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Saturday. September 1, IMI TBS THE ADVOCATE Published every Saturday at Bull* 311 Macleay Building. Phon* Broad way 6887. D Rg CANNADY -J?------- -------- frailer E. D CANNADY.-------------------------- .. Aaeeclete Editor end Manager 11»* l'or Tsar Sts Month*...... ................... —... ..... . i t* Three Montps _ _______________ . i.e* __________ Payable lajsdvacca____ ______ Entered al the Poatoine* at I'orllaaA (,ir«<un. as aecond-claa* mattar. IMPORTANT! All communication* for publication or otherwise should be addressed to The Advocate Publishing Company. Suite 311 Macleay Building. Portland. Oregon. Advertising rates made known on application. "Don't ask for right* Take them. An' don't lot annr wan give thaas to ya A right that la handed to ya rr naw- thin' has somethin' th* matter with It." —Mr. Dooley. THOUGHT FOR TODAY GREAT POWER FROM GOD: — Behold. I giTe unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you—Luke 10:19. OUR TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY Ralston and others of th* aspirant* ar* simply flirting around within the range of the lightning, the gentle man from Alabama «peaks out not "In mournful numbers" concerning bls ambition and the frith that I* tn him Furthermore, he attempts to use hi* residence In the South as au ar gument tn favor, rather thaa against hi* nomination Its timehonored tra ditions against human freedom have tor M year* rendered the selection of one of the South's sons tor th* pre* Idency repugnant to the country's common sense and conception of Justice. Underwood confease* Judg meat In thia, but brasenly announce* It as hl* belief that the period of th* South's penance tor Its "principle*" has bee* sufficiently long In this the Senator is wrong to a proverbial i>emocratic way. but when he says the South reflect* the fundamental sentiment of the Iiemocratic party he struck keno and is irrentstibly right. Reconstruction of the Democratic party is as remotely removed from realisation now a* It was in 1868. ample evidence of which la furnished by the Senator himself, when he e* saved to stop all of th* function* of the government rather than to ack nowledge lynching to be a crime to be stamped out by federal authority. Mr. Underwood's plea that the South should receive it* reward in the Democratic nomination of Its simon-purity in the matter of Demo cratic allegiance Is Insistent aud quite tenable. Says the Senator to hi* announcement: "Today U Is said by some that it I* not expedient to have a standard bearer from the South, that it la In the interest of expediency we must go to the doubtful state* of th* Union to select our candidate, Must the South forever waive the right to select one of its citixen* a* the chief executive of the nation, or must H weaken It* Democratic faith tn order that it can have one of its sons a* President of the United State*?" Speaking as a Democrat to Demo crats. the Senator surely carries force of logic. Since we are going to have a Democratic candidate, let us have the real thing, and not a North ern rubber stamp, who currie* favor with the colored people in a local way and runs true to Democratic form in the national game. Let us have a man who speak* the Demo- cratic language without stuttering, who believes that lynching, disfran chising and peonage are implements of civilisation, and who puts hi* faith to work like Underwood did wth the Dyer Bill. Let us have the wolf himself, shorn of his disguise of sheep'* clothing. Oregon. We are not aliens, but among us there is a unity of pur poae; a unity of feeling which can only be voiced by • publication dia- tlnctly our own. not edit«! tor politi cal "pull", or naltaggrnndlsemvut. mere*nary aims, as It were, but for th* tetr, impartial and constant advo cacy of right and against wrong. We need a real race paper. Emerging as it were from centu ries of barbarism, having Implanted In our constitution • desire for a so ciety which we have yet to cr*at*. we not only ow* it to our anceetor* and thoee who fought for our liberty, but to the world to make public In oar own way of the love and sorrow of our every day life. The Intelligent internet and sympathy which the pub lished diffusion of our wedding* and births, our arrival* and departure*, th* lucks and accident* produced among u* doe* much to not only es tablish pride and make u* more loyal and patriotic, but Increases our In dividuality. serving the increment* of over three hundred years of bond age which Is now so heavily adhering to our career. OUR ADVERTISERS Again we call the attention of our readers to the neceestty of pat reals lug our advertiser* since without them we could not afford to publish a paper tor you They show beyond a doubt that they want your trade when they ask tor It through your newspaper. Why take chancee on spending your money with other* who may or your tronage» POLICE SHAKE-UP Mayor Raker and Chief of Pollve Jenkins have set out to shake up the police force Their first move wax to organise an Ax and Hammer squad with enters to use the Carry Nation method of ridding the city of it* bootleggto* ami dope Joints. FIRST A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. 417 WILLIAMS AVENUE Rev. E. J. Magruder, Paator We wonder If the killing of a col ored man and the shooting up of the colored section of Savannah. Ga . waa don* by the Ku Klux Klan tn revenge for thoee of tbeir kind killed In Car negie. Pa.. * few day* aso. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Larrabee snd McMillen Streets Rev. A. R. Fox, D. D-, Paster Phon* East 1107 E. L. Jamesen, Assistant Phon* Walnut 3900 Quarterly meeting will be observed al Bethel A M K. church thia Bun- day, and th* Holy Communion will be administered at both services. Tile s object of the minister’s dis course at the morning service will be. "Curing Life's Fever*.' Th* sub Jed at night will be. "Wanted — Men Who Understand the Times." The presiding elder. Rev 8. E. Halley, will be hero next Thursday ■nd will hold th* last quarterly con ference of this conference year Thursday night. August 13rd. BETHEL A. M. I. CHURCH Bethel A M K. Church, located on th* corner of Ijtrrabee and Millen streets, he* th* largest membership and congregation of any colored church In Portland. Rev. A. R. Fox. DO. 1* now closing hi* fourth year a* pastor. When Rev Fox came to thl* city tour your* ago. the congregation waa worship ping In the basement, Since that time through the sealoua efforts of him- sett and wife, assisted by the loyal congregation and friends, have con (traded what Is said to be tile most beautiful and finely furnished church Tou would support your newspaper if you realised the great good it Is doing tor the race and the commu ■ity SOME BOOSTERS We were talking over the phone one day this week with a man who is in the undertaking business, and he informed us that some of our own people told him he would get belter results from th* colored peo- pie if he did NOT advertise in th* colored paper. Some boosters. eh? BARBECUE PLANT The Up-to-Date Cleaning & Tailoring Co leans K LOTHES LEAN Hats cleaned and blocked to suit you. Yes. we clean everything from neckties up to rugs, blankets, etc. Suits and Overcoats made to your individual measure. Satisfaction guaranteed or ycur money refunded. Our prices are very reasonable. Olve us a trial. We will please you. Call Eart 026* for TAYLOR THE TAILOR J. W. INGERSOLL, Prop. •HILOH BAPTIST CHURCH Eaat 79th and Everett Streets. Rev K. L Moaeley, M T. D. pastor. Phone Tabor 176*. BL Phillipa Mission 34th and Barter Day* Morning service, 11 a. m.; Bunday School. 13 m. Archdeacon Black tn charge; Mr. B. Cole*, lay reader À cordial welcome await* you at BL Phillipa. on the Pacific Coast. It Is a two-story brick church with a completely furnished Bunday School room with sliding doors, making It possible to divide the classe* Intd separate rooms The first unit also contains a serving room, well equipped kitchen, furnace room containing a ten hundred and fifty five dollar International furnace, ladles’ snd gents* real rooms. The auditorium Is furnished with aothlc pews, pulpit furniture, communion and collection tables in golden oak. and art glass cathedral window* which alone coat seventeen hundred dollar*. There Is a swing balcony all the way around and the seating capacity Is over five hundred. There la a choir room, a stewardess room, both of which contain lockers and a pastor's study and committee room, all of which are a part of this unit. The auditorium and social vestibule which contains a drinking fountain are carpeted to match the furniture. During the administration of Rev Fox there have been several succeaa- ful rallies, the largest of which netted over four thousand dollars. Th* church also owns a two-etory strictly modern seven room parsonage, and the valuation of church property is about thirty thousand dollar*. Of the money raised in the various rallies we are proud to say that nearly all of It wax given by our own people. Rev. A. R. Fox Is a graduate of Wilberforce University and Payne Theological Seminary aud received th* degree Bachelor of Divinity, magna cum laud*, graduating at the head of hl* class Rev. J. W. Anderson, 429 Tillamook Street, versatile pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Eaat 1st and Schuy ler Sts. FIRST A r. . g. ZION CHURCH 417 «... sma Ave., Rev. E. J, Me- grudar, A. B. Paator. Pareenage, 2M Cook Av*. Phen* Welnut 6174. Service* at Zion are uplifting and Inspiring, The spirit of God Is made manifest to all who attend Good audiences are present at all service* Mrs. Doria Bradley of Lit tig. Texas, became a watch-care member last Sunday morning TO DEDICATE COTTAGES i I Scnator Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, is the first in the Held for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, doubly armed with prior ity and partisan temperament. He possesses singular qualifications from a Democratic point of view—a penchant for extravagance with pub lic funds and a surfeit of hatred for the colored American. These are the prime qualifications for a Demo cratic candidate, and a good slogan might be. “String Up the Negroes and Expenses." because everybody would know who was running and the party he represents. Senator Underwood. It will be re- membered, is the same Senator Un- derwcod who conducted the Demo cratic filibuster against the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill, and who declared from the floor of the Senate that the Democratic minority would prevent the passage of any of the Important measures before that body unies* the Mil making lynching a crime against the government was abandoned. If there to a rule in politica like th* rales In barbershops, whereby those who ar* first to come ar* the first to be served. Mr. Underwood has availed himself of that ad van teas While McAdoo. Cox. Smith. News oi the Churches When a colored man and woman say they do not subscribe or r,wd coIorod newspapers, you can put them down as persons of little or no con sequence. With this issue. The Advocate cel ebrates Ito 30th birthday anniversary. On September 5, 1903. ten men »hose name* appear in another column, bo gan the publication of The Advocate, And there is no doubt that it all the promoters had stood their ground IT IS TO SMILE and not retreated, The Advocate would now have been furnishing ena- He wu running a small hardware ployment to a number of our peo store In a newly developed district ple a* stenographers, printers, solic and the wholesale dealers found him itors, etc. But only one of the ten backward in payment of hi* account* men was left to bear the load. The They sent him letter after letter, all twenty years The Advocate ha* been of them polite, but each more threa in existence have been years of hard tening than the last Finally they work and great sacrifice*. But realis sent their representative down to ing then as we do now the race need give him a sporting chance. “Now." said the caller, "we must ed an organ wherein the bright side of a dark subject could be discussed have a settlement. Why haven't you in fairness, we toiled and struggled sent us anything? Are things going on, and while we have made but lit badly r “No. everything's going fine. You tle money out of the venture, we have EDITORIAL APPEARING IN FIRST ISSUE OF THE ADVOCATE. needn't worry. My bankers will labored on with no hope* of reward SEPTEMBER 5, 1903 guarantee me all right " except the reward of service we "Then why haven't you paid up?" could render the race. But right With this issue The Advocate "Well, you see. those threatening here we wish to state when we were make* its initial bow to the Portland letters of yours were so well gotten almost tempted to give up the strug public as an independent, non-parti up that I've been copying them and gle and let the paper die as a num san. non-sectorton weekly newspaper sending them out to some customers ber of others have done, we led to for the intelligent discussion and of mine who won't pay up. and I’ve the altar a woman whose equal is authentic diffusion of matter apper collected nearly all outstanding debt*. hard to find in any race; who, al taining to the colored people, espe I was only holding back because I though inexperienced in newspaper cially of Portland and the State of work at the time, was possessed of 'Î a splendid education and unbreak able courage; she was a strong be liever in "what others have done, I can do” principle, who came into the 350 Gliaan Street, in Park Hotel, opposite New Portoffice office and the community and with B. J. JOHNSON. Proprietor her wonderful assistance The Advo OPEN FROM 8 A. M. TO 10 P. M. cate lives on. Sad, but true, tbe Ail Kinds of Meats Barbecued—Serve You Here, or You May Take greatest opposition The Advocate It H ome has encountered has come from the 8PECIAL people It has tried to serve and de Ham and Eggs, Bacon and Eggs. Hot Cake* and Coffee. Served from fend. We have been threatened 8 A. M. to 11 A. M with boycott, its editor has been EXTRA slandered and lied about; hailed into Merchant's Lunch Served from 11 A. M. to 2:30 P. M. i court a number of times, but some- BARBECUE how, we have always come out vic Served at All Hour* torious. Therefore, we feel we must have been on the side of right. Of its enemies The Advocate has lived to see several go to their graves, and other* afflicted with in curable diseases; others brought so low down and into insignificance that they have long since been forgotten. To our many friend* who have stood by us and who have helped to keep the paper going, we extend our best wishes and sincerest thanks, and as sure you that we shell in the future continue to give the best there is in u* for the good of the public. AN HONEST-TfMiOODNESS DEMOCRAT more hard bollad sinner amongst the the waiters at The Portland Dr. M K. (Irseli John Jamtaioa, bellhop at The l*ortland. has resigned and will leave In a few days to enter Howard Uni versity. Washington, D. ('. fell sure there must be a final lettor, and I wanted to get th* •orle* com pfet* Hardware Man's Idea Book. The board of directors of the Chil dren's Farm Home have Issued Invi tation* to the dedication of "The Willard" and "The Oregon" cottages on the farm near Corvallis. Oregon. September Sth. Governor Pierce will take part In the Interesting program. i REV. E. J. MAGRUDER Rev. Magrudar I* a strong belisvsr In th* old-tim* religion and preach** the *sme. Mr. T. E. Allen Joined church last Sunday, Next Sunday the presiding alder will preach and the Holy Sacrament will be administered. Come out and feel th* spirit. Furnished Rooms wood 3878.—Adv. for Pentecostal Mission of the Chuejh *f God in Chriet “The House of Prayer" 28 Union Av*. N. Elder Robert Bearci*. Peeter Sunday service*: 10 a m. Bunday school, ti;so a. m. and T:»0 p. m.. preaching. Week 4ay mootings: Monday. Wednesday and Friday eve- oings, for testimoniala, prayer tor healing the tick and for tarry moot- toga. AU are cordially Invited to attend. Lodge Directory I. B. P. O. E. OF THE WORLD HOTEL NOTE* fi I IT A \ Joe Crane, private ter at The Portland. rushed to Gearhart Saturday to help In I Rev. E. C. Dyer, Pastor Independent Baptist Church 68% N. 10th Street Residence 213 N. 16th Street Broadway 4791 SUNDAY 10 A. M.—Sunday School 11 A. M.—Sermon, "Go Thy Way” 7 P. M —B. Y. P. U. 8 P. M.—Sermon, “A Liv ing Hope” Wednesday. 8 P. M., Prayer Meeting Friday, 7 I’. M., Missionary Society Good Preaching and Good Singing You are invited to worship with us culinary department The Gearhart. Willie Battle, a young man about Mr*. A. R. Fox. whose picture is town. I* breaking In a* a bell bop at shown above, is also a graduate of The Portland. Wilberforce University from three Mr*. Wilson, one of the pleasant departments, and is the President of checkers at The Portland, had the the Puget Sound Conference Wom misfortune last week to have several an’s Mite Missionary Society and Su of her finger* caught In a lawn mow perintendent of the District 8unday er. Fortunately, th* only damage to School Convention. They have two them was the loee of a bunch of skin. fine boys, ages six and four, namely Horace Rhodes, bell hop at The Walter and A. R Jr. Portland, sustained a sprained ankle last Sunday while playing baseball. Claude Jamee, ex watter at Tbe advertisers have patronised Portland, who recently returned from us patroniae them. Los Angeles, has accepted a position as waiter st The Gearhart through TO THE PEOPLE OF PORTLAND the courtesy of the Portland manage- You are cordially Invited to the ment. Elk's Barber Shop. Clifford Daniels sustained a «light We carry a full line of Hair Prep Injury In an accident which occurred while be waa alighting from the aration*. Madam Walker's Half Grower, freight elevator at The Portland last O-Pal Dressing, week, where he Is employed as a bell Madame DeNeal Hair Grower. hop. The Star Hair Grower, Guy Jamison, bell-hop at The Port Hatton's Wavo, land, has abandoned his Intention of Zuta Kinkout, attending Howard University, Wash G. A. Morgan's Hair Goods, ington, D. C., to finish his course In pharmacy, "It will take too much High Brown Preparation, money,” ■aid Jamison, *o he ha* de Nelson Hair Grower, We are here to serve you. Service elded to complete hi* atudles In Ore- gon is our motto. T. E. Allen, waiter at The Port ELKS BARBER SHOP Phone Brdwy 5388. 315 Flanders St. land, has gotten religion and Joined E. W. Agee, Prop. —Adv. the church. That leaves only ROSE CITY LODGE NO. HI P. O. E. OF W.. MEETS the 2ND AND 4TH WEDNESDAY EVEN- INGS OF EACH MONTH AT THE STAG AUDITORIUM, Mi'/g EAST MORRISON STREET. ALL VISIT. ING BROTHERS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED. D. CANNADY, E. R. Sil Meeloay Bldg. J. MINOR, Secretary. 410 Abington Blds. NOTICE Dahlia Temple No. 303, I. B. P. O. E. of W., of Portland, Oregon, meets the let and 3rd Tueeday nights in each month at Stag Auditorium. All visiting Daughter Elks In good stsndlng In their respective Templee are Invited to meet with us. LOUISE THOMAS, Daughter Ruler, BEATRICE H. CANNADY. Daughter Secretory. Syracuse Lodgn, K. of P. No. 1, meets th* second and fourth Fri day nights In each month. All Sir Knight* In good standing nr* welcome. Fraternal Hall, 718 Ml sals slppi Av*. E. D. Cannady, C.O, 111 Macleay Bldg. Boyce Strata K of P. A 8.