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
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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
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“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.
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Daring Young Sailor Trades S'loes for Blow Pipe in Borneo
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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.
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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
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