Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-04

by JuStlce CharleS Il. HugneS. EV'
cry thoughtful person in the country
almost was for it. Indeed, it was only
when it was seen that it would be put
through under the democratic admin
istration that so much opposition de-
veloped.
"The best thinkers and leaders are
for it now. Did you not read the list
of supporters given by Prof. Irving
Fisher, of Yale, in an article few
days ago? Here are some of them
ter to Belgium under Taft; Charles
Seymour, of Yale; Charles w. Elliott,
ex-president of Harvard; Henry c.
King, president of Oberlin college;
| Caroline Hazard, eX-president of We'll
| lesley; Mary f. Wooley, president of
Mount Holyoke; Rabbi Stephen H.
Wise, of New York. This list might
be extended further, for no question
of such Importance has come before
the American people since the mo-
mentous days when the Thirteen col
onieS decided to become Independent
of the mother country.
"Who compose the league? Thirty
seven nations and all the leading ones
of the world, except the central pow
ers, who are now taking necessary
steps to be admitted.
"Who are out of the league? Revo-
lutionary Mexico, Soviet Russia, un-
speakable Turkey and ourselves. If,
as the old proverb has it, "a man is
known by the company he keeps we
are in position to be ashamed OF
our crowd.
"There are published in Louisville
two papers by and for the negroes of
that city. In last weeks issue there
appeared this advertisement, well
written and well placed, and the same
in both in every particular. | quote
it in full: Register, colored men and
women. In the approaching brown
October days the slogan is to register
in states and cities where the regis
tration law prevails. A voter who
does not register is like a 14-inch gun
without ammunition. Get your names
on the books the first registration
days. If you hesitate your vote is
lost. In order that you may vote for
Harding and Colidge, and against
Cox and Acknowledgement, you must
register, and by so doing you draw
first blood from your ancient political
enemy, the democratic party. Be a
Good Samaritan. If your neighbor
iStration, remind him of it. If your
neighbor has journey from the south
seeking freedom, education and op-
portunity, tell him to register so he
can obtain these benefits by voting
for Harding and Coolidge. Be your
brothers keeper. Register or you
cannot vote
''lf such an appeal were in the pa
pers calling on the Chinese in Cali
fornia to register as Chinese, or the
MeXicans in Texas to register as
MeXicans, or the white people of
would it not be in every case the
wrong appeal? Would it not be pure
ly on racial lines? Does the writer
of that advertisement think that col
ored people have no intelligence; that
they are not able to judge of values
for themselves?
"No one should be appealed to by
reason of race or any accident of
birth, but by reason of the justice of
the cause for which his vote is
sought.
"There are 81 million reasons why
we should support the League of Ma
tiOns and the democratic party which
stands for it, and so preserve peace;
they are the honored and beloved
dead-the 81 million sons, brothers,
husbands and fathers who fought and
died on foreign fields to make an
end of war.
"A vote for Cox and Roosevelt is a
vote for the League of Nations
Mrs. Woodbury. said that of the
1900 registered republican votes in
Louisville, 1000 were white. She
said the republicans were claiming
they would register $4,000 vot.-s this
year, and that it was up to tn, white
women OF Louisville and of Kentucky
to meet that situation.
Mrs. Woodbury. declared that the
had no use for the ne
gro after the eelction. She said the
southern democrats were the real
friends of the negro. She warned the
white women that if they did not reg
ister and vote the old reconstruction
days of 1865 and 1877 might be again
experienced by the people of the
southern states.
In presenting Judge Davies, Judge
declared the mothers of
America were opposed to war. They
knew, he said, the horrors of war,
better even than themselves. He said
the mothers were in favor of a
League of Nations. So, he said, were
all the nations of the world except
Germany, Turkey, Mexico, the I'm
ted States, "Siam and Timbuctoo."
He announced that DR.. E. l.. Powell,
who refused to boost the proposed
trip of Kentucky ministers to Marion,
would speak at the court house on
Thursday night and would give his
reasons for refusing to boost that
trip. He then introduced Judge Da-
vies.
Judge Davies began by discussing
Governor Ed Morrow and his Timbuc-
too speech recently, and his Timbuc-
too followers in Kentucky for many
years. He said that Ed was an ora
tor and an orator "could not hold
down the facts" Judge Davies told
how Franklin d. Roosevelt showed
how ignorant Ed Morrow was of ge-
ography in his alleged Learned ref
erence to Siam and Timbuctoo" in his
discussion of the League of Nations.