The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-07-14
The South Recognized
at Last in Negroes
Appointment

At last the South mas Deen IeSoS
nized, not as we were told 1t Woui(
be, bu, by appointing the darkes" $40
t1ickest Tipped Senegamblan thai
could be found. This had 20 be done
as a part of the trade in putting
Linney over"
No white man of the ten cabinet
members came from the South. 80.
Harding Administration Looks With
Contempt on Republicans in South
This scribe was mighty glad to see
Dave Blair get the one little grain OF
RECOGNITION for the South at the hands
of the Republican administration.
Small as it was, it was that much.
I hope my Republican friends, and
I am glad to say there are some OF
them Who write me appreciatively oc-
casionally, will not think me unkind
OF offensive when | state the ever
lasting gospel truth that just as the
typical negro of the South looks with
contempt on the Northern man who
breaches social equality Between the
races, so looks the Harding admins
tration on the Republican party OF
the South.
In 1861 Delaware, Maryland, Mis-
souri, and Tennessee were all slave
states. They all voted for Harding in
1920. West Virginia was slave ter
r:tory in 1851, but it voted for Hard
ing and Oklahoma is as much
daughter of the South as Iowa is a
& daughter Of the North, yet Okla
homa voted for Harding.
Kentucky is close with Republican
governor and ones United States Sen
ator, yet Harding could not find man
N ali the South to go in his cabinet.
President Grant more than half cen
I.Tv ago appointed Southerners as
members Of his cabinet.
A good newspaper friends tells it
this way:
eAclzerman, of Georgia, was his at
torney general Greswell, of Maryland,
and Marshall, of Virginia, were post
!aaster-general in Grants cabinet.
Bristow, Of Kentucky, was the secre-
taly of treasury, Grants cabinet con
s;sten Of seven members; Harding has
tn in his cabinet. Then turn to the
cabinet Of Hayes. Missouri furnished
6 secretary of interior; West Virginia
& secretary of navy and Tennessee
two postmaster generals. Louisiana |
supplied President Garfield with sec
rotary of navy. Two of Ben Harri- |
sons cabinet were from the South.
Two of McKinley's cabinet were from
tie South. Four Of Roosevelt's cabi-
ret were from the South and the
South furnished one member of Taft's t
cabinet.
''But the entire South that gave
11l. Harding more electoral votes than
it ever gave another Republican can
Gidate for President could not supply |
& single cabinet minister for the
Harding administration. Now it is
possible that no Tennessee Republican
would have allowed himself to be !
drafted for. the cabinet. They were
100 curious to see how ALI Taylor will !
perform as governor to leave home;
l51t there was Hert, of KENTUCKY. He |
>y..s cabinet size.
Henry Lincoln Johnson Appointed.
IN April the President considered i
J Johnson, the notorious Georgia negro
politician, register of the treasury.
Five hundred white women in the
Treasury department who void be I'M
der his supervisor petitioned the !
President not to appoint him.
The Member From 9TH Protested
Without giving it out to the press
at the time, [ sent my protest dated
april Is, 1921, to the President. The
letter is as follows:
GAS a citizen and as representa-
tive in Congress Of the 7th Congress
sional District of North Carolina, and
n behalf of the white womanhood
OF America, I most respectfully add
my protest against the appointment
of colored man as register of the
To this the President made cour-
eous reply without committing him
self by any positive statement as to
ar action q would take
Now, the President appoints him
not register of the treasury, but to
another position where there will not
be so many white women under him,
bat to position Wheer there are some
80 or more white women immediate
~ under his supervision who will take
y. ders from him every hour they
work.
Was Recorder Before.
Johnson was recorder of deeds for
Ghe District during the Taft admins
tYation, but the Southern protests at
that time were not as feverish as the
present uprising. Southern senators
say that the comparatively large vote
that President Harding received in the
South will be without significance so
far as future results are concerned,
now that the President has recog-
nized Johnson, whom they regard as
> trouble-maker. It is known that /
many Republicans feel the party
would have escaped much embarrass-
u1ent had not Johnson been put ON
he national, committee, thus checking
tie Oily white" movement in the
Eouthern States.
Fsere are upward of SO employees
~ the office of the Recorder of Deeds
o the District of Columbia. About
OF these are white employees and |
q the 80 most are white women.
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