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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1926)
THE ADVOCATE THE ADVOCATE TH E PRICE OF SALVATION the lynchers would have a a law-enforcement body as it MORE ABOUT PRES. N. of the law. place to park their cars. Ac- iclaimed, has largel) resign A. C. W. CLUBS' ARREST Hasty Trial Amid High Publish•<! »vary S aturday at Among our most valued Continued from pace one Tension I cording to reliable informa ed. The local Klaus are now Suit* 311313 Maclaay building. A man wrote to a store exchanges, is the Chicago Phont Broadway M07. “Five of the Lowmans . lion, Sheriff Robinson, I >e- in the hands of murders, keeper as tolluws be worth upwa r ds of $300, Broad-Ax which celebrated “Dear Sir- Last vear 11000.00 in real estate holdings crested and moved puty Sherifls McKIhanev bootleggers, operators of MR« u Kdit0r its 31 st birthday anniversa- 'Y eJ( Palm Beach hastily to the penitentiary and A. I). Shepard, and traf stills and other criminals. As in W MM. E. D. CANNADY Maaagar ry ,a ., wcek w ith a 1() page picked up a pair of gloves in at Columbia to avoid a lyn fic policeman Salley dragged I have said the law-abiding Mrs. Mary McLeod Be special edition. Each page your store and did not pay ADVOCATE A0ENT8 ching. According to the re-' Bertha l.owniau from her element of whites are living nleniber of Mrs. Klka Sanitary Barbar Shop was adorned with cuts of for them. Enclosed find one lluine, e*s a party ¿s not only cord of the South Carolina cell, got the other 2 defend- in a state of constant terror 90 NORTH SIXTH men, prominent in the civic dollar. I couldn't let a thing Collie resident of the N A of State Supreme Court, the ants and handed them over ami indeed are more ofraid like that stand between me tl,c Prc life of the Wind cit. C. W. C. but is president of »hooting took place on Apr. to the mob. After the mob of the Kljin ami of the lower SUBSCRIPTION RATES The veteran editor of the and heaven.*’ had secured the prisoners 2 of whites than arc Ne ... storekeeper KF...u The replied: . the Bethune-Cooknian Col- r*; 1lo" 'ard s tuneral on the shots were fired inside the order su Months ZZZZ..Z Z7ZZ.*?!» Broad-Ax, Julius Taylor cer groes. Dear Sir: Thanks for the ^g e in Daytona Beach, Fla.; 2(>th <« whZcj? J * " Prcftf" Thrw Months ------- ------ 100 t a jn | v “knows his Stuff” Payable in advance , . dollar and our confession; and she is the outstanding ,ll° re t,IJ" K l a n s m e n in tail and not, as Sheriff Kob White Men Armed For De Entered at the Postoffice at Portland, w h e n It COIlies to the IK'WS- fense Against Klan but there is still a dollar and f‘tfure m the club life of the 1,11 regaha), inquest was inson claimed, when he was Oregon. as second-class mstter paper profession. trying ‘to prevent entry' of! “ In the home of one white a hal* between on and heaven colored women of the United ,uld on lie -7th, the court -------o— IM PORTANTI the mob into the jail. man, formerly a high officer as the gloves vou describe as States. She spent a brif stay convened on May 4, the in _________ ___ for publics __ We need in our local civic All communications “The mob numbering he-(in the Klan, and who resign- U1 Portland last Summer as d u ,n ,u 'n.t ,°( ,hc bowmans tion or otherwise a h o u ld 'b e a d - affairs an upstandng leader- having were worth $2.50." tween 30 ami 40 started out ! cd when he found out the tia- ------- the guest of the Oregon Fed- " as ,ad tlu‘ saim' day, the dressed to The Advoeste Publish i ship, for it is plain that thro’ York Street on the Dixie ture of the movement, lie Our government seems eration of Colored W om en's'deiendants were arraigned lug Company, Suite 313-313 Mac- that kind only, will we ever .i Uh« tied about arrest- Clubs and was the house- 0,1 tlu‘ and Placed on tri- highway to a tourist camp a- showed me ail automatfc pis- leay Building, Portland, Oregon reCeive the recognition that more concerne nishing bootleg- guest of Mrs. Bonnie Bogle, Way 12. Feeling was so\ bout 2 miles from Aiken. On tol which he carried in his m‘d* kD°Wn should be accorded every red mg and puni 'blooded American. gers and liquor possessors Chairman of the Executive Aiken, according to • the way Clarence Lowman trousers pocket and a 38 cal- -------- o-------- than it is about apprehend- Comitte of C. W. C. of Ore- 1 u‘ dctense brut in the Su '(limped lrom the car in ibre revolver in a holster, lie “Don't ask for rights. Takf them An don't lei anny wan g’vr them to IF SOLOMON KNEW ing and punishing those who gon state. Recently Mrs. Be- peeme C ourt. it was publish-1 which lie was held. He was told nte that if he went a- ye. A right that is handed to ye fr -------- lynch and burn their fellow- thune addresed an appeal to to the world that it would shot down ami lecaptured.,cross the road iu front of his nawthin' has somethin' the matter with A small girl, daughter oilm en and women. Why is it the colored people of the U. bo difficult to obtain law -|In order to prevent telltak house after nightfall, a dis- i t ”— Mr. Dooley. tam e «>1 some 7s feet, he “They have rights who dare main a San Antonio Mason, con- like it is? Is it because the S. to assist in the fund raised >’ers *or the Low mans in Ai- blood in ark?., a rope was ti- tributes the following essay great majority of lynch law for the relief of sufferers in Attorneys were appoint- ed to the hack ot the iar ami stra|H'd on Ins person, in ad- tain them "—James Russell Lowell. on King Solomon: “ King victims are of the black race? Miami and Florida, follow- cd court, «w lie» merely the other end oi it around ilition, a cartridge belt and Solomon lived ever so many T H E ELECTION years ago, when long whis- The election* is n o ~ kers were * l\ the ra^ e' H* thing of the past, and the was. an awf.ul u t"' VVc candidates who were elected 111 th .e country w^ h 10 has ........... , --------------- - . . . . . , - are an expression of a major- nush ^ ^ * ar.>hip> to>ome dc».r\ing to htTsenrid logixed for "the formal de was shot hut not killed in- home for self-protection. For ity vote. While the results " h o ‘e push. young people ot the Negro requested sums to be sent td made by th n „ and im_ stanlh She draged ------* •------------------- K . herself 4 years ... the members of the mav not be satisfactory to e- U d ]’ ?ne dav two ™?men race, through its educational the rel,ef committee D> 1 • very one. nevertheless all ,ca," e befor,c h" U', good citizens must submit u> . mg on ° . u ® . . . and each saving it , to the gov- __ *1 principles , r, oi our - c? . One woman said ™ “J ' i efK'C,t ' » aS the mother of murder with a reconimcnda- that she begged so piteously ent deputy sheriffs were a must ruleJ\Vith°this thmxSit a,Kl the other said: ‘You’re is certainlv not deserving of than colored, and she felt it tion of mercy in the case of for her life and squirmed a-¡expelled from the Klau some rn vLw and with the hopes a ^ liar!’ , . , many of the hard things htat should be left to the descre- Bertha. Dcmond and Cla- bout so that a jiuniber of years ago for ‘conduct utihe- that the best men were chos- h was UP to So,omon to have been said about it by - tion of the commitee as to rence were sentenced to die shots liatl to he fired before coming a kkinsman.’ But ■ I «t * ep j U t k Iu L \\ I llv ll W U l l l d l l lllv d " en at polls last the U ba- and where the tunds on June 12, 1*425 and Bertha one found a vital spot and they were later readmitted, at the the polls last . Tuesdav. 1 uesdav, . decide, . , «'h«ch , to, . woman , he called . some narrow-sighted indivi- 'mw t - u » j . . ■ bv belonged so should be used. dual? ih e Advocate to life imprisonment. It is ended tier agony. tOn the anniversary of Slier- . . .. extends sin- , for his sword, and , was jrst . cere congratulations and best ’ going . . . , • . . r t u p ADrvriT t i o i T P D worthy of note that Bertha Facts Given S. C.’s Governor iff Howard's death, the Klan ISN'T IT AW FUL? wishes to all. eome to c,,‘ ,he babv in two ___ _______________ _ and Clarence Lowman s lives I have mriiislied 1 liouias held a celebration at his and give each woman half There are 47,000 either ve- W H IT E ’S INVESTIGA- were hanging in the balance ti. McLeod, Governor of So. grave in the (iraniteville C'e- when one of them said: “Nix ry ignorant or very prejudi- TIONS LOCAL N. A. A. C. P. from their wounds at the Carolina, in a < » page letter, metcry at which, according on the sword stuff. Solomon _____ let t be 0| j bo<r have it If 1 Ctd voters *n l *lc Kreat state Continued from page one time they were placed on tri- every detail regarding the to the Columbia State, more \Ye wonder wheu the local can’t have the whole babv I oi Oregon who voted against ------ al and they were taken from lynching. 1 have given him than 1,500 persons, many of nonytnous letter to the Sher- the hospital to the court the name of the member of them clad in Klan rubes, the repeal! of the “Free Ne- noi Branch of the National Asso- don Yt want any.’ the mob who was accorded were furnished with free ciation for the Advancement Then Solomon told the ^ ro and rdldai.,° umasure iff, Sheriff 11. H. Howard room, of Colored People voted to woman to take the babv a n d p n ba*lot- r>ut thanks to 'an d L)eputj> bherifls Nolhe The case was so outrage- ‘the honor of being cxecu- lunches and lemonade and change its place of meeting go home and wash its face the intelligent and justice-lo- Robinson, K. L. McFlhaney, ous that N. J. I'rederick, a tioner but whose nerve fail- listened to eulogies of the from the churches to the I for he knew it was hers and v‘n£ voters who cast>and A. D. Shepard went to colored attorney of Columb ed him. I have furnished him late Sheriff. This celebration Williams Avenue Branch oi he told the other woman to t ^ie'r ballot so that this over the Lowman home on April ia, on his own initiative, en- with the names of the 3 men took place while the State the Y W and Y M C A r go chase herself a century old "black 25, 1925. Two weeks earlier tered the case and filed an who did act as executioners Supreme Court was deliher- It has been the custom for ^ King Solomon built the daw. wdl no l°nf>er be print- on a Sunday night, a crowd exceleut appeal to the State and of their 2 assistants. I jating on the appeal for a new the Branch to meet for three Temple that lias his name on ed 'n tbe co<K*s and statute of Klansmen robed and hood Supreme Court for a review 1 have furnished him with the trial for the Lowmans. months at one of the church- it Our grocervman whose books of Oregon. It seems ed had called Deinond Low- of the cases, resulting in a names and addresses and oc- "This makes the 41st lyn- es then three at another, and name is Levi savs Solomon’s somewhat strange that in a man, 22-year old son, from reversal of the convictions cupations of 22 members of ching I have investigated, so on until the round was Temple was the nicest that KePl™lican state that these his home and whipped him. and the remanding of the the mob telling the Governor besides 8 race riots. In none made and then repeat This ever was built, but Pa savs °*d *aws " b'ch were written Sheriffs Showed No Badges defendants for a new trial. in detail of the part played b> of them have I seen the de- e v i r i e n t 1 v Hid n o t t h e it can’t hold a candle to the s0 a ^ 0, bave not a d be- "When the four white She "The three defendants we- each one of them at the lyn- pravity, barbarity, and tcr- present p re sid e n t for it is new Elks Temple which thev *ore now becn repealed. riffs in plain clothes, and re again placed on trial Oct. ching. I have furnished him rorism which exists in and said that he has declared the are going to build. " T H E N A A C P FUND badges, approached 5th at Aiken, Judge Lanham with the names of 11 other near Aiken. One of the white Association would not meet Solomon was the father of ' ' * th*-‘ Lowman home, Mrs. An- presiding. Mr. Frederick re- persons who were very close men with whom 1 talked and in the Baptist church Just all Masons He had 700 wiv- So manv people have ask- n'e Lowman, the mother, o5 tamed L. G. Southard, a to the lynching as spectators who gave me much valuable what authority he has for es in good standing, and 200 ed us why we have not said years old, was making soap white attorney of Spartan- but who did not actively par- information, put lus hand uu ignoring the wishes of the more that were not quite as anything about the N. A. A. the back yard and her burg, paying him $125 out of . ticipate m it. • my shoulder as I was leaving members who go to make up good. I suppose that is why C. P. “slush fund” charge a- daughter Bertha, was sweep- his own pocket. Messrs. I re- 1 his list includes besides ami said: Mr. White, work the local Branch we do not there are so many Masons in gainst some of the associa- ,nS the yard. Sam Lowman, derick and Southard put up the Sheriff and Ins deputies into your story the fact that know However members the w orld’’ tion’s national officials. Well the father, had gone to the a magnificent defense and other so-called law-enforce- you were sent by God. For 7 are being notified to come ------ 0------ t0 be truthful. We didn’t 01,11 to have meal ground, completel•ly demolished the ment oficers, prominent bus- weeks a group of white peo- out Monday night to the Y ^ e congratulate the Mt. take the m atter seriously at while Demond Lowman and State’s case. On Oct. 7, a mo- iness men and 3 men related pie has met here in my house and elect officers W hat a ®Iivet KaPtist church upon all. We knew the Pittsburgh Clarence Lowman, 14 years tion was made for a directed to the Governor and the every night and prayed that paradox-the N A A C p *ts iorward looking leader- Courier was not tilling the of age and his cousin, who verdict of not guilty in the name of at least one member i some man from out of the that great organization more ship in arran&in& programs, truth and we did not care to l,ad been raised by Sam case of Demond Lowman. of the Grand Jury investiga- State be sent to open up this than 20U UOO^-trong banded Practlcal as well as wholly of gjve it any free space in Lowman and his wife, were It was generally conceded in ting the lynching. 1 also fur- mass of corruption and to together * to fight SEGRE- tbe sPlrit’ *or tlie benefit of Gur columns. We also knew plowing in a field 100 ards a- Aiken that Clarence and Ber- »¡shed the Governor with J publish to the world the ter- G ATI ON °using as a meet- its niembership and the pub- t hat James Weldon Johnson, way- tha would be freed by the the names of 4 white men j rihle state of affairs prevail ing place a iim-crow place'! lic in Seneral- T hese educa- Secretary of the N. A. A. C. “When Mrs. Lowman and jury the next day. At 5 in the and one colored man ¡near- ing here. You are the answer W hat can we expect of tionaI Pr°g ra,ns certainly p. was a’man above reproach ber daughters saw the white afternoon Judge Lanhain ccrated in the Aiken jail on to that prayer.’” those of the white race who have a definite place in the whose honestv we would °ien approaching the house I grantted the motion for the the night of the lynching, ---------------- — would keep us in slavery and ,ife of any church- T hr°ngh stake our lives on and there- they thought it wisest to go dismissal of the case against and who saw the Sheriff and Furnished rooms for rent prevent us from holding our then1’ g0od c,tizenship is pro fore we knew that the accu- ” ?.s,d«.until_they had passed. Demond. He was however his deputies drag Bertha (or rooms with kitchennette. sation was the “tribute that The Sheriffs drew guns and j imediately rearrested on a Lowman from her cell and Call Sellwood 4734 after 7 oc. heads up as men and women, m^ted. the equal of other men and COLORED PE O P L E ’S mediocrity pays to great- started running towards the charge of assault and battery turn her over to the mob. I P. M .__ Adv. ness” and dismissed it from bouse to surround it. Bertha and recommitted to jail. have also stated to the Gov- women, when our own - PLACE our minds and went to work Lowman screamed. Demond Lynching Planned by Klan ernor that 1 can furnish him tT~i • would-be leaders, not only countenance segregation huf v n „ , ( with our faith renewed in and Clarence ran to the hou- “Within one hour after with the names and adresses ay up our .Subscription, countenance segregation, but assist those who Segregate h ^ & t,rai er ° , a Mr. Johnson and the noble st‘ as the Sheriffs rushed the Judge’s decision, n e w s , of most influential and res- OAKLAND NFW<5 m r c and denv us eaual oonoruini- v * ^ 1 ° t, work being done by him and °ito it. Sheriff Howard and had been sent to as distant a pcctable white citizens of the , ____ ? WS J OTS / _ • ^ lies in a speech the other da> his loyal co-workers in the Bertha Lowman reached the point as Columbia that the 3 I comunity who will testify to i (By Arthur D. LeBon) ties and privileges? qown in^\lrgmia^we are told National office. back steps at the same time. Lowmans were to be lynch- the correctness of the facts T. F. Smith, representa- . V\ hat a laughing stock a Ku Klux Klansnian said The Sheriff knocked Bertha ed that night. W ithin' th,e set forth, if the Governor tive of the National Insu- for the enemies of the N. A. that “above all we must out of the way with his left same hour the Ku Klux Klan vvill guarantee them protec-: ranee Company, passed aw- BERKELEY NOTES A. C. P, ! \ \ hat slight influ- keep the Negro in his place.” fist, his pistol clutched in his held a meeting in the office tion from the vengeance of | ay suddenly at Elsinore Cal ence this local branch would Now the thing that is puz- (By Arthur D. LeBon) . ...... to her of a prominent white attorn- the Klan and the lynchers. right hand, shouting Monday, October 25 where have when it attempted to zling the colored people in w , , Mr. 1 lau Sykes, Ji"*, the jq stand back. In the melee ey of Aiken who had been re- Attempt To Stage Race Riot he had gone on a vacation oppose segregation in public this country is where their roaming Romeo and his roa- Deputy Sheriff Robinson fi- cently elected to the State “ Folowing the lynching an j Heart failure was the cause places for community ser- place is in American life, ring Buick six were arrested red and killed Mr« Annie Legislature. At this meeting attempt was made to stage a uf his sudden demise Mr ice! \V hat a great disappoint- The principle of a democra- for speeding by one T H E BROAD AX precious to be subjected to We thank God that ours is such domination as to be not a Kingdom nor an em- hurtful to its great princi- pire where one man has the Ples- authority to say to another man or to a race, that your Scrapping amongst oursel place is here and no farther. ves has always been one of Where does the Ku Klux the chief causes why we have Klan get its super-power to made such slow progress in prescribe the place o{ Negro the economic and political Americans in their own life of the nation. When shalll country? W hat is its stand- we learn better? ard of citizenship? , , f . ............. .. .......... ............. by warned Judge home and furniture, also Iso se- bullet |,u]iet went th thro’ ‘ ‘ his head. Bert Carter that a lynching *as, riots of 1919, which the Thibode-uix ( \ cretely gave a party and nd the The Sheriffs had pistols, was in the air. Despite this N. A. A. C. R exposed'. F o r-' thur LcBo^and M rl S L ,.h bride was introduced by y Y r.8' Clarence I.owman had a the Lowmans were commit- tunately this dastardly at- Rooers left f,,r I, , i. ... ■ Ed Snelling of 37th St., ’ , k" ...... .................... ^ VJT. L o w - ted to jail with only 1 guard tempt did not succeed. shotgun while Demond T e x a s S m " ( i l'* ■ar --------------- . i ,i , • Houston | »loustoti, Oct., land. Mr. and Mrs. Sykes man had a pistol hut at n o whereas plans _ _ been .. . Mrs. lvirM Texas . hlhftrf. Sun., . had I learned that .... the mev.t- 31 Thibodeaux .spent are at home at 1 .'•20 Stuart time was anywhere near she- made to remove the defend- able aftermath of Klan acti-1 four month« in rV^L i'X i*'i" M- riff Howard or at a point ants hastily should they he vities is no wbeing seen in S. viiilt ern’oyeVa dehRlitful <!n Bye bye, Blackbird — where he could have shot the , convicted. Carolina. The element of journ She is \ m-Jit l Pay your subscription nowt J herif[ 1,1 the trial it was | ‘‘Shortly after midnight a membership which acted as worker and visjted fnanv of ------- -------- brought out that the white police officer of Aiken forced a restraining influence in the the churche« ‘ y Sta y Off Monday nl*ht. January 3. men did not in any manner automohilists to remove c ars , Klan and which entered the where ‘she "net friend^from 1927 New Year* Ball. Adv. indicate they were officers of i from around the jail so that j movement believing it to be'Texas and I otiisi rUm T