Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-11-05
enced during the present generation
Praises Carroll and Kendall,

enced during the present generation
Praises Carroll and Kendall.
II want to say few words concern
ing the two men whom I consider thu
standard bearers of tina republicans o
the sixth district, namely Governor e
+. Carroll and Hon. N. e. Kendall
Both these men are my persona
friends and both have proven by theil
past records that they are also the
friends, not only of the negro, bu,
of all those who toll. Mr.. Kendall has
i heen for ore term q member of the
national house of representative.
believe it was the chairman of this
/ meeting, w. S. Page, at that time
president of the Ottumwa local Afro
! American council, who, when Mr.. Ken
dali was candidate for his first term
in congress, asked him to define mis-
attitude toward the proposition of re-
/ duction of representation in those
/ democratic states that have disfran
! chised practically their entire negro
population.
Kendall Kept Promises.
/ .'In response to that inquiry Mr..
Kendall declared as no other member
of congress from the state of Iowa has
ever declared. that If elected he would
introduce bill demanding the reduc-
zion Of representation in all those
states which have DISTINGUISHED the
negro in violation of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments of the
| federal constitution. You took him
at his word, you sent him to. congress
and during the very next session we
| find that he introduced the bill de.
| manding the reduction of representa-
| tion in compliance with the provisions
OF the constitution of the United
States If he had done nothing else
this one act of Representative Ken
dali is sufficient to recommend him
to every negro voter in the sixth con-
gressional district, and ] am sure that
when the votes are counted on the
eighth of this month he will have been
reelected by an overwhelming ma
jority
Carroll Is Negroes Friend.
The other standard bearer for the
republicans Of the sixth district and
for the entire state is Governor B. :.
Carroll. AS your chairman can we'll
inform you, not only since he has been
in politics but when he was conduct
ing an ordinary butcher shop IN
Bloomfield, Ia, Governor Carroll was
known throughout Davis county as the
friends Of all common people, regard
less of race, color or previous condl-
ton. But some. Of you, possibly oil
of you who reside in Wapello county,
are under supecial obligation to Gov
ernor Carroll for the firm stand that
he took in regard to justice, equality
under the law to all men, even to con-
fessed criminals of the negro race. A
little more than year ago, negro
whose name has become byWord IN
this community, confessed his guilt
of the atrocious murder of an 1nnoS
cent white girl in your city. There
was much talk of mob violence being
visited upon him and Of the impossi'
bility OF bringing him into court for
trial in the da~ time, lest he should be
mobbed. Gov nor Carroll rose to MS
full six feet four, to the full dignity OF
his manhood and republicanism and
in his usual cool, deliberate, yet de-
termined fashion, and declared that
John Junkin, although negro and a
confessed murderer, should be given
a fair and impartial trial in open court
and in the day time, If 1t required the
entire military force Of the state OF
Iowa to do it, You will also remem-
Der that Junkin was given such trial
and it was not necessary to call out
the militia. l am convinced II there
were any who had in mind the taking
Of law into their hands they we're de.
tered from that determination by this
declaration of Governor Carroll, who
did not want the good name of the
state of Iowa and Wapello county 70
be married by the lynching of negro
which has never yet taken place since
Iowa has been a state"
Rev. Reid Gives Talk.
Rev. J. Cornelius Reid, pastor of the
Second Baptist church, delivered
short address preceding that OF At
torney s. Joe Brown. He SAID n
part:
"The republican party can never
abandon it's efforts to enforce the 1our-
teenth and fifteenth amendments.
That was an outcome Of the. war Tor
the union and one of the terms OF
settlement made between the north
and the south. To allow IT 10 become
permanently a dead letter would
be cowardly and disgraceful.
deliberate determination to surrender
1t would be the destruction OF the
republican party. There is an eclipse
of faith Just now in the minds OF some
republicans. Our business men are
indifferent to devotion to human
rights-at least when persons con-
demned are black, but there VIII
surely come time Of revival OF
fidelity and courage. The continued
adherence Of colored men to the
republican party which gave liberty
and suffrage to us will necessiate the
renewed championship by the party OF
the political equality OF the prescrlpea
race. The present unnatural ana
dangerous conditions of affairs In the
south where the black man Is ne
nrived of his constitutional rights, IS
q constant menace against the peace
and prosperity of the white people.
Justice and obdience to the constltu-
tion can only avert the danger. we
-. 1xaa, COURAGE and looking IOr