Today -100: March 18, 1923: Yup, it’s there, can’t deny that it’s there

In New York, 4,000 cops guard the St Patrick’s Day parade, but no republican protesters show up.

And in Dublin, cops stand guard as Siki and McTigue box for the light-heavyweight title in defiance of de Valera’s ban (McTigue wins), disturbed only by one exploding mine blowing out windows in the neighborhood.

Attorney Gen. Harry Dougherty says Warren Harding will definitely run for re-election, “unless his health should fail him.” “The president will be re-nominated and re-elected because the country will demand it,” Dougherty says in a conversation with journalists he initiated while recovering his health in Florida so, you know, not just an aside. He says there’s only Republican who will stand against Harding, presumably referring to La Follette.

A French “philanthropic” society imports 400 “dusky-skinned Colonial” girls from Martinique and Guadeloupe to be servants in France.

Nicola Sacco ends his hunger strike after being force-fed.

German newspapers suggest that the Bavarian government is secretly backing the Nazis. Certainly Herr Hitler, who is not even a German, is doing a lot of things unmolested by the authorities that other people are getting arrested for.

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In a NYT interview, George Mallory, who has twice failed to climb Mt. Everest, is asked why he even wants to. He responds “Because it’s there,” and a cliché is born.

William Jennings Bryan explains in an article in the NYT Magazine that Southern states restrict negro voting because of the principle of “the right of self-preservation, which includes the right to preserve civilization and progress made in the science of government.” He explains that white supremacy is the best supremacy because the “more advanced race” exercises control not only for its own benefit but for that of the “backward race” as well. See, because the law is race-neutral, the laws that white men make for other white men also apply to black men. And no Northern state would permit “black supremacy” either; they certainly don’t elect any black people to Congress. Aaaaand then he says “Slavery among the whites was an improvement over independence in Africa” and I had enough.

John Ford, the president of the Clean Books League who is somehow still on the NY State Supreme Court, says he’ll be going after the elected judges who don’t ban books: “Such men are raping our homes by raping the law, and they should be punished for it!”

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