Phoenix tribune., 1921-02-12
REPUBLICAN PARTY
IN THE SOUTHLAND
TO BE REORGANIzED
(Ry The Associated Negro Press)


Chicago, Feb 1O.-The Republican
party in the South is to be reorgan-
lied. Chairman Will H. Hays of the
Republican National Committee has
announced the personnel of the COM
mittee in accordance with resolutions
passed at the last national convention
in Chicago.
"a complete reconstruction in that
region" has been announced by a
statement issued from headquarters
of the committee in Washington. The
committee consists of Representative
Bascom Slemp, Virginia; Earl Kins
ley, national committeeman, Vermont;
R. B. Howell, national committeeman,
Nebraska; Will H. Hays, ex-officio
chairman; Clarence 3. Miller, ex-
officio secretary.
The Associated Negro Press is fol-
lowing very closely the aims and pur-
poses of political organization in the
South. Immediately following the No
vembeE election series of articles
was carried on the subject by Nljor
John R. Lynch, former congi nan
from Mississippi, and a former tenn
porary chairman of the republican
national convention.
Colored Americans throughout the
United States are deeply concerned
in the experiment the republican
party is about to make. Henry Lin
coin Johnson, republican committee
man from Georgia, has assured The
Associated Negro Press that no move
will be made t'y the party that will
not take into full consideration equal
citizenship of all Negro citizens.
1t can be stated on the highest au-
thority that President-elect Harding,
Chairman Will Hays, Harry NJ Daugh-
erty, one of the closest advisors of
the president-elect, and other leaders,
strongly favor Negro suffrage justice.
On the other hand they aer thorough
ly in earnest about spreading repub-
lican gospel among whites in the
South.
There are number of Negro lead
ers who look with suspicion on any
effort to ally southern whites with the
republican party. On the question Of
Negro voting there is no absolutely
"fair" section in the South. These
facts were brought out plainly in the
recent hearing before the census COM
mittee in Washington. Southern
white people have an eternal fear and
dread of Negro political domination"
They say it will never be, because
they claim that they will never let the
time come again when the Negro will
be allowed to vote freely.
Thoughtful people, however, in this
fluid state of world civilization" to
quote one of the utterances of the
president-elect, know full well that
100000 American Negroes can
never be expected to forever submit
to disfranchisement and chicanery in
elections
This great group of Americans has
come to the place, where without fear
and with unquenchable determination
for justice, they are matching brains
with brains and wealth with wealth in
working out political problems. They
are playing the political game for posi-
ton in order to obtain power in order
to grant justice. The program is
thorough and definite, and it is sue
ceeding. 1t will hardly be expected
in the North, South, East or West,
that the republican party will en-
deavor to pull" anything and get
away with it. American Negroes are
'hep" on all the present day tricks of
the political game, and all the poll
tical "signs of the times"