Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1921-02-19
HON. HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON
RETURNS TO ATLANTA.
(I,y l.. II. I.autirr.)

Inc lion. flcnTN l.lllCoill 'blhS''''
Tie Georgia Member Of the Reruni.
can National CommIttt,s', fulfilled
his promise made in an interview
with II representative Of tho ASS)"i1t
cd Negro Press shat he would return
TO Georgia and reitcratc the charges
which he had made before the Stn-
:,tr Committee Investigating Prc'C"n
vcnt:icn Campaign Expenditures.
who uhc returned to Atlanta and ad
dressed II meeting Of tho Republican
STATE Central Committee on Friday,
january 81. 1921.
In his testimony before this InvcS
t;gating Committee Col. Johnson tcs
titled that 81 per cent Of the colnrod
utizcnry Of Georgia. who arc cntitl-
cd 10 vote under the laws uf the STATE
are disfranchiscd ny Democratic in
triguc and intimidation. He ;hcn be
came the object Of Democratic news
paper attacks in his State and was
made IN important subject of debate
in the "whitc primary figh, between
the POLITICAL forces OF ,n'r vtrinllc
! Tom Watson and Clark Howell, cdi
tor of The Atlanta Constitution. in
which od.iouS comparisons were made
! hy Tom Watson httwccn the Two nat
! iomil committeeman in favor OF the
Republican.
Dam" lRumor" then had il that
rcol0mrl johnson was afraid to return
10 Georgia and when interviewed Ivy
! the Associated Negro Press. he dc
clarcd nha Ne would rcIurn to Gcor
| gia and say the very things that hr
| had said in Chicn"n and that ho would
extend Hu invitation to the editors Of
certain daily papers that had been hit
FER in their druuncfat ion or him 10 hc
personally present and have rcnrrscn
| tativcS there that they might hear his
remarks.
Col. Johnson returned to Atlanta
on the evening Of Jnauary Goth. He
had been away since the last of May
| engaged in public speaking and ether
! campaign work: ami when he put in
his appearance Mt the meeting of tho
state Central Committcc held in AZ.
lanta. on January @1Si. wild arulau~r
greeted him ana rules were suspended
, while the members Of the COMMITTEES
whit" and black, and the several
hundred visitors in attcndancc at
inns m""fi"T crowded around to shnkc
hands with him. Letter in the after
noon h'S address caused storm af cr
storm Of applause.
In tn" course Of his address. H."
stated: Il reserve to myself the RIGHT
I" ,nr'h my own r"n"lusi"nS "hon'
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