Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1920 — Page 11

Rlored party SQUESTS LION AS AN EMBLEM Independent Voters Have Trouble in Getting Recognition of ‘Lily Whites.’ CAN’T USE LINCOLN BUST A recital of the difficulties of the colored voters of Marion County who have foamed a separate party in obtaining approval of a party emblem from the county board of election commissioners is contained* In a letter received by the Times from Dr. James R. Norrell today. Dr. Norrell Is Indignant because the "Illy wftite” Republicans on the board refused to approve a bust of Lincoln as the new party emblem. The letter follows: Editor The Dally Times. Dear 81r:—Once more I must ask your indulgence and the use of your paper to advise the colored voters of Marlon County of the attitude of the Lily White Republican leaders. The events of the last few days are sufficient to Indicate to the man or woman who thinks the far-reach-ing influence of these leaders, who ar* determined that the efforts of the Independent Republican party shall come to naught. We filed a petition setting forth our candidates on Oct. 9, 1920. and requested •Jkat the party be represented on the • ticket with a bust figure of Abraham ’ Lincoln, a man who, in hls life, gave expression In thought and words to the I principles of Republicanism, for which • the negro has not denied his best efforts and even his blood upon tbe battle field. Abraham Lincoln dia not represent the “bulliah" element now in control of Marion County Republican politics, nor would he, living, support the men in control In their efforts ,to defeat the desires and aims of our Independent party. 4 We, in accordance with tbe law. rej quested an emblem which appeals to all of the colored voters, the bust af Abra--1 ham Lincoln. ELECTION BOARD DENIES REQUEST. The county board of election commit•loners, through their Republican majority, refused our request to use this emblem. We filed anew petition asking that an Idephant be used as tbe emblem of our and submitted a cut of an African Idephant, and again the Republican majority upon the election board of this county refused our request, and we were compelled to seek another emblem, and accordingly submitted for their approval a cut of a “Uon,” and requested that if they could not give us the bust of Abraham Lincoln or the "African elephant" that they give us the permission to use the "lion" for our emblem so that the colored Republican voters of Marlon County, who are tired of being “boss-ridden” and despised by infe Republican leaders of this county organisation, might arise in their might and show our courage and strength in supfgjfcrting a ticket made up of representative men and women of our race. We have every reason to believe that tbe county board of erection commissioners will t-’unt this our last request, and not comp -i us to resort to the courts for relief. When you go to the poll* on election day if vou vote on the voting machine be sure and pull the straight ticket lever bearing the Lion, and then you can proceed to vote for any national or State ticket that you want to support by simply pushing up tbe keys where we have no candidates and pulling down the keys for the candidates for these offices where we have no candidates. In this way you will run no risk of failing to Tote for our candidates and yet have tbe right to express your sentiments for President and the State candidates also. If you use the Australian ballot you can vote for any party on the red or State ballot and on the local or county ballot you will find the candidates of tbe Independent Republican ticket under tlu; emblem of the Lion. Make a cross (x) in the little square opposite the names of the candidates yon wish to support, and then the election board will see to it that your ballots are correctly counted. In this manner we will be able to prove to tbe arrogant lily white leaders of Marlon Countv Republicans that they cannot carry Marion County without the aid of tbe negroes and especially the lawabiding element. If we do this now, the lawless element will never again be recognised by the Republican party as the leaders of the colored men and women of this county and in the future years to come the real leaders of the colored men and women will be welcomed into tbe Republican party and their advice and counsel *lll not be disregarded or set at naught. HIKES WHAT G. O. P. BID FOR NEGRO. done more for our race by making this light than the Republican party Itself has done for us in the last sixty years. But what has the Republican party done for us? I can remember that the

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county commissioners did not fulfill the promise they made to the colored men of Marlon County that they would appoint Henderson as justice of the peace for Center Township. I remember that Charles Sumner 'Williams and myself did not receive the nomination at the primary that we were entitled to. I also remember that they have taken Into their councils as their workers many colored men who hare been consistent In their disregard for the law, and many of whom may be found listed on the criminal dockets In the courts of our county. I also remember that they refused to open headquarters for the coloored Republican women In this city, and told them that they didn’t want them around With these unfulfilled promises, and Insults to our race, is It any wonder that we should desire to hoist our own standard in the battle for political freedom? With your assistance, colored voter, w* can succeed, and teach them a lesson they will never forget. I appeal to all of the law-abiding colored citizens and ask them to support our ticket, for it is now or never. Our organization Is now perfected, and our missionaries are In the field. Every day new converts are added to the fold. We have girded ourselves with the armor of truth, having faith In the justice of our cause, we cannot fall. Tours very truly, (Signed) JAMES It. NORREL, M. D. Oct. 18. 1020. MAY CHANGE GAS C(VS FRANCHISE Working on Plan to Forestall Shortage. Corporation Counsel Samuel Ashby is working upon legal measures to make effective provisions to solve gas shortages discussed at a conference of city officials Saturday afternoon. It was practically agreed at the conference that the rationing of gas to consumers during times of shortage, which has been decided upon as the best means of relieving the low pressure which sharp drops In temperature bring, could best be accomplished with an amendment to the franchise of the Cltisens Gas Company, backed up with an ordinance passed by the city council. The franchise amendment would provide that in case the gas supply is depleted, or it is foreseen that It will be, the gas company shall notify the board of works. The board of works shall than have the power to Issue an order setting forth the order in which gas service Bhall be shut off, according to the seriousness of the situation. Cook stoves, lights and water heaterj would have first preference, industries second and gas gates an dother housesheating devices third, excepting in case where the householder baa no coal, la wbcib case his heating devices would have the same preference as the first class. Passage of an ordinance providing that the gas company shall shut off for a certain period the service of anyone who does not voluntarily respond to the board of works order was discussed. Such an amendment to the franchise must be negotiated by the board of works with tbe gas company, approved by* the mayor and ratified by the council. Mr. Ashby said he Is conferring on the proposal with H. H. Hornbrook, attorney for the Citizens Gas Company, this afternoon, and he expects the ainednment to reach the council some time this week. Court Hits Husband in Divorce Decree Special to The Times. VALPARAISO, lud., Oct. 18.—A divorce has been granted Mrs. Edna Colllson of this city from Albert T. Colllson. a banker at Dqnvllle, 111., by Judge Hanley in the Jasper Circuit Court. Colllson was ordered to wife $60,000 in alimony, the attorney's fees, amounting to $5,000, with expense* of $3,000 and to kend a son to military school and a daughter to a university.

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VIRGINIA AVENUE AWAITS NEW LAW Resurfacing of Street Held Up Until After March 1. Upon the statement of t*e board oi public works that enough favorable votes could be mustered In the city council to pass the improvement should it be necessary to refer it to that body, resident property owners or Virginia avenue between Louisiana and Shelby streets today decided not to file a remop.’.trance against the resurfacing of the street. Robert I. Sloan, president of the Southeastern Improvement Association, who acted as spokesman for the delegation, asked the board to rescind the resolution for the resurfacing and atari new action rext spring, stating that he. believes the next Legislature will pass a law creating a special fund out of which all permanently improved streets will be resurfaced as well as repaired and that the property owners would like to have the advantage of the law, if enacted. The law at present requites the direct ! assessment of property to pay for street i resurfacing, the only matters cared for l out of city fundo being minor repairs. WILL WORK FOR NEW IMPROVEMENT LAW. Mr. Sloan said his statement Is the opening shot in a campaign to get such j a, now law through the next legislature.: Every candidate for the State Legislature on every ticket will be canvassed for his view on the subject, Mr. Sloan added. The board confirmed the resolution, t*romißlng not to advertise for bids before ~3Tarch 1, if Mr. Sloan's delegation j would file a remonstrance. A resolution for the resurfacing of Virginia avenue, put through by the board of works several months ago, was killed by the city council but George Lemaux, president of the board, said that the present resolution was adopted upon the insistence of the council that something be done to the street. It is planned to make Virginia avenue the “Washington street of the south side,” Mr.* Lemaux said. ‘‘There is a great deal of talk about the south side not getting the improvements which tbe north side gets,” said Beard Member Thomas A. RUey. ‘‘The simple truth of the matter is that the north side petitions for Improvements while the south side remonstrates against them.” Mr. Sloan said be did net want to be considered as opposing Improvements, but he did want to go on record against the plan of making property -owner* pay for the resurfacing of a street worn out by the public. ILLINOIS STREET JOG STRAIGHTENING. A division of opinion In the board on the matter of straightening the jog In Illinois street at Sixteenth stret developed wheti President Lemaux and Mr. Riley voted to rescind all action on resolutions to cut off the northwest and southeast corners at the Intersection, announcing that they favor waiting until Sixteenth stret Is widened clear through the north side. Mr. Lemaux further stated that he doe* not favoi*aking up the widening of Sixteenth street and “taking a direct slap at the Chamber of Commerce" thereby until the city planning commission. proposed by the chamber ban hud a chance to study the question and make recommendations In line with the general city plan. Board Member Mark Miller said he desired that hls vote against rescinding action on the cutting off of one of the corners be shown by the records. “My view Is that we might a* well have no board of work* If we have to I wait for the Chamber of Commerce to act," he said. “I cau't see the reason for preparing all these plans nnri going to sll this trouble Just to start something we can’t finish.” Bids for two truck tractors and six trailers for the use of the ash hauling department were received from eleven

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18,1920.

companies, contracts ta be awarded Wednesday. BIDS RECEIVED FOR IMPROVEMENTS. Bids were received for improvements, as follows: Paving fWlatbfrdp avenue from Forty-second to Forty-Sixth street, paving Keeling avenue from Tenth to Sixteenth street, paving Graceland avenue from Fall Creek to Forty-Third street, paving New Jersey street from Fall Creek boulevard to Twenty-Eighth street and paving New Jersey street from Fortieth street to Bernard avenue, all with bituminous concrete. Resolutions for the permanent Improvement of Buckingham drive from Illinois to Boulevard place and of De Quincy street from Michigan to Tenth streets were confirmed, and resolutions for tbe permanent Improvement of the first alley east of Ashland avenue from Twenty-Fifth to Twenty-Seventh s(reets; for sidewalks, graded lawns and curbs In placet west side, from Fall Creek "boulevard to Twenty-Fifth street, and for permanent improvement of roadway, sidewalks, graded lawn and curbs In JJerkley road from Boulevard place to Sunset avenue, were adopted. Contracts were let for sidewalks, curbs and graded lawns in Mlnker street, from New York street to Ohio street; for sidewalks, graded lawns and curbs In Somerset avenue, from Michigan street to the first ulley south of the C., H. & D. railroad ; for sidewalks In McKim street, from Washington street to Williams street; for grading and graveling of roadway and curbs in Centennial street, from Tenth street to Twelfth street ; for sidewalks nnd curbs In Wilkins street, from Meridian street to Capitol avenue, and for a sewer In Moieland avenue, from Michigan street to a point forty-one feet south of the Big Four railroad. Engineer Scalded in ‘Owl* Train Crash COLONIA, N. J.. Oct. 18.—Edward Quail, engineer of the Philadelphia-New Tork express. No. 202, knoftrn *as the "Owl.” was scalded when hls tram crashed Into the rear of a freight train near here early today. The fireman of the passenger engine also was Injured and reported scalded seriously. The engine and tender of the passenger train was derailed and rolled dowu an 1 embankment. The baggage car of the train alao was derailed and tbe flrat passenger coach damaged badly. None of the passengers aboard the express tratu was injured badly, according to reporta. USS WM Gases Sourness Indigestion Heartburn Flatulence Palpitation Just aa soon oa you eat a tablet or two of Pape's Diapepsin all the stomach distress caused by acidity will end. Pape's Dispepein always puts sick, upset, acid stomachs in order at onee. Large 60c case—drugstores. . aasura lim

TRUSTEES BUCK CENTRALIZATION Township School Heads Open Convention Here. Opposition to centralization rule as promoted by the Department of Public Instruction will develop In the closed session of the Indiana State Association of Township Trustees to be held tomorrow afternoon in the Clay pool Hotel. The association opened its thirtieth annual convention this afternoon. Trustees say the State Department through Its centralization plans and theoretical Ideas can not operate rural schools successfully. . “Home rule” Is the motto of the trustees and measures to provide legislation for such a rule will be taken up In th* closed session which will be governed by the legislative body of the association, of which Lew Lewis, Rush County, is chairman. The program Includes the following: Invocation. Rev. J. Ambrose Dunked; welcome address. Mayor Charles W. Jewett; report of secretary, Alex R. Rhein-1-inder; address of president, William J. Williams; address. Dr. J. N. Hurty, State Board of Health; ’’Maintenance of Roads,” by A. H. Hinkle; “Vaiue of School Library,” by J. H. Haines. Tuesdoy—"Federal and State Aid for Vocational Education," by Z. M. Smith; “Getting Results In Vocational Agriculture,” by E. L. Austin. Election of officers and district members, of the legislative committees will follow the closed session Tuesday afternoon. Craps and White Male Bring Death to Negro “White mule” and gambling resulting from the “lid tilting" In the city Just before election day caused a murder Saturday afternoon. George Bickett, negro. 031 East St. Clair street, was arrested, rharged with stabbing and killing Joe Baker, negro, address unknown. Baker wes stabbed In the stomach after trouble which started la the rear of 872 Massachusetts avenue. Bickett told the police he had been drinking white mule.

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WILL VOTE FOR COX-ROOSEVELT UNDER LEAGUE (Continnod From Page Two.) ly supported the Republican or National Progressive tickets, have been trained In political tradition, emphasizing the International responsibilities of America. “From Lincoln to Roosevelt and Taft, each successive Republican administration has labored for a closer understanding among the nations of the world. “The present Republican leadership, which has nominated Senator Warren G. Harding for the presidency, has repudiated these traditions. “This leadership has permitted the Republican party to become a ‘little America’ party, drifting toward national Isolation and tbe relinquishment of any real responsibility for tbe general peace of the nations. / “We hold no brief for the present administration or the details of Its foreign nr domestic policies. We do not Insist on any particular wording of reservations to any articles of tbe treaty. ‘‘We hare been tolerantNaf much hostility on the part of Republican senators to some features of the treaty, hoping that in the end they would agree to a reasonable compromise and that the treaty could be ratified with the patriotic agreement of a majority of both great American parties. “We did not desire that a cause which should have served to unite all parties In the same spirit of common service which won the great war should be made a basis of party difference In the present campaign. “We regret (he Issue. “But we cannot avoid It “ ‘Nationalization’ has never been a Republican watchword. “It shall not be ours. “Such Republican statesmen as Andrew D. White, Joseph H. Choats and El'hu Root labored for the development of International law and for the organization of tbe world through two Hague conference*. “We would continue In the path they Indicated. “We cannot forget the interest of Pres. Went McKinley and Secretary Hay In establishing peace with Justice in the distant realm of China. “Theodore Roosevelt as President In-

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tervened to halt the Russo-Japanese war. “In his latter days he labored unto death to bring home to the American people the meaning of the great conflict In Europe. “President Taft honored hls party by his magnificent work for 'lnternational arbitration and afterwards for the League of Nations. , “Justice Hughes loft the Supreme Court bench to enter a campaign of pro,test against what ,be thought at that time was the Indifference of the administration to our International responsibilities. “We hailed as a triumph of Republican principle President Wilson’s abandonment of hls party’s historic policy of narrow nationalism to advocate a League of Nations. "True Republican statesmanship would have welcomed and supported the covenant. • “It would have sought to strengthen, rather than to weaken, lte effective guarantees against aggression. “It would have Insisted on our need of tbe league as the one possible means of reducing armaments and the crushing burden of taxation they cause. “It would have seen ta the league tbe one practicable means of restoring and increasing tbe authority of International law and Its agendes ( designed ultimately to supplant war. “War is the worst evil that exists on earth. “The last war was the worst that has ever happened. “The next. If permitted, will be far more horrible. ' “During the late war every one agreed that It was Imperative to adopt some measures to prevent its recurrence. “The question confronting America Is whether we shall accept the existing league or Insist upon anew international agreement having the same object. ‘‘lt is now too late to talk of anew ‘Association of Nations,’ to be created under Republican auspices. “The proposal to ask forty-three member nations to ‘scrap' the existing league, enter another peace conference, and agree on some undefined experiment, can no longr be taken seriously. NINE IMPORTANT SESSIONS HELD. “Already the council of the league ha* held nine Important sessions. “The full assembly of forty-three member nations meets this November. “The plan of the international court has been formulated wit v the active par-

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ticipation of the Republican statesman and Jurist, Ellhu Root. “Commissiofas oa disarmament, financial and economic matters of the highest importance to America are at work. “Thß labor conference has met and the International labor office is organized and active. “Such important regions as Danzig ind the Saar Valley are under the responsible authority of the league. “Two serious International conflicts— Poland versus Lithuania; Sweden tersua Finland—have been averted byWhe mediation of the council of the league. “All this and much more has been done. “It should not and canßet be undone. To say that the League of Nations must be abandoned because it U already a failure, is to assert what Is not true. “With American participation the league will become even more effective. “We want our country to stand first In tbe councils of nations. “We want our country to share fully In the great decisions which are shaping the future of the world. “We cannot endorse Senator Harding's policy of ‘America lastj “In the absence of definite assurances that the Republican candidates will use their full influence to bring the United States Into the league with reservations as may be acceptable to the American people, we urge all Republicans and Progressives who put patriotism above party, to join with us in working and voting for James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and for those senatorial candidates who staud honestly and frankly for ratification of two treaty and adherence to the league.” 5 Nations Discuss Using Wireless Phone BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 18.—Diplomatic and military representatives of the United Staets, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, gathered here, today to discuss the possibility of employing wireless telephony in diplomatic communications. After inspecting the big wireless stations of the Radio Corporation of America, the party was to go to Albany to visit the plant of the General Electric Company. Tomorrow the delegates will go to Scbnectady to Inspect the main plant of that company.

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