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THE BROAD
AX
v' XVI
CHICAGO. ILL.,
SATURUDAY. JUNE 18, 1921
No. 39
Echoes and Re-Echoes of the Late Non-Partisan Judicial Election
fy any Thousands of Colored People, Residing in All Parts of This City and
County, Broke Away from Their Colored Political Iron Masters,
Asserted Their Political Independence and Voted
Against the Thompson Judicial Ticket
0N SlNDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 5TH, MAYOR WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON
HP LD A BIG MEETING AT THE EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY AND HON.
EDvVARD H. WRIGHT AND THE OTHER FOUR MEMBERS OF THE BIG FIVE
ASSURED MAYOR THOMPSON THAT THEY WOULD CARRY THE SECOND
WARD FOR HIM BY EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY THOUSAND MAJORITY; BUT
THFY CARRIED IT BY LESS THAN TWELVE THOUSAND, WITH MAJORI
TIES RANGING FROM EIGHT TO NINE THOUSAND AS AGAINST OVER
THREE THOUSAND VOTES FOR THE HIGHEST CANDIDATE ON THE NON
PARTISAN TICKET.
THE THIRD WARD WITH ITS LARGE COLORED VOTE; THE THIRTIETH; THE
THIRTY-FIRST AND THE FOURTEENTH WARDS ALL REPUDIATED THEIR
COLORED POLITICAL MASTERS AND HIT OUT AT COL. WM. A. BITHER,
DOC WILLIAM H. REID AND COL. ALEXANDER A. TODD, COMMITTEE
MEN, RESPECTFULLY OF THE THIRD, THIRTY-FIRST AND FOURTEENTH
WARDS.
THE COALITION FORCES MAY CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER AND NOM
INATE AND ELECT THE SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES IN JUNE, 1922, AND
THE CANDIDATES FOR THE VARIOUS COUNTY OFFICES IN THE FALL OF
1922, AND THE MAYOR OF CHICAGO IN 1923.
THE BROAD AX CUT A WIDE SWATH IN THIS CITY IN THE JUDICIAL CON
TEST AND OUT OF IT, FOR THREE HUNDRED COPIES OF JUNE 4 WAS
SENT TO JUSTICE FLOYD E. THOMPSON, OF THE SUPREME COURT OF
ILLINOIS AT ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS, AND HE WAS RE-ELECTED TO
THE SUPREME COURT BENCH BY MORE THAN TWELVE THOUSAND
MAJORITY.
! t lutsday morning after the
a' nonpartisan judicial election in
h.- viv and comity the five bit; col
or,.1 political leaders or the iron
niav.rs of the one hundred and fifty
r-.manil colored people residing in
this nt n It as though they had been
Kick., I on the tops of their head
m -onu vicious mules, for they all
r'i mcksure all day on Monday,
lum . and prior to the judicial clcc-ti..-
that there va nothing to it
the shouting.
1 t . . the big five colored political
m.,s. endeavored to bulldoze and
rru ten the colored people away
!r..m the nonpartisan judicial candi
j . 1 branding the colored people
.. Democrats if they failed or refused
i. .'tc for all the Thompson judicial
n.k.t. but thousands of colored men
ami women had the moral courage
t,. stand up and look their white and
. olorcd political iron masters or
bosses right in their eyes and
plainly inform them that slavery
cairn to an end in this country al
most sivty years ago and that they
intended to vote to suit themselves:
that they were not abject and cring
ing slaves, that no man nor no set
,.f nun. white or black, could dictate
to them how or for whom they must
otc.
Firmly did thousands of the col
r.d people adhere to their position
' that respect as it was plainly in-
tated after the judicial election. On
t . Sunday afternoon prior to the
iicial election Mayor William Hale
1 ompson and his colored political
t -es in the Second Ward held a
' meeting at the Eighth Regiment
A- norv and Hon. Edward H.
icht. Republican committeeman
hat ward. Hon. Oscar DcPriest
1 the other big colored honorablcs
red Mayor Thompson that they
1 the votes of all the colored
P -It around in their hip pockets, or
s to the same effect, and that on
V 1a. June 6. that the Thompson
tal ticket would receive between
" n and twentv thousand ma-
M RE THAN TWO HUNDRED
VHITE AND COLORED MEN,
VOMEN AND CHILDREN
WERE KILLED IN THE
BLOODY OR HORRIBLE
RACE RIOTS AT
TULSA, OKLA.
Id
..igator for National Association
the Advancement of Colored
People Returns from Okla
homa to New York
.r F. White. Assistant Scc-
of the National Association
Advancement of Colored
70 Fifth Avenue. New York,
urned after a personal in
tin of the recent race riot
-j. Oklahoma, saying that bc-
150 and 200 Negroes were
'i the riots and at least 50 white
Mr. White declared that
s was largely due to a misuse
word "attack" and "assault,"
'"pression being given that a
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smmbiea- in an elevator and m at
tempting to recover his balance
5tPPed upon her foot.
t jority in the Second ward: hut on the
1 following day thousands of colored
1 peon!? faded awav and about eight
or nine thousand of them residing in
the Second Ward- absolutely refused
to rally to the support of Hon. Ed
ward II. Wright. Hon. Louis B. An
derson. Hon. Oscar DePricst. Hon.
Robert R. Jackson and Hon. James
A. Scott and Mayor William Hale
Thompson, and instead of carrying
the Second Ward by twenty thousand
tnaioritv. the highest candidate on
I the Thompson judicial ticket received
a fraction over eleven thousand votes
and the leading candidate on the non
partisan ticket received more than
three thousand votes, whereas it wa
contended right along by the colored
political bosses in that ward that the
non-partisan judicial candidates would
not receive over four or five hundred
votes. Xow those same wise political
prophets claim that there arc more
than three thousand white voters re
siding in the Second Ward and that
all the whites voted for the Demo
cratic judicial candidates and that all
the colored people either voted the
Thompson Republican j u d i c i a 1
ticket straight or remained at home.
Many colored men and women ab
solutely refused to vote to further
uphold the arms of Mayor Thomp
son for the sole reason that he has
permitted Hon. Edward H Wright
to pull in thirty thousand dollars in
less than one year as one of the
lawyers of the traction commission,
and Hon. Oscar DePric-t to rake in
ten thousand dollars per year in dead
casv money as one of the city real
estate experts while on the other
hand thousands of colored people arc
out of work and many of them arc
on the verge of starvation and hun
dreds of them are forced to work
very hard early and late in order to
earn enough money to pay the extra
heavy taxes which has been imposed
on their homes which they arc en
deavoring to pay for. for the thrifty
and thoughtful colored people are bc
;; m learn that every time that
!a heavv raid is made on the public
"Having been sworn in as a
deputy sheriff and having been on
patrol as such during the Tulsa riot."
said Mr. White, "I am able to state
that the Tulsa riot in sheer brutality
and wilful destruction of life and
property stands without a parallel in
America.
'Abuse and misuse of the word 'as
sault' caused the entire conflagration.
A white girl operating an elevator
in a public building, declared that a
colored boy had attempted to as
sault her. Without stopping to in
quire, and without considering the
utter impossibility of criminal assault
being perpetrated in broad open day
light in the public elevator of a pub
lic building, on a principal street of
a town of 100.000. a senseless mob
set out to 'avenge the honor of white
womanhood.'
"As a result, between 200 and 250
white and colored citizens arc known
to have been killed, an unknown
number of colored men and women
and children were burned alive, 44
square blocks of business and resi
dential property valued at a million
and one-half dollars were destroyed,
and everlasting damage done to the
fund by the city officials that some
one ha, got to pay for it ami as tin
big millionaire-- will not pay tin ir
share of the extra expense in con
ducting the affair of the city and
that was one reason why so main
colored people turned their hack on
Mayor Thompson and hi two mil
lion dollar real estate experts.
The colored people revolted in the
Third ward again.-t the leadership of
Col. William A. Hither, whom main
of them hate with all of their being
and the colored voters in that sirong
Republican ward transferred it over
into the non-partisan column.. The
same thing was done in the Thirtieth
ward, for the colored people in that
ward in the past had worshiped
Mayor Thompson like unto a god,
but on Monday. June 6. hundreds of
them residing in that ward turned
his judicial candidate down cold.
In the Thirty-nrt ward the col
ored people were just waiting in or
der to get a whack at Little Judge
Anton T. Zcmaii and Dr. William
H. Reid. who was foolish enough
to believe that he would be elected
secretary of state in 1020. and from
now on the bread and butter brigade
will be forced to fight mighty hard to
swing the Thirty-first ward back into
the Thompson column.
Col. Alexander A. Todd, who is al
ways as cold as an iceberg is the
head boss of the colored people liv
ing in the Fourteenth ward and un
der his iron rule the colored voters
refused to he bossed by him and they
marched to the polls on Monday.
June 6. and greatly assisted to
laughter the Thompson judicial tick
et in the Fourteenth ward.
There arc still mighty hot times
ahead for the boss politicians in this
city and county, for the coalition
forces will attempt to hang together
in an effort to head Mayor Thomp
son off at the superior court judges'
election in June. 1922, and at the
county election in the fall of that
same year and at the election for
mavor of Chicago in 1923.
name of Tulsa and of Oklahoma.
"In justice to Tulsa it must be said
that a large percentage of the white
inhabitants condemned in unmeasured
terms the outrage which has been
perpetrated. The Salvation Army,
the Red Cross, local relief agencies
and churches have done commend
able work in providing food, clothing
and shelter for the destitute victims
of the riot.
"Tulsa's experience is exceedingly
important in that conditions which
let to its night of terror exist in
many other cities North and South
and unless unusual efforts arc used
the gravest consequences arc to be
feared. Some of the white citizens
of Tulsa are attempting to blame
the riot on Negro 'radicalism. When
I questioned them regarding the na
ture of this radicalism I found in
variably that it consisted of de
mands by Negroes that the federal
Constitution be enforced and that
lynching, peonage, disfranchisement
and Jim Crowism be abolished.
"There will be a state investigation
of the riot but in the opinion of the
citizens of Tulsa it will amount to
nothing. The Tulsa riot has con-
HON. THOMAS
Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall,
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Illinois and its
Jurisdiction, Who Will Succeed Himself at the Grand Com
munication in October at Evanston, Illinois.
WHAT YOUNG COLLEGE MEN
THINK.
By Dr. M. A. Majors
The race has begun to think
about money and it ue. We ucd
to think im ire about education be
cause that was the one thing to re
duce our inequality, but having
gotten along fairly in education, we
are turning our thought to money
and what it doe-, for any people. Of
the man or woman who i in easy
circumstances we speak volubly. We
have a dignified respect for them and
we are proud when we hear their
names called because they are ours.
Can't you ce. reader, that we arc
going some? The old Uncle Tom
idea of forty acres and a mule i
being supplanted by the young men
of the race just out of college, and
they have their minds turned in the
direction of wealth. What doe this
mean? It means that soon we will
be looking to the race fur every
thing in the biisines and professional
life that we need. The old notion of
inferiority racket about differences in
color is nearly dead, and the sooner
it is dead the better it will be for
all Negroes.
What is your line of business? i
becoming quite pertinent and upper
most. People are not asking how
much religion has he got? They
want to know if he stands for any
thing, and what arc his objects in
life, and how much he is worth.
What docs he manufacture? Does
he carry insurance? Docs he deposit
his money in a colored bank? What
Xegro business is he identified with?
We all know that we arc going to
die dead as a door nail some day,
but they want to have something
more than merely a strong hope for
Heaven, they want to fasten on to
something tangible here and pcr
adventure leave a comfortable legacy
to the wife and the kiddies. It is
all very well to sing the songs of
Moses and the Lamb, and to learn to
become better as we journey through
this vale of tears, hut if we get busy
doing the real useful dignified things
while living we will have the ability
to dry many tears, and there won't
be any waste howling wilderness.
Life is all that we make it and it
is left wholly in our hands as to what
that life shall be. Heaven help those
who help themselves, and there is
not a single back door to it for any
whiners and beggars. If you want
to go in at the front door you had
better accept the door that other
races arc making so much fuss about.
Faith and humble prayer may be
vinccd me that the only hope of
averting repetitions of it lies in fed
eral interference."
H. SAMUELS
all rieht. but the more yon get of this
world's jji.ods the better ou can
crrii-i that faith, and all the more
reason then- i for praying. Being
thankful has a meaning to it that
very few of u can define. If you
have got something to be thankful
fur besides the hope of a future re
ward you are in line for a future
reward.
A good name in a community i
not enough. Doing good deed and
helping others to lighten their bur
dens is a pretty safe game to play,
but a man ought to be a taxpayer,
a good husband, a valuable citizen,
and he ought to be abh- to write a
giod size check, too. Thi i along
the line of operative ami activities
j of the young Xegroe that arc com
ing out ot the school Hi mind i
operating along the afc road to use
fulness and to grcatnes.
The Xegro has sung enough,
prayed enough, shouted enough, and
given einiugh. built enough churches,
supported enough preachers, paid off
enough church debts to save all of
us ami our unborn children for a
thousand yc-ars to come. Let us
continue in that way. only let us
diversify our talent and engage in
making some Heaven here where we
live just as the other folk. Then
will come that joy in our professed
hope a prosperous people only can
understand.
TENNESSEE WILL PENSION
NEGRO CONFEDERATES
Xashville. Tenn. Every Xegro
win served in any way his
master in the Confederate Army
is to receive a pension, according to
the action of the Tennessee Legisla
ture that closed here recently, when
both House and Senate passed the
Senate Bill Xo. 1342 and when thi
bill received the signature of His Ex
cellency, Governor Alf Taylor. The
real text of the bill provides "A Bill
to Pension Xegro Cooks and Serv
ants." It is estimated that there will
be thousands of dollars given to dis
abled members of the race who saw
service with the Gray and who were
loyal to their masters throughout
their career. The introducing and
passing of this bill is regarded in
this city as the first forward move
throughout the South to give recogni
tion to those loyal members of the
Race who stood by their slave
owners.
Mrs. Franklin A. Dcnison, 3132
Calumet avenue, and all the younger
Dcnisons left last Friday morning for
Benton Harbor, Mich., where they
will pass the summer in their pleas
ant country home.
DEDICATE GROUND FOR THE NEW
PRINCE HALL MASONIC TEMPLE
MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND MAS
TER THOMAS H. SAMUELS EN
GINEERED THE AFFAIR.
SEVERAL THOUSAND MASONS,
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AND OTHER
DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS WERE
PRESENT ON THAT MEMORABLE
OCCASION.
THE BUILDING WILL COST $750,000
IT WILL BE FIVE STORIES HIGH, IN
CLUDING A ROOF GARDEN IT
WILL CONTAIN MANY OFFICES, A
BANK AND CLUB ROOMS.
By GENEVIEVE M. REUBEN
1 I odgrs oi I-"re and Acctptid
M.isoii on the south side of Chicago
ir t have a new Prince Hall Ma-
.ni Tt mple, which will cost he-
n SGOO.0O0 and S75U.OOO The
Most Worshipful Grand Master,
ilirotlur Thomas H. Samuels, and a
I provisional Prince Hall Grand Lodge
I .. lti:..: ...i i..: .i:...: t. it
- tiimui .urn juiiMin nun. iii-ifi a
dedicatory service at the site. 56th
ami South State Street, Sunday after
noon. June 12th at 2 P. M. The
Grand Master wa. in full charge of
the program.
The plans for the building have
been drawn for the Temple Associa
tion by Architect Frank I Fry. The
building will cover the entire space
of the lot 100x161 and rise five
stories above the ground. There will
be a roof garden, five spacious halls,
a large auditorium with a seating
capacity of several thousand, a bil
liard hall, library, reading room, rest
room, tea rooms, and other comforts
of a metropolitan club There will
be nine stores and a bank on the
first floor and thirty-two offices in
the building.
Among the principal speakers on
the program were Hon. Edward H.
Wright, who represented Mayor Win.
H. Thompson and also officiated as
master of ceremonies: Hon Oscar
De Priest. Dr W. B. Biatty. R. W G
Treas.. Cairo. 111.: Dr. M. H. Bibb.
M. I").: J. F. Taylor. Mrs. Sylvia Mills.
O. E. S.: Miss Hope Dunmore. H. of
I : J. W. Moore. P. G. M.: R. G.
Bell. W. G P.: J. B. Hart. W. G. J.,
and Rev. W. S. Braddan.
Fraternal greetings were read by
Secretary M. H. Jackson from
Messrs. Julius Rocnwald. Hon. Sam
uel Ettelson. Corporation Counsel;
Chas. A. Peace. Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel: A. A. Martin. Cairo.
Past Grand Master of Illinois: Hon.
Fred A. Sterling. Springfield: Aid.
Robt. R. Jackson and Mayor Win. H.
Thompson.
The entire fraternity including
! Masons of the 33rd degree. Western
Consistory. J. D. Reynolds. Com
mander in Chief: Arabic Temple Xo.
44. A. E. O. X. M. S.: Steward
C. Jefferson. Illustrious Potentate:
Godfrey Conimandery. K. T.. James
Hill. Iv. C: Corinthian Commandery.
K. T., H. Callaway, E. C: St. George
Commandery. K. T., A. A. Xcal.
E. C: Hugh De Payne Commandery.
K. T.. Berry Stokes. E. C ; and each
of the Blue Lodges in Chicago, as
sembled at Union Masonic Temple,
356 South State Street, and marched
to the site where they were greeted
by several thousands who had gath
ered to witness the ceremonies.
Grand Lodge Escorts
The thirty-third degree masons.
Western Consistory. Godfrey Com
mandery. Mt. Hebron Lodge Xo. 29.
Oriental Lodge Xo. 68, Garden City
Lodge Xo. 59 and Universal Lodge
Xo. 63 were the immediate escorts of
the Most Worshipful Prince Hall
Grand Lodge from the hall to the
grounds.
Each of the blue lodges in the
procession was headed by its Wor
shipful Master, viz.: Xorth Star.
Xo. 1.. M. H. Jackson. W. M.; John
Jones. Xo. 7, Wm. Woodward: Hi
ram. Xo. 14, Samuel Mathews: Mt.
Hebron. Xo. 29. Alexander Webb:
Western Light, Xo. 30, Thomas X.
Sellers: Golden Gate, Xo. 43. L.
Cook
.smith. Pritu-i- Hall. Xo. 52. George
Berrnian: Garden City. Xo. 59.
Giorg. P.. Fort. Eureka. Xo. 64. Wm.
C. Let. Universal. Xo. 65, Robt. R.
Gooch; Oriental. Xo. 6S. R. W. Wil
liams; Tyre. Xo. 70. Charles Sims:
Boric. Xo. 77. Victor Thompson:
Celestial. Xo. 80. Albert W Ford:
Harmony. Xo. 8tf. George A. Smith:
Cornerstone. Xo 01. Chas. C. Gran
berry: Olive Branch. Xo. 94. Robt. A.
Jackson: Royal Eagle. Xo. 06. W. G.
Anderson: East Gate. Xo. 98. Frank
O. Finney: and King David. U. D..
Bail S. Christmon.
Three Masonic Bands Participate
Three bands of two hundred forty
pieces composed exclusively of mem
bers of the fraternity, participated in
the procession and tut the program,
rendering their sen-ices gratis as did
every member of the various com
mittees. The bands were Harmony
Band of Harmony Lodge (Day Light
Lodge) Xo. 88: Corner Stone Band,
composed of members of Corner
Stone Lodge. Xo. 91: and the
Knight Templars' band with mem
bers of the Knights Templars de
gree only.
The line of march was south on
State Street from the hall to Forly
lirst Street, east to Wabash Avenue,
south to Fifty-sixth Street and west
to the grounds. Bail S. ChristiHon
officiated as Provisional Grand Mar
shal and was ably assisted by Wal
lace Johnson of Eureka Lodge. Xo.
64. as Provisional AssitaiU Grand
Marshal. Hon. Oscar DePriest, one
of the speakers, and E. M. Steven
son, who served as Provisional Dep
uty Grand Master, are enthusiastic
members of Oriental Lodge. Xo. 68.
W. B Lucky, director of the Knights
Templar Band and H. B. Cooper are
both membtrs of Prince Hall Lodge,
Xt. 52.
Prince Hall Masonic Temple
Association
The officer of the Prince Hall
Masonic Temple Association for the
first year are: President. Samuel
Mathews: first vice president. R. A.
Jackson: treasurer. Wm. C. Lee:
second vice president, Chas. C. Gran
berry: ami secretary. M. H. Jaekson.
The building committee is as follows:
Thomas X. Sellers, chairman: R. A.
Jackson, William A. Woodward and
Samuel Mathews.
The constitution and by-'-jws of
the association provides that the
members of the board and associa
tion is subject to change with the
option of the individual lodges inter
ested at the annual election of of
ficers. The adoptive Rites Auxiliary to the
Association, composed of members
of the various lady branches of the
fraternity, was fully represented at
the grounds, serving light refresh
ments and in every way lending
enthusiasm and assistance to the
project. The officers of the auxiliary
are Mesdamcs Minnie Johnson, presi
dent: Anna Maxwell, vice president;
Susie Turner, treasurer; Lottie A.
Callaway, assistant secretary, and
Miss Hope Dunmore, secretary.
Policy of the Administration
The policy of the Most Worshipful
Prince Hall Grand Lodge, under the
administration of the Most Worship
ful Mr. Thomas H. Samuels. Grand
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