The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-04-24
UNIVERSITY OF NSYvANA NAMES FRAT FOR NEGRO SURGEON
POLITICAL CONDITIONS AS
SEEN BY ASSOCIATED NE
GRO PRESS.
Says That Outcome Cannot
Yet Be Clearly Seen.

Chicago, April 22.-The presidential
handicap has passed the first quarter
and the interest is growing keen In
the man who Is to be selected stand
ard bearer for the Republican party
at the National Convention. the only
one Of the two great political gather
ings which is of more than passing
moment to us.
The interests of $4,000. 900 of us in
the various candidates may be ex-
pressed in this wise-What is their
position in regard to the brother
Here they are-Wood. Lowden, Hard
ing. johnson and Hoover. Hoover the
latest constellation to burst on our
gaze is reDuted to be backed by
some of the biggest forces in the
country, including j. p. Morgan and
Go. The politicians are trying to gel
his range. while the man in the street
wonders how he stands ION u.s."
Not great deal is known OF
majority of Americans. save that he
has exhibited ability in his role OF
rood administration during the war
and perhaps is recognized as being
an internationalist by other govern
ments. His views and attitude upon
the race question are ones of inter-
est but little definite information can
be secured. One of our group who
served with him in the food adminis-
tration and who as a chief assistant
was in close contact with him every
day, says he is right on everything
which affects us and proved 1t by
his treatment of him. This may be
a purely personal view. and more
logical analysis may be made by
showing that his works in behalf OF
suffering humanity in Europe show
that at least he has sympathy for the
n
Hiram johnson. Senator from Cali
fornia is granting considerable per-
sonal popularity though little tangi-
Bile evidence in the way OF delegates
the question of questions is hazy
in so far as we have been able to
learn His association with Roosevelt
in the Progressive. party may be con-
to your viewpoint. Roosevelt almost
proved his feet made of clay when
he listened to John Parker, the lily
whittier of Louisiana and sacrificed the
Negro at the altar of the South. How
nearly Johnson was connected with
this movement is not known but his
association with Borah the able but
blatant Senator from Idaho, who is
know as an enemy is not reasuring.
When he was governor of California,
he did little of recorl. Attorney Hugh
McBeth of Los Angeles. son of the
photographer of Baltimore, whose
chief claim to fame rests on the
fact that he looks like Teddy. after
finishing Harvard. hied himself to
the golden west with a letter of in
PRODUCTION from Roosevelt to John
son. The latter made him a sort OF
spokesman for our. group, but our
! any particular enthusiasm for John
sons leadership of the nation Rather
the sentiment is for Hoover.
In Chicago the professional poll
ftAsa oil laxr I1.w a.
idential situation because they dc
not know which way Mayor VIM Hale
Thompson is going to jump. He is
known to dislike Lowden but 1t Is
to come out against him because OF
state politics. Therefore. the Colored
brethren who move at his command
are equally secretlve. All of the
state employees, Col. Duncan, Col
Marshall and Major Bird among them
are actively campaigning in Lowden's
behalf but they are having difficulty
in sduaring their chiefs record with
the kind of measurement which the
Colored people are demanding thai
ing paragraph taken from the Con-
gressional Report of the East st
Louis riots may show why they are
are having such hard time. The re-
port of the committee investigating
the cause of these riots after des.
cribing conditions. causes and effects
has this to say of the chief executive
officer of Illinois.
"Coi. S. o. Trip appointed by the
governor to the command of the troops
was totally unfit and incompenteni
to command troops under any cir
cumstances. The facts were reported
at the time of their occurrence to the
govrnor to the command of the troops
was totally unfit and incompetent
command troops under any circum-
stances. The facts were reported al
the time of their occurrence to the
governor but no official effort has ever
been made to apprehend the militia
men who indulged in the shooting and
killing of in offensive and un-armed
Negroes, nor has Col. Tripp beer
called upon to give an accounting OF
"The Governor Of illinois has a
responsibility in this matter.
"The Governor of Illinois has o
responsibility in this matter he can
! are under his control He can arraigr
militia men for misconduct; he car
remove officers for in-eficiency; he
can institute thorough inquiry that
will expose the criminal and the In
senator Harding looms up chiefly
as the "ace In the hole" of the old
guard element Our people In ohit
say he is feir-minded, impartial
analysis. would give justice to any
righteous cause even though his at
titude would favorably be that Of
watching us work out our own sal.
vation. Many Of the old line poll.
candidates have worn themselves out
the old guard will repeat the perfor-
nance of 1912 and nominate Harding
on the third or fourth ballot Others
say the sentiment for some one Of the
candidates In the public eye is likely
to be too strong for any such pur'