The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-08-07
THE RACE ISSUE RISES
TO VEX REPUBLICANS
LINK" JOHNSON, GEO R GA
NEGRO, HAS APPOINTMENT
OF WOMAN ASSOCIATE.
CHOICE WORRIES G. @. P. HEADS
White Unlikely to Accept and Ne
gress Would Be Opposed by Com
mittee. Situation One of Social and
Political Delicacy.

Political Delicacy.
WASHINGTON.-The troubles of
the republican party in its attempt
permanently to break the solid
south" were further emphasized and
complicated today when it developed
that because Henry Lincoln johnson,
a negro, is republican committeeman
from Georgia that state probably will
have no associate and advisory fe-
male member of the national COM
mittee representing Georgia.
Georgia, according to present indi-
cations, will be the only state without
feminine associate to advise repub
lican national committee in the next
campaign. The situation is one of
both political and social delicacy-
and it all revolves around the fact
that Georgia is the only state which
has a negro member of the national
campaign committee.
White Chairman Hands OFF.
]. Louis Phillips, the white chair.
man of the republican organization i'll
Georgia. is in Washington today and
was asked concerning the Georgia rep
resentation on the republican national
committee.
Il have nothing to say on that sub
ject," said State Chairman Phillips.
I'm hands off. Henry Lincoln John
son is the republican national COM
nitteeman from Georgia, duly elect
ed by the Georgia delegation at the
last republican convention. He will
serve until the next party convention.
The plan is that each national COM
mitteeman shall have a female asso-
ciate and adviser That selection is
up to Johnson and | have not tried
to influence the selection, nor will L
discuss it under the present circum-
stances"
History of Conditions.
Here are the troublous conditions
confronting the republican party in
Georgia, which inevitably have their
Washington reactions:
Johnson, through coup at the Chi
cago convention three years ago, caus-
ed himself to be elected as national
committeeman from Georgia. 1t was
the first time negro had been able
to bring about such an election.
White republicans in Georgia, most
of them out of line with Johnson, per
fected their own state organization at
ter the national convention and have
been able to control practically all OF
the federal patronage in the state for
the last two or three years. However,
Johnson hangs on to his post as ma
tional committeeman and has reject
ed all suggestions that he resign or
accept an appointment under the
Harding administration that will take
him out of Georgia politics.
Now the republican national COM
mittee is determined to increase its
membership by giving each national
committeeman a woman advlser-un-
til such time as the party may for
mally allow women membership on
the national committee A score or
more OF states have selected their
women representatives.
The hitch in Georgia, according to
white representatives of the state, is:
If Henry Lincoln Johnson desig-
mates a negro woman it will bring
innumerable complications when she
sits around a table with white COM
mitteewomen from the same section
of the country.
Chairman Adams, of the republican
national committee, is reliably report
ed here as approaching the potent
alities of all this and to be urging
Johnson not to select one OF his own
race.
On the other hand, if Johnson
should designate republican white
woman OF Georgia as his associate
there is considerable question wheth-
er she would accept such an appoint