go with another candidate. The President, Secretary and Treasurer who had negotiated the three way sale, reported nothing of the deals to the body and hence no cash from them found its way into the coffers of the general body. Of course deals like this are bound to happen now and then, but if the candidates were not willing to buy, it might be that the officers of the club would not be so blamed anxious to sell. J. B. Osby, one of the 13 Republican Candidates for Coroner' is making a "red hot" fight for the nomination, going into all parts of the city and County. Mr Osby has a large number of friends among the Whites, who have beclareb their intentions of supporting him, and the colored people are fairly well united for him. There is no foundation, in fact, about his not being a boni fida man He says he is out to win and will be found on the firing line. The colored people are expected to show their colors and rally. In a toy wagon sits a little, be grimed Negro boy, with a twig in his hand—his whip. The 'horsie' pulling him along the street is a smudgy-faced white boy He's running fast but the little driver goads him on, applying his whip just as any driver would. It's for the children to be both 'driver' and 'horsie.' The 'horses' stumbles and falls. The driver whips him to make him get up. He had seen it done with a real horse, and wasn't he playing "horsie?" Up runs the 'horsie's' mother and spoils it all. She snatches the whip from the Negro boy and drags off her own child. "Get away from here, you —" That would be enough, you may think. 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Electric Lights, Heat and Baths PEORIA, ILLINOIS. When in Lincoln always stop When in Lincoln always stop at Hardin & Bernard's Palace. The finest in Lincoln. Absolutely sanitary. Leisey's beer on tap, cold. Finest of wines, liquors ann cigars. imported and home made. A strictly first class place. 200 Chicago St. The very best courtesies to all. A few doors from Interurban station, Cor. Chicago and Pulaski Streets. Political Announcements. I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Auditor, for the county of Sangamon, subject to the decision of the Republican primaries. Wed. Sept. 13. A. R. Drennan. Barksdale & Curtis Proprietore of THREE CHAIR Eureka Barber Shop Hair Cutting, Shaving, and Hand Massage a Specialty. 1030 E. WASHINGTON STREET In announcing my candidacy for the 49th general assembly I will say that I stand for square law enforcement, equal political rights for all, and the greatest good to the greatest number. All this subject to the will of the Republicans as expressed at the primary Sept. 13th. Bell Phone 2322 A. Morris Williams Attorney at Law. 115 South 11th St. Children, be they rich or poor, white or black, Jew or Christian, see no distinction among the human inhabitants of this globe. They seek happiness in associations of all kinds. Then comes "Reason" and the young mind is ravaged by that -----? Is he the best playmate you can find?" It is an unfortunate incident. But more unfortunate is the that that mature persons instill the germ of racial prejudice in innocent young minds. BELL PHONE, 6350 Hot and old Baths CALLS PROMPTLY ANSWERED NO, RIC Satisfaction Guaranteed Dr.N.B. Ford FOR REPRESENTATIVE. M. L. HILDRETH OF MEN WHO WILL APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT OF COLORED VOTERS. IF A CANDIDATE USES WHITE PAPERS AND NO COLORED PUBLICATIONS, IF ELECTED TO OFFICE, HE WILL USE WHITE MEN AND NO COLORED. LOOK 'EM OVER MARK MCKINNEY Among the many candidates for Coroner is J. E. Young, a resident of the 6th ward for many years, but now being at 1204 S. Spring St. He has lived here in Springfield for over 25 years and is well known, having been engaged, for some time, in the real estate business. He is a very pleasant man to know and is experienced in the work, requisite of the position of Coroner. No Candidate running has a larger colored acquaintance or more friends among the colored people than J. E. Young. Four years ago he made the race and was beaten by only a few votes. Mr. Young met the colored voters in their different clubs and addressed them and pledged them if nominated and elected, the colored man would receive a square deal and an equitable share of recognition, and that no discrimination will be permitted at all. The club was well pleased with Mr. Young's address. Mr. Young is well qualified and will make it pleasant for all. It seems that he is making a good impression with all of the voters. VOTE FOR Candidata For CORONER SANGAMON COUNTY Subject to the Decision of the Republican Primaries, September 13. 1916 VOTE FOR Jacob Frisch (DRUGGIST) Springfield, Illinois Republican candidate for REPRESENTATIVE 45th Senatorial District PRIMARY SEPTEMBER 13 XON-0123 E. E. STALEY Former well known shoe man, announces himself a Candidate for the Republican nomination for AUDITOR of Sangamon County. He has always been a staunch Republican, and in 1913 was a member of one of the best Boards of Supervisors Sangamon county ever had. If nominated and elected, Mr. Staley will make Sangamon county a first class efficient county officer, one that will be a credit to the Republican party. A. R. DRENNAN Mr. Drennan, who has been a candidate for the Republican nomination for County Auditor for several months, is making an active campaign and will no doubt prove a very formidable candidate. He was born in Pawnee, Illinois in 1881, and is the son of Dr. D. A. Drennan who practiced medicine in that vacinity for many years. In 1902 he was united in marriage with Miss Marian Allyn, a daughter of Nelson L. Allyn, and has one son twelve years of age. For the past seventeen years he has been employed in clerical capacities, the last six of which has been as a deputy County Clerk. This experience has familiarized him with the operation of the different County offices and he is well qualified to fill the position of Auditor, efficiency. Mr. Drennan has always been affiliated with the Republican families in the County. His great grandfather was one of the first County Commissioners and helped locate Springfield as the County seat of Sangamon County. No member of his family has asked for or held a county office since. Mr. Drennan and family are members of the First Methodist church, and fraternally, he belongs to the Masonic Order and Springfield Lodge of Elks. MATTHEW L. HILDRETH JACKSONVILLE, ILL. PETER H. BURKE Candidate for the Republican Nomination For the Legislature from the 45th Senatorial District, Sangamon and Morgan Counties. Endorsed by the Morgan County Republican Central Committee for the office to which I aspire. I will greatly appreciate your your support at the PRIMARIES SEPT. 13, [Political Advertisement] JAMES B. OSBY Republican Candidate for CORONER I want and need your vote, will you please help me PRIMARY, SEPT. 13, 1916 Low Sunday Rates From Springfield $2 St. Louis and return Peoria and return $125 Tickets good going and returning on any train date of sale via ILLINOIS TRACTION SYSTEM ]McKinley Lines] Edward J. Brundage Candidate for Republican nomination For ATT'Y. GENERAL Impetus has been added to the Republican candidacy of Edward J. Brundage for attorney general by the solid endorsement recently accorded him by the regular Republican organization of Cook County. Its phalanx of workers, numbering close to 15,000 in the 2,200 precincts of the largest county of the state, already are campaigning vigorously in his behalf. 1869 Born at Campbell, New York. 1884 Moved to Chicago where he has ever since resided. 1893 Graduated from Chicago College of Law and entered practice of law. 1898 Member of House of Representatives in Illinois Legislature 1901 Vice Presideut from Illinois and The Legislative Voters' League, in 1904, published the following endorsement: "Edward J. Brundage, Republican, lawyer, resides at 225 Osgood St. One of the 96 to oppose gavel rule; voted against all attempts to kill State Civil Service Bill by amendment; voted for Enabling Act, Charter Amendment, and to add representatives of majority to investigating committee. An excellent record. His continuance in Legislature." Excerpts from Editorials in Chicago Newspapers: "Mr. Brundage, as president of the county board, has made an enviable record. His work has been praised most highly by those who know in detail the character of his public service. A conspicious evidence of Mr. Brundage's ability is the new court house."—The Chicago Daily News, Oct. 31, 1906. "Edward J. Brundage has made a remarkable record as President of the couty board He will make equally good one as chief of the city's law department." Tribune 1892 Admitted to the Illinois Bar. 1893 Graduated from Chicago College of Law and entered practice of law 1898 Member of House of Representatives in Illinois Legislature 1901 Vice Presideut from Illinois as As President of Board of Excerpts from Editorials in Chicago "Mr. Brundage, as president of the His work has been praised most high of his public service. A conspicuous court house."—The Chicago Daily "Edward J. Brundage has made a man He will make equally good one as o Last Sunday morning, with the formal presentation of the keys of the re-decorated auditorium, to the pastor, Rev. W. H. Bazie, the St. Paul A. M. E. Church was reopened after a period of two month During this time while the auditorium was being repaired and re-decorated, the services were held in the lecture room. The services during the day were very impressive especially the songs rendered by choir. Miss Alberta Moore, the soprano of the city is a member of this choir, as is Miss India Harris, the contralto. Mr. S. J. Morton of Quincy was in the city a few days this week on business of political importance. Citize be he latter a can ILLINOIS TRACTION Sunday from Springfield St. Louis a return Georia and S return good going and returning of sale via TRACTION S ]McKinley Lines] d J. Bru for Republican nomin T'Y. GENE d to the Republican candidacy did endorsement recently acco ook County. Its phalanx of w s of the largest county of the behalf. day Rates Springfield Louis and n and $125 rn and returning on any a ECTION SYSTEM (by Lines] Brundage publican nomination GENERAL Publican candidacy of Edward J. Brundage nt recently accorded him by the regula ts phalanx of workers, numbering clos county of the state, already are cam New York. member of Board of Commissioners to Pan-Americau Exposition. he has Bar. 1902 Elected to second term in Legislature. to College 1904 Elected Pres. of County Board. of law. 1906 Re-elected Pres.of County Board. presenta. 1907 Appointed Corporation counsel. inois and 1911 Resnmed private practice of law. 1915 Appointed member of Court of Claims. 1904 Elected Pres. of County Board. 1906 Re-elected Pres.of County Board. 1907 Appointed Corporation counsel. 1911 Resnmed private practice of law. 1915 Appointed member of Court of Claims. Dislator Finished the following endorsement: Mr. resides at 225 Osgood St. One of the final attempts to kill State Civil Service Act, Charter Amendment, and to ac- tive committee. An excellent record. H Commissioners of Cook County Papers: My board, has made an enviable record. Those who know in detail the charac- tice of Mr. Brundage's ability is the ne- t. 31, 1906. Single record as President of the courty board of the city's law department." Tribune As a Legislator in 1904, published the follow- publican, lawyer, resides at 225 died against all attempts to for Enabling Act, Charter Act to investigating committee. Board of Commissioners Chicago Newspapers: out of the county board, has ma- most highly by those who know apicious evidence of Mr. Bruno Daily News, Oct. 31, 1906. made a remarkable record as Pre- ce as chief of the city's law de thots that grow into prejudice. It seems illogical—that the actions of children should be examples for their parents. Yet it is so, and will remain so until the mature persons will use their thots for the betterment of humanity—not as aids to the promotion of vanity. There is only one class, one race, one religion in this whole, wide world, and that is—HUMANITY. RACE CONGRESS TO MEET IN WASHINGTON Boston, Mass. The proposed National Colored Citizenship Riphts Congress will be held in Washington, D. C., the latter part of September. After a canvass of the situation and re- --- HIS LIFE Pres. of County Board. and Pres. of County Board and Corporation counsel. in private practice of law and member of Court of ving endorsement: 6 Osgood St. One of the Skill State Civil Service Amendment, and to add An excellent record. His of Cook County made an enviable record. in detail the character village's ability is the new president of the courty board department." Tribune ceiving suggestions from many race champions over the country. Rev Byron Cunner, of Hillburn, N. Y. president of the National Equal Rights League which proposes and calls the congress in lieu largely of its 9th annual meeting, announces the capital of the Nation as the consensus of opinion to hold this race congress on equality of rights. No place could be more fitting. So far the majority of opinions expressed as to the time favor that of September, the latter part, possibly the week following the B. M. C. enabling many race patriots to be present at both gatherings on the same carfare. Such a date, it is urged, will also serve the convenience of delegates attending "TO UNCLE SAM" Dear Unk: It's a great thing to be you, looked up to by all the rest of mankind—dwelling in a land which, besides being yours, is God's own country, the land of Freedom, the land of Liberty. The moment a man puts his foot on your soil he gets Freedom like a galvanic shock—after he's got through quarantine and coughed up to the Customs. You hunted slavery from your shores years back. When the African serf lifted his manacled wrists and asked, "Am I not a man and a brother?" you knocked off his shackles, wound Old Glory—the Stars and Stripes—round him, and gave him Freedom. He's had it ever since. Of course, he has to take Justice, and Law and Order with it. He gets his full share of that, too. Your newspaper tell me all about it. I have just been reading of that black man at Waco, Texas. His name was Jessie Washington, same surname as the Father of your Nation. But this "nigger" had murdered an elderly white woman; at least, he had been convicted of it. So the free and independent citizens of the United States dragged him out of the Court, and, as I read, "Despite all the efforts of the police to drive off the crowd, he was burned at the stake in the presence of nearly 15,000 spectators." You asked tother day, why you should go mad because the rest of the world is mad. Keep your splendid sanity, Unk; continue to show it on the grand scale, like this example of 15,000 Texans looking on while a man and a brother, black but gloriously free, was burned to death. "Disgraceful scenes marked the atrocity," says the newspaper A But you know what newspapers are—so thinskinned! "Numbers of bystanders fought to secure charred fingers or toes of the victim to keep as souvenirs." They'll hand 'em down as heirlooms, perhaps—emblems of the freedom that flourishes wherever your Eagle spreads her wings across your mighty continent. It's a great country, America, Hail, Columbia! Let us wave the Star-Spangled Banner—and sing "Yankee Doodle"! From The CHICAGO DEFENDER. the National Baptist Conventions before they return home. Suggestions are welcome. This National Colored Congress is to be an open one, both to delegated persons and to individual representatives of the cause who attend on their own responsibility. It is to be free and open for race conference, action and declaration. The Congress will organize itself independently. The Equal Rights League will call it to order and house assembled will then create the Congress. Racial fraternizing, mutual acquaintance, unity of spirit and of program, exchange of notes on local conditions, race unity of feeling and a future national working together for rights, a united declaration to the country of Colored Americans on color prescription are among the purpose, of this gathering. No move will impress the white American public on our presence, numbers, capacity and spirit for equal rights, like an actual national convention attended by large numbers of Colored Citizens from various states. Delegated representatives are quite advisable, and churches, civic and literary societies, fraternal organizations, political and other clubs are asked to elect and send delegates. The call asks that a Citizens Equal Rights Committee be formed by public spirited citizens in each community to work up interest, hold a public meeting and send representation. Any person is at liberty to start a committee, act at once. Secretary Wm. Monroe Trotter at 27 Cornhill, Boston will be glad to receive suggestions and inquiries All together in 1916 and on TO WASHINGTON. Capital Cash Grocery and Meat Market New Phone 540 16h E. CAPITAL AVE. Old Phone 839 SUGAR “oner" $1.00 — - Golden Age Flour = i $1.85 sae est a 25¢ Ariss, Suow white - = $4.8()_ Sat, 9 sacks 5c Gold Medal Flour - - $1.80 Raisins, 3 packages ; : 25¢ Corn, Tomatoes, Peas, : R 25c¢ — Mixed Cookies, per 1b. - 123c We carry a complete line of Fresh and Salt Meats LOGICAL CANDIDATE FOR STATE AUDITOR A Friend to the Colored people and a Man Thoroughly Competent in Every Respect REPNBLICAN PRIMARIES SEPTEMBER 13, 1916 Forty years of bank and bookkeeping ex- perience. The office of State Auditor needs a man who fully understands business account. If nominated and elected, he will de- vote his undivided attention to the of- fice and a vote for him will be a vote for efficiency and economical methods. Louis L. Emmerson MT. VERNON Republican Candidate for SECRETARY OF STATE Louis L. Emmerson, candidate for the nomination for Secretary of State on the Republican ticket at the primaries in 1916, was born at Albion, Edwards coun. ty, Illinois, December 27, 1863. He obtained a high school education and grew to manhood there, remov- ing to Mt. Vernon, Ill. in 1887, where he engaged in merchantile business continuously until 1911, when he organized the Third National Bank of Mt. Vernon of which he is now and has been for some time, presi- dent. He is a member of the Masonic order, in which he has the honor of having received thirty third and degree, Lnights of Pythias, Red Men, Woodmen, Elks, Loyal Loyal of Moose, Elks, Hamilton Club of Chicago and Sangamo Club of Springfield—Mt. Vernon Daily Registes. Cheboygan, Mich.—A big polit- ical sensation came when Raymond D, Taborn, Colored, from Kala- mazoo, presented himself with cre- dentials for taking over the office of deputy collector of customs at this port. Great bismay followe¢ the appearance of Taborn, who in formed all Democratic candidate: for the job, that the deputy collect orship came within the civil service ruling, that he had passed the ex- amination and tho a Republican had been appointed. Sandy Curry spent Sunday in Chicago and saw the ball game. Mrs. Alice Ford, wife of Dr. N. B. Ford, 1s ill at St. John’s Hospital. MORTIMER forState’s Attorney If elected to the office of State’s Attorney, I pledge myself to render the | same Faithful and LOYAL service to the people that I have tried to rend- er to hundreds of clients in my private practice. In my judgment, no man could do more: no man should ‘do less. Iam not conscious of ever having been derelict in the performance of my duty to a client. I stand for the en- forcement of the laws, and to that end will devote whatever of ability I may have, and energy I may possess, if I am honored with the nomination and election. ‘ I do not claim that I am any better qualified than anyone else for the office that I seek, but my qualifications will not be determined by denunci- ation, vilification, or attack? | Am For A Campaign Of Great Good Will _C. F. MORTIMER, Republican Candidate For State’s Attorney RENEW INTEREST IN HORSE RAGING Animals Now Being Enterad In State Fair Speed Contest. WINNERS TO GET BIG MONEY Premiums Will Total $85,000, and Speed Awards Amount to $25,000—Many Races Are Scheduled. ‘There will be no dearth of enthusiasm this year at the State Fair, when the horses entered in the horse racing events are brought out into the course for one of the flaest and fastest pro- grams possible has been arranged, be- giuning Monday, Sept, 18, and con- tinuing for five days, Especial interest, attaches to the horse racing events this fall because of the renewal of the sport this sum- mer at Chicago when Dodge, a bay colt owned by Weber & Ward, won the $10,000 Derby and set the fans at Hawthorne afire with appreciation. George H. Madden, superintendent of speed, has spent a great deal of time getting matters in readiness for the speed events and announces a list of races which will satisty everybody. An idea of the inducements offered to horsemen is indicated by the fact that a total of $25,000 in purses will be awarded to winners. Special purses are for $1,000 in the pucingeand trotting events, Big money iy also offered for winners in the run- ning races, two of which will be stag: ed every day. Features will be the entry of three: year-olds or under in trotting races scheduled for Wednesday and Thurs day. ‘There will also be a free for al trotting race on Friday, the last day of the races, ‘The racing program will include the following events: Hotel stake, on mile, three years old and upward; Sell ing race, three-fourths mile, all ages Citizens’ purse, seven-eighths mile three years old and upward; five eighths mile, all ages, five pounds be low scale; Tilinols Derby, one and ax elghth miles; Selling race, three-fourtlis mile, all ages; Merchants’ stake, on mile, three years old and upward; Sell ing race, seven-elghths mile; Consola tion, five-eighths mile, entrance fe for horses that have started at meet ing and have not finished first or se¢ ond; Consolation, three-fourtha mile entrance fee. ‘The purses for these last races ar $200, with $50 for second and $25 fo ~ HE IS FAIR THOMAS E.LYON Republican Candidate for Member of the From the 45th District Sangamon and Morgan Counties HE IS FAIR. That is the opinion not only of tne friends and supporters of Mr. Lyon, but also of his political opponents. Mr. Lyon is a good fighter. He has fought hard for some mea‘ures, but the very people whom he fought will tell you “Lyon fought fair, he played the game in the open.” hey respect him justas much as if they agreed with his stand on public questions. They know he is sincere. Mr, Lyon is not the kind of man who believes that the end justifies the means. He stands for high principles in political work. He has never been known to resort to a politcal trick to gain an advantage. He has not seesawed ar hedged any question. He is always ready to take a stand in the open for or against any measure, and to stick to his guns. AMERICAN LOANS MADE 10 THE ALLIES Arrangements are being made, it is said, by the Allied nations to secure further huge American credits to provide means to pay in this country for great additional purchases of munitions and other products of the United States which European nations are mak- ing in enormous quanties. A loan of 200,000,000 to $250,000,000 is to be made to Great Britain and another of $50,000,000, It is stat- ed that this will raise above $1,500,- 000,000 the total of American cred- its granted to the world since the war began. It is thought that the British loan will be brought out first, for it is said to be the big- vest financing ever urdertaken in this country with the single excep- third wintiinge. Entries have already begun to come in rapidly to Superintendent of Speed Madden, who prophesies unustal tn- terest In the horse racing events? ‘The full program of five and six races a day 1s as follows: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 No, 1. 2:25 Pace saecssssecsvseessssee 41,000.00 No. 2 2:90 Trot sessssescsseccesvscees 1000.00 No. & 2:07 Pace {iesccccccssesesees 100000 No. 4 Running, Vintle s.cccvscee 200.00 No. 6. Running, % mile svccssses 20000 ‘TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, No. 6 2:15 Paco sesssessecceneses sss, 00000 No. 7 2:00 Trot scesccsccccseccveesess 2000.00 No. 8 2:16 Trot coos ici 100.00 No. 8 Running, % mile vevcvecsecee 200.00 No. 10. Running, §% mile ccc, 200.00 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. No. 1, 2:25 Trot, ‘s-year-olds and . under. ‘Eligible Aug. 16...8 600.00 No. 12 B22 Trt sesssvstesceccssesses 100000 No. 18, 2:20 Pace sesscsccccesesconseess 1,000.00 No. M4, 2:10 Pace ssccssscssvecsscseces 1000.00 No. 16. Running, i¥ mie .2c...c0.. 20000 No. 16. Running, % mile .....ccec.., 200.00 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. No. 17, 2:8 Pace, S-year-olda and under, ‘Hligible Aug. 15...8 600.02 No. 18, Free-for-ull Pace s.e.csssses 1000.00 No. 19, 2:25 Trot ...sssseessvecccaneee 1000.00 No. 80, 2:18 Pace loess ecccccseeseees 1400000 No, #1, Running, 1 mille scssescccses 29000 No. 22 Running, % mile .0cccccss $00.00 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2% No, 28, Pree-for-all TROt sc+ssssses+: 61,000.00 No. 2&4, 2:18 Pace ..ssseccesecccsvssess 1000.00 No. % 28 ‘Prot s.ccsscecccseceesevees 1000.00 No, 28, 2:12 Trot....ccsecscsecsccssses 1000.00 No. 27, Running, 6 inile consolation * 200.00 No. 2%. Running, % mile consolation 300,00 STATE FAIR POULTRY. Exhibition of Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Etc. to Be Great Attraction. ‘The poultry show at the Tilinols State Fair this year, Sept. 15-28, prom- Ises to be the best In years. ‘That tt will surpass all previous state shows fs the expectation’ of the poultry superin- tendent, John MeCord. With’ each year brings a greater number of community exhibits, and each new poultry show, wherever {t fe, Increases the Interest of breeders of pure stock in the big poultry show. ‘At the State Pair this year thousands of birds of the American, Asiatic, Med- Iterranean, English, Polish, Hamburg and French classes will be shown; also hundreds of ornamental bantams, tur- keys, ducks, geese, pigeons, ete, | ‘Phere will be 500 different lots in which prizes will be awarded this year, All entries must be made in the name of the actual owner, who shall also be 4 breeder of the variety entered. ‘Thus, although prize winners at county falrs will enter In large numbers, an equal ehance for all breeders of pure fowl 1s given, Combination exhibits are pro- hibited. Offenders of this rule will be excluded from competition, Arrangements have been made go that exhibitors need not come to the State Pair with their entries, ‘The en. tries will close at 5 o'clock the after: noon of Sept. 8, and all exhibits must be in place by 9 a. m, Monday, Sept. 18 Applications for entry should be made to B, M, Davison, secretary of the Btate Board of Agriculture, at Spring: tion of the Anglo-French loan of $500,000,000 which was arranged about a year ago. The number of ships passing through the Panama canal in the year ending July 1, 1915, was 1,088 as compared with 787 in the fiscal year of 1916, The net ton- nage fell from 3,843,035 in 1915 to 2,479,761 in 1916, and the car- go carried from 4,969,972 to 3,140,- 046 tons. The expenses of opera- tion and maintenance aggregated $6,999,750, exceeding the recfipts from tolls b4 $4,599,919. In the preceding year when the canal was open the tolls exceeded the expenditures by $276,656.38, The dredging in one cut alone is said to have cost over three and one-half million dollars, The de- crease in the business of the canal ‘3 due, says the report, to slides.