Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14


announcement in Favor Of Equal
Rights and Protection at Home.
Chicago.-Scnator Warren q. HARD
ing's conception Of the duty OF the
Federal government to the loyal col
orcd citizenship Of the country, en-
bodied in his speech accepting INC
Republican nomination for President
at Marion Ohio, July y, has over
Swallowed all other issues in the
Hr.nds Of colored AmcricanS. with
characteristic concentration Senator
Harding interpreted the fondcst hop
cs and desires of the colorcd people,
proceeded directly to Il policy that
would bring about their CoSummatlon
and drove home and clinchcd an es-
sential truth which has been Juggling
for years at the just American heart;
which has been denied by lesser
breeds without the law and relent
lessly strivcn for by the law-abiding,
ambitious and progressive colored
man.
Senator Harding, in full sympathy
with the race, did not do the common
place thing; just simply conucmn
lynching. Everybody does that -. Wo
family believe that those who engage
in tho disgraceful practice, condemn
It. The candidate for President found
a remedy for 1t. He said: II believe
the federal government should stamp
out lynchng and remove that stain
from the fair name Of America
From this uneQuivocal stand the
colored people of the country have
taken heart, and the hope and faith
SD ing eternal that with the election
OF Harding there will be new era
of opportunity and endeavor open to
the race. There was no soft pedal EN-
ployed by the statement made by Sen
ator Harding, who went even further
and said: II believe the Negro citl-
zens OF America should be guaran-
teed the enjoyment OF all their rights
that they have earned the full meas
llre Of citizenship bestowed, that
their sacrifices in blood on the bat
tleficlds of the republic have entiu-
ed Them to all Of freedom and oppor
tunty, all Of sympathy and aid that
the American spirit Of fairness and
Justice dcmands.'
1t has been more than Il score OF
years since generous words OF eli
enlargement have been given out by
IL candidate for President and this
speech is being enthusiastically re-
ccivcd by the colored leaders all over
the country, and their communication
Of the candidate who has Gyinced the
courage to so on record is unanimous.
Among coldrcd people, quite rs
keen as the average American upon
all issues affecting the country, the
League of Nations and other questions
beth national and international
in which the country Is en-
broilcd. have been forced into the
background in the face Of a new
dawn of racial justice, which Sena
tor Harding promises to America by
intcrposing the strong arm or the
Federal government TO put an end
To the curse of 1ynching, which is q
blot upon our national escutchcCn.
While it has been the rule among
colored people to look upon the Re
publican party as their champion the
position assumed by Senator Harding
is a long way in advance Of anything
that has been said or done in years
Col. Franklin A. Denison, late OF
the Eighth Illinpis Regiment, and
plCScHL NSSlSlauI dIlOEHcy-ScHcIal OIL
that stact, commenting upon the at
titude Of the Republican candidate
for President, said: "Whatcycr the
colored man gets in the way Of recog
milton or encouragement comes from
the Republican party, but Senator
Harding has gone all previous aspir-
ants to the Presidency one better by
holding out a tangible solution of the
questions that are held as a sword OF
Damocles over his head. That word
Of Harding's that the Federal govern
ment should get after lynchers will
make many criminal against the
life and constitutional rights Of the
colored man tremble in his boots.
Every colored man and woman
who votes should vote for Harding
and Coolidge, and every white man
who believes in the supremacy of tho
law and an even Justice to all men
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