Evening star., 1928-04-10
SEES "SOLID SOUTH"
CLOSED TO c. O.P.
BIease Raps Reported Hoover
Order to Mix White and
CoIored u. S. Workers.
By the Assoclated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Reading into the record today
newspaper story which appeared several
days ago that Secretary Hoover had
ordered colored clerks in the Census
| Bureau to be located on the floor with
white persons, Senator BleaSe, Demo-
crat. Of South Carolina declared such
action would fOreclose any hope OF the
Republicans breaking the solid South"
at the next election.
The article appeared in the Washing
ton Post. and it was said today that at
the time a statement was issued ex-
planning that a small Census Bureau
divisional organization. made up of ne
groes, had been broken up in the bu-
reau because racial suggestion was for
hidden.
Members distributed.
an the course Of its regular duties
| the Bureau of the Census developed a
| division of statistics dealing exclusively
| with matters relating TO the coiored
| population The whole division was
| small enough TO be housed in a single
| room, and, as an administrative meas
ure, its staff was temporarily composed
| entirely from the colored employees OF
/ the bureau.
"On the return Of the director from
/ Europe recently. 1t was held that the
| circumstances of such a divisional or
ganization would amount TO racial seq
regation. which is forbidden under the
policy Of the department. The mem
bers OF the staff which had been as
Sembled for the experiment were at
once redistributed throughout the or
/ ganization."
Senator BleaSe then had read a
| letter from a white woman" whose
name was not revealed. complaining of
| the action and terning the negroes in
| the bureau III which she worked
| Hoover chocolates"
This is exactly what brought the
Republican party into disrepute in the
| South" BleaSe said. and made its
name stencil in the noStrilS Of all
white people"
| ForbidS Racial Equality.
I'm the South We believe the white
race superior TO the negro race. and We
never expect 10 permit n social equality
/ is continued there need not be any
dreams among the Republicans of
| breaking the solid South"
| Blease also complained because the
| Post Office Department had refused TO
/ remove a postmaster at Anderson. s. C.
whom he claimed WAS resident OF
| Savannah, Ga.
Referring to Joe" Tolbert, Repub-
lican national committeeman in South
Carolina, As the patronage boss In that
State, BleaSc charged that Tolhert was
| receiving money from poStmaSterS and
| declared that's why they're holding
| their jobs" He also said he knew OF q
South Carolina rural mail carrier who
| had lost his Job because he had refused
| TO help pay the expenses OF a delegate
TO the Kansas City convention.
Making much of the postmaster Sit
uation at Anderson, BleaSe accused both
| President Coolidge and Postmaster Gen.
| eral New Of violating the law by retain
| ing nonresident of the State as acting
poStmaSted, He also charged Assistant
! Postmaster General Bartlett had know
ingly made untrue statements regard
I've the situation.
Son Made Ofiicial.
| The South Carolina Senator tcld his
| colleagues that after the Anderson
| postmaster died last December. his SON.
who had been separated fro mhiS father
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