The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-02-19

ton. and the Negroes rallied and
went IN and took control Of the stare
johnson. ono OF their NUMBER, a mem-
Der OF the Republican National Conn
mittee II is said in Georgia thar had
the Negro vote been suppressed,
enough Republicans would have gone
to the support OF the Republican can
didate to beat Thomas u. Watson for
the Senate. In South Carolina some
thing OF the antIquated politics or re-
construction days Rtill remains The
Republican boss there is Joe Talbot
a white farmer. member OF the Ma
tional Committee and chairman OF the
state committees The secretary OF the
committee, II. H. Mobley. Is muIatto
who is perhaps an ADLER man than
Talbot; and between the TWO the Me-
gro vote Is MANIPULATED. Talbot al
ways manages to Win out in his con-
the leading Republicans OF the state
are urging that Talbot and all his
works should be thrown out, that the
party should send only white dele
gates TO the conventions and the Ne
gro should be ignored entirely. AS
long as political writer's can remem-
the South have been scandal at Re-
publican National Conventions and re-
putable white Republicans want no
more OF such doings.
Tongh Question for the Republicans
Here, then. Is the great problem
which the Slemp subcommittee and the
Republican National Committee must
solvei whether the party shall turn
it's back on the Negro voter OF the
South and thereby attract TO itself an
enormous white vote which undoubt-
eddy will pressage the breaking up Of
the Solid South and the loss to the
Democratic party OF an Initial advan-
tage in presidential elections which
II shall continue In the old way.
standing at least nominally for equal
suffrage and waving back the power
fiIl support which the most progress
sive white men in the South stand
ready to tender 1t may be imagined
that the Republican leaders win do
some hard thinking when the issue
gets uD 10 them In this form. They
have the popuisr white sentiment OF
the North 70 consider, the opposition
Of the Northern Negroes who are per-
mitted TO vote and the provisions OF
the Fifteenth Amendment which no
Der, contrasting Negro delegations in
national party can afford to contra
vene. They have also the knowledge
that the Republican party in the
South can be builded on a secure ba-
sis II they give the word Some talk
has been made of enforcing the 18th
ing a death blow Of the Republican
party in the South. The delegate rep
resentation to national conventions
could be cut down and probably will
be. thus supplying an incentive TO the
white Republican element to secure
the delegate positions and to Increase
such measure that larger delegations
will be authorized. The committee
the Republican vote for President in
is confronted with the practical ques-
ton whether 1t shall follow the advice
of the old Republican Southern lead
ers, who make manipulation of the
Negro vote a trade, or II shall listen
to tho progressive white business men
who stand ready to back the Repub-
llcan party with their money and
their influence provided IL has no Me-
gro appendage. Manifestly the issue
is one OF great practical Importance.
to soy nothing of its sentimental as
pect. Brigham