The log cabin Democrat., 1920-11-12
NEGRO IS VOTER
 WITHOUT PARTY C. .O.P. DON'T WANT HIM Republican Leaders See No Political Future for Black Man Except
 in New Party.
(By Clio Harper.l

hiIlie ROCK, NOV. 1Z-Ihe man with out party is to be found in Arkansas today It is the negro voter. He is no longer part or parcel of the Re publican party, and it is certain that the Democrates will not offer him 3 resting place. The lily white Repub- hcans are positive that their action in eliminating the negro will be upheld by the national organization. and that never again will a negro sit in the party councils of the state. The negro has been the catspaw of the RepubI- can political leaders for 65 years. The negro, Tn fact, has been considered the real backbone of the Republican party III Arkansas.
 The up-to-date Republican leaders. of whom A. C. Rommel is the leader realizing that the negro was drivino vote from the Republican party in Arkansas, began fight several wears ago for his elimination The old time standpat Republican leader drowned on the efforts of the coming politicians, They said that it would never do. The lily whites refused to be coerced and continued their fight for an entirely white Republican party. Finally. the negroes, after listening to the spread eagle speeches by brethren who had returned from the north, determined that they were the Republican party Tn Arkansas. The more it was told to them, the more they believed it. and negro Republican candidate for gov ernor was the result The lily whites welcomed the challenge, as they had already decided that the time for a test had come. The negroes raised a considerable sum and conducted a strenuous campaign to bring every negro voter to the polls on election day. Fom the returns from counties where there are a large number of colored citizens, this propaganda had It's effect. and in many of them. the negro gubernatorial candidate ran ahead of the white Republican candid ate. but 1t is the result in the entire state that counts, and Wallace Townsend, the lily white candidate, so completely showed under Blount. the negro, that the question is settled for all time to come.
 "The Republican party in Arkan- sas," says A. C. Remmel. "has never boiled it's full strength. Many of our electors supported the Democratic ticket because they did not care to be associated with a party which so prominently featured the negro. They can all come back now, for we have forever eliminated the negro as a fac tor in the Republican party in this state. We are going to be considered seriously in Arkansas in the future. The recent campaign has demonstrated the fact that there are more Republi- cans Tn Arkansas than the Democrats would like to admit. We are going to force the issue in all coming cleo tons. We are going to make it a question of citizenship rather than a partsanship. We are going to put out men of such sterling character that the Democrats must put up "ol CilS IitH or SUI ter tcIcat. l QO not know what is the political future of the negro. I can see none for him. unless he forms party of his own and even in that case. the future for him
 is not great white way
 A. C. Remmel is a nephew of Col. H. L. Remmel, recognized head of the Republican party in Arkansas. He is expected to succeed Colonel Remmel as the state agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, upon the retire. ment of Colonel Remmel, and the man. tie of national Republican committee man for Arkansas will also fall upon his shoulders when it is relinquished by his astute uncle Gus Remmel has as large an acquaintance over the state as any Democrat who has not sought state office, and without boosting a Republican, it must be admitted that he is as popular with his acquaintan- ces as it would be possible for Dem ocrat to be.