The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-03-19

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4. Franco-American Journalism.
White Mems Primaries:
They were happy and did laugh,
When their friend, the big giraffe,
Said he'd take them to the city in a
tandem;
But their joy was turned to grief,
When their charger bit leaf,
Never thinking how suddenly he'd
land EN-"
-(Mother Goose)
The skeleton in the democratic cleo
ton closet of the south is rafting so
loudly that it is being heard the coun-
try over. Just one week ago Senator
Stephens, Of Mississippi, exclaimed, in.
burst Of oratory; I'm Mississippi,
we Democrats say that we do not
want anybody to belong to the Demo
cratic party down there unless they are
White Men Please note that he was
even discriminating against white
women)-and | say we have the right,
no matter how you may view it,
whether from a moral or legal stand
point, or otherwise, to select our own
companions"
Prior to this open confession, the
Lone Star State Of Texas, a prototype
of Mississippi, had been taken to task
in the courts by courageous Negro,
DR.. L. A. Nixon, because its statute
book contained in legal language, the
same pernicious sentiments which Sen
ator Stephens SO blandly set forth.
Alas, however, woe and travail have
beset Dixieland; for, in unanimous
opinion, the United States Supreme
Court has declared void and unconsti-
tutiona1 the law unfolding white mems
primaries and denying to Negroes the
privilege of the ballot.
Said the Court: Estates may do a
good deal Of classifying that it is diff
cult to believe rational, but there are
limits; and it is too clear for extended
argument that color cannot be made
the basis of a statutory classification
affecting the right set up in this case. "
Considering the Fourteenth Amend
ment, the Court said, further: "The
Fourteenth Amendment-not only gave
citizenship and the privilege of citizen
ship to persons Of color; but it denied
to any state the power to withhold
from them the equal protection of the
laws. What is this but declaring that
the law in the states shall be the same
for the black as for the white, that all
persons. whether colored or white shall
stand equal before the laws Of the
states; and, in regard to the colored
race, for whose protection the amend
ment was primarily designed, that no
Discrimination Shall Be Made Against
Them by Law Because of Their
Color"
To all Of which, we say Amen, with
the admonition that DR.. Nixon and all
the eligible voting content of the Race
seek the primary polls from now on,
with sprightly step. Bargain with the
candidates and though they be of the
south exact from them prediction
promises satisfactory to the struggling
race; and if they refuse to yield, defeat
them in the primaries. Follow Senator
Stephens advice, when lie said on
March 2, regarding Negroes: "Nomi-
nate your candidates; you can have the
same machinery that the white people
of Mississippi have; go to it; nominate
Your men; let their names be on the
ballots, and be voted for at the general
election"
Hon. Samuel insult, Benefactor
'The quality Of mercy is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that
tales
-(Shakespeare.)
In deep gratitude, we bow to the
grace and mercy of Hon. Samuel In
.sull. president Of the Commonwealth
Edison Company, Of Chicago, who
pauses time and time again from the
obligations Of his prolific business to
law his benefcent hand upon the brow
of struggling Negroes, both individu-
aliy and collectively. The generous
6nancier and benefactor seems ever to
have the happy faculty Of extending
the helping hand where it is most