The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-07-30
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editor ADAMS ouTsPokEN."
Under the above caption The Rich
mond (Va.) Planet hands we editor a
few bouquets anent our Especial AS
sistants" that we accept with thanks.
Coming from the intrepid editor,
John MITCHELL Jr., they are doubly
pleasing. 5.- ID
editor John @. Adams, of THE
APPEAL published at St. Paul, Mimi.
is as true as steel upon every ques-
ton affecting the rights and privi-
leges OF the citizens of color in this
country. We have before us an ex-
tract from his issue of June II, 1921,
which reads mighty good to US.
Even thoseA5of us, who may disagree
With HIM as matter of policy must
admit that he is fundamentally right,
and that we as people cannot
achieve permanent success other. than
by following the lead of this dis
tlnguished leader and by needing
much that he has to say.
THE APPEAL says: y
William H. Lewis of Massachusetts,
was appointed ASSISTANT ATTOR-
NEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED
STATES, a presidential appointment.
confirmed by the Senate of the Unit
ed States. Perry Howard of Missis-
slppi has been appointed SPECIAL
ASSISTANT to the Attorney General
OF the United States. Lewis was an
assistant attorney general; Howard is
an assistant to the Attorney General.
There is great difference in the
status. Lewis was an official: How
ara is an assistant to an official and
mas been assigned to special work on
the claims Of colored people against
the United States. If the matter
stopped with Howard it would not
make much difference, but it affects
the citizenship status of every colored
person in the country and segregates
colored people from every other
group of American citizenship, and
establishes a dangerous precedent.
, while we are glad and appreciate
the fact that Attorney Perry w. How
ard got this appointment, the facts
stated are true. 1t is a precedent
that will confront US before we are a
year older 1t shows that the pres
emit Administration is already "pussy-
footed" and afraid to meet the issue
It. is deemed inadvisable to launch
tight for the continuation of a COL
ored presidential appointee at this
time. If the Administration hesitates
to DO this now, with all power in it's
hands, it will pause before making a
| nomination later. .- ..a...
HE APPEAL says further -
Now after 100000 colored men
served in the war Ito make the world
safe for democracy, and with the Re-
publican party, to which the colored
voter has always been a faithful allv.
IN complete control of the govern
ment, it is Infamous that the partv
leaders should insult the people bv
giving inferior appointments, and it
IS humiliating to think that colored
men will accept such places. It will
be noted that the men appointed are
Southerners. "o
Northern voters, who voted for the
Republican nominees and whose votes
were counted are not satisfied with
what has been DONE They feel that
it would been better to have had
nothing at all rather than inferior
appointments, which tend to lower
their status as citizens. Some high
class colored men ought to get few
high class presidential appointments
just as under former Republican adj
ministrations
we 90 not go SO far as to advise
that these appointments be not ac-
copied, but we do urge that they be
passed over without being credited
upon the bill of recognition, to which
we as Republicans are entitled. Let
US have those presidential appoint
ments in keeping with the support
that we have vouchsafed this. coun-
try and the Republican Party in par
ticular. Thousands of colored citi-
zens have votes and they should see
to it that the influence of these votes
be felt to the extent that the white
representatives from the northern
States shall force this issue upon the
Republican Administration at Wash
lngton and the Republican leaders Of
the party in this United States of
America. Strictly speaking though,
Editor John Q. Adams has outlined
the proper course and has enunciated
fundamental principles by which we
all should stand, regardless Of the
cost or the consequences in so doing
The colored women who lare to