The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1914-07-10
CLUB MEN IN COURT.
Employee In Alteration With Patron
Causes lawsuit-A Probable
Shakedown. The real Cause.

A sensation was CauSeu Dy INC III
rest of William Snyder, an employee Of
the Porters' and Walters Club, who
entered a plea of guilty and was fined
$50 in Municipal Court for assault on
James Shaw. The case included
Glover Shull and Chas. Hmilton, the
alleged keepers of gambling house.
Atty. Franklin, a Negro lawyer,
brought suit to recover money claimed
by Shaw to have been lost since Jan.
1, 1914. He accuses the police of pro-
tecting the above named place. Shaw
has bad police record as a burglar.
He served a term in the Nebraska
and MINI. State Prisons. Franklin has
declared he will put Shull and Hamil-
ton in prison and he is trying to get
Detective Welborn off the police force.
1t was due to his efforts to get Wei.
born appointed, at that time he was
also credited with presenting the in
formation which caused the dismissal
of 1t. Hamilton. Welborn has proved
an efficient and respected officer.
Franklin is the president Of the Col
ored Civic and Commercial League
which was opened last fall with much
ceremony and was intended to be a
political factor. It VS. conducted
creditably by Chas. Brody, but Frank
lin withdrew the charter and i'm
mediately exposed the place in THE
APPEAL 6 issues) as a dive. Brody
continued to manage it as formerly,
but it was closed by the police on
July 4. He incorporated the Colored
Railroad Mems Assn, which he
claims is a dive. As result Of sup
Elementary proceedings against
Clarence King Of the Maceo Club he
attempted to secure an indictment be-
fore the grand jury and failed. He
offered his services gratis to the
Negro Morals Commission and soon
wanted 500 for the necessary ar
arrangements. This fact was told by
Editor Smith at the last meeting at
st. Peters Church. The suit of Phil.
F. Hale against Detective Hardin will
bring out sensational developments.
Atty. Franklin has had hard road to
his present success CD He is a Pc
culiar character, rarely seen in church
or public gatherings, and is outspoken
in his antipathy to black people. Near
ly all Of his actions have been to salts
fly his personal differences rather than
for the interest Of his clients, or the
supposed moral betterment. He spe-
cializes In his own personal injury"
suits. Franklin needs money as every
other poor lawyer especially Negro.
He is legal authority, but his peculiar
practices have blasted promising
future. We believe in the segrega-
ton Of vice, and this city is far in ad-
vance Of many others. Few Negro
cases appear on our court calendar,
and rarely does a fight occur in the
clubs, where gambling exists. If
Franklin wanted to make our city a
modern Utopia he should make an
issue for the protection Of the women
Of his race (Negro), or advocate the
building of a social center, where male
and female could congregate under
decent environments. He Is fighting
Shulrs place, where men only can en-.
ter, and it is frequented by many of
the best citizens. We have exposed
conditions in clubs in our columns ex-
,actly as submitted to the Mayor by the
Negro Morals Commission also asked
the grand jury for investigation. But
we will tell the truth, when every.
thing is directed at Shulls place in
the daily white press, when ex-con.
victs like Shaw can claim that he was
badly beaten and robbed and for fear
Of newspaper publicity, club men
plead guilty, especially when suit
for damages is the general sequence;
1t seems that there Is a combined ef
fort to shake down the club men and
everyone else, whom the perpetrator
can reach.
THE STAR daes not care for the
above matter in its columns, but the
white press Is making head lines OF
this class of Negro news. Prof
Pickens, who lectured here recently re
ceived no mention In some, not much
in any. Now we are In the game and
we will give as much space to the
social clubs as we did to the Women's
Federated Clubs. 1t is race news, and
the Star is real newspaper-and
Charles Sumner Smith is the rea,
editor, who can look everybody in the
face and deal honestly with them, who
has taught squarely up to the highest
authorities and won their respect and
today he is respected by the leading
people Of Minnesota, and we are not
going to try to fight all the wrong In
this grand old world, but continue tc