Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-25
LAWYER
RESENTS SLUR
MADE BY HOWE
Black BOlshevistS' Utterance
by News-Jewett Man Is
Decried.
DENIES RACE CORRUPT

W. E. Henderson, a well-knOwn col
ored attorney. takes Mr.. Thomas c.
Howe, former president Of Butler Col
lege, and News-Jewett candidate for the
Republican mayoralty nomination, to
task for his alleged utterances about the
.Black Bolchevist" The following let
ID ter on the subject has been issued By Mr..
Henderson:
THE following appears under the pic
ture of Thomas c. Howe in the In
dianapolis Recorder, a colored newspaper,
which is supposed to go into the home of
every negro in the city Of Indianapolis,
: after describing one type Of Bolshevist,
/. he describes a second class as follows ::
The other type is a black BOlshevist,
who though born in America is especially
guilty, for he has left the South to es-
cape race hatred and persecution and here
in our midst mistakes liberty and OPP
portunity as being license and power.
His mouth is his only asset and almost
without exception can be traced to his
mouthings, racial disorders and riots.
Citizenship everywhere means duty and
obligation and this Black Bolshevist
must learn to lift as he climbs to ad-
vance and construct not retard and tear
down.
1--WE desire publicly to resent this
cowardly attack on those Of US who
came from the South to escape mob rule
and Illegal disfranchisement. When I
came to this city in 1898 I found lead
ing northern negroes standing round the
polls with a roll Of bills in their pockets
big enough to choke a COW. Men were
sitting around on the street corners and
on the fence waiting TO be seen before
~srrh+ Of
the ballot, while cOlored men of the
South were sacrificing their lives for an
opportunity to use the sacred right of
the ballot Fraud and corruption ran
riot and for twenty-five years in every
campaign We denounced in unmeasured
terms this lawless practice and its shame
and disgrace upon a people who were
given freely the use Of the ballot, and
even advocated the disfranchisement Of
that class of citizens who would stoop
SO low as TO sell their vote, in order to
purify the ballot. We want to remind
Mr.. Howe and those who speak for him
that the wealth of the negroes of the
North is in the hands Of the negroes
from the South who came North less
than thirty years ago and that such ac
emulation was not had or obtained
through the violation Of law. If de-
nouncing a corrupt ballot. If claiming
ton Of the State and United States is
preaching Bolshevistic doctrines then We
plead guilty. Again. If denOuncing star
chamber proceedings and the rule Of a
coterie of unprincipled politicians who
seek to prey upon the innocent voter,
then we plead guilty. If, by chance, Mr..
Howe is nominated at the primary, which
is very doubtful. we know that IL will
be quite embarrassing for him TO have
g, o=H- F1w h. - - II.
which he and his friends now insult We
know that there has been an influx in
the last five years Of colored people from
the South into all OF our northern cities
and I venture to say that If we should
Judge other cities by Indianapolis, 70
per cent Of them came here with money
that they had sold their holdings in the
South for and invested IN homes in
Indianapolis and other northern cities,