The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-13
RACE ISSUE
SHADOWS
FIGHT
Davis Hardest Hit as ReIig-
;,ious Question Grows More
influential
By WILLIAM HARD.

Hes negroes ana the OdCnollcS
are getting showed up farther and
farther toward the forefront of
the national campaign.
That is the most striking. ma.
-tional political development and
prospect at this moment. ~
It has been impossible to- con-
fine the campaign to issues called
strictly political"
The racial issue and the religi-
Gus issue have entered into the
campaign beyond recall. They
have entered into it with every
chance that they will become
more and more important and
influential as the campaign pro-
ceeds.
Both Democratic campaign man.
ayers and Republican campaign
managers are determined to
wrest votes from La Toilette on
the racial issue and on the re-
ligious issue.
Democratic Senator's Boast.
A distinguished Democratic United
States Senator has remarked to this
writer:
by election day we viii not leave
La Toilette one Catholic vote"
He was exaggerating his prowess,
hut he vAAfnRfNo 20 dnffnitn
policy entertained by numerous
managers in both the Democratic
and Republican camps.
They intend to tell every Catholic
and every negro that the white
Protestant majorities in Northern
legislatures will ku klux them with
out hindrance IL La Toilette sue
ceeds in bringing 1t about that legis-
latures can override the courts
The constitutional issue and the
Ku Klux Khan issue have merged.
La Toilette was the first candidate
to denounce the khan. He began to
pick up a multitude Of negro and
Catholic votes. In this writer's
judgment, he will retain pA0st Of the
negro votes thus, gained. So
The Catholics fear llostilM @legisla.
ton against their schools They
have special reason for being
pleased with judicial power which
can declare such legislation uncon-
stitutional. The negroes are not
exactly in the same case.
The courts have been of little
service to the negroes in protecting
them against hostile legislation by
Southern States, and virtually no
such legislation is passed against
them by Northern States.
Seek Mob Protection.
They are interested in protection
from mobs more than in protection
from legislatures. On that point La
. Follette's declaration against the
Khan tends to satisfy them.
That a considerable part of their
vote will go to La Toilette and that
a certain considerable part Of 1t
will go to Davis Is now among
Republican managers a growing
haunting fear.
The reason is not only the Ku
Klux Khan and President Coolidge's
slOwness in denouncing the khan.
There are also numerous other
reasons. On inquiry, this writer
lists the most important Of those
reasons as follows:
l. The fewness of federal m.
pOintments given negroes in conn
parisOn with the relatively num-
erOus appointments given them
by the Democratic mayors of
Boston, New York, and Chicago.
2. The failure Of the RepubIi.
can Party, with q majority in
both houses of Congress, to pass
the Dyer Bill for Federal punish.
n1ent of lynching.
8. The exquisiteIy irOnic stroke
OF chance by which negroes
were segregated from whites at
the dedication Of the memorial
to Abraham Lincoln in Wash.
lngton, thus producing Jim
Crow" spectacle, by act of q Re.
publican administration, on the
day of the national tribute to the
emancipation of the negroes.
4. The reluctance of the Re.
publican administration to an
point negro staff to manage the
negro hospital at TuSkegee, Ala.
bAma.
5. The lOng.cOntinued failure to
pardon the negro soldiers who
were imprisoned for alleged parti-
clpatiOn i'm the famous historic
riots at Brownsville, Texas, and
who have been proved at least
as innocent as the recent anti.war
alleged agitators who were re-
latively promptly pardoned and re.
leased.
These reasons are in fact much
more important than the Ku Klux
Khan reason in diverting' negro votes
from the Republican party.
Negroes Den0unce g. O. r.
The National Colored Republican
Conference, in assembIage at At.
lantic City, has denounced its own
Republican party for it's present at.
utudes and policies toward negroes.
John e. Milholland, OF New York,
At one time Eastern secretary Of
the Republican national committee,
has written to the committee to
point out that the Democrats in
New York City have sent IA negro
to the City Board Of Aldermen ana
q negro to the State Legislature out
OF districts which previously had
been Republican strongholds.
Meanwhile the organization, called
o0nDcEne