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The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24
No Race Problem in Church.

A striking illustration of the
practical solution of the trace
problem" was given at the funeral
of the late Thomas Hardy at ST.
Peters Claver's church, ST. Paul, a
few days ago. Amid the large col
ored congregation was a plentiful
sprinkling of German, Irish and
native American whites from both
the higher and the lower walks
of life. In the sanctury of the
beautifully frescoed church little
colored boys clad in surplice cas-
sock walked or knelt side by side
with white acolytes. In the ceoir
rich Negro voices rang out in full
chorus chanting the Gregoran
Requiem and ancient Latin
prayers that have come to us
through the centuries hallowed by
the use of countless generations of
our forefathers in the faith. Be
sides Father Printon, the pastor,
Monsignor Majer and other clergy
men in the church was Arch bishop
Ireland in his pontifcal vestments
emphasizing the fact that in the
Catholic Church there was mo
race problem" and referring to
the inanimate Negro lying before
him in the casket as "close per-
sonal friend" of a lifetime. AS
Christianity is the only power that
lifted the civilized nations of the
earth from barbarism so it is the
only power that can lift the Negro
race from the degrading influence
of slavery and solve the present
race problem.
The ceremonies of the Church
at the funeral of this poor Negro
were as elaborate and impressive as
if he had been the most prominent
of her white children in the north
west.-Denver Catholic Register
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24

against John R. Platt, New York
millionaire, involving 6S4,S29.25.
By the decision, the negress is
permitted to keep the fortune Civ
en- her by Plat.
1t was a striking tragedy that
the machinery was set in motion
which finally brought about the
disclosuse of the double life of the
aged millionaire, Platt. and the
negress.
In May, 1904, Andrew III. Green
the "father of Greater New York. y
was shot and killed as he was leav-
ing his home at 81 Park avenue,
by Cornelius I'll. Williams, Ne
gro, who was crazed with jealously
and declared his wife had been
won from him by Green, whom he
mistook for Platt.
The tragedy unmasked the Elias
affair, and urged on by his family,
Platt began suit to recover 1854,
500. 25, alleged black-mail.
The district attorney took a
hand in the case, and to serve a
warrant on the woman for black
mail he smashed in the door of the
mansion at No. 236 Central Park
West, given her by Platt.
At her trial Platt affected loss
Of memory and nothing could be
wrung from him that could cause
Magistrate Ommen to hold her.
After her discharge the civil action
was resumed.
Platt said that twenty years be-
for he mad met the woman, then a
girl of 16. Eleven years later, he
said. he answered an advertise
ment for massage. He found the
advertiser was the Elias woman.
After this second meeting, he
said, they had seer each other Of
ten. He gave her money to start
a boarding house, bought property
for her. gave her the house at Cen
tral Park West, and contributed
large sums to her bank account.
He said she had threatened to ex-
pose him, and was aided by law
yer and other persons in mulcting
him. He reckonad the entire sum
at close to million.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24

Birminham, Ala, Nov. r.
The body of Annie Shirley, a Ne
gro woman, was found at Pratt
City this morning with indications
that she had been criminally as
saulted, after which she had been
murdered. ID. w. Sparrow, a
guard at the state convict prison,
and l.. G.. Stovall, former guard,
both white men, have been held
for investigation. 1t is said that
cards and money alleged to belong
to these men, were found near the
scene of tina murder
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24

On Saturday, Sept. %, mob
of boys and young men from twelve
to twenty-five, together with few
older persons, took possession of
the streets of the city of Atlanta,
Georgia, and killed, beat, manned
. and otherwise maltreated such Ne
groes as they could at. Afterward
Negroes began to retaliate and for
a time things looked like an armed
vendetta. On Tuesday one hard
ware firm alone sold $4,000 worth
of arms to white people, while ev-
ery effort was made to disarm Ne
groes. The net result of the riot
was the killing and wounding of
at least one hundred persons, most
of whom were Negroes, although a
very large porpotion of both the
dead and manned were white, the
exact number on either side being
unknown; the looting of three or
four white stores and a few Negro;
the smashing of plate glass, the
partial wrecking of twenty street
cars aud spelling of Pullman cars.
the suspension of church services
for a part of Sunday and stagna-
ton in business shown by falling
off of more than a quarter of a mil
lion of dollars in clearing house
receipts. To quote the results
as summed up by the Atlanta Con-
stitution:
Thousands of Negroes, the best
, class of the race, the law-abiding
class, collecting their property and
their savings and leaving Atlanta
Business in almost total stagna-
ton for three days, but now, for
tunately, fully resumed with the
return of confidence. Factories
shut down. Long trains of freight
cars standing unloaded for lack Of
labor to switch them. The loss
running into a sum that can not be
computed for many weeks"
The alleged cause of this riot
was the raping of white women by
Negroes eliminating in four cases
on the day of the riot. The after
noon papers announced -four rapes
attempted in swift succession with
in the hour, two of which had
been successful" What were the
!. facts? John Temple Graves own
paper announced September "a
that of these alleged crimes of
Saturday, ''None was real case OF
.criminal assault" The real story
of these assaults acknowledged
by Graves paper was as follows
1. At2p m. Negro loafing
in back yard was ordered away
and shot at
2. At 7 o'clock woman was
knocked down by man as sfe
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stepped out out of her back door.
He Immediately ran away.
3. At 1870 O'Clock similar oc-
curance in another part of the
city.
4. An old lady living alone saw
black face looking through the
window and was greatly frightened.
Two cases of fright and two cas-
es of intentional or accidental vio-
lence is all that occurred Saturday.
Before that there had been one
case of brutal violence and one
case of probably attempted rape
and another alleged, but as there
was nothing but newspaper report
on these cases it is difficult to- be
sure.
The real cause of the riot was
two years of vituperation and ira,
duction of the Negro race by the
most prominent candidates for the
governorship, together with a bad
police system and a system of pun
ishing crime which is a disgrace
to any civilized state. Mr.. Hoke
Smith in his campaign for Office
has deliberately stirred up in ev-
Fery part of the state the deep
est hatred of the Negro, fear of his
aspirations, and determination to
keep him down, Mr.. Clark How
ell has been but a shade better.
/ Only one candidate, Colonel Estill
treated the Negro with ordinary
courtesy.
The colored people, even many
of the best and most law-abiding,
regard the Atlanta police as their
oppressors. In the riot, when the
civilization of a city went to pieces
blood ran and drunkenness and
fury prevailed. 1t was, as the At
lanta Constitution na;vely remarks
"a remarkable fact" that out of 100
policemen, as many as New Or.
leans with her 270 policemen and
twice the Negro population, three
times as many as Savannah, where
majority of the inhabitants are
Negroes, and three times as many
as Savannah, where a majority of
the inhabitants are Negroes, and
three times as many as in north.
ern industrial center like Lowell,
Massachusetts, ii city of the same
size. Most of the Atlanta arrests
are of colored people and are large
ly for trivial charges.
Then, too, the whole criminal
policy of Georgia is to make mon-
ey out of crime. The system has
been improved lately, but as a re.
cent report says:
cit still makes the income from
crime rather than the reformation
of the criminal of paramount i'm.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24

poltance. Special stress is laid in
each report of the prison commits
sion on this income; the system is
extolled as self sustaining and nets
the state large sums of none an
nually." At present the income is
S225,OOO, which the last prison
commission report refers to as a
magnificent increase
In the last resort democratic
governments have to depend on
the self. defense of law abiding cit
izens against the lawless. This is
true of the Southern whites to al
most too great a degree. But it is
the unwritten law of the South
that the Negro must not defend
himself against white aggression.
That the mob was composed of
the lawless element of whites is
certain. the Constitution said:
"Are we working for the piotec-
ton of the womanhood of our race
when immature boys-many of
them in knee trousers, many of
them led by indiscreet and unthink-
ing leaders; many of them viewing
the thing simply as picnic-drag
innocent, pleading human beings
from street cars, from alleys where
they hud taken refuge, from the
sides of their employers and hack
and stab and shoot and stomp
them?"
As soon as the dazed Negroes
realized the situation they natural
ly began to arm and fight. Again
and again the whites started to-
ward "Darktown." one of the slums
but hesitated. The Negroes gain
ed in courage. They shot out all
the electric lights and, it is report
ed, telephoned the governor;
Don't send the police to us, send
the mobn
The situation began to look very
grave; twenty or thirty whine riot
ers were arrested, but the great
mass we're still free. and then the
authorities made the strange mis-
take of attempting to disarm all
Negroes, peaceful and vicious
alike, while the whites were buy
ing arms by the thousands. In
Negro suburb the county police,
having sworn in large number of
white deputies, started to disarm
the blacks and were ambushed.
had their leader killed and a
slaughter ensued. The state mill
tia now was called, the work of
arming the whites and disarming
the Negroes proceeded, and peace
at last settled on the distracted city
after three days of orgy.
The lessons of this riot are clear.
l. 1t is criminal procedure to
stir up race hatred for political
perferment.
2. There is crime among Ne
groes-serious crime, and there is
crime among whites. The way to
stop it is by just courts, a decent,
honest police force, aud system
of punishment the object of which
is to stop crime and reform crimi-
mails and not to make money.
3. No community can hope to
be peaceful if it makes a third or
a half of its population helpless,
defenseless and ignorant, and
leaves it naked to the worst ele.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24
Hannah Elias Wins Suits Again.

Albany, N. Y, Nov. 81. The
court of appeals today affirmed the
decision. with costs, of the appel
late division Of the supreme court
of the case of Hannah Elias
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24

Plans have been completed for
the erection of colored school at
Fort Worth, Texas, known as the
Mechanical and Industrial College;
$40, 900 have already been subscrib-
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24

ed, and j. Ogden Armour, of Chi
cago, has promised further fnan-
cial aid. The Baptist Education
and Missionary Society of Texas
is back of the movement. The in
tention is to model the college af-
ter the Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute. Several hun
dred students, male and female,
will enroll on the start.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24

Almost at the very hour when at
Atlanta and elsewhere savage
Saxons were committing all sorts
of crimes in the name of white su-
premacy over black people, little
II year old colored girl, Hazel
Handy, in Chicago, won notable
prize against host of white COM
petitors. The Chicago American
has been carrying on a spelling
contest among the school children
of the city. When it came to
award the prizes to the winners, it
was discovered that the first prize
belonged to a little colored girl.
The American promptly awarded
her the prize in the form of check
for S72. The little prize winner is
the daughter of humble folks, and
in a contest where mental bright
ness counts would scarcely have
been thought of as coming within
the range of a contestant.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24

All Saints Episcopal Church, in
st. Louis, is claimed to be the fin
est and one of the largest in the
country. IL is comparatively
new structure and very large, and
erected by Unitarian congrega-
ton at cost of 100000. 1t was
purchased for less than half that
sum and in the sale was an $4,000
organ. Rev, (''fatber") Cassius
Mason started the original church
without penny, and by two pur-
chases and as many sales, has Sc
cured his present church. They
also have a fine rectory, and have
$4,000 in bank, the nucleus of an
indowment fund. 1t is well situa-
ted and has a large membership
and does a great deal of charitable
work.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24
The Tragedy

At Atlanta, From the Point of View of the Negroes by
w. E. Burghart Du Bos in 1.-The World To-Day
The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24
RACE NEWS
from Various ~ourcas.

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The Crittenden record., 1906-04-13
TELEPHONE FRANCHISE
NOT Considered
City Council Declines 10 Act al Pres.
emf But May Do so Later.
Other Work.

Al the regular meeting of the courcil
Tuesday night J. D. Tcmplcman. repre-
senting the Cumberland Telephone and
and Telegraph Company, presented a
petition signed by quite a number Of
business m-n s-iins ihs; : telephone
franchise be sold. The form Of fran
ehise and petition we're read. bu, with
the exception of one councilman the
body declined To receive the matter for
consideration. A number Of the peti-
TONERS have since appeared a biz indig-
nant at the action of the council. but
there h good reason Ia believe that
many of the councilmcn were not at all
ayerse 10 the reception Of the petition
AZ another time, and In fact, some have
70 expressed themselves. still Il seems
that petition from such a large mum.
Der of fair minded business men would
be worthy of consideration at any time.
Tho question Of Publishing the chy
ordinances was % have been disposed
Of a. Tuesday nights meeting. bu, lett
over again until next meeting Al
bid, were duly In a. requested. but the
city attorney decided that the lowest
bid was not properly bcfor, the house.
although Il vas according 10 the order
~ shown by the minutes. ltwas q re-.
quest communicated 10 the city clerk
IN person before the meeting to the
effect that the RECORD hcrcrmittcd Co
cuntinJc The publication Of the oriinan.
cys on the terms of the contract that
publication now has with the city,
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Obituary

Willie h. Beard. son ot p. N. and
Molic Beard. was born Oct. rs. iS16.
and died Feb. %. leo6. u pneumonia.
Ne leaves a devoted faihcrand mother.
a brother and host II friends 20
mourn Tor him. Tor never knew any
one ~ universally loved or morc dcscry-
inr than was Willy. oh how We al.
shall miss him and long for the clasp
of hs vanished hand. ~ ths sound of
hts sweet voice that b. .ullci u ts
voice was 90 sweet hrtr hov mclod.oJs
umustbJ now, spiri,uah1sd anirl1u6cd
m Heaven imagine ! can see him
baskng IN the sunlight of eternal
glory singing praises TO God
Willie has left us and our hearts and
homes arr dcsolaic. but death Is the
gate that opens out Of earth toward
the House eternal in the Heavens
While We have lost a loyal friend and
loved one Heaven gains a bright jewel.
and while We sorpN here be- rcioiccs In
his eternal home. whore death never
enters and where parting arv never
known
Dear parents, your noble bOy is not
los, 20 you forever. he is yours a. ever.
a. you are HE. The tics ina, unite you
are not brukcn, They arc too strong
Tor deaths stroke. 1hcy are made for
the joys of eternal love. | know you
feel as u your hearts were crushed,
but Chirt u our refuge and help IN
time of trouble. ard lie doc,h all things
well. ltscems hard to us that Willie
was taken In his noble young manhocd.
The Crittenden record., 1906-04-13
Obituary..

At about So'cloJk Monday evening.
March ~. 1879. at his home near Ere.
donia. ky., Mr James Willis Cridcr
passed from earth 10 Immortality lcav.
inr "a aorrowinr aifc and a lausc fami.
~ 60 mourn him. he was a Kind and
iudulrcnt father and friend. rool
nc.ghhur Ne was patient under long
and painful suffering.
Hc was baptized into the Raptis,
church IN Oct. lsO5. Cod has promis.
cd 4 reward to the faithful and Il the
wife, seven dear boys and niece will be-
faithful and true as was be- when comrs
the tlmc Tor them. Ton. To- give ihc ties
vi HE. that dear father, uncle and hus.
band will smihngly welcome them into
the pcarly gates, that have opened 90
him. Tie died like zone sustained aud
soothcd 10y an unfaltcriag trust, Ike
one who wraps the drapcry of his couch
around him. and lies down 10 pleasant
dreams" " A FEgNp.
The Crittenden record., 1906-04-13
Large FAMILIES
IN MUHLENBERG.
Citizens Are Fathers Of TWeniy.FOur
Children, While BrOOdS Of Six
teen Are Common.

Central City, April l2-S Some county
up in the mountains is boldly making
the assertion that il has the most
fatherly man in the state for the reason
that he had 20 children, one wife being
the mother Of eight, and other twelve.
Muhlenberg county has always been
slow TO boast, but when she sees another
chain the honor that rightly belong TO
her she must object and step forward
TO numerate some Of her fatherly
citizens. William Allen has "a children
four by his first wife and twenty by
the last: Meredith Walker has ~ 2childrn,
all whom Of whom had the same mother:
William Greenwood has twenty. and
only one wife, and Elijah Duke has Is
children, all having the same mother,
and there are a hundred other families
having l6 children. These fathers are
and wereall Muhlenberg county citizens
and would be highly elated did their
effort to place their native town in
higher class by increasing the population
secure for them an autograph letter
fromthe President who appre ,iates such
efforts.
The Crittenden record., 1906-04-13
Will START
A new ROAD
Un MddiSOnviIIe & Hartford
New Railroad.
IN HEART OF GOOD COUNTRY.
Contracts for CONSTRUCTION Of New
Road 10 Be Let on The
23rd Inst.
TAPS RICH MINERALS and TIMBER.

The building OF the Madisonville,
Hartford and Eastern railroad, which is
now assured, is due entirely to the en-
ergy. ability and enterprise of a few
well-known Madisonyille citizens. And
that the building Of this road is as
sured, is evidenced by the fact the final
contracts for construction will be let on
the 23d day Of this month, and the
work OF construction will begin imme-
diately afterward.
But building the railroad is not the
only enterprise that is on foot. A new
town has been surveyed and plated,
and the promoters Of this enterprise
seem perfectly confident that within
a few wears il win be the metropolis Of
the Green-river valley.
At the first conception Of the new
railroad it was apparent to all who
looked the proposed route over that
there was room for one good town be-
tween Madisonville and Hartford, and
what is thought to be the right spot
for this town has been selected. II
hes in one Of the most beautiful and
picturesque spots OF Kentucky, sur
rounded by rich mineral, timbered and
agricultural lands, and coal mines are
already being opened in the vicinity in
anticipation Of the coming Of the road.
The Crittenden record., 1906-04-13
Power Of Tobacco Trust Is
Great in Senate
SENATOR ALDRICH BLAMED
SUCH Law WOULD NOT SUIT TRUST.

Washington. April 3 Slim, indeed,
seem 10 be the prospects Of the passage
through the Senate Of the bill. which
recently passed the House. removing
the tar u six cents pound on unman-
ufActurcd tobacco. When the bill
reached the Senate Il was referred TO
the Committee on Finance. Of which
Senator Aldrieh, Of Rhode Island, is
chairman. and then referred 20 sub
committee This wss nearly n,aath
ago. but the bill Ia still sleeping IA n
pigeon hole Yielding 10 the urgent
opportunities Of independent tobacco
growers. the subcommittee expects 10
grant few hearings 10 the measure.
but Il was admitted today by the mem
bcrs Of the subcommittee that there
vas little chance Of IL passage at this
session Of Congress
Representative Hopkins. OF Kentucky.
Who Was very active In securing the
passage Of the bill through the House.
says Il Is being smothered by the SEN
ate committee through the influence Of
the tobacco trust. so-callcd. and he as.
.crts that senator Aklrieh Is the prin.
sipal obstacle in ia way.
Speaking of the situation this after.
roon he said The House without a
dissenting vote. passed the bill which
sould have allowed the farmer of Ken.
tutky 10 sell OF otherwise disposc Of his
tobocco crop Just "a other farmers dis.
i.osc Of their wheat corn and potatoes.
and the purchaser could In turn sell Il
rs he chose Under the operation Of
snch law the farmer could exchange
his tobacco with his merchant for
groceries. shoes. etc. and the latter
could again sell /, 10 his customers at
uOc-half the price he would have To
charge Tor the most inferior grade "
manufactured tobacco. II would open
up ncw field u trade Tor the farmer
sho uoW has but one customer. the o..
ha,co trust, which dictates the price.
This ~ course. would not suit the
trust. whose chief aim Is 10 hll on all
Kinds of competition IN both the buy
lng AMI selling markets Every pound
~ leaf tobacco sch by the farmer
would replace a similar amount Of
manufactured product, and cut oil the
rrlht ou the same ol not less than loo
pcr cent 10 the trust.
Moreover, il would tend to raise The
price on raw stock which the trust has
to buy from ihc farmer
The Crittenden record., 1906-04-13
ARIoN, CRrTTENDEN COUNTY, KY, APRIL 10, 1906.

when he would have been such a com.
fort and help to you, his dear parents,
in Jour declining years. Gods workings
are sometimes mysterious to us. We
in our human weakness cannot see and
understand, for we indeed see through
glass darkened, but the Bible tells us
He doth not willingly afflct and just a
few ileeting months, or years at most,
and you will meet your darling son in
that Home, Sweet Home. Again you
will hear his precious voice and how
grandly sweet II will be when he well
comes you as the pearly gates unfold,
never to say goodbye any moreno
more heartaches. no more pain, no more
care, but rest, peace and heavenly joy
through all eternity.
The silver cord is loosened
That held the immortal part,
And coldness wraps the bosom
And stiffness claims the heart.
But yet, .where'er the spirit
May wander on lis way,
Gods promise we inherit,
Twill live in endless day.
Written by his Cousin Z.
The Crittenden record., 1906-04-13
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night when neither could be convenient
Is reached. For nearly forty years
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saved by is use, when il was impossi-
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up Is the best household remedy for
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Il quickly relieves the hacking cough,
lousens the phlcgm, and brings sound
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& Orme.