The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-24
MADDEN ATTACK
To Save SCALP
cHIcAeo CONGRESSMAN DE-
NouNcEs coNFEDERATEs TO
WIN STRENGTH FROM NEGROES.
BY George II. Manning.

BY George II. Manning.
Washington, May 23.-Investigation
of the racial makeup of Congressman
| Madden's constituency appears to leave
no doubt that the Chicago member
made his attacks upon the Confederate
veterans in the house last Saturday
and Monday in an attempt to save his
| political scalp.
| The attacks, in which he character
lied Generals Lee, jackson and other
Confederates as traitors" may PEE
vent negro running and defeating
Madden for his seat in congress.
| Madden represents the Loop" dis
trict of Chicago, generally known as
the toughest" district in the United
States. More than half the residents
of the district are negroes and the ina
jority of the republican vote in this
district is cast by negroes.
| 1t was in this district that bath
House John" Coughlin and "Hinky
Dink" Kenna flourished. Jack john
son, the negro pugilist who married
white woman and has been for years
a fugitive from justice, lives in this
district when at home.
The first Illinois district represented
by Madden is composed of the first
and second city wards, the third ward
north of 43rd street and east of State
street, and the fourth ward, east of
Halstead and north of 33rd. The first
ward takes in the Loop" where all
the big mercantile houses are and has
only a few residences. The second
ward is commonly known as the BLACK
Belt" because almost all the residents
are negroes, there being only a handful
0f TO, IN, fha o~1 1Iroc "a
old "red light" district of Chicago,
tons of che third and fourth wards
are in the first district, and most of
the residents are white persons.
The negroes have been making rapid
strides in recent years towards abso-
lutte control of the first district. OF
the 100000 residents of the district a
little over 100000 are negroes, it is es-
timated
Madden has been republican ward
committeeman of the second ward for
a number of years but was recently
forced to give way to Edward H.
Wright, a negro. Madden lives in the
second ward, being among the very
few whites remaining there. This ward
is represented in the Chicago city
council by two negroes. Two or three
negro members of the Illinois legisla-
ture come from Madden's district.
When Madden visits his district he
makes the round of the negro churches
and delivers addresses. The negroes
have been threatening to run one of
their race against Madden for con-
gress and it was to make himself solid
with them that he offered the insult to
the Confederate veterans, it is believed.
Congressman William Upshaw of
Atlanta was addressing the house Sat
urday expressing regret that the names
of General Lee, Stonewall Jackson,
Gordon and Joe Wheeler had been
omitted from the names of American
leaders on the amphitheatre
at Arlington National cemetery.
If Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosee
welt, William Mckinley or U. S. Grant |
were here, Upshaw said, they would
feel deeply agrieved to find the names |
of the Confederate heroes omitted from
the roll of American great war heroes, |
Upshaw said.
Obtaining recognition for a question |
Madden said: Does the gentleman
complain and protest because the loyal |
people of the United States refused to
pay tribute to the men who were |
traitors to the country in it's time of !
greatest distress?"
Several members jumped to their
feet and insisted that his words be |
from the record. Upshaw |
urged they be allowed to remain. Re-
plying to Madden, Upshaw, son of a
Confederate veteran, said there was no
place in this country for words such
as the Chicago man uttered.
Congressman Stedman, who served
rs a general in the Confederate army,
replying to Madden on Monday said
the Chicago man stands isolated and
alone in wilderness of his own crea-
ton where he will find neither comfort
nor happiness. THE memory of Robert
e. Lee and Stonewall jackson will live
when the walls of Arlington amphi-
theatre have crumbled into dust" said
Stedman.
In replying to Stedman, Madden Gre
lted near-riot in the house when he
his assertion that the Con-
,ederates were traitors and that he had