The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
Says He Hopes
Illinois VIII Send
Niger > To House


WASHINGTON, d. c., May IS
(SpeciaD D-"Coley" Blease. Demo-
cratic Senator from South Carolina,
went on a rampage here again Men
day taking raps at Hoover. Presi-
dent Johnson, of Howard University
and Negro newspapers.
Senator Bleases TRADE came dur
ing the discussion OF Bill Is 1727)
to amend the retirement of employ
ees act for the classified Civil Serv-
ice
Referring to the recent order of
r Herbert Hoover to eradicate segrega-
ticn In the Department of Com
merce. Blease called attention TO
the fact that just a few days ago
the Republican keynoter. Senator
Fess, tohio), was defeated for dele.
gate TO the Republican Convention
by Negro.
This was done, he said, because
Negroes in the State of Ohio her.
aided Hooyer's act in all the news
papers and made it a special appeal
To colored voters to support Hoover
Colored Woman NiragO
II warn you people" declared
Blease, that when you turn the
Negro man loose in a riot with
whatever arms he may be able to
accumulate and turn the Negro wo-
man. virago, loose with torch,
God save you people who are acting
as you do toward them today.
You may smile at it today and
think it is a small matter, but we
people who have faced II warn you
that you are playing with fire. that
you are playing with serpents; and
when that daC' com Aa'pot forget
that the solid South Will stand on
the rock for white supremacy upon
which she has ever stood
81 hope Illinois will send a mig
ger to Congress. | want to walk
over and see one of Hoover's black
chocolates sitting around with some
of the white people there who seem
to love them sofswell. | also hope
New York will send one down.
"The more you rub them into
those people that love them the bet
ter like it. You cannot make
them associate with ds. There are
net enough marines in or outside of
the United States Army and Navy
in Nicaragua and all combined to
make us associate with them.
"I have been told - | do not
know that it is true; | do not assert
it as the truth, and do not believe
that any candidate for president
himself, would be guilty of it-but
l have been told in the last few days
IL, f,.fA nf w nf
candidates making this race for the
presidency, have held cut to the col
ored race the promise that if they
are elected president of the United
States Negro will be put in the
Cabinet
"I do not think the candidate
himself, is responsible for that, but
il is being talked; and it is being
talked about one Alfred Smith and
one Herbert Hoover. j do not think
they know it, but some OF theiI
friends are saying it; but | will tell
YOU this much: If they are elected
/ would net be very much surprised
If thew carried out the promise
either one of them. If a man viii
make white woman sit down at
desk ana WOTh TlSHt SAuS W SiAS =
i'm between two big, black buck mig
gers, l would not be at all surprised
to see him put one in his cabinet
Referring to President Mordeea
johnson, of Howard University. Sen
ntor Blease cited news story ap
nearing ON the first page OF Negro
newspaper which read:
"Howard Prexy Declares For Fui
Scientists Agree, He says
That No Harm Can Come From
Intermarriage.
This damnable doctrine whlcn
have read, is that promulgated D!
the man at the head of Howard Uni
versity to which, a few days ago
YOU appropriated the sum Of $Sso'
600. -,
"He is going around about TN
country spreading among the mem
hers of the Negro race, ana,
course. among the students OF How
ard University, this rotten, indeceh
doctrine on marriage between TN
white and African races.
"On the front page of this paper
almost side by side with the artici
that | have read, appears the new
that southern members of Congres
voted for that appropriation,
uMav God have mercy on them.