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Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

This is Friday and as we write the Demo
cratic convention is still at sea- so far as a
nomination goes, and still further at sea so
far as party policy is concerned. Bryan
has been squelched by wisconsin and Reed
of Missouri has been likewise administered
to, and still the convention is in seething
sllrging state Of turmoil. The party will
be split in twain if it does not put a wet
plank into it's platform and it will be split
just as badly if it does. The party will
be split if it does not adopt Wilson, s League
Of Nations ideas and be worse split if it
does The party will be split into smither-
Gems if it nominates either McAdoo or Wilson
and just as badly split if it nomnates Cox
or Edwards, and to nominate Bryan would
simply mean suicide. However, Cox is the
only man that would have ghost Of a show
at winning and he has none at all. The
South is in the saddle and under the leader
ship of Burleson, the brute force, so charac-
teristic Of Texas, is domineering the conven-
ton. Eight years Of rule has completely
wrecked the Democratic party and now the
assumed leaders thereof who have fed at
the public crib, are bluntly proclaiming the
''people be damned" this convention will
60 our way or it won't 60 any way. But
let the heather rage as he is no longer in
a position to do the public any very great
damage. The king is dead politically and
the Clown Prince will die if he ever gets
in the race. Bryan can no longer consist
emily be a Democrat and Cox would be
so bitterly opposed by the wet faction of
the party that he would be ignominiously
defeated The whole Democratic conven-
ton mess spells Harding and Coolidge for
president and vice president. So promote
it be-
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03
WIPING OUT THE COLOR LINE

TO THOSE WHO actively
everything eventually comes. 1t is but nat
ural for us to feel that we have had a little
harder row to hoe than the other fellow and
we have done our full share of complaining
without making any strenuous effort to rem
edy conditions. A wilmer and a crybaby
never gets very far up life's rickety ladder.
The world makes way for the fighter, the
self.reliant, determined person who finds no
human endeavor impossible and who has
on such word in his vocabulary as 'can t. -
We have in the past ten years developed a
workable brand of self.determination that
is. have found ourselves and our possi
bilities. We challenge other groups to show
better right to things truly American than
the right that is held by us.
We hold an envable place in the eco
nomic life of this country. The great mass
of us must earn our keep by the sweat of
our brows, and when through powerful,
combinations of men our every effort to
advance is met with rebuff, it is little less
than morvelous the progress we have made.
Now the one big barrier has been swept
away, for on June 10th the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, after a stormy session,
which nearly resulted in fight between
delegates from the Northern states and
delegates from the Southern states, wiped
out the color line and warned it's affiliated
international unions that hereafter our
workers must be given full and equal men,
bership. And from the constitution and
bylaws Of every local the words 'White
only'' must be eliminated
They have taken a long step forward, their
name now is not msnomer: they have
paved the way to a bigger stronger and
more powerful organization: they have dis.
armed their potential enemies and made it
possible for our workers to fight with and
not against this organization in order to
make living. The opposition of the South
ern delegates was met by the level-headed
ones of other sections. who knew the very
life of the organization was in jeopardy
with such formidable force of black work
men arrayed on the side of capital and
against them. Here the law of self-preser-
walton was put into actual practice.
We are not blinded to the fact that our
invitation came as matter OF necessity
and not of choice. While we have always
had many good and loyal friends in the
unions there has ever been an undercurrent
of Race hatred strong enough to keep the
doors Of industry closed against us. How
ever, we intend to forget the past. forget
the motive that kept the industrial gates
closed to us and join hands with our white
fellow WORKER knowing full we'll that with
out our hearty cooperation they are SER
iously handicapped and without their back.
ing we have no real foothold. Never was
an adage truer than this, ''In union there
is strength. .''-Chicago Defender
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03


The following bit of news from various points
Of the South will give the reader some faint
idea of the ceaseless turmoil that goes on in
that section from day to day between the
whites and Blacks which prevents the South
from being the garden spot of the Unitc
States.
jackson, Miss, June 2S.-At the last meet
INC of the jackson board of trade j. w.
Tucker stated that the labor shortage had
become serious menace to the business in
terests of the city and state; that another
exodus was now on. stronger than ever be-
fore. and apparently gathering force and
strength.
When canvass was made to determine
the cause for the rush North agents of the
business men found that in every ease the
men declared they had suffered untold hui
initiation from the South and sought other
shores in which to live in comfort and safety
from mob violence and lynching.
One man, minister, who was preparing
to move his family to Detroit, Mich, declared
that 'ex-Senator James K Vardaman and
colored man could not live together happily
in the same state
Just about the same time as the Mississippi
unrest reached it's high water mark like oc-
cllrrence took place in Georgia which is here
with recOunted:
Rncon, Ca, June 25.--This town is
practically deserted toda. III Flows arc
idle and white farm owners are pleading with
their labOrers to remain here But nothing
will induce the members of our Race to 1--we
in this section following the lynching OF
Phillip Gathers. Efforts to stop the sale
of tickets for people who desired to 90 to
Savannah began too late. A carload of farm
laborers had left here before the white men
were aware of the exodus.
Gathers had been accllsd Of murdring
white girl, Miss Anna Jaudon. age II, but
it was later rmOred that the girl was slain
by her sweetheart and that Gather had
driven him to the spot in a buggy where the
crime was committed. Gathers was chained
to tree and oil poured on his clothing, but
when an effort was made to apply the torch
he broke the chains. He riddled with
bullets in the attempt to escape.
But there are millions of colored people in
the South all Of whom cannot come North
and the southern white man is quite cogni
zant of that fact, and knowing that his treat
ment of the colored man will not be very
greatly improve for the next quarter of a
century. If two or three million colored
citizens Of the South could only get located
in Mexico, what blessing it would be to all
concerned Such migration ought to please
well the southern white man as he could feel
as it was a good rddance of bad rubbish,
such migration ought to please well the col
ored man as he would be escaping the brutal
and savage treatment OF the white h0Wlng
hyenas and finally such a migration ought to
please well the Mexican authorities as that
country would be the recipient Of a great
army of hard working men and women who
would till their soil and develop their coun-
try. even if they did so under disadvantages
IT'S amusing in the extreme to hear the
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03
CAYTON'S WEEKLY

Published every Saturday at Seattle. Washington,
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Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03

It's amusing in the extreme to hear the
southern delegates to the San Francisco
convention tell about the horrors OF Armenia
when no crime was ever perpetrated IN Ar
menia that could be remotely compared to
the brutalties those self-same delegates have
practiced upon the colored ctizns of the
South.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03
HERE AND THERE

At the close of the Fifteenth Annual Ses-
sion Of the Baptist Sunday School Congress,
Henry Allen Boyd, secretary of the congress,
placed magnificent floral tribute on the
tomb Of the immortal Abraham Lincoln in
the name Of one million Sunday School
scholars, descendants of the slaves enamel
pated by the martyred Lincoln. Such trib-
utes are great reminders of the living Of the
commendable deeds and acts of the dead.
Two papers published by colored men and
both claiming to be the greatest and most
widely circulated in the world operated by
colored folks, are finding great cause for re-
ioicing in recent court decision. It seems
that one editor published statements reflect
ing upon the integrity Of the other at least
from his view point, and the aggrieved re-
sorted to the courts for redress The case
finally came on for hearing and after hotly
contested legal battle for days the aoorov"d
was given verdict of 90: ~~->A~ dara"os to
liQuidate 100000 demand The defeated
editor is all sweled uD and says the verdict
was equal to acquittal. while the successful
editor says it has established it's contentious
and the dollars and cents asked for were but
coincident in the mighty battle However,
if both are happy the public should be
ticEled to death.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03

The vehicle most alked about in this coun-
try just now is the water wagon.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03

In spite of the scenes of Chicago Omaha
and Duluth there are scenes going on in the
South thousand times more grave than
either OF the above because they affect multi
piled millions, while the places cited above
The Jasper news., 1920-12-23

Mrs. Howard Gaddis and Mrs.
Ferguson's children are over it,
but Nathan Rice is quite sick at
present with it..
Emrald Taylor and family and
Otto Sullivan spent Sunday in
Joplin visiting Mr.. Sullivan.
Sam McReynold's and family
will spend Christmas at Allen Nc
Reynolds in Carthage.
Chas. Bradshaw's parenGs from
Avilla and uncle and aunt from
Medoc visited them Sunday.
Howard Gaddis and wife will
take Christmas dinner with Mr..
Cooks folks.
John Gaddis and family will
take their Christmas turkey with
Mr.. and Mrs. Griffin in Jasper.
Miss Ruby Taylor, a sister to
Emrald Taylor and Mrs. Mercy
nolds, left Wednesday for Los
Angeles to spend the winter,
Miss Helen Gaddis was voted
the most popular young lady
/ at the pie supper at Carytown
and carried off the cake.
Joe Carter and family spent
Sunday at Dick Carter's.
| Mr.. andMrs. Role from Topeka,
Kans., and Mr.. and Mrs. Knauss
from Canada will spend Christmas
with Mrs. Ferguson.
Miss Grace Greenwood will cal
Christmas dinner at home.
Mrs. Riggs little baby had the
misfortune to pull over some hot
coffee and burn her arm quite
badly, but she is getting along
all right. @
Mr.. and Mrs. Riggs will spenC
Christmas day in Neosho. They
were on a visit there Sunday.
Arch Rice and family visiteC
her mother Sunday.
Mrs. Owen of Jasper will spent
| Chris istmas with Mrs. Rice.
The Jasper news., 1920-12-23
DEWEY
Mrs. May Matthews

Cordell Keller who is attending
college at Manhattan, Kans., will
be home at Will Clines on Christ
mas day to spend his vacation.
Melvin Miller, who is at the
State University, will come home
Thursday to spend the holidays.
Vernon Matthews and family of
Carthage will be home Friday for
a Christmas visit.
Tom Flowers and family will go
to his fathers for Christmas dinner
Lum Carter and family will dine
in Carterville on Christmas.
Chester Hamilton and family
will dine with his parents on
Christmas.
The usual Christmas program
at Salem is announced for Friday
night.
The Dewey School will have a
program Friday afternoon.
The Carytown School will have
a program Thursday afternoon.
The literary at Carytown had
a pie supper Saturday night and
raised $36 for their own benefit.
The road force is working very
hard on the road passing Mr.
Rusks, but it is very muddy an6
takes lots of work. Mr.. .Felske has
donated gravel, all they want.
Miss and Mr.. Moody from Car
terville, Chloe and Hoyt Turner
and Ethel and Ola Simms tool
dinner Sunday with Mrs. Lun
Carter.
The three-days grip has beer
going around the neighborhood
Mrs. McReynolds, Mrs. Lum Car
ter Mr.and Mrs. D. D.Matthews anC
The Jasper news., 1920-12-23

pie Rice and mother spent Sum
day afternoon with George Pro-
bert and family.
Will Templin of Carthage spent.
Wednesday at Amos Harvey's.
butchering.
Lloyd Winder and family spent.
Sunday at Mrs. Hyder's in Jasper.
Mrs. John Gresham spent Sun,
day with Carl Denninger and
family.
Basil McClintock and family
spent Sunday at Mount Vernon.
VIM, Halle and family spent.
Sunday with E. D. Boyd and
family.
The Jasper news., 1920-12-23
DIAMOND
S. R. Denniston

Mrs. Hamm and Myrtle Hamm
visited Mrs. Chas. .Elting Tuesday.
Mrs. Ralph Cline visited Mrs.
Bart Ingel Thursday.
Walter Wood and wife and Bill
Cook and wife spent Sunday at
Fred Scott's.
Jewel Lilly and wife spent Sun
DAY at Bart Ingel's.
Mrs. .EdDavis visited her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ralph Cline, Saturday
and Sunday ~ n
Mrs. j. A. Boyd went to see her
daughter, Mrs. Milo, Trimble at
Carthage.
Rachel Hane spent Sunday with
Grace Berryhill.
Mary Williams from Kansas is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
Serafni.
.GeorgeJohnson ofJasper preach
ed at Diamond Saturday and Sun
day night. There was a large
attendance both nights.
The Jasper news., 1920-12-23
SHERIDAN
Mrs. Joy Kerney

Helen Harvey spent Sunday
with Earl Harvey and family.
Charley McClintock and wife
spent Sunday at VIM. McCIin-
tock's.
Wilma Fasken spent Saturday
afte rnoon with Zelma Boyd.
Don Bedell and family and Eo-
The Jasper news., 1920-12-23
FOREST GROVE AND BOS-
Mrs. Geo. Fowler

Christmas where children are hopeful
Christmas where old men are patient
and grey.
For the Christ Child who comes is the
Master Of all;
No palace too great and no cottage too
small.
Fred Fowler took a load of wood
to Mrs. S. r. Mitchell in JASPER
Tuesday.
L. d. Needham went to Jasper
Monday with some veal calves
Lawrence Trout traded his farm
to a man near Liberal.
Lysle Short butchered hogs
Tuesday.
Mrs. Clarence Carr Mrs. Brown,
Mrs. Whicker and daughter Tres
sic, Mrs. Geo. Fowler and Law
renee Trout and Jim Box and
wife were Lamar visitors Tuesday.
Virgil Martin and Frank Rist
were butchering Wednesday.
Mrs. s. R. Mitchell and Mrs.
Nc Quillin spent Wednesday with
Mrs. Geo. Fowler.
The Forest Grove ladies met at
the home Of Mrs. Ralph Woods
Wednesday afternoon for the pur-
pose of organizing a women's farm
club.
Pete Carr and the Carter boys
have returned home from up north
where they have been gathering
corn.
Geo. Fowler sawed wood for
Scott Carr Thursday.
Miss Ona Brown is clerking in
Stats store in Lamar this week.
Grandma Martin has gone to
visit her son, ackMartin and wife.
AL Quinn went to Lamar with
a load OF coal Friday.
The roads are being kept drag
ged in fine shape now all the way
from Jasper to Lamar.
Rev Elliff is helping Virgil Mar
tin cut wood this week.
Fred Fowler took wood to La
mar Friday.
Earl Kunkler is hauling wood
from j. w. Rakestraw's.
AlfredJackson was helpingDude
Magers thrash timothy and cane
seed Friday.
j. w. Rakestraw sold his saw
mill to man in Pittsburg, Kans.
L. D. Needham sawed wood for
Mr.. Carter Thursday.
Willard Trout called at Law
renee Trout's Saturday.
The Forest Grove Farm Clut
gave an oyster and chill supper
at the Forest Grove schoolhouss
Friday night. A large crowd wa,
present and.al enjoyable time wal
had by all. Mr.. Amherst Hum
phrey gave Splendid talk.
Alfred Jackson called at j. w
Rakestraw's Saturday morning.
Chas. Rist, Lafe Rist, Chas
Kunkler and Glenn Flesh wer,
Carthage visitors Saturday.
Leo and Harold Needham spen
Sunday with Leon andVernTrout
Geo. Harrington, who has beel
visiting relatives here, has return
ed to his home in California.
Harold Harrington visited Free
Fowler Sunday.
Gladys Needham spent Sunda.
j with Marie Clements.
4 "A. M. Rand took dinner a
Mr.. Whicker's Sunday.
]. w. RakesHaw took wood {
Lamar Tuesday.
The regular preaching service
were held at Boston Sunday nighi
The Forest Grove farm clu
The Washington herald., 1920-07-22
A Budgeted Campaign.

continuing of Kenyon committee with its
personel as it is makes good strategy for
campaign their requisite business
ally and openly Several promising political already have
operations of this guione Others be
and will be if they in the way of the knife.
Candidate himself record favoring fullest
publicity of the Democratic National
and he talks Of of budget such he
Ohio adopt but of which the has heard much
has of the Tat Gov. Lowden Illinois
Harding and his hackers afford be
frank bunesske Post-electo will suffice. The
people waged They
foolish suppose that scale of spending which
defensb equ1y The ilcgmae then be
the legitimate that the shall
spending candidates shall be under obga
of that all of
audited the that This
their the party that declines
suffer the Nor this merely
Your eector in this election S be realist
The Washington herald., 1920-07-22
DELAYED Building in Washington.

OF the 100000 home
Chamber Of Commerce in Washington has
been indefinitely deferred closely following decision Oh
emphasizes the abnormal condition IN the
building trades prices labor and materials
It official that while building projects
involving first months OF contem-
plated which includes besides Washington
Virginia. Delaware, Southern New Jersey and Eastern
Pennsylvania, for but $oooooooo OF this work nave
been let.
cry builder from the time the things OF war were
peaceful resumed has been
prices abong and the dealer materials
claim and with degree justice that they
this condition because their prices based upon other prices
stability elsewhere before be considered
in the construction field.
AS result capital is hesaing construction investments
probemaa and loans for building
poses increasingly difficult tempting figures
The Washington herald., 1920-07-22
Events of Today

Arts Club dinner. 2O17 E street
northwest.
Excursion. Chesapeake Beach. j.
o. OF A. NJ. Societies.
White Cross Free Labor Bureau,
excursion 10 River View. 1880 a. m.
Executive committee OF Anti-Sa-
loon League meets, Raleigh Hotel.
kiwanis Club luncheon. Hotel
Washington roof garden.
Amusements.
Garrick-Garrick Players in Fair
and Warmer"
Poli's-''Don't Change Your Hus-
band"
Belasco-"The Garden of Allah"
Cosmos-Vaudeville and films.
B. F. Keith's-Vaudevill
Strand-Vaudeville apd films.
Loew's Palace - Ethel Clayton in
The Ladder of Lies"
Moore's Rialto Alice Brady in
"A Dark Lantern"
Crandalrs Metropolitan - Will
Rogers in "Jes' Call Me Jim"
Loew's Columbia - w. s. Hart in
sand"
Crandairs-Alice Joyce in Dol
lars and the Woman"
Crandalrs Knickerbocker - Olive
Thomas in The Flapper."
Chevy Chase Lake-Dancing.
Glen Echo-Resort attractions.
Great Falls Park - Resort facili-
ties.
Steamer Macalester-Daily excur-
sions to Mount Vernon.
Marshall Hall Resort amuse-
ments.
Chesapeake Beach-Resort attrac-
tions.
Cabin John Bridge Park - Resort
attractions.
Colonial Beach - "Washington's
Atlantic City,"
The Washington herald., 1920-07-22
THE THE BIBLE
translated out of the original
tongues and from the edition
known as Our Mothers Bible"
CHAPTER Q.

IL Furthermore the Lord spake
unto me, saying, l have seen this
people. and. behold, it is a stiff-
necked people:
II Let me alone, that 1 may de-
stroy them. and blot out their name
from under heaven: and / will make
of thee a nation mightier and
greater than they.
10 So 1 turned and came down
from the mount. and the mount
burned with fire: and the two tables
of the covenant were in my two
hands
16 And I looked, and, behold, We
had sinned against the Lord your
God, and had made you a molten
calf: ye had turned aside quickly
out of the way which the Lord had
commanded you.
II And l took the two tables,
and cast them out of my two hands,
and brake them before your eyes.
Is And fell down before the
Lord, as at the first, forty days and
forty nights: / did neither eat bread
nor drink water. because of all
your sins which ye sinned, in doing
wickedly in the sight of the Lord,
to provoke him to anger.
49, For I was afraid of the anger
and hot displeasure, wherewith the
Lord was wroth against you to de-
stroy you. But the Lord hearkened
unto me at that time also.
90 And the Lord was very angry
with Aaron to have destroyed him:
and L prayed for Aaron also the
the same time.
81 And 1 took your sin. the calf
which ye had made. and burnt IL
with fire, and stamped 1t, and
ground it very small, even until IL
was, as small as dust: and I cast the
dust thereof into the brook that
descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Mas
sab, and at Kibroth- -hattaavah, ye
provoked the Lord to wrath.
% Likewise when the Lord sent
you from Kadesh- -barnea, s8ing.
Go up and possess the land which l
have given you: then ye rebelled
against the commandment of the
Lord your God, and ye believed him
not, nor hearkened to his voice.
"a Ye have been rebeIlious
against the Lord from the day that
1 knew you.
25 Thus fell down before the
Lord forty days and forty nights,
as / fell down at the first; because
the Lord had said he would destroy
yoH.
26 prayed therefore unto the
Lord. and said, o Lord God. destroy
not thy people and thine inherit
ance, which thou hast redeemed
through thy greatness. which thou
hast brought forth out of Egypt
with a mighty hand.
81 Remember thy servants.
Abraham. Isaac. and Jacob: look
not unto the stubbornness of this
people, nor to their wickedness. nor
to their sin:
2s Lest the land whence thou
broughtest us out say. Because the
Lord was not able to bring them
into the land which he promised
them. and because he hated them.
he hath brought them out to glaS
them in the wilderness.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-22

slight labor catch in the plank OF
percentage of wages paid to the
crew has to be paid back into the
organization. Large profits are ex-
pected. but when / asked the Gus
tom-house Inspector who cleared the
ship at Quarantine Station what
ever would happen IL the association
ran into a financial loss he replied:
They said nothing to me about
that" -
lcopyrisht. 1879. By rasiic Ledger Col
The Washington herald., 1920-07-22
Work on Parliament Building.

Construction work on the new
Canadian parliament building, at
ottawa, suspended for several
months on account of the sitting
Of parliament. was resumed imme-
diately after the close Of the ses-
sion. 1t Is expected that the great
structure will be finished before
another session is held. Work on
the peace tower. which will be the
main tower of the building. will be-
Gin within q few weeks.