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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
A. M. e. BISHOPS ELECTED.

Two bishops were elected at the
fifteenth day session of the twenty
fifth quadrennial conference Of the A.
M. E. church at Philadelphia. Ballot
ing began in the morning and con-
sumed the entire day. Thirty aspir-
ants for Episcopal honors entered the
race, which was exciting throughout.
The bishops-elect are Rev. w. w.
Beckett, of Charleston, S. c., and
Rev. 1. N. Ross, of Baltimore, Md.
Three ballots were necessary to elect
the bishops. Rev. William A. Foun-
tain, of Atlanta, Ca, was leading at
the end of the first ballot, with 1859
votes, closely followed by DR.. Ross,
with 1854; necessary for choice, 306.
At the end of the second ballot the
results showed that DR.. Fountain had
begun to slip and that DR.. Ross, to-
gether with DR.. Beckett, had begun to
gain strength. DR.. William D. John
son, an unindorsed candidate, cut in
on Fountain on the third ballot and
beat the Endorsed candidate in a
grand free-for-all, but was not able to
pull sufficient votes to win. The final
count was: Beckett, 377; Ross, 312;
Fountain, 173; Johnson, 260.
Bishop Ross was born in Hawkins
county, East Tennessee, January %,
1856. Secured his training in his
home town, and joined the Ohio con-
ference in 1880. Spent rs years as
pastor of some of the largest
churches in the connection, and is at
the present time pastor of Ebenezer
A. M. E. church, Baltimore, Md.
Bishop Beckett was born a slave,
worked his way through school and
finally graduated from Allen univer-
sity, of which he is now president.
Born in South Carolina, he has lived
there practically all his life, and has
devoted his efforts to the uplift of his
people in the state, all but four years
when he served as missionary secre-
tary. ~ =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
BISHOPS FOR AFRICA.

The general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church in session
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. elected
Alexander Priestly Camphor of Bir-
mingham, Ala, and Elsen S. Johnson
OF Sioux City, Iowa., as missionary
bishops for Africa.
DR.. Camphor, who is colored, re-
ceived 706 out of 736 votes and will
be stationed at Liberia, the place of
his former vice consul generalship to
the United States. Since 1908, he has
been president of the Central Ala
bama college at Birmingham.
Bishop Johnson is an Oxford grad
uate. Since 1909 he has held a pas
torate in Sioux City. During the
Spanish war he was chaplain of the
Fifty-second regiment. For twelve
years he has been assistant secretary
OF the general conference. He re-
ceived 1872 out of 100 votes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

In agreeing to draw the color line
on it's colored membership the Metho-
dist church is following the lead of
other so-called Christian bodies in the
United States. The alleged Chris
tians are defying God, but He. is not
Knocked.
The probable eventual solution of
the color line in religion will be the
Introduction of Mohammedanism into
the United States. Islam PRACTICES
the doctrine of the Brotherhood of
God and the Brotherhood of Man" and
welcomes all men to it's folds. And
of the Methodist bishops, Bishop Hart
zell has declared that the Moham-
medan negroes in Africa are superior
in every way to those who have en-
braced Christianity and this in the
face of the fact that he was laboring
zealously to propagate Christianity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
Waco and Americanisn1.
(From the Chicago Evening Post.)

(From the Chicago Evening Post.)
If Americanism is more than a
mere shibboleth of patriotism; if, as
we believe, it has a real meaning that
gives the word worth, then Ameri-
canism must be shocked and humili-
ated by the horrible story of the
Negro lynching at Waco, Texas.
It is no defense to say that the
wretched victim in this instance had
confessed to hideous crime and
been convicted by a court of justice.
Rather is it an aggravation, for here
there was no risk that. justice would
not claim the full penalty. The burn
ing of the man for the delectation of
mob of Waco citizens under such
circumstances is blOodthirsty.
brutal horror too black for words to
stigmatize. It was the gratifying
OF a lust for vengeance as guilty as
the lust that provoked it.
The thing is the more cruel in it's
wrong to Americanism at this time
because the people of Texas have
been crying aloud for the repression
of mob rule on their own border.
They demand intervention to compel
order in Mexico, yet give themselves
to lawless violence in their own
state.
In the forefront of the Villa chase
the colored soldiers of the Tenth Cav
airy and Twenty-fourth Infantry have
held conspicuous place; they have
done excellent service. How greatly
the ideal of Americanism must be ex-
allied in their minds by the knowl-
edge that American law cannot pro-
tect from the mob a member of their
own race. ... .....
AS perilous to Americanism as the
moral treason of the politico-racial
hyphen" is the treason of those who
defy law and humanity and brand
their country with the mark of bar
barism in the eyes of the world. If
the guilty towards in Waco cannot
be apprehended, every citizen in the
town should be disfranchised. 1t
would be small injustice to those who
were not participators, for in a mat
ter of this kind, where the COM
munity tolerates such outrages and
protects the perpetrators, it should
bear measure of the responsibility.
The votes of men who practice an
archy are not desirable votes. Dis
reimbursement is the least that may
be done to protect Americanism.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
WOULD ABOLISH THE HYPHEN


Universal service in military train
ing camps as an aid toward American
izing the immigrant has been sug-
gested by G. Bernard Anderson, Swed-
ish vice-consul at Chicago. Here is
what Mr.. Anderson says:
II think immigrants will get, more
of the American spirit by serving for
some weeks side by side with born
Americans than by being lectured or
instructed. It would bring men to-
gether in a common movement.
81 do not really favor the holding of
meetings in which the difference be-
tween American born citizens and nat
uralized citizens is emphasized. In
fact, feel that we ought to get rid
of the hyphen in America at once and
for all time. Any meeting in which it
is part of the program calls atten-
ton to it. I do not really favor any
reference to the term Swedish-Ameri-
can. I think every man who came
from Sweden ought to forget the n.y.
phen. 1t is true that those who come
from Sweden have many tender recol-
lections of the old country and also
that. they are among the quickest to
adopt American ways fully and COM
pletely. For the latter reason I should
like to see the Swedish part of the
term dropped. I think it would be
dropped quickly, too, were it not for
some men who try to make political
capital out of it by playing to the
so-called 'hyphenated' vote. ,
Foreigners in America should be
quietly made Americans through edu-
cational method, by patriotic concerts
in the parks and patriotic meetings on
occasions of national moment. The
group meetings should be discour-
aged"
Mr.. Anderson is right. People who
come here and become citizens ought
to drop the hyphen and become Ameri-
cans in fact. And if this is true how
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
OF One Blood.
(Gerald Stanley Lee In Mount Tom

(Gerald Stanley Lee In Mount Tom)
l am a human being. do not pro-
pose to be cooped up or shut in in my
love and criticism to mere geographi.
cal streaks or spots of people on a
planet. This planet is small enough
as 1t Is, when one considers the
height and depth-the starry height
and depth-of the human spirit that
WaVers and CLOVIS through US all
wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
Moliere! Though the cathedrals GUAR.
rel together and sing praises with
s1ege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves, I take my stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls OF their poets
overriding the years, by the prayers
and songs Of their heroes, artists, In.
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. I will not say of any
one nation what l will not say of tho
others; and will not say Of any man
what / will not say of myself
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
OUR NEED OF JUxrAPOSITIoN
(From the Boston Guardian

That we much rather be, and asso
ciate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake; it
1s feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. 1t is an utter i'm.
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to a common government, and,
at the same time, each race work GU;
Its own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into CHASTITY
failure; instead of making for har.
mony and cordial good feeling be.
tween two races, it has increased
race hatred AMI antagonism in leaps
and bounds. We have needed too
long the advice from false and treach.
erous leadership that resistance is
wrong, that it only breeds race hat
RED and antagonism; that the thing
Tor us to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow.
We have followed this "advice" fat,t:.
fully and have been rewarded in
terms of residence segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage- ia
all of the blacklist pieces of legis-
H~S-OAA' oAAS0 I4dS ~ Acdt0S our women
de1enseless and at the mercy of white
brutes - separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
are the evils resulting from non.
resistance" and rather be by our
selves" That with the same degree
OF enontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
conf1scated, with this same effontry
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from us.
That is a fact. Every congress of.
fers legislation degrading and mimi.
cal to our we'll being. Race preju.
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send our
children, and go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races and
consequently become accustomed to
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC.
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
BaIIotina for Bishop.

The result of the first ballot was as
follows: A. ]. Carey, SO; w. A. Foun-
tain, 164; R. B. Brooks, IS; w. Samp-
son Brooks, A; I. N. Ross, 159; G. B.
West, 159;; A. H. Hill, So; w. w.
Beckett, 11s; H. T. Healing, II; W.. T.
Vernon, 90; M. w. Thornton, Is;
VIM. D. Johnson, 90; G. w. Porter,
%; w. G. Alexander, 3; Sandy Sim
mons. 10; J. R. Ransom, 80; T. J.
Askew, z; s. p. Fielder, 20; F. Jesse
Peck, 3; w. H. H. Butler, 4; A. l..
Gaines, 20; c. R. Tucker, "a; D. P.
Roberts, 10; R.. s. Jenkins, 6; H. M.
Steady, IL; T. H. Jackson, 5; w. D.
Miller, 3; c. C.. Dunlap, 5; P. G.
Hunt, 2; Chas. Bundy, 4; D. J. Brown,
10; H. p. Stewart, 2; X. G. Holt, 2;
r. H. Singleton. 2; and the following
l each: ]. j. Morant, R. w. Nance,
J. a. Jones (Texas), F. NJ. Johnson,
r. ". Branch, r. L. Heard, p. A.
Scott, s. D. Roseborough, J. A.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

ored race through the mass and by
observation merely could know what
individual possibilities are demon.
strated in growing numbers of the
elect, and would be courageously can.
did with themselves, they would re.
wise their judgments and possibly sof
ten their prejudices. At any rate,
they ought to credit to those on whom
they charge ignorance of the colored
race the values that come from know.
ing how many of that race are the
equal of any members Of the dominant
race in the highest abilities and In the
clearest aims. No estimate is worth
much which does not take people at
their best.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
PULLMAN co. GIVES MEN STOCK
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

The 100000 raised in Chicago for
the relief of the Jewish sufferers in
the European war was contributed by
the Jews themselves. The Christians
did not give one per cent of the
money. The Christian bankers who
signed the appeal did not give any
money. William Randolph Hearst,
whose newspapers probably caused
the lynching of Leo Frank in
Georgia, gave $1,000, but Bill will
get that back in single day from
his Jewish advertisers,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE,

AN UNHoLY ALLIANCE.
There is always rejoicing in hell
when the South succeeds.
The regions of the damned were the
scene Of great hilarity when the word
was passed around that the Southern
plan of reuniting the Methodist church
north and the Methodist church south
had been unanimously approved, with
display of emotion without parallel
in many general conferences"
The plan favors the segregation of
the colored membership in special
conferences and as the vote was &C.
cording to the press dispatches, unani-
nous, it seems that not one of the
many colored delegates had the man
hood to make a protest against the
unholy, ungodly plan.
Thus seventy-one years after the
Methodist Episcopal church split on
the slavery question, the hypocritical
northern branch welcomes back the
church south over the PROSTATE body
of its colored membership. II that is
Christianity the writer prefers to be
damned.
The Methodist church fought slav.
cry with zeal in 1874, the general con-
ferences by resolution ordered a
"
bishop who held slaves to refrain from
exercising his episcopal function until
he had washed his hands of slavery.
The Southerners were SO infuriated
by this action that the Methodist Epis-
copal church south was organized In
Louisville, KY, in 1916.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

much more important is it that people
who are born in the United States
should reject any proposals to set
them apart in groups for any reason
or purpose whatsoever.
The colored people are citizens for
titled by ten generations of residence
and they should shun any schemes
which segregate them in any way.
Such plans, no matter how alluring,
they may seem are un-American,
dangerous and damnable.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
Must Judge A Group by its Best.
(From the Christian Register, Boston
Mass,)

NHAom IAo NuElStlau Register, Boston
Mass.)
No one can be said to know anv
class OF people who has not been in
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as well az the worst of the
class. We compare MANY persons
who live In the South, and think they
know the colored race, with Others
who have had no such contact. but
who have come into intimate and sym.
pathetic relations with large numbers
OF that race whom their Southern
friends have never known; and of the
two sets of people we should say that
the second knew the colored people
better than the first. They know aspi.
rations among them that the others
90 not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
best OF the race which others are obi.
vious Of; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. If those who know the col
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

Fifteen thousand Texans hugely
enjoyed the spectacle of a human be-
ing being roasted at the stake be-
cause he was colored. Then one hun
dred and sixteen members of the
state militia refused to present them
selves for muster into the Federal
service. Brave people these Texans!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(Fr0m Amsterdam Mawc

Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: / cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on a recent editorial discour-
aging the use Of the word Negro"
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people of the United States
today than the spreading use of this
unfortunate term. Why? They real
lie that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both a physical and mental
segregation of the people Of color It's
use Is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
Do Bois and Washington feel that its
repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to
retain the good will of the masses. The
term Negro" is not only absurdly in
accurate as applied to millions of COL
ored people, but it is also alarminly
injurious, for the following reasons:
q. 1t has never stood historically or
IN the present, anywhere in the world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high grade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-
bans only.
c. Its derivatives, "Negroism," NE
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-fy, Negro-monkey, are all clear.
~, In their associations, degrading.
d. Its feminine form, "Negress," is
Justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, II you favor the use of the mas
cul1ne term.
Q. It has been the word used by the
Southern whites for two centuries,
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman Of the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "colored."
I. It Is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (amonP
themselves) terms, MICRO" and mig
GER"
6. AS stated by an eminent japanese
diplomat 1t has an unquestioned In
duence In cutting US off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions Of colored Africans, ASH
atics and islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
Hates the Term "Neuro."

Il hate the term Negro because it
IS being used in terms of hatred, It
is the cause of the segregation of the
Negro; it is being used in CONTEMPT
IN public places; it is an excuse for
dlsfranchising him; and it is an ex-
cuse for lynching him. ONLY one
tenth OF one per cent of the colored
people in America can trace their
descent to Africa, and there is no
more right to call all colored people
Negroes than to call all white people
Turks or Armenians." -Ex-Assistant
United States Attorney General VIM.
H. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

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??, 1916-05-27

The question of further reduction
of southern representation in the Re-
publican National Convention will be
fought out at Chicago. A great wrong
has already been done which the ma
tional committee should undo.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

i, Unquestionably where colored men
have been prevented from participant
ing in Republican conventions in the
south, the lily white delegations
should be barred from the Republic
can National convention.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

1t is the duty of the Republican
National Convention in it's platform
to speak out squarely on the great
questions of human rights which
were the foundation stones upon
which the party was built.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27
Not Worthy Of Freedom.
E>pny,n thu D(nh~ n1>x

When a race or an individual sub
mits uncomplainingly to oppression.
1t Is a practical demonstration that
the race or the individual Is not wor.
thy of freedom.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-27

APPEALS EDITORIALS HAVE "PoIsE, LOGIC COURAGE"
Hon. Richard Greene Late Scholar
Lterateur, Writer Of
Great Charles Sumner, Lauds
AS who 7
express hearty can
- Wv eO00 10e'' "nu
(Signed) Richard T.