Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-24

upon the white citizens of Tacoma who
had so honored him, not from a colored
Politician standpoint but in almost the
exact opposite. 1t will be noted that George
B. Lamping, candidate for governor, was
quoted at length and favorably editorially
commented thereon and, what more natural,
as Lamplng seems to be catering to the
Bolshevist voters Of this state for their
unanimous support. The editor of Cayton's
Weekly has in times gone by taken issue
with George B. Lamping because he, Lamp
ing, advocated, if not in so many words, in
principle, the segregation of the white and
colored citizens of this country. Prior to
his election as auditor Of King county, he
entered into gentleman s agreement with
the late j. b. Hawkins of Seattle, to the
effect, if you Hawkins will support my
candidacy for county auditor in the con.
vention l will name your niece Miss Ida
to clerkship in my Office that is if I am
nominated and elected. The agreement was
made in the presence Of other delegates and
Hawkins kept the agreement, but Lamping
refused, after he had taken the office, to
live up to the agreement and openly said
Il am opposed to colored girls working in
an office or any other place with white girls
and will not tolerate it, and to hell with any
alleged agreement that [ may have made'
The Times reporter has held up this can
didate as the only white or colored man,
who spoke at that banquet with any degree
of common sense. What sorry day for the
State Of Washington with a George B.
Lamping as it's chief executive
Now word for the Tacoma Daily Times
Reporter Field reflects the spirit of the
Times and the Times reflects the spirit of
the editor of the Times and the con-
glomerated mess Of Bolshevist cussedness
has no higher ambition than to say or do
something that will impede the travels Of
the colored people of this country to high
lived under as slaves or to make those
travels just as difficult and dangerous as
possible. In the same paper that the dele.
gates to that convention in Tacoma were
ridiculed and made sport of and that, too,
without either excuse or justification, ap-
peared under great black head lines an
account of the arrest Of Jack johnson.
Now he was the kind of colored man the
Tacoma Daily Times delights in talking
about-he is a criminal land colored Grim.
inals take the preferential place in it's
columns over anything else that comes to
the paper for publication. Some weeks ago
great flaming red head lines in the Tacoma
Daily Times told about three colored men
being lynched in Duluth, but just a few
days ago, four.line dispatch from Duluth
was found in an obscure corner of the
paper saying one Of the Negroes, who had
been lynched, was innocent according to the
verdict Of the coroner's jury. What a
travesty on justice, right and equality are
such publications.
10 see the name of a colOred man in the
columns of the daily press, it's a foregone con-
cusiOn that he is either accused of crime
or in some way connected with it. He can
do nothing to move the daily press to
favorably mention his name he is segre.
gated and designated and Inundated just
as much as possible until he feels that the
hope of becoming an acceptable citizen of
this country is next to impossible. If the God
above countenances such moderation, then
we hope to never see such Prince of Peace.