The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-10-18
IA CALL TO ACTION: TO THE COL.
ORED WOMEN VOTERS
OF AMERICA
Issued by the CoIored Women's Depart
ment of the Republican National Com
mittee, Wrigley Building, Chicago.
By Miss Halle Q. Brown, Director

In the name OF humanity and JUS
tice, with the inspiring record OF the
Republican Party, | appeal to YOU to
let no false reasoning, no pretty
sounding phrases"-no promises
which cannot be fulfilled, defect you
from entering heartily into this cam
paign, and continuing until victory i
achieved We would make this
sweeping campaign for every colored
woman's vote.
The hosts Of women coming from
the South must be sought out and IN
formed as to the power of the ballot
and their privilege to use It. We must
seek out those other groups Of young
men and women who will have at
tanned their majority since the last
presidential election.
! suggest that clubs, classes, schools
for first voters be opened in every dis
trict and precinct if possible to in
struct, to encourage and inspire these
young people to rally to the standard
OF Coolidge and Dawes and help win
the victory in November.
There are probably enough colored
women Of voting age to swing a close
election In some Southern States,
Negroes are intimidated and prevented
from voting 1t is all the more Reces-
sary that women in sections where
they enjoy their rights to vote, should
exercise this right of franchise.
The timid. the negligent, the stay
at-homes are the ones who defeat a
ticket.
There were 2,7304OO colored wom-
en- of voting age in the United States
in 1920. Of these, more than one
million are in the Southern States
where voting rights are often denied
them.
These figures show the necessity of
an intensive organized effort to arouse
every colored woman voter in the
Northern States to her great respon-
sibility to her DISTINGUISHED Southern
sisters to vote for the highest welfare
Of the race.
What the Democrats Have Done
For Us
/. They have disfranchised the
oolored people-taken away our right
to vote-in every state where they
had strength enough to do 50.
?. They have passed segregation
laws, and enforced them rigidIy
against US.
8. They have practiced Peonage
systems wherever the best citizens
would tolerate it.
T. They have tolerated the lynch
ing and burning Of our people, when
they could have passed laws prevent
ing it.
5. They have sustained an inequit-
able division Of taxes for educational
purposes
9. They have passed Jim-Crow car
laws and forced us to submit to them.
Z They are now bringing suit to
prove the l4th Amendment unconsti-
tutional which would disfranchise
every Negro in the United States.
What La Toilette Would Do For Us
He would empty the dinner pals
Of twenty thousand railroad men earn
ing forty million dollars a year. That
is what the Howell Barley railroad
bill means to Negro sleeping car and
dining car employees X j. supported
BY Ia Toilette and the Democrats.
La Toilette proposes to change the
Constitution of these United States.
Don't forget that tinkering with the
Constitution i dangerous business,
and that in making of many laws
there is bound to be much foolish
ness
Colored people especially should be-
ware 81 La Folletteism ~ applies u
this Supreme Court. The Supreme
Court is our friend Ii defeated seq
regation BY ordinance and disfran-
chisement By the Grandfather Clause.
Don't forget that If the freedom ii
the Supreme Court IS curtailed. We
shall lose the protection Of an un-
biased, unpreiudiced judiciary which
has stood a. Gibraltar VI our per-
sons and our property
What the Republicans Have Done
For Us
I. They passed the 18th, 18th. 18th
and 10Th Amendments to the Consti-
tuition making all Negro men and
women American citizens with the