Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1928-07-28
HOWARD INDICTMENT.
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does the gentleman arise" the reply
came Enthusiastically from the rear OF
the hall: "Hoovah".
But it is not known that any trouble
was had with Davis. He was "loyaP
throughout. Yet the explanation now
is that after the convention "his dele
cation met and replaced him."
Louisiana Goes to Kuntz
Cohen was on the wrong side from
the beginning of the fight. He has
held sway in New Orleans for a long
time, although Emile Kuntz, a white
man, was and is the national COM
mitteeman, up until the Kansas City
convention he was in that capacity
only at the pleasure of Cohen. He took
the Hoover side early in the cam
paign, splitting with Cohen, and he
won out at Kansas City, Cohen get
ting nothing but a district delegates
seat out of it.
With his passing and that of How
ard and Davis, there are no more
Negro Republican leaders in the
South, at least not recognized by the
Hoover machine as such.
Howard Issues Statement
1t would be strange, indeed, if out
of this campaign, the South would be
found with Hoover because of the
race issue and not against him for
that reason, but admittedly this is
to be a year of great experiment.
Howard appeared yesterday before
United States Commissioner Turnage
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pearance in Jackson, Miss, November
D. He issued this statement:
The only information l have with
reference to my indictment is what |
nave in the daily press.
81 am martyr to the cause I rep
resent-negro leadership. Persecution
is the price of martyrdom. Prison
walls to martyrs are like palaces to
the nobility. | am perfectly willing
to be offered up and pay the price of
martyrdom. A cause is certainly far
greater than the individual. l have
been pursued politically and in the
civil courts, and now my political
enemies seek to have me crucified in
the criminal courts.
81 have no idea what the charge
IS. Whatever, it is, | know that it is
the back-tlre from the current of a
righteous cause, and this cause will
go on whether | am temporarily in
generated or not. l am guilty Of no
wrongdoing, directly or indirectly.
Con..aenr AS tc Ia2co~le
My lily white adversaries have
enlisted the aid Of powerful influence
material, political and otherwise, and
| am not surprised at what has hap
pened. For seven years | have been
the most bounded and investigated
man in the United States.
NO man IN the Nation has den:
more than | to prevent Anything lAa.
even smaclied of the purchase aY-
sale Of public Offices. | require O.
applicants for office in the STATE q
Mississippi affidavits dec airing the
the applicant had given or promised
20 give no consideration OF any kline
for the office. This was at the incep
ton of my administration and pmo,
10 the enactment Of the statutes re
;l;f.ng the filing of affidavits to tina
eT.e@ with ne Comptroller General
i anpcarld before the House ju
'',r cam zee. as the records O.
II committee viii show, and urgeC
the enactment of aw recurring al
Apprentices to make an affidavit stat
mat they had not given or prom
isef 20 give any consideration fol
their appointment.
II repeat that l have done NJ
wrong. have been merely accused a
the result of an ex parte hearing. n,
one in public life is safe from accuse
tons by his political enemies. and al
fairminded Americans will throw
around me the presumption of limo
cence until have been proven guilty
| 81 have no fear of the outcome O
a trial in Mississippi"