Phoenix tribune., 1919-12-27
COLORED POLITICIANS lining Up FOR NEXT
NATIONAL CONVENTION Of REPUBLICAN PARTY
Which Will BE Held IN CHICAGO. JUNE 5, 1920
(By Assoeiated Negro Press

convention OF the Republican party
will hold its next convention in Chi
cago, beginning Tuesday, June 81
1920. 1t will be the fifth consecutive
time that the greatest of all convent
tions has met here, and undoubtedly
it will be the most notable, 1908 and
1912 not excepted. The greatest is
sues ever brought before the Amer
can people will be enunciated in then
famous Coliseum next June. The
Republican party will he forced, by|
the impelling demands of the times.
to declare itself Enthusiastically on theI
great principles of justice, manhood
rights and economic progress.
Ever since the national convent
tion of 1904 the Colored citizen, asi
real factor in national conventions,
has been slipping. He has answered.
present" in large numbers, but he
has actually been, more than less
persona non grata, and it has beei
pity to observe the way many Of,
the big white leaders have playedy
hide and seek with him around theV
Congress hotel
1t will be remembered that in
1896, when the master political lead
er, Marcus A. Hanna of Cleveland,
was engineering the political for
tunes of William Mckinley Of Can
ton, Ohio, our leaders were the real
forces in the St. Louis convention.
Mr.. Hanna had implicit confidence
in George A. Myers, proprietor Of
the well-known Hollenden barber
shop of Cleveland, and Mr.. Myers
handled the "trother' in Napoleon
Bonaparte fashion. In 1900, in Bal
timore, Harry S. Cummings, mem
ber of the city council of Baltimore,
leaped into the limelight by being
selected to second the second nomi-
nation of President Mckinley at the
Philadelphia convention. That was
the last of the real public recogni-
ton by the G. o. P. AS proof OF
our slipping, it will be recalled that
John R. Lynch of Mississippi wasj
selected as temporary chairman q
the national convention in 1884 inN
Chicago. Can you imagine citizen
of our group being selected to such
an honorary place in 1920? Them
was wonderful days"
In 1912 the last Colored national
committeeman, Hon. Judson Lyons,
former registrar of the United States
treasury, was given the bounce, and
since that day none of the ebony
blood has graced the sacred portals
of the party's interim factorums.
Perry w. Howard of Mississippi gave
them terrible scare, however, in
st. Louis.
The majority of the old guard
such as Crum and Vance and Brown
have gone to their reward-which
we hope is more than they got from
the G. o. P.-but there are "still
some few remaining g"-Lewis, Dan
cy, Tyler, Andrews, Cohen, ct al, but
they are getting "slow of STEP"
There is new day, and new
generation, and new group Of
young political stalwarts, who, wise
to the past, skeptical of the present
and deeply concerned with the fu-
ture, are going to ask for a real old
fashioned show down in the year Of
our Lord 1920. They have senti-
ment, and they, also, have sense, and
, they are saying that the old ancient
and honorable talk about the me
groes'" debt to the Republican party
doesn't mean a tinker's damn to
them, and hasn't thing to do with
the Fourth of July The thing they
wish to know, and know indeed, ISL
"Where do we come in?" That's
what they are going to find out.
And in that list are such good felz
lows and brave as Bob Church, PERI
ry Howard Emmett Scott, Jimmy
Cobb, Roscoe Simmons, Lew John
son, Tom Fleming, Lee Goldman,
George Harris, Alex Martin, Joe
Jones, Billy Hueston, R. L. Vann,
William Warley, Charles Muse, Clar-
ence Starks, w. L. Porter, Oscar
DePriest, Bob Jackson, Lewie Ander-
son, Fred Roberts, J. NJ. We'll and
few thousand others who say "The
hour has struck"
So you see there will be doings in
Chicago.