The northwestern bulletin., 1922-12-23
FAILURE OF Dyer
BILL IS LAID TO
PERRY ". HOWARD
Activity of Perry w. Howard to
Defeat the Dyer Bill Made
Public.
CLAIMS ASSOCIATION A
POLITICAL BOLSHEVIST
Urges Party Leaders to do Moth
ing for N. A. A. c. p. Or
Its Sympathizers

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Astounding revelation of the activity
of Perry w. Howard in an effort to
defeat the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
was made today at the office of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, which
made public the text of letter writ
ten by Mr.. Howard to Senator T.
Coleman Du Pont of Delaware. This
letter was dated November %, 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 a Negro
Democratic Organization" and in
sists that no legislation out to be
enacted by reason of the n. A. A. G.
r., or its sympathizers.
Mr.. Howard's letter is in part as
follows:
The Letter
"I confess to you that have blood
in my eyes for the National Associa-
tion 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 Nation in gen.
eral.
The purpose of this letter is to call
attention of you and other outstand-
ing statesmen to the fact that the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People is purely a
Negro Democratic organization and
has always been found on the side of
the Democrats in the final analy-
sis. This organization was used by
Bob Nelson and others and you owe
your defeat to no other agency. cor
rected the evil in Wilmington and If
could have gone into the Dovor
neighborhood on the following Mon
day, I could have saved the day, but
I had an engagement to fill for Sen
ator Frelinghuysen and you know it
was impossible for me to do so.
Now I may call attention to the
fact that whatever legislation or
whatever else is done for the Col
ored people of this country ought GER
tainly to be done and done promptly,
but / insist that none of it ought to
be done through or by reason of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People or any of its
sympathizers.
81 therefore think that it should be
the policy of the leaders of the party
like you to absolutely ignore and give
the back of your hand to such men
as Nelson, James Weldon, Johnson,
w. F. B. Dubois, Robert L. vann,
of Pittsburgh and others of their ilk.
There should be no quarters, and
while treating every colored man with
fairness and looking well into the
interests of our group, these political
bolshevists should be annihilated as
the basest of ingrates.
(Signed) PERRY w. HOWARD"
In Mr.. Howard's letter to Senator
Du Pont, it was stated that copies
were being sent to Senators Freling-
huysen, Mccormick, Watson and
Moses, also to Attorney General
Daugherty, who 1t is to be presumed
would be interested in the charge by
Mr.. Howard that Messrs. Nelson, Du
Bois, James Weldon Johnson and
Vann are political bolshevists." Cop
les of Mr.. Howard's letter were fur
thermore sent to Charles Adams,
Chairman of the Republican Nation
al Committee and were circulated
among prominent Republican Sena-
tors.
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