The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1920 Page: 4 of 8
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I EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE BLACK DISPATCH S
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ROSCOE DUNJEE ( Editor
DRU8ILLA DUN J EE-HOUSTON Contributing Editor
*VING DUNJEE ..J City Editor
FREEDOM FOR ALL FOREVER
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ASSOCIATION.
OUR EYES ARE TURNED TOWARDS CHICAGO
The eyes of the Black man are turned towards the Coliseum
at Chicago this week. We are wondering and watching to see if
™.e of Lincoln and Grant is going to take a stand against
Lily Whites and fair play and settle forever the question of
whether the Republican party wants the black man to remain
within its ranks.
To date the reports are disheartening. We will not be satis-
fied with the sop that the telegraph wires tell us, the story that
tells of how the regular Negro delegates were unseated and ir-
MENi foisted int0 their p,aces-
TmcJi oS, THAT THE national committee
TRIED TO SOOTHE THEIR OWN CONSCIENCES AN AGAIN
HOODWINK THE NEGRO, by issuing an ultimatum to the South-
ern organizations that hereafter they must not expect to be seat-
ed under like conditions.
THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO HEREAFTER. The
thing should have been settled with finality this week in Chicago.
BE JUST AS FAIR T0 SEAT L,LY WHITE DELEGA-
TIONS IN THE NEXT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVEN-
TION AS IN THIS ONE and we have no hesitancy in saying that,
to date, the Republican National Committee has done nothing
but make Democrats out of many loyal Southern Negro delegates
to that Convention.
Maggie L Walker, the noted Negro Banker and the only
Negro woman who edits a paper in the United States, has this to
say in her journal, the St Luke Herald, in the issue of the 4th, that
aptly expresses the feeling of the Black Dispatch and thousands
of Negroes who, while they would almost rather die than turn
their backs on the party of their fathers, have made a solemn re-
solve that they will be equal to the issue of the moment, AND AN
ISSUE, NOT OF THEIR OWN MAKING.
Under the title ot "COUNT THAT DAY LOST," Mrs. Wal-
ker says:
The Republican Party which is to nominate a president of
the United States, in Chicago, in a few days, is cautioned and
warned The people of our group have reached a crisis in their
poiltical career. A Republican president means much to many
millions of people, possibly, but justice means more.
When the representatives of the Grand Old Party assemble
in the Coliseum, it is expected that things will be called by their
proper name. A "spade must be called a spade" and the party
must go on record. The record must appear in the platform, and
in the personality of the men nominated for office.
The American Negroes are sickened with hypocrisy, disgust-
ed with platitudes and weary of'empty promises. They are not
asking favors beyond that of true American principles, but they
are determined that this is the year when the show down comes.
If the Republican party believes in the theory of the Lily
Whites then the Negroes of America wish that such a declaration
of belief be made in the open. Then the Race will know how to
play its hand, and it certainly will not be as in the days of yore.
On the other hand, there is reason to believe that the leading
forces and politicians of the G. O. P. are too keen in observing
too much alive to the trend of the times, to fail in declaring openly
for freedom and justice.
There is reason to believe that the party is seriously aware
of the dangerous rocks toward which the old "Ship of State" is
gradually approaching .In such times as these, there must be
some who will rise to the occasion.
To the Republicans of the United States, in convention as-
sembled these few lines of aniomatic power of suggestion are di-
rected:
"Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hands no worthy action done."
There is nothing to be said. "The die ic cast."
The charge is made that no one can be found to do the work
of registration in this precinct. This is not true. Of course I un-
derstand that black men are not considered in the attempt to se-
cure a registrar but this is manifestly unfair for the reason that
the whole precinct, THE LARGEST IN OKLAHOMA COUNTY,
is largely populated by members of my race and THE REGIS-
TRAR SHOULD BE A BLACK MAN.
This would not be a new policy; it would not oe lacking in
precedent within the confines of your party. In the city of Tulsa,
in precinct 23 of the 5th Ward, the election machinery of the
county is in the hands of Black men AND THOSE BLACK MEN
ARE MEMBERS OF YOUR POLITICAL FAITH.
There are plenty of competent Negroes in this precinct to
do the work of registration and do it intelligently and credibly.
During the war many of us served as registrars WHEN BLACK
MEN WENT FORTH TO DIE, and I have in my office now, a letter
of commendation from the registration board that says we ex-
celled every other board in the city.
But back to the main issue; Your Excellency, we want to
register We want to vote and we know that we can,provided you
direct the men under you to provide a registrar in this precinct
in Oklahoma City.
I am willing now, and I do hereby offer my services to the
,County free gratis, as I did to the Government of the United
States to act as registrar as long as I live in it, for I want to for-
ever brand as untrue, the statement that no one can be found to
do the work of registration.
Respectfully yours, __
Roscoe Dunjee.
Mother Take Care of Your Girl
Drusilla Dunjee-Houston
Article III.—Stand upon Guard
School is out and the letters come to
us, "What can I do with my girl this
summer." We turn from talking to
the girls to talk to the mothers. To
take care of your girl means to give
her more than food and shelter. The
teacher's reign is over and you must
we keep any track of the conversations
that go on on the church grounds. If
we do not, unmentionable things will
happen. Mary should go to church
ahead of us. Today she straggles in,
an hour behind. No young woman
should ever leave the church service
unattended by some older woman. Ab-
solutely require this of Mary. Take
the pains to tell her why.
Take the children to decent things:
but require them to keep in sight. I
can remember my father's voice,
"Daughter!" when I started to pass out
of the door of some church affair.
How thankful I am, that I had such
a father, faithful to his duty. How
glad I am that I did not rebel. He did
not tell me why. He simply said No!
and I trusted him. We can keep up
with children if we have such a rule .
and do not break it. I am not afraid i
to take a set of girls anywhere for j
each must remain in sight or that girl
who disobeys, never goes again.
What lies in this rale—protection, j
No one can misrepresent the conduct
of a child directly under your eye. The
wolf cannot snare her. Show Mary
that you are not mistrusting her but
guarding her. A good girls learns
to love such protection. The mother
of today must realize that this genera-
tion has produced a type of man who
does not protect virtue but who
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keep her inspired and occupied. Give) wrests it with or without Mary's con-
Mary something to do, for idleness is
the Devil's workshop and we who are
older, are upright only as we keep
ourselves employed. The girl with
plenty of idle time soon goes to ruin.
As a mother, you will have to be-
come willing that she waste a little
clothe and fuel to practically apply
the domestic art and science lessons
at home. Do not tell her she will
break the machine. Stay by her, teach
her how to use it correctly. Teach
her economy in the kitchen. One of
life's most difficult lessons, yet de-
termining whether she shall be in com-
fort or want in old age. I know it
is troublesome work hut that is a
mother's duty. It will be Mary's sal-
vation to cook and sew and to learn
true happiness at home.
If she helps you, you will not be too
tired to go with her to places of pleas-
ure or profit. Let her learn to expect
your presence. No young man or wo-
man who means right will object to
supervision. No girl of 16 can street-
stroll and go and come as she pleases
except to her own hurt. If older wo-
men are being ensnared what hope is
there for an innocent, unsuspecting
girl. .At sixteen when you and I had
company, it was at rare intervals and
we were under father or mother or
some careful older person s oversight.
As a result of today's carelessness,
Sunday rambles, Sunday automobile
rides and street strolling are the rule.
A group passed the other day, girls
in boys clothing, a mixed group, going
to fish entirely unchaperoned. Why
should we be surprised that so many
girls become mothers before they are
wives. The wonder should be that
we have any good girls. I do not
blame these young people, I blame
their guardians, who are traitors to
their duty. Why can we not accom- i
pany them-Are we also having a good.
time?
When we were young, at nightfall,
all respectable people had left the pic-
nic ground. Now night picnics are the !
sent. To trust your innocent girl out
before prudence has matured means
that you are throwing her away.
Our daughters should not travel un-
attended upon the trains. We should
value them enough to see that they
are accompanied. Even if they would
not submit to insult, their innocent
ears ought not to be polluted with
the hearing. No woman can carry
her head high or keep her dignity in
after life, who in childhood, was not
guarded from insult. I remember no
sadder sight of my life than that of a
young girl whom I had to leave on
the train at midnight to go on down
into Texas without any protection
from the porter or train crew.
If Mary goes off to school, father
or brother should go along. I know
they are busy and that it costs. If we
set no value on Mary, how much will
the world think she is worth. Too
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thers, you are asleep. To, too many
things, Mary is fearfully awal(p. A-
mong my girls thi8 year, with pure
innocent faces, I noticed father or
mother came with them and took
them back home. This is the kind of
girl for whom real men are waiting.
This is a day of unbridled license
and nothing can lift the moral tone as
much as supervision in the home, the
school and at church. In your com-
munity are nice girls, but they did
not become so by accident. They are
the fruit of training and care. They
had a true mother, who took her
floury hands out of the bread pan to
go after Mary. It was trouble, Oh,
Yes! but that was being a mother.
She knew little Mary would pass the
good house for the polluted home
where her little feet would take the
first steps away from virture.
Mother, ask God to help you this
summer to keep step with Mary. Pa-
tiently find out what are her little
heart hopes and interests. Enter in-
don't, some one else will. She will
thus learn to talk to you. Teach her
about life's snares. Do not forget
your own girlhood. When you lose
sympathy with childhood, when your
heart ages, you have lost your strong-
est hold upon your boy and girl. Trust
Mary, but go along with her, that she
grow up fit to be a wife and mother.
many girls are being met along the to every one of them with her. If you
C. M. E. CHURCH NOTES
Sunday school at 9 o'clock.
Sunday is children's day and a
program will be rendered at 8:
30 o'clock. Rev. L. C. Jones
preached a logical sermon at 11
o'clock from the 8th chapter of
St. John; 6 verse. One joined
the church. Epworth League
at 6 o'clock. There will be a
discussion. Subject, 'Should
the Methodist Churches Unite."
Come and hear the discussion.
Collection for the day $37.59.
Mrs. M. L. Robinson, Reporter.
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 10,1920.
To His Excellency, Governor J. B. A. Robertson:
Esteemed Sir:
As Republican Committeeman of Precinct 13 of Ward 2, Ok-
lahoma City, I desire to call your attention to a condition that ob-
tains in Oklahoma City of which I am sure that you are not aware.
I desire to take a moment of your valuable time to discuss the
inability of the Negroes in this precinct to register and qualify for
their suffrage rights.
You will remember that I told you last spring, when the Road
Bond Election was held that I would endeavor to impress the Ne-
gro with the necessity of his voting for this bond proposition, but
when I had so impressed them of such necessity they were unable
to qualify for the reason that the County election board REFUS-
ED TO PROVIDE A REGISTER FOR THIS PRECINCT FOR A
SINGLE MOMENT DURING THE 10 DAYS PROVIDED FOR
REGISTRATION.
I would not appeal to you if it were not for the fact that I as
committeeman, saw to it that competent and qualified black men
went in person to Mr. Ben Utterback and ask to be registered by
him in person. This, he refused to do and gave as his reason for
not providing a registrar in Precinct 13, that, there were jealous-
ies between the firemen at the fire station, because one of their
number was making extra money as registrar.
I do not blieve and I am positive that you would not counten-
ance the disfranchisement of hundreds of citizens of this state
for no other reason than the flimsy excuse given by this man who
even refused to register the man to whom he gave the excuse.
I want you to be certain that this was an actual happening this P*1" Not a m°ther of us is wor-
and herewith give the address of the citizen whose rights weri thy to l00k the wor,d in the face' un
denied. His name s iDr. S .C. Snelson, and his address is No. 10
North Stiles Street, Oklahoma City.
The Negroes of Oklahoma want a fair chance to register in
and vote in the National elections this fall. If over the state our
rule: but how costly they are for vir-j
tue. Oh Brother and Sister, how much '
better to let the money go, that we
make at them. You go home and
leave daughter in charge of Grandma
Jones or Aunt Dilsey and what is the
result. They cannot keep up with the
young girl of today. Again, there are
no more old women. Look around and
see if there are any. They have been
swallowed up by short and split skirts
and transparent apparel. Today girls
must shift for themselves.
Mothers, we should not allow our
dauthters to go unatended. Start ear-
ly to go and come with Mary. She will
then know no other way. Then if she
goes astray, she will always say of you
"Mother's example before me was
faultless. She tried to guard me from
less those placed in our care can thus
be our guarantee thai we did our duty.
We should not say to our children, go
to church, but we should accompany
j them. If the church affairs do not in-
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rights are denied as they are in the shadow of the Capitol of them?
OKLAHOMA, we will not have that chance. I am aware that you
as the Governor of the State can rectify this condition if you so in ^en corner ill
desire. A word from you will give to us a registrar in this pre- without a moments notice if Mary
cinct and this I desire that you so do. is in the congregation or if she is not,
i where ahe is, or what she is doing. Do
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Dunjee, Roscoe. The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1920, newspaper, June 11, 1920; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc152250/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.