The Democrat from Wichita, Kansas • 1

nn BEMOCEA 35 Wichita, Kansas, Saturday, October 19. 1918. No. 42 kA FAN US BY AESOP, JR. Said Abe Lincoln, You May Fool All The Negroes Part of the Time, But Not Part of Them All of the Time Wichita lias a Colored Man Who Can Outthink nf I1A tilt, i ii-: n.Li Why 'and Wherefore of Party Papers and.

the Lesson Men of Sense Have Learned and so Keep Their Tempers i i Senator Lodge Speaks Not to the Senate but to Arm and Equip His Party. Once upon a time a man consumed with military ambition armed his people and entered upon a worltl crusade of triumphal aggression. About that same time another man consumed with a zeal for democracy, warned the militarist, and the warning being ignored, he marshaled the forces of righteousness and democracy spread world-wide. Civilization was about to take a tremendous stride forward, when a third man, consumed with egotistic desire to be the KING OF THE WORLD REPUBLICS, commented upon the speeches of the tyrant md the liberator, thus: "The militarist was right in his preparations, but his motive was wrong; the liberator is right in his motives, but hi GUNS ARE- OK TOO SMALL CALIBER." MORAL: TO MAKE MEN OBEY, LET MILITARY CAMPS REPLACE THE CHURCHES; LET COURT MARTiALS BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE COURTS; LET FORCEFUL WEAPONS SUCCEED MOLLYCODDLE MORAL SUASION; LET MILITARY DECREES REPLACE THE STATUTE-BOOKS; FINALLY LET THE ONLY JUST MAN ON EARTH BE GIVEN SUPREME POWER, IN ORDER THAT MIS FREE SUBJECTS MAY BE SUMMARILY PUNISHED, IF THEY DISOBEY THEIR RULER. IYIUM Ul Kill' 11 lUIIVIIlg KUU' nuuiciii.

"If Aycrs Should Be Punished for the Brutality of Southern Democrat? to the Negro, What Should be Done To Mack for Ihe Betrayal of Negroes by Lily-White Whtn Ihe Pirty Paper Presents the Issues, It Is Not to Make Converts But to Furnish Arguments and Answers to the Cnemy Shrapnel. The Democrat has been favored man to. first introduce a bill, to put lynchin under federal control, and with an article from the troiy'hant pen of tlie colored lawyer, Furnum Mar U.N Hon. Joe Taggart of Kansas is his name. "The Negro has advanced farther important committees and any member of those committees NEVER GETS ON ANY OTHER COMMITTEE.

Postoffice and post roads is one of those five and Mr. Ayres and Mr. Murdock were highly honored in being given that appointment. Dan Anthony, Republican from hot first tin, which throws tremciSdous light upon the rare issue as injected into the campaign by "The South in 'the along nil lines in the last six years SAYS DIOGENES JK. WE ENDORSE SAM AMI DON.

Saddle' cry. He says: "When the Negro was freed from slavery 71 'Kansas district for 16 years or more, he, was at once miuhi the victim of mental slavery. He became the pitiable prey for the unscnujluous politi I never acepted the doctrine that The Republican Central Committee to make a woman love you you must! wants to know if the Democrats of abuse her. However it seems to be Wichita relish having for their spokes-true of men that if you Want them man and leader the defender of crim-to elect you to ffice you who has nmiosed so manv bs a lace oijp but one committee. It made, Vic Murdock and the Eighth Kansas District famous, because Vic Murdock almost disrupted cian and demagogue.

From their the Republican party by convicting BUST UP THEIR PARTY, TWICE One Of the issues in the congressional campaign raised by' Mr. Mack and emphasized by his committee is THE PAUCITY 'OF THE EIGHTH DISTRICT IN COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS, The readers of The Democrat are accustomed to hear the truth as far as the editor knows or coneoivc it. First then absorb this point: IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE PARTY PAPER, NOT TO MAKE CONVERTS, BUT TO SUPPLY ITS OWN PARTISANS WITH THE ANSWER TO THE ALLEGATIONS'. OF THE ENEMY. When" Senator Lodge attacks the President, ho is not talking to the senate but he is 'giving the Republicans of the country the proper partisan When Senator Hitchcock rises to reply, he is not talking to the senate but is giving the Democrats of the country the partisan answer to Lodge's partisan crack.

1n the same way when The Beacon has an editorial warning the loyal against the South, it does not ex AT LEAST. movements that, were for the benefit of the city. The Committee hasn't the nerve to than in the fifty years' prior to 11)12. There have been no black laws enacted in the last six years, but on the other hand, black laws have been nullified, and the "South, was in the saddle'." 1 "Now for a few words of local application, I have no apotogy to offer nor sympathy with southern ill treatment of the Negroes, but I would ask the fair-minded citizen this Question: 'If we should punish Congressman Ayres for the brutality of the white Democrats to the'Negro in the South, why should wo, not flav CntldU date C. C.

Mack for the cruelty and faithless betrayal visited upon the Negro by the I.ily-White Republicans of the South? "If we 'should defeat W. A. Ayves hecause of the Jim Crow cars of the Said Croessus "jr. to" Cynicus in plain (language whom they "Don't vou see the difference be-! but 11S Sam Amidon is spokes- twecn the KaiserV militarism and aml of democrats ofl the railroads of robbing the government on weighing flails byyand with the connivance of the committee on Postoffice and Post RoaVls. NOTA BENE: This roast is not to weaken the faith of Republicans in their, party, but to give the Democrats a chuckle.

God knows they get mighty few from the hostile press of the district. Of course it is impossible for men clutches he has not yet been redeemed, Since he was first entrusted with the franchise, his political captors have haunted him-with mghtmnres of his previous ctfiulitgon of servitude, and used "liis paws to, (mil tlieir elu'stnuU from the fire. "With the advent of war thoughtful people lli'uvht we were a united nation with race prejudice ami partisan politics shelved. Suddenly the clarion sound of demagogue and politician with his irrational appeal to sectionalism, 'The South isVn thoSmldlc' and 'elect Republi- Teddy Roosevelt's? The Kaiser -Kansas, as national eommiueemau, wanted on army to oppress ashe is a brilliant criminal law while Teddv wants one to protect we no (loubt he is the Plotters." "That mav be true," rc. -'on to whom the conimtee alludes, plied Cynicus but suppose some! The Amidon future Wilhelm should get hold of 111 CHlecm Ul'cfU8e 1,1,1 some future Teddy's army 11 law'pr WU-hita who will nt ac- cept his word in any case pending in I court.

The Demociat loves him be-Discusing military training, I take cause he has kept innocent iwn from this position. I teach my son to be i A1 prison. The Democrat adiriiies his a prize lighter order that he defend himself, HE IS GOING TO fU ARRANGE PRIZEFIGHTS. 1 ocrat does not adnme any lawyer who helps convict his own client though he uu.one. noseveus a.eas on vapMy guiUv, itary training are correct WE wb do not recognize the recognize tlie movements SHOULD REVISE THE DUELLO, of benefit to the city that Sam Amidon has oimosed.

but we do know sev- that honorable men might protect 7. i to drop their prejudices, but -it. is quite possible for intelligent men, like the readers of The Democrat, to understand Ih a Republican medicine doesn't taste good to Democrats and Democratic pills work awfully quick on Republicans. In compensation the Republican may roar with delight when a DVmocrat is vilified and scandalised, and the Democrat in turn has his laugh whenthe Republican's character is assassinated. DON't TRY TO HOG ALL 'THE ENJOYMENT, GIVE THE DEMOCRAT HELL, BUT SMILE WHEN YOU ARE 111 IN KIND.

If you just love The Beacon when it assaults Bill Ayres, and hate The Democrat when it roasts Charles Mack, please remember that The Beacon is giving, you your daily fodder, and The Democrat is doling out a weekly ration to its following. If you haven't the mental caliber Ut do this, enter a primary mental training camp. THE' UNIVERSITIES ARE NOT BROAD ENOUGH TO TEACH IT. their names by killing scandalmong- t.al strong whivh cin and backbiters. i prom, t() him Ve pect to scare anybody but merely to eijuip its partisans with thunder.

When The Democrat it does not hope-to -convince Republicans of their error, but to inform Democrats what is the answer to the charge' made. 1 With this in let us consider theissue of congressional committeeships. Mack says the district suffers Ayres has. but one minor place on an unimportant committee. 4 Answer: Mr.

Ayres very fortunately at the same place as belonged to his predecessor, Mr. Murdyk. Murdock Republican member for 2 or It years, had the oen place iinil no more. So much for Mr. Mack's ATTACK ON MR.

MURDOCK AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR ITS SHABBY TREATMENT OF THE KANSAS MEMBER, AND THE EIGHTH DISTRICT. As of fact there are five I kjiow of a thousand or two poor per mm i sons who enjoyed his hospitality on several occasions when they were hungry and he fed them, barefoot and he shod them, naked and he clothed them, Imt, of course, they wore poor devils It looks to me that the Republican followers of Teddy Roosevelt, who want to-ninkcthe United States the terror of tho world because of its largest army and navy, are incon-bistcnt in their upon Wilhelm and don't count among the Pharisees, for putting that scheme; in practice WHO NEVER DID A MEAN, SELF-in recent years. 1 1 II IN THEIR WHOLE LIVES. Croesus Jr. acknowledges that he is I Sam Amidoii has never asked any-a partisan.

To Cynicus Jr. he said, 1 thing of the Democrats 6Y Wichita "My faith in the Republican party is which they have denied him. The such that I believe Republican in- rchool board secured his services as fidel has a better chance to go to attorney and HE TOLD THEM heaven than the most devout Demo-! THEY COULD NOT DO WHAT OTIIER ASSAULT IS MADE ON THE SOUTH THUS WEAKENING THE TIGHT ON THE HUNS 1 Itciuiblicans in (he Eighth 'District Seek To Detract Attention From Ileal To Imaginary Enemies THEY DESIRED TO DO. He is no lickspittle lawyer to legal way to do an illegal act. 1 We.

have seen many a poisoned gss ciat." "YOU ARE INDEED A SINCERE 'replied Cyni-ens Jr. "THE THIEF ON THE CROSS MUST I LA YE BEEN A RE- Utah, Democrats, 1 Republican. PUBLICAN, AS HE LANDED bomb hurled at Sam Amidon, but we never hoard him (Idled Pharisee or THAT DAY IN i 4 A RIIN. Discussing seriously the assertion of 1 the Republican County Committee that ten Republican states i averaged 25 per cent, bond-buyers! and ten Democratic states averaged but three per tlKvexplanation is two-fold. First it is a mere assertion without evidence back of it.

It. may be true and it may be an irre- Here are ten Republican states. Dakota, North, 4 Republicans, 1 Non-Partisan. Dakota, South, Republicans, 2 Democrats. Idaho, 3 Republicans, 1 Democrat.

New Hampshire, 3 Republicans, 1 'Democrat. Oregon, 4 Republicans, 1 Demo hypocrite: Bound Sam Amidon en the North. East, South nd West, by the four all around of Wichita, and he wouldHOLD UP THE MIDDLE. BOUND HIM BY HIS DETRACTORS, AND HE WOULD LOOK LIKE A GIANT TOWERING ABOVE HIS BOUNDARIES. If you want to know what I think is the most delicious humor in this campaign, it is the Pharisaical claims of the Republicans to all the intelligence, all the honesty, all the farsightedness, all the loyalty, AND ALL THE BOND BUYING MONEY there is in the nation.

Their only real monopoly is egotistical conceit, of which they have denuded the market. sponsible political utterance. But let us accept it as true. Let us suppose that Iowa, a rich fnrmirifr Kfnfn ulinro nlTnt ovprir Cl'at. JUST A LITTLE MORAL 4, can congressmen to safeguard the Negro's Interest' was heard in the land.

"Well Id see; for nearly a half century, the Republican party, not the North, was in the saddle; the Supreme Court, both Ihuises of Congress, and the Chief Executive were uj republican and the whole political machinery both south and north were in control of the Republican party; and the Negroes were in larger numbers lynched, burned at the stake, denied the right to vote, Jim-Crowed, discriminated against most shamefully, And not. a groan was heai'd in Washington. "Republican presidential congresses have tome and gone, and Negro fires har continued to burn higher and higher than ever. Theodore Roosevelt sat supinely in the White House and held his nose to keep from smelling the fumes of Negro flesh, and closed his ears to their groans, and never a mumbling word said he. body owns his farm, buys eight bonds where Mississippi buys one bond.

Twenty-five per cent to three per cent, is eight to one. What proportion of the Democrats buy bonds? Ioes the Republican committee dare assert that eight Republicans in Iowa buy bonds to one SoLith, whv'nol scratch C. C. Mack fur the Jim Crow gallery seats in tin? Wichita theatres? 'Do the white Republicans of treat us one whit betcr r' w't'i more consideration than he wijii, Democrats? "Would you prefer to lie slighted and ostracized in Wichita where you live, than to he abused in Georgia WHERE YOU NEVER GO? "Mr. Mack may raise the Colored issue among the white voters, they seem to be easy, but he will not divide the loyal ranks of the Negroes for a united country while our colored boys from Wichita are treated ai equals by their white comrades in the French trenches.

"The colored men and women of Wichita are not looking to the South; OUR EYES'ARE DIRECTED TO WARD FRONT SO RAPIDLY MOVING FROfl FRANCE INTO BELGIUM." "Very1 respectfully yours, "FREEMAN L. MARTIN." As length of service and priority rule the congressional committcs, doesn't it look to be the sane thing to push Bill Ayrcq toward the top of his committees by, longer service, rather than to send Mack there to sturt at the bottom of the- ladder? EVEN MACK'S TREMENDOUS TALENTS CANNOT OVERTHROW 0 fK ESTABLISHED Vermont, 4 Republicans. Washington, Republicans, 1 Democrat. Wet Virginia, 6 JJepublicans, 2 Democrats. Wisconsin, 12 Republicans, -NO DEMOCRATS.

Wyoming, 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat. Which group has bought the most lon.ds per capita? IF YOU KNOW THE ANSWER, WHAT SANE CONCLUSION CA YOU Tlie Republican committee adds ONE MORC ATTACK UPON THE SOUTH." That is all their comparison means. WHY" WON'T THEY FIGHT THE HUNS UNTIL WE WHlF'EM AND THEN REITGHT A lady (not a woman) in our neigh- borhood declined to buy a liberty bond because she had been told that Mc Adoo is lining his personal pockets with the proceeds. A million used to a fortune, but a billion today is I just pocket moey, and McAdoo has quite a large fmily. Don't be a piker.

Buy a bond and help him out. Now that the crisis is passed, I hopu' peace will arrive before bit of freedom is taken away the American citizyi, not by government, BUT BY A FEW SELF APPOINTED AUGERS OF LOCAL LOYALTY. Democrat? IF SO, DO THE REPUBLICANS OF MISSISSIPPI BUY EIGHT BONDS TO ONE DEMOCRAT? The population of the ten Democratic states the committee would pick are largely jnhabiteif by Negroes, few of whom have the means to buy bonds. YET THEY ARE PRACTICALLY ALL REPUBLICANS: The Democrat picks ten Democratic. ANOTHER ANSWER FOR DEMOCRATS If Jo Cannon of the house, speaker of the house for many years and the most experienced in parliamentary law, in four years of new service has only reached the tail end of orie committee, how long will it take Mack, (should he be elected) to give the Eighth district the.

honor of a states based upon the congressional delegations and ten Republican states THE CIVIL WAR IF THEY MUST. DESERVE A VOTE OF THANKS My objection as a Greek to a stal-, ete "a.igelus" is that the Turk and Mohammedan have patented the idea and I hate to infringe on the rights of such horrid heathens. Case after case was carried to the Supreme Court to get relief and each time a technical route was discovered to avoid meeting tFTe issue scpiai-cly for the Ncgr's betterment. "Finally the South got in the saddle, and in consequence thereof, the complexion of the Supreme Court has changed. 'Grandfather' has been laid to rest without even a board to mark his last resting place.

'Segregation his nephew, met tho same fat; and last, but not least, a Christian president with the burdens of the world in his heart and wishing that all mankind wheresoever might be free, rested from his labors long enough tell the South and aft tho world "to lynch no more'. Again, I may add, that it wa- left for a Democratic: fonres- JUST A LITTLE ANSWER Jo Cannon, the oldest member of the house, defeated six years ago lost the entire benefit of service and priority. Elected again in 1914 when Bill Ayres was first chosen, he holds but one appointment and that is fourth from the tail of the minority list. Bill Ayres elected at the same time is fifth from the end of the MAJORITY list. The Democrats used hiui better than the Repubs did Jo.

Lest Mack might blame that on th South, it should be known that minority committees are not named by the speaker until nominated by a committee of the minority. When we think of the poweV of almost any department head in state, city or nation tie up rest of us, control our' actions and force our beliefs, don't you think we BETTER MAKE THEM SURRENDER THE DAY AFTER THE HUN QUITS? based likewise and asks impartial judgment on the bond comparisons of the two groups of states: Colorado, 5 Democrats, 1 Republican in congress. Delaware, 3 Democrats. Kansas. 6 Democrats, 4 Republicans.

Marlyland, 5 Democrats, 3 Republicans. Montana, 3 Democrats. 1 Rcpubli-tan. Nevada, 2 Democrats, 1 Republican. Ohio, 13 Democrats, iO Republicans.

Oklahoma, 8 Democrats. 2 Republicans. Mack and his committee at the conclusion of the campaign chould be given a vote of thanks, because they have mad the campaign so educational. Not a single statement have fiiey made, nor an issue raised which would stand investigation, and as a result the voters of the district have learned the truth and many facts they would not have known had Mack himself known anything about congress, and thus concealed his great fund of misinformation. Senator.

Thompson has one very sane and sound method of defeating Arthur' Capper at the polls. His plan is to get more votes than Cap- does. If I remember right Hodg-e worked a shrewder plan that that. "VERSUM SAP." (Dofi't blame the old man for this. I couldn't resit it snd I slid it into, the forms after tl.

ccnor had deleted it. I I i It looked for a half day last week as if the grocery stores would be closed soas to add starvation to oth'-r ili..