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VOL. 8 NO. 42

Negro Republican Inspectors Dropped - The ax has fallen on a number of the colored men who were on the city's payroll as license inspectors, etc., and etc.  Out of the hundreds of white Republicans who are elected, appointed, and made into positions big and little by the vote of 27,000 Negroes, it is like finding a needle in a haystack when it comes to finding a respectable place for a worthy Negro leader or worker.  In no place, even in the South where the Negro vote means so much to the successful party is it so hard to find a few places for the Negroes who deserve them as it is here in Louisville.  It is said that when it gets above the privilege to run a joint of some sort or to be a janitor the place has to be made.  Therefore up until a few days ago we had Negro inspectors who never inspected, and for fear that these Negroes and the books might be inspected by the Democratic City Council which succeeds the Republican Council, that was ousted a few days ago because of fraud in the 1923 election, it is said that the bosses suspected it best that they be eased out.  Thus is seems that Negroes get nothing worthwhile that can stand the test and the light.  They are used during election time and used after-U-S-E-D-that's all.  We withhold the names of the ousted "inspectors" until another time.

WELL-KNOWN NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT PASSES AWAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS WAS KENTUCKIAN; EDUCATED AT SIMMONS "U"
News comes to us of the death of the well-known newspaper correspondent, Charles Stewart of Chicago. He died Tuesday at the Park Sanitarium, Guthrie, Okla., where he had been since he began to fail in health several months ago. There is not a man in the race better known by the masses and classes alike as was Charles Steward. None made so many friends among the young and the old, and we know of no other of such prominence who was so easily met. For years Charles Stewart had been the only Negro member of the Associated Press. He was a success as a writer, lecturer, and preacher, and was a familiar figure in any church, school and community of any section of the country. For more than twenty years he has been an important character at Baptist conventions, Methodist conferences and other big race gatherings. We first saw him as a speakef to a group of members of a class in the grades many years ago. He made us laugh. We thought he was funny. Before he concluded his speech we fo  und out that he could make us cry, that he was more serious than funny, and he was able, interesting, inspiring, and encouraging. In later years we found him good company at conventions, conferences and press meetings. We have only heard of one person who was little enough to become offended at Charles Steward, and mean enough to harm him. That was a clerk in a Greendale, Miss., post office. We were told that upon asking for has mail in to the Associated Press and other his characteristic way the cracker clerk thought he was dealing with what they call an "insolent nigger," and thereupon pulled his pistol and shot the innocent friend to all, the enemy f none. Besides contributing (Continued on page 8)

PATROLMAN CUSICK CUBS DAILY THOMPSON BLOOD WHILE MEN LOOK ON - PAID NO ATTENTION TO ADVICE OF PARTNER
For several years stories have been told of the beating of colored men and women by the city police for the most trivial offense, and many times for no cause whatsoever, but none beats that told a Leader representative by eye witnesses of that meted out to Daisy Thompson, 21, by Patrolman Cusick last Tuesday night. Daisy weighs about 130 pounds. Cusick is a big husky individual who weighs around 200. He was advised by his partner not to strike the woman, that he could arrest her without it. More than fifty Negro men saw him administer the most brutal and heartless beating ever given any one for any cause. While he was pounding on her head his club fell between the legs of a Negro man, but he nor any of the large number who stood by said a word in disapproval of the unwarranted attack, neither did any one of them attempt to stop it. It was such a heartrending sight that some of the men walked away when they could stand it no longer. They were all law abiding citizens Tuesday n
 ight, but for a small matter they would attack each other three times a day, every day in the week. Officer Cusick was so desperate that he told Kreitman, the grocer on the same corner, that he would hand him the same thing if he did not turn his lights back on. Kreitzman witnessed the affair. It was just a few minutes before his closing hour He put his lights out, but he turned them on again at the officer's command. Kreitzman's chicken soup was a good witness. It was almost drenched with the blood that flowed from the wounds on Daisy's head. She is now in a critical condition at her home at 529 S. Ninth Street from the wounds on her head, face, back, arms and legs. She was not sent to the hospital Tuesday night, but was looked after in some way while in jail. She remained there all night. Was sent to the hospital by her relatives Wednesday morning. She is now being treated by Dr. W. H. Jackson.
The Story as Told By Several Witnesses.
The woman had been in an argument at Ninth and Madison streets, which had subside, when the [Officer?] Cusick and his partner walked up. Sensing that something had happened from the crowd that stood around, Cusick asked the woman what he had been doing. "Not anything." was her reply. He asked what she had in her hand, the young woman displayed her keys and handkerchief. According to
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