The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
The Republican Party in "The South"

President Hoover has announced a definite change of
policy by the republican party in the Southern states the
object of which is to win the socaed best citizens and the
highest type Of citizenship to insure victory the demo-
cratic party in future elections this part of the country
This is open challenge to Southern labor white and black
Hoover wants to hold the victory of his party in the last
elections this democratic stronghold He intends to do this
very evidently by having the republican party turn its back
completely the Negro in the South thus hoping to win
sufficient white bourgeois elements from the democratic
ranks make the G. O. P. purely white mans party as
is the democratic organization.
Hoover announces his party's change in policy by de-
handing that respectable committeeman must be appointed
to handle patronage matters Selection OF postmasters rs
second and third class especially For the welfare of the
nation sectional lines must be broken down. and the two
party system established in the South Hoover This
is the usual capitalist political pfe under cover of which
new anti-labor campaigns are prepared
Corruption in its worst forms exists under the repub-
can and democratic parties alike Under the republican
gme Pennsylvania and Illinois, in the republican north the
debauchg of the electorate went to such extremes that two
United States senator's elected to office refused seats
result of the public scandal resulting
The capitalist party organizations corrode every
thing they touch When Hoover points his finger at the
publican party organizations in South Carolina Georgia and
Mississippi and tries to ndict Negro national committeeman
in these states for existing party evils he merely looking
scapegoats up the real purpose his party
ganization plan has in view.
Perry Howard, Negro, for many years republican
tional committeeman from Mississippi is awaiting trial
with OF that Hoover
pousy pretends to resent The alleged crimes however,
charged against Howard could be registered against every
national committeeman in both the old parties Distributing
patronage where will do the most good is of the
recognized and accepted old party methods of buying votes
The republican organization is headed in South Carolina
by Joseph 7. Tobert Negro, for many years national
committeeman while Ben Davis, also Negro, formerly
head of the organization in Georgia. his services abruptly
terminated at Kansas City, last June in the evolution toward
"liy-white" republican party.
The republican party will get its main strength in the
South out of the industrial putocracy and the petty
bourgeois elements dependent upon it. Strikes in Tennessee
North and South Carolina indicate the increasing radcaza
ton of the workers Republicans and democrats alike issue
njuncons order out the police and troops and
other possible method to crush the struggles of the
workers The republican party less than the democratic
party will support the dsfranchsement of both Negro and
white workers and poor farmers in the South through the
usual, long accepted methods.
Under the camouaged fine phrases of the best president
Wall Street had easily Hoover artfuy seek
ing transplant the laborrusng republican regime of
old industrial tyranny, like Pennsylvania to the newly
dustrazed South Both white and Negro workers will be
educated to understand this through bitter daily struggles
Negro workers and poor farmers the entire nation will
learn through this experience that the republican party
much the party of slavery the democratic party is their
enemy that they the victims of it's class rule
Build the Communist Party to win all power for labor
in the South and throughout the nation.