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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
M'ARTHUR'S CANDIDACY
SURPRISE IN KEARNY,
Hugh Wilkie Receives Unex-
pected Opposition.

A surprise was sprung in kearny to-
day. when John Macarthur, of the First
Ward, announced himself a candidate
for the nomination for alderman from
that ward. He will oppose Hugh Will
kie. Both are Republicans. Up to to-
day Wilkie did not think he would have
an opponent.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
WOMAN GIVES
STAR BALLOT
TO CONDUCTOR
Humorous Incident Shows Pop
ularity OF Harrison Alder
manic Contest.

The battle of the ballots continues
with undated fervor in THE EVEN
ING STARS contest to decide who is
the most popular alderman in Harri-
son. Everybody seems to be playing
the game. and the coupons are in great
demand by the friends Of the various
aldermen.
As showing the popular and WIDE
spread interest being taken in the con-
test, "A little happening on a Turnpike
car today is of interest.
An elderly woman who had been
marketing in Newark boarded the car
at Bridge and Broad streets on her
way home to Harrison, and, opening
her pocketbook, rendered the nducto
an EVENING STAR voting coupon
instead of a transfer, and was visibly
embarrassed when the smiles of the
conductor and passengers apprised her
of her error. However, she smilingly
took pack the ballot and gave the
transfer. saying as she did so hat she
was saving the coupons for Alderman
johnnie DAILY.
Don't mention it, replied the con-
ductor as he showed a wad OF ballots,
TOO. I'm in the game also, out ION
O'Connor for NINE
And thus it goes, everybody lnter-
ested in the struggle, and everybody
praisinS THE EVENING STAR LOT
it's enterprise and ag-gressiveness'
.aHF Inc Wv.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
KEARNY KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS GIVE DEGREE.

Nine candidates were given the sec
ond degree by Kearny Council, Knights
of Columbus, last night. and
ments were made for u sociahle and
dance in the rooms, which will be the
first of a series during the winter
months. A committee of Eve was APP
pointed TO range for a dinner to cels-
brate the councils tenth anniversary.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
FRANK

Frank Murray, a young lawyer, o.
Orange. died suddenly today at hi'
home, . Mosswood avenue, Orange
where he resided with his parents
Charles aud Lille Murray. MIR. Mur
rsy was so years old and well known &,
the Oranges. The funeral services have
not yet been announced.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
HARRISON MAN DEAD
FROM BROKEN SKULL
Parliament Succambs to
His Injuries.

John Parliament, IS years old. of 412
Jersey street. Harrison, who suffered
a fracture of the skull yesterday by a
fall at his home and who was taken
to st. Michaels Hospital. died last
night at that institution. He is sur
vived by a widow, a daughter. Mrs.
Elizabeth Hunter, and two grandchil-
dren, Mrs. Joseph Moore, of Westerly,
Fl. l., and Roy Hunter, Of Harrison.
No gements have as yet been
made for the funeral.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
OF CALDWELL
GIRL is RECOVERING,

AT the M~ountainside Hospital ont
clair. today. it was said that the condi-
tlon of Giovanni Montisano. the caid-
we'll slayer of Edith Pickett. was much
imnroved, and the mar is now on the
roaa TO The physicians there
we're unable 10 say when h man
would be able to be about
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
HARRISON REGISTERS
1861 ON FIRST DAY.
Six Hundred Voters Out i'm East
Newark.

The first day of registration in Har-
rison yesterday ended with 1881
names on the list. The figure in East
Newark was 500. In Harrison the vote
was as follows: First ward, $50; Sec
ond ward, 4T5; Third ward, SIS: Fourth
ward, First district aO1. Second district
6s7.
There is but n polling place in East
Newark.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
CHARGES HUSBAND WITH
SELLING HER FURNITURE.

Mrs. Paul Surrender. of Y Wallace
street. Orange. charged her husband
with selling her furniture to a JUNK
dealer yesterday. The matter Will
come up before Judge Bray tomorrow.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
RAYMOND TO SPEAK IN
BELLEVILLE TONIGHT

Former Judge Thomas l.. Raymond,
the Regular Republican candidate for
state Senator, will address a meeting
in Belleville Hall, BellevllIe. tonight.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
ARRANGE EpWoRrH CAKE SALES.

The social committee Of the t,pworth
League of the Hilton NJ. L. Church met
TT the home OF Airs. G. c. Jones, Of
Halsted and Springfield avenues, and
arranged for a series of cake sales, to
take place each month.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
MONTCLAIR MAYOR HOME
AFTER LONG VACATION.
Henry V. Crawford Ready for
Contest at Primary.

Mayor Henry V. Crawford. of Mont
clair. made his first appearance on the
streets of that town and at his Of
flee today since last June, when he went
to his summer home. in Canada. H@
received a hearty welcome from tho
citizens and town officials. lie avs he
feels fine and is delighted at the In
dorsements which he has received from
his party.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
r,NrD FOR INSULTING WOMEN.

Russell Carman. a 1s-year-oid !.
o,airite. was fined $40 by Recorder Gao
,,,s IN Bloomfield today. He was
ch.rsed with disorderly conduct, and OF
lawns insulted two women near the
Town House in Brookdale.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
POLICE CONTEST
IN ORANGES WON
BY TIM CR0N|N
He Is Voted Most Popular PO-
licema1 by Total of
lO4,S24.
GIORDANO is SECOND,
WITH TOTAL OF lO3,l72
G. r. White Beats Terence
Cunning by a Small
Margin.

Policeman Timothy j. CrODiD, Of
Orange, wins EVENING STARS
voting contest for the most popular
policeman In the Oranges, with u total
vote of IO4.S24. He wins THE EVE
MING STARS gold watch.
Policeman Michael Giordano, also of
Orange, wns a close second, his total
vote being 1O3,f72.
Cronin beats GiordanO by 1852
votes.
The race narrowed down to a neck
and-neck contest between these two
the next highest man being Policeman
c. r. White, of East Orange, whose
total is 4 LOCI. White just beats Police
man Terence Cunning, of East Orange,
the latter's total being 24,73s. Whites
majority 10 16z
Arrangements will now be made for
the formal presentation of the watch to
Cronin.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29

Negro is easy caught and judges and
juries show hastiness in convicting
him. The cause of the mob is that
public sentiment is shamefuIly
warped by race hate and that the
dangerous classes" can use this race
feeling in securing opportunities for
the qualification of their blood lust
and the spread of anarchy and rapine.
The people cannot afford to nuture
the mob, nor can the press justify fits
brutalities. The law represents the
bikes that keep the ocean back from
Holland; when the bikes give way
the flood rushes in and engulfs the
rich as well as the poor, the white as
well as the black, and destroys the
order of life Of the nation.-The Ad-
vance, st. Louis, Mo.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
BOOKER TAFT WASHINGTON RE.
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF HIS
NEGRO NATIONAL BUsI-
NESS LEAGUE.

Last week, the Negro National
Business League met in Baltimore
Nd, which was gotten up eight years
ago, for the special benefit Of Booker
Taft Washington, and after eight
years Of its existence, he has per.
mitted no one else to be elected
president of it but himself, showing
that he is extremely selfish.
At the recent meeting Of the
League he permitted the following Of
ficers to be elected:
Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee.
president.
Charles Banks. Mississippi, LIST vice
president.
F. C. Ebert, Wilmington, Del, I'd
vice president.
Harry T. Pratt, Baltimore, srd vice
president.
J. A Landlord. Washington, 4th
vice president.
Emmett ]. Scott, Tusxegve, uUrre-
spending secretary.
Gilbert E. Harris, Boston, treas
urer.
S. LANG Williams, Chicago, COM
piler.
F. H. Gilbert, New York, registrar.
William H. Davis, Washington, Of
fetal stenographer.
Cyrus Field Adams, Washington,
agent.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
THE INSTITUTIONAL cHu.,.,,
AND SOCIAL SETTLEMENT
1925 Dearborn Street.

The order Of services at the Inst,
tutional church Sunday are as FOL
lows. Preaching at 1O:45 a. m. and
7:45 p. m. The evening service will
be Of special interest as the pas,or
will give at the close Of the ser.sc,
some things that have been ac.o,,
plished already by the Law and Or
der League.
The theme for Sunday morning VIII
be. The Coming Kingdom"
This subject will be discussed h.
cause there are facts set forth in :,
which 90 to prove that man has hi.
part to play in establishing tbis
Kingdom. The Kingdom of God IL
now at hand, the practical side is
the elevation of mankind. WAYS ami
means will be set forth in the Sum.
day morning Sermons"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
FALSELY ACCUSED.

First Of all, we consider all Ne
groes who are lynched for rape as
innocent until they are proven guilty,
and, since there can be no hearing
Of the case after the death of the &C
cused, there is no way to legally es-
tablish the guilt. We deny, most en-
phaticaIly deny these continued
charges of criminal assault made
against members OF the Negro race
and pronounce them, in a vast ma
jority Of cases, as scandalously false
and foul. We are justified in this po-
sition BY the facts developed before
and after the lynching.
Gov. JeIks OF Alabama, in an al
dress, bears testimony In the most
positive manner to the general limo
cence of the Negro Of the charges Of
rape. He said:
when / had been In the governors
once three years, 1 carefully inquired
into the facts of every one Of the 1lve
lynehings that had taken place. II
would astonish you to know that out
Of the I'VE who had met violent death
At the hands Of q criminal mob, three
Of them were without oiense before
the law"
OF course the two about which he
says nothing were placed by death 30
they could make no defense at an
Bishop Turner has truly said that IS
per cent Of these charges Of rape
against the Negro are false Doubt
less, IS per cent are concocted to poi
son the nation against the Negro, or,
to make the Negro scapegoat for an
others crime, Ike the Springfield,
No, aRair, IN which two Negroes,
aftsr being cleared By the court Of
the charge Of rape, were re-arrested
On 3 trmped mp charge Of robbery,
remanded 20 the prison, and thar
salne night taken out and burned
alive By the mob; or Soma Of the IS
Per cent are NE the one Chief Jus
tee L6re Of Delaware tails Of where
8 Negro was hanged It Laurel, Del,
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

THE BROAD AK
5oSS Armour Avenue. chicago.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
MRS. KATE HOWARD, LEADER uh
THE SPRINGFIELD MOB,
ENDED HER LIFE.

On Wednesday, Mrs. Kate Howard,
the prime leader Of the race riot in
Springfield, and who had stolen many
articles from Loper's cafe, put an end
to all Of her earthly troubles by
drinking a dose Of poison.
She had been indicted several
times by the Sangamon County Grand
Jury for melting and leading the RI
oters. The last indictment charged
her with assisting to murder Scott
Burton, one Of the Oldest and most
highly respected BARRIERS Of Spring
field, and Willim H. Donnegan, who
had served Abraham Lincoln, and
who was the wealthiest Afro-Ameri-
can in the capital city.
This was too much for Mrs. How
ard, so she shuffled on this mortal
coil.
The chances are that she is the
only one that viii suffer In any way
In connection with the riot In Spring
field.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
HOME FOR MAYNARD GIRLS TO
BE BUILT ON SOUTH sIoE.
Mrs. s. c. Bryant at Head Of Move
ment to Erect $4,000 BuIldInq
on Property She Has
Donated.

A nonsectarian home for wayward
girls is to be built on the south side.
Mrs. S. C. Bryant is at the head Of
the movement and it is planned to
erect a three story brick structure to
cost $4,000 on the property at 4737
Armour avenue, which has been do
mated by Mrs. Bryant.
Work on the new building Is ca
pected to be started within thirty
days. Mrs. Bryant and her friends
hope to interest other charity work
ers in the movement, and it is not ex-
pected that trouble will be encuunt-
cred in raising the necessary funds.
Among those who have interested
themselves with Mrs. Bryant in the
movement are Mrs. L. c. Vale, wife
Of the president of St Monica's con-
ference; William Austin, 167 Dear
born street; Walter Russell, 4749
Dearborn street, and Attorney L.
Washington.
The location Of this home in the
neighborhood, where it will be of
the most practical benefit to those
its promoters desire to reach and
REFORM is indeed a healthy sign and
1t indicates that an honest effort is
being put forth to carry on some
mighty good work at short range, in
a district where it is much needed.
Those behind the movement should
be highly commended and it should
meet with the greatest success.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
WHITE GIRLS SOLD TO NEGROES.
IN MississIppi-They Are Used For
WiVes-A HeartIess White
Father.

Port Gibson, Miss, Saturday, Aug
ust 15.-The most remarkable case
Of social equality practiced in Mis-
sissippi has been brought to light by
the trial of Thomas Turner and Riley
Wheat, Negroes, 20 years old, on the
charge Of being unlawfuIly married
10 two white girls-OlHe Parker, 16,
and her sister, Mamie Parker, Is.
The trial of the two Negroes was
held before Magistrate Martin and
Coulson in the courthouse at Port
Gibson, although the offense was COM
mitted in another part of the county.
Attempt to condEct the trial there it
was feared would result in a lynch
ing, and events proved that this
would likely have been the result.
The evidence at the trial showed
that George D. Parker, father Of the
white girls, had discovered the init
macy between Turner and his daugh-
ter, ollie, and that Parker had COM
promised with the Negro on condi-
ton that he would bind himself to
labor the nemainer of his days for
him without pay. The Negro agreed
and was performing his part of the
contract faithfully.
It also was shown at the trial that
Parker had discovered that his other
daughter, Mamie, was intimate with
another Negro, and compromised
with the Negro on condition that he
would give Parker one bale Of cotton
from his crop each year.
Recently, according to the evil
denee, Parker also became intimate
with one of his daughters, and the
fact was discovered. He was COM
PEELED to fee the country. When he
left the two daughters resided openly
with their dusky husbands.
During the progress Of the trial
rush was made for the two Negroes
4y spectators, and IN the scuffle
several pistols were discharged In
the court room, but none were hurt.
Deputy sheriis spirited the Negroes
away. II
The two girls, charged with IN
lawful practice of social equality, are
IN jail awaiting trial, which has been
fixed for next week, and q warrant
has been issued for Parker-The
Citizen, Memphis, Tenn.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
THIRTY-TWo WHITE SOLDIERS
ATTACK AND ASSAULT ONE
WHITE WOMAN AT CAMP
EMMETT, CRAWFORD,
AFNZnnIAN

WYOMING.
The Chicago daily papers OF Aug
ust 22nd, with small head lines, con
tanned the following short account OF
thirty-two soldiers attacking or as
saulting a young woman near Camp
Emmett Crawford, wyo.:
Laramie, wyo., Aug. 21.-While
every efrort has been made by the
authorities at Camp Emmett crawford,
the military maneuver ground, to keep
the fact secret, It is known that last
Sunday members Of an artillery bat
terry attacked a young woman, leav-
ing her unconscious upon the ground.
According to the story, a non-com-
missioned cficer of the Twenty-arst
Regiment was escorting the young
woman when they were attacked
by thirty-two men Of the artillery
battery. The officer was beaten into
insensibility with a gun and the
young woman was dragged to an iso-
lated spot and assaulted. The victim
Of the assault revived and crawled to
house some distance away. Twenty
six men alleged to have been impli-
Gated in the attack are under arrest
and are chained together In the camp
prison. They are under constant
guard to prevent lynching. Three OF
the others were apprehended at Raw
Inns today. The other three are still
at large.
Nothing more has appeared In the
daily papers in connection with the
affair, and as all the parties belong
to the superior race, It is presumed
that that little incident Is closed up,
and no further effort win be made
to lynch the soldiers who took their
turn In assaulting their victim, nor
to bring them to the bars Of justice.
But how different # would have been
II the assaulting parties were Ne
groes.
The whole country would have been
up In arms, and the newspapers
would have devoted many columns III
giving the fullest details o. the re-
voting crime committed by the black
beasts.
It seems that some white gentle
men are willing to do all the assault
ing or raping Of women themselves,
but they get up in arms II males Of
any other race engage IN the same
line of business.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
DEATH OF DANIEL 3. WILKINS.

Daniel R. wilkins, formerly editor
Of The Conservation, who was one Of
the ablest and most brilliant writer's
that the Afro-American race has pro-
dueed In this country, passed away
the latter part Of last week at Dun
ming.
Funeral services were held over
hts remains Sunday morning at Jack
sons undertaking establishments,
1858 State street Rev. J. =. Thomas
officiating. nterment at oakhfl
A little over q year ago, Editor WI
kins lost his reason and was confined
at Dunning, where his sad ending
overlook him.
Throughout his Newspaper career
he fought . good fight, and We can
only say, let him sleep IN peace.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. NELLIE
eLENWooD.

Last Saturday afternoon, at 40
o'clock, Mrs. Nellie Gleuwood, 143
end street, who had hosts Of friends
ampng the members Of botn races,
very suddenly departed this life.
stomach troable was the immediate
cause Of her death.
Hrs. GIenwood was raised IN Indi-
annapolis. Ind, where she was quite
popular. She came to Chicago years
$50, and successfully established
herself IN the dressmaling business
At the shove number, where shs
passed away.
some Of the wealthiest class Of
white ladies were numbered among
her customers. She possessed q pleas
ing disposition and knew how to
make and hold her friends. she
usver faIly recovered from the ef-
feet Of waiting On her husband, who
passed away the latter parsor April.
aftsr q long spell Of Sickness. and
fhs sacrifices abe made IN caring for
him undermined her health.
Tuesday morning ct 10 O'Clock fu-
neral services were hsld over her
remains Ct hsr late home. RsV. e.
n stsuart omdatsns. 1ErA OlRord
sohnson vas d charge. and ahs was
latd % rsst n oakhm By ths nids
q lar husband.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29
SPECIAL NOTICE TO VOCAL
STUDENTS.

Mrs. Martha B. Anderson, has closed
her studio during tia month Of Aug
ust and wiz resume teaching on
September 18th. Pupils are now be-
ing enrolled for the IAN term. Can
or address Mrs. Anderson, $3.50 CHAM
plain avenue.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-08-29

for rape that 1t was afterward found
out never had been committed.
The case at Helena, Ark, where a
Negro had been sentenced to be
hanged for assaulting a white woman,
who afterward swore that he was
absolutely innocent.
A year ago, in Alexandria county,
Va, a girl II years old was assaulted
and her lover was shot through the
mouth and tongue, and, Immediately
there was mounting in hot haste"
and a Negro was brought to bay and
the authorities had the time of their
lives to save him from lynching be-
fore he was identified: meanwhile
the lover, who was shot, and lay dy-
ing in the hospital, identified the
brother of the girl as the one who
had shot him
Some one who signs his name F. d.
Robertson writes to Thursdays Post
Dispatch on the Negro Problem, and
says: Down South they merely lynch
the guilty Negro. Here they wreak
vengence on the race" Not one or
the Negroes lynched at Atlanta were
even charged with rape. but as the
Citizens Committee declared, they
were law-abiding and industrious Ne
groes.
Gov. Jelks tells US Of the unpro-
voked lynching of an absolutely inno-
cent Negro.
The idea of an Infatuated mob COM
posed, as it necessarily must be, of
the dangerous classes, frequenters
of bawdy houses and red light dis
trict, ex-convicts, thieves and cut
threats, defending chastity and Sc
lecting the guilty men for punish
ment is indescribably ludicrous and
false. Half Of them are pirates and
plunderers, the other half are habit
ual criminals or perverts and de-
fectives.
The charge Of criminal assault is a
pretext and q bugaboo, and It is be-
hind this false cry that the drunkards,
cutthruats and criminal
classes concoct their bloody schemes
fer pilage, devastation and the de-
struction Of life.
It isn't the bad Negro but the bad
white man that the nation has to deal
with first. He is more numerous,
more powerful and holds in his hands
he power to sap the foundations Of
bur social and political order. Some
Negroes are criminal but they are sol
tary criminals. The white Is q grega-
rious criminal He goes in mobs or
packs for his prey. Like at Fetus,
No., four white men assaulted one
woman; like at Hampstead, Mo-, four
white men criminally attacked q o
7ear-old girl; like some time ago, out
near Biddle street, q
.rowd OF white men %mistreated" q
yirl. The reason why We use the
gord '1mistreated" Is because the
IaIlies when abiding TO criminal as
Iaults committed by white men call
t "mfstreated," but when a Negro
5 accused he Is q black brute, and
he crime is q brutal assault. It Is
lways a brutal assault, whether COM
nitted by a white man or a Colored
nan, and the enc who commits It Il
brute. It matters not how white
T black he may be.
Lynching Negroes has become
mere diversion or q sport In the
Iouth, and an infrequent occasion for
Tuage and .Wantonness IN the North.
/ % not that some Negroes are bad, d
or some Of al races are bad; the
auss IL not that the administrators /
Z the law favor him, for the bad