The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-22
'GOP" PARTY CONTINUE TO
dope" OUT MEDICINE FOR
THE NEGRO VOTERS
(By A. T. Edmonston)

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jefferson City, Mo-, August ID A
black-eye was given 10000 negro
"gop" voters of Missouri in St. Louis
Saturday, July 26th, by the Republi-
can State Committee, when that body
refused to further recognize that
powerful element of their party
through placing on the committee
Homer S. Phillips, an Ethiopian law
yer, as the second committeeman
from the Twelfth Congressional Dis
trict, Instead Congressman L. G.
Dyer, reelected to Congress last No
vember solely through the vote of 49,
900 negroes who live and vote in that
district, but, chiefly, work in East st.
Louis, ILL.,, was named over the vigor-
Gus protests of the black men to fill
an existing vacancy.
At this point it is probably well to
state, in explaining the far-reaching
extent of the "black eye" given the
negro voters of this Congressional
District, that two-thirds of the Re-
publican vote regularly cast in the
Twelfth District comes from ne
groes and were it not for this negro
vote the district would go 100 Demo-
cratic every election.
The new word, "gop," as applied to
Republican voter, is the abbreviated
form of G. D. p. with the periods
eliminated for the reason that "grand
old party" is no longer applicable to
the Republican party since many of
its national and state leaders and half
of the rank and file are opposed to
any and every non-partisan move
ment to establish a permanent world
peace.
Saturdays session of the Republican
State Committee was anything but
peaceful and harmonious. Congress
man Dyer bitterly resented it because
four "white" members of the "gop"
State Committee voted for the ne
gro lawyer instead of for him. Geo.
C. Dyer, brother of the Congress
man, cast serious aspersions on ia
cob E. Babler, the chairman of the
"gop" State Committee by question
ing his veracity, and, worse, offered to
prove his assertion. United States
Senator S. P. Spencer, elected last
November through the vote Of the
very 10000 "gop" voters who short
ly before were given "black eye"
by the meeting, narrowly escaped a
resolution questioning his republican
ism because he favors President Will
sons League of Nations, but with five
or six amendments added to give it
republican tinge. The steam roller
had to be run over civ" morse, Jo-
seph E. Black and other upstate
"gop" leaders, to put the quietus on
the move to resolute that Senator out
of the running to succeed himself in
1920, so that Walter S. Dickey could
make the race and have a clear field.
Women "gop" delegates were fore
IDLY and brutally told that machine
politics" is the only method of winning
Republican victories" in Missouri,
and that when Missouri women be-
come a part of the Republican party
in this State they become part of
the huge "gop" machine. Unless the
women fell blindly into line, ignored
all conscientious scruples and carried
out to the letter all orders and in
structions of Republican State lead
ers, they would take the Republican
party down in a raging torrent to
hell"
The resolution opposing the League
Of Nations and Senator Spencer's at
titude toward this worldwide cove
nant, after a bitter fight lasting two
hours, was turned down, but not I'M
til the steam roller had rolled back
and forth several times over Morse
and Black.
Negro Candidates for Congress