The Twin City star. [volume], November 11, 1916, Image 4

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THE TWIN C.i'Y STAR
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THE NEXT MAYOR.
Thomas Van Lear has been elected
Mayor of Minneapolis. He will have
the support of all citizens for the civic
betterment of this growing city. He
will deal fairly with all. Let Negroes
unite in requests for those things,
which promote our standing in the
community, and not annoy His Honor
for those special privileges that de
moralize us.
Sheriff Langum was defeated for
Mayor. The Wilson-Van Lear com
bination, his non-appearance at many
meetings on account of illness, the
badly managed campaign by the
Citizens Mayoralty Committee, many
unfounded rumors and overestimated
press reports made the 2,500 votes for
Van Lear. The official terms of
both Mayor and Sheriff will expire in
1918—and the election will be held in
November 1918.
IN THE POLITICAL LIMELIGHT.
The eyes of America, politically
speaking, were on Minnesota. Each
party txpected to increase its lead on
every return. There were at least
3000 Negro votes cast in the state..
What recognition had been given
them? Not a state candidate had ad
dressed them. Not a Negro em
ployed by either local or state com
mittee. The financial appropriation
to the Negro press was a mere pit
tance. The meeting they recognized
as (Moris and Montgomery’s) was an
emancipation celebration, chicken-sup
per afair and a disappointment to the
speaker, Mr. Jas. Hale Porter, who
came from Chicago. The Twin City
Star, because it exposed Mr. Frank
son, a Republican, met much opposi
tion and could not get funds for a
meeting, until The Hughes Young
Men’s Club took the matter in hand.
Sec’y O. M. Peabody and Mr. Joseph
Allen of the Park Board did every
thing to interest the Negro voters.
Editor Smith was often questioned,
What is the matter with Frankson?
which meant “nothing doing.” They
had been led to believe that every
Negro was for Hughes. (There were
many Negro Socialists and .Demo
crats). They said. “The Negro must
vote against Wilson.” # Many did so,
but qot for Hughes. This is the re
sult of the preferential primary and
the next campaign will have another
set of managers, who may see the
value of organizing the Negro vote,
because of the close content in the
Hughes-Wilson campaign. Some day,
the stones, which the Republican
builders rejected, will be the head
stones of another party’s corners.
The Young Men’s Hughes Club, a
Republican organization, came to the
front when the older factions could
not “get together”. Fred Carpenter,
“Andy” Rahn, W. W. Heffelfinger,
George Ackerson, Guy. Howard and
Walter. Newton were the moving
spirits of this Republican revival.
They united the forces and saved
20,000 votes for Hughes in Hennepin
' County. When they entered the cam
paign, there was some pain in the
Wilson camp.
OUR NEW CONGRESSMAN.
Hon. Ernest Lundeen, the Repub
lican candidate won in the Congres
sional race in the sth District. He
will be a valuable addition to the
Minnesota delegation. Mr. Lundeen
has always shown a friendly attitude
to our race and is regarded by many
as one of the most progressive young
men of the county. He has had much
legislative experience, and will be a
factor in Congress.
A DAMNABLE SITUATION.
It is deplorable that the Negro
Advisory Committee of the Repub
lican National Committee, could not
get together in their initial meeting
at New York. They raised so much
hell, about the election of a chair
man, that Hon. Herbert Parsons,
state committeeman, had to preside.
.One Dollar
The attitude of some of the big
Negroes at Chicago, has been openly
criticised in our columns, and we are
preparing a pamphlet on “The Na
tional Convention Negro,” which will
give the public a reminder of many
odious incidents. The “Big” Negroes,
should have conferred with each
other, at Chicago, when Sen. Borah
threw out the plank “Lynching a
Federal Crime” as rotten timber for
a Republican platform. Thank God!
he does not represent the Republican
party; nor does the average “Big” of
fice holding Negro represent his race.
Both are traitors.
Minnesota.
Had the Negroes met the Commit
tee in Chicago, they could have had
effective organization. But they went
home to consult bosses and build
fences and then were called to New'
York to fight, therefore the party gets
the vote and had the Republicans
won, Negro appointments would have
been held up till they “got-together.”
There are a few, quite a few, hon
orable men on this committee, but
tiiey are in bad company; and are on
record as a part of a disgraceful scene.
It is an honor not to have been a
member of this compact of political
assassins. They discussed. Which
newspapers were in on the pie? and
What leaders (?) should eat of the
pork? and other vital issues on
patronage.
Thieves oftimes fall out on division
of booty, but generally have enough
honor or fear among themselves not
to expose their work. These pirates
did not have the cohesiveness of the
famous Capt. Kidd’s agjgregation.
Some of them squealed, and we
heard it here by mail, hence the
world knows. They were desperate
—and amid the gloom of forlorn hope
and blasted ambition, they poured
forth the venom of their spleen.
The affair is a scenario for a movie,
a la Lime Kiln Club, which should
warn those who may follow. It was
“pulled off” at the eleventh hour,
when they could not be dissolved.
They got the cash and can claim that
they DELIVERED their respective
quota of Negro votes. They know
that the organization of that or- an
other advisory committee was impos
sible, and the condition will remain
in status quo.
Mr. Hughes lost and they are re
sponsible. Their delay in meeting
caused much political indifference in
many sections. The press, in many
sections, was completely ignored—
and there was no interest in, the cam
paign. "They can’t vote for Wilson
because the inaugurated” segrega
tion of Negro employees ”in Federal
offices.” “The Progressives must
come back” since we have Roosevelt
wtih us,” (Same set sold out Roose
velt at Chicago 1912). “There are too
many new men for the old jobs,',
were the facts on which these
esteemed attorneys had briefed the
case.
The situation is critical. It is cer
tain that a Negro would rather hold
office under Wilson (they are doing
it) than be ELIMINATED from par
ty patronage by selfish leaders, whose
actions contributed to their party’s
defeat.
Hon. Frank B. Kellogg referred to
the Japanese at the Auditorium meet
ing on Nov. 4. The Senator-elect is
persona non grata with the Japs from
the start. Hon. Raymond Robbins
handled the Japanese situation very
nicely, but Mr. Kellogg may have to
eat his words.
ADVERTISE HERE IT PAYS.
THE TWIN CITY STAR
VIEWS OF WOMEN
ONTHE FRANCHISE
Northwestern Fsdsratlon Mikes
Plea For the Ballot.
STANDS FOR EQUAL RI6HTS
Organization Haadad by Mr*. Joanna
Bnowdan Portar Conduota Enthuaiaa
tlo Campaign With Votaa For Woman
. aa Paramount laauo—Platform Calls
For Effective Legislation.
By MINNIE M. SCOTT.
Chicago.—The Northwestern Federa
tion of Colored Women’s Clubs, Mrs.
J. Snowden Porter, president, has done
a noteworthy service In Its work to se
cure the ballot for women. In the
campaign just closed the federation
adopted and used the following as Its
platform and plea for fair play:
A group of Illinois women, encour
aged as they were by the hope of this
new emancipation offered to them by
their state and realizing the opportuni
ties afforded them In their work of so
cial service through the ballot, are co
operating with their sister workers
having the same or partial rights In
their effort to make national suffrage a
fact, thereby giving to all women the
power to use the ballot for the purpose
of securing such legislation aa will pro
mote the advancement of all citizens
of all sections of this country.
“Deeds, not words,” la a motto much
believed in by this group of earnest
women, and they set about the work
of organizing women of the “old north
west” and the “new northwest" with
these ideas in mind at their first an
nual meeting, held at Wichita, Kan.,
adopted as their platform of principles,
among other planks, a recommendation
for a national child labor law and one
for universal suffrage, asking the na
tional parties, which Intended to make
their appeal to the voting contingency
for support, to incorporate these prin
ciples or their substance in their 1916
platforms.
This organization has been carefully
watching the situation since that time
and analyzing the pledges of the par
ties and their nominees, especially
those of the Democratic and Repub
lican parties, Woodrow Wilson and
Charles Evans Hughes. The paramount
issue, so far as women are concerned,
is universal suffrage, for It will be
through this source only that we can
hope for such legislation as we have
continually asked for, which will bring
to us all the other progressive meas
ures along social and economic lines
and assure to the home and the com
munity the security and welfare of the
people.
Universal suffrage will make the
child labor law secure. We have work
ed for, hoped for It a long time. There
fore we want to stand by our own
platform and urge all women to co
operate with the. “vote for women”
movement Such laws we have also
looked forward to as a protection to
our children and future men and wo
men and a safeguard to the health and
happiness of the breadwinner, but
when we analyze this legislation care
fully, given us In the eleventh hour,
presumably for political purposes, we
find little of merit In the giver.
America Is again In travail, the re
sult of which we are hoping and pray
ing will give birth to national woman
suffrage, that new emancipation to
ward which women have been work
ing and hoping for more than forty
years, hoping and working to free
themselves from a bondage of Inequal
ity. As at the time of the emancipa
tion of the Negro slave, so it is now In
the affairs 9f -the nation. Men’s hearts
are failing them for fear of what is
coming upon the republic, whatever
they may say to the contrary. They
are seeking everywhere for a solution
of the problems which are continually
confronting them. Wars and rumors
of wars, disasters by land and sea, la
bor complications, the tariff question,
many matters of social and economic
interest, are constantly engaging the
attention of our wisest and most sober
statesmen. They Invoke the cdhsid
eratlon of congress, and still they are
far from solution. Our country was
never In a more unsettled condition
since Its discovery than It is at the
present time.
Wherever women have been given
the franchise, either partial or In full
home and community conditions have
been bettered because laws have been
made better and more secure. Yet, as
“a little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump,” there must of necessity come
a retardation of effect, and we can
only hope for universal and steady ad
vancement when all the women in ev
ery part of the country shall have the
power to express their desire through
the ballot Until then we shall con
tinue to see our country rise and fall,
like the ebb and flow of the sea.
Four years ago there came to us a
new party with a new platform, with
new planks, offering us protective
child labor laws and woman’s suf
frage. This party was to woman like
the cloud the size of a man’s hand.
The hope extended then has grown un
til. like that cloud, It has grown for
us to the typical "pillar of Are,” lead
ing to the promised day, as onr fel
low men have extended that franchise.
The new planks of 1912 have become
the vital tssues of the campaign Just
closed.
AT THE CLOSED GATE Of
JUSTICE.
To be a Negro in a day like this
Demands forgiveness. Bruised with
blow on blow,
Betrayed, like him whose woe-dim
med eyes gave bliss,
Still muSt one succor those who
brought one low,
To be a Negro in a day like this.
To be a Negro in a day like this
Demands strange loyalty. We serve
a flag
Which is to us white freedom’s em
phasis.
Aht one must love when truth and
justice lag,
To be a Negro in a day like this.
To be a Negro in a day like this
Demands rare patience—patience
that can wait
In utter darkness.
miss,
And knock, unheeded, at an iron
grate,
To be a Negro in a day like this.
To be a Negro in a day like this—
Alasl Lord God, what evil have we
done?
Still shines the gate, all gold and aim
thyst,
But I pass by, the glorious goal un
kissed,
“Merely a Negro”—in a day like this
won,
—James D. Corrothers
in The Century.
CONG. CARL VAN DYKE
Re-Elected from 4th Dist.
A Democrat and friend of the Ne
gro. Endorsed by The Star and sup
ported by nearly the entire Negro
vote of St. Paul.
GILLIEAM IN NEW FIELD.
Newspaper Reporter Appointed Texas
Agent For an Insurance Company.
Harrison M. (lilliean. who was for
many years one of the chief promot
ers of the Chisolm news service at
Denison. Tex., was recently appointed
state agent for the Standard Life In
surance company of Atlanta. (la. Mr.
(lilliean Is one of the most energetic
young- men In the state and has the
capacity and persistence necessary to
win success In his new field.
Mr. (lilliean has* traveled a great
deal In the different sections of the
state and nation and Is well known.
As a former official and as a member
of the National Negro Press associa
tion. Mr. (lilliean represents the Inter
est of the association with vigor. He
is naturally gifted as a newspaper
•‘booster.’’ and his reports of impor
tant happenings among our people are
always Informing
READ THE STAR. IT'S NEWSY
The Twin City Star stands for
equal rights for all American citizens.
Social equality is not the issue be
tween the races, it is the white mans
alibi.
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