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Vol. xvn.
CHICAGO, AUGUST 17, 1912
No. 46
Birds Eye View of The
Eighth Regiment Illi
nois National Guard
IN CAMP AT CAMP LINCOLN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.
JULIUS F. TAYLOR, SPECIAL WAS CORRESPONDENT, THE GUEST OF
COL. JOHN B, MARSHALL AND HIS STAFF.
EE7. JORDAN CHAVIS CHAPLAIN OF THE REGIMENT, TTTTT.Tt reLIQ.
IOUS SERVICES IN THE CAMP ON SUNDAY MORNING: WHICH "WERE
ATTENDED BY MANY WHITE CITIZENS.
BETWEEN SEVEN AND NINE THOUSAND PEOPLE WITNESSED THE
GUARD MOUNT, DRESS PARADE AND THE GRAND REVIEW SUNDAY
AFTERNOON; MANY OF THEM BEING WHITE WHO REMAINED TO
THE BAND CONCERT IN THE EVENING.
FRIDAY WAS GOVRNOR'S DAY AND GOVERNOR CHARLES S..DENEEN
AND STAFF TROOPED THE LINE AND CLOSELY EYED THE DRESS
PARADE AND THE GRAND REVIEW AFTER WHICH HE TTTnvn a BE
CEPTION AT HIS HEAD QUARTERS ON THE GROUNDS.
COL. JOHN R. MARSHALL PRESENTED ttth OFFICERS AND GUESTS TO
THE GOVERNOR.
THE REGIMENT BROKE CAMP THIS MORNING AND WILL ARRIVE
HOME THIS EVENING.
Last Friday evening, in the hard
dotrapouring rain, the members of the
Eighth Regiment Illinois National
Guard residing in Chicago marched to
tie Chicago and Alton depot, and
promptly at 10:45 the train pulled out
for Camp Lincoln,. Springfield, HL
Taking all in all it was a jolly crowd
of soldiers and officers, Lieut-Col. James
H. Johnson was in command, CoL
John S. Marshall, owing to illness, was
for the -very first time in fifteen years
enable to leave home with the regi
cent, he and Mrs. Marshall not arriv
ing in camp until Sunday afternoon,
a tourist car on the long train con
taming three hundred and sixty men
was provided for the staff and field
officers and the writer as the special
Tar correspondent established his
headquarters in the tourist ear with the
officers, after traversing the train from
end to end it was our pleasant duty
to report to Col. Johnson and to Cap
tain and Adjutant Louis B. Anderson
that the best of order prevailed among
the rank and file of the men, that they
irere all glad to start on 'their tour of
encampment. Not long after getting
our first report in ahape and just be
fore turning into our berth, near onto
12 o'clock, for the night, Captain B. J.
Pinknev insisted that we must and
should join him in eating fried chicken,
stuffed eggs, nice home-made rolls and
other fine eatings which bad been so
temptingly prepared for him by his
good wife, Mrs. Pinkney, and we had
scarcely finished thT""g and prais
ing Captain Pinkney for so generously
glaring his elegant luncheon with us,
before Captain Louis B. Anderson, who
is ably proving himself to be the very
best adjutant that the Eighth Begi
fient has ever had, and "who is by all
odds the hardest working officer in the
Regiment, for he ranks -next to
CoL Marshall in importance in the
regiment, and he is truly the right man
tne right place, invited us to assist
bin to lay awuy Mine of the fried
elicken and other nice eatables which
bad been cooked and .put up by the
Pride and joy of his heart, lis loving
ife, Mrs. Anderson. After cheerfully
and heartily complying with his request
e retired for the night, feeling as
e as a fiddle. .
Promptly at tmtf past five o'clock
on Saturday morning orrery one on the
tPial train was astir and on emerging
from our berth to beheld Major AUen
- "Wesley sitting in his seat with a
6 mi of fried eMcVMi in lis lap,
& he insisted that we should do our
& in helping him to get it out of
fcght and there was no way on earth
for us to refuse, to brush or wave his
est aside; it was true that it was
Ty early in the morning for us to do
y eating, but after all we managed
j do justice to his mighty or powerful
5116 luncheon.
Shortly after lalf past six o'clock
a, in the morning before rlentioaed
e train arrived at Bloomington,
fcere one company -belonging to the
regiment boarded, ihe train, whiea ar
rived at Springfield at seven forty;
then, after embarking from the train,
the soldiers wended their way on the
street cars to Camp Lincoln, which is
in every way one of the most beauti
ful camps in this country; nature has
well -supplied it with many tall and
majestic trees which furnish plenty of
shade in every direction. The campus
or the reviewing ground is almost as
smooth as a large plate of glass and
it is roomy enongh to accommodate six
or seven thousand soldiers at one time,
and they can easily march and counter
march without running or bumping
into each other.
It was ten o'clock before the regi
ment, headed by the far famed Eighth
Regiment Band under its able leader,
Captain William E. Berry, entered the
campt; this delay was caused by the
Fifth Regiment not being able to vacate
the camp until that hour. Notwith
standing this long delay, at 20:45
"mess call" was sounded and as the
special war correspondent we occupied
our same old seat in the officers' tent,
right by the side of Captain John L.
Iry, whose duty it is to look after the
eating for the officers and special guests
of the regiment.
Breakfast being over it did not take
long before everything in connection
with the camp was in working order
and by noon all the officers and men
.had finished' setting up housekeeping in
their various tents for one week; our
tent was directly to the north of CoL
Marshall's headquarters and our outfit
consisted of a tent, a cot with a straw
tick on it two chairs, one small writ
ing table, a plain board floor minus of
any covering, and we never slept bet
ter in our life than we did in our tent
at Camp Lincoln. Bach morning at 5
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And His Hostile At
titude Towards
The Afro-Americans
HE FAVORS HOODWINKING AND CATERING TO THEM IN THE NORTH
ERN STATES WHERE THKIR VOTES COUNT FOR SOMETHING.
PAUL A. HAZARD.
Valuahla Member of the Board of Trustees oV'the Sanitary District, who Is
more than likely to run for President of the Board 2 Years Hence.
o'clock we would spring out of our
bed at the first call for reveille and
each morning answered present at the
"mess call" at six o'clock.
No active work on the part of the
regiment was begun until 3:30 in the
afternoon; by that time the remaining
companies of the regiment from Jack
sonville, Quincy, Peoria, Springfield and
metropolis had arrived at the camp,
and the first orders of the day were
issued by CoL Johnson for the guard
mount, Co. P.? Captain T. D. Arnett
in command had the right of way and
his company "being well drilled it made
a fine showing on the field in going
through their various military move
ments in the best of order nd in ac
cordance with the highest tetiea gov
erning guard mounting.
At five fifteen that same evening the
dress parade and review was on in full
force, and after the drilling, marching
and counter maTching and other ma
neuvers had been critically inspected
by Major Muer of the regular United
States army who has been stationed at
Camp Lincoln during the encampment
at the other-six or seven Tegiments
who had preceded the Eighth in camp,
.a after the rerfwmt tad been dis
banded, Major AUen Ai TTesleyi Csp-i
tain J. B. White and Captain J. H.
Sheppord Post, sanitary officer, lec
tured to the First, Second and Third
battalions respectively on sanitation,
and their talks along that line were
highly instructive and each and every
word uttered by them were eagerly
drank in not only by the soldiers, but
also by the many citizens who had as
sembled on the grounds to witness the
dress parade and the review.
Mrs. James S. Nelson, Mrs. Wm. T.
Jefferson, Mrs. Robert B. Jackson and
Mrs. Samuel R. McGowan, a recent
bride, were among the first ladies from
Chicago to arrive at the camp on Satur
day afternoon. Airs. Aicuowan is as
pretty as she can be; she is full of life
and with her very winsome smile and
fascinating manners she creates a fine
impression at all times and makes fast
friends among those who have the
pleasure of coming in contact with her.
She comes from one of the best and
oldest families in New Orleans, La.,
and it is freely predicted that she will
soon become a favorite among the
ladies of the Eighth Regiment.
Later on, on Saturday evening, Lieut.
Dr. Leonard W. Lewis and his bride
walked into camp. On the following
Thursday Miss Laura Smith at her
home in Lexington, Ky., was united in
marriage to Dr. Lewis, and shortly
after the weddingthey made a bee line
for Camp Lincoln to enable him to join
the regiment in camp. Mrs. Lewis,
who visited friends in Chicago several
years ago and was received with open
arms by its best people, who was pop
ular with the smart set in her home
town, 12 very beautiful and she is just
as pleasant and as charming as she
can be. It fell to our lot to introduce
and escort her around the camp on
Saturday evening, and we feel proud
to have the honor of numbering her
among our many lady friends.
It is thusly seen that the gallant
Eighth had the distinguished honor of
having two lovely brides in camp at
the same time.
Promptly at 10.30 p. m. the electric
lights were extinguished and the camp
settled down into darkness for tne
night.
Not long after ve o'clock on Ban
dar morning, which was bright and
"clear, after the rain on Saturday and
the heavy overhanging clouds waicn
prevented the sun from shining forth
in all its brightness on the following
day, we indulged in a nice cold shower
bath which caused us to feel like unto
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The first to arrive on Sunday from
Chicago were Col. and Mrs. John B.
Marshall and Mrs. Louis B. Anderson
and her daughter, Miss Jessica Ander
son, and CoL Marshall, who still looked
rather pale from the effect of his ill
ness, and his party were welcomed to
the camp with much joy by his officers
and men and all afternoon he was
kept busy in shaking hands with them
and with the many White and Colored
citizens who expressed their pleasure
over the fact that he was able to join
his regiment in camp. Captain Louis
B. Anderson accompanied CoL Marshall
and party to the camp from the Chi
cago and Alton depot.
Sunday morning at 10:30 the Sunday
church call was sounded and in an in
stant the band was heard in a distance,
and as it approached nearer and nearer
it struck up that good old song, "On
ward Christian Soldiers," and the mem
bers of the regiment, two abreast,
marched in a most orderly and quiet
manner towards the large pavilion
where the concerts are held in the
evenings by the bands of the various
regiments who camp there during the
summer months and onto the grass in
the shade they seated themselves; then
the band very softly started in to play
"Sweet Hour of Prayer." At its con
clusion Rev. Jordan Chavis, chaplain of
the Eighth, stepped forward and offered
up a powerfully fine prayer; another
selection by the band, then he opened
his Bible and read the 33rd Psalm and
selected the 12th verse thereof for his
morning text: "Christian Patriotism
was the subject of his discourse; he
exclaimed "Blessed is a nation who
has for its God Jehovah." He urged
upon his hearers to lead honest, clean
and upright lives, to refrain from using
all kinds of bad language; he pleaded
with them to conduct themselves like
manly men while in camp so as not to
bring any disgrace upon themselves nor
the regiment audits officers. He preached
in a strong and dear voice and each
word spoken by him could be distinctly
heard by those sitting far and near to
him. In winding up his eloquent and
sensible discourse the band sweetiy and
very softly rendered "What a Friend
we have in Jesus." Many White citi
zens in 'their fln autos and carnages
attended the Sunday morning services.
Between seven and nine thousand
people visited the camp Sunday after
noon so as to be present at the guard
mounting; the dress parade.
The grand review and the band eon-
cert in the evening, many of tnem
coming from St. Louis, Ma, Peoria,
Bloomington, Jacksonville, Quincy and
IN THE SOUTHERN STATES HE HAS NO USE FOR THE NEGRO, HE FAV
ORS IN THAT SECTION OF THE COUNTRY HIS DISFRANCHISEMENT
AND THE REPEAL OF THE 1STH, 14TH AND 15TH AMENDMENTS TO
THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS.
HD3 FINER SENSTBTLTTIES PERTAINING TO THE WRONGS AND IN
JUSTICE HEAPED UPON THE AFRO-AMERICAN ATfR DEAD BEYOND
RESURRECTION.
HE HAS ABSOLUTELY GONE MAD OR INSANE IN HIS THIRST FOR
POLITICAL POWER AND HE IS WILLING TO TRAMPLE UNDER FEET
EVERYTHING THAT IS RIGHT AND JUST IN ORDER TO ATTAIN
IT.
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Mr. Boosevelt had his way in Chi
cago. Despite the protests of Jane
Addams and many others, tho party of
"progress," which bases its hopes for
success on its programme of social jus
tice, committed the injustice of throw
ing out the Negro delegates from the
South, declaring for a "lily-white" pol
icy there, and adopted its platform
without a single reference of any kind
to the Colored man. The terrible in
justice done him the country over; the
denial of civic and political rights guar
anteed to him; his practically complete
disfranchisement in the South all of
these things were forgotten because the
apostle of justice himself hopes, with
What Jane Addams herself called
"statesmanlike (!) policy," to break
up the Solid South. So the Negroes,
even those who worked for Roosevelt
in the Taft Convention, were flung
aside just as he would fling aside any
body or set of men when it served his
purpose to do so. The Jews, them
selves, to whom he has toadied and
whom he has flattered by high appoint
ments, he would discard as readily as
he has Mr. Taft, Mr. Root, and his
other tried friends and Cabinet asso
ciates, should there be political profit
to be gained by taking an anti-Semitic
position. If there is any one group
of men and women in this country suf
fering from oppression, it is the Col
ored people; but the party of social
justice is to think only of wrongs done
to whitest
Undoubtedly, Mr. Roosevelt is certain
I that before the campaign is far along
he will win back the disaffected Ne
groes. He has beyond question achiev
ed what seemed the impossible in re
gaining the affections of many dis
gruntled whites in the South after the
Booker Washington luncheon, and of
the Negroes after the Brownsville epi
sode. His friends wifl not hesitate to
use money in his behalf and the Negro
himself, slow to anger and easy-going,
may recaU those many handsome ac
tions of Boosevelt in the White House,
and those manly and just letters on the
Negro question, the hypocrisy of which
he has now so clearly demonstrated.
Perhaps, the Negro wfll be fooled again
as he has been so many times before.
Yet- we cannot think this so likely this
time; for there is increasing inde
pendence of thought among the educat
ed Colored people and a growing real
ization of their latent political power.
As Mr. Andrew B. Humphrey pointed
out the other day, 600,000 Negroes in
twenty-two States may elect the next
President. They would, if they could
but stand together, if they had but the
group-consciousness and solidarity so
marked among others in our cosmopoli
tan population.
It is unnecessary to say that if they
bad this political eohesiveness, Mr.
Boosevelt would prefer their rotes to
those of the Southerners who, he hopes,
wfll give him the electoral rote of
North Carolina, or Georgia, or Alftbama.
But he knows that it is almost impos
sible to trace a single political outcome,
even in Ohio, to the Colored voters as a
whole. He himself, as Republican
President and also as delegate to one
Republican Convention after the other
sinee lBSi, helped to fool the Negroes
with solemn promises about the en
forcement of the Fourteenth and Fif
teenth Amendments, which were cav
alierly disregarded after the votes were
in. Like his Republican associates, he
has pulled the wool over their eyes so
often as to feel certain of his ability to
do it again, and the chances are in his
favor. Yet year by year independence
does grow among the Colored voters.
If many vote for Boosevelt this year,
it wTU help to break that tie with the
Republican party which has kept the
bulk of the Negroes in thraldom to it.
By so much more will the habit of in
dependent voting be established; while
those among them who have seen
through Boosevelt at last, will thereby
be rendered the less likely to worship
false gods hereafter. That Mr. Boose
velt did not see fit to placate the race
by one of those platitudinous expres
sions of sympathy that leave a grate
ful feeling with those whom it is 'in
tended to help, yet butter no parsnips,
is a genuine surprise. He seems to
have lost some of his political skOL
That the whole episode win embitter
the unhappy lot of the Negroes of the
country, let no one doubt. It is difficult
for those who are enfranchised and so
cially free to realize how terrible the
burden this race bears; how staggering
the handicaps, and how helpless it is
without the ballot to rectify its wrongs.
Two recent happenings in the South
are especially ominous. Our readers
wfll recall how Mr. Boosevelt and the
leading white men of the South have
applauded Booker Washington's advice
to the Negro to acquire property, to be
industrious and law-abiding as the true,
way to racial and civic happiness. WeU,
in Mooresvffle, N. ft, a self-respecting
Colored carpenter bought real estate
some years ago in a decent section of
tiie city; when he began to buQd his
own home on it this spring tho City
Council passed an ordinance forbidding
it. In Greensville, N. GL, two brothers
were prevented by a segregation ordi
nance from purchasing a $65,000 piece
of property they had contracted for.
The representatives of Anglo-Saxon cul
ture who owned the property refused
to return the $150 paid for the purchase-option
on the ground that the
brothers had broken their contract!
In Georgia, last June, Anne Bostwiek,
a Colored woman who had been pre
viously declared insane, killed the white
woman who employed her. She was
shot to death by a mob of white men,
defenders of Anglo-Saxon superiority.
It is, of course, impossible for the Col
ored population to hold the officials re-
sponsible or to participate in the elec
tion of others who win uphold them in
their constitutional rights as to the
owning of property or guarantee them
the protection of the law when accused
of crime. They are helpless and hope
less, for they are without remedy. And
the Progressive party, according to its
leader, says that, because there have
been renal Negro delegates at Repub
lican conventions in the past (by whose
votes he has hitherto been only too
glad to profit), this oppressed race shall
have no representatives in the party of
social justice! A distinguished Bus
sian professor, recently visiting in this
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