President Roosevelt attempted to receive aid from the Democratic party and was “undoubtedly a source of embarrassment” because of the transparent attempt to lead both parties.
The Planet gives an overview of Foraker’s “uphill battle of a campaign” that he will be running in Ohio for Senator, while he is a Republican in a successful Democrat led time.
Attorneys and black community members protest the Jim Crow streetcar laws. The Planet urges the boycott: “Every time you want to ride on a street car put five cents in a bank and at the close of the year, count the fund and see how happy you will…
The “unconstitutional ‘Constitutional’ Convention” strikes “the white Democratic office-holders squarely in the face” by endangering “the position of every county and city official in the state.”
At a conference in Chicago, Senator Tillman’s response to the equal suffrage law leaves him a “sorry spectacle for the civilized world.” He says: “The law? To hell with such law.”
The supreme court grants a new trial to “Robert Bowles, colored, who shot and killed John Ruff, a white fireman” after evidence is arising that “Ruff was in fault and it seems to have been a clear case of self-defense.”