The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Vote For Smith
Then Suicide
Says DR.. Dubois

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.--"Let all
northern black voters who are fools
vote for Hoover in November"
"Black voters Of the North who
support Smith should first vote for
him and then commit suicide"
Thus speaks DIR. w. f. b. Dubois
in the current issues of the Crisis"
official organ of the N. A. A. G: T.
In his attack on Hoover, DR.. Du-
Bois says the Republican party is
playing one of it's dirtiest games in
the Perry Howard case.
"lf the charges are true, he is
grating politician of the most con-
temptible sort but accusations
against him are not one whit worse
than those against Bascom Slemp,
erstwhile Congressman from Nirgi-
MIA. then Secretary to Calvin Cool
idge and now in charge of the Re
publican campaign in the South.
Slemp, Howard, Tolbert, Ben Davis,
and most of the Southern politicians,
black and white, of both parties, have
trafficked in public offices. White
Democrats have sought offices and
white Republicans, like Herbert
Hoover, have received the votes thus
paid for in the National Republican
Convention.
"The whole situation is crying
shame to American politics and re-
mains SO because the mass of black
voters in the South is disfranchised
and their political power welded by
grating politicians of all colors and
conditions.
"When the pinch comes and the
insurgent West joins with the white
South in demanding investigation, 1t
is only the black politicians who are
investigated while Slemp, Tolbert
and their kind, go free"
Smith No Better
The editorial on Smith declares
"If the Democratic party was
openly and thoughtfully planning to
ALLEVIATE the intelligent Negro vote
in the North, they certainly were
eminently successful. They opened
their convention with an atrocious
lynching. They segregated their
black visitors back of a wire cage
They nominated for Vice President
Ian office which, since the Civil War
has made its incumbent President II
four cases) a typical Arkansas bour
bon. Even the nomination of Alfred
Smith does not relieve the situation
"Smith is an excellent administra
tor and his attitude on liquor is al
least honest, while Hoover's is not
| but so far as we can learn Alfred
| Smith has seldom been aware of The
| black citizens of the state of New
York. He has given 100000 Negroes
of the state only one major appoint
ment and has shown for black people
not the slightest personal interest ol
appreciation. He has consistently We
| toed every bill and movement which
Negroes advocate.
''The Catholic church, to which
Smith belongs, knows no color lln'
in all the world except in the United
States; but here it is "Jim-Crow
from top to bottom in church atten
dance. in education, in philanthropy
in missionary endeavor.
"Finaily, whatever Smith and hi
encourage might be inclined to do t
attract Negro support, they are al
soluteiy estopped from doing by thei
corrupt bargain with the solid Sourl
and their craven fear Of the liberal
South.'
kll Dressed Up, Nowhere To CO
The intelligent southern voter, tn
intelligent western farmer, the intel
ligent black American voters are al
dressed up in this campaign with no
where to go, DR.. Dubois declares.