The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-10-22
A. N. P. SAYS HARDING NOT
CLEAR ON POLICIES.
Calls it Different From Any
Other Republican Administra-
ton Ever Witnessed.
(By A. N. P.)

| President Harding is formulating
his policies. On the big questions of
| the day: Tariff, Taxation and Arma-
very clear opinion of Administration
policy. On these questions, so far as
popular sentiment is concerned, the
President is on the popular side. His
conclusions has met ready response
| from people and press. and the Repub-
| lican political machinery. the practical
side of the "Great Advance" may be
quoted as saying. with this we are
well pleased"
In the matter of sub-divided inter-
ests, many in number. the President
has not previously expressed himself
sufficiently in a public way. 70 give
| the people a definite slant of his exact
trend of thought. of the policies he
intends to pursue. in working out the
Administration program.
So far as we are concerned. the big
gest by-subject affecting us Is the
subject of ourselves, and what the
Administration proposes to do in one
way and another. This subject forms a
perfectly natural interest and curl
osity. We can disconnect our thouhgts
from ourselves in many things, but
in the vital matter of citizenship OPP
portunity, personal and property pro-
lection, welfare and well being. we
wish to know the facts. and we have
a right to know the facts
Mr.. Harding became President with
the best wishes and prayers of all
Colored Americans. With his inaugura-
tion. there was an unusual degree of
hopeful anticipation. The fine public
utterances of Mr.. Harding the can
didate, of Mr.. Harding the newly in
augurated President and of President
dent Harding the candidate. of Mr..
Harding in his first address to the
Congress- gave vital force to the new
ly awakened faith.
Then came the meeting of the Re-
publican National Committee. in Wash
ington; the appointment of certain
men from the South, of certain known
tendencies so far as Negroes are con-
cerned: the meeting of Republicans
in Virginia, in Georgia: and reports
from various conferences of visiting
! delegations and individuals. to the
White House; and the feathers of the
faithful began to fall, they fell. they
The result Follows. with magic likt
rapidity, whereas the Republican party
; and the new Administration were once
damned, in no uncertain terms: anC
the trouble is not confined to any
particular section 1t is universal
there is no question about that Justi.
fication of this unusual condition
certainly for Negroes year before
a general election-must be judged
by further developments.
The Associated Negro Press, in be-
half of the 12,000.000 people of the
group, has sought to get exact ant
first hand information on the matter
we are concerned II has sought thai
information at the top. and it has
secured it, and the people shall know
and knowing, it Is hoped that in some
The Harding Administration is diff
you free"
ferent 1t can be compared with ne
other, not even that Of Mr.. Taft; /
. . which is now in the making.
, In the matter of legislation, direct
. ly affecting the group, there have beer
, ample evidences of Administrator
: of this has yet reached completion
But. in all fairness, II must be recog
nized that many of the big measures
affecting all classes and groups hav,
/; not yet reached completion. There i
i assurance that these measures will
not be left to die.
In the matter of political recogni
tion, there is assurance that other ap
T pointments will follow the confirma
tion of Henry Lincoln Johnson, VIII
: Is now certain to be Recorder o
I Deeds
[ There is assurance that Colore
Americans, who take the Civil Servic
2 examination, and properly qualify will
4 not be Disseminated against becaus
It is well known that for more thai
d eight years, Civil Service ramifica
n tions have been sizzling not with pre-
= judice.
$ In the matter of Negro appointment
e In the South the conclusion has bee
d definitely reached by the Administra
l. tion. that irration of conditions ther,
will not be added to. by the appoint
South
/ Moreover, the President, and the Re
j publican organization, have decide
that the Republican party in tn
South shall definitely and conclusive
ly be under white leadership. II
believed that white leadership of tn
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