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Vol. XI
LIKE A BULL
Justice Willis Melville Would
Not Permit Attorneys Gash
and Mitchell to Cross-Examine
Col. "Pony" More.
Ed Wilson, the Down and Out
"Sham Reformer," Hates to
Have His Toes Held to the
Fire.
Thcrsday afternoon, January 4,
1906, CoL Tony" Moore's long drawn
oat ose against the man from Mls-
stwxi Dcred up another peg, for on
that tftemoon Instead of Major
Franklin A Denison and Attorney
Ott Bicnriajpup to" represenfCoL
"Pony Ed. Wilson, who hates to have
Mb toes held to the fire tagged along
by the side of the unhorsed boss
oT the "Red Light District." which
pnrred that Justice "Willis Melville
as a bare-faced liar when he led the
nan from Missouri and his attorneys
to believe "that Messrs. Denison and
Orr would conduct the case for Col.
Tony.'"
At 1:30 o'clock Cols. A. D. Gash,.
Robert M. Mitchell, Detective William
Schubert, Officers William R. Jones;
David H. Smith, the man from Mis
souri, and Col. "Pony," his white lady
shorthand reporter, and his new pal.
Ed. Wilson, the "shameless re
former." all boarded the train at the
Union Depot, Adams and Canal
streets, bound for West Grossdale.
On arriving at that unflourlshlng
town, which seemed to be damned on
account of the crooked work of Jus
ties Melville, a trail was struck from
the station, which led up a flight of
stairs through a long dark hallway,
tt the end of which In a little dirty,
flngy room was located his so
called justice shop. On the side of
the uninviting room stood a small
sheet-Lon stove which rested on two
legs and a brick. A half-dozen broken
down chairs and a cheap desk com
pleted the furnishings of the room,
hlch was as cold as an ice-house,
tod the lawyers, witnesses and the
on from Missouri were forced to
ear and button up their heavy over
coats In order to escape from freez
es to death.
A few minutes past 2 o'clock His
Lordship, Justice Melville who nil
"e una looted mighty sheepish, an-
raneed that "he was ready to go
ahead with the case of the people of
"unois against the nv from Mis
toW Then Ed. Wilson, who resem
Wed a mad-man, read the complaint
tod called on CoL "Pony" to take the
"fitness stand, and the former king
ng the sports In the "Red Light
District" declared that "he had never
ttet the man from Missouri hnt once,
tod that was at the horn of Mr and
& E. j. Smith, on Sunday after
aofl, November 5, at the time he was
gilding a political meeting there."
"fc oal7 words to pass between him.
tofl the man from Missouri "that he
COnld recall was that the man from
ksouri intimated "that after all he
s not a bad-looking feUew; and to
best of hlB recollection the man
&01a Missouri never frequented his
JJjwt on Twenty-first street After
JJ. "Pony had finished testifying or
g in behalf of he people -of mi
a, and while he was sittisr against
e wail by the si of the little eeJfl
be exclaimed that Cfclef
mivilk 9tnL7 LmiiflewinwrIS7LLLnteinLM s Kvffi.my lSiLi LLLLW.
HEADED CZAR
John M. Collins had Informed him
in the presence of Aldermen John J.
Coughlin and Michael Kenna that the
article which had appeared in a cer
tain little "Nigger newspaper in refer
ence to his resort was the direct
cause ef having his saloon license re
voked?'" XttQeeharpieaded "B4. Wil
son rested the case In the name of
tthe people of Illinois. At the conclu
sion of the testimony of Col. "Pony."
Officer William R Jones was the
first witness for the man from Mis
souri, and In a straightforward man
ner he set forth the fact that "for
two or three years he was on duty in
the "Red Light District' and that he
was well acquainted with Col. Tony'
Moore, that one night he was armed
with a 'state warrant for his arrest
for violating the midnight closing
law, that on entering his low resort
he found it full of white women and
colored men, and white men and col
ored women, who were eating and
drinking, cussing and damning and
carousing to beat the band; that he
yanked Col. Tony' out of his Joint
nnd carted him off to the Harrison
fitreet station, where he paid a fine of
twenty-five dollars." Officer Jones,
whose face is stamped with honesty.
further declared that several times
"he observed women being carried in
and out of the Hotel De Moore who
were so drunk that they could not
stand on their feet nor navigate with
out assistance."
'Detective William Schubert was the
next witness for the man from Mis
souri, and in a very manly way he
related how he had assisted to arrest
two wagon ioaus oi crap-uuuuteio
who had been caught during a gam
bling raid on the Turf Exchange, and
on rushing into Col. Tony's' famous
resort. Detective Schubert declared
that "he and the other officers beheld
many tough or desperate looong
Ben and women hanging around In
asd that "In his opinion CoL
Tony had conducted one of the low
est and one of the worst resorts In
4Be city."
JOfflcer David H. Smith was the last
srftneas for the man from Missouri,
and he swore "that on the whole CoL
Tony' Moore had a mighty bad rep
utation.'' Sd. Wilson, the bunk, or the'am
reformer,' was unable to shake the
tamnor at either oae of these three
witnesses. At that point In the lHe-
rsl CToeeealncs' the man from Tils-
sonrl moanted the witness stand la
his own, behalf, and he lt It be
known that "he did not entertain one
U tboHm BJESlnSt Mk MOOrS,
that the article which he complained
of wan simply written for the
good of the commanlty, and to warn
yeunsj colored girls. ad marnea
-rr. too. for .that waiter. .
from a moral ofnt of Tiew they ;were
M4f-M(nr close to the border line
of ,4esaeerr and dehasemeat when-
CentiMfed en I
BLE-W TO
CHICAGO, MAiRCH l, 1906
IHBB'iRSifAVfSle'LHH
eVeTCKelH'W irWeHIB
ALDERMAN THOtA& J. DIXON..
Who is being loyally supported by the best class of citlzsns In the
second Ward regardless of their political affiliations and who Is bound to
be re-elected to the City Council on April 3rd.
Alderman Thomas J. Dixon has con- who have the welfare of this city at
ducted a clean campaign for his re- heart to line up on the side of moral
election to the city council In the ity, decency, law and order. Hence
Second ward. It has been free from they are supporting Alderman Dlxon,a
mud slinging on the part of himself whose long and honorable record In
and his army of loyal and enthusias- the city council stands forth without
tic supporters among all races and a blemish, and with the further sup
nationalties. port of the best class of other Afro-
It is gratifying to state that Revs. Americans in the ward who do not
A. J. Carey, D. P. Roberts and E. J. spend all their time In questionable
Fisher, pastors of Bethel church, resorts and who love their homes and
Qulnn chapel and Olivet Baptist families, it is a foregone conclusion
church, are all aiding Alderman Dix- that he will be re-elected to the new
on In his re-election. They firmly be- city council.
Heve the time has come for all men
A Rousing Meeting Held at Arlington
Hall In the Intereest of Alder- i
man Dixon. j
Tuesday evening a rousing meeting
Arlington Hall was held at Thirty-
first and Indiana avenue In the inter-
est of Alderman Thomas J. Dixon. ;
More than 2,000 people crowded into
It and natlenUv waited until the last.ron saint oi irue uemoracy.
gun was fired In his Interest, and over
400 were turned away, not being able
to-find standing room
Alderman Milton J. Foreman and
Revs. Jonston Myers and A. J. Carey,
pastor of Bethel church, were among
the prominent speakers.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Hamilton Club. Rev.
A. J. Carey made the hit of the even
ing; in fact, he cleaned up every
thing before him. He declared: "If
there la a break in the ranks of the
colored voters In the west end I chage
it to the traitors among the Repub
licans of our ward. Men of fairer
skin than ours have laid deep plots,
-- .
to throw away the black vote, xet --- .' "' ,
some of these same men want ourjsav., honor of eorgia
support for Judge. They should be Bapt Faulkner of Monrovia, Af
branded and ostracised." In conclu- rica. About 50 of Chicago's represen-
.- i. tA , foM fhnt "TTn.
biuu un moiitu o
dertaker Perrfgo had employed a col
ored girl stenographer in an effort
to get the colored vote, but Instead
to get xne coiorcu uie, uuk ukwi
, St tar x-ato -a . i2?5S2rff?c?J?2r
rforTm h had keot her back In the
morgue." This sally on the part of
Rev. Carey brought down the house.
A colored quartette furnished te
music for the occasion and sang sev
eral parodies about Mr. Perrfgo being
a "dead one." At the conclusion of
the speaking a resolution was passed
In favor of re-electing Alderman
Dixon.
Alderman Nicholas B. Finn Is jet
ting up a gallant fight for roclsetloa
In the 20th Ward, and his nnmerens
friends believe that ho Is a femBme
winner. -
TJHE LINE.
The Life and Times of Thomas
Jefferson.
Sunday afternoon, April 1, at 4:30
o'clock, Julius P. Taylor will address
the "Bethel Literary and Historical
Club," Bethel church. Thirtieth and
Dearborn streets, on "The Life and
Times of Thomas Jefferson," the pat-
Aldermen Bernard' W. Snow, 7th
j Ward, Henry L. Fick, 9th Ward, Ru
dolph Hurt, 10th Ward, Peter L. Hon
man, 11th Ward, James Consldine,
13th Ward, Stanley H. Kanse, 16th
Ward, Wm. E. Dever, 17th Ward, Jon
athan Ruxton, 24th Ward and Thomas
M. Hunter, 35th Ward, will all fall in
side the breastworks next Tuesday.
It Is true that several of them have
pretty hot fights on their hands, but
they are slated to come In under the
wire ahead of their opponents.
On Sunday evening last, Mr. and
Mrs.: P. "aniett entertal ned a Iang
nmfcM of frlonila nt tnplr nomo 3234
WUTe cmsiui cbubu.
Mrs. Faulkner will remain in this
country a month or so and tell all
who are Interested of their many
young" of our race who will be wel
comed should they decide to make
Africa their future home.
Alderman Michael D. Dougherty
feels cenfident after thoroughly can
vaeiag the 22nd Ward that the ma
jority of the voters therein will on
next Tsesday record Their votes In
farer of his re-election to the City
, John Downer making a heroic
fight to he elected to the City Council
from the i&th Ward and the chances
are ten to one that he will win oat
mtfce
A LIVELY DIS
CUSSION ON THE
NEGRO PROBLEM
In the April Number of To-Mor-row
Magazine, by Parker H.
Sercombe, G. E. Davis and
Maude Jacobs.
We publish the following communi
cation, not for the value of the wis
dom that is In it, but purely as an
example of the personal and preju
diced mental attitude by which people
who cannot think, persistently ar
rive at wrong conclusions.
When the mental attitude of a fox
makes of him a scientific expert on
poultry- when the avocation of the
devotee bowinrr before a crucifix de-
I veloos her Into an authorttv nn h
evolution of religions, when to be a
Jwn.hVomei tSLfiproceEavenueforJ
the study of equality; when burning
at the stake is accepted as the most
efficient means of Inculcating human!
tarlanism, then, and not till then, can
the communication from Mr. Davis
be accepted as a sociological docu
ment From the same standpoint. If we
Heve In democracy as against des
poti&m, what matters it what color or
nalonallty presidents twenty years
from now are, providing only they
are the choice of the people.
Mr. Davis says a Negro "should
stay in his place," Implying that he
knows what the Negro's place is
the fact is .the place of the Negro,
ana tne place oi every other crea
ture, plant or planet, Is whatever they
attain.
The fact of a Negro declaring that
we are to have a Negro President
within twenty years, fills Mr. Davis
with consternation and is just about
as terrible an utterance as that of a
Milwaukee woman who recently an
nounced that within five years Ger
man would become the legal language
of America, and che thought herself
a sociologist, -too.
The heartrending possibility of hav
ing a Negro entertaining one's wife
and daughters nightly in one's parlor,
gives color to Mr. Davis's, belief in
tie entire lack of ability of white
men to Influence the choice and dis
crimination of their female relatives
and would lead one to Infer that so
superior and seductive are the charms
of the Negro that we Caucasians
would be worsted in fair competition
personally, the writer is unafraid
of the Implied superior charms of
the African.
These comments are written for
the uplift of Mr. Davis and an those
who think like him, and speak out
from the prejudice, meanness and
tyranny that still seems, even In the
shadow of our free Institutions to
live In the hearta of many men.
What this class of people need Is,
to lose themselves In their work and
stop fh'""g about questions that
they ate not mentally equipped to
deal with.
Mr. Davis dares to claim that the
male Negro has a latent, uncontrolla
ble desire to possess white women,
whereas the Malatto race In this
country Is almoet'teatirely the result
of white men cohabiting with colored
women, all of whlea, to present the
case to. Mr. Davis's phraseology would
Indicate that the white fiend exhibits
an uncontrollable desire for Inter
course with colored wessea, and were
each Is stance of white men's depre
datJone along this Jlne pnabhed by
having them "bkmteied into Eter
nity," the resmlt wonld mean entire
No. S3
depopulation of those white southern
ers who "hold their women so
sacred."
If Mr. Davis had made a study of
the history of capital punishment
(lynching) and Its effect on society,
he would make no claim of Its value
as an object-lessons to keep wrong
doers In line, for history has proven
that the brutallzatlon of human so
ciety has ever been the accompani
ment of legal as well as Illegal bru
talities.
Tosmnup..rthQraceproWem. In
America win work itself out If let
alone, and discussions, whether by
the wise or the unwise, will be of no
avail. It is a problem for evolution
to solve It Is of Interest to the so
ciologist who watches Its develop
ment In the same spirit that he stud
ies ants and orchids, but to the lay
man and -to writers of the Davis type,
thought on this subject Is purely a
waste of brain room, which in h'ij
case Is unpardonable extravagance.
With a view to submitting Mr.
Davis's letter to a further sifting pro
cess, we handed It to one of our wom
an editors who has learned to think,
and her comments following the let
ter are Interesting, first, as corrobora
tion of the editor's point of view, sec
ond, as being In harmony with the
systematic method of thought advo
cated by this magazine, and ,thlrd, as
further evidence to Mr. Davis and
writers of his class, to what extent
their views, are out of harmony with
the advance thought of the period.
Editor.
Editor To-Morrow, Chicago, I1L
Dear Sir: As a reader of your
magazine, I will take the liberty to
express my opinion on the race ques
tion, though I am quite aware, Judg
ing from Dr. Wesley's article In your
February number, that my views will
not meet your approval.
I think a Negro should stay in a
Negro's place. I no more get through
reading the "Niagara Movement"
than one of the office help hands me
a clipping from a Chicago dally on a
recent race riot in New Yorkv. per
haps just a forerunner of what is to
come.
The white race Is multiplying very
slowly, the theories of Theodore I
'notwithstanding. On the other hand
the Negro is multiplying like Belgian
hares. At the present time the white
Is supreme, bnt the time Is coming
when the Negro is going to contest
this supremacy and what a contest,
It win he.
Here In town the other day an edu
cated coon announced the prediction
that there would be a Negro Presi
dent of the V. S.laeide of the nest
wenty years and It was discussed to
such an extent that dally papers gave
their speeches prominent places en
the front pages cf the papers. How
wonld yon like the looks of this, my
brother?
Believe me I am not an alarmist.
I speak of things as I see them. The
race qnetUon today Is one of the
greatest thlsjpB that oenfronts ne as
a people. Aheolmte eenality canaet
be. " Ton wonld net allow your wife
or danghter to entertain a Negro is
"- CentliMMd en Pnfe S.
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