The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-12-16
PERRY w. HOWARD BITTERLY
FOUGHT TO DEFEAT THE
PASSAGE OF THE DYER
ANTI-LvNcHNG BILL.

Astounding revelation of the aetIy-
ity of Perry w. Howard in an effort
TO defeat the Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill has been made at the office OF
the National Association for the Ad-
yancement of CoIored People, which
made public the text of letter writ
ten by Mr.. Howard to Senator 1.
Coleman Du Pont of Delaware. This
letter was dated November Is, 1917,
lust 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 en-
scted by reason Of the N. A. A. c. T.
CT il symPathiEerS
Nr Howard's letter is, IN part, as
follows:
4 received your letter of November
n upon my return from the West,
where / have been almost the entire
time since the close of the campaign.
al confess to you that / have blood
in my eyes for the National Assoeia-
ton 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 Ma
tional 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 analysis.
This organization was used by Bob
Nelson and others, and you owe your
defeat t. no other agency. ! cor
rected the evil in Wilmington and if
could have gone into the Dover
neighborhood on the following Mon
day, could have saved the day, but |
/ had an engagement to ill for Sen
ator Frelinghuysen and you know 1t
was impossible for me to do so.
'Now, I may call attention to the
fact that whatever legislation or what
ever else is done for the colored peo-
pie of this country ought certainly to
be done and done promptly, but / in
sist that none of IT ought to be done
through or by reason of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People or any of its sympa-
thizers.
81 therefore think that II 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.
E. B. Du Bots, Robert L. Vann OF
Pittsburgh and others of their Tx
There should be no quarter; and while
treating every colored man with fair
ness and looking well to the interest
of our group, these political bolshe-
visits should be annihilated as the
basest of ingrates.
@(Siened) PERRY w. HOWARD"
In Mr.. Towards letter to Senator
Du Pont, it was stated that copies
were being sent to Senators FreIing-
huysen, Mccormick. Watson and
Noses, also to Attorney General
DauEherty, who, II is to be pre-
sumed, would be interested IN the
charge BY Mr.. Howard that Messrs.
NeIson, Du Bots, James Weldon john
son and Vann are political bolshe-
visits" Copies Of Mr.. Howard's let
ter were furthermore sent to Charles
Adams, chairman of the Republican
National COMMITTEES. and were circu-
lated among prominent Republican
senators.
Mr.. Howsrds reference to his VIII