Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-06-05


CARELESS of color or condition. AS for
the rest, Citizens Hoover and johnson were
as silent as Generals Wood and Pershng.
The point is this in the northern States,
where the colored vote counts, the Negroes
will vote Republican whatever happens;
whereas some of the northern white men
might be frightened into Democracy by too
much pro-Africanism on the part of the
Republican candidate On the other hand,
the colored vote in the south isn't worth
a buffalo nickel to anybody under present
conditions, and can hardly be made so, at
an early date, by any means short of an
other Civil War.
The mess the Arkansas Republicans have
gotten into will show pretty clearly how
the black Republican vtoe is handled south
of the Line. When Negro delegates were
denied seats at the State Convention at
Little Rock, they bolted and elected their
own delegates to the National Convention,
and also nominated Negro candidate for
governor. The entire delegations to the Re-
publican National Convention from Florida,
Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and
Virginia are being contested; Of 122 places
in the Convention now in dispute, 118 are
from Southern Democratic States, where
the fight between the so.called "Lily
White and "Black and TAM elements is
running it's usual course. And the saddest
part of it is, that all this fuss is being
made over the business of nominating
candidate who will promise the southern
Negroes nothing, and for whom most of
them will not be allowed to vote.
If he Republicans disregard racial and
economic lines, the Observation-Disclosures
groups go even farther toward universal
brotherhood by dropping even political par
tisanship. Somewhat typical of this atti-
tude are the rejoicings Of Robert R. Motion,
President Of Tuskegee Institute, over the
fact that "Although there are 100000
Negroes in this country, not one of them
was ever captured in the Federal dragnet
which recently gathered in bolsheviks, an
archists and other 'reds.' " President Mo-
tons conclusion is that ''the loyalty of the
Negro race can never be questioned.'
The National Association for the AID
vancement Of Colored People fairly repre-.
sents the cooperation of white and colored
citizens in the liberal "appea to the con.
science of American on behalf of the civil
and political rights Of the Negro. The
Board Of Directors Of the Association is
half white and half colored and it's men,
bership of $1,000 is about ninety per cent
colored The Crisis, a magazine published
by this organization, has circulation Of
>HDOul IOO,OOO copies per mOnJn, some OF
which go to Africa. The Association has
no economic or political programme, and
it's appeal is quite specifically an appeal to
the righteous; nevertheless it's work in gen.
eral, and it's agitation against lynching in
particular, have unquestionably been Of
very considerable value.
The civil-rights program Of the N. A. A.
G. P. is supplemented, on the side Of indus
trial welfare, by the work of the National
Urban League. It is the aim Of this or
ganization to open up new industrial OPP
portunities to Negro workers, and to give
attention to conditions of work and recre-
alton in communities where Negroes are
employed in considerable numbers. Dur
ing 1919 the various locals of hte League
persuaded the managers of 1875 industrial
plants to employ Negroes for the first time;
and during the same period twenty-five
welfare workers were placed in plants
where Negroes were engaged. The organi-
zation has also declared it's sympathy with
efforts to unionize Negro labor.
N,4 H.