In Chicago

The second largest Negro city in the world (population 206,000) stretches its easygoing length and breadth over several square miles of southern Chicago. Some 41,000 of the inhabitants go to the polls, where it can be taken for granted they will vote for Abraham Lincoln's party (Republican).

The largest Negro city in the world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the Irish democrats of Tammany Hall; to admire Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith.

Perceiving this, Chicago Democrats have taken hope. Last week they announced a plan to dispel the Republican shadow from south Chicago. They were reported to have obtained the most famed citizen of Negro Chicago to work for Governor Al Smith and the Democracy.

The most famed citizen of Chicago is an enormous man, physically and by reputation. He speaks seldom and never loudly, with a mouth which is completely furnished with gold teeth. He lives quietly and motors with ponderous solemnity about his private affairs in an expensive automobile. Doubtless he will say only a few words at the Democratic rallies, but a few words will be enough. Grown impressively corpulent since his greatest day, tailored handsomely, loyally admired, Most Famed-Negro-Citizen ("Jack") Johnson of Chicago might well become, if properly coached, as potent politically as he once was pugilistically.*

*World's heavyweight champion, 1910-1915.