The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-06-14

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because he had never been in the
house. Detective Brunskill was not
allowed to testify for the same rea-
son.
Co. Atty. Walter Newton brands
this statement as false and Judge
Dickinson, whose charge to the jury
taken by Editor Smith appeared in
the Star, has this matter before him.
He does not care to be misrepresent-
ed and the public knows that he is
not to be trifled with. He knows
Montgomery.
This Montgomery is one of the
lowest types of Negroes. He is
real "nigger." There are business
houses where he cannot enter because
he has not dealt fairly with them. He
is the advocate of everything which
demoralizes his race. When he To-
Gated here about year ago, he So
licited funds for Bethesda Baptist
Church and Rev. Beasley says "that
he has some damaging evidence on
him." He served time in prison for
collecting money to build Catholic
Church. He is fortunate in being
personal friend of Atty. w. R. Nor
ris, who knows his game. Montgom-
cry has resided at many places since
here and few of them respectable. He
is thoroughly familiar with the buffet
flats and cannot deny that he was
associated with women of the under
world. He leaves a record in Mil
waukee and here is the clipping from
a bulletin of the Minneapolis Civic
and Commerce Assn.
R. B. MONTGOMERY.
Working apparently in part
nership with Butler is another
colored man giving the name of
R. B. Montgomery and claiming
to be trustee of the Autauga
Industrial School, although he
was unable to tell us the name
of either the president or treas
urer. If he can be located we
shall be glad to cooperate with
any one in helping to restrict his
activity.
The method of operation of
| these two men seems to be as fol-
| lows: One of them sends out
letter asking for the renewal Of.
"your biennial subscription to
our work of educations and mis-
| ,:~~,0 Iaes~, $ho amount
supposed to have been previously
given. If nothing is heard from
this, the other one calls and an
nounces that he has come to COL
| 1ect the amount promised the
other man. The busy business
man who is asked to respond to
almost countless appeals during
the year frequently thinks hat
he perhaps did promise the money
and hands it oyer.
This record of Montgomery was
published after he attended the A. M.
E. Conference at St. Peters Church.
The DR.. Butler referred to was for
mer pastor of St. James A. M. E.
Church. He was ordered out of
town on his last arrival, but Mont
gomery claims to have reformed and
got a foothold with the Vets in the
County Option fight. During one of
his trips to- this city, he posed as a
preacher and sought the pastorate of
Bethesda Baptist Church, when
Withers was deposed.
If Editor Smith represents nobody
but himself, his paper The Twin City
Star has always defended the Negro
citizens. 1t is the paid official organ
of The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, and
The Minneapolis Sunday Forum. He
is the executive committeeman of
The National Negro Press Assn, and
is an active member of the Mime
sofa Editorial Association. Mime
apolis was without Negro. paper
when the Star was first issued. 1t
owes every respect to Editor Adams
of the St. Paul Appeal our venerable
contemporary. we w uOt always
agree, but never quarrel.
The Advocate is needed here. 1t
is a garbage can of printed gossip
and headlines personals of women
crap players and buffet-flat keepers.
This is brief of Montgomery. He
is the yegg-man of.Negro journalism
and the kind of Sambo that makes a
monkey of himself before white peo-
pie and for such we have suffered.
We have copy to show that The
Advocate came to put the Star out of
business and tho Montgomery has
had everybody whom he could con in
to working for "the real Negro paper"
as he calls it, he has not yet bought
a Ford, and the Star is existing under
honest practices.
The records of the County Auditor |