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Ii The monitor i = OF COLORED A NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS AMERICANS THE REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS. Editor THURSDAY. OCTOBER 1921. Vol. VII. No. 15. Whole No. 327. M S2.00 a Yea. OMAHA. NEBRASKA. 6, TcaCopy __ [ELAINE PEONAGE VICTIMS ARE AGAIN SAVED FROM ELECTRIC CHAIN spread and general desire for a par- is doing evangelical work. His is ac- McRae, protecting against the execu. MILITARY HOSPITAL TO BE RACE IN VIRGINA DELEGATION ASKS don among colored people throughout companied by Mrs. Sales on his visit Hon of the men on June 10. ERECTED AT TUSKEGEh ELAINE the country." to the city. FARMERS T hr fee Sentcured to J)ie Washington. D, U., Sept. 30.—A DECLARE PRINCIPLES THE PRESIDENT TO In the delegation with Mr. John- Mr. J. O. Banion, 2602 Parker street On October 22, 1919, the Arkansas statement from the public health ser son were of passed away at 3130 A. M. ARE AGAIN GIVEN vice as to the locations of the govern Major Moton, principal Monday, , \ rmerB were sentenced to the elec- NOMINATE TICKET sick and disabled PARDON SOLDIERS Tuskegee Institute; R. S. Abbott, edit- after a protracted illness. He was a t t chair for the first time, only to ment hospital for BRIEF or of the Chicago Defender; Emmett faithful member and a dutiful husband. REPRIEVE their execution date set aside colored soldiers and sailors at Tuske- John Mitchell, Prominent Editor and the that this Janies Weldon Johnson Leader and J. Scott, Special assistant to the Sec- Pastor Franklin, was informed of I In »'-~mber 11, when the Arkansas gee Friday stressed point Banker, Will Run for Governor, the World the illness of Dr. S. E. Watson •* of Execution selected because it was Spokesman for Representative retary of War during J. by ft Verge tbe SI* Peonage Court granted to them a place was prac- With Full Corps of Capable Plead for of Sol- Professor W. Cook He has been confined to bed ■ Victims Sentenced to Die for Par- the center of the Negro popu Who Release War; George telegram. -- 1. tically Candidates for Other Sentence Miller of Howard Univer- since ticipation In Riots Saved Erom lation of the country. diers Serving and Kelly the National Baptist Convention. A tg on the first of May, 1921, Offices It has been that an sity; Archibald H. Grimke, president It is announced that Mrs. Sarah Electric I'halr Qovt McRae set June 10, as the figured appre- % of the National will be able to Swed- ^ ciable stun can be saved in transpor- Washington Branch, Young leave the day o. ition. But again, the laws NAMES ARE LISTEN tation costs for and other 50,000 Association for the Advancement of ish hospital, this week. DECLARATION 1$ CLEAR CRT of the -te were thwarted, when the patients JIIGE TREK! UMTS PLEA Colored Robert H. Church The Table is and the van expenses that point in favor of the People; set, guard attorneys filed a writ of habeas corpus of of the Race Unanimity Sentiment colored Republican leader in Tenney of the rally for the 4th Sunday has ar. Proclaims its Loyalty to Republican Federal the matter proposition. in Court, removing Thruout on Justice of Re- Chi- I Wnpreme Uonrt of the United States has not been decided Country see; Dr. Charles E. Bentley of rived. Some paid a part of their ap- Principles but Disapproves the from state's It definitely the jurisdiction. lease of Men Now in Prison H. Will Review Evidence In Uase of as to how much vdll he cago: Miss Nannie Burroughs, [Kirtionment on last Sunday; others Fallacies of the Present The Arkansas Supreme Court denied yet money Uondemned Men, In Whom En- allowed for the at Tuskegee. Mrs. Man- B. Talbert, former presi- will do likewise each Sunday, and will Day Leaders a writ of error to the counsel for the hospital tire Race Is Interested but from what government officials (Special to the Monitor) dent of the National Association ot reach the goal—Rally Day—October men, to the United States Supreme it will not be under five hundred Washington, Oct. 5th.—A delegation Colored Women’s Clubs; Mrs. Mary the 23rd. to the Court, and the date for the electrocu- say (Special Monitor) men and wo- Church Mrs. Alice Dunbar LITTLE) ROCK, Ark., Sept. 10.— thousand dollars, and it may reach a of thirty leading colored Terrell, Are You Awake? If You Are, join Oct. 5.—The full tion was set for 'he third on Richmond, Va., time, Weldon Ham' H. John tM Three times have the six Arkansas million. men, headed by James John Nelson, Pace, Hope. the procession! Marching! Must Be ticket headed by John Mitchell, Jr., September 23. And then, on September member Pennsvl et» (armors been sentenced to face the Of the $18,500,000 voted by Con- son of New York, secretary of the Hon. J. C. Asburv.. Done!!! editor and for Trieber In the United States prominent banker, gov- 22, Judge National Association for the. Ad- vania Harry E. Davis electric chair, and three times hare gres approximately $11,000,000 have legislature. ernor, nominated the colored district court, granted a petition for a by peo- vancement of Colored was in member of the Ohio Drs they been granted a last minute re- been allocated. People, legislature; 25ION BAPTIST CHUBCH of this state as a f writ of habeas corpus and issued an ple protest against a William H. Washington and W. W pvtece. Washington bearing petition signed Rev. W. F. D Pastor. is en- order which restrained the state au- Botts, I)., lilywhiteism awakening great i names to President Hard- Wolfe of Newark, Rev. R. H. Single Fighting with every bit of their le- WOMAN EDITOR IS by 50,000 After an old fashioned covenant thusiasm. Candidates are thorities from gc'ng on with the exe. prosecut- and technical ing asking him to 61 members ton of Atlanta, James A. Cobh, coun- gal skill and basing their ADMITTED TO BAR pardon meeting followed by the Lord’s supper ing a vigorous campaign. They an- f cntion. for on the i of the 24th U. S. Infantry (colored) sel for the National Association appeal allegation that mob Portland. Oregon. Sept. 19.—Mrs. E in the morning, the pastor preached a nounce the following platform or de- dominated now serving long time sentences in the Advancement of Colored People; spirit the trial of the men D. Cannady, prominent in club and re- good sermon in the evening His claration of principles in which they Leavenworth Prison convicted of riot John R. Hawkins, financial secretary k at Helena, attorneys for the six Elaine FRIERDS ATTERR ligious circles, and editor of the Port- theme was "Make Christ Your Friend".' set forth their loyalty to the true MARY in in 1017 A. M. E. church. burners, sentenced to die last' Friday land Advocate, one of the leading pub ing Houston, Texas, August The Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. principles of the Republican party, President Harding granted the dele noon, again saved the men from GIBSOR-ROBERTS YYEBBIR6 Mentions of the northwest, published arc increasing in attendance each Sun- but denounce the attempt of some death when Jacob gation an audience on Wednesday DR. W. A. C. HUGHES TO SPE VK Judge Trleber in the for Negroes, has recently been admit | day, under efficient leadership and leaders to disfranchise any group on at Waited States on Thurs. Roberts Become of morning. September 28, 10:80. AT GROVE M. E. CHURCH j District Court, Miss Madeline Zoe ted w» practice law in the state good programs arc rendered each Sun. account of race or color. They hold | Upon his arrival in Washington W. A. C. of Philadel- day, granted a petition for a writ of Bride of Ray Gibson in Church of Oregon. Rev. Hughes day evening at the Union. The Young that it is their right to vote and be Mr. Johnson issued the E habeas corpus, and issued an order The fiist case in which Mrs. Can following phia will preach at Grove M. St. Philip the Deacon people of the city are asked to come voted for at all elections. state author- behalf of the de- statement: Church, 22nd and Seward Sts., Sunday temporartly restraining nadv appeared in out and find your place in these two The Platform Preamble Madeline Zoe, the attractive, ac 11 Dr. is ities from proceeding with the electro- fendant came in Judge Morrow’s “Although nineteen colored soldiers Oct. !), at o'clock. Hughes up auxiliaries. The Republican party of Virginia cution. complisbtd find popular daughter o and resulted in a were and 61 sentenced to life the former pastor of Sharp Street court last Monday hanged Tools are being swung rapidly at in State convention assembled in the and Mr. and Mrs. Henry K. Roberts, \va for the woman in that and long time imprisonment after the Methodist Chursh, Baltimore, Md., Men Are ConfIdeal victory lawyer, Zion in anticipation of the completion City of Richmond, the 5th day of Sep- was the of the New Orleans married to son of Mr when she took the case the Negro Houston riot of August, 1917, colored secretary n ex. The men whose execution date had Ray Gibson, of the main auditorum which we tember, 1021 having full faith and con- was first to raise its who had been convicted on a charge people in the United States felt little Area, which the keen set for September 23 are J.
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