The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-12-20
CHICAGO WELCOMES you.

me- NAAN 6ANeNANeN VI I'll NNh AiNANA
has met here, and undoubtedly, it will
be the most notable, 1908 and 1912
not excepted. The greatest issues
ever brought before the American peo-
pie will be enunciated in the famous
Coliseum next June. The Republican
party will be forced, by the impell.
ing demands of the times, to declare
itself Enthusiastically on the great priu.
ciples of justice, manhood rights and
economic progress.
Ever since the National Convention
Of 1904 the Colored citizen, as a real
factor in national conventions, has
been slipping. He has answered
present in large numbers, but he
has actually been, more than less,
persona non grata,' and it has been
a pity to observe the way many of the
big white leaders have played hide
and seek with him around the Con.
gress hotel
1t will be remembered That in 1896,
when the master political leaders,
Marcus A. Hanna. of Cleveland, was
engineering the political fortunes Of
William Mckinley. of Canton, o., our
leaders were the real forces in the
st. Louis convention. Mr.. Hanna had
implicit confidence in George A.. My
ers, proprietor of the we'll known H0l-
lenden Barber Shop, OF Cleveland. and
Mr.. Myers handled the brother in
Napoleon Bonaparte fashion. In 1900,
in Baltimore, Harry S. Cummings, q
member of the City Council of Balti-
more. leaped into the limelight by be
ing selected to second and the second
nomination OF President Mckinley at
Philadelphia convention. That was
the the last OF the real public reCog-
milton by the G.. o. p. As proof Of
our slipping" it will be recalled that
John X. Lynch, of Mississippi. was
selected as temporary chairman Of
the national convention in 1854. IN
Chicago. Can you imagine a citizen
Of u group being selected to such
an honorary place in 1920? Them
was wonderful days
In 1912, the last Colored National
Committeeman. Hon. Judson Lyons,
former registrar of the L. $. Treasury,
was given the bounce. and since that
day none of the ebony blood has
graced the sacred portals Of the par
Uy's interim factotums. Perry w
Howard. OF Mississippi gave them q
terrible scare, however, in St. Louis.
, The majority of the old guard
d such as Crum and Vance and Brown
] have gone to their reward-which w
hope is more than they got from tn
G. o. P.-but there are still som,
few 'remaining"-Lewis, Dancy, Ty
Ter, Andrews, Cohen, ct al, but the.
are getting SLOW of step
s There is a new day, and a new gen
Grafton, and a new group Of youn.
political stalwarts who. wise to th'
past. skeptical of the present ant
deeply concerned with the future, ar,
going to ask for a real old fashioned
showdown in the year of Our Lord
1920. They have sentiment, and they
, also, have sense, and they are say
g ing that the old, ancient and honor
able talk about the Negroes deb.
to the Republican party" doesn't NEAR
a tinker's dam to them, and hasn'
a thing to do with Fourth Of July
The thing they wish to know, ant
e know indeed is: Where do we com,
o in?" That's what they are going t,
find out. And in that list are sucl
good fellows and brave as Bob
Church, Perry Howard, Emmett Scott
e Jimmy" Cobb, Roscoe simmons
s Lew. Johnson, Tom Fleming, Lee
:; Goldman, George Harris. Alex Martin
4 Joe Jones, Billy Huestou,' K. l.
Vann, VIM. Marley, Chas. Muse, Clar
enCe Starks, W. /. Porter. Oscar De
Preist, Boo" Jackson. "Lewie" An
derson, Fred Roberts, j. N. We'll, an,
a few thousand others Who say 9TH.
hour has struck So you see Their,
will be something doing in Chicago.
The first big show of this "ney
regime" will be pulled off in Chicago
Lincoln's birthday, February u, Lin
coins birthday, when the Lincoll
League, Col. Roscoe COnkling Sin.
mons. president, will hold a nationa
session. 1t has been announced tina
AJl ollle Tx 6lE'l VI 'Al 6lOuI
from every section be on hand, bu
that great economic, industrial an,
political leaders of the other group, in
Guiding no less han three Unite,
States senators and two sure enougI
governors, will be here. and have thei
say about human rights and American
ism, 1920 brand.
Chicago will have Welcome 0,
the door for both the big gatherings
as only Chicago can have it. The Wis
itors will see a new Chicago, in keel
\ ing with the principles it is hoped tn
Il G. o. P. will endorse and carry GU
in the party platform. In political pre-
i gross and commercial achievement
Chicago will have revelations. Tn
/ most up-to-date business places, tn
finest hotels, the most beautiful cluI
homes, the most luxurious residence
! on the finest thoroughfares in tn.
world, and the glad hand Of hosp
Z tality-sans the old stuff with a kick
} will be turned over for the edifica
d ton and enjoyment of the visitors.
9 And the final big wonder is: VIII
stacks up best to Garry ON, Carr.
/ on as National Chairman VIII Fl
. Hays, Of Hoosierdom says, who is tn,
r best to take up his residence on Penn
sylvania Ave, Washington, Marcl
4, 1921. That's the rub" The lis
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