The palmetto leader. (Columbia, S.C.) 1925-196?, October 23, 1926, Image 1
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THE COLORED "
STATE FAIR
A --Greater and Better Fair is
The Slogan?'Everything in
Readiness. ?_? v
SRN!> lXnTTR W$?BX3SB?
Present Indications Are That
There Will Be An Immense
Crowd Here.
The annual OtnU, Fuit? biggest
event among our people, showing
something of every thing we have
~?prcrdtfeej 'frum a game i rooster to a
collection of articles in manual arts?
will be on display when the gates of
'he Colored Fair swing open next
Tunyilliy mftfning rr> mclwmn
? thousands of visitors coming to Columbia
next-week to attend the fair
and to meet new and old aemiaint
ances. * to witness the athletic feats
and" see .the rapes.?
r- Tho fair will be inaugurated atrteTT
o^Iock TuSdmL. morning-and the offi^
ciaU ' will all be at their posts of
duty ready to serve all whoT":ome.
Exhibits will be placed Monday and
V Tuesday. Mafiy. of the exhibits at,
the white -fair will remain Jjn tact
" so aa to give the colored visitors a
^chsntC to see them and to add to the
pleasure of the fajr. Into the week
will be crowded?man^. things A
" choir -at a Jthoosand of the sweetest
voices in the state* horse races, hog
cattle and bench showB. band concerts,
foot ball games, midway"shows,
?circuit acts, etc.
Everything Being Put in Readiness.
Socrctary Green Jackson is one uf
the hard worked officials of the fair;
His board *of directors is' backing
him splendidly and the leaders 01
many of the most progressive^cbun
tiea are pushing the fair this year
as never before. In speaking of the
r=rbig demonstration next week Mr.
Jackson said: "I have never seen
- anything like it. It is the result o^
? keeping up u system of advertising'
that meanH much. We are making7
flrialarrangements for the biggest
fair ever seen at the fair grounds
held-by our' people in South Carolina.
The leaders in nearly every county
are cooperating in a manner that is
commendable. Aiken County, under
toaa 01 ine Dest race
rn*^^ar? erei t wwi. t Loverr
X^^pl^Bsal6titlB^v^an ?p*
roc uutxiiuii ui ur, mil, wui.nave j
an exhibit- larger than -ever. "Also
Greenwood, under the leadership of'
Professors Hilyard, Richland and Fair
field will have county exhibits as
will many other counties in the
" State, There fg' ?? so TTTirny tcusOns j
to believe that individual exhibits
will be more varied and larger than
ever.
"Both Mr. Fair and Mr. Longshore
have billed their circuses. Mf. Fair
comes Tuesday and remains over
. until Wednesday night. His excur*
sion will be here to witness the
... great singing-eontest. which is a fea-?ture
at the fair this year. The singing
contest will be at 2:30 and at 7:30
each afternoon. Big choruses^ with
be formed 'and the contests will be
"Mr. "Xongshore's " train reaches
' her# Thursday the 28th to witness
the annual classic betweep Allen ahd
? Benedict. This game will be better,
Vjtli? em ae^both teftihs -ate in fino
forth and hav# added some powerful
men to the % line-up. They will give
the vi&itprs'?g fine?unlet laiiimenl
The gamo Fjfiday between Booker
Waskincton Hi and Florence Hi will
be just as interesting and will draw
big crowds. This will be HIGH
SCHOOL DAY at the taW awi
to see 5,000 achol boys and girls'
T tjjfire ?to" get the spirit and meaning
of what the high school is doing along
certain denHIte lines. They are com
ing in large numbers. J
"We have closed a contract with
h the Shepherds. They are coming
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Not Informant
Upon Lowmans
Negro Pastor Denies He Re1I1I11U
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LETTER TO SHERIFF *
Aiken Officer Withholds Name
of Signer, "Well Known .
Man of Morietta."
Denying that-he had requested or
otherwise-instigated" the raid in the
spring of 1926 near Monetta, in
killed, a Negro Baptist minister of
?Columbia, the Rev. J. M_ Myers,
I&QUght to The State yesterday corself
and J. Edwin Kerr, of Aiken,
since the- three Lowman Negroes,
of Sheriff .powardf were lynched at
Aiken, October 8. __i
Mr. Kerr, in a letter to The State
published October 13, said: "The
Negro preacher of the Baptist church
near the- Lowman home had-written
ta the sheriff to stop the Lowmans
from selling liquor to his congregation,
thatrhe was to have a big rally
at his--church?(on the?Sunday fpllowing
the killing of Sheriff Howard)
and wanted the Lowmans raided."
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?he minister said yesterday that
by reason of this . statement in Mr.
Kerr'g- letter his own influence as a
pastor had been seriously affected,
since he wasin charga-o? a Baptist
church within a sone's throw of the
bowman *premise? and his people
quite generally had accused him of
being the informant against the Low
-mans. He denied that he had given
information1^ the authorities or had
svugfit m any way tnetr -intervcivton.
Following is the correspondence.?
Mr. JTftines^Edwin Kert*.
'Aikfcn.S.^C.?
Dear Sir: " .?~ ~~7
The State that you refer to the'sherIff
having Keen written" to"by a Negro
Baptist preacher requesting that
the sheriff stop the Lowmans from
selling whiskey to Mia congregation,
etc. '
I am serving -a Negro Baptist,
church within a stone's throw of
where this - tragedy happened and
have a pretty -good sized and loyal
congregation there. By. not, naming
the preacfier places me in a bad light
as my congregatipn will blame me
as being the preacher in question;
there is no other - Negro Baptist
church within about three miles of
my church. - H
I will appreciate your advising me
the name of the preacher or a statement
hereunder to the that. I
was not the preacher refcred to. I
wish to publish this letter in connection
With vn'nr ?Kfl foment Tt
pears to me that this will be fair to
,mer aB yo,u can readily see how such
^ report* could. and would affect me
with M congregation and friends,
prompt reply. ? * ^
?Thanking you in adv&hCe for your
1621 Gregg St., Columbia, Oct. 13.
Please reply here:- 7-?-r
Rev. J. M. Myers: In reply to the
above 1 have seemed fiujn OheiflT
Robinson the inclosed statement
copied from the original letter, which
he would not permit maor. anyone
else to see. The letter was sent in
by a well known man of Monetta,
just who, the sheriff refuses to state,
though he has the signature~oT"the
letter. I do not wish to harm you
TjTT^BT WOT?,"W any other good
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izens Com
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THE N. A. A. C P.
J. E. Spmgarn, Treas^ of N. A.
A. C. Pi Issues an Interest-?
: tng Siaiemem.
BUSINESS METHODS USED
This Organization is the Greats
est For the Negro" Race in
;1 America. Z ZH.
New-York, October 16?James 'Weldon
Jonson, Secretary of the National
Association fr the Advancement of
Colored People, 69 Fifth-Avenue, with
approval of the Board of Direct'
ors, today made the following public
statement. . ?
On reading the attack on the National
Association fpr the Advancement
of Cplored People in the Pittsburg
Courier of October 9, -1926, I wondered
what inducement would
lead a colored editor to put himself
in such a position. 35:
. First, he put8 himself in the poai.,.
tion of publicly proclaiming his ignorance
of the Garland Fund and its
relations to the N. A. A. C. P.^despite
the fact that the Association has
sent out on this subject during the
past year over twenty-five press-re-r
leases and these were sent to the-editor
of the Pittsburgh Cunrier as jqfli as
other papers. The editor pretends
to have "investigated" the Garland
Fund. No invosticntion rvf th? Cnr. '
land Fund has been made except that
a representative of Mr. _Vann telephoned
the N. A. C. P. for fur- i
^'formation and waif "courteously referred
to the Garland -Tund head- quarters
where ftgtires vrtr0 :
given in good faith. ??
As to the "dissipation" jof the Garland
Fund, the Fund has been entirely'expended
or allotted at the ex-. j
press request in writing of the donor of
the Fund, Charles Garland, who
asked that it be distributed as soon
as conveniently possible. The Fund '
will probaly wind up its affairs within
the next year or two. The administration
of the Garland Fund hap re- !
ceived the favorable editorial comment i
of the New York Tima^ and thc Neru^ 1
York Wot-ld in their -issuea of Sop- 1
lembe* 2U, 1 yub.
In addition to dozens of social, ed- '
ucational labor and other cause8 giv- 1
en money by the Garland Fund, there
were gifts to eight (not five as stated I
by Mr. Vann)) enterprises conducted
by or .in behalf of colored people. '
Those enterprises are: The National j
Association for the Advancement of (
Colored People, including The Crisis;- the
Urban League; the Messenger;
the Brtherhood of Bleeping Car Porters;
the Trade Union Committee~
Organising Negro Workers; the Vir- *
ships at Brookwood College; and^a j
subvention to Professor Charles Wea- ]
ley of Howard University for publU
cation of hts hook on Negro Labor. |
After oomnlmlntng In hi*
f Ka ioeno a# r\nfat\?*? A ?
v??v V4 wvvi/Vl auv/Ub UVW
much money Negroes received?en j
unreasonable complaint, since the a- ^
was less than five per eent of the ^
Garland expenditures?Mr. Vann now i
proceeds to reverse himself in his edi- j
tortsl of the following weekend com- _
plains of the small amounts allotted ^
to Negroes. a
--As to undue hrfioence exerted by t
himself, even i?_ I had wanted to .
"Loot" the Garland Fund, as Mr. .
Vann implies, I was the only Negro j
on ine uoara or directors and I (
should hardly have been abla to in. j
duce the other members to abtt ma ,
ON IQH
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UMBIA, S. C., SAT PDAY, OC
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AL PROTECTION
Two NewTYork Citizens Emphatically?Condemn
the?
" Lynching nt Aiken. ----DON'T
gTOP At AIKEN
Says the Authorities Failed to
Protect the Lives of Theke
Three-People.
Brooklyn, it. Y., Oct. 16?Robert
Lo?r- son-in-law of Ex*SenatinWilliam
M.Calder_and Republican
HUtrii'J u n/I?C^ L'^a?J-1
Celler of the uptown district emphatically
"Condemned th e lynching of^ a
woman and two men in Aiken S. C.
recently.
Mr. Lee deplored the deliherate
failure of the protect
the lives of these people. He cited
newspaper reports, which indicated
that the sheriff left the jail without
proper safeguards, although knowings
Lo* thethreatening conditions.
He insisted that this was just one
reason why .federal law should- be
passed?punlshlhgr? the crime of
lynching. Congressman? Celler, who
also said that the anti-lynching law
should be pased, declared that "among
other things,- ik- >g?suggostedthat"*hll
self-respecting American refust
to stop at Aike*v-&s a winter reBort,
These people have forfeited all
right to- patronage and' should be
pariahs by the rest of the country
until the wrong' is expiated.
Rev. J. C. White Visits
izMajorltv Ban. Church
Pastor of Zion Baptist Church
Columbia, s. c.. breaches to
the Congregation of Majority
Baptist Church.
Spartanburg, S? C., Oct. 20.?The
death of Key. T. Elliott Hall, the
Pastor of the Majority Baptist church
Spartanburg was a shock throughout
South Carolina and was one of- the
saddest deathy-hi the history of the :
state. He was dearly loved by his
people and had built a confidence with
his: people second to none in the
state. ; 1He
was called to the pastoraate
pf the Majority Baptist church three
/ears ago and now has built one of,
the largest congregations in South
Carolina, and nearly ^completed?a1jrick
church when finished is esti-1
nated to cost $80,(500.
He was laboring fearlessly-against
rtir and suddenly in the midnight hour
:ame the sad newa of his death, 1
ftflJTe ~werg~butTew persona to be- ]
ieve this strange tale. It Is only
lifter missing his presence-1n the
:ommuivity for thees past days that1
>ne can realise that he who was so'
>f his own people. He through his
fa{t;h in Jehnvah and bin ntrwinn*
reaching had saved many soula from |
he gates of Hell, and he who was
earing a large family and caring
for them out of the fullness of his
?eartr has..gone to the great beyond.
?The congregation mourned With leavy
hearts. The doors were clossd
and the bell Mr the tower that
ised to <call to Ita members each Snn- '
lay fafled to ring the udual call:
'Come." A sad time in Spartanburg
t was ^<> the members view the
srape hanging on the door that * ?
vmvu uunua i,um vrs^eay ox
i faw eights mso. ~ B,~rj-.g*^ Like
sheep without AwiWrf
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T. 23, 1926.
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ANAIKEN? "" *
EDITOR WRITES!
He Replies Tartly for Aiken to
The New York tftngreffi-'
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== WRITES- ABOUT AIKEN
Editor Kerr Says City was Unk
aware of Lynching Until
Next Day. ?
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The newspapers are c.arrying the
| gsts thafr ^Americans
refuser to stop at Aiken as A
winter-resort. They (the people, of
Aiken) have forfeited all tight to
patronage and should be treated as
'Pariahs by the rest ?ofvthe country
untft?the~ wrong is expiated," states
Mr. Cellar.
. As a truth the citizens of the city
of Aiken were unaware of the lynching^-^-the-fcowmims-ijntiPtheTfolhjwi
ing morning, and - were?'fearfully
shocked at the brutal occurence.
Why^ should thev- h*> ?n nB
mob murderers ?
It is not so many years ago that
Aiken county executed a black man
ii -- - ;
iu? mo uo^niiiL 011 a wnue Jfoman
rocidcnt from the North,?who had "
trusted him as her "guardian" at the
famiry home.
~ The winter visitors pf Aiken come
here for the dear blue skies,, the
healthful air, the glory of the land
that, God in His great care and love
has given us.-andthat Sherman could
not steal. -
?Daily they stroll the strppfT and- =
woodland paths of Aiken with fortune
in jewels "" their finger_< and
at their throats. They walk unharmed
unenvied and (respected...When. Fan.
Aikenite goes to New York,- the great
metropolis and home of Mr. Cellar,
where innocent workmen are shot
down in. cold blood on the main highways
for a handful of coin, they [*
generally . leave their jewelry behind
and "tote" their money in their
socks! . . . -' .
The Northenor visitor need fear no harm
in Ajkent we have no thugn nad-no
bandits* and-our peaceful, lawabiding
Negroes are held dear in our
hearts. Aiken has bended herself to
build one-of the--finest-public schools
in llieTlale for. tne jiegru children
and there*" are more Negro children
being taught in the county schools
today than white children. The Negro,
citizens^have hundreds of them, their 1
own homes, their pianos and their
radios, not to mention the hundreds
of autombileg and flurishing ftfrms.
Aiken, like the rest of the South*
gladly assists the honest Negro In
hi? ewrinaww *?.*.!
v ."-?Tn_vr_"_. " ' cfi ..f-'"- tiau wut
Negro citizen are fast learning that"!
those of their race who go" North 1
generally return with a cheap cane.
a glass tie pin and a brass watch after
yetTr' or two of hard labor; a 1
few gcwguws thai M half b&je ol coi|"
ton at its lowest price cpn->buy. Let
own door befor^ he attempts Jxt boy. .
cott the grandeur ,of <5od and the. in- '
born chivalry ofJbixie^ - ' " ^
- JAMES EBWIN KEKET "
Aiken. ? . , s ;
??The suite.'?r*
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REV. J. M. MARSHALL RETURNS
,'.va
Rev. J. M. Xlarshall of St. George,
?L C. has returned ftem 01. Amtua- '
tine. Fla.. where he wan Invited ti\ ,
conduct a ten day8 meeting for Rer^,
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ions- AtlC
dlcat^ES
Jturdtttof'Proof IN-'Lies
WitlpASE ?
3BB P- n..;!.'-^-..!!! The -=^?;?snnablo
Doubtjo^n^
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IN CASE OP **A: . -i??
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New Trial Ordered For ?Hr
McGhee and Herbe., _ ?
McGlrt. Ul H Be -
al taw
The defense of ?n ? 1 ;'
"affirmative defense" and ? ~?
relieve the prosecution"1 oi 0 j
Ut-n bt nrnvitig ^
ble doubfeT the uieamuw < - .
fendant at the place of th - -1"
cases *"here hn P^aencetwnfrr were
^ary W.renderZhim respo s. C., on
supreme court of South The same,
holds in an opinion harffom jail
yesterday, reversing decisiiJ. Since
lower court in the case" offcavewbeen
vs. Charlie- MeGhee- and ~ "more' - .
McGirt. a of 1926- r1
The two defendants^ Mil twelve
McGiil, were convicted ir 7 ~
county of being present tyears, '-*<? - ? '
ting fire to an occupiey the Na?
i?TiFrrti> i f ^ iiil mil I "
Ghee, subject to a mortgafiere have
sured. . he United
McGhee-""and McGirt pfly 100 a \ ^
guilty setting up the deftthose Vvho
tibi." They were~Convicte' with ^the
fenced to four to eight ) per cent.
prisonment. ty women, -
From the conviction th;hings oced
to the supreme court, 'Union exfjid?ring
?n1y *hnt
judge's charge in which yer of vieclaredthat
the defenog" olce. ~ From-?
an?affirmative defense to hat of the
by the preponderance of IftfiO -.and-- - 1 ?.
Tence, reversed the Jo?er_ and--TQZ~? '
. J e red a new trial of theige .being Tr'tUT :
"The rule -heretofore number of
respecting the defense _of omitted in - *
supreme'court said, 'hag bthere were
stance as follows: The Alaska and
prove' ?'hpvnn^ a rgnanna ;-i?
that the defendant is gui^olved
ipvglved in a crime Who-iod 1921?
tual pre?ence- is aj^CesailTne in $he
njpst, prove tha tsaid d$f(n 1921, 64
at the place, and at thg_ti- 1922, 61;
in thb indictment.. 8. . But, as
.. 'VAjL*stated ahiTli tihr nunilln nf ' ~
show the presence -of thfljr of lynch. ?
beyond a reasonable doubof 1925.
all the evidence in the ca?igned for
has a reasonable donht tl^ yerp Tni/
renclant^was-at the place,a; But'the
time, alleged in the indt Aiken, S.
person? ?then the jury js :not subthis
doubt in favor of th^or in both /
and must acquit. tligenec had ? ??
"Tf q rvrvrtn4* ? '
a v tu 1116 cou^e mobs de- ^
is the logical statement wlered the
on the subject. The fufr Carolina Z.~
ment found in th?r rases^ed the case
that alibi i3 an affirmat defendsiltlili
md-imivt B jak-ove* by
evidence, is illogical, lajfal, went in
rutej iri part at least, ae^uttggpto
with the rule above^ stj^an, Demon ~
calculated to confuse^ tbjni'"-'- Kam. ??
5lh?i- words, if tne def^ gone to a
up testimony that will ijpinnrf. His
sonable doubt in the mtafleld near
jury, why confuse the mats mahittg ?-?=
by going ahead and statute of the *
an- aflWtn&tfve^ defenSffman, his * ??
be~proved by the^reat^tho yard. the
evidence. There canfc?p?<*l =*.
tional adjustment of thegilain clothes *?
ments so that they matfvthinc else
men
and one
' Ike officers
members the spirit of fttase into
greMi higher