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The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

ed some time ago at the instance
of Councilman Weldon and troub-
le has been brewing ever since.
Some of the prejudiced members
of the City Council ordered Fire
Chief Arthur HI. Hope to send for
the hose, but members of the Eu-
reka Company refused to give it
up unless the Chief or some men,
Der of the Council appeared for it
in person. This has brought on a
controversy, as Chief Hope re-
fuses to go after it in person
and his removal has been threat
ened, The Eureka Fire Company
is situated on Springwood avenue,
right in the heart of the colored
residential section, and all of its
members are colored. The color
ed section is west of the tracks OF
the Pennsylvania railroad in sec
tion formerly called Neptune
Township. 1t represents almost a
colored town for heie are all of the
residences, business placer, hotels
and boarding houses for the race.
There are also two colored police
men and one constable in this di-
vision.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07

ST. Louis, Mo.-Supreme Keep
er of Records and Seals G. *.
Robinson, in discussing the great
progress being made by the
Knights of Pythias, stated that at
the biennial session held recently
at Indianapolis, twenty-six grand
lodges were represented and 5,32o
subordinate lodges, and that the
order now boasts of having 1885,
535 members in good standing.
The Pythians own property valued
at 81, 100000. The amount of en-
dowment collected by the order
has been S1,Ol0.263.74 and SS49,-
47S.4l has been paid out of en-
dowment. There has been expend-
ed for sickness, $236, ,5390 OF, and
S1Ol, ,945,l4 for burial. In the
Grand Lodge treasury is S42,o3o
so. The property owned by the
Supreme Lodge is located $500
State street, Chicago, valued at
S5O,O0O and the Pythian Temple
Sanitarium, Hot Springs Ark,
valued at $4,000. The property
owned by the grand lodges is val
ued at S776,29455. The order
has lest by death within the past
two years 1881 members. There
is balance in the Supreme Lodge
treasury of $4,000. At the ses-
sion at indianapolis, the Pythian
Temple Commission decided to
enter at once into the erection of "a
temple on the property in Chicago
at an estimated cost of between
Sl5O,00o and 100000.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07

SHAME
Aftermath of CoatesvilIe Negro Burning. Americas
Self Government Collapsed when put to test.
The Outrage Scored by SOutherner.

What made the Coatesville hor-
ror possible is IA question many
are asking, when they examine the
local conditions and find only an
apparently peaceful, commonplace
. Quaker community! Yet here a
Negro was taken from hospital,
whittier he had been brought after
severely wounding himself to pre-
vent being taken alive to answer
for killing an officer of the law.
He was placed upon burning
pile and beaten with fence rails
until he died in the flames. The
story was told in our last week S
issue. Mr.. William L. Ellis has
made special study of the crime,
its causes, and the community
where it occurred, and his answer,
in aword is. "It was a social, po-
litical. moral, and religious col.
lapse on the part of a community
that is worse than most of its
neighbors, and better than some.'
But the appalling thing, to his
mind, is that the roots of the crime
strike back into the present-day
American character" 1t was
due" he declares, partly to lack
of conviction and character, to es-
sential irreligion; partly to frivo-
olous. mindedness, the old Athen-
ian lust for new sensation; part.
ly. in it's beginnings, to intemper-
ance, partly to lack of the church
going habit (the gathering of the
mob synchronized with the even
ing church services); partly to that
proyincialism which makes men
incapable of considering conse-
ouenoes beyond their own village,
and primarily to the absence of
the great conceptions of loyalty to
Gods law, and to mans law"
The investigation of this crime
saws the writer in The Continent
(Chioago), leads 'up to the door
of the churches"
"Coatesville is more than ordl-
narily religious town. That fact
is written not in cynicism but IN
sincerity.
Law failed in Coatesville. Our
boasted American self-government
collapsed completely when put to
a test. The Chinese, Japanese,
Hindu, Turkish, European and
British editors who comment upon
this terrible tragedy as proof OF
the breakdown of the American
system cannot easily be gainsaid. y
No man in Coatesville, accord
ing to the investigator, raised his
voice against the avowed purposes
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07

given by me above.
Next to the awful inhumanity OF
such fiendish deeds, my greatest
objection is to their thorough un-
Americanism! Back of them is
suggestion of clericalism, more ev-
en-, than racialism, and l ask my
countrymen to beware of the
secret power that lies back of it
all.-Louis j. Livingstone.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07
DENVER COLORADO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1911.

who somehow or other, have ac-
quired the semblance of human
beings, then | ask God to call
down upon them the punishment
commensurate with such an awful
deed, and to wipe from the face of
the community that would condone
such superlative fiendishness in
carnate! Knowing to what a de-
graded level the police of our coun-
try-North, South, East, and
West, in rural communities as
we'll as cities and towns-have
fallen; that they form one of the
principal sources and main abbot
tors instead of preventers and
curers of vice and crime; that al
most universally their sole work is
the accumulation of human misery
and wantthat they feed and fat
ten upon it; that they have be-
come a scourge and not protec-
ton to most communities, large or
small, thet they secretly encour-
age and connive at the breaking
of the very laws that they are spec
tally selected to uphold; and that
instead of bending every effort to
the capture of criminals they ex-
pend that energy in the effort to
make criminals of innocent men
and women who without friends,
money or influence win their dis
pleasure and fall into their power;
until to day the police of America
are almost universally known as
the most brutal, depraved and cor
rupt on earth!
Knowing also that the Negro,
whatever his faults, is nearer to
our Americanism by birth, inheri-
tcnce, contact, environment, edu
cation, and tradition than the
scum of almost every nation and
race on the earth, that are allowed
to swarm through the gates of our
Castle Garden; that the Negro,
since the shackles of slavery have
been stricked from his limbs, has
paid for that emancipation in full,
not only by fighting the battles OF
his white prosecutor, with distinc-
tion and even glory, in the Civil,
Indian, Spanish, and Philippine
wars) but by emancipating him
self from ignorance, helplessness
and poverty, and making himself
useful, Industrious and hel elpful
citizen; aud KIN owing that there is
a certain element of mahy Ameri-
can communities, associated with
those secret powers-hierarchical
as we'll as political-that are secret
lv bending every energy to the
destruction of American institu-
tions and American spirit!
Knowing these things repeat,
and feeling that the statement
given out as to the acts and the
confessions of Walker are one.
sided and cannot row be confuted
by the miserable victim of their
awful savagery, and the meager
fact in his favor, that has been al
lowed to creep through the press
censorship, that he killed the po-
liceman in self. defense, /, as ar
old newspaper man and man of the
world, expert in the analysis and
study of human action, base my
protest upon the well known facts
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07

Asbury Park, N. j., Sept. 20
The delivery of 800 feet of hose to
the Eureka Fire Company has
stirred up a hornets nest among
those of the whites who do not
want to see the colored fire com
pany here. The hose was deliver
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
NEGRO CHURCH BURNED.
As Result Of q Fractional Fight
Among Its Members.

Henderson. July 20.-The Ruin
Greek Baptist church. colored. was
burned Saturday night. and Sunday
the two factions In the church with
two pastors met not to worship but to
fight. and a rough and tumble fight
IL was. with the result that four Of
the deacons found themselves in an
other difficulty Tuesday afternoon.
The Recorder was unable TO detect
the incendiary but Priest Marrow
was found guilty Of starting the ball
to roll, that distinction costing bin
$1,000. Moses Branch. Thad Rag
land and one other were fined costs.
Ruin Greek church Is near Dabney.
Saturday the. threat was made by
some Of the minority leaders that
things would happen II the pastor
chosen BY the other faction tried to
fll the pulpit the following day. This
ID one case on record OF minority
rule
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
IS WANTED FOR FORGERY
NEGRO PREACHER ARRESTED At
HENDERSON

Henderson. July 2O--An officer
from South Boston. Va, arrested and
took back for trial a few days ago,
a negro named Frank Henderson.
who Is wanted there to answer Ten
charges Of forgery.
Up TO short while ago Henderson
lived and preached In South Boston
and enjoyed the respect OF the white
people there TO such an extent that
these forgerlcs were made possible
Since that time the negro has run .
saw mill near Middleburg. lie wai
also trusted In Henderson TO the ex'
tent that his credit was good at .
number Of places for any amount oI
goods he wanted TO buy, and his ar
rest was a surprise.
Il is not known what the Ter
charges or more amount to. but I
Is said the sum was considerable.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
.CATAWBA RIVER
CLAIMS VICTIM
Young Man Steps In Deep Hole
and Is Drowned

Charlotte, July 20.-Before the
eyes of nearly hundred Sunday
school picnickers of st. Marks Luz
theran church and within an arms
length Of friends, who yainly sought
TO save him. Earl Rock, the 1S-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Rock
of Charlotte, was drowned in the Ca
tawba. river yesterday afternoon at
2:15, O'Clock. His body was recov-
cred at 4:20 from an invisible hole
20 feet In depth and all efforts to
effect resuscication we're in vain. The
accident occurred near Rozelle ferry
bridge, IS miles from town. Among
those who saw the young man sink
three times being his brother, Mr.
Melvin Rock, and a sister. young
Miss Wilhelmina Rock. Young Rock
could not swim and his weight was
too much for his companions, who
reached him shortly after he stepped
into the invisible and deep hole In
the middle of the river.
Messrs. c. Willman and Roy Nc
Knight were forced to relinquish
their hold after Willman had gone
under twice and their strength was
rapidly giving out. The boys at
tempted to strike the drowning youth
in order to quiet his efforts. which
made rescue impossible. but the
blows failed to land. When the boys
saw their task was a hopeless one
and decided to save themselves Rock
had such hold on willman's shirt
that the latter would also have PROV
en- n victim had not the shirt torn.
Messrs. Wilman and Mcknight coll
lapsed when boat finally reached
them.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21

Following are the rules govern
ing the contest:
/. All collections made by con-
testants must be paid to the contest
manager within one week or votes
viii not be allowed.
2. Subscribers are cautioned to
demand a receipt for all money given
to contestants.
3. The contest managers sigma
ture must be affixed to votes before
same are Of value In the contest.
4. Ballots cannot be bought. rhe
contest will be run on a square basis
for all, votes can only be obtained by
securing subscriptions either prepaid
or renewals, or by sending the Free
Ballot from the parer.
5. No employees OF the Recorder or
a member OF his or her family will
be permitted to participate either as
candidate or voter in the contest.
G. Candidates will not be restrict
ed to any territory. but may secure
subscribers anywhere.
z Only nominating coupon en-
titling the nominee 10 One Thousand
votes will be allowed each contest
ant.
s. Voting cast on minor prizes
that will be offered in the contest
will also be counted on the piano
and furniture but only votes secured
in at advertised time will be counted
on minor prizes.
.. Votes cannot be transferred to
another contestant.
10. Contestants must rgrec TO ac-
cept all rules and conditions.
IL. Any contestant who becomes
dissatisfied and tries to create dis
cord In the contest. his or her mama
will be dropped from the race.
IL. Any question that may occur
between contestants will be settled
by the contest manager and his de-
cislon will be final.
10. The right 10 reserve or reject
the name OF any contestant for cause,
also TO alter these rules, should occa-
sion demand.
IL. Under no condition will the
nominator's name be divulged.
IS. Contestants may withhold
their votes until they wish TO cast
them. Until they are cast your
standing will not be published.
The manager will be always ready
10 explain anything regarding the
contest.
Very respectfully,
EDNA MORRIS,
Contest Manager.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
THE POWER Of
NEWSPAPERS
Can be Used lsr Coed sr Evil,
Says Speaker 70 Editors

Detroit, July 2O.-The feature OF
yesterdays session OF the annual
convention Of the national editorial
association of the United States was
an address delivered at a special ses-
sion by Congressman Henry A. Barn
hardt. Of Indiana.
He declared that since the people
are sending more editors to each
succeeding congress. "the dawn OF
the legislative millennium Is cores
pondingly nearer"
The great duty of the newspaper
man, he said, is to work for more
possibilities. more health and more
happiness for the people.
In the great conflicts OF public
opinion for better things" said the
speaker. newspapers are a power
for good or evil. in proportion TO the
backbone" or the Jelly" they show
for public welfare.
The newspapers that panders tc
unwholesome public thought is de
serter In the face of high public
duty and the one that puts consci.
ence above the counting room cash
register builds nightly for larger
blessings to civilization both here
snd hereafter"
lie denounced the policy OF news
papers which blindly support the
candidates Of their party. whether
or not the candidates are worthy ol
public confidence and trust
Tell the truth and fear no man,
he said, lis the only safe guide
editorial success in shaping the des-
tiny Of our country. And when We
do this. the golden age Of Just Law
enactment, bad law abolIshment, ard
~holesome law enforcement will
make ours mightier and happier
people.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
To Roads for False
Swearing Brides Age

Henderson. July Walter Jour
nigan was tried by Recorder Powell
and sent to the roads for 90 days
for falsely swearing 10 the aEc Of
Miss NcstIe Kelly some time ago in
order 10 secure license for her mar
riage to Mr.. Jim knight
Seeing the notice OF the issuance
OF this license in the Gold Leaf. and
this being the iirst intimation Of the
matter 20 him. Mr.. Kelly took the
necessary steps to indict Journigan.
All parties live in North Hcnder-
son. Miss Kelly being the well pokcn
Of daughter Of one Of the machinists
at the Henderson mill. Mr.. Knight
Is a respected young man The age.
IL. was the chief point Of objection.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
4 WALL PAPER
men INDICTED
federel Grand Jury Investigating
Wall Paper Trust

Cleveland. July 20.-Four indict.
mcnts were returned yesterday after.
noon by the Federal grand jury. which
has been investigating an alleged
wall paper trust. The indictments
charge a conspiracy in restraint Of
Sherman antitrust low. The indict.
ed parties are all officials of Wal
paper iobbing houses. They are: J.
D. Peace. president OF the J. ID
Pearce Wall Paper Company. Of
Cleveland; Norton Newcomb. of st
Louis: Edward L. Maxwell. OF Chi
cago. and C. C. Aler. of Columbus, o,
Bond was fixed at $1,000 in each case
The specific charge against the In
dicted men Is that they met In Cleve-
land on May 30. 1910. aud after a
secret session notified wall paper
manufacturers OF the country that II
they sold wall paper to five and ten
cent stores. the jobbers would boy
colt the manufacturers.
The significance OF this action. The
government alleges is that the four
men constitute the executive commit
tee Of the National Association Of
Wall Paper Jobbers.
According 10 Federal officials three
hundred i've and ten cent stores
throughout the country we're affected
BY the alleged order Of the jobbers.
Today's indictments follow grand
jury investigation OF several weeks
duration.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
Diversity Of Opinion as 10 Best
Mode Of Procedure
TWO PLANS SUGGESTED
One idea is That There should be
General Primary Before the Con-
vention to Include all State OfIices
And One Favors a Primary for
Senator After the Convention.

Raleigh. July 2O.-There is con-
siderable diversity of opinion here
in the discussion of the probable
course of the impending SENATORIAL
contest and the proposed senatorial
primary for trying out the strength
of the four candidates with the peo-
pie. The view Is expressed by some
that there should be a general pri-
mary for the party called by the state
executive committee before the state
democratic convention next July and
that this primary should be for all
state officers as we'll as for senator.
Against this proposition there Is the
contention that the executive COM
mittee would have no moral right to
call such a primary for the reason
that the last legislature definitely
refused after long and spirited dis
cussion to enact general state pri-
mary law as decidedly detrimental
to the interests of the democratic
party, especially In the west. go
The other solution of the primary
problem is that it should be ques-
tion for the state convention In July,
the convention to adjust the details
to assure the complete settlement OF
the fight at the polls so that there
could be no development that would
ultimately precipitate this contest In
the 1913 legislature. The advocates
OF this plan OF primary would have 1t
prescribed by the convention that no
one be allowed to vote for senator
who does not show that he has Just
voted the full state democratic ticket
before he offers TO take hand In the
primary vote for senator.
The end that all jealous democ ats
jealous for the welfare OF the party
and its unification desire especially
to see attained is the keeping OF the
senatorial fight from undue influence
on the state ticket, especially the
nomination for governor, around
which the principal state ticket con-
test will center. They want to see
this senatorial contest pulled of in
such way as will leave the party in
standard fighting trim as against the
opposing political party. and Il is
generany regarded as the weightiest
problem that the state organization
the state chairman and executive
committee-has to solve 10 steer the
party through this senatorial clash
and in the end present solid and
victorious front In the general cleo
ton and for future conflicts.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
STATE LAW IS 70 WINE
NEAR.BEER ACT DOEs NOT pROHI.
NIT SALE DOMESTIC ARTICLES.

Raleigh. July 90 Some question
has arisen among the farmers as to
the extent that the near-beer bill
passed BY the las, legAIasurc In an
effort 10 stop aome Of the leaks In the
statewide prohibition Law goes on the
question Of homemade wines and clds
es. The section which applies to this
reads:
Provided further. that this act
shall not apply TO the sale Of domestic
wines when sold in quantities Of no
less than two and ono-half gallons In
sealed packages or Grated. on the
premises where manufactured. or TO
the sale Of cider In any quantity by the
manufacturer from fruits on his lands
within the state Of North Carolina or
to the sale Of wine 70 any minister Of
religion or other officer OF a church
when said wine Is bought for religious
or sacramcntai purposes" etc.
The only other question that might
arise Is whether the Buncombe county
search and seizure law would make .
man who possesses more than three
gallons Of said Vines guilty Of retail
& - ene
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
SUIT OF CARTER
4s.hEWsPlPERS


Raleigh. July 2o.--It Is learned that
w. NJ. Carter. who was one OF the
defendants In the damage suit OF
ware-kramer Company VS. American
Tobacco company here In which the
jury gave damages amounting TO
$4,000. aud In which the charges ss
to Carter were non-suited. has since
the termination OF the trial here fled
his complaint In the suit for damages
he Instituted some time ago against
the Ashevilic Citizen and the Raleigh
News and Observer. the amount
claimed being $4,000 against each
newspaper.
This suit was instituted on the
strength OF an editorial In the cIti-
zen and copied by the News and
Observer. commenting on a news
story setting out the charges in the
ware-Kramer company suit as TO
Carter having as an agent OF the
American Tobacco company, procured
position a. salesman for Ware
Kramer company and set about to
destroy the trade OF Ware Kramer
company.
In the trial against the trust the
plaintiffs failed TO sustain their
charges against Carter and Il Is on
tho strength Of this that he now un-
dortakes 10 press his suit against the
newspapers. whose editorials were
based entirely on the question OF
whether the allegations Of ware-Kra-
mer company were true. Roth de-
fcndant newspapers published the
progress OF the trial Of the million
dollor sui, and the non-sulting Of
the case against Carter for failure Of
warc-kramcr company 10 sustain
their charges.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
RaIlread Nerxer Efleeilte.

Chicago. July 2o.-The merger Of
the Chicago aud Eastern Illinois Rail-
road and the Evansville and Terrc
Haute Railroad became effective to-
day In accordance with the recent ac-
'tion Of the stockholders OF the two
companies. The consolidated roads
will be known as the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois and will be operated
as heretofore under the control OF
the st. Louis and sAn Francisco sys-
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
international Highway Started.

plattsburg. n n, July 2o.--0ficial
representatives Of the states OF New
York and Vermont and the Province
Of Quebec assembled today az Rouses
Point. situated on the International
boundary line near the foot OF Lake
Champiain. and Joined In the celcbra-
ton to mark the commencement OF
work on the proposed International
highway to connect Montreal and
New York City.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-07-21
ANTI.TYpHOID BACTERIA.
State Of South CaroliIu TO Furnish
Il Free to Citizens.

Columbia, s. g., July 40 South
Carolina will be the second state In
the Union to furnish free to its citi-
zens through the physicians anti
typhoid bacteria for immunization
against typhoid. Florida was the first.
The state Board Of Health decided
yesterday afternoon TO manufacture
the bacteria In its own laboratory here
for free distribution. The board will
be ready to supply physicians with
the bacteria within a short time.