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rV'itS"' ^0^^^mm^&^^^^Wm THE APPEAL, A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY ADAMS BROS. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS 49 fcj. 4th ot., St. Haul, ilinn. ST. PAUL OFFICE No. 238 Union Block. 4th & Cedar. J. Q. ADAMS. Manager MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE Guaranty Loan Bldg., Room 1020. H. B. BUKKc Manager. CHICAGO OFFICE 323-5 Dearborn Street. Suite 660. F. ADAMS* Manager TERMS, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE: SINGLE COPY, ONE YEAR $2.00 SINGLE COPY, SIX MONTHS 1.1 0 SINGLE COPY, THREE MONTHS 6 0 When subscriptions are by any means allowed to run without prepayment, the terms are 60 cents for each \Z weeks and 5 cents for each odd week, or at trie rate of $2,40 per year. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Post Office Money Ordei, Re gistered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage utamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional parts of a dollar. Only one cent and two cent stamps taken. 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Busi ness letters of all kinds must be written on Separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Treat each man according to his worth as a man. Distrust all who would have any one class placed, before any other. Other republics have fallen be cause the unscrupulous have substituted loyalty to class for loyalty to the people as a whole. President Roosevelt'* speech at Little Rock, Ark. SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1908. TO PRESERVE WHITE SU- PREMACY. "The jDemocraljic party has had complete control of the State govern ment since 1900, and yet, in the con duct of the election, Republicans have an equal voice with the Democrats, "the number of Republican election judges and clerks being exactly equal to that of the Democratic judges and clerks. And, more than this, the Re publican officials are selected by the Republican party and are bona-fide Republicans, and not one vote can be counted anywhere in the State unless a Republican official assents to it. There are laws on our statute books intended to disfranchise illiterate blacks in certain counties and pre serve white supremacy, but their con stitutionality is not questioned, and, they are defended as necessary to the prosperity and good government of those sections." The Baltimore Sun gives the fore going statement of political condi tions in Maryland. But such condi tions do not generally prevail even in those states whose laws provide for an equal division of judges and clerks among the political parties. In most called Republican officers, and they know whom to select. with existing conditions" he fails to state. It would seem a priori that it is a very easy matter to govern any people who are perfectly satisfied with existing conditions, but the governor strongly intimates that it is not that it is a thing that few white people can do. We should like for the governor to state how the white Republicans who are in the same box with the Afro-Americans, feel about existing conditions. Are they also "perfectly satisfied?" MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA. The New York Times finds some- HQ "Jf* Of them the Democrats select the so-! %%& ^'SiA. reSiden y* t!orJanU^L^L^aCtiCaJ SdhW^pi?^J SeVpro^r ^ce now"^ the Senate Tf the Mterl Sit l human befne UTntS I ofiSS HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT Next President of the United"States. HE CUTS NO FIGURE. Governor Noel of Mississippi re centiy gave out the following guff to misuse of "Marching Through Georg- a Washington reporter: I i m-advised, but not nearly so "Mississippi is governed by the white man, although the majority of the population is composed of Ne groes. The Negro cuts no figure in our politics, and he is perfectly sat isfied with existing conditions. The 'jim crow' law is in operation and works to perfection. There are few white people who can goyern the Ne gro, and we are one of them, and we intend to govern in our State." I The appointment of Gen. Wright Just how he found out that the has suggested to the Baltimore Sun Afro-American "is perfectly satisfied the following conundrum: "But if a thing very reprehensible in the sing- it a trial, seem to have deterred those ing of "Marching Through Georgia" states which were looking on. HON. ALBERT J. HOPKINS. Excoriates Ben Tillman the South Carolina Senator Who Advocates Burning Human Beings at the Stake. At the time when the Walsh bank failure in Chicago was the subject of general discussion, Senator Tillman, in a speech in the senate, took occasion to criticise it in his usual outrageous style. Senator Hop- kins replied to the fire-eating southerner in the following manner, which The APPEAL published at that time, and as it is pretty good reading, show- ing where Senator Hopkins stands, it is reproduced: "I think it is about time that the country should know who this modern reformer is, this man that is seeking to pillory every other locality as dis- honest and every other man before the public as a dishonest man and a vio- lator of the law. Who is he and where does he come from? He comes 'from the state of South Carolina. It is known the country over that the Senator owes his seat In this body to the suppression of the Afro-American vote in that state. It is known that the majority of the people of that state by the manipulations of the Senator from South Carolina and the men who are associated with him in that state, have been deprived of their rights,-civii and political, that have been guarantee,di to them under.thebody Constitution of our common country."e Senato ehetbat -t iSSSSS? 6 S S wa me ye seems Tfi thTnV^ by the Prohibitionists of Tennessee. It might hurt the feelings of some of the southern brethren, you know, and thus to a greater or less extent im pede the progress of the milienium. The Times further remarks. "This ia a reprehensible as the general perform ance of that once stirring air at the recent Chicago Convention." The Appeal fails to see any reason why the Times should worry over the "misuse," as it did not prevent the Prohibitionists from polling a very large vote. Democrat remains in the Republican fold for 12 years and holds office un der two Republican administrations, with the prospect of serving under a third, all the while supporting the policies of those administrations, can he still be considered a Democrat?" The Appeal would remark that the oath of office simply obligates Gen. Wright to support the Constitution of the United States and presumes that a man can do that and' still re main a Democrat. The results of state-wide prohibi tion, in those states that have given 'Himself a speech in-this on the 24t Pefl'y dstatement S biU I S suffra ga roe aD 8t a Sta k? a a of an^merica^ l\tS%L & ^Ir^ bani*to ^comDare^th f^T xV**-V1Iation Wlt r.rJJl mpar( ^w~,x i-aiuco. IU. must "n-v..j to su uieir innocence *rp talwn mo ffi Lm am and boldlyl in the sight of Gotd th day of February, 1900, madken thilse ian the Senate: 'I know nothing that WP dlri ft' aical rights tha ha Car0lin that we did our level bes to keepthe every in State from voting.'" Afm.2^iS d Ut seveNegro hundredour SK Af ar^e guarantee! to the Afro-Americans of Illinois a to all every other state thatn the Senator would be heret upon mziooTaenmncin the national bankosr of Chicago? Does anybody believe that?" making some th a i and some odd thousand speecheanSovear*r the Sse?nerrolandfne,ecountryth 'Tha en languag aenoynci amendment of the mti Constitu-yw'et been repealed W have shot a emi bo kno twentiet centur unti th Car0li to the fact that a aIi vapproval i Sout President, ca burne a wh think of a man in wi the life be^ one national com wa la condition in any sectiofnthef our common country *r5 ?o:wS on? of tht ah NATIONAL BUSINESS LEAGUE. The Ninth Annual meeting of the .National Afro-American Business League is -,to be tueld in the-city of Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August.vi19th, 20th and 21st, 1908. r: Nin '*~w The\day sessions^ of the'League will be held in the Sharp Street Metho dist Episcopal" Church. All of the night sessions are to be held in Rich- i mond Market Hall, formerly used by the Crack Fifth Regiment of Balti more and recently by the General Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Richmond Market Hall is one of the most satisfactory assembly rooms in the whole city of Baltimore. The League is indebted to the Balti more Business League, of which Mr. Harry T. Pratt is President, for se curing this splendid hall for the use I of the League. His Honor, Mayor J. Barry Mahool, aided the Baltimore League b-avirig tliis hall secured for the meetings. Upon petition of Mr. Pratt and oth er members of the Local Business League, the City Council of Balti more has passed two resolutions of interest to the organization, one pro viding for the electrical illumination by the city of Druid Hill Avenue dur ing the sessions of the National Busi ness League and the other, for the use of the largest steamer belonging "to the City Harbor Board during Conven tion week. Honorable Harry S. Cummings, a member of the City Council, has given the weight of his influence toward having these two resolutions passed by the City Coun cil. The citizens of Baltimore are well organized in various committees and are earnestly at work arranging the details of entertainment, etc., for the delegates. Officers, Life Members and Delegates, who are intending to oeretary, present, are urged to write Dr. Louis H. Fenderson, 1418 Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore, advising him of such in- ileges, delegates will be enabled to make the trip to Baltimore tention, so that proper accommoda- Banks, First yice-President Mound tions may be provided. Bayou, Miss. F. D. Patterson, Second EQUAL RIGHTS PLANKi HON. FRANK H. HITCHCOCK. Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Who Will Lead the Re publican Party to ictory in November. The far-reaching influence of 1^3 Vice-President, Greenfield, Ohio- Dr. National Business League assures an S. G. Elbert, Third Vice-President! attendance at Baltimore second to Wilmington, Del.. Harry T. Pratt' that of no former session of the or- Fourth Vice-President, Baltimore, Md. ganization. Reduced rates will be se- J. A. Lankford, Fifth Vice-President', cured from almost every section of I Washington, D. Emmett J. Scott', the country. It is altogether possible, Corresponding Secretary, Tuskegee however, for groups of individuals Institute', Alabama Gilbert C. Harris coming from such centers as Chicago, i Treasurer, Boston, Mass. S. Laing Indianapolis, Louisville, Atlanta, Birm- Williams, Compiler, Chicago, 111. p. ingham, St Louis, New Orleans, Little H. Gilbert, Registrar, Brooklyn, N.'Y. Rock, Nashville, Chattanooga, Jackson, R. c.. Houston, Assistant Registrar Memphis, Kansas City, and other cit- Fort Worth, Texas William Davis' ies to secure sucn special excursion Official Stenographer, Washington rates as are being offered to Washing- C. C. F. Adams, Transportation Ag- ton, Baltimore, New York and Atlantic ent, Washington, D. C. City. By arranging for stop-over priv- rat an ex pense lower than the usual one and one-third rate, and at the same time visit the National Capital. Delegates are especially urged to begin making arrangements at once for special Pullman and Coach accom modations to Baltimore. If delega tions are organized in each of theHouston, states they can arrange fpr special Pullman and other accommodations, securing privacy, comfort and con.- 4 genial companionship en route. Local Business Leagues are urged to begin electing their delegates at once. The names of all delegates thus selected should be forwarded to the Corresponding Secretary, Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Mr. C. F. Adams, 934 S Street, N. "The Republican party has been for more than fifty years the consistent "friend of the 'Afro-American. It gave him freedom "'and citizenship. I vyrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his note worthy progress in intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned the respect and en couragement of the nation. We demand equal justice for all men, without regard to race or color we declare once more, and without reservation, for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution which were de signed for the protection' and ad vancemnt of the Afro-American, and we condemn all devices have for their real aim his dis franchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-Am erican and repugnant to the supreme law of the land." Republican Platform, 1908. W.. Washington, D. C, will be pleased to co-operate in any way possible with city or state delegations in making transportation arrangements. Further information, if desired, may be secured from any of the officers whose addresses appear in the fore part of this announcement, or- from: Booker T. Washington, President, Tuskeegee Institute, Alabama. T. Thomas Fortune, Chairman, Exec utive Committee, New York City. Emmett J. Scott, Corresponding Sec Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Officers for 1907-3. Booker T. Washington, President, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Charles Executive Committee. T. Thomas Fortune, Chairman Red Bank, N. J. Dr. S. E. Courtnev, Bos ton, Mass. J. C. Jackson, Lexington, Kj\ J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn. W. L. Taylor, Richmond, Va. E Booze, Colorado Springs, Col. E Bush. Little Rock, Ark. J. Bell Texas S. A. Furniss, In dianapolis, Ind. M. M. Lewev Pensa cola, Fla. N. T. Velar, Brinlon, Pa. L. Jones, Chicago, ril. How He Was Occupied. CurateI haven't seen your hus band at church recently, Mrs. Bloggs. What is he doing? Mrs. Bloggs'E be a doin' six months, sir! fSS^.JS&Pl&.F?rmali$J fiSSS^SJfettfc^f^lS'i 7f2ZJH?*&i ^Y~*' I "r-i.-Si TUSKEGEE jI and Mestrial Institute TUSKEGEE ALABAMA. (INCORPORATED) Organized July 4, 1881, 3atnre TILLOTSOM COLLEGE CONSERYATORV OF MUSIC BOSTON, Mass. All the advantages of (he llnest n moBt completely equipped Conservatory building in the world, the at. mospbere of a recognized center of Art and-Music and association with the: masters In the Profession are offered students at the New England Conservatory of Music. Thorough work in all departments of music. Courses can be arranged in Elocutiou and Oratory. GEORGE W. CHADWICK. Musical Director. Allpar(1ee?a-t and year book mill be tent on application CDLLEGEB ANH SCHOOLS K^mwim Bufldto* Boys' HalL Stoa Hall. QiiV Ball. Model trmt ATLANTA UNIVERSITY. Atlanta, Ga. Co"?Ke o**11* cr-tur fSPE&HL^*"**"!* T6r 'I ,---a -._-.- T & i 1 Musio and Printing Athleti Preparatory and EngUah High School course*, with *Wt a*TSne**.tlWednesday Hotn life and training. Aid given to ae*dy and .*d address President HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.O. an Information,, HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. REV. W. P. TH IRK I ELD, L.L. D., 1867 1908 Robert Reyburn, M. D., W. C. McNeill, M. D. Dean Secretary The Forty-first Annual Session will begin October 1, 1908, and continue eight months. FOUR YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN MEDICINE THREE YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN DENTAL SURGERY. THREE YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN PHARMACY. AN OPTIONAL FIVE-YEAR COURSE IN MEDICINE IS OFFERED. Full corps of instructors. Well equipped laboratories. The New Freedmen's Hospital, which adjoins the Medical College, just completed at a cost of $500,000, offers unexcelled clinical facilities. The Third Session of the Post-Graduate School and Polyclinic will begin May 9, 1909, and continue srx weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for Dental Course. For further information or catalogue, write W. C. McNEILL, M. D., Secretary 539 Florida Avenue, Washington, D. C. Knoxville College. Classical, Scientific. Agricultural. Mechanical. Normal ana Common School Courses, together with Theological and Medical Schools. Pilty-five Dollars a Year will cover all expenses of board, tuition, fuel, light and furnished room. Separate home %nd matron tor little girls and another for .Uttle boys from 6 to Syears. Term b*gins last Monday in September. Sena lor catalogue President of KnoSPUle tollea?, & aox?ill% byethe Stat]e I,egis. as Th Tuskegee Stat Norma School Sxempt from taxation. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal. WARREN I,OGAN, Treasurer. LOCATION In the Black Belt of Alabama where tha blacks outnumber the whiles three to one. ENROLLMENT AN FACULTY Enrollment last year 1,253 males. 882- females, 371. Average attendance, 1,105.~' Instructors, 88. COURSE OF STUDY English education combined with industrial trailing 28 industries in constant operation. VALUE OF PROPERTY Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land. BO buildings almost wholly built with student labor, is valued at $350,000, and no mortgage. NEEDS $50 annually for the education of each stu. dent ($200 enables one to finish the course $1,000 creates permanent scholarship. Students pay their own board in cash and labor.) Coney in any amount for current expenses ind building-. Besides the worlc done by graduates as riass room and industrial leaders, thousands .-.'3 reached through the Tuskegee Negro Confer ence. Tuskegee is 40 miles east of Montgomery an 136 miles west of Atlanta^ on the Western Rail roaki. o-_ Alabama. Tuskegee is a quiet, beautiful old Southern town, and Is an ideal place for study. The cli mate is at all times mild and uniform, thu* waking the place an excellent winter reso-' AUSTIN, TEXAS. The Oldest and Best School in Texas for Colored Students. Faculty niosllv graduates of -.veil known colleges in the tiorth. Reputation unsurpassed. Manua training a part or tb'e regular course. Music a special feature of thu schooi. Special advantages for earnest students se-tkins to help themselves. Send for oalalogue and circular to REV. MARSHALL R. GAINES, A. M., President. AUSTIN. TEXAS AVERY COLLEGE. TRADES SCHOOL ALLEGHENY. PA. A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trades School for Afro-American .fsovs anu Oirls. Unusual advantages for U'.rla and a separate building. Address. Joseph D. Mahoney, Principal. Allegheny, Pa. School Children Should Drink In October. For oataloffu* Virginia Normal Collegian Institute. PETEHSBUBQ, TAr DepartmentsNormcl and Coll* *late Spacial attention to Voodft and Instrumental Music, Theoretical Agriculture, Sewing and Cooking. Healthy Location heated bf team, lighted by electricity root*, board, tuition, light and heat, 96 For catalog and particulars writ* to President Virginia Normal, Colla giate Lutitute, Petersburg, Va. GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY TUkSTA, OEOBGU AIMS AND METHODS. The aim of this school is to do prac tical work in helping men towards suc cess in the ministry. Its course of study is broad and practical its ideas arc high its work is thorough its methods are -fresh, systematic, clear and simple. COURSE OF STUDY. The regular course of study occupies three years, and covers the lines of work in the several departments of theological instruction usually pursued in the lead ing theological seminaries of +he country. EXPENSES AND AID. Tuition and room rent are free. The apartments for students are plainly fur nished. Good board can be had for seven dollars per month. Buildings heated by steam. Aid from loans without interest, and gifts of friends, are granted to deserv ing students who do their utmost in tha line of self-help. No young: man with grace, gifts, and energy, need be deprived of the advantages now opened tr him in this Seminary. For further particulars address REV. W. E BOWEX. D. D. Pres. Gammon Theological Seminary. NSTITO CHESTER, S. C. A normal and industrial school with a graded course of study, designed to give a thorough, symmetrical and complete English education, and lav a solid foun dation for success and usefulness in every vocation of life. Board and boarding hall MorristownNorma!CollegeX FOUNDED I N 1U1. fourteen teachers, tuegaiu and com. mwdlous buildings. Climate unsurpassed Departments: College Preparatory Nor mal, English, Music. Shorthand. Type wnt ng and Industrial Training. FIFTY DOLLARS IN ADVANCE will pay for board, room, light, fuel, tul tion an* ".ncidentals for the entire vear. Beard $6.00 per month tuit!on Sl'.OO per term. Thorough work done in each de partment. Send lor circular lo the presi dent. Rev. Judson S. Hill, D. D.. I^Tristown. Tenn. SCOTIA SEMINARY GONMBj*. e~Th*u ^K11, school, established. know ror the higher education of girls will open for the next term October 1. Every effort will be made to provide lor the comfort, health and thorough instruction of students. Expense for board, light, fuel, washing, $45. for term of eight months. Address. Rev. D. J. SATTERFIELD. D. D., Concord, N. C. SAMUEL HUSTON COLLEGE. A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL. Able and Experienced Faculty. Progressive in all departments, best Methods of Instruction, Health of Stu dents car^fidly looked after. Stt.aenth taugnt to do manual labor as well as think. For catalogue and other informa tion, write to the president. R. S. LCViNGGOOD. Austin. Texa*. $8 6 'm ,4