The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-03
The Week
Home. Sweet Home.
Too Much Lip.
News of New York.
coolidge's Havana Speech
New Lincoln Shrine"
Read The Week and Get a
College Education
ROSCOE SIMMONS
Home. Sweet Home

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After an absence of 68 years the
Democrats return home. Years ago
that party put down jefferson anC
took up Jackson as patron saint
"Welcome home" will be displayed
from a thousand Houston buildings
June 26 when the prodigals march
in.
A month ago when r. B.. Creagel
nominated San Antonio as the 1925
convention of the G. o. p, the Re.
publican national committee wanted
to know why throw away so much
time. Not so with the Democratic
national committee. "Be it ever so
humble" they felt like singing when
Houston was put up, "there is no
place like home" H
The Democrats met in Charleston
in 1860, had free-for-all, broke up
and met in sections of Richmond,
and Baltimore. Three candidates APP
peared, Douglass of Illinois, Breck-
enridge of Kentucky and Bell of Ten
nessee. Date secession from the
Charleston convention.
If the Houston convention breaks
up, don't be surprised. The Demo-
Gratis are turned around. In 1860 the
South wanted slavery. Northern
Democrats weren't sure what they
wanted, but they didn't want slavery.
In 1928 the North wants whisky.
Southern Democrats are not sure
that they don't want whisky, but
they don't want church members to
see them in the saloon.
The Houston convention will meet
in the CITY Auditorium. This beau
tiful structure is situated in the heart
of NEGRO" enterprise, business
wealth, great buildings. This humble
writer has spoken in that building
several times; has seen hundreds un-
able to get in to hear him, although
the seating capacity is around 1000.
Although few and far between,
Negro Democrats migt be able TO
have the Jim Crow car on street and
rail done away with in Texas, since
the party of "specia privileges to
none" will want all its adherents to
feel at home in Texas.
Keep in mind that Texas white
people are. brcye, gan'ss - cock,
fair, highly Intelligent and parade
race "pre iudice'' only when putting
on airs. They are as liable to do one
thing as another.
Colored Texans are used to sitting
down by their white people. Colored
Democrats from New York may feel
all right about going to Houston.
Eminent colored men, all Republic
ans, men like J. B. Grigsby, c. F.
Richardson, John Ryan, N. Dudley
and so on, will make their stay pleas
ant and, maybe, run them down to
Galveston, so miles away, and so
they can see the freest, cleanest city
in the L. S. A. Give the devil his due.
Read all about the Democrats and
THEN do your duty.
Too Much Lip
Young men, there is a lesson for
you in the trade that sent Hornsby,
the Texan, from the Giants to the
Braves. AS soon as the change was
announced the Hot Stove League said
first one thing, then another. MUIR
der will out and few secrets are hid
in this world.
The public talked so much about
Mr.. Hornsby, who along with Walter
johnson, the Babe, Speaker, Alexan-
der and Mr.. Cobb of Georgia, in on
page one of the book of fame, that
somebody could talk intelligently had
to say something.
Coming from Texas, Mr.. Hornsby
was nurtured at the breast of indi-
Even in the world of sport
you can tell where a man is bred. In
the North young men know team
work, ere trained to respect author
ity, talk as little as possible, wait
their turn, take orders and say moth
ing; "wait and murmur not"
In the South young men are en-
couraged to assert themselves, speak
out when offended or when they
think they are offended, use often
and We seldom, give blow for blow
and split hairs with those above them.
In sport or in business, in politics
and in the world of general achieve
ment, you see how both customs
work.
The South is in the minor league,
not only in baseball but in all work
and rewards. The North is in the
ms Tor league, has two major leagues
in baseball, controls ALL the money,
carries on the government and tells
the South what to do in time of
floods and storms. "rescues the per-
ishing, cares for the dying"
"Mr. Hornsby talked too much"
said the secretary of the Giants. thus
settling the matter. Like Mr.. Horns
by YOU also talk great deal. II
you are a fisherman. bait your own
hook. Else fish further down the
stream.