The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-22
EMANCIPATION DAY
TO Be Celebrated
ON WEDNESDAY EVE

Wv gyADEvAOSTI Av1
Colored men and women of Rich
mond and Wayne county will attend
a Republican rally to be held this
evening at the Bethel A. M. E. church.
this city, to celebrate. the 5Sth ami
versary Of the signing of the emanci-
patton proclamation by President Lin
coin, by which act slavery was for
ever abolished in the American re-
public.
The meeting will be addressed by
the Rev Noah Williams, of Nashville,
Tenn, said to be one Of the most
gifted orators of his race. The Rev.
Williams served as a chaplain in the
American army overseas during the
late war. At one time he was pastor
of the Bethel A. M. e. church of Rich
mond, and is very well known here.
He will be introduced by the Rev. j.
L. Cravens, pastor of Bethel church.
Miss Anna Brown, head of the col
ored women's bureau of the Republi-
can women's organization of Wayne
county, will have charge of the pro-
gram There will be musical numbers
by the church choir and orchestra.
The Rev. Williams will call upon
the colored people OF Wayne county
to give their united support to the Re-
publican ticket at the coming cleo
tion.
Speak at Fountain City
Miss Anna Brown head OF the Ne
gro department of the Wayne county
Republican woman's organization, with
Mrs. Lettie Fox and Esther Griffin
White, Wayne county woman chair
man, held successful meeting at the
A. NJ E. church in Fountain City last
evening, the church being filled.
Mrs. Jennie Ewing, a well known
member of her race in Fountain City,
had the meeting i'll charge and intro
duced the speakers.
Miss Brown dwelt upon the res
possibility of the individual voter, say
ing that no enlightened man or
woman should refrain from registering
and voting Miss Brown stated that
the colored women of Wayne county
had responded splendidly at the first
registration on Sept, 4, and urged
every woman of her race who had not
taken advantage of the first period to
not fail to do so on October 4.
Eulogizes G. @. P.
Mrs Fox eulogized the Republican
party as the party of progress and one
to which every man and woman Of
her race owed allegiance.
Miss White gave resume of
women's political activities in Indiana
since they had been given the right
to vote and emphasized the necessity
Of registration.
A large number of men voters were
present in addition to the women. 1t
was stated by Mrs. Ewing that most
of the women of Fountain City had
registered.
Noted Speakers Coming.
1t was announced at Republican
county headquarters Wednesday that
arrangements have been made for
three big political meetings to be held
in Richmond next month. These meet
ings will be addressed by Senator AL
bert Watson, of Indiana; Senator Len
root, of Wisconsin, and former senator
Albert J. Beveridge. Plans are being
formulated to have sixth district
rally in Richmond on the day Senator
Watson speaks here. The exact dates
for all three meetings will be an
nounced later
Rally at Abingdon.
A Republican rally for southern
Wayne county is to be held in Abing-
ton, October l, and it is expected a
large crowd will attend. The principal
speaker will be Republican meeting
at Cambridge City on the evening of
September 81, the speaker being Adam
Bede, former congressman from Min
nesota and famous as an orator.