Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-10-08


if you will put him on your ticket i
am confident that he will bring two
thousand votes to your ticket at the
very lowest estimate. The Jefferson
State League has indorsed him and
we will vote for him and the entire
ticket. The reason that we have no,
been blessed with better representa-
ton is that we have been trafficked in
and sold out to the corporations by
so-called colored leaders. (Applause)
| thank you"
Mr.. Causey got the floor and in a
neat address stated he did not know
Dr Jones but he did know Buford and
would vOuch for his honesty and in.
tegrity.
Then the Hon. Richard Wolf stated
he had known BufOrd for 20 or more
years, that he was absolutely reliable
and would not lie, and if he said Jones
was all right he was all right. There
upon Gen. Theo. Thomas, in a spirited
address on Republican principles and
| the loyalty of the race to the party,
and what the party owed to the negro
as a race, placed DR.. Jones in nomin-
alton, amid cheers and demonstra-
tions of success.
It is worth while to tell who DR..
Jones is, not that he needs any in
| PRODUCTION to Denver, but the unusual
honor which is accorded when a col
ored man is nominated for Office
makes the man so honored, it is not
amiss to give the steps whereby he
has reached so high a place.
He was born in Alabama SO years
ago of slave parentage. After COM
pleting school in Talledega college o.
his native state, he went to Omaha,
where he made beginning of medi-
cine. In 1897 he came to DeEver and
entered the Denver Homeopathic col
lege, of which he is graduate. He
made his senior college year remark
able by being the only colored stu
dent and being the winner of the prize
for the highest average studies. HIS
| career in this city in medicine is we4l
known and attested by the excellence
of his service to suffering humanity.
In public way he has been work.
er For years he was an officer 0.
Zion church ana has taken a promi-
neDt part in the choir, the Young Peo-
pies Society and all the ramifications
of church work. He was a charter
member and many times president of
the Peoples Sunday Alliance, an Of
fee which he is now filling. In tbs
organization he has done his most ag-
gressive public work. He has always
been in the forefront of the Alliances
efforts and it is probably to the repu-
tation gained thereby that his nomina-
ton is due.
DR.. Jones is president of the Col
ored American Loan and Realty com
pany and vice president of the Ian
coln-Douglass Sanatorium and Con
sumDtive Hospital Association. The
first is business organization when
is succeeding and the latter is a char
liable effort which is interesting
many high-minded, unselfish citizens.
Besides these activities, which have
been extended over a long time in "a
rlous lines of more or less good to the
whole people, DR.. Jones enjoys the
honor of being Denver's first and on,y
candidate for the school board, hay
ing been presented for the peoples
suffrage few years ago. The
straightforward manner in which ne
made the race won him the admira-
tion Of even his opponents. The pres
ent nomination for the legislature is
not an accident, but the unfolding of
the regard in which he is held. The
possibilities Of vounu man of o,,r