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CAYTON'S WEEKLY PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. .Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 3579 Office 317 22nd Aye. South LOOKING FOR JOBS (The New York Age) Washington, I>. C. —Already the lily whites, assisted by their Democratic allies, are trying to create the impression that the incomnig Republican Administration will ignore the claims for recognition of faithful Negro supporters of the party. Propaganda in the shape of special articles in southern papers is being attempted, based on what is alleged to be confidential information re ceived by southern lily-white leaders from National Committee Chairman Hays and other national leaders. The baldness of the movement is clearly indicated by the manner of procedure. One outbreak came from Birmingham, Ala., where the Alabama Republican Club is fostered by the lily-whites. The secretary of this club claims to have received instructions to the effect that the white element of Alabama republicanism as incorporated in the member ship of the club will control the distribution of federal patronage in that state. Leading men of the Republican party who are now in Washington for the closing ses sion of the Sixty-sixth Congress declare that such statements and allegations as are made by the Alabama lily-whites are absolutely without foundation. Men who are in close touch with chairman Hays and President elect Harding, say the alleged instructions are ridiculous. Especially chimercial and ludicrous is the statement attributed to one Rea, secretary of the Birmingham club, which sets forth that the Xatoinal Com mittee had already appropriated a sum of money to be used exclusively in the South for the upbuilding of a white man's Re publican party. Chairman Will H. Hays has not been seen concerning this matter, but attention has been directed to the numerous occasions on which he had made his attitude plain as to the rights and recognition due to Negro Re publicans. President elect Harding, just re turning to the United States from his va cation trip to Panama, has not had the mat ter called to his attention. But past utter ances show that such a method of procedure is entirely foreign to him. Leading Negro Republicans here, when ap prised of the propaganda of the southern lily-whites, expressed no apprehension or alarm. They are satisfied that the Harding Administration will not allow itself to be influenced to the extent of doing injustice to the Negro element of the party by de mands of southern lily-whites. The tre mendous increase in Negro Republican vot ers, and the number of Negroes elected to office for the first time in the history of 'certain states, is also pointed to as a reason for the incoming Administration to give a square deal to Republican supporters with out regard to color. Details of the lily-white southern Demo cratic propaganda indicate clearly that the securing of federal offices is the prime mo tive of the campaign. Evidence of this is in the emphasis laid by Rea, who is also the editor of The Alabama Republican, on a claim that his paper carried the first pre eonvention article boosting Harding for the nomination. The Birmingham club is also SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1920. authority for the claim that white suprem acy will control the appointment of every federal office in the South. The ingenious statement is made that while there are numerous federal offices to he fiilled in Birmingham and elsewhere, no candidates will be put fortli until Harding is inaugurated. It is further declared by Rea and one Charles Alison, president of the Birmingham club, that federal offices in Alabama are to be filled by men who worked for the party and brought out the vote and not by those who in past years have used the party organization as a means of profit to themselves. The lily-whites refer to the other element of the party as "black and tans" and allege the complete submersion of the "black and tans" as a result of the new policy. The propaganda of the Alabama lily whites. as well as that of lily-whites in other sections of the South, will not it is declared by national leaders, both colored and whites, have the effect anticipated. Tt is not be lieved that President-elect Harding. Chair man TTays and other prominent and influ ential members of the Republican party, will be swayed to any extent by the ingenious and expert propaganda of the Negro-hating lily-white, southern democratic element now clamoring for recognition. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS The lynching of human beings is an awful good thing to let alone. Booze and crime are synonymous and the Californiaites now fully realize that. In olden times money made the mare run, now money makes the gas burn, which, of course, makes the car run. It matters not how hard up you happen to get, just forget that ear for you can't sell it for a darn thing. "Prince" Poindexter must have been sleeping at the switch or he would have seen trouble ahead for him. It begins to look as if Will Humphrey is to be the big gun of the Northwest in the Harding administration. Seattle has already begun to figure out some plan to provide for the unemployed this winter and well they may. Behind the blackest cloud, a bright sun shines, but in the Puget Sound country these days that's the only place it shines. A Salt River boat would be an appropriate Christmas present for the Democrats who are now sojourning in "Washington City. In case California excludes the Japanese it is proposed to bring colored folks from the South to take their places on the farms. You big fellows, who have been making the dough in bucket full lots, do not overlook the fact that the income tax grabber has his eye on you. Whether it be Irishmen or Englishmen that are scattering firebrands in Cork, its a true case of cutting off your nose to spite your face. The country man may be having it hard on the farm these days, but it is nothing to what the city man is already having, and will have tlie coming winter. A wal'm welcome awaits the coming of the San Francisco crooks, who are leaving that city in droves and bunches, in case they at tempt to light in Seattle. If you find yourself in straightened cir cumstances as the present year draws to a close we suggest that you work a little hard er and run a little faster in the coming year, and perhaps you will be able to tell a dif ferent story Christmas a year. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Wo are of the opinion that both the school and the port commission elections might ad vantageously bo held at the same time the regular city election is. Better housing conditions to be sure pre vail in Seattle, due Largely, however, to there being fewer persons to house in the city than in years past. A move lias been made to close the Hotel Butler of Seattle because it continues to sell booze. That, of course, will be done when the world comes to an end. From our way of thinking, if Rockefeller would give less to charity and take less from the consumers, the country would be a thou sand times more prosperous. By the grapevine dispatch it comes to our ears that. Pilchuch Julia is figuring on a white Christmas, but she won't have it if we have anything to say about it. The ''southern colored man" is rapidly becoming the colored man of everywhere. Tn other words he is becoming indigenius to the United States and then some. If the coal mine operators of this state would have all of the coal mined that the country is suffering for. the army of unem ployed in the Northwest would be greatly decreased. Lets hope that the sale of a home in Wash inprton City to President Wilson is a bona fide one and not a questionable real estate speculation for the profiteering of the retir ing chief executive. Lets hope that the spirit of John "Rush of Bush Prairie, Thurston county, will meet, John H. Ryan at the state capitol and say to him, its a long time between drinks, but they are good when they come. It begins to look as if the people will have little or nothing to say as to who will be nominated in the thirty-seventh senatorial district to succeed Senator Lamping, but Mr. Palmer, you're a marked man.. Olympia will soon become the mecca of the Northwest and her citizens fire pre paring to reap their biennial golden harvest and quite in keeping with, let everybody make money when he or she can do so. The presumption is that Malcorn Douglas, prosecuting attorney-elect of King county, selected the best from Fred Brown's office crew, and perhaps he did, but, believe me, some mighty good men were overlooked. Col. Roland H. Hartley's smiling counten ance was seen on the streets of Seattle not long- since, and he chatted just as cheerful as he did in days of yore. The third time is the charm and the colonel may yet be gov ernor of the state. Its an ill wind that blows nobody good ! While prohibition put the bar tenders out of commission it has nevertheless made many openings for boot leggers, who are mak ing more money than bartenders and the barowners combined. All of the colored man's woes will not, like Banquo's ghost, banish when Warren 0. Harding is inaugurated president of the r. S., but the bull ragging of the colored employes at the capitol will follow in the wake of the retiring Democratic administra tion. Tn endeavoring to solve the alleged race problem of this country we suggest to the white citizens that they try giving the eol ore<J citizens the necessary opportunity, and if so they themselves will settle the much mooted question, and that, too. without fric tion. VOL. V, NO. 25