The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
VERNON TO STAY.
Effort to Sidetrack Brilliant
Negro Orator Fails.
Chairman drummer Refuses to
Listen to Opposition.
RESENTMENTIS BITTER
Seems to Be Centered in Cover
nor HOch's Attitude.
Circular Addressed TO COIOred
Voters Is Issued.

drummer today. you can state posi-
lively that the dates arranged for Will
liam T. Vernon will not be cancelled.
He will stay IN the campaign and ap- /
pear at every town at which he is /
billed to speak"
This is the answer of Chairman
drummer of the Republican state |
committee to the efforts which have |
been made by a certain element of the |
colored voters to have Mr.. Vernon. the |
/ brilliant negro orator, recalled to |
/ Washington by a sudden press OF Of |
/ fetal business"
That vernon's participation in the |
\ Kansas campaign is costing the Re |
4 publican ticket votes is the opinion not |
only Of Vernon's enemies, but even of I
some of his alleged friends and friends |
/ Of the Republican ticket It is claimed !
that the prejudice against Vernon |
among the colOred Republicans is |
based on the belief that Vernon en- |
I dorses Governor Hoch's attitude on !
the separate school question. Back Of
this, however. is the old fight which
was made by certain negroes on the
confirmation of Vernon as registrar of
the United States treasury The lead |
ers in that fight are at the front of the
/ present effort to align the negro voters
of the state against the Republican
ticket.
It is claimed by some of the negroes
that It will be unsafe for Vernon to
attempt to make a speech at Wichita
or Kansas City. as his enemies there
have threatened to do him bodily
violence. Vernon is billed to speak
at Wichita on Monday. Oct. %, and at
Kansas City on Nov. 3, the night be
/ fore election.
This opposition to Vernon manifest
1 ed itself here at Topeka which is the
4 headquarters of the ''juntaH which is
managing the fight. A committee rep
resenting this opposition called on
/ Chairman drummer a few days before
! Vernon's speech here Tuesday night,
and tried to persuade Chairman Crum-
ner to cancel the date. When he re-
fused to do this, the emissaries of this
| clique went to work in every ward and
I precinct of the city and urged negroes
to stay away from his speech. The ef-
feet OF this organized opposition was
manifested when the evening for the
address came. There were only
| handful of negroes present. One man
who claims to have made count says
there were only ~ in the hall, when
under ordinary circumstances there
would have been hundreds and possi-
bly, thousands of his race.
Another feature which was missing
from the Long-Vernon meeting at the
Auditorium here Tuesday night was
Jackson's band, the local negro mu-
steal organization. This band was ad-
/ vertised to furnish music for the event
1 but there was no music and no band.
/ The reason assigned is that the enemies
| Of Vernon got in their work on the
members of the band, and persuaded
! them to refrain from playing for the
meeting At any rate. the band didn't
1 play. Mr.. jackson, the leader, says
the real reason was because the band
was late at the hall.
The dates which Mr. Vernon is
scheduled to I'LL in Kansas during tn
present campaign are as follows:
October II, Oskaloosa. October Is,
Lawrence; October 19. lola; October
/ 20, lola and Coffeyville; October 22.
] 0PfnhAr RI
October "a. Emporia; October rs. Sa-
| lima; October 26, Leavenwortn; Octo-
Der 27, Great Bend; October %, Oswe-
go; October 80, Parsons; October 81,
Fort Scott; November l. Pittsburg;
November 2, Weir; November s,
Atchison: November 3, Kansas City.
Negroes Issue a Booklet.
To fan the flames of resentment
against Vernon and the Republican
party. Topeka negro named John M.
/ Dorsey. formerly associated with Nick
4 Chiles in the management of the Plain
| dealer, has issued q booklet Of thirty
pages, devoted to attacks upon the Re
( publican ticket. The book is entitled
| Thoughts for Careful Consideration, .
| and is addressed to the colored voters
| Of the state. The preface to the book
says:
This booklet is published in the in
terests of the negro, and not for any
/ financial reason. The object will be
to show that the colored voter and his
Republican party has seen fit to leave
the negro out of its deliberations. ex-
cept at voting time. and It is up to the
| negro to look out for himself. Unless
there IS a change soon the negro in
| politics in this country will be what
zero Is to a row Of figures, of no value
/ but used to increase the value Of the
figures, the white man being the
1 figures.
The piece de resistance Of the book
/ let is q facsimile of the first page Of
| Nick Chi1es' paper, the PIaindealer, for
! February p. 1905, just after Governor
| F1och signed the separate high school
bill for Kansas City. This article starts
of as follows:
The name of Kansas has been dis
| graced by a reform legislature. and a
/ southern governor, disguised as being
4 a Lincoln, Brown, Sumner or Roose-
| velt." The same article and other
| articles in subsequent issues of the
| paper, contain most bitter criticisms of
! Governor Hoch and the Republican
/ party Within the past few weeks
however, Nick Chiles has experienced
| a change of heart, and the PlaindeaIer
/ publican ticket On the page of the
/ booklet following the facsimile, In big
| type, are the words. Mick ChiIes in the
meantinet Negroes. viii you accede
to the sale?" followed by big hand
pointing at several s.
The booklet then flashes this shot at
s.of ali the vile things that can be said
of a man. Nick Chiles said Of HOch. and
he was in a position to know the truth OF
''But Nicl's change Of frons doesn't
make Hoch better than pictured It
| simply proves the correctness Of the
secured Niclx's silence first, and then his
I er. the messenger In Gov. Hoeh's offtee,