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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
An Account the
America as Reported BY
AdYancm entofC nlmedPe .

Fifty thousand copies of the story
OF THE Waco Horror" have just been
distributed by the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People through its official organ, the
Crisis, and as result a campaign for
an anti-lynching fund of $4,000 has
been launched. Immediately upon
hearing the details of this American
atrocity, which for barbarity surpass-
es anything charged against the Ger
mans in Belgium, Judge Moorfield
Storyey, National President of the AS
ISOLATION, and formerly President of
the American Bar Association, and
Mr.. Philip G.. Peabody, both of Boston,
each offered to contribute $1,000 to-
ward such fund on condition that
the remaining $4,000 be raised by
August 1.
The N. A. A. c. P. sent a special
Investigator from National headquar.
tiers at 70 Fifth avenue, New York,
who commenced gathering evidence in
Waco, Texas, where the burning oc.
Cured, within forty-eight hours after
the lynching. Inasmuch as fifteen
thousand people had sanctioned the
affair by their presence and dozens OF
pictures were taken, there was no
difficulty in ascertaining the names
and addresses of the ring-leaders and
the failure of both the Judge and
sheriff to make the slightest effort to
protect their prisoner. The Associa.
ton is bending every effort to secure
distinguished Texas lawyer with
courage enough to bring the case
against these murderers into court.
Politics, the investigator found, was
at the bottom of the affair. Sam
Fleming, the sheriff, is up for re-
election at the Democratic primary in
July. His opponent, Buchanan, though
illiterate, has three dead niggers tc
his credit" and is therefore very
popular. Unless he is to go back tc
selling buggies and cultivators for. the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
NO DENIAL.

The Richmond Planet has an article
headed Major Motions Denial" and
quotes from the New York Age, that
papers statement of the case.
AS matter of fact there has been
no denial by Major Motion Of the
charges as stated in the public press.
THE APPEAL agrees with the Cleve-
land Gazette, that the Age evidently
means well, but that Major Motion is
fully able to speak for himself.
THE APPEAL believes that if he is
not guilty as charged that Major
Motion ought to issue a signed state
ment repudiating the reports sent out
by the Associated Press and announc.
ing that he will be man no matter
it Tuskegee is swept from the face
of the earth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
THE WACO HORROR.

IHE WACO HORROR. $50
THE APPEAL prints in this issue
the special report of an agent of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, who was sent
to Texas to investigate the recent
handwriting at Waco, the center of
Texas Christian Civilization.
The report says: ''This is the &C.
count of one lynching. 1t is horrible,
but it is matched in horror by scores
of others in the last thirty years, and
in it's illegal, law-defying, race-hating
aspect, it is matched by 2,S42 other
lynchings which have taken place be-
tween January l, 1885, and June /,
1915"
What are We going, to do about
this record? The civilization of
America is at stake. The sincerity of
Christianity is challenged. The Ma
-tional Association for the Advance.
ment of Colored People proposes i'm
mediately to raise a fund Of at least
$4,000 to start crusade against this
modern barbarism. Already $4,000 is
promised, conditional on our raising
the whole amount"
THE APPEAL has made con-
tribution to the fund and hopes that
every American who believes in the
supremacy of the law and the per-
petuity of democracy to give to the
cause according to his means.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08

of the fire. women and children who
desired to view the scene were al.
lowed to do so, the crowds parting to
let them look on" says the newspaper
account. One father, when questioned
about the propriety of holding his lit
tie son on his shoulder where he could
get good view, is reported as saying:
my son son can't learn too young
the proper way to treat Niger"
At IL o'clock the crowd adjourned
for lunch, as usual; but by quarter
past one some of the boys were back
to continue the fun. A cowboy who
had ridden in off the range created a
diversion by lassoing the corpse and
riding all over town with the remains
dangling at the end of his lariat.
When the head bounced off as he
galloped through the Preservation"
the ghetto where the Negroes and
prostitutes are segregated, some little
clothing, toes and other parts of the
Negroes body were cut off by members
OF the mob that had crowded to the
scene as if by magic when the word
that the Negro had been taken in
charge by the mob was heralded over
the city. AS the smoke rose to the
heavens, the mass of people, number
ing in the neighborhood of 10000,
crowding the City Hall lawn and over
moving the square, hanging from the
windows of buildings, viewing the
scene from the tops of buildings and
trees, set up "a shout that was heard
blocks away. Onlookers were hanging
from the windows of the City Hall
and every other building that COM
manded a sight of the burning, and as
the Negroes body commenced to burn,
shouts of delight went up from the
thousands of threats, and apparently
everybody demonstrated in some way
their satisfaction. +"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
THE WACO HORROR.

own wrist rather than take chances
that the boy should die too soon.
Many had come long way to attend
this party and they didn't want it to
END IN a minute. Everybody was
HAPPY; they shouted and sang like
bunch of fans at a ball game, accord
ing to a Waco paper. -~-
When the boys clothes had been
cut up and distributed as souvenirs
there were not enough pieces to go
around, so somebody cut off an ear for
his keepsake. The Waco Times-Her-
aid, published the same afternoon,
said: "On the way to the scene of
the burning people on every hand took
hand in showing their feelings in
the matter by striking the Negro with
anything Obtainable; some struck him
with shovels, bricks, clubs, and others
stabbed him and cut him until when
ne was strung up his body was a
solid color of red, the blood of the
many wounds inflicted covered him
from head to foot"
They took Washington to a tree on
the City Hall lawn just outside the
window of His Honor, the Mayor,
which he generously shared with Mr..
Gildersleeve, the photographer to
whom we are indebted for our cuts.
A chain was thrown over the limb of
this tree, and while the fire was be-
ing lit, this bloody thing was hoisted
into the air where everyone would
have a full view. A manicurist who
works for Goldstein & Mingle, whose
windows look out on the square, told
the investigator she saw them unsex
the lad. AS the chain frightened
around his neck, this half-dead ,crea.
ture reached up convulsively to grab
it, SO they cut his fingers off.
The Waco Times-Herald makes no
bones of it. Fingers, ears, pieces of
The body of young Washington was
burned to a crisp and was left for
some time smouldering in the remains
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
HAS HEART ENLARGEMENT.

INV ''.Unu ENHANCEMENT,
The Pullman Palace Car Companv
is getting reckless! 1t has announced
raise in the wages of it's EMPLOYEES.
The raise granted is 5 per cent, but
there will be no raise for porters who
have been less than Is years in
service.
This means that if a porter con-
t1nues working for the Pullman Co.
and does not get fired around the close
of his 18th year of service he will re-.
ceive an increase in wages of $1.S71h
a month.
The present top wages of the Pull
man porters is $27.5O month.
The benevolent Pullman Companv
also announces that in consideration
OF it's 5 per cent increase in wages to
employees Is years in service that the
old system Of yearly bonuses to men
Is years in service are to be given.
IN per cent increase every five years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08

hardware store, Sam needed a lynch
ing to increase his popularity. The
murder of Mrs. Fryer on Monday,
May 8, came just at the right time
Jesse Washington, a colored boy of
seventeen, confessed to both murder
and rape. His trial was set for Mon
day, May Is. The crowd began gath
ering from the surrounding country on
Sunday. When court opened, 1900
crowded into the room, inside the rail,
about the judges desk and jury box:
and 1900 more waited in the court
yard.
The District Judge of the Criminal
Court, R. I. Munroe, elbowed his way
to his desk, and the boy was brought
from his chambers, where he had been
secreted since the sheriff brought him
from Dallas in the middle of the night.
AS the jurors were called, the crowd
yelled, 1--WE don't need any jury"
but the trial was allowed to be hur-
ried through. The jury brought in a
verdict of guilty of murder and as
sessed his punishment as death. The
sessed his punishment at death. The
defendant had waived his legal rights,
and would have been hanged that
same afternoon. There was a pause
of full minute. The court stenog-
rapher slipped out with his records.
Sheriff Fleming sneaked out, too.
Then a big fellow in the back of
the court room yelled, Get the mig
ger" They took him before the court
had pronounced judgment, without the
judge lifting finger in protest. Down
the back stairs they rushed him to
the crowd waiting outside. They put
the chain in his mouth so that he
wouldn't choke too soon, and when
those Juggling at it broke it, the driver
of the Annheuser brewery truck, who
led the rabble, wound it around his
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08

John Shelton Williams, comptroller
OF the currency, he of separate water
closet fame, left Washington the other
day and allowed his deputy Thomas P.
Kane, to sign, as acting comptroller,
the new charter for 80 years, which he
was compelled to grant to the Riggs
National Bank of Washington, D. C.
Williams hailed the officers of the
bank, into court some time since, but
the jury in nine minutes declared the
defendants not guilty and left John
Shelton with the bag to carry. John
halls from Richmond on the "Jeems. :"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
ServiIity Brings Contempt.

(From the Union, Cincinnati, o.
II the above is true (referring to
the Motion Incident") then Major
Motion will rise to fame and fortune
as ala his illustrious predecessor.
,Crooklng the pregnant hinges of the
knee that thrift may follow fawning"
brings wealth from the great masses
OF white people alright, but it also
0r1ngs a vast amount of contempt.
There is so much bowling, cringing
and nauseating servility shown by
some OF our people, is it any wonder
that even the 25th class of white
people feel that they are the Lords
Amounted, and therefore vastly supe-
rlor to all colored people?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
Must Contend for Rights.
(FrOm Richmond p1ano+

we do not just understand the
posltlon OF Principal Robert R. Motion
~ .ne matter :......... There is no
otner course to pursue than to con-
tnue to contend for rights denied,
even though we are rebuked and dis
appointed in so doing. No question
Is ever settled until it is settled right.
we must continue to appeal to the
conscience of the American people.
we must continue to attempt to en-
force our rights through the courts of
the land, even though some of them
may be prejudiced against us.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
A BRAVE GOVERNOR.

Governor Dunno of the state of I'LL
nols is a just and brave man.
He has just signed the sixth re-
prieve he has granted to Elston Scott,
colored murderer under sentence of
death at Murphysboro, Ill. The last
reprieve stays the hanging until Octo-
Der 81, because Sheriff James White
OF jackson county has steadfastly re-
fused to grant the governor assur-
ances that the execution would be
conducted decently.
1t seems that the sheriff had plan-
ned to make the hanging a gala public
event, but Governor Dunno is deter
mined that the state shall not be so
disgraced.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08

DR.. Ng Poon Chew, formerly a con-
sui in the Chinese service and editor
of the first Chinese newspaper in
America, says China has too many w.
J. Bryans. He says the great need of
his country is to inoculate fighting
spirit into it's younger generation.
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
THE HAND PICKED LEADER
(FrOm the Kansas Elevator

(FT0m the Kansas Elevator
The Elevator would like to know if
the time has not arrived when colored
men should select their own leaders
instead of leaving the delicate task to
the hands of designing men of the op-
posite race, and if any colored man
can serve two masters at one and the
same time, and if as a general PROPOSE
ton, the 'hand picked leader" is not
always against his race?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08

1t is said that on account of the
high price of all building material all
building operations connected with
the large fund raised for the segre-
gated Y. M. c. A. and Y. w. C. A.
will be dispensed with for the present.
1t would be better if the buildings
were dispensed with entirely. No
good can come from "jim-crow"
public or quasi-public institutions of
any kind.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08

1t was Japan, a nation NOT
WHITE, that has called the hand
OF the first president of the United
States who has used his high Office
to discriminate against the colored
part of this nation. BROWN Toxic
dictates to WHITE Washington. so
mote it be.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08

After telling the story of the recent
]lmcrow" reunion of the M. E. church
North and the M. E. Church South, the
Cleveland Advocate asks, "Whither is
the M. E. Church North bound?" In
reply THE APPEAL begs to suggest
that it is HEADED FOR HE'LL.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
Stand SquareIy for Justice.
(F'rOm the Omaha Monitor

1h1 od0 OI1ctHd WUHICOT.J
Major Motion, please don't assume
the attitude of an apologist. We are
hoping for big things from you. We
know and appreciate the difficulties
OF your position. Stand squarely and
firmly for justice to your race. No
apology is due from either Mrs. Mo-
ton or yourself, because as a cultured
and refined woman she preferred to
ride in a Pullman rather than in a
Jim Crow" car in which equal &C.
commodations" are not provided. and
in which the conditions are seldom
sanitary or pleasant. .. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
Major Motions First Duty.

(From the New York News.)
The future of the great work at
Tuskegee, may call for an offending
silence, but it will never be helped
long or to any great degree by an
AFFECT surrender of the races rights.
Major Motions first duty to himself
and his race is to set himself now and
at all times four square with the pro-
gress of his people.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
Has Shown His Hand.

(F'rom the Cleveland Gazette.)
Four days after the Inauguration as
principal of Tuskegee, Ala, Normal
and Industrial Institute the South
forces Major Motion to "show his
hand" and there is not even a deuce"
IN 1t for the race. One thing sure
and that is from a racial standpoint
ne Is certainly no improvement upon
Booker T. Washington.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08
No Very High Opinion.

(From the Nashville Globe.)
We entertain no very high opinion
OF President Notions explanation to
the Associated Press Correspondent
at Montgomery, anent that sleeping
car episode. We trust he was in
correctly quoted.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-08

| ~" W MAo huulCe coins and
MRS. Nora McCracken, followed by
Mrs: Florence johnson and Mrs.
Sadie Wilson.
The guests were served by the
ushers.
me punch bowl was presided over
oy Misses Edythella Adams, Edna
onull, V1rgie Tibbs and Olga Wilson
all goWned in white.
The guests, several scores in num-
per- filled the house and the lawn and
10Y was unconfined, and it was long
AFTER midnight when the last guests
departed and the newly-made man
and wife were left alone. -.
The young couple received large
number of beautiful and useful nre.
sents OF which, and their donors. the
following is list:
Chafing dish-Afternoon Art Club:
Adina Adams, Mamie Coins, Blanche
Coins, Harriet Cage, Albreta Bell,
Adah Lewis, Catherine Lealtad, Alice
Mason, Mildred Plummer, Ida LOOMS.
Lucille James, Elenora Barksdale.
Embossed silver monogram frappe
boWl-Messrs. and Mesdames M. o.
Cannon, Frank Terry, VIM. S. Neal.
.. G. Price, Louis Marshall, Geo. Bar
nett, J. b. Stewart, C. MCCULLOUGH.
): M. Allen, DR.. and Mrs r. S. Brown:
Mesdames Wayne Grey, Matte Neal.
Ella Brady, Jasper Gibbs; Misses
Alice Marshall, Sara Marshall, Idah
Grey, Cora Neal, Lena Smith; Messrs.
Raymond Cannon, K. Homer Cannon
John Neal, Robert Marshall, Carroll
Brown, Randolph Anderson, b. D.
Stewart, Prentice Smith, Willis
Golfer, Harry Harper, Donald Brady.
Chas. Terry, Minneapolis.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-07-28

"tcntr,'s Eggs" i5c. Guaranteed
JANA, MaloN. Hawkins.
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WANTED

Copies of 1913 state fair premium
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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-07-28
MORE IMPROVEMENTS
on At UNIVERSITY,
BUILDERS ARE BUSY
Capacity Of Dining Hall Doubled
by Addition Recently Com.
pletcd New Cottages for Men
Are Being Erected,

Hardl, q dav ro,s hy n|owadaN.
without some note cot Improvement e.,
progress At the TINS ,rsit,. Tho latest
Vori is that the addition tu the aim
iug hall Vilyh viii duuhlc the CO
ptcitt 81 that To- the students i'm
rorthut adjunct has bocd completed.
Morc cottages are being built for
tn" men students. zoe oven with Ia,
B uildus of an addition t. the Sigm.
hi fraternity house. To- care for eight
additional students. and the purchase
Of r. nous, hy the Alpha Delta fratci
nt'' D" provide accommodations io'
49, many mor. tho prospects tor lu-
creased enrolment. aud Oonseluouttc
increased demand for accommodations
III, the durmitorios. are such as -
warrant additions To- the dormitui p
iacilitic-.
Much improvement work Is ncins
done at the mems dorm,tnry Itself.
tn" bath rooms with thoi~ equipment
ct showers. are 10 Doe doubled IN size
and other -cunNcuicuccs IA" To- b,
added.
The entire heating system of the
institution is to hc.Uonc over. hut thus
will not have to bc completed hy
August %. the date Of opening. a.
VIII the other work. IN" pipe limos
which carry steam from the central
heating plant an are go be- taken up
and new mos uf increased size lald.
the boilers cleaned aud pc cral minor
matters disposed Of
y n"W 'mnaSium. for the exclus-
80" use of wonen is to he built At
once. Plans 90. II have not yet been
completed but Will bo done iu a few
days. lntl now the mon and women
AZ the University have used the gem
'ral gymnasium on alternate days
though each sex ma. had scparpt,
locker rooms other appointment
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-07-28
Militant Austrienne Is
Put Under Peace Bond

Ih. 'I.tlu-laiun haitl ON Norln
F't-' ,''..t Wednesday Vd. e. hood
Ii 'h" .i. court last evening. Whcl
Ni. hfrl.. 1%lriighlia ana Mrs An
n.' I'h.'II.. 'pucarod before ludl
mcclellan MIR Tartaghlia va. the
complainant She charged Mrs DIDO
H.'. ".'H disturbing the poan"
.H.. nt fifteen DAYS 100 IrI
"'- suspended over The Austrian
nnt'..N "rl -uo was put UuI,i 5000
.."' f. H"rp t1o peace
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-07-28
Dog Owners Are Acting
on City Hall Warning

Warning IRON the city hail tha'
Dos,atchcr Hunter wa ~ - night
ana ltN crusade AGAINST unlicensed
dogs has ted to a brisk demand tor
toys Dttt Cicrk Thomas liuehos r,-
ported this morning nat " thin q day
o. two fiity OF the tages hay, nc-n
old
tn" Licenses nov Voc force do noe
,'pirr untIl August O. bat dog owners
',s, nothing Boy icing i%orch,udo3 'o
cause the nov license viii run go, e
iDll yvlr from tho first OF ,hc MONT
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-07-28

Are sou troubled with tired. .,ilIur
feet weak ,ukl,s. flat foot. mi
need e. PAIR II our Foot Etzcr arch
support They viii sito YOU immc-
date relief and VII unaliy cure these
complaints Nl sizes $500 a pan.
e Ma shoe store" 3ii West Central
avenue
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