The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-29
DOZEN WHITE MEN
KILLED BY NEGROES
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bundled into screened mail trucks ant
driven TO their homes.
Every police station was filled al
80 a. m, and there were constantly
new arrivals seeking protection OF ths
blue coats. Many of the applicants
were wounded and their injuries were
I dressed by police surgeons.
I Adjutant General Dickson today
ordered the entire Fourth regiment
Illinois militia, to report in Chicago
The men are in camp at Camp Logan
near North Chicago.
Governor Lowden called city Off
Gals, welfare workers, business men
and negro leaders to a conference to
day. He told the body that the cause
OF the race riots does not matter; that
/ they must be ended by full co-opera.
ton of all classes. He made an espe-
! cial appeal to business men to aid,
indicating that negroes were dissatis-
! fed with the recognition they had
received commercially for their war
work.
| The governor previously issued a
proclamation reading:
ITO the people of Chicago:
] Il have Just received notice Of the
appalling riots, / appeal to all citizens
white and colored, to obey the law.
There are no wrongs committed by
either race that cannot be better re-
dressed through the orderly processes
of the law than by mob violence.
THE entire power OF the state viii
be used to restore order and punish
those guilty Of lawlessness.
1T is time for all good citizens,
white and colored, to aid the authori-
ties in every way possible to uphold
the law.
frank o. Lowden,
Governor Of Illinois"
A statement signed by five negro
leaders today laid the blame for the
riots on false and misleading articles
in certain local negro papers and the
ill-advice given by would-be leaders
who have inoculated false ideas in the
minds of many thoughtless colored
people pertaining to their rights upon
termination OF the war in Europe. re-
CARELESS of education, property rights
or citizenship"
The statement concluded with the
assertion that the substantial negro
people desired only full protection Of
the state and city and punishment OF
law breakers, white or black.
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patrolled a portion Of the black belt
with white policemen. The soldiers
were chrged with keeping their own
people moving.
Policemen were stationed on every
corner and big reserves waited at
nearby stations. There was some &C
tivity in the streets but for the most
part residents of the district kept in
their homes.
Gatherings were prevented where
possible, as they were during the
might. Dispensing of the crowds pre-
cipitated several of the nights en-
counters.
Chief of Police Clarity claimed the
situation in the negro district under
control. More violence occurred to-
day in the business districts when
negroes ventured out of their own ter
ritory.
Some negroes, loyal to employers,
had no trouble until they reached the
loop. Their fear was evident in the
furtiveness with which they stole
along, hugging the sides Of buildings
and lodging into occasional stair.
ways for cautious survey Of the
street
Feeling did not appear to be rum
ming high except in instances where
raobs had gathered. Some Of these
had been chased from the negro dis
trict and took the opportunity TO pick
up the strays. Lack of policemen in
the loop made the latter easy victims
to small gangs.
Packing houses were seriously i'm
peded by the strike and riots. Hun
dreds of colored employees remained
at home through fear of trouble and
others were prevented from reaching
the yards through lack of transporta-
ton.
In the early morning demoraliza-
ton there was shortage of help in
the stock pens and there was little
trading.
Adjutant General Dickson Of the
Illinois national guard formally offer.
ed the services Of his troops to city
officials today.
Chief of Police Clarity declined the
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