The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-01-24
Says Republicans Should
Show Where They Stand
by Plank in Platform For
Negroes.
Ru Ralnh w Tvler

BY Ralph w. Tyler
In many ways the impending pres
idential campaign more deeply con-
Germs the Colored people in the
United States than any previous one
since the adoption of the 18th and
18th amendments to the constitution.
The accumulating evidence of in
creasing persecution of the race in
the South, and discrimination in the
North, and the apparent leave It
we have long been affiliated and
which has had our practically solid
support in national elections, as
a bearing on those questions calling
constutionally vouchsafed rights and
privileges. has made our race some
what skeptical as to the future.
The world was, out of which we
thought, and confidentially believed,
would issue a much tauted world
democracy, as applicable to our race
that gave millions to finance is and
more than Four Hundred Thousand
men to fight for it, an to the native
and naturalzed-and even alien
whites. left. instead. in its wake a
trail of racial prejudice wider, deeper
and more engulfing than existed
before.
The leaders of the Republican
party, no less than leaders of the
Democrats party, have; apparently
been more concerned with economic
questions which concern other cou-
tries-the feeding and uplifting of
peoples in foreign countries than
with the question of justice for the
American Colored men who Loyalty
bore the brunt of the battle in the
heat of the day.
Unless we succeed in influencing the
Republican party to write into its
platform to be adopted at Chicago
in June a plank designed to secure
equal justice for the race, and
solemn pledge that such plank
ha1 ha stYip 1u aAh tp
have failed in our duty to the race.
There will be four parties to go
before the voters of our country
for endorsement this coming fall
and Socialist. With the second, which
is most largely responsible for all
our ills, we cannot consistently ally
ourselves. With the Socialists, past
and present, there are inseparately
associated too many radicals who are
styled bolsheviks, soviets. syndical-
lists and l. w. Ws The Labor party.
although the American Federation
of Labor has gone on record as fav-
oring a recognition. within the ranks
of organized labor. of Colored labor
on equal terms with white to many
of our race yet appears impotent.
even though there is much in its
policies that are idealistic, to secure
for us quick and permanent JUS
tice. The Republican party. provid
ing II is reconstructed-broug ght
back to those principles that actu-
ated and controlled it under Lin
coin, appears to be the only safe
ark upon which we may take safe
passage to n hoped for mlleum.
Practically all of the avowed pres
idential aspirants in the Republican
party have sounded their keynote,
but in none of them has there been
single note of encouragement,
even by inference. for the more than
12,OOO.OOO Colored peoples? The bur-
den of their song has been antag-
IN 1E' hn
bolsheviks, soviets. syndicalists and
what not overthrow our government.
Internationally, perhaps. they made
no reference to the Rebels-those in
cording to a 10000, ,0O0 loyal contin-
gent the justice they splendidly won
in every war this country has waged.
Before the Republican convention
convenes we ought to assemble, as
race, and. banishinG all factional
strife among ourselves, ignoring
every and all personal differences.
by speech. action and resolution i'm
press upon the party that we MUST
be given only the recognition the
constitution specifically provides, and
which our loyalty, service and sac
rifices have paid for in full
There must be no recognition of
southern policy" by any future
Republican president in contradis-
tice for all. There MUST NOT be
a revival of policy, persued by a
Republican president, that denies to
our brothers in the South equitable
representation in governmental affairs.
under the delusion that such a poll
icy will best solve the race problem
for those who refuse to coincide
that the American colonsts' slogan,
mo taxation without representation"
is as sound today as 1t was in 1776.
The same opportunities and rights
must be accorded the Two Millions
of Colored people in the North that
are accorded the whites who are no
more citizens of these United States
than are the CQlored. and the same
opportunities and rights due the two
million Colored people in the North
MUST be accorded the Ten Million
Colored people who live in the South
and that too without reservations.
The Republican party breaches a
"one and indivsible country" and
we. the Colored people, must see to
1t that the party recognizes our
race as component part of that
"one and indivisble."
1t is up to us to impress, by unity
in resolution, and up to the Repub-
lican party to ACT concertedly and
effectively to conserve every right
and privilege the constitution vouch-
safes for us.