The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1922-12-16
PERRY HOWARD
AIDS IN DEFEAT
OF Y | BILL
Colored Apprentice Recommends That
. Cold Shoulder Be Given All
Reqliests Of. N. a. a. c. p.
HOLDS ASSOCIATIONS DEMO CRATIC {;
Calls 0u 6ois, Weldon johnson,
Robert Vann, Political 1olshe.
visits in Letter to Senator.

New York, Dec. 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 Advancement Of
Colored People, which made public
the text of letter written 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 andSpushed. In this
letter, Mr.: Howard declares he has
blood in his eyes" for the NJ A. 4.
p, which he calls a Negro Demo
cratic Organization" and insists that
no legislation ought to be enacted by
reason. of the N. A A. C.sP.. or its
sympathizers: -s-~'> -
Letter Published -. >>@:>- -
Mr.. Towards letter is in part as
follows:
| received your letter of Nov. q
upon my return from the West, where
have been almost the entire time
since the close of the campaign.
I confess to you that have blood
IN my eyes for the National Associa-
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
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 ANALYSIS.
This organization was used by Bob
Nelson. and .other,s and you owe your
defeat to no other agency. I correct
ed. 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 fill for Sem
ator Frelinghuysen, and you know it
was impossible for; me to do so. ...~ r
Now, may call attention to the
fact that whatever legislation or what
ever else is done for the colored pco-
pie of this country ought certainly to
be done and done promptly, but l in
sist that none of it ought 70 be done
through or by reason of the National
Association for the Advancement of
e colGred People q any of its sym
l 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. sDu Bots, 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 we'll to the in
terest of our group these political
bolshevists should be annihilated. as
the basest of ingrates.
lSigned) PERRY w. HOWARD.
In Mr.: .Howard's letter to. Senator
Du Pont, it was stated that copies
were being sent to Senators Freling-
h1iysen, Mccormick, Watson and
Moses, also to Attorney General
Daug herty, who it is to be presumed
would be interested in the charge BY
Mr.. Howard that Messrs. Nelson Du
Bots, James Weldon Johnson and
Vann are POLITICAL bolshevists." Cop
les Of Mr.. Towards letter were fur
thermore sent to Charles Adams,
chairman of the Republican National
Committee and were circulated among
prominent Republican Senators.
Mr.. Howard's reference to his will
ingness to Save the day" in the
Dover neighborhood will interest
those colored readers who recall that