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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
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THOMAS LINZ NuPTIAL.

On the evening of Monday. Jan.
13, few friends OF the contracting
parties Witnessed the holy wedlock
OF Miss Roberta Linz to Mr.. Joe
Thomas at the residence Of Mrs. Cal
lie Brooks, 1915 Fourth avenue.
The Wedding. simplicity persorified
was one of the sweetest and most
superbi OF the New Year Mrs. It.
II. Miles, 1921 William street. played
the wedding march. The bride was
neatly dressed in pale green Geor-
getta draped over satin, the brides
maids were Miss Alberta Mosely
and Mrs. L. Il. Skinner. 1911 Fourth
avenue. Miss B. II. Brooks played
the maideii's prayer The grooms
men were Messrs. Andrew Blair and
4. J. Skinner.
The bride and groom will spend
their honeymoon in Kansas City.
Their hears were filled with much
joy and received many valuable pres
ents from their beloved friends. Rev.
L. B. Skinner, officisted. Closing
with tho Lords prayer.
MRS. BLANCHE RUSSELL.
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Art XIII. County or City Liable to
Heirs Of Legal Representative
Where Person IL KiIIad

Any county or any county and
city, if done in a city shall be liable
for injury or damage done ID the
person or property of any person
charged with crirpe or Cor injury
or damage done 10 the person or
property of any in-offensive pc son
by mob to the person or his heirs
or legal representatives IN the sum
OF five thousand dollars for injury
inflicted on such person or persons
By such mob and where such person
or persons do not die from the in
jury thus inflicted and in case of
damage to such property by such
mob sucn county or such county and
city, as the case may be shall be
liable to such persons, hereinbefore
mentioned to the xtent of such darn
age sustained. Such county or such
county and city as the case may be,
may recover such money in that be-
half expended from any person or
persons in the mob in the same way
and manner as mentioned in Ar
ticle XII, hereinbefore contained.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
AHTI-LfEcH LAW SUBMITTED. TO
GOV. BY ATTY DAWKINS
(ContInued from page b

insist that man should be exec
cuted for committing an assault to
rape.
II the legislature should deem 1t
advisable to make the offense a
capital felony to be punished by
death or confinement in the peniten-
tiary, withion the discretion of the
jury then the last excuse offered by any
intelligent man in the state for the
encouragement of mob law be sup
pressed, should not only be the SOL
emn pledge but the unfailing guaran-
tee and action OF the state"
In line with these expressions and
the security of the citizens of this
state from mob violence, we here
with submit to you the following
law against mob violence the pas
sage Of which we earnestly request
your excellency to recommend to the
Both Legislature.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
a RARE MUSICAL TREAT

Was what was given the splendid
audience which bFsFed mud and mire
Monday night, JSh, 10, and practically
filled New Hope Baptist Church, to sit
an hour and a half 20 hear the In
yincible Concert Company, Kansas
CITY, Mo- In particular and the United
States In general. II is an all.star
cast, made up Of the two blind must
cal wonders, Jas. johnson and Ed.
ward Mackay, assisted by Mrs. John.
son and daughter, and Mrs. Mackey.
They are all musical masters and
have trained voices. Their rendi-
tions had swell and sweep which
carried tEs audience of its feet time
and time again. and the universal
verdict Nf all who heard them was.
THAT Is the finest"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Law Against Lynching, Sub
mitted to the Governor.

Art. I.-Mob Defined.
Any number of persons assembled
for the unlawful purpose OF offering
violence TO the person or property
OF any one, supposed to have been
guilty OF violation of the law to
the person and property Of any in
offensive persons for the purpose
OF exercise correctional powers or
regulative powers over any person
or persons by violence and without
lawful authority shall be regarded
and designated as a mob.
Art. U.-Dispersing Mob.
II shall be the duty of the sheriff
his depty or deputies or any officer
OF the law who shall have knowledge
OF the assembling of mob, to COM
mand 1t, the mob Immediately and
peacefully to dispense; and every
person failing or refusing to dis
perse shall be considered one of the
mob shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and shall be fined FIVE
hundred dollars and confined in the
county Jail not less than six months.
Art. III.-Suppressing Mob Violence.
II at any time the shelf his deputy
or deputies or any officer of the law
who has actual or constructive pos
session of a prisoner, has reason
to believe that said prisoner is in
danger of suffering violence at the
hand Of a mob, 1t shall be
such officers duty at once to COM
mand all by-standers or other per-
sons, with whom he can directly
communicate, or communicate with
in a reasonable time to aid and
assist him in defense of such pris-
oner. and to furnish such assistance
with such weapons as shall be neces-
sary to protect such prisoner; AMI
If any by-stander or other person
so requested by the sheriff, his dep
uty or deputies or any officer of the
Law to aid him, shall fail or refuse
to assist in defending such prisoner,
the person so failing or refusing shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and on conviction threof shall be fined
not less than two hundred dollars
and not more than one thousand dol
lars and shall be imprisoned in the
county Jail for term of six months.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
rAE NEGLECTED. Might SCHOOL

That the illitorate and near Tilt.
crate youEy colored men and women
Of Dallas are overlooking q great op.
portunity when they far to take ad
vantage OF the free night schools
which are now open IN Dallas, goes
without saying, The city school
authorities mas the same pr,3vi8ion
for the night session that they make
for the dag aessions in short educa-
ton Is froe Whosoeyer viii may
come The schools are open 10 per.
sons OF all ages. and offer an excep.
iIonai opportunity to those who de-
sire ~ add someth ng to what they
already know.
When one stops 70 think OF the large
number Of young and middle-nged peo-
pie who can scarcely write their
names. and consider the approaching
time when emily those who are in
roimed caa hope for jchs which pay
well II Is surprising I'd see them ig-
pofe thie Opportunity
Il would not be amyss Il the lodge
MASTERS taislrecses. p etors and Sun.
fsf schoo superintendent would cali
attention. q the neg' aSed open night
school. eomethins mEat be done to
l1cSe aEe eiucatlon Among M
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL

February =, 1919, has been set aside
as he day for the Nationally Memoir
iaiizing the death OF ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt Nothing could
be more fitting Nm thht nation
should pause a ss bier OF fallen
patriot and SHOW xEatitude for the life
now spent which meant so much to
all. Volumes have been written in
the vain effort TO convince the world
of the greatness OF Theodore Roose-
vel,, but his life does not answer
TO words. Fortunate for the men
who 1--we at this time. that they were
permitted to walk the world side by
side with this great character and
learn from his noble acts and lofty
conceptions, che virtue and nobility OF
the soul which the other day left
this tenement Of clay--who quit the
path OF morssls.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

/ CIVIL cases IN Travis county, IeXttS )
and all criminal cases in which a
member or members of a mob are
being tried shall be prosecuted by
the Attorney General of the State OF
Texas, as chief prosecutor.
Art. XVI.
Be 1t also enacted that any per-
son being a member of a mob or in
any way participating in or aiding
and abetting mob violence to the
person or property of any individual
or exercising correctional or regu-
lative measures or powers toward
any person or persons accused OF
crime or any in-offensive person or
persons shall never claim, have OF
receive any benefits by virtue Of or
arising from the suspended SEN
tence law or the indeterminate SEN
tence law of this state.
Provided further that any Access
sorry after the fact hereinbefore men,
toned in Art. VII, shall come within
the provision of this article and
other laws and parts Of laws in
conflict herewith be and the same
are hereby repealed.
Cognizant of the fact that all ma
tons and races were gathering and
on their way to gather around
the momentous peace a e
in Paris, France, to speak and con-
tend in the alignment Of the ma
lions, and the REIMBURSEMENT Of the
affairs of the world for justice and
right for their race and nation, /
conceived the idea that the time was
ripe and opportune to communicate
something specific and definite to
the governor in behalf of the Negro
race in our lone star state.
Whereupon l submitted the fore
going address and law on lynching
to the governor of the state.
From an article in the Houston
Post last summer and an editorial
in the San Antonio Express last week
| have the impression that we can
enlist the support of both those pow
erful dailies in our cause; and with
their aid l believe we can get other
papers to join in.
Beside every preacher, every teach
er, every lawyer, every doctor, every
Negro business man and every Ne
gro organization, secret or what not
of whatever caliber or Importance is
earnestly urged to deleuge the gov
ernor and their representatives in
the legislature with opportunities to
pass the foregoing law against lyn-
ching, which if passed and enforced
will drive lynching remotely from
our borders, for the blood of the
family, man, woman and children,
lynched at Huntsville in 1918 cry
out to high heaven for something
to be done for the safety and pro-
lection of Negroes in this state from
the Negro hating mob; bearing in
mind when luke warm these facts,
that, Nothing attempted nothing
gained" and that God brings things
to pass for those in the right, who
depend upon him, but at the same
time try to help themselves"
Effort and effort again and do not
let up in your efforts until some law
is passed that will at least relieve
our helpless and defenseless women
and children from the heinous, bloody
and fiery jaws of the lawless mobs
of this state.
Respectfully yours,
]. f. DAWKINS.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

Professor Of English at Kortrecht
High School, as zone of the most
remarkable literary product
ions of modern times"
DIR. W. Y. Vernon, Ex-Register of
Treasurer and the foremost Negro
in Roosevelt's Administration. famous.
as leader AID orator, says" have
read with interest and pleasure, the
poetic efforts of Sergt. Allen r.
Griggs, Jr, and am pleased to say
they possess merit worthy of en-
couragement. l regard him as a.
man of undoubted talent and promise.
The race will profit by suppol ting
young meu of this type and aspira-
tion.''
Bishop N. C. Cleaves says: Sergt.
Allen R. Griggs, Jr., in "The Negroes
Tribute and Our Prayer" bearing
on the death Of Col. Theodore Roose-
welt shows appreciation of great and
good men. Sergt. Griggs de-
serves the encouragement of all the
people"
Enormous supplies sent to the con-
gregations Of DR.. A. M. Townsend.
Metropolitan Baptist church, DR.. r.
L. Langford, Mt Olive C. M. e.
church, DR.. J. l.. Campbell, st. Step
hens Baptist church, Mt. Vernon
Baptist church, DR.. w. w. Whittier
Pastor, and other large congregations
in Memphis were totally Inadequate
to meet the demand.
When read to any audience, the
unanimous demand for copies is in
Simultaneous.
Agents wanted everywhere tn
place this tribute in the home of
every Negro in America.
Large pictures of Col. Roosevelt
with the two famous poems neatly
printed underneath OKLA single
copies, 25c; or $500 per dozen. Zoe
for $3.50. 5000 sold in Memphis IN
two days.
-Co-opersiion of Ministers, teachers
and agents of Negro literature and
others interested in commendable
efforts desired.
Address
sERGT. ALLEN R. GRIGGs, JR
BE- 2. Georgia Ave-.
Memphis. Tenn.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. VII. Person Aiding in the Els.
cape or EYading of Punishment.

Every person not standing in the
relation of husband or wife or grand
parent, child or grand children, bro
Their or sister by consanguinity or
affinity, who after the commission of
the crime of lynching or of mob
violence to the person or property
of any individual shall habor con-
ceal or aid any member of the mob
who participated or abetted such
crime with the intent that such mem
Der of such mob shall escape arrest
and punishment shall be deemed an
accessory after the fact, and may
be charged, tried convicted and pun
ished as such, although such mem
Der of the mob be neither charged
nor convicted and upon conviction
thereof such accessory shall be i'm
prisoned in the state prison not less
than two years nor more than ten
years.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
REruRN THE couRrgsIEs

Among the many cards congratu
latory received at the beginning Of the
year from compatriots and contem
poraries over the country, one which
we highly prize comes from Dr.
Cyrus " Roman, the great Tennessee
lay preacher. who az one time lived
in Dallas. In the spirit like unto
which, that sent them, we return our
well wishes with them. all that their
banner year shall be 1919.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
TWO NOTABLE YOUNG MEN.

Alessrs. J. J. Allen, president, The
Worlds Wonder on and Gas Co. OF
Kansas City, Mo-, and Chas. A. Asst
wood, secretary. were among our
callers this week. They were agree.
ably surprised at the equipment OF
the Dallas Express and gave it as their
opinlon that II is a great paper. They
have back OF them a million dollar
prospect In oil and gas.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
COMING BACK

One Negro on the Republican
National Committee and about a dozen
in State Legislatures and City
Councils, are the political acquisitions
OF the American black people for the
beginning OF 1919
We are coming back, doubters and
dastards to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. XII. The County May Recover
From Members of the Mob.

The county in which a lynching
occurs may recover the amount of
a judgment and cost against it in
favor of the heirs or legal repre-
sentative of the person injured or
killed by a mob from any of the
persons composing such mob; a
person present with hostile intent
at such. lynching shall be deemed
member of the mob and liable to
such action.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. XI. The Commissioners to In.
clude Money In Next Tax Levy.

An order to the commissioners of
county or of county and city
as the case may be, against which
such recovery is had, to include it
with the cost of action in the sue
ceeding tax levy for such county or
county and city as the case may be.
shall succeeding tax levy for
such county or county and city as
the case may be, shall be part of
the judgment in each and every case.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art XIV. Silt Shall not be Abated
for Non or MisiOinder Of Parties.

In any suit or action brought by
the state, county or county and city
against any member or members Of
a mob to indemnify the state or
county or county and city as the
case may be, for money expended by
reason of action Of such mob, the
suit or action Shall not be vitiated
or abated on account of too many or
too few persons or non or misjoin-
deI of persons or parties in such
suit or action, but such suit or ac-
ton shall be proceeded with until
final adjudication.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
AGITATION AND PETITION

That agitation is the soul OF reform
anu that the right OF petition always
exists are ever uopermost IN the
American mind.
The Colored american is coming to
believe in their virtue, and I nee he
+ beginning to agitate and petition.
Il were well. for sometime the
powers that be" fearing neither God
nor regarding man. viii dc some
things merely to escape being wor.
ried by petition There are condi-
tons in America against which agi-
tat'on should be directed and against
which petition should be made until
they cease.
Some OF these things are intra-
social: others. inter-racial Lot MS
lind cut which Is which. AMI fill up
the measure Of 1919 to the brim.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. V. Any Person or Person Com
posing Mob.

Any person or persons who shall
compose mob with the intent to
infiict damage on the person or
property of any individual charged
with crime or any other idividual
or under the pretense of exercising
correctional or regulative powers
over such person or persons by VIC
lence and without authority of law,
shall be subject to a fine Of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars and shall
be imprisoned in the county Jail
for not less than sixty days for each
and every offense.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. XIV. The Venue of All
Moh Caeae

All cases against persons accused
of the crime of lynching or mob vio-
lence or, as an accessory after the
fact as hereinbefore mentioned or
for the recovery Of money by a per-
son, dis heirs or legal Representatives
on account of such person SUFFERING
Death, bodily injury or property
damage at the hands Of mob shall
have their venue, both criminal ANA
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. vi. Punishment OF Lynchers on
AbettOrs of Lynching.

Any person who shall participate,
or actively aid or abet the lynching
of human being shall on convic-
ton suffer death or be imprisoned
in the penitentiary during his natur-
al life and any person who being
member of any mob and present
at any such lynching, shall be deem
ed guilty of abetting such lynching
and on conviction shall be impris-
oned in the state penitentiary not
less than two years nor more than
ten years.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
EDITOR W. f. KING INVITED TO
SPEAK AT LOUISVILLE, KY
EDITOR / WILLIS COLE OF
THAT CITY MOVING SPIRIT.

Louisville, KY, Jan. 81, 1919.
Editor w. e. King of The Dallas
Express, the leading Republican
newspaper in the far south has been
invited to deliver an address here
February 8, 1919.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

ing made known to the governor
he shall publish proclamation de-
claring the Office Of such officer OF
officers vacant, and such Office oI
officers shall thereby and thereafter
be Immediately vacated and such
officer or officers shall thereafter be
Invested of the right of suffage and
also be Ineligible to any Office, ap-
pointive or elective within the gift
of any officer or of the people of this
state.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. VIII. Naturalization of Heirs
or Legal Representatives,

The county in which person is
lynched by mob shall pay the
heirs or legal representatives of such
person ten thousand dollars which
shall descend to such beirs or
or legal representatives in accor-
dance with the laws of descent and
distribution in the state of Texas.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. TX.

Any person suffering death or in
jury from a mob attempting to
lynch another person shall come
within the provision of the preceding
article. He, his heirs or legal repre-
sentatives, shall have a like right of
action as one purposely injured or
killed at the hand Of the mob.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art X....ActiOn for the Recovery
of Money.

Where an action becomes neces-
sary, such action for the recovery
of money provided for in the two
preceding ayticles shall be COM
menced within three years from the
time of such injury or death.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

Mr.. c. 3. Smith rnd family. 1920
Dey street, are confined in their
home with the dreaded "fiu."
Mrs. c. Nj. Mullen, 1908 Mckenzie
street. Is all smiles ove- the beau
tifnl diamond ring presented TO her
BY her husband, G. N. Mullen for a
New Ysar's gift.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

NOTICE TO Tine PUBLIC.

Any erroneous rejection upon the
character. standing cor reputation 81
any PRISON, Arm or corporation which
may aprcar In the columns OF The
Dallas Express VIII be gladly cor
rocted upon its being brought 70 the
attention Of the publishers.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

Every Christian has a home decided
to him In Heaven, but he canno. ex'
Dect TO get earthly possession.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

II has been said that a peace which
does not include IN its platform a
Rule. will not be lasting.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art. III (c). JustiaabIe Homicide.

II in the efforts made as foresaid
to suppress or dispense such mob
or to protect such prisoner here
inbefore mentioned any such person
or any person present as partici-
pants or spectators or otherwise shall
be wounded or killed, said sheriff
be wounded or killed. Said sheriff
his deputy or deputies or any Off
Ger of the law or any person or
persons acting with them or by their
orders shall be held guiltless and
justifiable in law.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

You have from now until Jan. 81
1918, to pay your poll tax. Remem-
Der what you are 81 you fail to pay.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
Art Nv. Officers Shall Forfeit the
the Right of Suffrage and

If any person shall be taken from
the actual or constructive possession
of the sheriff his deputy or deputies
or any officer Of the law " 10 at
the time had actual or constructive
pcssessicn Of such person 1t shall be
prhnafacie evidence that he or they
as the case may be failcd 10 do
his or their duty toward protection
such person aEd upon the fact be-
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

The Peace Conference is on-let the
world stand judgment sus
pended.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

Bragg Williams was lypched at
Hillsboro. Texas. Monday. Jan. 20,
1919, This item was printed on the
front page 1T efery southern white
newspaper. Il Bragg Williams had
bought 5G0-acre black Lam farm,
instead Of getting lynched. these
same Newspapers would not have
printed line about him.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
SATURDAY, JANUARY %, 1918.

We don't want a piece OF peace
this time the whole hog or none.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

You may pray all you desire.
christian friend, but, IL you do not
pay your poll tax before Jan. 81.
or on that day, you can not vote
in Texas.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

There are Colored men in Dallas,
VINO still have little enough sense
to look in the city white newspapers
Tor news Of the coioeed neople. Vel,
they EiII lsaIn.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25

civil cases in Travis County, Texas;
and all criminal cases in which a
member or members of mob are
being tried shall be prosecuted by
the Attorney General of the State of
Texas, as chief prosecutor.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-01-25
THE NEGROES TRIBUTE TO
ROOSEVELT" AND "0UR PRAYER
Poem by Sergt. Allen R. Griggs. Jr
Characterized by
MISS l.. e. CAMPBELL,

Professor of English at Kortrecht
High School, as zone of the most
remarkable literary product