The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-09-27
CHICAGO WHIP
CHASES THE
DEFENDER
Following was clipped from Indian
apolis Freeman:

apolis Freeman:
By Sylvester Russell.
Like a chariot race and the driver
with his whip in hand to lash the
horses and increase the speed is like
unto the competition which has now set
in between the Defender and The Whip
in the local field contest of the newly
issued newspapers that have so re-
Gently besieged the reading market of
the Windy City. The new change came
about when the Defender failed to
make its appearance in the thickest of
the recent riot. Without a press of
its own and without representative
light enough in complexion to pass for
white, to reach the printery in safety,
to furnish news in the issue overdue,
Immediately met with disapproval.
The affront could not be erased. The
colored people residing in Chicago
have also been dissatisfied with the
headlining of race conditional news of
the south and ignoring the similitude
of the same, right under the news
papers nose, are some of the most
important reasons why qualified read
ers have been turning their hopes and
attention to The Whip. In the mean
time, the Freeman" second by odds
to the Defender in circulation, looms
up as the mightiest organ and adver-
tiser as mediator in favor of its own
well known record as a boost. And
then to add to the Freeman's impor-
lance is that the theatrical profession
has been sorely disappointed in the
Defenders dramatic editor. They are
compelled to read the Freeman to get
and to see qualified criticisms and true
accounts of performances that have
been written up ahead of time without
being seen by man who admits that
he is not interested, but out for the
money and declares that he controls
the movie house advertising exclus-
lively while they are reaping millions
from the colored race and tells other
newspaper representatives that they
don't have to cater to the colored race.
Nor they won't until we have powerful
newspapers and amusem ent syndicates
of our own. Not only The Whip, but
the other brigade of Chicago news
papers include The Chicago Idea and
Guide, consolidated with w. D. Neigh
bors as editor and DIR. Brown, former
part owner of the defunct Plaindealer,
who is just about to buy an interest
in the publication.
The Enterprise is another big news
paper just out backed by the repub-
lican machine. The Advocate is Dem
ocratic newspaper backed by a tool
colored man who doesn't know and
whose mission is to feed himself at
any cost. The Searchlight is at a
standstill. The Broad AK spurts up
occasionally in illustrated politics and
then SINNERS down. The Evening
World is little daily sheet brought
out by small printing syndicate.
When it suspended it was said that
they were busy buying a larger press.
It is in The Whip that local interest
is at present conferred. The people
feel that the long felt want has come
at last. The controlling heads of The
Whip corporation include Anthony Ov-
erton of the Overton Hygienic High
Brown Face Powder Company and
owner of the Half Century Magazine;
William Bottoms, owner of Dream
land; r. w. Hunter, banker; Frank
Preer, owner of the De Luxe; F. w.
Harsh, B. W. Merriweather, real estate
dealers, and Harvey B. Saunders,
druggist. William C. Linton is editor.
He and young blood constitute the
staff and one or two older
men are to be shortly
added. Stock and the subscription list
is continually increasing. Meanwhile
in order to keep in touch with the
inner circle, everybody will be obliged
to read the Freeman for the only
authentic data in future news to be
given out.