The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1924-07-05
1000 AT N.A.A.C.P.
MASS MEETING IN.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Large Crowd Attends Sunday
Meeting-Program Broad
cast Over Radio.

Philadelphia, Pa, June 30.-At a
monster mass meeting held yesterday
Sunday afternoon in the Metropol-
itan Opera House of Philadelphia,
1000 people heard speakers for the
Fifteenth Annual Conference of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, denounce the
Ku Klux Klan and urge colored peo-
pie throughout the United States to
unite their forces in an effort to OBJ
tain the enactment of the Dyer Anti
Lynching Bill. Proceedings of the
mass meeting were broadcast over
the radio, through the courtesy of
Wanamakers and Gimbels of Phila-
delphia, over Station WIP.
The speakers at the meeting were
John Haynes Holmes, Pastor of the
Community Church of New York;
Representative Theodore E. Burton
of Ohio, keynoter at the Repub-
lican National Convention, and
James Weldon johnson, Secretary of
the ". A. A. c. P. The Democratic
Representative, who was to have
spoken at the meeting, Senator DAVID
I. Walsh of Massachusetts,, failed to
put in an appearance.
The Sunday mass meeting follow
ed an all-day excursion of the N. A.
A. c. P. delegates to Atlantic City on
Saturday in a special all-steel train,
with welcome by committee of 100
Atlantic City citizens, address by
the Mayor, and by William Pickens,
and evening reception.
Urge Freedom for Voters.
At yesterdays mass meeting, John
Haynes Holmes, the first speaker, de-
clared he had no respect left for
either of the old parties, Republican
of Democratic, and he urged colored
voters as a non-partisan block to
concentrate on the issues affecting
themselves and to make every candi-
date for office declare himself on
that by concentrating their efforts on
the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill the col
ored people Of America could bring
about its enactment. Urging freedom
for colored voters from allegiance to
the Republican Party, DR.. Holmes
said:
"The party of Abraham Lincoln is
lone thing and the party of Calvin
Coolidge. lis another thing entirely.
A new political emancipation is need
ed to free the Negro from political
bondage as once he was freed from
chattel slavery"
-. Representative Burton also urged
colored Americans to stand together
for their common interests.
Organization rules the world
these days." he said. "You must
stand together with common feeling
and common interest and insist that
your opportunities shall be equal to
those of any other race"
With reference to the Ku Klux
Kian, Representative Burton said:
eff you want to repress the Ku Klux
Klan your best way is to support the
Anti-Lynching Bill. For the Khan is
an organization exactly within the
terms of mob or riotous assembly
as defined in the Anti-Lynching Bill"
Scores Senator Lodge.
James Weldon Johnson severely
scored Senator Lodge of Massachu-
sets and other Republican Senators
who had let the Dyer Bill die be-
cause of the Democratic filibuster
against 1t. Mr.. johnson asserted he
did not believe Senator Lodge ever
intended to let the Dyer Bill pass and
urged the colored voters to hold all
elective officials and candidates to
strict accountability on the Dyer Bill.
When he spoke of the Ku Klux Klan's
endorsement of the Republican candi-
date for Governor in Indiana, and
asked whether colored people would
vote for the Republicans in that
state. he was met by roar of mo"
from the entire mass meeting.