Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
SOUTHERN c. 0. P.
CHARTER IS ASKED
Horace A. Mann Announces
Principles Behind IntrenCh-
ment Move.

For "perpstuation in the South Of a
Republican organization based on prin-
ciple rather than patronage an
executive committee, headed by Col
| Horace A. Mann, after two-day confer
ences hare. today announced that a
charter is to be applied for at Atlanta,
where permanent headquarters have
been leased, and that a chain of news
papers will be acquired or established
at strategic points in the South.
Col. Mann was one of Hoover's cam
paign managers in the South. When
the Executive Committee of the Re-
publican National Committee met here
last week Col. Mann issued a statement
that he would favor "uninstructed'
delegations from the South in 1882,
| which was interpreted as obviously
hostile to the Hoover administration. ="
It was one of the effects of the Presi-
dents refusal to recognize the various
Mann organizations as we'll as his in
| sistence on the resignation of Claudius
Huston as chairman of the Republican
| National Committee
| This Southern Republican organiza-
ton recently was launched at a confer
ence held in Georgia. The chain of
newspapers is to be one feature of an
intensive educational campaign includ-
ing the use of radio broadcasts and dis
| tribution of literature to wrest the
so-called "solid South" from the Demo-
| cratic party.
AS soon as the charter has been
issued the list Of permanent officers will
be announced.
Principles Set Forth.
In a declaration of principles and
| detectives issued by Col. Mann it was
| emphasized that the new Organization
Is opposed to participation by our
Government in foreign leagues" which
| will inevitably reduce the
American economic level"
Is opposed to further sacrifice of
| American to foreign interests"
Urges deportation of hundreds Of
thousands of aliens illegally in this
| country"
Urges passage of Federal laws for
| failing or deporting of Communists and
| others opposed to this Government.
Is opposed to further invasion of
Federal power upon State and local
rights and duties"
Is opposed to decentralization of
| finance and industry"
This movement" said Col Mann, "is
| not for or against any candidate for
circumstances the popular political
thought Of the South has no means of
expression. For the first half century
of the Nations existence Southern
statesmen were our most influential
| national leaders. During the last half
century Southern sentiment has played
a small and declining part in national
affairs.
THE Democratic party, to which the
South naturally became attached due
to issues arising out of the Civil War
tNn OF teA kaA- ell
into the hands OF a group of Northern
city political machines. corrupt or
CARNATIONS interested only in jobs, con-
tracts and licensed lawlessness. This
leadership is alien in spirit to the South
1t has taken the solid South for granted
politically and, treated 1t accordingly.
Henry Clay's Policies.
''The dominant popular sentiment of
the South, now that the issues of the
Civil War have disappeared, favors, as
1t did before these issues arose, the
Wing policies of Henry Clay, which he
called the American system; the sys-
tenn of intensive internal manufactur-
ing and agricultural development based
on higher standards of living for the
masses than those prevailing in the
Old World, and fully safeguarded by
the protective system, through which
alone such standards could be pre-
served from destructive competition
with lower alien standards.
I'VE are opposed to that political and
economic internationalism which is only
anti-nationalism. The manipulations of
such tnternationalism are directly re-
sponsible for our present conditions of
depression and unemployment. The
Republican party nationally has too
much fallen under the influence of in
ternational investors whose financial in
terest lies in the direction of sacrificing
American to foreign interests. This
small but powerful predatory element
owns the Tammanyized Democracy.
We oppose participation by our Gov