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PERRY W. HOWARD’S ^ i PLEA OF INNOCENCE. The only information X have with reference to my indictment is what I have read in the daily papers. I am a martyr to the cause I rspresent—Negro leadersh p^ Persecution is the price of martyrdom. Prison wallsto m F j 1up"»’*14rY.°pri' ““LmrdL!" r£'S VZSSSZZ-■SS-SS.-.-iSA. in the criminal courts. ... T +>,« I have no idea what the charge is. Whatever it is, Ik ha .at .? “C back-fire from the current of a righteous cause, and Sis cause will go on, whether I am temporarily incarcerated or not. . I am o-uilty of no wrong doing, directly or indirect y. i °My "lily-white" adversaries have enlisted the aid of power fu3 influence material, political and otherwise, and I am not sur prised at what happened. For seven years I have been tne mos bounded and investigated man in tha Jnited States. No itian in the Nation has done more than I to prevent anything . t ever smacked of the purchase and sale of public offices. I • nf opnlicants for offices in the State ofxMississippi sf fidavits declaring that the applicant had given or promised to give no consideration of any kind for the office. This was at the inception of my administration and pr.or , the enactment of the statute requiring the filing of affidavits io that effect with the Comptroller General. I appeared before the House Judiciary Committee as the records „ tVlflt committee will show, and urged the enactment of a law re lUTrl all appointees to make an affidavit stating that they had not*given or promised to give any consideration for their appoint ’v< . ment • ■'*** a. t repeat that I have done no wrong. I have been merely ac cused as the result of an exparte hearing. No one m public life -s safe from accusations by his political enemies, and all fair-minded Americans will throw around me the presumption of innocence until I have been proven guilty. .... I have no fear of the outcome of a trial in Mississippi. A’grand jury indicted Perry W. Howard and associates, and post poned trial until Nov. 5, 1928, nearly four months from date of indict ment and during the entire time of the campaign for the Presidency, in which campaign Howard and his associates are virtually interested. Such delays are positively prohibited by the Constitution of the United States, Article VI: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the ✓ State and District wherein the crime shall have been committed, which District shall have been previously ascertained by law and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be con fronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor and to have the assistance of^ counsel for his defense. What will the Tea Million with their lone Representative on the Repnbacan National (3ortimitteo do about i-. The great Republican National Convention confirm^ tide to his seat and recog nized him as entitled to sit with representatives from o -r . . . r mt i chaiPnn pv-f^wr ol IfcteiJ, 13 /.hvia i0 Upon Hie fitmand cl that anti-Kegro "CHFH-trfffi «<w{f •»«.. bo sacrificed in the Courts ar*d crctilitd in the Republican Fsr.y • Let the Colored People and their organizations gits the m ..." aliens may be heard Rot. 6,1828 from tbs Atiantm to the Pacific iCa-u ^ ^ th\t plea of innocence, j ?**■] “The more you mow us down, the more thickly we grow; theblood of Christians is fresh Boed. —Tertullian » It has been a common saying among white southerners that whenever northerners attempt to deal with ( the Negro question in the Southland, they almost invariably make a mesa of it- This seems to have been veri fied in the case of Hon. George L. Sheldon, former Governor of Ne braska. who s.eems to have tired of residing within the State, which had rewarded him with high office. He preferred to occupy tho southern designation of “carpet-bagger- and ho moved into Perry W. Howards State of Mississippi to make trouble for him and the rest of tho able col ored men of that far Southern State. As a rule, with the exception o? the “poor whites”, thousands of southerners, who are against tho i Negroes are against the other fel ' low's Negroes and he is 'gloriously” I in favor of his own Negroes, those, | who possess family ties coming down i tho line from slavery, many ot whom 'rew trace their lineage to the black mammies of other^fays and to the “big house” Negroes, who wero butlers, hostlers valets and the like. Ihis class of southerners have a bitter antipathy to Negroes from the North. ' = , They dislike that nasal twang and th<y despise everything pertaining :o this class of tho “brothers in black” who aspire to civil rights and social privileges. The Hon. George L. Sheldon evidently did not knojr thir when he went u-p against that Negro Mississippi, who hailod from the State of Hon. John Sharp Wil liams and whose appointment as Special Assistant Attorney General c: ihe United State was appr^c’ated by perry W. Howard’s white col leagues. who often proudly men tioned him as a living example of v,hat the much abused Sta e had done for this class and type Negroes, who knew how to appreciate Southern rules and mstoms and to accord credit to the liberal-minded white elements in this section of tin country, who had made such an achievement possible. As a results when the carpet bagger” Hon. George L. Sheldon went up against Perry W. Howard ar.d his southern white Republican friends in the Courts of Mirsiaslppl. Howard and his friends won out. This was later confirmed by the Re publican National Committee and later still by the Committee on Cre dentials and finally by the Republi can National Convention Itself. Thii would logically have ended the con troversy. But Sheldon was not sat isfied. He had whispered into the ear of the distinguished Californian, Hen. Herbert Hoover and he in turn left the matter to one of h s mana gers, 1$. being understood that Shel don was “a friend of the family.” 1 Perry W. Howard was entered up 1 on the roster of the Republican Nl ' ticnal Committee. This g»vc him control of the campaign m Mi**jj* s'ppi. People from this Stata. both I white and black, know hew to light and Howard was no exception. Ex Governor Sheldon, not being able to win by fair means proceeded to ap peal to the court of unfair means. Ite blow was aimed, so to speak, ,rt6low the belt”. A hasty decision was not wanted, despite the positive command of Article VI of the Con stitution of the United Statea. Another "carpet bagger” for a t9W days was Imported in the person of Mrs. Mabel Walker Wilebrandt Assistant Attorney General 0f >he L'r. ted States. She assisted In hav ing Perry W. Howard indicted for | con?p racy; set the hearins tor November 5. 192S when sho and Sheldon knew that the election was Tuesday. November 6, 1928. 7n the meantime an order was secured from Attorney General Sargent suspending Perry W. Howard from office and p-.y.*pending this hearing presum ing him guilty until he prove* him self innocent, thus upsetting a fun damental principle of criminal law. vhich is as old es English Jut sprit dence itself. In the meantime the Cha rman of is in the embarrassing pred cametit ’the Republican National Committee of trying not to deal with the off cial Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, and who occupies that pos tion unt’l he has been found guilty of crime before a vacancy can exist in the office held by him. In the meantime, Perry W. Howard announces to the world to use h.s enact language: i t “I have done no wrong. I have b«n merely accused as a result of an exparte hearing. No one in public life is safe from accusations by his political enemies and all falrminded Americans will throw around me the presumption of innocence until I have been proven guilty. I have no fear of the outcome of a trial in Mississippi." ^ We agree with him. It ia an isaue between a black native Mississipplin and a "carpet -bagger" Nebraskan. In such a contest, Justice will bs enthroned and a proper Judgment be reached In short order. We would suggest that Hon. George L. Shel don of Nebraska go on back home and permit the black and white Mississlpptans to get along in peace and harmony together. This Indictment business ra'sht well be considered in ihe nature of a Joke were it not for the serious consequences to follow Perry W. Howard’s persecution. Powerful Ne gro organizations throughout the country should resent it. More than ten million Negroes have this lone, honest, able Negro leader to re present them on the Republican Na tional Committee and they will see tr, it at the ballot boxes in the States of the North and We»t that the blow a med at them from this source shall be resented at the p^lls. 1 Y/i„e her i w.i lesuit in lauding 1) 1> •• get .a-. ’ Hon. Alfred E. smith ol New York or the ■ e sta vical Hon. Herbr*t Hoover of .’Jifornift in the White House of i mo Nation will be an after consid era ion. Mrs. Mabel Walker Wllle brandt may be fine on a whiskey stent in the trac ng of bootlegger!, but she has shewn absolutely BO ! bloodhound ability in the trailing of Southern Negroes. She is wholly unable to tell the dfference betweeg an innoccn. Negro and a guilt7 on*. We would suggest that Attornty General Sargent call her off and send her to the Canadian border or to the ( Florida shore line, where 6he may bo able to tell the difference be , tween a whisaey shark and a pro hib’tion olue fish. Selah. 1 I ‘‘Every s.ep of progress the world , ha;. made has been from scaffold tP scaffold, and from stake to stake. It would hardly be exaggeration to • say. that all the great truths re lating .o soc-et.v and government hav# 1 been first hetTW in the solemn pro csts of martyred patriotism, or the ioud cries of crushed and starving labor."—Wendell Philips. Good Medicine DBIVO To DRIVE OUT COLDS, Chills, Fevers, Headaches, Indigestion, Constipation. . 25c and 50c Bottles all Drug Stores. ( Order the Planet sent to you by the week, month or year. W e have a means of delivery. Daring Young Sailor Trades S'loes for Blow Pipe in Borneo $m«e EtlTNQ a o old 'owS* By J. G. SAWYER. NEW YORK.—a marvelous picture f life in foreign lands.—Persia. Bor neo. Java, and India, and of the peo ple who dwell therein from the hum ble native who sleeps by the roadside to the wealthy nabob, of sailors and -javages. cut-throats and brutal crews is given In Eugene Wright's new book. ‘The Great Horn Spoon." shortly to : ppear The book does for those far ands and strange places what Jack 1 ondon and Rex Beach did for * laska. Eugene Wright was a common sailor. He had worked In an tron foundry running white hot metal Into the moulds with men two and three times his age. At 18 he was the sub *oss of an Italian crew, near Hacken sack. N. J. He had worked his way through the West and climbed the perpendicular cliffs of the Canyon «r th« vad. Rut he manage* to go to Columbia University, accumulated a library of the great masters of literature and lived with them. When the call of the sea struck him be founa good hearts among the dregs of the waterfront In the ship's fore castle. So he has called his book the “Great Horn Spoon" which the old New England skippers swore by. In Calcutta he was hit by a break ing cable and Invalided to the hos pital. Soon after he was taken by dengue /ever. His funds low, he lived with Hindus and Arabs looking Into the hearts of men. He traded his last pair of sneakers for the blow pipe of a snake-eating dwarf who lived 700 miles in the interior of Borneo. For months he lived in Jungles, on the road, in for'C"sties under a blls i terlng sun. He ascended strange tropical rivers which often rose 18 l feet ovgr night found the .nclent CWftlQrfT city of Lar in Persia where a touri.-t Is said never to have set foot. He r turned to America thin as a : ; shaking with fever which twice cl-... painted his cheek bones a briHi red. He had been shipwrecked Capt. Purdy’s ooat In the Bahair he knew California like a book, n worked on roads with a pick. walked the streets of Madras an.; finding bis home town Rutherford N. J., virtually “dead" was about tc cast off again. The editor of the American maga zlne heard of this strange young mar saw the stories he had written tor magazines in India and asked him t*. write. The office was thrilled wher they read his Impressions. And thus In suffering and deprive • tlon In adventure and high hop* born the "Great Horn Spoon" a mg book with romance packad tar tween two covers. It Is a ta»* *r hardship and strange worlds, ***■ jungle life. It Is a swift ruxa^n. dramatic tale with exciting mcld^.s the work of a master craftsman a*.b the soul of a conqulstadore. This reviewer predicts that the “Great Horn Spoon" will be read lvO /cars '«im now. THANKS FOR BLESSINGS > BIG BRAINS BETTER CARNEGIE'S FIRST $400 A $500,000,000 BABY Mount Rokatmda, on the Inland of Paloweh, Dutch East Indies, blew up in a volcanic eruption. Half the island, six villages were de stroyed, a thousand killed. Yesterday news came that three more villages were wiped out by a tidal wave caused by a submarine earthquake. We pay little attention to these deaths far away, a thousand or fifty thousand, little difference. But we ought to observe with gratitude how many things might happen to us that do not happen. Raditch, Croatian statesman,,, murdered leader of peasants, is found to have a brain of abnormal weight, 1,459 grammes. The average for eleven thousand human brains was 1*361 grammes. AH things being equal, a heavier brain is better than a lighter brain. But one of the heaviest brains ever weighedj that of Cuvier, the great naturahst, was^ lighter than that of a man who died ha a Brit ish poorhouse. Possibly the man m the poor house was also a genius, but never had a chance. “Andrew Carnegie made bte first $400 without spending a cent That’s how big fortunes often start Carnegie bought _ $400 of insur ance stock, gave his note in pay men t, paid for the stock with as dividends, owned it for nothing. Joseph P. Day, learned land sci entist, says tbe three greatest fct ,ters in the alphabet are "0. P. M~,” meaning “Other People’s _ Knows His Tomatoes jAPrOCASTEg ipy^ij_iJPPK Walter King, a plumber of Law rence, Kan., who is famous for his prize tomatoes, which compare m size vo cantaloupes, grown on his plot of ground twenty feel square. A quicker way'toraake rubs# without capital ts to have a good iftwt and posh it A Nvay to plater metalfic surfaces with aluminum^ something hitherto found impos-i sible, is discovered and involves*1 actually bflBcms of dollars to be. saved The invention, wfll be applied to iemOess uses, from kitchenware to locomotives, and is expected to give automobiles a finish defying time and weather. There are as good ideas in thei human brain as ever came out of it Try and find one / Sears, Roebuck stockholders yes-{ terday voted to increase capital stock by 800,000 shares. At mar ket prices that company is worth; more than $500,000,000. Julius Ro setraakl hardly expected that when i he took hold of the company a few years ago. Compared with other companies1 General Motors, Standard Oil, S. Steel, etc., Sears, Roebuck is only a baby. We have the four bthj lion dollar stock company. WheU| wiJHhe 100 billion company mivel The death of Chang Tso-Lin, dy*l namited m his railway carriage, ts4 attributed by a British writer Lenox Simpson, to the Japanese ''Black Dragon Society,” which k>-( •teeests itself in patriotic Japanese i affairs, and is said to have hull a hand in the death- of the Qoft5i of Korea in 1895. In spite of tho romantic name and the patriodetj^ the lapa nese will probably dig odll the facts. J They don't like any organization ere easing powers outside of gon- * eminent, or controlCug govern ment,. such as are tolerated, some times, in other countries. ■-J Seating the moon. SINKA/JLE LIFE GUARDS. A NOBLE EFFORT. A WOMAN AT 49. Men have already beaten tbe moon •» its journey around the earth, ine U toon’s trip takes a little more than wenty-seven days. Fliers have made the trip in twenty-three days. Beating the moon around the earth o one achievement The next wiu lz to TIE the sun in its apparent lrncy around the earth With machines flying 1,000 miles ad hour, gentlemen wanting a pro longed sun bath will be able ro fly directly under the sun, following it around tbe earth for twenty-four hours or longer New York’s Civil Service Comma won investigated the qualities of Me guards, hired by politicians to pro tect New York Gty^s beaches. They -were supposed to dash into tflt boiling surf and savethe drowning , It was found that of 163 guards 15 couldn't swim a stroke, IS more re fused to “risk the swimming test in 'the water.” They thought ‘t too dan gerous- In. the words of Mr , Look, 'of Los Angeles, imagine their em barrassment when anyone^ crKZ l“belp" There may be something tn the statement that politicians a»e «» tfit to attend to any kind of wnep tn New York they certainly arp ftot 6t to select life guards. When a gaso!^ bn®* qcP*°^ed North Bay, Ontario, a priest, a man and wife and theirtwj Iwere thrown into the water. AP hoi pie father perished. f - . With his two trfUf aged two years, one old, in his artnS, fre ored to ?wim to the shore, a mde ‘'Em. lasted, he wus 9»ftf «“ fry pie .phfldrea.* He reached tne •how It was a oohle eSofX. ^ Tbe colly , difference between a father and* n^twM. in each & case ts that Trial MOTHER WOULD HAVE DIED WTTH THE CHILDREN Ethel Barrymore, forty-trine yean old yesterday, told friends sbe^ ww enjoying We “as much as ever She ought to be enjoying life MORE iban ever For an intelligent woman real im begins at forty-nine Wise Provi dence won’t let- women do wip'-’rtant mental work much before fifty Up to that age Nature intends women to be busy with children Roy Chapman Andrews, searching for strange things in Central Aga, reports finding an extinct minister “as big as the Woolworth Building Such an animal, if carnivorous, could carry home in its mouth a couple of big elephants and walk through an ordinary city crushing buildings as it went Bat it had a small head, htiU or no thm&xg power That is why i no longer with us. A great nation, and good maker tTCanada This year’s Cara- * doD wheat crop, 500,000.000 bushels, breaks ail reoordSj Caradnaw hare Just dedicated a National Pa*. Indie northern P3* ^rovu*!, of Saskatchewan, 900,000 acres m , extent Dorag things in a btf way » Cto- > ttjn Canal, letting aH.rcrtKxa ate a on the same terms jar■ Europe much more cheaply tham^w Middle..Western faapen aa * . -_■ : Zfegr Scout on jfrrfl ftff]