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

ginning revolt of the Black Man from
the republican party.
Mr.. Johnson, altho he expressed
gratitude for the help which Mr.. Bur
ton had on numerous occasions ex-
tended him, and altho he declared
himself "by tradition and inheritance
a very commonplace thing, a Negro
Republican" quietly framed SEN
tence which every hearer recognized
as his summing up of all there was
to Burton's fowery speech:
Sentiment in politics is nothing
but pure bunk"
Abe Lincoln Isn't Running.
He proceeded to lay down the Ne
gro declaration Of independence from
the republican party. II would not
for moment" he said, task the
Negroes to be unmindful nor to for
get what has been done for them by
the republican party, nor to forget
the name of Abraham Lincoln,
coupled as it is with the name of
John Brown. But Abraham Lincoln
is not running for Office today.
Great applause).
Johnson's careful sentences gave
the impression that he regarded in
dependence of the Negro from the
republican party and the policy OF
independent political action" as a
temporary phase leading perhaps to
the lining UP of the Negro with some
new party unreservedly committed to
the Negroes demand for equality. ut
is a first STEP" he said, ito achieve
political independence"
G. o. p. DouhIe-Dealing.
Repeating his thanks to Burton for
past favors, Johnson demanded "but
what did we find in the senator" He
continued with an unmerciful, cold
analysis Of the double-dealing process
by which the republican party deliber-
ately strangles every measure of real
value to the Negro in carefully con
cealed cooperation with the demo.
cratic party. He described visit to
Senator Lodge, whom he told that if
the G. o. P. majority did not pass
the anti-lynching bill, their failure to
do so would shake the faith of the
Negro in the republican party.
What" exclaimed Lodge, do you
mean to tell me that if we don't pass
this anti-lynching bill the Negroes
will vote against the republican party -?
don't believe it,"
United Against Negro.
Johnson turned on Burton and de-
clared that there exists between the
democratic and republican parties a
'gentlemen's agreement" to defeat by
subterfuge every measure aiming at
equality for the Negro. Under this
'gentlemen's agreement" he said,
''the republican party will do as little
as possible for the Negro, and the
democratic party will have nothing
to do with us at ALL" AS long as
the Negro is bound by the traditional
chains- Of obligation to vote for the
republican party, the Negro will get
his heart never had any intention
that the anti-lynching bill should
pass. If l am not fool or an idiot,
if the republican leader, Senator
Lodge, had considered it half as i'm
portant as appropriation bills or presi-
Dental nominations, that bill would
now be a law"
Mr.. Johnson explained that the re-
publican party and democratic party
defeat such measures by connivance
while agreeing to create the appear
ance that the democrats alone had
defeated them.
6ares G. o. p. Nightshlrt.
Announcing that he had voted for
AL Smith for Governor of New York,
Johnson asked, what are we going
to do about the Ku KIux Khan? In
Indiana the republican senator, James
e. Watson, who stands high in ad-
ministration circles. is hobnobbine