Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-01-12
SEATTLE. WASHINGTON SATURDAY, JAN. IL, 1918

made up from the reported lynchings and
It is safe to say that fully as many more
were lynched without the record makers
rnownr ANYTHING of them. The lives of
1'~r1reds of colored persons have been
tal-en hv the vicious white folks OF the
South since the war. and no record Of which
was ever made public Even but yesterday,
comparatively speaking. man was burned
at the stake by the Huns Of Tennessee,
around whose burning pier thousands of
white men women and children gathered
and enjoyed an old fashioned Indian war
dance and similar crimes against nature
have been periodically pulled off in the
South. Colored men, women and children
have been ynched in the South for daring
to walk on the sidewalks Of the southern
cities and down in the state of Mississippi
some thirty years ago colored man was
shot and killed for asking a white man who
lived in pine log hut for drink Of water
"the impudence of niger riding up to
white mans s door and asking for a drink
of water' so incensed the man that he
rushed into the house got his gun and shot
him. and he was not so much as tried be-
fore a coroner's jury. TO dispute a white
mans word in the South is almost certain
death for the black man and many Of them
have gone to an untimely grave or burned
at the stake for such an offence We sns-
ne"t that this long list of crimes AGAINST
black folks had something to do with the
Houston tragedy in which the soldiers play
ed the game Of get even. No other class of
citizens in the United States would have
submitted to these abuses and vet remained
'oval but the black man, and, we thank
God that he has. because we believe it
means brighter dav for him. We are I'M
able to see any relief. but we truly believe
it tbs coming. and the day will yet come
when this will truly be the land of the free
and the home Of the brave''
Tincon's birthday the Republican Ma
tional Committee will meet and discuss the
political situation and make preparations
for the next presidential campaign and. as
on many similar occasions, the question of
the RECOGNIZING of the colored vote will be
the all-absorbing question. There is but
one colored man technically member of
the committee and the committee has it
within it's power to oust him. The regular
committeeman from Mississippi died and
Perry w. Howard was selected in his stead
but his confirmation by the committee is
being bitterly opposed by the Lily White
Republicans Of the state and the lily White
members from the other southern states are
lining up against Howard. Owing to the
disfranchisement laws there is no colored
vote in any Of the southern states, but fully
half million colored persons have left the
South and settled in the North. East and
West and have become full-fedged voters
and if the committee goes on record against
the confirmation of Howard it will cost the
Republican party multiplied thousands Of
coored votes. We do not think this advis-
able on the part Of the colored voters. for it
would be true case of cutting off their
noses to spite their faces but these voters,
since the Taft administration, have labored
under the belief that the leading Republi-
cans of the North were trying to unload them
for the sake Of breaking into the Democratic
party in the South and thereby establish
Lilly White Republican party in the South,
which was responsible for many Of them