The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-02-26
BISHOPS COUNCIL LAYS PLANS FOR A $4,000, 600 DRIVE
HARDING ADMINISTRATION WILL SEE
AWAKENING OF NEGRO IN POLITICS.
.(By A. N. p

Chicago, Feb. 24.-With the formal
Inauguration of Warren G.. Harding of
Ohio, as President of the United States
at hand, it is appropriate and fitting
to state certain facts.
The first among these facts is this:
American Negroes are quite wide
nomic. They will not be footballs"
during the next administration, to be
kicked around at will, but If there is
to be a football game, they propose to
be players. and not the ball. That fact
Is established.
There are two other important
things: The Americon Negroes pro-
pose to be 100 per cent efficient in
functioned heretofore. with the high
est degrees of success. These respects
are: First, PUBLICITY; Second, Or
GANIzATION. 1t requires money for
both, and the decision is unanimous
to supply all the. sinews of war"
needed to arrive"
President Harding, himself, will be
fair, tolerant, considerate, patient, di-
mined. He will not be spasmodic, he
will not wave the bloody shirt" in
the face of the white South. and all
who have any such dreams of hopes
may as well wake up.
The President of the United States
has tremendous power for good. or
evil and his Influence merely by a
word or deed are almost unlimited.
gress in America by sins of omission
rather than commission. He failed
miserably, as President, in saying or
doing even small things. as things go
ing and relationship between the
races. He knew. he was importuned,
but he remained silent aid Indifferent.
President Harding is SURROUNDING
ored Americans are looking carefully
into this list to see who's Who"
For example, they know that Con-
gresham Bascom Slemp. Of Virginia
who is getting high in party councils,
is lilly white" in his acknowledged
tendencies. He is a statesman that
must be watched closely, he represents
an element gaining Influence in the
Colored Americans welfare-incident-
ally. he is on the committee for re-
organization in the South. and has
been mentioned for a cabinet place.
on Slemp, and If former President
Taft. and Viee-President Coolidge can
gather the feeling of the people in
no uncertain terms, so can Stamp, and
all whom he represents.
Harry M. Daugherty, OF Ohio. and
Will Fl. HAYS. of Indiana. viii be the
politicians of the new administration.
with such men as Senator Mccormick
Of Illinois. Senator Watson, of In
diana. Senator New, of the same state
and Senator Penrose, Of PENNSYLVANIA,
being an active part OF the inner cir
Gle. These men know Colored people,
and Colored people know them. The
Colored people will not hesitate for
one minute to take up with them all
the big subjects of the day. and it
Is fair to say they will be given re-
spectful hearing. Few Colored leader
ers regardless of what they have
known of President Harding hereto
fore. will have the privilege Of "gett-
ing to the President" personally. This
will he no Indication of his lack of
interest but it will be physically i'm
fore big things" must be accomplish
ed through representatives. George
r. Christian. the Presidents secretary,
will be available to a larger number.
and will be a good second, as he is
a splendid type of American manhood.
President -elect Harding has q COM
prehensive knowledge of the Negro,
his problems, his weaknesses. his am
bitions and his determinations, The
President-elect is not only a student
of conditions. made so naturally
through long newspaper experience
but he will enter the office as Presi-
dent with the largest personal ac-l
uuaintance of race leaders that any
President ever had before.
With the new administration in
power, the American Negroes are en-.
tering upon a new era of progress.
Tt will not be ''race horse" progress.
but IL will be certain ana lasting; it
may be beset with disappointments,
difficulties. and even distressing pc
riods, but n new day will dawn March
Fourth.