The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 9, Ed. 1, Friday, November 29, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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The Muskogee Cimeter.
Vol 9
Iiiwlsofjee OKla Fridajj jVovernbep 29 1907.
Yo 9
White Folks Pun
ish Colored
Man
BECAUSE HE WAS
TOO WHITE.
Piirininghani Nov. 21). E.
M. .Joiics. a Xogro. field agent
of the Puinnl of Kducatianof
1 1 io lYeed men's Aid Society of
the Methodist chinch he.id
quarters in Cincinnati bears so
few marks of his race that he
was arrested lien and locked tip
In the prison for white's for
walking tin streets wil.h a
Xegm woman. When searched
a razor wis found and the
arresting policeman swore that
.Jones had olT -red to pay for his
release.
Upon explaining that he was
a Xegro. the judge dismissed
the original case hut fined
Jones s50 for attempting to
bribe an officer and 1 for carry-
ing a raz r. Jones said tnat as
he was traveling he carried the
r iz r for shaving. Ex.
It is strange I hat white people
can't tell their own folks from
ours. Some of t.hein are so
b'ack and some of ns are so
white t.hnt. t.h.'sc blunders often
(.criir. Where the jim crow
regulations :ire in force some of
our folks are con.pclh d to ride
in White cais and some of them
II 1 W !... J.-... Io
III iiiacu cars. inn. muia
American prejudice dol.li make
of us all.
Xegro- hackm.Mi are manag
in-- u keep out of the line tight.
They are doing their duty as
good citizens and it. is hard to
b.'lievu that white hackmen are
are as desperate4 as the daily
papers say they are. It. has the
appearance of a concerted con
spiracy to got i id of the best
Chief of police the city ever had
in order to satisfy l.he exageral-
cdogo of a certain (J LAX.
H' JB Fr)7T rk&A lAV vTl
TORCH TO COLLEGE
POLITICAL PKM1T LIOADS
TO PUPX1X0 OK XKCMiO
school at (irnuaM
Boy Students Fight Fire
Main Building of Colored Normal Uni
versity is Destroyed. Loss lleiiitf
$50000- Believed to be Result
f Race Fccliiiff.
Officers of the Stale Grand Temple
of the Sister of Mysterious Ten of
Oklahoma Jurisdiction Elected at
Wajoier Aigust 2630 1907.
The Xegro Protective league
was organized sir. Oklahoma
Oily Saturday. .1. 0. Johnson
of Wewoka. is president of the
league and he made u speech
complimenting the black race
for its fight against the consfi
tut ion and called attention that
Messrs Taft and Poosovelt were
not in accord wiih the constitu-
tion. Incidentally he mention
ed that the league owed him' for
services" rendered and he
wah ted the money. Muskogee
Democrat. Novembei 2o.
The League has been organ-
ized several ears but for some
time there has been no election.
The officers seem to be perma
nent fixtures: they ;:re eternal
and everlasting.
The railroad Commission is
not endowed with lawmaking
powers and if it. attempts to
exercise such powers and sue
ceeds in exercising them mi
restrained then the precedent
set. becomes dangerous. If one
law is made a. hundred may
likewise he formed. The ex-
periment is so risky that even
Democrats a re afraid to trust if.
Indications are that the Dem-
ocrats are preparing for us a
liaid jolt but afterall. we can
really ask no favors at theii
hands. We have never favored I done.
Guthrie Okla. Nov. '2f The-
main building of the colored
normal university was com-
pletely destroyed by fire early
today a loss of fifty thousand
dollars. Only a. portion of the
equipment was saved (ho re-
mainder including the universi-'
fy library being burned. Presi-
dent linnan Page with the boy
students fought the tire for
several hours and saved what
they could of the furniture and
equipment but it was .impossi-
ble to stop the lire with the
bucket brigade.
It. was past midnight when
the building was tired. Two
girls from a window in the
girls' domitory saw three men
looking about the main build-
ing but gave no alarm not
knowing what what was being
The time is ripe for a reorgan-
ization of the republican party
in the new state of Oklahoma
Something must be done at
once. All of the white Popub-
licans scour to be fighting a
inong themselves and the black
brother is in the same lament-
able condition. If there is to
be any unity in the near future
this lighting on the inside must.
cease and the forces drawn to
gether. Something may bo
accomplished by united otl'ort
otherwise we arc lost.
them but have always fought
them even when the lily whites
were playing fast and loose
with us. All that we can con
sistently akof Mr. Haskell is
that since he is governor of the
whole people and not of a party
he should give us a square rVal
and if that is impossible then
make the blow as light as pos-
sible and look out for what
comes. t
It is believed the university
was tired by political enemies of
the institution resulting possi-
bly from the bitter light made
against Negroes during the
recent political campaign.
Phoenix.
Is it possible that such things
can happen in a civilized
community?
J. T. NICHOLS. Puks. P. T. ROBERT 4Si:(jJv
The jmQpi6an
Sick and Accident Insurance Co.
of Oklahoma
SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE
OFFICE ROOMS 485
BOSTJC 13LJIL13IN0
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Twine, W. H. The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 9, Ed. 1, Friday, November 29, 1907, newspaper, November 29, 1907; Muskogee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70091/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.