The Colorado statesman., 1921-07-30
DENVER, COLORADO. SATURDAY. JULY 80
roRING IRIS INsTITUTIoNs.

TORING IT'S INSTITUTIONS. i
so WE REPUBLICANS OF THE MA
TION COME TO YOU OF VIRGINIA.
WITH YOUR PATRIOTIC IRA
DITIONS AND GENIUS FOR LEADER
SHIP. WE WANT YOUR HELP WE
WANT YOUR SKILLED HAND ON
THE RUDDER AS WE NEAR THE
END OF THE VOYAGE TO HIRING
THE NEW SOUTH INTO THE HAIR
nor OF REPUBLICANIsM. WE ARE
READY TO TAKE A PILOT ABOARD
AND WE ASK VIRGINIA TO TAKE
THE PILOTS COMMISSION"
We gods. Think of Bascom Slemp
and Virginia plotting the Republican
party, \ man who carries the Ninth
Virginia district for himself. but
didn't carry it for Harding in the last
election: "A state where the Lily
White" Negro exclusion policy has been
tried out time and time again without
any sembance of success in building
up a strong white Republican partyl
The Republican party. by nominating
Virginia to take the leadership in
southern Republican affairs and by
covertly and openly aiding and abet-
ting Congressman and National Com
mitteeman C. Bascom Slemp in his
Lilly White" propaganda. is virtually
digging grave for itself and inviting
a defeat in 1922 as ignominious as its
national victory in 1920 uas over
whelming.
Republican candidates in states and
districts where Negroes largely vote
may well beware the ascendancy of
Lilly White-ism'' and the triumph of
Bascom Slemp. for unless the Republic
can national leadership radically alters
its present program Negro retaliation
is certain to follow. and, in normal
campaigns. when no super normal issue
like the League of Nations figures. the
loss of Negro votes in northern states
will give the G.. O. L. rude awaken
ing.
In commenting on the Chairman
John r. Adams letter the RICHMOND
CV.N) NEWS-LEADER of July 18th, in
its editorial column, said: TT is well
enough for the National Republican
chairman to invoke the white Repub-
licans of Virginia to rescue the South
from the hands of Democrats; it is well
enough for the delegates at Norfolk
to reason that the only way of fulfill
ing the mandate of the national organ
ization is to make the Republican
party a white mans party in the
South. But when the pinch comes in
the general elections. the Negro vote
IN THE DOUBTFUL STATES will be
of sufficient strength to compel the
Republican national organization to
choose between Negro support in the
North and white support in the South
The national committee may temporize
and employ the usual device of defer
ring the whole matter to a distant
date; but sooner or later it must eNer-
else its influence in behalf of Negro
representation in the Republican coun-
ellis of Virginia"
II. H. Price OF Richmond further
stated: THE Pollard faction refused
TO present its credentials to the Lily
White convention at Norfolk. July
l4th because said convention was IL
legally constituted in that the mass
conventions which elected delegates
thereto were held in places where
Negroes could not attend and hence
were excluded from participation in
election of delegates, in direct viola
tion of the resolution and mandates of
the last Republican National Conven-
ton: those that were held in places
where Negroes could attend engaged
and ordered police to bar Negro dele
gates Bascom Slemp's action in Nir-
ginia imperils the success of the whole
Republican program not only in Nir-
ginia but lsewhere-especially where
Negro voters are the balance of power;
the time is past when they can outrage
Negro voters in the South without suf-
fering retaliation on the part of Negro
voters in the North. Our race is fast
coming together and becoming united
industrially and politically. and we in
tend to make a nationwide appeal di-
rect to Negro voters everywhere. The !
Pollard faction has called a state con-
vention to be held in Richmond on
Labor Day. September 5th, and will put
a full state ticket in the field. This |
convention will be open to all Republi-
cans, white and colored, and the place
and date for the national Negro con-
ference will soon be announced in the |
public press"