The log cabin Democrat., 1920-09-20
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 speeches in the north for the Demo- cratic national ticket, the Log Cabin Democrat has received a copy of the Pioneer, negro paper published at Toledo, O., which contains some inter- esting though disgusting information about the aspirations of northern ne- groes in the Ohio campaign and in the election of Senator Harding as president.
 It appears from the Pioneer, which prints the word colored with a capital "C' and the word white with lower case 'w'' that the negroes of Ohio, assisted by certain white Republicans, are backing measure in the Ohio legislature known as the Beatty bill, which provides heavy penalties for discriminating against negroes in ho tels, boarding houses, barbershors, theatres, schools, hospitals and various other public places. Six negroes are candidates for the legislature and the paper urges that the race get behind them and elect them, asserting that the six negroes may hold the balance of the power in the assembly and | force the passage of duplicate of the Beatty bill, which was passed, by the Ono house but was defeated by the senate.
 ''The Beatty bill had teeth in it." says the negro paper, land the penal ties which it would have imposed upon those who discriminated against col ored people seeking admission to ho- tels, theatres, places of public resort and amusement, ice cream parlors, l bathhouses, barbershops, public librar- ies, hospitals billiard and pool rooms, schools, colleges and universities, pie ture shows and often times public con veyances on land or water, would soon have put a stop to this injustice to the colored people.
 This civil recognition must come. It is right conferred upon us by consti- tutional law. Gods law makes no dis criminations between white and blacks They are all his children. He looks into their hearts, minds and souls. The wages of sin is death. The penal ty is visited upon white and black alike. People cannot violate his law and escape. The laws of man should be made to command the same respect through their rigid enforcement.
 "We believe that if the colored men who are candidates for legislative hon. ! oln lot @o, the negro race will be remedied. We will not only have the benefit of their help, but back of them will stand Har- ry L. Davis, candidate for governor, and former mayor of the city of Cleve- land, who has always been the loyal and true friend of the colored people. He will be our friend still. He cannot / make any prediction promises, but what is in his heart will be written into law if he is supported by legis- lature in sympathy with him.
 More than that, we will have the moral support of our candidate for the presidency, Senator Warren G. Hard ing. In his speech of acceptance at Marion when he was notified of his , nomination, he spoke out unqualifiedly in favor of the rights of the colored people. He said:
 "I believe the negro citizens of America should be guaranteed the full enjoyment of all their rights, that they have earned the full measure of citizenship bestowed, that their sacri- fees in blood on the battlefields of the republic have entitled them to all free dom and opportunity, all of the sym pathy and aid that the American spir- 1t of fairness and justice demand.'
 His words are an eloquent endorse ment of the spirit and letter of the Beatty bill, the purpose of which was to insure to the colored people their rights by imposing heavy penalties upon those who would deny them these rights. In other words, they would have the right to choose the hotel at which they might stop, the theatre which they might attend, or the place of amusement or recreation to which they might go, with no questions asked or no insults offered. The Beatty bill provided penalties of $10O to $500 fine, and thirty to ninety days imprison- ment, or both, within the discretion of the court.
 "The enactment of such a law by the Ohio general assembly, and it's rigid enforcement, would have the effect [ n. I pie intA the full enjoyment of all their rights, which Senator Harding says the American spirit of fairness and justice demands With six of our own race in the legislature, backed as they would be hy Governor Davis, and with the moral influence of the coming national administration of Warren C.. Harding, We do not see how we could fail to put over measure similar to