The evening world., 1912-10-25
CLUB WOMEN URGE
TAFT TOPUSH CASE
| AGAINST Johnson
Chicago Organizations Start
National Fight Through Ma
.:onal Convention.

CvfiCA0o, Oct. .. - Chicago clu
women started q national night agains
Jack johnson to-day through the med
I'm OF the National Federati ton o
women's Clubs.
Mrx. Sara Webb Helm, No. e4se Ever
etc avenue. repr esenting the Chicago
,lubwoinen. sent q telegram to Mrs
rercy Pennypackcr. President Of tn
Nationa: Federation Of Clubs. which Il
now IN convention In Atlanta, request
Ing her TO bring the affair before thu
national convention and suggesting tina
resolutions should be adopted denounc'
ing johnson and demanding that Presi'
dent TAFT and Attorney General wick
srsham push the Federal prosecution
against johnson.
A new witness against the pugflis
has been discovered In Mrs Nora Os.
trander. No. ass indiana avenue, where
Lucille Cameron lived for several week;
before she met johnson. This meeting
tock place. It II aAid. In the house Of
Mrs. Katherine Dorsey. ~ No. +o+'
Grand Boulevard. where wealthy
neSross, for . consideration. wsr<
brought N contact with white glris
Ara Ostrandsr says she has . story u
tell but WI only tell Il to ths Fedora.
orand Jury. Nrs. Dorsey has disap.
psarsd bat Secret osrvios man are after
Aw.
JOHNSON MAkEs STATEMENT
At NEGRO MEETING.
Johnson. who y alternately overcome
with rage or terror. made this stats.
usent At . meeting Of colored citissns:
Il never said what Lucille Cameron,
mother has given out that could 70,
any white woman ! wanted. She Il
the only authority for that, and / don 4
u and will deny II on tho Bible. want
TO say that never said anything
TIE sort about any woman OF any colo.
"0ut % waat 70 say Tat en- ao
. slave as1 that Z have the slsht u
choose whe NJ naAs shall b wisheut
~ 11stae1ea o. aay man. ! have syss
- have . hsast, ga whsa tAsy 1au
- tsll ~ who Z shan have Ter nins
, vans - ~ yus away n . lanatas
aoylun.
30 long ~ DO not interfere with
any other mans wife shall claim the
right to select the wopnan Of my owr
choice Nobody else can do that fol-
ne. That V whore the whole trouble
liea.
II haven't taken any mans wife, ever
~ that suit was brought against me BY
tois man Davis. The woman WANTED
unes ailnr vast hss."
Later johnson said:
FL want to say ! would not have stool
Wat John r. Lynch said to me n h,
had been Q younger man. And ~ FOL
Booker r. Washington. never 20,
caught In the wrong nat. never got
heat up because I looked IN the wrong
ksyhols."
John r. Lynch. former negro Con.
gresham and Federal once holder. on.
countsrsd Johnson at the negro meet
~ Ut the Appomattox Clue. No. 50
Wahash avenue. johnson had made hi
dsniai Of white woman" language At.
tributed to him and Lynch said:
'This man 70 physically strong, hui
nnentally weak. Some Of his race have
been proud Of him ~ Q prise fighter
asvsr - anything else. At all timei
they have looked on him ~ an unde.
sirabls citissn and never have giver
him access 20 their houses.
HAoN'r AND CAN'T De RESPECT
10 ~ OWN RACE, skYs LYNCH.
The public should know. IL Il doe.
net know already. that he does not. hai
uet and cannot In the future commant
the respect Of the respectable, dec. nj
intellieent men Of his race. I'm satishe,
no fair-mindsd white man or womal
vii pass judgment on the colorsd psopl
BY reason Of the acts and utterances o
Johnson. nor Of any c0lored man VII,
claims his companionship: certainly o
NO white man or woman who seeks hi
society"
me Appomsttox Club has adopte
rosolutions which are stated TO repre-
eat the sentiment OF the iaw-abidin
negroes OF Chicago. The resolution
FeaA In part:
The tone Of some Of the daily
newspaper expressions regarding
this episode manifestiy does the
negro race an injustice by implicitly
condemning the entire negro race for
the alleged misconduct of one of it,
members.
We. - law abiding citizens. N