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"MOST DISTINCTIVE WEEKLY
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A CONSERVATIVE TIT FEABLSM
CHAMPION OF JUSTICE.
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The Republican Parly Is The Ship All Else Is The Sea" Fred Douglas.
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PROMOTER OF NEORO COLONY ARRESTED IN ST. LOUIS
FOUR NEGROES ACCUSED IF ROB
BERY REMOVED FROM JAIL
Three Escaped But One is Lynched
by Missourians
Moberly Mo. Nov. 27. A Negro
said to be one of four who on Thurs-
day night held up and robbed Ed-
ward Thompson a fanner on the
outskirts of Moberly was lynched
In Forest Park here early this morn-
ing. The Negro's three companions
who had been taken with him from
the Macon Jail and spirited to Mober-
ly by tho mob escaped from the
lynching. Two of them later were
captured by the Randolph County
officers and are now In jail at a
point unknown. One Negro still is
at large but posses are scouring the
country for him and his capture is
momentarily expected.
The four Negroes were arrested
Thursday night by Moberly police
after Thompson had reported that
while on his way home he had been
held up and beaten into insensibility
by four blacks and robbed. He gave
the police a description of bis as-
sailants and a short time later Harry
Cassy a Moberly Negro proprietor of
a rooming house told the police four
men answering the description given
by Thompson were at his home. When
arrested all of the Negroes were
armed. They gave their names as
Halley Richardson 18 years on TO
West Thirty-first street. Chicago;
Sanford Taylor 20 years of ago 113
Baker street. East St. Louis; George
Adams 18. 2938 Federal street Chica-
go; James Anderson 3122 Federal
street Chicago.
Neighbors Bent on Lynching.
Rumors that Thompson's neigh-
bors were bent in lynching the Ne-
groes reached the Moberly officers
Friday morning and following their
preliminary hearing when they were
bound over to the next term of the
Circuit Court the prisoners were
taken to the Randolph County Jail
at Huntsville.
Friday night is is said a mob went
to Huntsville but was outwitted by
Sheriff Henry Owens who had taken
the Negroes to the Macon County
Jail. Last night an unusually large
number of farmers were noticed on
the streets here but as the Negroes
were not in the city mob violence was
little feared. That night however
about twenty automobilies sped to
Macon the jail was stormed and the
four prisoners were taken from the
Macon County Sheriff clad only in
the night clothes and brought to
Moberly.
Mob Waltliur At Park.
The mob hurried the Negroes to
Forest Park in the west part of the
city. Here a crowd said to number
100 men was waiting. A large fire
had been built it is said but it Is
uncertain whether the intention was
to burn the Negroes or merely to
keep the mob members warm. One
of the Ngeroes had his arms pinioned
behind him. A rope was place about
Freeing Himself B His Own Exertion
his neck and thrown over an out
hanging limb. The mob pulled and
the limb broke. The Negro started
running as he fell. Four guns flash-
ed and he was killed instantly.
At the shots the other three Ne-
groes ran. Efforts to catch them
failed unless as the officers suspect
one of them was thrown into Forest
Park lake and drowned. Searching
parties hnvei been dragging the lake
all day but the body has not been
recovered .and it is believed the
Negro made his escaped. This theory
is given credence by the fact that
an unclad Negro was said to have
been seen in the vicinity of Clifton
Hill this afternoon and a posse now
is there looking for him.
Officers Refuse to Talk.
Efforts to learn from the officers
the names of the Negroes who were
recaptured have been futile. They
claim they do not know. Neither will
they tell where they have placed
them for safe keeping. One Negro i
was caDtured this morning after he
had appeared at the home of Ike')
Walker a farmer and asked for
some old clothes. Walker gave him
the clothes but when he tempted to
question him concerning his condition
the Negro ran. Walker then tele-
phoned to Moberly and officers cap-
tured the Negro between Moberly
and Huntsville.
The second Negro was captured
near Clifton Hill. He was clad in
overalls and shoes which he had
stolen from an automobile.
Thompson the farmer who was at-
tacked by the Negroes is said to be
only slightly hurt. The Moberly po-
lice were unaware of the formation
of the mob and did not know of the
lynching until telephone messages
from Macon said the Negroes had
been taken from the jail there and
brought in this direction.
Threatened to Dynamite Jail.
It was only after threats were made
tto dynamite the jail that Sheriff
Jesse Stamper of Macon County told
his deputy Bob Epperson to hand
over the keys. The four Negro pris-
oners set up a dismal howl. They
got down on their knees and plead-
ed with their emptors for mercy. At
the front porch as he was leaving
the leader turned to shake hands with
the Sheriff "Good-bye Sheriff." he
said. "You'll have to excuse us for
arousing you at his time of night.
About seventy-five or eighty men
were in the party the officers said.
All but one according to the Sheriff
were masked and all appeared to be
armed and several carried ropes. One
of the men took the Sheriff's revolver
from the bureau.
Stamper said the visitors were very
good-natured. Everything was quiet
he said except for the cries of the
Negroes.
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INVESTIGATION PROVES THAT
OFFICERS WERE NOT GUILTY
OF COWARDICE; TYLER'S
STORY IS SUBSTANTIATED
Washington D. C Nov. 27. The
Colored officers of the 368th Infantry
who were accused tried and con-
victed for cowardice in the Meuse-
Argonne offensive over in France
have been exonerated; cleared of the
charge of cowardice which rested not
only upon the Colored officers but
upon the men in the ranks as well.
This exoneration is contained in a
report made to Secretary of War
Baker by the Inspector general's
staff which made the investigation.
But these innocent Colored officers
could not be exonerated without
white-washing the commanding white
officers who commanded. Apparent-
ly the only way found to clear the
brave Colored soldiers of the 368th
ordered into that hell that nest of
German machine guns and barb wire
entanglements against odds and with
out artillery or machine gun sup-
port was to declare that the failure
of the unit to function was due to
"a myateilcfcs unauthorized order I
to withdraw." The investigators could
not according to their report even
learn the source of that "mysterious
order."
The inspector general's staff which
made the investigation at the re-
quest of Secretary Baker even found
that the claim of the accused Colored
officers and men that they had suff
ered the greatest discrimination
sufficient to have destroyed the mo-
rale of most any other unit was un-
founded. There was no Colored unit in the
army unless it was some of the
labor battalions that was the object
of greater and more brutal discrimi-
nation than the 368th. This dis-
crimination began at Camp Meade be-
fore they sailed for France. It was
an oppressive discourging brutal
factor on the ship that carried the
boys over. It was present in every
camp they occupied and it sent to
an untimely bloody grave those Col-
ored boys who fell in that Meuse-
Argonne offensive.
Readers of The Advocate may re-
call that War Correspondent Ralph
W. Tyler that Mr. Tyler insisted that
there should be an investigation
that those Colored officers should not
he made to pay "the brutally unjust
penalty meted out to them by court-
martial until every man who went
into that inferno had been called to
testify.
AMERICAN LEGION DECIDES TO
ALLOW STATE TO DECIDE
IN NEGRO BRANCHES
MADDEN IS HELD IN SAINT
LOUIS FOLLOWING SPEECH
Citizens Claim His Presence Unde-
sirable. Reject Proposition
as Graft.
St Louis Mo. Nott. 27. Rev. Moses
M. Madden who is promoting a plan
to establish a Negro state along the
Mexican border was arrested Tues-
day night after making a speech at
Alhao Dancing Academy. Madden
came to St. Louis from Oklahoma
about three months ago and later
held a meeting in the Coliseum at
which a few hundred of his follow-
ers heard him explain his plan which
was to petition the United States
Government to establish the state for
colonizing Negroes In Texas and
Mexico.
Madden is said to have gone before
Congress and that the Foreign Re-
lations Commltee of the United States
Senate Is now considering his schome.
He claims he' was to appear before
the Committee on Friday of this week.
It is stated that the meeting Tues-
day night was to refute arguments
against his plan made by Reverends
M. Owens and W. 0. Venerable.
The hall was crowded early and
the Argus reporter was unable to
get within distinct hearing distance.
Detectives Johnson and Cooper who
attended the meeting reported to
Night Chief Kirk that Dr. Madden
had made remarks about tbe flag. The
detectives obtained the names and ad-
dresses of those In charge of the
meeting and after it was over ar-
rests were made at houses where they
were boarding.
Those taken to the station were:
Bishfp James C. Campbell 2242
Adams. Thomas Gadney. 2242 Adams
Mary B. Kemp 400 South Jefferson;
Charles Newman 2801 Papin and
Richard Edmond 2128 Adam. Mrs.
Kemp is said to have only appeared
on the scene when the arrests were
being made.
Inflammatory Speech Charged
It is said the Colored detectives
were sent to the hall after the Rev.
W. D. Venerable pastor St Stephen's
Baptist church had complained to
(Continued on Page 5).
ROBF. W. CHURCH. RADICAL PROPA
COLONEL WHO LED
NEGRO UNIT PRAISES
WORK OF ARTILLERY
Dallas Texas Nov. 27. "Regular
army men won't listen to me when
I tell them this" declared Walter
A Prosser Colonel of the 350th Ar-
tillery of the Ninety-Second Division
last night at the Southland "but
the Negro under white officers di-
rection makes a wonderful artillery-
man." Colonel Prosser who Is well
known In Texas where he was sta-
tioned for many years commanded
a regiment of the Negro division
equipped with the famous "Soixante
Quinaze" or French 75. The Ninety-
Second's Artillery Rot into action
later than the infantry but saw a
month of service in the Toul Sector.
"I saw the Negro men do a lot of
astonishing artillery work" the Col-
onel said. "For one thing we got
thirty-six shots in a minute with the
15 and I believe that is a record.
For another thing a Lieutenant Col-
onel who served with us and after-
ward commanded the 8econd Artillery
Brigade of the Second Division de-
clared emphatically that he found no
superior work on their part. For
that matter the Ninety-Second's In-
fantry did not make a bad record.
Only one battalion ever really 'blew'
in the lines and gave the rest of the
outfit a bad name. I saw the others
fighting and they did it well.'
Colonel Prosser is at present lo-
cated at the school of fire at Fort
Sill Okla. "We have the beginnings
of an excellent artillery school there"
he said. "Given time for development
of the Ideas put into it. it will be a
big thing for the army."
THREE MEN KILLED
AT DOGALUSA LA
Bogajusa La. Nov. 27. Three
white men were shot to death and two
were wounded in a fight at a garage
heretoday In which several men at-
tempted to prevent special police
from arresting a Negro labor leader
suspended of inciting Negroes and
two white men who had carried shot
guns to protect him while parading
him down the main street of the
city.
The dead are:
L. E. WILLIAMS president of the
Allied Trades Council of Boga-
lusa and owner of the garage.
J. P. BOUCHILLON Carpenter.
THOMAS GAINES carpenter.
The wounded are S. J. O'Rourke
carpenter and one of the men for
whom a warrant for arrest had been
sworn and Jule Le Blanc a special
policeman and a former Captain in
the United States Army.
Saul Dechns a Negro is presi-
dent of the Negro union. He escaped
from the garage with four white men
during the shooting.
James Williams brother of the
slain leader was arrested charged
with assault with intent to kill.
Bogalusa was quiet tonight The
special officers who are members of
the Self-PreBervatlon and Loyal
League and who advanced on the bar-
ricaded garage despite the fire from
shotguns and pistols are maintain-
ing order.
The officer began their search for
Dechus last night but failed to find
him. Today the officers said Bouch-
lllon and O'Rourke armed with shot-
(Continued on Page 6).
SEEKS GERMAN COLO-
NIES FOR U. S. NEGROES
Washington D. C Nov. 27. Vol-
untary emigration of the Negroes of
this country to the former eGrman
colonies in Africa where they would
have a greater opportunity than in
this country but would still remain
under the American flag is believed
by Senator Joseph I. France of Mary-
land to be not only a possibility but
a probability. If tho United States
will take these colonics. '
Mr. France has prepared a reser-
vation to the peace treaty under
which the United States would take
over the colonies as her one-fifth of
the German overseas possessions
which he -says is granted this coun-
try by the treaty. He would have
the former German colonies developed
under the tutelage of the United
States and opened up as lands of op-
portunity for the educated Negroes
of this country.
"The educated Negroes made am-
bitious by education but held down
more or less in this country would
turn tjjese African colonies as lands
where the fullest opportunities for
their abilities would be open" said
Senator France today. "I think they
would desire to go there as fast as
we educated them. In time I think
there Is no question that all of our
Negroes would go there.
Vast Issues Involved. He says.
"How much consideration have
some who will sign the application
for a cloture given to the subject
of the disposition of the German
colonies" Mr. France continued." The
Foreign Relations Committee with
practically no word of explanation
has reported favorably reservation
(Continued on Page 5).
PLANS FOR UPLIFT
OF YOUNG PEOPLE
(By Associated Negro Press)
Baltimore Md. Nov. 27. Plans for
the uplift of the young people and
for bringing them in closer touch
with the church were discussed at
the 13th Annual session of the Balti-
more Conference branch of the Allen
Christian Endeavor League which
has just closed its meetings. Revs.
E. H. Hunter of Norfolk Va. was
thte principal speaker his theme
being "The Assurance of Safety for
the Young People."
Mayor Calls Meeting Of Negroes
(By Associated Negro Press)
Covington. Tenn. Nov. 27. A great
many rumors have been going in
Tipton County that the Negro is
figuring on uprising. Tho rumors
became so strong that Mayor J. J.
Green of Covington called a meeting
of some of the more prominent Ne-
groes but all of them denied know-
ing anything of the rumors. One of
the rumors was that the Colored
population around Rlalto. one of the
thickest Colored settlements in the
county had secured guns and amuni-
tion for the uprising to begin Octo-
ber 27 and which rumor caused the
following statement to be issued by
two of the leading Negroes of the
community:
A PUBLIC DECLARATION OF
To Whom it May Concern:
This Is to certify whereas it has
been rumored that we. the Colored
citizens of Rlalto are charged with
Minneapolis Minn. Nov. 27. The
American Legion an organization
representing the veterans who fought
in the great world war slipped a
cog in its wheel of progress when the
eligibility Committee recommended
that eligibility of members be left
to the various states instead of to
the National Committee. It Is plain
to be seen that this attitude which
the "bar-up" against the thousands
of Colored veterans throughout the
South who were valiant In the ser-
vice of the country during the war.
This subject was one of the many;
questions before the American Legion
and was left for final decision from
the Springfield meeting during the
war. This subject was one of the
many questions before the American
Legion and was left for final de-
cision from the Springfield meeting
during the summer.
In practically every Southern state
there has been a determination to re-
fuse charters to Colored posts which
of course is in line with Southern
policy but out of harmony with the
times and the true American spirit
of justice and fair-play.
Prior to the convention a number
of delegates were In conference in
Chicago with Capt. Lewis E. Johnson
formerly of the 370 Infantry and
others. The men brought written ;
statements from Southern states J
stating that the American Legion !
was for Caucasians only.
Very naturally the Colored veter-
ans throughout the country In con-
junction with the thousand splendid
white veterans are greatly indignant
at any camouflage effort to smear
over the subject and keep out of the
American Legion thousands or more
who willingly left their homes and
business and work to go to France
and fight for democracy while thous-'
ands of white southerners used every
means within and without the law
to keep them out of the serVlce. The
records bear out the fact that the
Colored people of the south as well
as In many other sections of the
country furnished more than their
quota of service men.
This attitude will undoubtedly pre-
cipitate a fight to the finish by the
younger citizens who are determined
that justice shall prevail.
IRE HEW POWER EiANDA WILL NOT IN
IN 1920 POLITICS
WILL PROBABLY BE POWER
BEHIND THE THRONE IN RE-
PUBLICAN AFFARS IN ILLINOIS
NEGROES
securing guns and ammunition with
which to incite rioting. We the
citizens of this community deplore
and deny by an unanimous vote of
said citizens assembled the above
charge.
Respectfully submitted
Preston Bell.
J. F. Boyland.
Child Saved By Lard And Milk
(By Associated Negro Press)
E. St Louis 111. Nov. 27. First
aid treatment of 'lard and milk as
an antidote is believed to have saved
the life of four year old Ethel Grif-
fin after she drank a quantity of con-
centrated lye.
(By Associated Negro Press)
Chicago 111. Nov. 27. Robert R.
Church capitalist business man and
a political leader has demonstrated
beyond question his ability to cope
with the present political crisis so
far as our group is concerned. Mr.
Church is a political leader by adop-
tion and by choice. He has studied
politics and has been interested in
every field of activity from com-
mitteeman to presidential nomination
and election. He is retiring in dis-
position but untiring in effort He is
demonstrating more unselfishness
than four or five other political lead-
ers that might be picked from various
parts of the country. As time goes
on Mr. Church will undoubtedly be
consulted very seriously by the lead-
ing factors of the Republican party
with reference tot the nreseidential
campaign of 1920.
Mr. Church was in Chicago this
week In conference with Republican
leaders a number of whom were call-
ed to the city by Chairman Will H.
Hays to discuss the subject of con-
ditions following the recent elections.
The political situation throughout
the country is such as to give the'
leaders of all parties great concern-
As quiet as it is kept the propaganda
of the Socialist and I. W. W. has
begun to have an effect on the think-
ing Colqred people because much of
their argument for economic and
political justice is absolutely un-
answerable by either the Republican
or Democratic parties.
There Is to be formed in this city
tho latter part of November a new
national Labor party to which a call
has been issued and it is stated that
Twenty thousand delegates will at-
tend. The Republicans for a part
keep their hold on the majority of
the Colored people throughout the
country but they must play the game
fair and above board if they are
dealing with the new Negro who
thinks and goes independently and
who is bitterly disgusted with the
old time arguments of the debt owed
the Republican Party and what it
did for" our fathers. The new Negro
sees the advantage of political power
and he wants it. He is further de-
termined to have it some place or
other. He Is open to reason and
uses good sense and good judgment
and knows well who are his friends
and always unflinchingly stands by
them. Race consciousness and unity
have been aroused to such and extent
to gether with wide opinion of race
threats that concerted action Of po-
litical matters may be obtained now
WILL NOT BE ANARCHISTIC
BUT WILL CONTINUE TO
DEMAND RI6HTS
(By Associated Negro Press)
Chicago 111. Nov. 27. Radical
proganda among Negroes is on
the increase in Chicago. But it has
not resulted in any definite drift and
in no respect has assumed the pro-
portions of a "movement" This Is
the view of T. Arnold Hill secretary
of the Urban league tthe foremost
employment and social center of the
Colored race. . Other prominent work-
ers emphasized this view.
"I am sure that socialist and syn-
dicalist propaganda has not increased
among the Negroes in the proportions
that it has among tho whites" said
Hill. "There are papers and maga-
zines published every month of
course. It can easily be shown that
mey nave been in existence for years
and slowly built up a self sustaining
subscription list. One of these is
extremely radical. Its editor is an
instructor in the Rand School for
socialism in New York.
"The I. W. W hna n aiwnl nrpanlzer
J. W. Sims formerly an organizer for
the American Federation of Labor
active in Chicago. Negro leaders
irom tour southern cities have pass-
ed through Chicago in the last two
weeks. In all cases they escaped
from mobs seeking to lynch them or
they were warned by white officials
and friends that if Ihov ftiH not
leave mobs would get them. Also
in each instance the refugee was
promoting the work of an organiza-
tion Which lirp-ou tha f'nlnrcH TaCfi
to stand for the complete constitu
tional rignts of the Negro.
"I nave talked with these men who
of mobs said Dr. George Cleveland
Hall one of the Kaders in Chicago
and a member of the State Race Re-
lationships Commission. 'There is a
propaganda and a movement active
in the south which aims to destroy
Negro leadersip. If the department
of justice is looking for propaganda
of violence and lawlessness utter
disregard of the constitution and
law and order we suggest that the
department pay some attention to
this phase of sedition anorchy and
contempt for American Institutions.
"Is the Negro getting more hostile
to our government?" Not at all. He
is turning more and more bitterly
against the administration of our gov-
ernment however which permits
discrimination in law and action
against people who are asking only
constitutional rights.
as never before. The new Negro
recognizee that politics has a power
and as there is no sentiment when
he thinks them should be no senti-
ment in politics.
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