The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-25
Silent CALVIN
CLAPS MUzZz.LE
ON NAVY Chief
WHbur's Negro Speech
Anglers President

Declarations that the Negroes
of the South are deprived of
their constitutional rights, dis
franchised, and prosecuted by
white domination, in speeches
to be delivered on the Pacific
Coast are thot to be the real
reason President Coolidge re-
called Secretary Wilbur from
his western speaking tour.
President Coolidge, who has
been attempting to follow out
the policy of driving the Ne
groes out of the republican
party of the south which was
established by the late Presi-
dent Harding, was embarrassed
Tby Wilbur's attitude champion
ing the Negroes rights.
Wilbur, according to press dis
patches, was to have said in a speech
to be delivered in Denver, which was
Abandoned because of Coolidges re-
call, "The South has not forgotten the
issues of the civil war as they relate
to the colored man, and by a consist
ent system of political action they
have defeated and annulled those
provisions of the federal constitution
written as the result Of the war which
guaranteed to every man, regardless
of race, color or previous condition of
servitude, full rights of citizenship
THE fact is there is only one issue
in American politics, and has been
only one great issue since the division
of the republican and democratic
parties, and that is the issue of the
Negroes"
President Coolidge, however, is
playing a different political game
the game started by President Hard
ing in speech delivered at Birming.
ham, Ala, on October 26, 1921, when
Harding definitely spoke against So
cial equality between the races, and
cast the Negroes adrift from the re-
publican party of the South.
Men of both races" Harding said
in his Birmingham speech, which has
been Coolidges guide in his political
policy toward the Negroes, may well
stand uncompromisingly against every
suggestion of social equality. Indeed,
it will be helpful to have the word
equality eliminated from this con
sideration; to have it accepted on
both sides that this is not a question
of social equality, but a question OF
recognizing a fundamental, eternal.
and unacceptable difference. We then
have made real progress when we de-
velop an attitude in the public and
community thought of both races
which recognizes this difference"
Followed Warren's Lead.
President Coolidge has followed
this policy inaugurated by Harding of
discarding the Negroes of the South
and making the republican party in
the South lilly white" and as strenu.
Gus an advocate of white donation as
is the democratic party in the South.
The solid" democratic South has
become nuisance to the large financ-
iers who control the two old parties
because the solid South keeps the
democratic party always within strik-
ing distance of majority in national
elections. To have a more equal div
ision of the two parties would make
it easier for the capitalists to manipu.
late the South to suit their needs of
the moment. Hence the new policy of
making the republican party rabidly
anti-Negro in the South, inaugurated
by Harding, and followed by Cool
idge as the only means of breaking
the "solid" South.
That Harding's declaration for
white domination in the South had
the desired reaction upon the south
ern, Negotiating aristocracy, is seen
in the press comments of the southern
newspapers. Taken broadly, there is
nothing in the speech to which the
South can object since Mr.. Harding
placed strong emphasis upon his OPP
position to race equality or anything
approaching it," said the Jacksonville,
Fla, Metropolis. The Atlanta, Ca,
Constitution also revealed the trend
of the republican party by comment
ing, There is no reason why the
whole so-called Negro problem should
not be solved along the very lines
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