The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-12-16
PERRY HOWARD DOES HIS BIT
TO DEFEAT DYER ANTT-LYN.
CHING BILL.

New York, N. ", Dec. a.
Astounding revelation of the act
tivity of Perry w. Howard in an
effort to defeat the Dyer Anti-lynch-
ing Bill was made today at the Of
flee of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People.
which made public the text of a
letter written by Mr.. Howard to
Senator T. Coleman Du Pont of
Delaware. This letter was dated Nov.
80. 1922, just three days after the
opening of the special session and
at the time when every effort was
being made to have the bill brought
up and pushed. In this letter, Mr..
Howard declares he has "blood in
his eyes" for the N. A. A. C. p,
which he calls Negro Democratic
Organization" and insists that no
legislation ought to be enacted by
reason of the N. A. A. c. p, or its
sympathizers.
Mr.. Towards letter is in part as
follows:
/ received your letter of Nov.
%, upon my return from the West
where l have been almost the en-
tire time since the close of the cam
paign.
/ confess to you that l have blood
in my eyes for the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People and others who have
used them with sinister designs to
defeat some of the best friends that
we have in particular and the Ma
ton in general.
The purpose of this letter is to
call attention of you and other out
standing statesmen to the fact that
the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People is
purely Negro Democratic organi-
cation and has always been found
on the side of the Democrats in the
final analysis. This organization
was used by Bob Nelson and Others,
and you owe your defeat to no 9TH
er agency. I corrected the evil in
Wilmington, and If / could have
gone into the Dover neighborhood
on the following Monday. could
have saved the day, but l had an
engagement to fill for Sneator Free
linghysen and you know it was i'm
possible for me to do so.
Now, | may call attention to the
ract that whatever legislation or
whatever else is done for the Color
ed people of this country ought
certainly to be done and done
promptly, but l insist that none of
II ought to be done through or by
reason of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People or any of its sympathizers.
! therefore think that It should
be the policy of the leaders of the
party like you to absolutely To-
more and give the back of your
hand to such men as Nelson. james
Weldon John, w. q. B. DpBois, Rob
ert L. Vann, of Pittsburgh and
others of their like. There should
be quarters; and while treating
every Colored man with fairness
and looking we'll to the interest of
our group, the political bolshe-
visits should be annihiliated as II
basest Of ingrates.
(Signed)
Perry w. Howard.
In Mr.. Howard's letter to Senator
Du Point, it was stated that copies
were being sent to Senators Freling-
huyscn, Mccormick Watson and
Moses also to Attorney General
Daugherty, who 1t is to be pres
sumed would be interested in the
charge by Mr.. Howard that Messrs.
Nelson Dubois. James Weldon
Johnson and vann are "pollticaI
holshevists." Copies of Mr.. Howard
letter were Furthermore sent to
Charles Adams, chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee and
were circulated among prominent
Republican Senators.
Mr.. Towards reference to his
Willingness to Save the day. in
the Dover neighborhood will In
terest those CoIored readers who