The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-04-26
HOOVER DRIVES
NEGROES FROM
PARTY COUNCILS

Washington = (FP) - President
Hoover, as leader of the Republican
party, has announced his program for
consolidating the gains made last No
vember in the South. 1t is, in brief,
the rejection of Negro leadership,
state or local, and the acceptance of
the Khan demand for an all-white Re-
publican organization.
Mississippi, Georgia and South Car
Dina are pointed out as states in
which Republican leadership does not
command public confidence, and hence
has forfeited the respect of the adj
ministratiOn. Patronage jobs in these
states will be distributed through
some new agency In South Carolina
the Republican boss for many years
has been Joe Talbot, a white politi-
clan, but the bulk of the party ma
chine has been colored. In Georgia
and Mississippi it has been Negro.
Now the white mill wners, bankers,
railroad officials and other business
men who direct local affairs will be
lined up as a Republican patronage
tribunal, unless they individually are
committed to Democratic politics.
Sen. Brookhart, chairman of the
Senate committee which has been ex-
posing the sale of federal-appoint-
ment endorsements in the South by
Republican national committeeman
and state chairmen, is pleased at the
Hoover reform" move. The fact
that the party machine in these three
states was corrupt was evident; thai
the new program will strengthen thu
Republican party in the South seem!
, to be likewise evident. But the Hoov
er declaration that the Republican or
ganization in Alabama, Louisiana, Ar
kansas, Texas and Florida is on tn
Q right track already, and that Mort
Carolina and Virginia have stroni
y and respectable Republican organiza
l. tons, is not so easily accepted.
e The records of House and Senat
, debates and of Investigations by tn
u Department of Justice over the pas
W eight years show chat there has bee
is complaint from every state in tn
n South, as to corrupt handling of pa
ID ronage jobs. Postoffices, collector
W ships, district attorneyships and oil
l. er salaried positions have been tt
&c object of bidding in cold cash, a
cording to the testimony of indignal
&c Democratic congressman. AT last tt
tn white business men have begun
tn take control of Republican machlner
MS Efficiency has begun to replace t
on haphazard methods by which Sout
a ern delegates were delivered to ca
90 didates in national conventions. XII
ed Sentiment has been capitalized to
ng tablish a 'Flily white" Republican ps
to ty throughout the South. The pic
IDS ing out of three states for punlshme
in of the old leaders means that only
these states was the local white
ng ment unable to clean house wlth'
US help from Hoover.
ect That the Merge voters in the NO
tn will take this action as dlscriml
ing ton against their race, and Will
Us to get together to oppose Hoover
an expected in the Republican pa
ich headquarters. But enough Ne
Ion newspapers will be given finan
ny, support, and enough Negro lead
eer will be persuaded that the Repu
the cans are still their friends, to {
han fuse the movement for racial solid
ty. So the administration feels !
the its decision to exclude Negroes L
for party leadership in the South is
are fectly safe.