Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-07-21
REPUBLICANS TO SMASH
NEGRO CONTROL IN SOUTH
BY THEODORE TILLER
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Binding,

WASHINGTON, July 19.-There is
no doubt remaining of the intention
of the present Republican admins
tration to attempt to popularize the
Republican party in the south by
the elimination of the negro as a
in this program has just been staged
by the convention of Virginia Repub-
licans at Roar oke; the next act Of
the political and inter-racial drama
will be presented when Georgia Re-
publicans meet in convention at At
ton movement is then to spread to
other southern states.
1t is learned that Georgia poll
ticians of the white race who are
trying to revitalize the Republican
party in that state have received the
Harding and other chiefs of the Re
publican party. These latter include
Postmaster General Hays, Attorney
General Daugherty, Chairman Adams,
of the Republican national commit
tee; Secretary Clarence Miller, of the
same organization, and Representa-
tive Bascom Slemp, the only. Repub--
lican in congress from Virginia and
the referee in southern patronage
matters.
There is now in course of prepare
ton, culling and revision, list OF
white Georgia Republicans to whom
will be given the destinies of the
party in that state. 1t will be
lilly white, committee. and Henry Henry
committeeman from Georgia, will
have little or no influence with it
or in Georgia politics. This com
mittee will compose factional dltfer-
ences in the state, determine patron
age questions and begin the .upbuild-
~ af ha n Until If is rpa0V,
Georgia patronage matters Will De
held in allegiance.
In practically all of the southern
states, with the exception Of North
Carolina, where the Morehead or
CARNATIONS of whites are in complete
Control, there is today conflict be-
tween the lilly white and colored, ele-
ments Representative Slemp, whose
advice the administration takes In
southern matters, since he was IN
of the G. o. P. in the last campaign,
is a lilly white" and is 50 labeled by
the colored opposition. He has grad.
ually brought other Republlcans
around to the realization that
the party cannot progress IN the
tional convention produces the usual
number of contests, rival delegations;
charges of bribery, vote-buy1ng ana
general corruption, and the malo,
dorous activities of professional
white politicians and negro hench-
men.
The Republican party has started
house cleaning in the south. 1t IS
beginning in Virginia and Georgia
and will continue from the front
door to the back.
Negro Delegates Excluded
At the Virginia convention of Re-
pub1icans reports show that dozens
of negroes were excluded and only
three allowed to participate. Inc
rump convention of their own. Chair
man Adams, of the national commit
tee, sent a letter asking Virginia to
point the way toward the upbu1ld-
ing of Republicanism in the south
and the conversion of that section to
the doctrines of the party, virginia
started by having a lilly white
convention and affairs in Georgia
Enthusiastically are going to take
the same trend.
1t is not the purpose of the Re-
publican party leadership to espouse
the disfranchisement of the oolored
voter. The Republicans will stand
up for the right of the qualified ne
gro to vote, but they don't want
the negro to vote as a mass for the
Republican party nor to attempt
to control it's machinery and label
it negro party. They Woul9
prefer that the negro register and
vote as he pleases, just as the white
man registers and votes.
In frank and personal converse
ton recently with a southern Repub-
lican senator, one of the closest ad-
visers to President Harding, and one
politically powerful in this admins
dominate the Republican party in
the north or west. He doesn't con-
troll the machinery. Why should he
be permitted to dominate or control
in the south? We will never make
any Roadway in your section so long
as that idea prevails"
That is the keynote of the new Re
publican campaign in the south.
President Harding is going to recog-
nize the negro as a voter and citi
zen. He is going to give federal
Jobs here and there to negroes, but
he is going to pull away from the
idea that in Dixie the Republican
party is the "nigger party" The
Virginia convention demonstrated
this The forthcoming Georgia con-
vention will demonstrate it. It has
lust been demonstrated before the
senate judiciary subcommittee con-
sidering the nomination of Frank A.
Tinnev as district attorney in North
Carolina. Negroes protested Mr..
Tinnev's nomination because they
thought he had or would wink at
negro Acknowledgement.
At the senate hearings Mr.. Lnney
said he had no such idea: that he
believed in qualified negroes voting
and being given the right to register
But he and his hackers added they
believed the MANAGEMENT of Repub-
lican party affairs in the south
should be in the hands of white men,
and the negro as an issue and A
mass voter should be eliminated
Republican members of the senate
committee. after an exclamation IF
the peculiar conditions in the south