Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-12-04

purpose of listening to the report of a
committee, which had been directed by
the Club to interview the candidates
seeking the election Of port commissioner
to be voted for today was we'll attended
and after listening to the report with but
one dissenting vote, the Club endorsed
the candidacy Of Thomas S. Lippy for
port commissioner. Mr. Lippy's past
record showed nothing but fair treat.
ment toward the colored citizens with
whom he had been thrown in contact
for the past thirty years in and about Sc.
attic, while that Of Lamping's, his op-
ponent, showed the exact opposite. Mr..
Lippy graciously received the committee
and frankly and forcefully discussed his
attitude toward the colored citizens and
eXpresstd a desire to meet the entire
Club and fully explain his attitude to-
ward the colered citizens in general. On
the other hand, Mr.. Lamping refused to
even receive the committee, or he made
an engagement with it, but did not keep
it and as yet has offered no excuse for
not having done so. It has been said
that the colered men working at the
port commission docks have been dis
eliminated against in such way that
they got all Of the heavy work and for
which they got the least remuneration.
Without either affirming or denying the
charges, yea, for the sake of argument.
admitting the charge, then that particu-
lar branch of the duties of the port com.
mission was assigned to DR.. w. P. Chris
Hanson, and in the present contest he is
supporting the candidacy of George B.
Lamping, and the presumption is, if
Lamping is elected he and DR.. Christian
son will see to it that not colored man
is given employment at the port COM
mission. Even if Mr.. Lippy used the Ian
guage that the Daily Star has said he
did, at that he should be hundred per
cent more preferable to the colered cit-
zens of Seattle than is George B. Lamp
ing, who boosted Of *having shot little
niggers out Of the cocoanut Trees when
he was soldier in the Philippine Islands,
and who publicly said he would never
give a colored person employment in an
office where white persons were employed
the despicable Vardeman Of Mississippi
himself should be more preferable to the
colored citizens than George B. Lamping
But in a campaign did any one ever read
anything but lies in the Daily Star. Dc
you remember how it lied about Senator
Wesley Lorimer-Lusitana Jones truth
itself can't be believed from one who often
has deceived" But hear the conclusion of
the whole matter, those Of us who have had
personal interviews with Tom Lippy are
thoroughly convinced that the Seattle Daily
Star has lied about him just as it did about
Senator Wesley L. Jones and those of us
who have had interviews with Mr. Lippy
are thoroughly convinced that Tom Lippy
will in the future try to remedy any abuses
that may have been saddled upon the color.
ed citizens in the way Of getting employ.
ment at the port Of Seattle. Lamping be.
longs to that particular class Of the white
citizens of this country who preach "this
is white mans country" and want none
other but white folks to get a square deal
while Lippy preaches I know this is a
white mans country, but even white men
should be broad gagged enough to give dark