Phoenix tribune., 1922-07-22
SOUTHERN SENATORS
SEEK TO OBSTRUCT.
PASSAGE dyer BILL.

The expected efforts to lead dis
cussion on the Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill in the United States Senate by
Senators from Southern states into
the realm of sectional and racial
prejudice have already begun, accord
ing to statement released today by
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People at its
National Office, 20 Fifth Ave, New
York. On July l. two colored boys,
Joe Jordan and James Harvey, were
lynched at Lanes Bridge, Georgia,
after Governor Hardwick of Georgia
had granted them respite of thirty
days. This action followed the gath
ering of evidence by the N A. A. c.
P. and presentation of that evidence
to the governor by attorneys employed
by the N A. A. c. p. On July 10, the
New York Times carried an account
of sermon by the Rev. P. T Hollo-
way, of Jesup, Georgia, in which this
white minister araigned officers of
the law for neglect of their duty. and
accused them directly of aiding the
lynching party.
The N. A. A. C. p Immediately sent
to each member of the Senate copy
of the Times clipping Senator VIII
liam M. Calder of New York inserted
the clipping without comment in the
Congressional Record of July IL On
the following day Senator Calder was
viciously assailed by Senators Harris
of Georgia, Shields of Tennessee, and
Dial of South Carolina. These Sena-
tors followed the usual custom in argu-
ing that ''the South should be left
alone to settle the Negro question
outside interference cannot help" and
pointed to newspaper accounts of
crime in New York City as evidence
that the South should not be attacked
for lynching. Nothing was said by
any of the three southern senators
regarding the newspaper clipping in
which Rev. Holloway, a Southern
white minister, charged connivance
between officers of the law and the
mob that lynched the two boys. Rev.
Holloway, in the sermon which
aroused the ire of Senators Harris,
Dial and Shields, charged that Off
GERS Of the law practically invited
the lynchings. In the course of his
remarks he said:
"The morning after the unlawful ex-
ecution heard two men talking about
a lynching, and one of them was an
officer who took charge of the vic
TINS purposely to take them to Sav
annah. The general public wants to
know why they should have been tax.
en- away from Jesup, and especially
why they should have been taken
away in Ford car, when there were
fast passenger trains going straight
through to Savannah, making no stop
We demand to know how a mob of
men seventy miles away could find
out when these prisoners were taken
from the county Jail and where they
got their information of the route
taken. The general public would
like to know why, the officers who
had these prisoners in charge stopped
at Lanes Bridge thirty minGtas and
told the guard that if anybody came
along to tell them they were going to
Savannah and would probably have
car trouble. The public wants to
know why two men, whose uames !
could call, went to citizens house on
Thursday and said: Lets get these
two Negroes and lynch them. The
Sheriff said it would be all right; that
he would offer no resistance
1t will be remembered that when
Sheriff l.. w. Rogers of Wayne Coun-
ty received Governor Hardwiok tele
gram granting a respite of thirty days
to Jordan and Harvey. the sheriff re-
piled: "Your order received with
much sorrow.