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“Democracy” Safe ^ I*’8 Not in the ft
for the Negro *‘WHIP?* There's I
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 9 1919 =======
- ______ __ _ PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Garrity and Alcock
Deserve Much Credit
State Troop* Do Great Work—Both Work in Harmony
Situation Under Control
special credit must be given the an
thoritics, both civil and military, in the
masterful way in which they handled
the mobs during the five days of rioting,
which held the city in its grip.
If made no difference to them whether
the face of the law breaker was white
or hla<-k, they handled him in the way
all criminals should be handled. They
neither maltreated or brow beat any one,
unless more easy methods failed to sub
due the disturtoT.
Jt will never he known what some
of the police had to contend with, lie
fore the soldiers were called out to
render them assistance. Without sleep,
food or even drinking water, these stal
warts stood on guard and drove hack
mohs, which dealt out death to many of
them. Not onee did they waver from
their line of duty. Into the jaws of j
death they inarched singly or ijn num
bers to save some poor unfortunate who/
had fell into the hands of some in
nmii. i ney Taceil .tenth jp tne|”
rldhAf n«i ytlif n',5'1 j '
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nil Ration to the winds, drovA in «v.i
emerged victorious. There arel many
riot victims, white and Mark, who owe
their lives to these fearless officers. It
1*1 Iv goes to prove, despite critic.-in to
th«- contrary, that the Chicago police,
though inadequate in numbers, are al
ways ready for any emergency.
At the beginning of the riot Chief
fohn J. Garritv, ami First Deputy Alcocli
were on the scene in person anil directed
j the action of their men.
Wheti the general riot call was sent
j in, the first since the Iluvmarket riot,
| the police were on their way to the riot
j center from all over the . ity.
We deplore the fact that many brave
officers lost their lives in the past riot
ami the wounds of other* o fought to
I uphold the fair name of Chicago.
The treatment of both wl and black
were the same. They uev. fired until
they were fired upon; mile to rescue
some poor, bruised, beaten , ietiin.
When the soldiers were i t ou the
streets, Wedbcsda' night, was for
the sole purpose ,.t giving the over
worked police one lunch m led rest.
The situation was well in hand when
these stiird citizen soldiers were called
to relieve flu; tired patrolmen.
Right here we will have to say that
th.»e same military men, who are of the
li/lrtcr type of whites, handled the sit
mtimi from the time thev were placed
III the streets to the present time, in
^capable manner. They searched both
tomnJ|"l black, i„ the riot zone, for
a—J
HKMKAH we deplore anarchv. mob I
•ore ar..Wr-«.* oo quarter to either
race, stopped the congregating on street
1 corners, and made every one move on.
Since they started patrolling the streets
| little or no disturbances have been re
icorded.
We take our hats off to both civil anil
military authorities, who put aside all
racial prejudice (if any esisted among
1 them) a*id in an efficient way put an
[ end to a disgraceful situation.
PROGRESSIVE REFUSE TD
MEET WILSON—CALLS
INVITATION “RUSE"
Fresno, Cal., Aug. f>. By Whip
New* Service. Cheatei II Rowell, the
leader of California Progressives, re
fused to meet President \\ ilsoft at the
State Ub< whea he arrives here* Rowell
is the rampalgu manager for Senator
Hiram W. Johnson, from this State.
Johnson is the biggest vote getter in
the state of California. It will be re
membered that the ignoring of the Pro
gressive element in the Golden State,
was the cause of the defeat of the Re
publican party in the last presidential
election.
Rowell characterized the invitation
by the Democratic leader, Garvin Me
Nab, as a “clever ru.se" to have the
Democrats lined up with the Progres
sives.
DAMAGE 5UIIS IB BE
BDOUGHT AGAINST CITY
BY RIOT VICTIMS
Damage suits ar. under way by
families of deceased victims of the late
riots. According to a state law they
are entitle.l to *-'>,0(in damages, if it can
bo proven that the .1. ceased were not
implicated in any of the riot fights, ns
aggressors. The city of Chicago will be
defendant for at least twelve of these
cases. One or two have already been
atarted by Attorney A. h. Williams of
the Grievance Committee, for the Cook
County Bar Association.
Colored Americans Prohibited
from Enlisting in Regular
Army
Washington, Aug. 8.—Instructions
have been issued by the Adjutant lien
oral to stop enlistments for Colored in
fantry. Under the law' only two rcgi
ments of infantry can be recruited for
|the Regular Army. The number of re
cruits required for two infantry regi
ments already lias been exceeded. The
excess will be removed within the next
few months by discharge and furlough
to the reserve of those entitled thereto.
This order, it was explained, has no re
lation whatever to recent race riots, but
was made necessary by the legal limita
tion upon the number of Colored in
fantrymen in the Regular Army.
Halt Syracuse Riots;
Serious Trouble Avoided
Syracuse, X. V., Aug. 3.—The Glebe:
Malleable Iron Works was the scene of
a race riot. The riots were started by
Poles ami Italians, who were ousted, and
race men put in their jobs.
ltuth sides used clubs, stones and any
other weapon that they could get. Be
volvcrs were displayed, but very few
were used. Prompt police interference
prevented much shooting. Police arc pa
troling the colored section.
Four white ineki were locked up and
charged with rioting.
Burglar Takes Bath and Shines
Shoes in Barber Shop
Fairmont, W. Va., Aug. 8.—The most
fastidious burglar on record broke into
the Fast Side barber shop here.
Nothing was disturbed and nothing
stolen, but the man took a bath, pol
ished his shoes and passed on.
MAN ACCUSED OF
STARTING RIOT
Placed Under $50,000 Bond—
Takes Jury Trial—Im
pudent to Judge
t»eorgc Staubcr, white, who aceord
| inB *° witnesses, threw the stone which
let IIff the conflagration of race hatred,
was put under bond of $50,000 by Judge
Newcomer, of the South Hark street
court. Staubcr is 23 years old, and re
sides at "904 Cottage Grove avenue.
Detective Sergeant Middleton, colored,
who gathered the evidence concerning
the start of the riot, appeared against
Staubcr. Sergeant Middleton told the
court that he could produce seven wit
nesses who saw the actual throwing of
the rock, which knocked Eugene Wil
lianis off the raft causing his death.
I he case was continued until Aug.
14 to allow the police further investi
gut inn.
Most of the prisoners who faced the j
judge were Negroes, but there were j
many whites. Many of the accused I
asked jury trials. Fines were imposed
on the violators ranging from $10.00 I
to $200.00.
hour white men, arraigned before (
Judge Gem mi | i„ the Englewood court,
wen- fined for “getting fresh with the I
<UarF’ ,,rei
►»I.'JtioiMiiu to witnessed they were in
dolent to militiu men doing guard duty
in the riot zone.
Au even number of both races were
arraigned in the stockyards court cliarg
ed with carrying concealed weapons or
being disorderly. They were nearly all
assessed $200.00 and costs under the
Nadler law.
Charles Swittv and C. Smith, white,
arraigned in the South Clark street
court, demanded jury trials. They were
ordered held under bonds of $.'>,000
I each.
rhree colored youths, \\ ilham row
ell, Spurgeon An* ny, and John Wash
ington, are hef# r the murder of
George Wilkins. . ell and Anthony,
in confessions, fasten the killing on
Washington, hut involve themselves.
Their story is this: Wilkins went to
the home of John Parker, 3825 Rhodes
avenue, Wednesday, to collect some in
surance. The three saw him enter.
Powell went to Parker and asked him
who Wilkins was. Parker told him.
Pom-ell said, “Let’s kill him,” and he
and Anthony walked out to the curl*
and waited.
Washington waited in an area way.
As Wilkins came out of the house Wash
ington shot him dead, they say.
Lowery Expects Hanging
44This is an absolutely cold blooded
and unprovoked murder,” said Assist
ant State's Attorney John M. Lowery,
who obtained the confession. 441 have
no doubt that Washington will be
hanged for it.”
White Men in Net
Reports involving at least three white
men in cases of murder and assault to
murder mere in the state’s attorney’s
hands. Theme will be more thoroughly
investigated during the day and arrests
are expected by tonight. Edmard Wil
son, colored assistant state’s attorney,
obtained the information in these cases.
He is especially detailed by State’s At
torney Hoyne to investigate the com
plaints of colored citizens.
4 4 The reports in these eases are pretty
clear,” said Assistant State’s Attorney
Irwin Walker. 4 4 We expect to be able
to get some convictions.”
Another Colored Man
Lynched in Texas
Gilmer, Tex., Aug. 8.—In continu
ance of the disregard of law and justice
and the gross eowardiec of the cracker
element, who do not hesitate to congre
gate ia hundreds and take one little
colored man out and lynch him, Chilton
Jennings was taken from jail here and
hanged in the court yard by a mob of
crackers, numbering 509 men.
Gen. Dickerson Says
Negroes Did Not Start
Stock Yards Fire
Tlie entire fire fighting apparatus of
the city was call- .l out Saturday, Aug.
-, w*>cn 49 home, of tli ■ foreign element
were partially or completely damaged
: hy fire, started from the torch of the
[ r. w. w.
According to Ad.jt. Gen. Dickson, I.
W. W. plotters blacked their faces and
applied the torch of the firebug in an
effort to place tin blame on the Negro
residents of the black belt swept by
riots all week.
Increasing tho panic and peril, tele
phone wires were rut, according to
police reports, and terror stricken peo
ple, who were trying to send in fire
alarms, were unable to get service.
Many whites in the neighborhood
claim they saw Negroes apply the torch
which started the conflagration. These
statements, being ifted to the bottom
were found to be groundless.
Could Not Enter District. j
Gen. Dickson,- :«wed by the
)vernor’s |) Jar^y> W*M<> 8tartx- t }1C
lieved it w«*),ll(l have 1)0011 i,nP°**%
for automobile Ivfftds ot Negroes to
eseupe from the .filth Hide riot district;
jhat they would have been halted by
military sentries on guard not far away.
Governor Lowden was inclined to ac
cept the theory of First Deputy Alcock
that Negroes were not to blame. The
jwdiee official discussed the theory that
'refusal of the foreigners in the district
^to take sides with radical labor agita
tors may have been at the bottom of it.
ACTORS CHASED OFF
STAGE By MOB
Glad to Reach 35th and State
Ledman ami McCree, not knowing
there was trouble awaiting them, went
on the stage to do their turn. The
theater in which they were playing is
oil llalsted, in the center of a white
settlement.
As soon as they walked on the stage i
everything imaginable was hurled ut '
them. They heat a hasty retreat to
the stage door. Getting outside they
found another mob awaiting them. They
couldn't go forward nor backward.!
dust as one hoodlum reached for *‘ Led,' ’
the bluccoats who were battling their
way toward them, reached their side
find held off the mob.
The police commandeered a machine ^
ind brought them safely to Thirty-fifth ! f
uid State Streets. j j
Ledman said "The old corner looked : <
iweeter to me that night than it ever j
lid look."
BIGAMIST SENTENCED ■'
TO TERM IN SING SING:
1 4 hv, Judge
New York. Aug. 8.—JoStrpir . a
I ii I nker, of 243 Navy street, Brooklyn,
f.viiH sentenced to serve from two to the
years i.' Sing Sing following his plea of
Jguilty in General Sessions yesterday.
lie was haled to court on complaint
f>f Mariam Eaton, of 25 West 13-ith
street. She claimed Eaton married a
Second time last December to <'arietta
A. Earnum, of 243 Navy street, by the
Kev. E. Holder, in the Empire friendly
Shelter, 11 ♦> West 133d street.
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Golden Rule to Be Applied in
Treatment of Colored Americans
“Other Groups Came to America to Better Their Conditions.
We Brought the Negro Here to Better Ours,” Says
Leading White Chicago Clergyman
Decent events in Chicago alarm and
shock ns, lint at the same time move
us to weigh our duty.
Other people have come to our shores
to better their condition; we brought
the Negro here to better our condition.
We cannot ignore our debt of grati
tude for the part they played in the
world war, as indispensable laborers, as
courageous soldiers and us supporters
in full of every aid undertaken at home.
In the past we, in Chicago, made it
necessary for them to live near the
haunts of vice which we established.
We have permitted gambling to flourish
in their midst and we imposed upon
them the vicious American saloon. At
the same time we unjustly closed many
fields of lalior to them, causing the
neediest to seek work among the demur
alizing influences with which we sur
rounded them. Notwithstanding this,
our Negro citizens were law-abiding and
'gave us no trouble until for commercial
purposes others were brought from the
South in such great numbers that hous
ing and other living conditions were in
adequate, and as yet we have been un
able to effect a readjustment.
We are now gathering the fruit of
our own sowing. The Negro hoodlums
whom we created under the conditions
named joined our white hoodlums, and
they together planted the seeds of riot
in the fertile soil of injustice which
prejudice always imposes.
While the recent riots have witnessed
the most sickening brutality oh the part
of the Negro people, the whites have
been no less cruel; in a great number of
instances the stronger race has fallen
upon the weaker with ferocity and with
out mercy and without cause.
There is no higher or clearer state
ment of our duty toward our dark broth
ers than the rule laid down in a very
ancient decision which lias never been
overruled—one which wu* usually refer
to as the Golden Rule.
Let us resolve, in view of the condi
lions obtaining within the last few days,
to recognize our Negro neighbors as
Americans who have always been loyal
to America in the face of bad treatment;
let ns recognize them as fellow citizens
entitled to share fully and equally the
boasted opportunity of America; let us
do this in a friendly spirit worthy of
Christian! and of Americans.
In an emergency, such as the present,
it is the manifest duty of the churches
to bear emphatic testimony to the need
of calmness, sanity and sympathy with
all of both races who are oppressed by
the iniquities of the present social order.
The message of Christianity, as al
ways in the past, is one of brotherhood
and aspiration for good will and co-op
eration, which are the bases of the
peace and welfare of every community.
The efforts of all the people of all the
churches are needed at this time to re
store order and eontidenee and to make
impossible the recurrence of the vio
lence and lawlessness which are disgrac
ing our city.
THE CHICAGO CHURCH FEDEBA
TION,
Herbert L. Willett, President.
Walter K. Mee, Secretary.
Committee of citizens indorsing the
above statement: Bobert MeMurdy,
Mary McDowell, 8. P. Breekenridge,
Mrs. G. M. Mathes, Father Joseph Me
Namee, Graham Taylor and George H.
Mead.
Aid. Anderson Rebukes Moran,
Who Introduced Jim Crow
Measure in Council
Alderman Moran, from the III at ward,
introdueed a resolution providing mr
a com mission to circumscribe separate
zones for white ami colored residents
ami in addition to consider separation in ]
schools and all other public institutions. '
Heat Makes Aldermen Sluggish
The sun was shining bright, aug
nente-d by warm currents from the south
Aiiicti raised the mercury to almost
he last notch on the thermometer. This
orridness seemed to have incapacitated
nost of the solons for effective work,
mt not Louie Anderson. The weather
eemed to inspire him as much ns at
empt to segregate his people Appeared
o enrage him.
Anderson Gets Floor
After several unsuccessful attempts,
Inderson arrested the recognition of
he chairman. He i mediately ruled the
'‘solution out of order, staling that it |
eing a special session of the council '
lint no business could be lawfully trails 1
cted except that specifically stated in '
tirrtii firm/ ,mu. e ..om
satisfied at merely enlightening Moran,
who, it is said, showed ignorance of
the council rules, but rebuked him, say
[ ing: “Only two weeks ago today, when
He Valeria, the president of Ireland, was
; the guest of the ritv council, he made a
• speech tolling of the hardships and ex*
eructating agonies that the Irish people
have and are now undergoing from
Knglish tyranny. I sat side by side
with you and prayed for Ireland's eman
cipation. And who knows but that to
morrow this government mnv decide to
take arms in defense of your Irish kin.
M v people whom you are trying to stig
matize with segregation would bo the
tn st to take arms foi Ireland’s defense*
It’s needless to say that John Bull, with
all of his boasted strength, would rather
lace anybody else than the American
negro on the battlefield.
Addresses Other Aldermen
With tire in his eyes Alderman Ander
‘on, with a firmness not second to former
Alderman De Priest, said,1 ‘ if 1 read cor
rectly the international events of today,
ill who sit under the sound of my voice,
relatives and racial ties in Europe who
ire struggling against great odds to *
Weak the fetters that you are trying to
dace upon tin shoulders of my people
n Chicago. You take my word you have
indertaken a task more difficult than .
on think.”
surprises Constituents
^ Xii4‘ ‘* 1 itant stand taken t>y An<|fr^_
this city, rfin agreeable Mirpri**1 ® B**‘
cased of choo ***** to J^rogr least resist
ance, but all factions and races com
prising this district are complimenting
his courage and efficiency.
City Will Lose Over
Million Dollars on
Account of Riot
The city of Chicago will lose much in
a financial way on account of the dam
age done, during the riots. Under the
law it is responsible t<» the citizens, in
the {neighborhood, of $1,000,000 on ac
count of loss of lives and damage to
property.
Tin* following statistics will show the
damage done to Chicago by the recent
riots:
Hinting lasted, days.
N umber of deaths (20 Negroes,
Id whites). 33
Injured (177 Negroes, 129
whites) .:. 306
Fires (riot zone). 51
Fires (back of the yards, build
ings burned). 49
City’s estimated loss (be
cause of responsibility
under law).$1,000,000
Number of troops on duty 6,000
Number of police at times 2,200
Number of deputy sheriffs 500
Ex-slave Willing to Pay
for Tobacco If City
' Care of Him
Vtilip.) Albert Kidney
ami personal bodyguard of Hen. Albert
j Sydney Johnson, in the civil war,
walked into the city hospital and said
that he was too old to work and had
J only $8.00 to take care of himself with.
| He informed the authorities of the hos
pital, that if the city would take care
of him, the $8.00 would pay for his to
bacco for the rest of his life.
When Johnson was asked how old he
was, he replied that he was 38 when
Buchanan campaigned for president.
Buchanan wuh elected President in 1856.
This would make Johnson about 100
years old. He appears to be about 100,
though for his general weakness and
failing eyesight, he is physically fit.
He came to 8t. Louis about fifty years
; ago and worked around wealthy
| families.
C OLORED WOMAN CARRIES
"SNOiriNUMBI LA
Pittsburgh Woman Arrested for
Carrying on Illicit Drug
Business —
Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 8.—It (lid not
look at all like rain when City Detec
tive Frank Farris and James Noon,
watching the cosmopolitan populace of
the Hill How by Wylie Avenue and Ful
ton streets, observed a colored woman
with an umbrella, join the throng.
“Hah,” remarked Noon, “starting
out otn the route.”
They trailed her to the North sij
where they stopped her and invited^!
to the North side police station,
tlie station the matron searched h
carefully, but found not even a sugges
tion of what the detectives were loo]
ing for. Farris had not thought liiucl
of the project from the first, and now
he began to scoff at Noon.
Whereupon Noon reached for the um
brella. He raised it and pushed it open.
Five little packages fell to the floor.
‘ ‘ Cocaine,” lie exclaimed.
The womaJn registered as Babe Smith,
of Itaseo Street, Northside.
“Whenever 1 see ‘Babe’ out with
her umbrella on a clear day I know the
sleigh bellr arc going to jingle,” Noon
explained.
Policemen Accused of Being
Afraid of “Hoodlums”
Charges were filed yesterday with
the police trial board against Police
man John McNamara. McNamara, ac
cording to the charges, refused to go to
the assistance of Er.rcal Keller, 1010
North Oakley, and friends of'the latter,
when they were attacked July 13 by a
band of alleged hoodlums at Narragam
sett and Grand avenue.
Mrs. Blanche Letts, of New York, se
visiting her father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. James Newsoa, of W. 30th Street.