The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-05-07
ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS SAYS
DEMOCRATS ARE DYING HARD.
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since the first letter was sent, and if
there is disposition to whitewash
the charges, more evidence will be
produced.
ReEnrding Appointments.
Regarding the subject of appoint
ments, some have even dared to say
that the administration is getting
cold feet But this cannot be veri-
fled. There are certain conditions OBJ
tanning, and If these are stated, the
public may reach conclusions with
as much assurance as they eriest
politician or correspondent. The New
York World, Democrat, in its Wash
ington correspondence recently called
attention to the fact up-to-date no
Presidential appointment has been
made. The appointments of Lieut..
Ripper, by Secretary Fall, and of Phil
I'll. Brown, by Secretary Davis, may
be termed personal" and do not re
quirc Senate confirmation. President
Harding has adopted a policy of per-
hitting the cabinet heads to name
their assistants, in n very large meas
urc. This relieves him of considerable
detail and worry. The World states
stroI est backing for his old position
of Collector of the Port of New York,
and that Colored people throughout
the United States have begun to Won
why the delay?'
"
very pernicious, and very nsistent 1t
has caused one cabinet member to
state that his mind is not fully made
up concerning the appointment of a
his department which, too, would not
be establishing a precedent. This man
las always been known to be fair the
question is, is he weakening?
Politics make strange bed-fellows,
now as always. Governor Dorsey,
nf ytrIA
to retire, denounces lynchings. peon-
age and calls for remedies in language
that reads like a romance OF old
West Virginia.; forming a pocket be-
passes drastic lynch and civil rights
laws, and Pennsylvania, Keystone of
the thirteenth original colonies and
rockribbed Republican, falls flat on
civil Rights in the hour of need. The
charges that the contest became fac
tional between the Penrose and brae
elements does not Tighten the fall.
The Cleveland Call, g. authority for
the report that that Governor Harry
Of Ohio is going to fail in the matter
Of appointing that Governor Harry
Davis of Ohio. is going to fail in the
matter of appointing ColOred Ameri-
cans to good positions Later reports
from Columbus, however. state that
Gov. Davis will make good.
Bills In Congress.
me various measures introduced In
Congress. hills against lynching, and
bills for the formation of commits
sions of one Kind and another are
resting in the pigeonholes Of the re-
spective judiciary committees to
which they have been referred. One OF
the best known members of Congress,
man who did not introduce any of
bills, but who is heartily in sn SYM
pathy with their support, said to The
Associated Negro Press representative:
The Associated Negro Press should
call attention of the Colored people
of America to the need of urging that
these lills, but who is heartily in m
tees. The Chairman of the judiciary
Committee of the House is Representa-
tive Andrew j. Volstead; the Chairman
of the judiciary committee of the
Senate is senator Knute Nelson. Write
letters to these men, and write let
tiers to your Congressman and Sena-
tors and tell them what is wanted is
action. Lynching must stop in America.
All organizations should send sign
ed petitions. The newspapers should
take front rank in this greatest of
all rights for right, and the people
must back up the newspapers and ed
itors", There is the message, word
for word. WHAT are the people roing
TO do about it?