The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-30
PI AIMING NATIONAL PROTEST AGAINST
TREATMENT ACCORDED THEM.
Lily Whites Control Virginia State Convention-Bodlly
Ejecting Accredited Negro Deegates-Chairman
Adams Nomnates Virginia to Lead Party
in "the New South"

Special to the Colorado Statesman,
Washington. d. c.. July 16, 1921:
A STORM of resentment has arisen,
IN that is likely to become nation
4 a wide in it's scope over the seem
ing policy of the present admin
istration to permit Lily White" Repub-
licans to dominate party affairs in the
South, and especially because of the
disgracefuI treatment accorded duly ac-
credited Negro delegates at the Nir-
ginia State Republican Convention.
held at Norfolk. July 18th. when. for
the first time in the history of Re
publican convention, not single
Negro delegate was seated. the police
being ordered to keep out all Negroes
who applied for admission. and when
three regularly elected Negro dele
gates with no contests pending against
them were forcibly ordered to leave
the floor of that convention, dominated
as it was by Congressman C. Bascom
SIemp. chief priest of the Lily
Whites" member of the Republican
National Committee. and the leading
adviser and spokesman of the present
administration in the South
Not only in Virginia. but Negro lead
ers everywhere. are astounded at the
treatment that has been and is being
accorded faithful Negro Republicans.
whose patriotism and party service
have been so soon forgotten. Patience
has ceased to he a virtue. and intelli-
gent. organized resentment on the part
of Negro voters North and South seems
the only manly alternative and the
only motive power that will tend to
bring the Republican ship back to its
traditional moorings of justice and fair
play to all Americans without regard
to race color or previous condition of
servitude. \ nationwide movement in
this direction is already in progress,
headed by Hon. J. r. Pollard. prom
inent Negro attorney Of Richmond.
Va. and state chairman of a large Re-
publican faction in Virginia which
polIed thousands of votes last Novem-
Der. and Hon. IT. II. Price. also of
Richmond Va. the recent Negro NOM
inee for Congress in the Third Nir-
ginia district. who polled 2.SS2 votes
against the 646 votes cast for John L.
Grubbs. the Lily White" Republican
nominee. These two gentlemen are
here in Washington making arrange
ments to call a national conference of
Negro Republican leaders and voters
throughout the country to discuss the
Negroes present political status and to
formulate the best plan of combating
the Lily White" movement which
seems destined to envelop and control
the entire Republican party
Questioned concerning their plans
Messrs. POLLARD and PRICE. of
Richmond Va. said:
OUR ACTION IN CALLING
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NEGRO
REPUBLICAN, LIE D L r AND
VOTERS is caused not only by the
outra geous treatment accorded Negro
delegates at the so-called Virginia Re-
publican State Convention held in Nor
folk, July 18th. where police were
ordered to remove all Negroes from
the floor of the convention. and where
one Negro delegate. by the name or
Edward T. Morton, regularly elected
from Arlington county. Virginia, who
refused to leave the floor. was forcibIy
elected but we are moved to take TINS
step because we know that the Lily
White" movement, while now largely
confined to the South. unless vigorous
ly opposed and checked. will Sradully
eat its way into mid-central ana
northern states where Negro voters
now constitute the balance of power
and then il will be only short time
before the party of Lincoln and Grant
and Mckinley" will have become the
party of "Tillman. Vardaman. Bascom