REPUBLICAN SUPHOLDS NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Negro Delegates From Georgia And Mississippi Seated (Special to the Leader.) Cleveland, Ohio, June 13.--President Calvin Coolidge was nominated as the Republican candidate for President by the convention with an ease hardly equaled in political history. The only dissenting votes came from LaFollette's Wisconsin delegation. Gen. Dawes was nominated Vice President after former Governor Lowden was named, but declined. The Kentucky delegation divided its votes with Gen. Dawes and Senator Watson of Indiana, the supporter of Ed Jackson, the Klan delegate for Governor of Indiana. It is remembered that last week Matt Chilton, as proxy for National Committeeman Chesley Searcy, voted against the seating of Henry Lincoln Johnson, the colored National committeeman from Georgia and his delegation.

MOVING PICTURES OF BLACK BOYS IN BATTLES ON FRENCH FIELDS TO BE SEEN HERE FOR MONUMENTS IN AFRICA, FRANCE, AMERICA When the Creator made men, He made the men of the Sun and the men of the Ice, the Dark and the White.
Then stretching His Divine hand, He blessed them saying "Love one another!"
For a long time, for a very long time, the Dark and the White men remained deaf to the Creator's word. They did not love one another.
But one day, the colored men heard that the white men were engaged in a great fight and that all the wonderful things which they had created and built in their great cities of stone were in danger.
The colored men made inquiries.
They understood that their white brethren, the French, were right, and that the enemies of the French were wrong, and that the liberty of the good was threatened by the violence of the wicked.
The colored men then answered the call and, spontaneouslythey [hastened?) to Europe to join and defend their brothers.
They volunteered, and were drafted into service from all corners of the earth. England, France and America sent their thousands amounting to several millions. Saturday, July 20, 1918, more than 1,000 Louisville boys left for the American camps to be made ready for duty and service across the waters. The black sons of valor sent forth to fight the battles for democracy that the world might be made the better for all to live. Louisville citizens gave them a Farewell and Patriotic Demonstra tion, such as was never known to the oldest citizens of the community, one that followed the brave sons across the Atlantic and on the battlefields in France, and remaining forever in the hearts of those who returned to the American shores with laurels perched upon their sable brawms.
The struggle of 'iron, fire, water and gas' was frightful, infernal and yet sublime. But the God of Battles is just. He gave the victory to the good, because they were good, and also because they had obeyed His word: "Love one another."
And now that Victory has come to crown with glory the valient and to save the just, it is a bounden duty of the children of men to render homage to those who have given their lives and to those who made their name illustrious. This is what the French have not forgotten to do. Gratitude is the flower of honest hearts. * * * Numerous and wonderful are the deeds worthy of being commemorated. Unhappily we can not know and recount them all. However beautiful the leaves of the forest may be, we can admire but a small number of them; the sun shines on some, others remain in the shade.
Being of a straightforward nature, having a deep feeling of justice, the colored man wished to fight for Right and Liberty by the side of his brother in arms. But what could he do though armed, i na war the methods of which he knew nothing of? He proved himself a wonderful soldier, very devoted to his chiefs, of an unfailing fidelity to duty, to honor and to his flag.
The Senegalese Tirailleurs, especially, had recently proved that they were great soldiers fighting to the death, without flinching.
WAR CHANGED THOUGHT OF THE WORLD.
Little as the average man understands it the great war did change the thought of the world. Prior to that event the civilized world practically lived to itself. The other half of the world, where lived the lesser breeds of men, was either almost unknown, or if known at all, was substantially so dominated by the forces of civilization as to be strangers to the majority of its members. Then came the fatal pistol shot in Serbia; a hurry to arms and in one tragic instant the horrors of war had swept the universe of civilization off its feet. Among the nations affected none felt its bloody shock as did France. For ten centuries or more French soil had been drenched with the blood of her sons. But in spite of her losses she had met each recurring battle with human resources unaffected. It was not until the disastrous Napoleonic era that she began to feel the constant draining of her best blood. Later the Franco-Prussian war found her further weakened and her human resources at its  ebb. Forty-four years after came the war of all wars and France desperately in need of men. The most splendid cvilization of all times was facing annihilation; Paris, the wonder city of the world, confronted with destruction. Civilization stood aghast at the possibilities. All seemed lost as one invading army after another ruthlessly swept over the borders of France on toward its threatened capital. Interspersing themselves between the invading horde and their beloved city, thousands upon thousands of the choicest manhood of France incarnadined with their blood its sacred soil that Paris might be saved. Time after time the enemy was all but at the gates of the beleaguered city, and as often as victory seemed but a step away, France rose to supremer heights and flung the grim invader back. But each new effort was costing France a greater price to save fair Paris. Then came the crisis--the man power of France was at its lowest, and she at her wit's end to meet (Continued on page 8)

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