Sampson To Get Big Vote Today
WILL CARRY RACE REPUBLICANS OF STATE AND BIG CITY VOTE
For Otte, Summers, Porter And Rogers, Local Democrats For Crowe
It is expected that the voting today will bring out a record primary vote. The campaign has been one of the most heated and interesting known to the state and the managers of each of the candidates for Governor, are claiming victory. The vote for the nominations between the opposing Democratic and Republican candidates is likely to be close. It is reported that the local Democratic organization and the colored members of the two Democratic [clubs?] and their followers will support Judge Robert Crowe of LaGrange. At least part of his home city vote is expected to go to Mr. Robert Lucas. It is hard to predict what portion of the colored vote he will get here in the city, but it is safe to say that four out of every five colored votes out in the state will go to Jodge Flem D. Sampson, who will also get a good part of the Louisville colored vote if not a majority.
Judge Sampson's record as a fair and square public official stands out. Negroes of all sections . of the state know of his record. They knew him as a mere citizen in Barbourville, and have followed him through every public office on to that of Judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky where they got a better view of him as a real man, broad and fair with all the people regardless of race, color, creed, or previous condition of servitude, and yet a Judge who has been a credit to the state and nation. He has written more opinions than any of the Justices associated with him and yet he has stood alone when he was not agreed with his associates in their decisions and opinions on cases involving members of the race. Colored people will not be ungrateful. They will go to the polls in large numbers today and vote for Judge Flem D. Sampson for the Republican nomination for Governor subject to today's primary.
Other candidates who should receive the endorsement of colored people by their vote today is Dr. R. L. Summers for the nomination of Representative from the Fifty-eighth District; if his name is on the ballot. There is no reason any one can give why the Negroes of that district should send Ryans back. If he is not opposed on his past record, certainly for his suit [to?] have Lee L. Brown put off the ticket; regardless to what the circumstances in the case were. Race voters should also vote for W. Clarke Otte, the brilliant Assistant State's Attorney who is candidate for the nomination of State's Attorney, and for R. Spence Porter of LaGrange for Railroad Commissioner and John G. Rogers for State Treasurer.

CHIEFS OF POLICE OF SEVERAL CITIES PRAISE COLORED UNIFORM MEN
Race Detective Best Ever, Says Knoxville Chief In Letter To Editor
For many years leaders among the colored people of Louisville have looked forward to having as members of the local public department men of color in uniform. Not so much for whatever honor there is in it, as because it is one of the little things that the city should afford capable men who might apply for a place as an officer of the law regardless of color and because there is a need for colored men in sections of the city largely populated by colored people. This fact was pointed out by a committee of colored men who had a conference with Major O'Neal a few days after his induction into office. Lawyer J. H. Colbert headed the committee. The matter of colored police was taken up by Bishop G. C. Clement and the Leader editor who reminded the Mayor of the demand for colored military officers during the war that after a near riot at Tenth and Chestnut the editor called the citizens together and being empowered to appoint a committee to wait on the Commander at Camp Taylor he did so, and Lieutenant Richard Jones with a detachment of colored police under him was appointed. There was no further trouble of any kind between the races and the district, which in addition to the usual vice and crime was often visited by both white and colored soldiers from Camps Taylor and Knox was cleaned out and kept clean by these colored police.
The Mayor, who like the new Chief Col. Hanger, has looked with favor upon colored men as members of the police department in uniform [asked?] for data on them in other cities and it being agreeable to the committee, which was composed of Drs. J. A. C. Lattimore, I. H. Nichols, Messrs F. C. Gurley and J. R. Ray, in addition to those mentioned above, the Leader editor was asked to furnish the desired information. Letters were written to several of the cities where colored men are used as patrolmen, and out of the prompt and favorable responses, letters from the Chief of Police of Knoxville, a Southern city; Indianapolis; a hot bed of the klan, and Chicago; where the Negroes usually get what they go after, are published, or rather, copies of them as the originals were turned over to the Mayor.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION ANSWERS CITIZENS; BUSINESS MANAGER SUBMITS REPORTS
An inquiry was made some few weeks ago by the Louisville Leader in order that it (an official organ of the Negroes of Louisville) might intelligently inform the large number of [citizens?] who inquired of our office about what was being done towards meeting the needs of the colored schools, a letter was sent Mr. J. M. Ragland who was interested in the passage of the bonds, a week later Mr. Ragland communicated with us and promised an official answer from the Board of Education, as he had had a conference with the President of the Board. A letter from Mr. Ragland and a report from Mr. S. D. Jones, Business Manager of the Board is herewith given:
Mr. I. Willis Cole, 
Editor Louisville Leader,
610 W. Walnut St.,
My dear Mr. Cole:
In compliance with the request made to me through your paper, I herewith submit the following:
Very Truly yours,
J. M. Ragland
Executive Secretary of the Louisville Urban-League.
Mr. J. M. Ragland,
Urban League Office,
608 W. Walnut St.,
Louisville, Kentucky.
Dear Sir:
Complying with the instruction of the Board of Education directing me to furnish you with a statement regarding the progress of the work contemplated and completed for the Colored School Children from the money derived from the sale of the School Improvement Bond Issie, I beg to submit the following:
1--Virginia Avenue Colored School
A New Addition of six Class Rooms, combined Assembly Room and Gymnasium, complete Lunch Room, fully equipped, and large Play Rooms, new boiler and enlarged toilet facilities made necessary by the New Addition, was one of the first buildings completed out of this fund.
2--Junior High School--17th and Madison Street
Plans and Specifications for the
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