The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1923-03-24

rapidly approach the great army Of
men and women voters residing in
this city and each day everything
seems to plainly indicate that many
colored men and women residing in
all parts of this city will vote for Hon.
William E. Dever for mayor Of this
wonderful city Within the past week
Judge Dever has with much pleasure
freely mingled with thousands of col
ored men and women in all parts of
this city and they have hailed him as
the second Mayor William Hale
Thompson, former Mayors Edward
F. Dunno and Carter H. Harrison
combined and to come right down to
it, the vast majority Of the coIored
people living in this city feel that their
best interest would be perfectly safe
in the hands of Judge Dever if he
should become the next Mayor Of
this city.
AS stated in these columns many
times before for more than sixteen
years that Judge Dever has been
regular subscriber to this newspaper,
which finds its way once each week
into his home at 5oO1 Kenmore ave-,
where it is read by his splendid and
good wife, Mrs. Dever and by the
other members of the family. This
simply tends to prove that Judge and
Mrs. Dever, whom the writer has had
the pleasure Of meeting are not mar
row minded and chuck full Of race
prejudice and that they are greatly
interested in the welfare of the colored
race.
In 1902, Col. James Hale Porter and
other associates held the Mississippi
Valley Exposition at the First Regi-
ment Armory in this city. 1t was the
first exposition held among the colored
people in this section of the country
and on Chicago Night" Mayor Car
ter H. Harrison was unable to be
present so he selected Alderman Viii
liam E. Dever, who was a member of
the city council from the old 18th
Ward at that time to represent his
Hon. Mayor Carter HI. Harrison and
the city of Chicago on that occasion
and Alderman Dever made common
sense and good old fashioned talk to
the colored people and to the large
number Of white persons who were
present. Alderman DeveF at that time
did not attempt. to tell any funny
stories at the expense of either race,
but at considerable length he dwelt on
the remarkable and steady progress
that has been made BY the colored race
since it emerged from the house of
bondage; that no one was any prouder
Of that self-evident fact than what he
was: that he was ushered into this
grand old world down in Massachu-
setts, where the people did not spend
all of the valuable time in talking
about social equality and race preiu-
dice that Chicago, the Queen City Of
America, stood with open hands and
with outstreached arms to welcome
the peaceable and law-abiding coIored
people within her gates where their
children can freely drink in their edu-
cation III her public schools on the
same terms or footing with the chill
dren Of other races; where they can
freely become a part and parcel Of this
liberal-minded and progressive com-l
munity.
Thus spoke Judge Dever il reIs-
ton to the colored people more than
twenty. years ago, long before he
started to run for mayor Of Chicago.
AS stated above, Hon Martin p.
Hull, Republican candidate for Con-
gress from the Second Congressional
District Of Illinois, and Hon. Arthur