Mayor William Hale Thompson, of
Chicago, won complete control of the
city council of that city at its in
auguration Monday night. He has
forced out all of his enemies. Veter
ans say that none of his predecessors
leader, Louis B. Anderson, the color
ed alderman, was assigned to four of
the most important committees, an
unprecedented concession. It is a re
markable tribute to the ability of
Anderson as floor leader.
ATLANTA CELEBRATES.
Atlanta, the barbarous capital of
murderous Georgia, is to celebrate
May 24. The affair to be pulled off
in the capital city of th*e more or
less grand old commonwealth is in
honor of Henry W. Grady.
Who was Grady?
Grady was the real father of the'
segregation propaganda (movement
which was carried into the North.
He was one of the most bitter and
unrelenting foes of the colored peo
ple the country has ever produced
but his hostility was cloaked under a
"Christian interest in the welfare of
the negro" He did not hesitate to
go to Boston in the state of Gar
rison and Sumner, and at a public
dinner advocate segregation for col
ored citizens. He said the South
would provide equal but separate ac
commodations on railroads and in
public places Of course the South
ern people had no intention of pro
viding any kind of equality for col
ored people even along segregated
lines, because the whites are taught
from the cradle up that colored peo
ple are inferior. The South does not
believe that a colored person is a
human being in the same sense that
a white person is.
