Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-17
SENATE DEFEAT OF PARKER Al TO
80 BEGINNING OF NEGRO FIGHT
FOR VOTE

New York, May g. BY margin Of two
votes, Al to 80, after one of the most bit
ter and acrimonious struggles ever seen
| in the United States Senate, with CALLER
les crowded and members of the House
of Representatives standing three deep
awaiting the outcome, the Senate on
Wednesday afternoon rejected the NOM
nation by President Hoover of Judge
John j. Parker to be Associate Justice OF
of the United States Supreme Court.
The outcome of this struggle, which
has resulted in crushing rebuke to the
Hoover Administrators lily white pol
icy, is generally credited to the leader
ship of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People which
first procured and published Judge Par
ker's anti-Negro utterance made in a DO
litical speech while canidate for Coy
ernor of North Carolina in 1920. on the
basis of that utterance, the N. A. A. C. P
communicated with all its branches,
in constant touch by telegraph and long
distance telephone with politically influ-
entail friends in Washington .na Else
where. maintained a day-to-day check
for a period of two weeks on the shift
ing press campaign.
Southern white editors almost without
exception, have admitted that without
the N. A. A. c. P. opposition Judge Par
ker would probably have been confirmed
The N. A. A. c. P. feels that the Parker
tight is a crushing blow to the Hoover
Administration policy by which il was
sought to build up the Republican party
IN the South through offerinr sops to
lilly white, or. in plain words. anti
Negro Republicans. Further than this
the Association feels that long stem
mas been taken in furthering the Negroes
national fight for full recognition as
citizen, and as voter. A statement il.
sued by the N. A. A. C. P. covering 1.-THE
present situation, signed by Walter
White, Acting Secretary, is as follows
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People is nrou5
OF the way Colored people throughout
the Uuited States met the critical mo
ment' and acted as unit. With few and
conspicuous exceptions, even lin the
south and under serious difficulties
colored people stood firm against tho
man who advocated in 1920 yirtuaIlv do
privlng them of their votes. The resuIt
Oh the hight victory in the Senate ord
e. eiear-cut defeat of the Hoover Admin
istratlon is the most Significant Ii.
zeal demonstration the Americon W. Eos
mas ever engaged in.
we are elated and grateful n oo,ouo,
ana TO all those organizations and indiv
iduais who SO tirelessly and fo;thfan.
upheid our hands throughout this orual
ing contest But the victory dec;.;,o
though it is, leaves much to be done
reaii'y TINS victory is only BEGINNING
FIRST OF aii'colored citizens have before
them the task of thankink their friends
ana dealing with their opponents
Negroes have ALREADY sboun .,
erh aemagogs with national ambitions
mat IL no longer pays to bait the Negro
ior political purposes. They have sbow
the nation that the Negro can carry
successful, sustained, uncomnroo;s;u
political fight and keep it on the hiebest
clinical plane, in defense of citizenship
ana human rights. It remains TO 4,
onstrate that colored people have a polit
zeal memory" In this connection. ann
for the information of all colored ed;
tors and their readers the N. A. A. G. P.
declared the following lists should be
kept in sight and in mind until after T.
next elections:
VI those Senator'S who voted for por.
ker, the following are to stand for re.
election during the coming fall and
should be uncompromisingly opposed by
all colored voters: Phipps of Colorado:
Hasting of Delaware; Steck of Iowa.
Allen of Kansas; Ransdall of Louisiana
Gould of Maine; Gillett Of Mass
setts; Harrison of Mississippi; Keye.
Of New Hampshire; Baird of New jersey
simmons of North Carolina; McCullocb
Of Ohio; Grundy of Pennsylvania: Ne.
salf of Rhode Island; Blease Of South
Carolina; Glass of Virginia; Coff Of
West Virginia; and Sullivan of Wyomin
The terms of the other Senator's who
or were paired for Parker ex-
'ire as follows, and colored voters
should carefully bear in mind the names
md the dates: Bingham of Connecticut;
1888; Dale Of Vermont, 1888; Tess OF
Ohio, 1885; Goldsborough Of Maryland;
1886; Green of Vermont, 1895; Hale Of
Maine, 1885; Hatfield of West Va. 1885
Herbert Of Rhode Island, 1895; Jones Of
Washington, 1888; Rean of New Jersey,
935; Oddie of Nevada, 1898; Patterson
# Missouri, 1885; Reed Of Pennsylvania,
1916; Shortridge of California, 1888;
'moot of Utah, 1888; Thomas, John, of
daho, 1888; Towsend Of Delaware, 1885
yalcott of Connecticut, 1885; Waterman
f Colorado, 1898; Watson Of Indiana,
933; Broussard of Louisiana, 1888;
,verman of N. c.. 1888; Stephens Of
Mississippi, 1895; Swanson of Virginia,
935; Norbeck of South Dakota, 1888;
loses of New Hamushire, 1888, Fletcher
f Florida, 1888; King of Utah 1885;
tmih of s. c., 1888.
Any Negro is traitor to the race who
otes for any Senator who voted for