Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-05-01
',lal Republican Convention


were driven out of the Garden OF
Eden, the excuse given by the Man
i was, "fThc Woman thou gavest nc
beguilcd me and l did cat" The OK.
cuSe given by the Woman was that
TIC Serpent that God permitted to
have access to tho Garden of Eden
deceived her and she gave tho
forbidden fruit to the Man to eat.
Biblical history tolls us that God
drove them all from the Garden Of
Eden and placed there an Anger
with a flaming sword to guard the
entrance and to prevent their return
to this heaven upon the earth.
The National Republican Conven.
ticn will find before it the white
hcpuh'icons of the Brady Serpent
type and the Man Republican Convcn
ton that met at Roanoke, Va, and
Iho Woman Republican Convention
that met at Richmond, Va. The same
plea in allegiance will be set up by
who believes that there is enough
RodlincsS in Il National Republican
Convention to render as just a decis
, ION as Jehovah did in the Garden of
] h,dcn case? viii Hon. C. Bascom
Slemp and his supporters be thrown
out OF tho National Republican Con
| Vention as having violated the fun.
damental principles OF the Rcpubli.
AN Party?
VIII the same verdict be rendered
against tho Attorney J. II. Pollard
and Dr.. ID. a. Ferguson and their
supporters as having ignored and
oVer-r.ddcn the same fundamental
principles? We hardly think SO. The
regular Republican organization IS
IN. The irregular Republican orgaui.
2'uon is out, trying to get in. There
Is no doubt, under the holy biblical
ruling both sides should be out for
both have violated the same law Of
TINS great organization, which for
Dios the drawing and recognition or
inc color line in that any. citizous
Shcu'd be barred from p3r,icipotion
IN a Republican, meeting on account
OF race, color or previous condition
Of scrvitudc.
In the interest of party harmony
VIII polh organizations he permitted
TO nave II seat upon the basis of a
half vote? Logically speaking, il the
color line is to be recognized. ir
"hilc Republicans refuse to sit in the
same meeting with colored Republi-
cans and they are to no recognized.
'heFe Is nothing else to do, but TO
have two regular Republican organ,.
cations. one white and the other
colored with both recognized by the
rarity management. III this instance
we VIII have a regular southern jim
Crow train with one coach for white
Republicans and one coach for col.
cfeu Republicans and all under a
white Republican conductor.
III this conclusion is to be extend.
ed, then We might propose two MT
1onal Republican Conventions, one
White and one colored, with the NOM
lnecs OF one body ratified by the 9th
or. viii Congressman C. Bascom
Slemp or Attorney J. r. Pollard be
recognized at Chicago? To ask the
question is to answer it. The result
or tho whole business may hc :. com.
PROMISE whereby the dissenting col
ored folks will be recognized in the
campaign and their. resonant me1li-
fluent voices will he heard in many
Of the doubtful States calling col.
ored men to Il full discharge of their
Republican duties and after the DO
ttcal war is over, they may be found
awaiting the reward of the faithful
in discharging the duties OF n
Government job, now held nv nm
army of white men that President
Wilson and his officials have an
appointed.
Colored citizens have been wrong
fully treated and they have taken a
"rastlc step to get even. 1t looks
though that in as much as Governor
FRANK o. Lowden is the choice or
the white Republican Party IN
TINS State that it may b.
the Leonard Wood or the FIJI.
ram Johnson managers nav know
more about this uprising" than
they are willing to admit. Selah.