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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19

boys set it up on one of the doorstens
and extracted the loose teeth, which
are reported to have brought as high
as nve dollars apiece from those who
could AFFORD such rare and permanent
souvenirs. The few fragments which
held together till night, the under
taker was able to chuck into a very
small ash can.
waco is a center of American cul-
lure IN Texas, great Southern col.
lege town. 1t is Christian city of
$4,000 population, boasting thirty-nine
white and twenty-four colored church.
es: yet no responsible voice was
raised in protest that bloody Monday
ana only one has been since.
those who believe that a crv To
Heaven should be raised against this
ana every lynching, by legal prosecu
zion, by publicity, by cooperation with
the best white element of the South
by political agitation, are urged to as
| slst the National Association for the
advancement of Colored PEOPLE tc
raise this $4,000 anti-lynching fund
oetore August 1. Contributions should
be sent to Oswald Garrison Willard
treasurer, at the national headuuar
ters OF the organization, 70 Fifth ave
| nue., New York.
ROY NASH,
Secretary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19

0 ahonlAs
Advaneme Of dored People

F1fty thousand copies of the story
OF Ihe Waco Horror" have just been
distributed by the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People through it's official organ, the
Crisis, and as a result a campaign for
an antl-lynching fund of $4,000 has
Deen launched. Immediately upon
nearing the details of this American
atroclty, which for barbarity surpass-
es anything charged against the Ger
mans IN Belgium, Judge Moorfield
Storey, National President of the AS
soclatlon, 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 special
investigator from National headquar-
tiers at 70 Fifth avenue, New York,
who commenced gathering evidence in
Waco, Texas, where the burning &C.
Cured, within forty-eight hours after
the lynching. Inasmuch as fifteen
oAAOS~~~AA PSOP1O uCu 0oASIAOAOu LuC
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 to
his credit" and is therefore very
popular. Unless he is to go back to
selling buggies and cultivators for the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
NO JIMCROW WANTED.>

No doubt attempts will be made to
organize the colored people along jim
crow lines in the coming Republican
campaign and the efforts will in many
cases be made by shortsighted and
misguided colored men themselves
men who fail to see the Importance of
not segregating themselves.
The colored people are American
citizens? For about ten generations
they have lived in this country and
there is no hyphen in their make up.
They have suffered from segregation
and as this campaign is to be, to use
Mr.. Hughes own words, one of "un-
diluted Americanism," there ought
not to be any separation, but the peo-
pie of every race, class and creed
should work together as Americans for
the election of Republican president.
Every effort to reach the colored
people should be made through the
Republican National Committee and
not delegated by that committee to
any group of self-seekers who may at
tempt to use the campaign to further
their own selfish ends to the detriment
of the masses of the people.
Good colored speakers should be en-
gagged in the campaign, but in the
regular way, through the regular
speakers bureau and not through any
segregated headquarters. Colored men
and women stenographers and other
employees ought to have a fair share
OF the campaign work at the regular
headquarters.
The colored people feel very keenly
the humiliations which have been
placed upon them by the Democratic
administration and if colored men and
women are recognized and treated
simply as Americans in the campaign
it will make the whole class enthusi-
astic for the ticket and win votes for
he party.
To segregate the colored people in
he campaign is to place the race be-
7ond the pale of Americanism.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
SEGREGATION BREAKS OUT AGAIN,

Text of the Jmcrow Toilet Arrangements
War, State and Navy Departments at Washington-Demo
cratic Reply to the Massacre of Colored Soldiers Carrza
OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM FROM sEscRETARY OF THE NAVY
s353161 o.si Sent AUGUST g. 1916
forwarded herewith
the
relative in State
Building
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT STATE, WAR AND NAVY
DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.
Washington, August Z,
Clerk
Navy Department.
Sir:
Beginning Wednesday morning the
State War and Navy Department Building
toilets follows 49,
FOR WoMEN-1st floor, I'D; srd floor 3d. 18th
floor 4B.
FOR WHITE MEN-Subbasement, C, D. b.,
F. G, H; list floor, 1B &c, 3D.
2 M 3rd floor 3A &C. 3D. BE- sc, 3H; 4th
All; 5th floor, sc, 5H
CoIoRED -sub-basement 3D. OH; basement A; list
Please that this
A. M
mems toilet equipped with sop washing
bottles, slop jars, etc.
1t that
has directed render assistance
toilets
the Government excellent
all
condition Very respectfully,
VIM. HARRIS Colonel
u S. Army, Superintendent.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
THE WACO HORROR.

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 sem
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. It 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-hatine
aspect, it is matched by 2,S42 other
lynchings which have taken place he.
tween January 1, 1885, and June 1,
1916"
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 fund of at least
$4,000 to start a crusade against this
modern barbarism. Already $4,000 is
promised, conditional on our raising
the whole amount
THE APPEAL has made a 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.
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
FROM FRYING PAN TO FIRE..

Word comes from Denmark thai
there is great public discomfort over
the sale. of the Danish West Indies
to the United States. Many Danes say
that the idea of disposing of Danish
subjects without consulting them or
the Danish people as whole is un.
worthy of a Democratic government
Nlhety-nve per cent of the inhabi.
tants are colored people and they are
being sold to this country at the rate
OF about $500 head. And their lot
Will be terrible if the sale is. ratified
by the Danish rigsdag, as they will
nave to live under jimcrow govern
ment the same as the ten million
colored people already here.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
AGAINST JIMCROW CAMPAIGN.

THE APPEAL started the fight
against a jimcrow Republican cam.
paign two months ago, when on June
18th, the editor addressed letter to
Mr.. Hughes, the Republican candidate
for President requesting him to have
the campaign conducted on a platform
Of "undiluted Americanism'' using the
words which he had adopted as his
slogan.
Since that time a number of let
tiers have been written to the Re-
publican leaders from Chairman Will
COX down, asking that all segregated
features be eliminated.
August 16, the editor again ad-
dressed Mr.. Hughes, sending the fol-
lowing telegram:
Saint Paul, MIMI, August 16, 1915.
Hon. Charles Evans Hughes,
Republican Candidate for President,
On tour, Portland, Ore.
You have voiced "undiluted Ameri-
canism" as the slogan of the Repub-
lican campaign. The colored people
are undiluted and unhyphenated
Americans, born in America, and
they desire to be treated as all other
Americans are treated. This is a pro-
test against the formation of jim
crow annex to handle the colored
voters in the campaign. They have
suffered too much from segregation
by the Democrats to relish it in the
Republican party. To segregate the
colored people is to place them be.
yond the pale of Americanism. Trust
you will prevent the execution of any
such plans.
John @. Adams,
Editor THE APPEAL.
We are pleased to notice that the
New York Age and other papers and
many prominent citizens are aiding in
the campaign for undiluted American.
ism.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
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 minute. Everybody was
happy; they shouted and sang like
bunch of fans at ball game, accord
ing to 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: ION the way to the scene of
the burning, people Oil every side took
a 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 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 nc
bones of it. Fingers, ears, pieces OF
clothing, toes and other parts of the
Negroes body were cut off by members
of the mob that had crowded to the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19

There is division among the South.
ern senators on the Child Labor Bill,
Bankhead, Bryan, Fletcher, Hardwick,
Smith (Ga), Overman, Simmons,
Smith Is. CO., Tillman and Williams
voted against it while Swanson. TN
derWood, Vardaman, James, Beckham,
Randell, Robinson, Culberson, Shep-
pard and Shields voted for it. On all
JlmcroW bills the Southern senators
stand together and vote as one man.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
llTERACY LAW DEFEATED

Oklahoma has been guilty of MANY
crimes against certain classes If its
QUEENS but things seem to be look.
Ing up in that state, as the returns
snow that the proposed literacy test
amendment to the state constitution
mas been defeated by a majority of
about $4,000.
Inc test would have DISTINGUISHED
any person unable to read and write
any section of the state constitution
and was admittedly intended as a. sub.
stltute for the famous "grandfather',
Id" oeclared unconstitutional by the
United States Supreme Court because
1t IN effect deprived colored men of
the right to vote.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19

and he was present at nearly all of
the meetings to see that there was
square deal all around.
The tickets for the automobile ride
through the city were issued to the
colored delegates just the same as to
those OF other nationalities and all
delegates were instructed to take
autos at the Congress Hotel.
Shortly before the hour for the ride
some self-important colored men who
wished to get little glory for them.
selves and boom their club asked that
the autos be sent to club tout South
for the colored delegates.
Rev. Carey, the colored representa-
tive on the committee, objected to this
and told the people so, but as a num-
Der seemed to desire it and rather
than mar the proceedings by a row
ne reluctantly consented to the ar
rangement. So the majority of the
delegates were in this manner sena.
rated from the main body of the visit
ors. 1t was due entirely to the i'm
crow ideas of some of the colored peo-
pie themselves and was granted after
Rev. Carey had protested against it.
Mayor Thompson had nothing what
ever to do with it.
A number of the colored DELEGATES
VINO were not pleased with the plans
OF the segregationists went to the
Congress Hotel and were given seats
IN the autos which left from that place
THE APPEAL believes it is but fair
to Mayor Thompson that this charge
against him be refuted. He has been
consistent friend of the colored neo.
pie for many years and has given the
race better representation in high SAL
aired places than any Mayor Chicago
ever had.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19

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
flowing 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 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 body of young Washington was
burned to a crisp. and was left for
some time smouldering in the remains
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 wnere he could
get good view, is reported as saying:
my son son can't learn too young
the proper way to treat a nigger.''
At II 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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19

hardware store, Sam needed lynch
ing to increase his popularity. The
murder of Mrs. Fryer on Monday,
May 8, came just at the right time
Jesse Washington 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;
land 1000 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, eve 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 at 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 a 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 Anheuser brewery truck, who
led the rabble, wound it around his
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
THOMPSON NOT JlMcRow,sT

The statement of. the Chicago cor
respondent of the Boston Guardian
that Mayor Thompson of Chicago jim
-crowed the colored delegation to the
Republican National convention is
without foundation in fact.
Mayor Thompson appointed Rev. A.
J. Carey, the we'll known and eloquent
minister of the Institutional Church,
La member of the general committee
of arrangements for the convention
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
Unfit to Teach Our Children.
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer
procc

This paper has no retraction to
make in the Major Motion affair. 1t
tnought then and knows now that no
improvement was. made by his pro.
motion. Booker T. Washington's pal
l1atlon gave us double work for man.
hood rights not only in the South but
the North as we'll for untold years to
come, and his successors ambition is
to be patted on the back and be called
"a good darkey"-to the lower regions
with the good darkey" class. ANY
man who goes back on his wife when
abused for contending for her rights
paid for, to ride in a Pullman car. is
unit to lead and teach our children.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
Stand squareIy for Justice.
(From the Omaha Monitor.l

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 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??, 1916-08-19

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??, 1916-08-19

Senator Works of California is very
indignant because the Japanese have
been able to dictate to the Wilson adj
ministration what should go into the
immigration bill. But the Japs have
the battleships and the soldiers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-08-19
Has Shown His Hand.
(From the Cleveland Gazette

(From 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 deuce"
IN it for the race. One thing sure
and that is from a racial standpoint
ne is certainly no improvement upon
Booker T. Washington.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-03-13
MR.. CHAs.
PUTNAM HERE TO-DAY

The funeral of Mr.. Charles Putnam,
whose death took place Sunday morn
ing at his home in Cuthbert, was held
in Americus Monday afternoon, with
Tr Lansing Burrows officiating. In
tcrment took place in Oak Grove ceme-
terry.
Mr.. Putnam's death came as a shock
o many friends throughout the state.
He was seventy years of age, and gem
orally loved by large host of friends.
The pall-bearers were Crawford
Wheatley, H. B. Allen, ]. r. Statham,
Fl r. Johnson, j. NJ. Council, j. w.
Harris, Jr., j. r. Williams.
Mr.. Putnam is survived by a wife
ard one daughter, Mrs. Howell Sim
mons, of Americus. Many friends
mourn the death of this estimable gem
tleman.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-03-13
BALLET FIGURES
IN GRAND OPERA

ATLANTA, Ca, March 13.-The big
ballet of the Metropolitan grand opera
is going to figure more prominently
this spring than in any previous
Southern season. Not only will the
corps de ballet be materially larger
than ever before, but in addition to the
beautiful premier danseuse. Rosina
CALI, it is announced that Giuseppe
Eonfglio, the famous premier dan
sour of the Metropolitan, will come
South for the first time.
The ballet will appear in many CO.'S
tunes, including brilliant oriental
garb, or lack Of garb, in Aidda. The
ballet will figure in Samson and Deli
lah on Monday night, April "a; in La
Sonnambula on Wednesday night,
April 26, and will be very brilliant in
the Aida matinee on Thursday, April
q In fact, on Wednesday night the
ballet will give an entire complete
following the conclusion
CT the opera.
The sale of seats is now on, and in
dicates the largest crowds in history,
ii, view of the fact that the Caruso,
Farrar, Scott, Amato, Gadski and all
the most popular stars will be here.