The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-07-29
SENATOR ASSAIL-
Ed ON LYNCHING.

Washington, July Ex-senator Cal
der of New York inserted in The Con-
gressional Record an account of the
recent lynching in Wayne County. Ca.
of two Negroes. The article was from
the New York Times ana told the
story Of the lynching of two boys
who had been reprleved for thirty
days by Governor Hardwlck. The New
York Senator made no comment nor
did he state his reasons for placing
the article in The Record.
Senator Harris of Georgia saw the
article in The Record. and when the
Senate convened he took the floor
and characterized the action of Sena-
tor Calder as an effort to exagger-
ate lawlessness in the Southern States
He declared that there was more law
lessness in New York In one week
than there is in Georgia In a year.
He read from a New York newspaper
accounts of the murder of a 12-year-
old child and two men and, added
Senator Harris, this is but a partial
list"
Yet the Senator from New York.
he continued. stalks of lawlessness in
Georgia and refers to lynchings. 1t is
dangerous to walk abroad In day
light in the Senator's city. 1t is not
dangerous in Gergia.
"The South should be left alone
10 settle It's Negro question. 1t is
doing the very best 1t can. and inter-
Terence from outside will not help.
me good people Of the South and
Georgia deplore lynchings just as the
good people of other States deplore
them.
Many Negroes have gone North
and received treatment different from
what they have expected. Some of
them have returned and said they
suffered more in the North than In
the South and have been glad to
come back home where they are well
treated.
Negroes who came North expecting
preferential treatment and employ-
ment have been disappointed. The
IN manager OF pittsburgh plant recent
" told me when discharges became
necessary, he first threw out the
southern Negroes and krpt alien
Morkmen who could not wen speak
English. Sh0@A
Every Georgia Governor that have
even eve kn9wn Including the preser
one mas deprecated lynching, but wi h
the record in his own city and stare
the Senator from New York ought
not to raise a sectional issue here %
long as am in tine Senate / will
i, raise a sectional issue. arraign-
ing North against South or East
again West, for this is one country
ana we all fought together to make
IL 70 greatest in the WORLD"
senator Shields of Tennessee ~
S snio point Interrupted to point ont thai
Ia u,I,.sl Saiuer had not mentioned
ia"ietsness in the North.
GIL did
the recent terrible massacre n9 ,oi pous
at Hetrin, ILL.,, almost in the shado e
OF the city Hall of Chicago said
senator shields. I'VE do not lsno,~ !
now many were killed. 1t runs any
where from twenty-three to forty
according to account, but we do inayy,
that sixteen unidentified miners were
buried after the massacre
Ihese men who were lynched had
e1 conn no crime. They were lynn !
raised the white flag. 1t was a most
horrible massacre. Even crippled |
foreman who could not run was club |
PED ana beaten. And that was out |
near chicago and the local authorities |
have done nothing about it and a~e
not trying to punish these lynchers
II Is TO the credit of the ATTORNEY
General OF Illinois that in the past
day or SO be has started an inyesti-
cation The City Council and the
awful affair and refused to act against
this mob, which is reported to have
represented five thousand persons"
Senator Dial of South Carolina, said
Senator Calder had put into The Re-
cord a story about Georgia lynch
ins when neither OF the Senators from
that State was present to reply I'M
mediately.
II serve notice that 1 am going to
object from now. on to much of this
matter such as the Senator from New
York inserted in The Record. We are
about to have yellow journal out
of 1t. am going to objsct here
to such matters and have here an Of
ficiai publication representing the
best sentiment OF the Senate and not
have in the Record what any muck
ralxer may say of some particular Sec
tion of this country" Il