Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1920-10-21
QUINN DELIVERS FINE
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS

Senator L. E. Quinn, elector for the
state at large, spoke to good audi
ences at Cookeville, on Monday, and
at Algood on Tuesday. He said
among other things, at Algood:
There are no geographical limi.
tations to the Democratic faith on
the great question of white suprema-
cy. 1t is white mans party in ev-
cry county of every state of this
union. This is not true of the Re-
publican party. 1t favors the exclu-
sion of Japanese because of their
color from California's schools, and
even from the right to own land or
live in the state, but it lifts its hands
in holy horror at the Jim Crow
laws of the South that require the
separation of white and colored peo-
pie on street cars, railroad trains
and in hotels and theatres. 1t is a
matter of very sincere regret to me
that the controlling forces in the Re-
publican party have made It impos.
sible for that party to become a
white mans party in the South
Many well-meaning Republicans in
this and other states sought to make
1t such, but were taken severely to
task for their efforts by Chairman
Hayes and other national Republican
leaders. And so It is that Negro
coddling is still the prevailing Re-
publican fashion in this campaign.
In my own county-Tipton-tw
negro women, Evalena Cornell and
Rosa B. Adams, were mace chairman
and secretary respectively Of the
appointed to organize the
women of the county.
These appointments we're made from
headquarters in Nash
vile, and each of these women was
honored with the prefix Mrs" in the
official publication designating her
In Kentucky, on &C.
count of the attitude of the Republi-
can politicians, the admission of Ne
groes to white schools has become a
burning question, ana I hold in my
hand copy of Negro newspaper
published in Toledo, Ohio, which
gloats over the fact that six negroes
have been nominated for the legis-
lature on the Republican ticket, and
over the prospects in the event OF
their election and the election of a
Governor, OF the passage
Of bill comforting large measure
Of social equality on the Negroes,
and says the proposed law will have
The moral support" of Senator Hard
ing.
GAS basis for this claim, this pa
per sets out the special promises of
Senator Harding to the Negroes in
his speech of acceptance and then
says:
His words are an eloquent en-
lorsement of the spirit and letter of
he Beatty Bill, the purpose of
which was to insure to the colored
people the right to choose the hotel
1t which they might stop, the thea
re at which they might attend, and
he place of amusement to which
hey might go with no question ask
I'd, and no insults offered"
Senator Harding's speech has
been correctly interpreted by this
Negro paper in his own state, and in
rev of his promise to the Negroes,
Ind his very definite pledge that
ynching shall be made a matter of
Federal regulation, it is reasonable
o assume that Federal interference
With the South's handling of the race
question and particularly in the mat
er of enforcing its "Jim Grow" laws.
And also, that he will favor the plan
o reduce the representation in |
Congress of those Southern states !
hat seek to curtail the evils of Ne
FRO suffrage by educational qualifi- |
ations and other legal restrictions. |
Tennessee will have no cause to COM
lain at such a course il it votes for
man of Harding's known views on
he Negro question and for a candi-
ate for governor who voted to per-
with federal bayonets, carpet
ag rule in the South. and that is
What ALT Taylor did when he voted
or the Force bill, as a congressman
rom this state"