TROUBLE BETWEEN OFFICIALS AND STUDENTS AT HAMPTON REPORTED
Ninety Percent Ready To Leave, Says Student In Letter
According to a student who signed his name as a Loyal Hamptonian, the students of Hampton Institute have struck and ninety per cent are ready to leave the school. The letter from this student addressed to the publisher of The Leader follows:
Hampton Institute, Va., Oct. 10.
"Just a bit of interesting news-facts. We, the students of Hampton Institute, have been wronged. Yesterday we struck. No inspection, no, drill, no grace; refused to assemble in Ogden Hall as directed. At chapel all refused to sing the spirituals. A visitor was present--Governor of some section of Europe. Officials as usual wanted us to show off. We failed to do so. They are bewildered, shocked, they don't know what to do. The Southern Negro has fooled them. We have committee of twenty of the best and most powerful students of this school, supposed to be good, religious school. The Board refused to go in conference with this committee this a. m. All they said was not a thing would be granted. Not a tradition would be altered. Our plea is give us justice! I cannot tell all at present. We, all ninety per cent are ready to leave. Pray for us and our pela.
Cause--Left lights on in Ogden Hall at a movie Saturday night. Other important offenses. Publish this:
A Loyal Hamptonian.

CAMPAIGN IN LOCAL POLITICS GETTING HOT
Local politics is waxing warm. The debate between Editor William Warley and Hundley Goodal, Democratic and Republican representatives respectively, started the ball a rollin' among Negroes. A big mass meeting was had at the Odd Fellows' Hall last week, followed by a still bigger meeting under the auspices of the Dunbar Republican Club of Which Mr. Eli Forbes is president, at the Hall last Friday night. The speakers included Mr. Wm. B. Harrison, the Republican candidate for mayor. The Democrats are just as busy. The Colored Democratic Clubs are having their weekly meeting and Democratic candidates are appearing as speakers. At the big Democratic rally at the Armory last Saturday night Mayor O'Neal, Lawrence Grauman and other candidates made special references to the colored people. They made it known in plain English that they solicited the good will and support of law-abiding, self-respecting members of the race.
It is the opinion of William Warley, who is shooting hot shots through his paper that 5,000 colored people will vote for the local Democratic candidates in November. Colored Republican leaders say he is crazy with the heat, that the Republicans will receive a race vote more solid than ever before. They say that even those voters who have not seemed inclined to support the local Republican leaders will vote for Judge Flem D. Sampson for Governor and carry the local Republican candidates over with him.

EIGHTEENTH ST. CASE BEFORE FEDERAL COURT
As the Leader goes to press, the temporary injunction to prevent thirty-one persons from interfering with colored people, prospective customers as purchasers of property out on the Eighteenth Street Road at Okolona is being taken up by Judge Dawson of the Federal Court. The injunction proceeding is being supported by the McAllister and Company of 213 South Fifth Street. The petition charges that sales have dropped off because nails and tacks were spread on the property. Colored visitors were discouraged, a culvert at the entrance was dynamited with $1,500 loss and signs were hung on automobiles parked nearby. One sign was quoted as reading:"If you send any more Negroes out here we will blow them up and tar and feather the boss. Signed K.K.K." "Nigger, don't light here. (Signed: Koon Kant Kum."
The plaintiffs, Joseph W. McAlister, Boston, Mass., and George McAlister, Pittsburgh, Pa., filed the motion through Attorney Ernest Woodward defendants against whom the injunction is directed follow: Henry Rice, W. G. Embry, Dr. D. M. Embry, S. G Thornberry, George W. Peck, Mark Rose, R. W. Wellitts, County Patrol man W. H. Ireland, Lee Birdwell Harry L. Price, Robert McDowell John Guess, Mrs. P. T. Krupp, El [illegible] person named Carpenter.

BEST SPEAKERS TO COVER STATE FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
To Help Leader Tell Why He Should Be Governor
Taking up the trail blazed by Judge Flem D. Sampson, Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky, Mrs. Christine Bradley South and others who have been speaking in parts of the state to white and mixed audiences, colored top notch speakers will begin espousing the cause of Judge Sampson and other candidates on the Republican ticket next week, carrying the news, that there will be a new day in Kentucky when Flem D. Sampson is made Governor to every nook and corner of the state. A letter came from a race leader of Flat Lick, Kentucky a few days ago, which said among other things, that the information the Leader is giving the people of this section has helps those of us who are giving our unqualified support to Judge Sampson, wonderfully. Continue to do the good work. Just before going to press last Saturday a letter came from a race leader at Trenton, Ky., who wanted to know what was the matter with The Leader. The writer said the people of his section wanted The Leader to tell them something more about Judge Sampson. "It is the only race paper extensively read in this section," said the writer.
The Leader's opinion of Judge Sampson, the history of his life, his record as a private and public citizen which makes better reading the more it is written is not only to be told in print in the communities mentioned above, but all over the state and is to be emphasized in words by some of the ablest platform speakers the race in Kentucky affords.
Not Race Horses But School Books And Good Roads
The message The Leader and the speakers wish to sink deep into the minds of every man and woman of the race in Kentucky of voting age is first of all that Kentucky has never produced a better friend of all humanity than Judge Flem D. Sampson of Barboursville. A poor boy who grew into manhood and into prominence, a big minded, tender hearted fellow servant who recognizes the rights of the poor as well as the rich, the black as well as the white. Not so much a giver of special gifts and favors to any individual or race, but a giver of a fair and square deal to all.
In the message to the race the subject of race horses will have no part. This is former Governor Beckham, the Democratic candidate's pet sub-
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