Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-08
Negro C Committeeman Says
Blacks Are Lynched For
Voting G. O. P. Ticket.
TELLS OF TAPPING
OF WOOD BARREL
Witness Alleges Money Was Used to
Procure Influence Of Men Who
Cared Nothing For Wood Person-
ally-Lowden Spent Much Less
Democrats Alleged to Have Openly
Purchased Votes in Election.

Chicago, July ~s.-Negroes who
have voted the republican ticket in
Georgia have disappeared" and
never have been heard of again,
Henry Lincoln Johnson, negro re-
publican national committeeman told
the senate committee investigating
campaign expenditures today.
The committee was questioning
johnson about lynchings in the
south.
They don't lynch men for belong
Ing to the republican party. do they p"
asked Senator Kenyon.
"Oh, yes, they do.'' johnson re-
Piled. Many a negro voting the re-
publican ticket has disappeared and
no tidings have ever been heard Of
him"
Wood Money Plentiful.
In Dublin, Ca, during the pre-eon-
vention campaign, there was '',vild
use Of money" the witness asserted.
Il spent only $3.50 there" he ex-
planned. but the other fellows spent
more than $4,000.
THE other fellows" he said, were
the representatives Of Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood, while was working
for myself for national committee
man."
Asked if Wood supporters bought
delegates. Johnson said he didn't
know, "but they passed out plenty Of
jack to the boys"
Johnson declared that hackers OF
General Wood spent around $Sa,o00
IN Georgia, while the Lowden sup
porters spent only $4,000.
Clark Z. Grier, former postmaster
at Augusta, Ca, was the ..pay-off
man" for the Wood people, he said.
adding that Grier worked under dt-
rect orders from Frank Hitchcock,
former postmaster general in the
Roosevelt cabinet.
Democrats Spent More.
Democrats paid from $5 to rs 900
Tor votes in Georgia this year and
generally spent more money than
the republicans" Johnson told the
committee.
Not one cent given to mo was
given to any delegate to the reI,ubn-
can national convention" the witness
declared. He said he received $4,000
from Illinois, "but not from Governo,
Lowden himself"
He spent $1,000 or $4,000 cf his
own money, he added. and $4,000 was
raised from other sources.
When the witness charged the
democrats had spent more money
than he did and had bought votes
in local elections, Senator Reed, dem
ocrat, interrupted to ask:
You don't care when yo,l get
$4,000, do your"
mot bit" replied the witness
but I would need about $4,000 to
combat some democratic conditions
there
Senator Kenyon turned TO the Pal
mer campaign in Georgia, asking
Johnson If officials Of the department
OF justice took part in the attorney
generals campaign there.
Hooper I. Alexander, of Atlanta
was the leader" Johnson said.
Committee Goes Astray.
tiles Of the department OF justice in
Georgia brought no definite in,.orna-
ton.
The committee strayed from the
field Of campaign expenditures while
questioning Johnson, and discussed
subjects ranging from the percentage
Of negroes allowed to vote in south
ern states to lynchings and their
causes.
Johnson told the committee that
3d. per cent of the negroes were pre-
vented from voting 'by brutal force
and suppression" He said the situa-
tion was summed up in the following
words, which he attributed to q
speech by Senator Hoke Smith:
In Georgia no negro Is fortunate
enough to vote, while no white man
is too unfortunate to vote"
White Brutes Unpunished.
Asked about lynchings in the
south, Johnson asserted the great
trouble was that white men were al
lowed to attack negro girls without
punishment. Such state of affairs
greatly aggravated race feeling, he
said.
He cited alleged instances of white
soldiers attacking negro girls during
the war, and said the soldiers, tho
discovered went unpunished.
The steam roller in the republican
national convention was an 'tnsti-
tuition Of benevolence" compared
with the democratic steam-roller in
Georgia, Johnson said, adding that
conditions there were controlled by
the administration.
Offered Postoffices For Votes.
Going back to the Wood campaign,
Johnson said National Committee
men George Bean, of Florida:
Henry Blum, of Savannah, Ga, and
D. c. Cole, former postmaster OF
Atlanta, cared nothing about Wood"
but were ordered to prepare q dele
cation for Mr.. Hitchcock to boss"
Johnson charged that offers Of
postmastership were made openly by
Wood hackers to men Of influence to