Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-07-03
RACE MEN GATIIEIs
AZ CHICAGO DURING BIG
tiGi.l bLiIAN CON IGNITION

ing From the Ranks Of Leaders
Who Attended,; Resentment Of
Races Treatment Evident III Re-
marks ut Gathering.
Except for tho cchos Of disappoint
ment over the treatment which the
race received, the 1920 Republican
national convention is now a matter
Of history, and all eyes are now
turned towards the November cleo
ton.
Mnilo the attendance at tho con
vcnl,on, Dotn as TO Colulcd and white
visitors was smaller tnan i'll previous
years, there Was perhaps larger
representation OF Cr:0i".i meE WHO
really count for Somelh.n. Ill Their
respective communities than ever
witnessed at national convention.
There was present the usual mum
Der Of colored delegates from the
South-usual for latter day Republi-
can conventions, and moro than tho
usual numncr ucniou seats at conFen
lions were denied seats in this con
yention, due to the lily-white influ-
ence that appeared to have innocu-
~
the national committee and the com
mittee o ncrcdentials.
Robert II. Church, who has been
making a game fight in Tennessee
for his race, spending his own mon
ey to make the fight, was first seat
ed by the national committee, after
he refused to compromise by accept
ing half vote, and then later un-
seated Ivy the committee on creden-
tials with Walter Brown, Of Toledo.
Ohio, member of the crcdential com
mittee for Ohio, Joining the lily
whites Of the South to unscat
Church. -
When the report of the committee
was presented to the convention for
adoption, with the hame OF Church's
lly-white contestant substituted for
his, he arose, AMI S'rode down the
aisle, "likc a o.u'n"d llnlgh; of Ma
valre." and holding aloft his minori
ty report, said: Il will carry my
fight back 10 T,ni,as:.c,' which
Inuny interpreted that he would raj
ly his loyal race supporters to beat
the old guard machine, that propell
cd tho lily-white steam roller, at the
polls in November.
Less than half dozen Colored
delegates from northern states,- in
which moro than million colored
votes arc cast and counted, were III
the convention, and these, with the
other colorod men from the North
present were as voicclcss, because OF
the "Old Guards" ignoring Of the
race as the mummies OF Egypt.
CoI,1 i,,1n
gable political worker, with his man
"Friday" Il. b. Baranco, who has
never missed national convention.
was there to represent the Sugar
Cane" state along with few Of his
r.ore recent followers, but Colonel
James Lewis and James Madison
Vance were missed, they having,
crossed over the river into eternity.
Floridah delegation minus Joe
Lee, tho old ncster, who, too, has
passed into the beyond since the last
convention was there, only to he
looted out OF their seats by lily
white sentiment. Perry Howard, At
iorneys Redmond and Turnpin OF
Jackson. Drs. Howard and Shcrrod
og Meridian Barnes Of Canton, Ful'
grem OF Grccnvillc, Isiah Montgom-
cry Charley Banks, Eugtnt Booze
and Fred r. Miller Of Mound Bayou
with their respective loyalists gave
Mississippi numerous representa-
tion, but the Howard contingent was
given the hook by the committee sit
ting in tho contested case and re-
turned homo soliloquizing: "To be
or not to be"
Tennessee showed up with fine
and fighting delegation who, disgust
cd with the treatment accorded their
lion-hearted leader, Robert Church,
returned home giving vent TO anathe
mas because Church had been UNI
seated when right was on his side.
Among Tenncssce's big Colored men
in attendance were: j. G. Napier.
Thomas Hayes, r. M. Roddy, Joe Set
tics J.. !,cI l"!t. Nashville Globe:
and Editor Porter OF Knoxville.
Kentucky once the celebrated
camping ground OF bourbon and
"sourmash" elixir, to say nothing Of
fast horses and beautiful women.
showed up with DR.. George Editor
Stewart of The American Baptist,
Editor Marley, Of The Louisville
News, and the ubiquitous and ire
1ressible Phil II. Brown who dilat-
ed and enthused on how they turn
ed own r. Simmons for delegate
ai-large from the Blue Grass state.
Dr.. Ferguson and Attorney Pol
lard of Richmond, with pater fam1
liaas Ferguson Of Charlottesville,
and few others, gave old Virginia
representation. But they, too UNI
tremendously were kicked out OF
the convention by the ,lily-whites.
returned to the Old Dominion sans
enthuiasm.
DR.. Clinton Barnet, John Gilmer
Hill, and a half dozen other West
Virginia celebration We're present t.
prove that the Panhandle states
star is still on the flag.
DR.. Ernest Lyon, Bernard Taylor,
Attornys McGuinn, Fitzgerald and
~ yntA noJf