The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-02

democratic leaders, apparently
anxious to capitalize the in
cipient revolt, were able to spare
their conventions permanent
chairman, Senator David 1.
Walsh, who ran down from New
York for the occasion.
The "insurgent" preacher, John
Haynes Holmes, Of New York, the first
speaker, set fire to the already exist
ing powder-mine by launching vigor-
Gus attack, declaring that he had mo
respect at all" for either the demo
cratic or the republican party, which
are the "the two political SINS The
reverend avowed himself an adherent
of Third party which is destined
to accomplish what the Free Sellers
did seventy years ago." He muddled
a little, confusing a third party with
the Farmer-Labor party and predict
ing it's origin at the Cleveland confer
ence of July A; but his speech none the
less aroused against the republican
party an outburst that made old man
Burton gasp with establishment and
visibly tremble in his chair.
Hogs At Political Trough
The "third-party" preacher analysed
the treason of the republican party to
the Negro race and excoriated the
Negro political job-hunters who mis-
lead their people to crowd around
the through like black pigs among the
white pigs looking for political swill."
Political appointments from the
party which betrays the Negroes hope
for equality, shouted the preacher,
"are dope to drug the race into dreamy
illusion that it is getting somewhere"
G. o. p. And The Khan
The great sea Of black faces roared
approval hen IKE preacher acclaimed:
'The party of Abraham Lincoln is one
thing and the party Of Calvin Coolidge
is another. In the Negro question the
Republican party no longer has any
interest" He declared the republican
party met the Ku Klux Khan issue
with an evasive cowardice," and the
applause shook the roof. "In two con-
crosses dominated by the republican
party with a republican president" that
party could have enacted the Dyer
anti-lynching bill, but failed to do
so, he said, and it is time that the
Negroes free themselves from the
republican superstition"
Owe Republicans Nothing.
Holmes said that he acknowledged
the debt that the Negroes once owed
to the republican party "but they have
paid that debt, and it's time to burn
up the mortgage" He would not adj
vocate the Negroes joining the demo-
cratic party, which was out of all con-
sideration, nor even joining the third
party which he could not guarantee
would espouse the Negroes cause. Then
the good minister got mixed again be-
tween the "non-partisan policy" and
the vision of a new commonwealth Of
toll in which the Negro will md liber-
ty at last" and wound up with impas.
stoned advocacy of "a Republic of the
Workers of the World" which brought
down the house before the bewildered
eyes of the old man, Burton.
Burton Mourns About 5yegones
When the chairman, Arthur b. Spin
garn of New York, introduced Burton
with a few gentle words commencing
him as zone Of the few friends in real
ity' who had done what he could for
the anti-lynching bill, the old man
pulled himself together and faced the
audience which received him with a
polite sattering of applause. He de-
clared he did not come to make a
political speech, and wandered back
TO his boyhood when, he said, he lived
in an Ohio community which was a
station on the underground railway for
runaway slaves, Cagily feeling out his
audience for sentimental spots, the old
veteran at last got his hearers half
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