Campaign Closes Week From Tuesday Leader's Closely Bunched In Race For Six Big Prizes Just one week from next Tuesday evening and the Leader's annual spring subscription campaign will close. Tuesday evening, July 12 at 8 o'clock the judges as named on page 6 of this issue, which gives the rules and all other facts about the campaign, will count the last votes reported by the several candidates on that day and night will then add them to the votes that have been reported since the beginning of the campaign, May the 4th, and award the two automobiles and the four other cash prizes to the six persons who have a total of the largest number of votes at the closing hour. As usual, after the close of a period the voting was slow this week, and there is little change in the order of the standing of the candidates over that at the close of the second period last Wednesday evening. Miss Howard, Mrs. Roach, Mr. Stevenson and Miss Mance are still in first, second third, fourth plaes. Mrs. Spillman who was in fifth place last week dropped to seventh place, and Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Mazon moved up to fifth and sixth places. Mesdames Spillman, Reynolds, Boyd, Edmondson, Robb, Redd, Rutherford and others failed to report this week, but they are just a few votes from the leaders and out of the covered prized numbers, and the six winners are as hard to pick today as the first week of the drive. The campaign will be intersting, very much so from now on, until the closing hour. The standing of your favorite candidate is shown on page 8.
[photo] Mrs. Maggie M. Rives. Hopkinsville, Ky. Mrs. Rives made a good report this week and though not one of the four who has a million votes, is holding up Hopkinsville with Mrs. Boyd, and will be around the top when the last votes are counted Tuesday evening, July 12 at 8 o'clock.
Circuit Court Decides Against Bard-Fleming
Courier Says Race Is Disfranchised Courier Says Republicans Disfranchised Race Through Redistributing Right Denied Colored Voters To Vote As Please And Have Vote Counted As Cast (Editorial Courier-Journal, Thursday morning) The 1925 election has been set aside for fraud, as a consequence the Democrats coming into control of the local government. They should now lose no time in doing all in their power to make future fraudulent elections difficult, if not impossible. To that end, the immediate duty before them is to abolish the iniquitous gerrymander through which the fraudulent elections of 1922 and 1925 were perpetrated. The law of Kentucky specifically provides for equal representation in every voting precinct by the two major parties; that is to say, four election officers in every precinct - two Republican and two Democratic. And the law also provides that these officers must be chosen from residents of the precincts. In addition, it establishes a unit of about 300 voters as a proper number for the individual precinct. Soon after the Republicans acquired control of Louisville and Jefferson County they proceeded to redistrict the city and county in order to prevent Democratic representation in as many precincts as possible. The specific purpose of this move was, of course, to enable them to steal votes. In carrying out this plan they crated many precincts with from 500 to 600 votes where the majority was largely Democratic, and, since so many voters cannot be handled properly, they disfranchised in that way a large number of Democratic voters. On the contrary they created a number of precincts in the Negro districts, some of which were on opposite sides of streets, and many of which contained less than 200 and some as low as 150 voters. In fact some Negro precincts had as few as 90 voters; while sixty-three precincts had no Democratic officers. During the entire regime of the Republicans, in seventy-six precincts where they managed to prevent Democratic election officers from serving they have counted the maximum vote solidly for their organization. In carrying out this plot they have really disfranchised the Negro voter of Louisville, for while it is true that a high percentage of Negroes will always vote the Republican ticket, no Negro in any of these precincts has been permitted to have his vote counted for other than Republican nominees, even though some Negroes may (Continued on Page 8) 
A. M. E. And A. M. E. Zion Church Leaders Receive Organic Merger Plan
Republicans Accused Irish American Blames Republicans For 'The Negro Situation" Plot to Fool Democrats and Capture Recreant Colored Voters Says Big Race Vote Has Been Vote of Crooks: Students Used as Repeaters (From the Kentucky Irish American of Saturday, June 25) During the early hours Sunday morning the white residence districts of Louisville were flooded with the circulars entitled "The Negro Situation." These were four-page affairs and contained all the old Ku Klux attacks on the Negroes, which we are familiar with. White people were warned to beware of intermarriage between whites and blacks Clarence Darrow's defense of the Negro race was printed and a story of how Darrow was threatened with tar and feathers by the people of Alabama for that defense was included. Segregation was discussed and white residents were warned that Negroes were attempting to invade white residence districts. All in all, it was the usual clap-trap of the Klan Klowns, but there was no mention in the circular of enmity to Catholics and Jews. 
For Political Purposes While it smacked of Klan sources there was no evidence that the Klan was guilty of this flooding of the town with racial hate circulars on the Sabbath morning. There is only one conclusion to be drawn from the incident. It was politics pure and simple and the only motive that can be assigned is that the Republican local machine is attempting to arouse hate and eminity of Democrats against the Negroes of Louisville. In the last few years the Negroes have been getting away from the Search-Chilton machine and the stolen election of 1925 demonstrated this fu[illegible] In thirty-six precincts inhabited [illegible] Negroes, only with four Negro election officer sin each, the vote showed 5,431 for the Republican ticket and 255 for the Democratic ticket.
Were Crooked Votes It can safely be said that this Negro vote nearly in its entirety was cast by the four Negro election officers, who were simply tools of the machine. There were many honest and industrious Negro voters who, while not voting the Democratic ticket, were unwilling to follow the Search-Chilton ma- (Continued on Page 8) 
BISHOP WALLS S. S. CONVENTION SPEAKER
The program for the Third Annual Church School Convention to be held July 21 at the St. James A. M. E. Church has been drafted. Many prominent speakers will take part. Bishop W. J. Walls of the A. M. E. Zion Church will address the Community Standard Training Class at the evening session. Bishop Walls is well known to all Louisville, as he made many friends here during his pastorate at Broadway Temple, before he was elevated to the highest office within the gift of his church. The young people of Louisville will turn out in large numbers to hear him. In the midst of his busy life he is coming to Kentucky in the interest of Religious Education, which is quite a part of his work as President of the Religious Education Board of his church.
Mr. Thomas St. Clair Evans, Secretary of the International Vacation Bible School Asso.. with headquarters in New York City will address the convention during the afternoon session.
Mr. Evans will also make an inspection tour of several Vacation Bible Schools during the morning. The program is very full as three days work is being crowded in to one, and many persons are arranging to spend the full day at the church. The Jefferson County Sunday School Association, which is sponsoring this convention will also call the attention of delegates and members to the great need in the field of week day religious activities which project is to be pushed during the fall and winter season.
President Jackson and Secretary Hughlett are working hard to bring the meeting to the highest religious educational place.
BUSINESS MEN LAUNCH CAMPAIGN; BOOSTERS TO ST. LOUIS; DOCTORS' GAME JULY 15
A ten days membership campaign was launched by the business men at their monthly meeting at the Y. M. C. A. last Monday night. Mr. Samuel G. Thompson, well known real estate dealer, was approved as the campaign director, with Mr. W. C. Buford, Louisville District manager of the Mammoth Life Insurance Co., as assistant director;Mr. L. T. Phillips, Assistant cashier of the First Standard Bank, Chairman of Division A, and Mr. Wm. H. Downs, State Manager of the Atlantic Life Insurance Co., chairman of Division B. The membership of the Association was divided between these two divisions and the division bringing in the largest number of members is to be bansuetted by the losing division. The campaign is to start Tuesday, July 5, and extend until Friday, July 15.
During the ten days' drive for members every man and woman engaged in every kind of business will be touched by the campaign leaders. The object of the Louisville Business Men's Association is to stimulate greater activity and growth in business enterprises in Louisville and vicinity:
To Organize, assist and correlate all trades, business enterprises, professional and civic groups in Louisville for more effective service to themselves and to the public;
To Cooperate with all persons, institutions and agencies for general promotion of the welfare of Negro citizens;
The Louisville Business Men's Association is an absolute necessity to all our business institutions and to our people generally. They must be aroused to the value of so useful an organization here in our midst. Its opportunity for concrete service, as outlined
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Move To Stop Negroes In West End FALSE REPORT OF SHAWNEE PURCHASE CAUSES INDIGNATION MEETING
Speaker Says, Negro Living In West End Would Be As Comfortable As If He Was Living In Hell
NOTE--The account of the meeting is carried below word for word as appeared in the Jefferson Democrat of June 25.
A drive to prevent Negroes owning or occupying property in Western Louisville was started Monday night at a meeting of the West Louisville Civic Club which was attended by 350 persons. George W. Tomlison, former president of the Shawnee Welfare Club, told what measures were adopted by his organization in a similar campaign begun two years ago.
An indignation meeting was called on the strength of a report that a wealthy Negro, who acquired his wealth under a Republican administration, was negotiating for the purchase of a beautiful home in the West End. The report was traced down and found to be false, but the possibility of such a thing occuring was pointed out at the meeting and those present voted to take such legal action as was at their disposal to prevent it.
In a stirring address, one of the speakers at the meeting pointed out that the majority of Negroes had no desire to move into wholly white territory, but that there were some who would take a delight in doing just that. He closed with: "A Negro living in the West End would be about as comfortable as if he was living in Hell."
Shows Contracts
Mr. Tomlinson exhibited a contract designed to be executed by property owners and providing that the property in question may not be sold or transferred in any way to persons of Negro blood. The restriction thus accepted is so fired as to automatically attend to any subsequent owner. The contract is to be in force for the full period allowed by the law, ninety-nine years.
One part of the contract provides that if any property so covered is ever occupied by Negroes the Louisville Board of Education shall become the owner of the property. Mr. Tonlinion said the contract was drawn up by local attorneys and will be distrib-
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"MUD THROWN IN CAMPAIGN WON'T STICK" 
Lexington, Ky., June 29.--The "mud" being thrown by the Lucas forces will not stick! 
Efforts to win support for Robert H. Lucas, the Sackett, Bingham, Haley candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, by resorting to a campaign of misrepresentation and whispered lies have proved futile. In fact, the activities of the Lucas and gunners have served only to impress the public with the low caliber of the campaign being pursued in behalf of the Federal candidate. And besides, it is serving to make more solid the Sampson forces; it is resulting in many open declarations by representative citizens of their faith in Appellate Judge Flem D. Sampson. Their resentment is expressed in letter and formal resolutions. These (Continued on page 4.)