The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-07
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Batting Politicians Of the South
Are Denounced by New
York Publisher.

10y ASBoGiATEp PRESD
BALTIMORE, Md, May I'm an
address today before the Sixth Con-
ference of the National Association
for the Advancement of the Colored
People, Oswald Garrison Willard,
president of the New York Evening
Post, defended. the negro of the
South against what he called negro
batting politicians" and said that he
believed the soltion OF the problem
rested with what southerners term
"interlopers from the North"
I'VE, of the North, boldly ven
ture to believe that we can solve
this great race problem" said Mr..
Willard. 1--WE believe this because
of the unanswerable argument of a
titanic historical achievement on our
side. II was the North which solved
the slavery problem in the face of
practically united southern senti-
ment. The wisdom of the anti
slavery minority in the North,
which, with the aid of military ne
cessity, compelled Lincoln to his
emancipation proclamation, had
since been justified OF all men.
Divided within Itself.
I'm the question of caring for the
negro of the South is divided within
itself. Within its own ranks there
are indictments and rebels against
the dominating sentiment, the sentt
ment that Is voiced today by political
demagogues risen to eminence on
the backs of the negro, and by
means of wicked appeals to the I'M
reason and to the baser passions of a
largely illiterate or uniformed cleo.
torate. 1t Is in these violent anti.
negro southern senators and con.
gressmen that we see our chief enc
mics, as we behold in those within
the other southern camp chief
hope, a chief inspiration, a certain
promise that the conscience and the
justice of the South, together with
that of the North, will eventually
solve this terrible problem Alright.
No Criticism Too Harsh.
"As for the negro-baiting poll
ticians, l for one lose no opportunity
to assail them with all the powers
at my command. l have no criticism
too rasping, no words too violent to
devote to them, and the mischief and
injury they are doing to our whole
country.
When the negro fails to rise
certain southerners cheerfully assert
that this proves the negro incapable
of advancing and half-brother to an
OK. You same southerners deprive
the negro child of all schooling, as
five thousand are deprived in At
lanta, turn him adrift to roam In
slum streets, ana If he grows up an
animal you say the responsibility is
his, that that proves him a beast,
and his race inherently criminal.
Never was there a more brazen as
sertfon that people cannot rise in
the scale of civilization and a more
determined effort to prevent their
rising. Never did men so far boast
their radical superiority. and then,
as If in doubt about it. do every
thing to handicap their black COM
petitors so that they shall not COM
pete on equal terms"
Segregation Assailed.
Mr.. Willard said that the friends
OF the negro were indebted to Prof.
Sophronlsba BreckinriGge, formerly
of Kentucky and now of Chicago,
and to Desha Breckenridge, Of Lex
ington, KY, for their outspoken ap-
proval of the associations protest
against the segregation of the white
and negro clerks in Washington.
For the work they have done in be-
half of the negro, Mr.. Willard also
paid tribute to Or. James H. billiard,
"a leader in southern education; p.
P. Claxton, United States commits
souer of education; DIR. w. ID. Wea-
therford, OF Tennessee; Prof. Will
liam NJ. Huntley, of the University
of Virginia; E. G. Branson, president
Of the Athens, Ca, state normal
school: Prof. Joshua Morse, of the
University of South Carolina, and a
number of southern newspapers.
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