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» DMartin* n J9 AnhlivN tnd HiiU*f A NEWSPAPER PEOPLE READ AND OFFICIAL REPUBLI CAN ORGAN OF McDowell county — FROM THE BILLION X* COAL FIELD IN THE * GEO GRAPHICAL CRN' TER OF INDUSTRY VOL. XXXVIII NUMBER 44 VOTE A STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET As the electorate goes to the polls to vote on Novem ber 5, the one thing that should be kept in mind is to vote a straight Republican ticket. This should be kept in mind by all Negroes for Wend ell Willkie has promised publicily all of those rights that the race has sought. Never before has any presidential candidate been so fair and outspoken towards this minority group which can, after election, call for fulfillment rather than do as we have in the past, seek that which was not promised. The Republican candidate for Governor has a record that shows him as being always just to all races and he will remove many of our taxes. John J. Stuart needs no recommendation for Sheriff of McDowell County as no citizen can testify of indicate that any of his actions have been other than fair to all concern ed. As much can be said for all other candidates on the Re publican ticket, thus we say, “Vote a straight Republican Ticket” and thereby guarantee “A Government of the Peo ple, by the People and For the People.” Sweeny Gives Easton Answer The following is taken from a letter over the signature of John B. Easton, President of the West Virginia Industrial Union Council, dated October 18, 1940: “Mr. Sweeney comes from an extremely wealthy family. He is reputed to be extremely weal thy in his own right. Me. Sween ey has been reared in an insur ance famiy and knows that busi ness well, but he knows nothing about the hardships of the la boring men apd women. “The Congressional Records 'at Washington show that the insurance companies spent fa bulous sums of money in try ing to defeat the Old Age Pen sion Law. Everyone knows tha.t big business does not quit fight ing and insurance companies arei certainly big business, so the> can be expected, at the very first opportunity, to make ar effort to repqpl the Old Age pension law. With Tom Sween ey in the Senate, ie would be the natural thing to expect the insurance companies to work through him for repeal of the CALLS DEMOS’ OFFICE; \ OPERATOR SAYS “DARKY HEADQUARTERS” (by S- R. Anderson) Does the Negro vote of Ka nawha county and the state of West Virginia, mean no more to the Kanawha county white Democratic personnel than to think of its county Negro ad junct as “The Darky Head quarters.” Last week, it is alleged, a call was made over the telephone to the County Democratic Head quarters, and asked the privi lege to speak with Mr. Eddie James, the head of the Negro Department in that set-up The white lady who answered the telephone call did not seem to know any Mr. Eddie James cor. necte with the headquarters, so it is alleged. — When she was told that it was the man who headed up the colored department, she is re ported to have said, “Oh. the l darky headquarters here.” If this is true, and it is re ported on reliable authority, it manifests little respect and no consideration of the value of Negro vote. There is no expression of con tempt which the Negro feels more keenly, and resents with more bitterness than the offen sive term ‘‘Darky.** law. * “As proof of Sweeney’s great wealth, he is spending money in this campaign like a ‘drunken sailor.’ His advertisements, are being carried in practically all the newspapers of the State, not once, but many times, in fact most every day. He has bought much expensive radio time. He travels by aeroplane, which is another expensive item. “It is rumored that the in surance companies are backing Sweeney with fabulous sums of money.” I am not wealthy. In fact, I and the other members of my family, spend or give away an nually almost the entirety ol what we earn. There is, perhaps, no politician in the State who has visited and talked with more persons— high or low—in the mines, in the factories and up the hollow. than I have in the course of the campaign. To say that I don’t know anything about the hard ships of laboring men and wo men is simply to express an un founded opinion. To say that I am against Old Age Pensions is equally ridicu lous. I have declared myself in favor of larger "pensions and benefits paid through elimina ting the wasteful, bookkeeping system of pretending to store up funds for the future—funds which are, in actual fact, seize* and used by the government a.* fast as they are paid in. am ii favor of paying the benefits, not at some future time but in pay ing them now. As for my advertisements they are all small, and crowded into a few inches of one column. They have appeared weekly not daily, over a period of less than a month. The total of them in any one paper, would amount to approximately one-third of a page — much less than the n mount of space used by most candidates for major office in i single issue on the day befor an election. To date T have not made a single radio broadcast since the Primary Election. And the few that I intend to make will be within the reasonable limits ex pected of a candidate for a ma jor office, and will be spon sored by the Republican State Committee. I have never travele dby air plane between any two points in West Virginia. Nor hrve I (Continued on Page Two* FREEDOM Onhj ■MMSKNSABU' ROOSEVELT’S SEC’Y | KICKS RACE OFFICER NEW YORK.—When T. Early, White House secretary, attempt ed to pass through the gates at the Pennsylvania station hero on Monday night, he was stopped by a group of policemen, who were protecting Mr. Roosevelt and his party. Mr. Early had no identification yet he attempt ed to force his way through. In the brawl which followed, Earley kicked a Negro police man of the Metropolitan police force. Sloan quotes Early as saying: You had better be glad I didn't do anything worse.” A police surgeon treated Sloan for contusions to the abdomen and confined him to bed. Early claimed the next day in Washington that he “gave the knee” to the officer. NATIONAL FIGURES SAY REPUBLICANS WILL WIN NEW •-YORK CITY. — Tele-] grams from Nejrro Republican! leaders of eastern states indicate Wendell L. Willkie will carry a majoity of the Ne^o vote in those states, Francis E. Rivers of the Eastern Division, Repub ican National Committee said Saturday. . “Our leaders in Delaware, Maryland, New York, state, Massachusetts, Connecticut, R. Island, Pennsylvania, West Vir ginia and New Jersey all report (Continued on Page Two) THE NEXT PRESIDENT WENDELL L. WILLKIE -ii TWO STATE NEGROES C*N WILLKIE’S TRAIN Mrs. M. TV Whittico and T. G. Nutter we«|fthe Negro repres entatives Srho boarded the at Hunting ton and journeyed into Charles ton as the special guests of the President-Elect. On this short trip, Mr. Will lae stopped his busy routine long enough to shake hands with each of these guests. Chairman Kay had arranged for a number of Negro repres entatives to ride on Mr. Will kie’s special. Possibly due to the enormous crowd other mem hers were unable to reach the train before the time of its departure Dr. H. D, HATFIELD TO RETURN SATURDAY Dr II. D. Hatfield, former governor of West Virginia ami Senator from West Virginia, will return to McDowell county on Saturday and address a Re publican meetiiik at the Welch Courthouse. . Dr. Hatiield was in the count,\ recently and addressed one ol the largest audiences assembled during this campaign. This address was delivered at Key stone, where the speaker un flinchingly relate the politico' situation as it affects the coun ty state and nation today. IIb return to the county is a result of many requests from thost who wish to secure information from a capable, honest and tried public servant. _a_ JOE LOUIS SPEAKS FOR WENDELL L. WILLKIE E. Rivers, Director of the Color ed Division, Republican National Committee, announced today (Sunday) that Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion boxer will speak for Wendell Willkie Republican candidate £or Presi dent to at least six, and pro bably seven, .meetings this .week in the East and West. I Louis announced in Detroit I Saturday tha he was “in Will I kie’s corner.” -4 I —Subscribe to the Times— Members of the Eastern Planning Hoard Colored Division, Repub'ican National Oommitt ■. They are shown arriving in Chicago last week for joint meeting ofKastern and Western Plann ing Hoards at Western Division Headquarters. Left to right, women, Mrs, Elvira Bond, Baltimore; Mrs. Carrie M. S. Pijies, Wilmington; Mrs, Nona Pierce, New ^ork; Mrs. Madeline Lewis, Washington; Mrs. Maude B .Coleman, Harris burg; Mrs. Sarah Martin, Boston ; Mrs Elizabeth Blake, Woodbury, N. J.; Miss Anna Lewis, of Providence N. J.; Mrs M. T Whittico, Keystone, W. Va.; Mrs Mrble Wims, West Virginia and Mrs. Anna Borden of New York. I/eft to right, men, Joseph V. Baker Philadephia; John Hopkins. Wi’mington; T. Gillis Nutter, ( harleston, V\. \ a.; J. Franklin Wilson, Washington; Marsc Calloway, Baltimore; George Gor don, Boston; LeMarr Perkins, New York; William Hatchett, Bridgeport, Conn.; Joseph S. Mitchell, Boston; James M. Sto22tt, Providence; Oliver Randolph, Newark; Arthur C. Logan, New York; Harry B. Webber, NewYo rk; Robert L. Leftwieh, New York; and William A. Dart of Atlantic City. “LEST WE FORGET” On Tuesday 50,000,000 Americans will go to the polls and exercise their right to vote. As a reminder \v»> say to the voter we CAN NOT FOR 1«KT THAT THKSK "NFAV PKALKRS" have continued to block bills in congress that affected the welfare of the Negro. The Negro population <>!' this country is human, they are citizens and are entitled to ev ry right that any other citizen is entitled to. It was the Republican Party that: 1. Cave and guaranteed you the right to vote. 12. Cave you positions of honor and trust in the national Government. It. Caw every institution fun ducat inn health, care of aged, youth and insane in the State 1. Cave you such privileges, rights and recognition that under Republican administrations McDowell county was "The Free State of McDowell." Negroes stay with your < wn party. If you’ve strayed away come home and win with Willkie and the entire tic ket down to Bernard Rowling. Constable in Browns Creek District. Republicans Are Cn The March! Says Race Did NothingForU.S. NA&ILVILLK, TKNN. — A committee of colored citizen: that called upon the Governoi to ask him to appoint, some Ne groes to the draft hoards \va? told by him that "this is ; white man’s country.” Governor Cooper’s complete remarks as reported to the N/' AGP Committee: "This is a white man’s conn try. America was settled b: lers who came here and she< their blood for it. White mei cut down the trees, plowed In fields and developed America “The Negro had nothing to d< with the set tling of America. (>* course Negroes worked some, but they came to the scene later. After New Kurland was settled. You fellows oiitfht to feel proud that you an* in a ^reat country ike America. It is the best place for you and your people. Now one important tiling you preachers ou^ht to tell your :>oys is to tfo to the stations and eydster for military service, be cause if they don’t they will be arrested und lined $10,000 or. I put in prison until they work1 ' it out I have a job to do as Governor of Tennessee and that is to see that all men of draft atfe register, white and colored, and I don’t intend to have any trouble or confusion doin^ it.” Final Appeal To Colored Voters (Dedicated to the Colored ( ili-' zeii at the Time of Casting His Ballet on November ">, I *> 10> j “By his vote yc shail know him” By Francis K. Rivers So dominant and albcontroti ing is the Presidency of t tie1 Foiled States that the one act i (jf voting on November tilth for that office is more significant as a measure (if yourself and more important in its effect ivories? than all of your prior action? and words. Your vote on November *>tl will carry either a weight o pi .test or a weight of approv al far in excess of any protest!■ or approvals which you haw (fleeted during the la t te.i yea rs. Y'.ur Opposition to Di-cri mination in Fmployment Can Of Shown ONLY by Voting Against Franklin I). Roosevelt. Wo admire the* way that some colored citi \ is who favor Itooseve’t have fought against, criticise <1 and protested this work of the New Deal in kill j ing Negro employment, How ever, the opposition of any Negro j to New Deal employment poli Jcies of regregation and discrimi * nation is absolutely without |cny m uining or significance ue 1 less that Negro votes against Roosevelt and the New Deal. In fact, with a strong central government such as the New Deal has seized, when* the dc ( isions of the Whit ■ House com pleti !y over-shadow any other other decisions in any part of tlie United States, the only iynilieent protest against go vernment mistreatment which can lie made by a colored citi zen is— in the form of his vote against hat government and its leader. vVe say to you, in all seriousness, that any colored citizen who otes for President Roosevelt hon'd, if he wants his actions to make sense, abandon com ’)'«tely his light against govern a lit segregation and never itt'T a word again of protest ibout this mistreament. liV HIS VOTK YF SHALL KNOW HIM! Your Opposition to Segregation In the Armed Forces Can Only He Shown hv Voting A«?ainst Franklin I). Roosevelt. ()n November fifth, the co’.Dr ed citizen who sincerely oppos es this unique and vicious policy of the Federal Government in s i declaring segregation of the Negro soldier, will have the ONLY RKAL OPPORTUNITY which exists to prove his con (Continued on rage Three)