The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-07-07
JACK JOHNSON DENOUNCED
BY A NEGRO LAWYER.

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The regular meeting of the Mime
apolis Sunday Forum, was held July
3rd, at Bethesda Baptist church. The
principal speaker was attorney Fred
L. McGhee, a colored lawyer of st.
Paul, who addressed small, but ap-
preciative audience.
He began his egotistic remarks by
a description of his travelogues to
Harper's Ferry and the scenes of that
famous raid, paid glowing tribute to
John Brown and his followers, and ex-
pounded the Riddle of the Sphinx"
in a very able manner; denounced
Drs. Washington and Crum; the Sun
day School Congress at Washington,
D. c.; the Wilberforce College, praised
the Democratic party along certain
lines, and ended his discourse or de-
rogatory remarks, by referring to
champion Jack Johnson, as a negro,
who does not represent the race"
does not represent him" Il. Q. Nc
Ghee), gets drunk, and arrested"
constantly in trouble" a disgrace to
his race" and one whom he would
not introduce to his wife," or Invite
to his table,"
Space is more valuable than CON-
ment, but such agitators as Fred L.
McGhee will do no credit to any per-
son or theory. DR.. Dubois Is the rep
resentative of Universal Peace" and
Is misrepresented by a set Of adher-
ents who by their fulsomness and in
science seek to defame through ef-
frontery and prudery anything, that is
identified with Booker T. Washing
ton. And DR.. Washington has said
things complimentary to Johnson, and
has spoken of him as a representative
Of his race" Now, lnis Fred L. Nc
Chez must say that he is not. Well,
Jack Johnson has proven (since you
gave utterance to those immortal
words, 1. e. SO far az you are con-
cerned), that he Is a representative of
the NEGRO RACE, and has given to
us a WORLDS CHAMPION, without
the shadow Of doubt, and you will
find that he is of higher morals than
you least imagine, not drunkard( or
a reformed one). He has been ma
liciously maligned by such negroes, as
his former trainers, Pindar of New
York notoriety and great criminal
coIored lawyer Of St. Paul and the
Northwest. Jack Johnson has his
faults, and he does not hide them un-
der the cloak of the church" He has
done something for humanity. He
brought his mother from the South
land, and placed her in comfort, which
was greater accomplishment than
winning his last battle. And she could
pray in peace in Chicago. But had
he won, and she lived in the south
we may imagine the consequences
Yet he does not represent you. Die
you represent your race or your party
when you interviewed Tillman al
Kansas City? Did you expound to
"Pitchfork Ben" the Riddle Of the
Sphinx"
Are you seeking notority? or has
the loss of practice forced you to ad'
vertise? You are too well known.
But all great men make mistakes,
and you have made great mistake.
Had you made those remarks in de-
fence of client, they would have
gone unnoticed. But you claim to
have been sitting at the feet Of DR..
Dubois, when he wrote the last line of
the last chapter of his book. Well, Paul
sat at the feet Of Gamalieh, and he
gave us the 18th chapter of Romans,
and you said in your remarks that you
had read the Bible and all it's editions.
Did you understand this chapter?
You have taken the blouse Of God''
under the suise Of religion, with the
effrontery of the devil, as the place
to defame, and method to denounce
your fellowman. Hypocrisy personi-
fled! The members of the Forum"
stood for this. The Twin City Star
does not.-Ed. s.