Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-05-10
HOOVER FORCES TRY TO DELAY
FINAL VOTE ON JUDGE PARKER


New York, May g. Latest adVlces W snS
Notional Association for the Advance
mant of colored People by long distance
+oIenbone from Washington, state that
tine present strategy OF the Aominiseia
ton is to delay final vote IN the 9enase
ON the nomination of Judge John ..
ker to the u. S. Supreme Court, In tne
belief that delay will tire out farAers
Even Parker's supporters agree that
had vote been taken before To-Day tne
nomination would have been defeated
The N. A. A. C. P. is straining every
nerve to keep up the pressure on Sena-
tors Late Yesterday long distance tel
enhone report from Washington told OF
thirteen senators whose votes were IN
the doubtful column. Within half an
hour kilograms had gone out to thirty
two branches of the Association IN states
represented by those senators asking
them to exert all possible measure.
During the week, Walter White, N A;
A. C. P. Acting Secretary, addressed
large and enthusiastic mass meetings.
in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, chi
cago sending 262 kilograms to the llllno'
senators, Detroit sending 50 kilograms
to the Michigan senators and Cleveland
sending 200 to the Ohio senators. Inc
/ Chicago kilograms included 40 from or
qanizations, one of those organizations
representing $4,000 colored Republican
women of Illinois. At the Chiiago meet
ing. State Senator Adelbert Roberts, VINO
served as campaign manager for Hoover
among colored people in 20 states and
has been Republican Off 40 years SAID
firmation of Parker and if the Senate
unwisely confirms him, l will oppose
Hoover if renominated."
From many leading newspapers In the
country, notably the Springfield RepuD-
ican in Massachusetts, New York Warld
and the Daily News, as well as the en-
tire Scripps- Howard chain of papers, Is
coming endorsement of the position ia
ken by the N. A. A. c. P.
90 the other hand in the South every
effort is being made to impugn the Asso-
cations motives, its souces OF income,
even to threate of senatorial "investiga-
ton" Which would be welcomed with
pleasure by the National Office staff.
In North Carolina, supporters Of Par
ker descended so low as to procure en-
dorsement of the nomination by prom
inent" Negro attorney, w. F. Williams,
of Winston-Salem, who was reported on
the same day that his endorsement was
published, to have indicted for federal
offense having it is alleged, charied NOR
for his services to war veterans In COM
pensation claims, than the law allows.
90 the other hand Professors at Shaw
University in Raleigh have telegraphed
the N. A. A. C. p. of their opposition to
Parker and saying that that opposition
was almost unanimous among educated
colored people of the State despite the
prominent" Negroes whose endorsement
of Parker had been obtained.
Another "leader of Negroes in the
State" of North Carolina, according to
Tyson, of Burlington, olso issued stase-
ments endorsing Parker. Meadow telegr-
pied Mr.. White asking him to debate
with this Negro leader in Raleigh, an
offer which Mr.. White declined. Tyson
by reputable colored people in North Ca
Dina is reported ain no sense" to repre-
sent Negro leadership and is tailor.
MT. w HICe > IeleSrdpniC reply W TIE ue-
bate invitation declined to waste time
debating nonenities and sycophants like
Tyson. -----
Threating letters, some of vile nature
have been received by the N. A. A. C. P.
National Office and reveal that the Asso
citation is getting under the skin of Ne
gro-haters. The letters encourage the AS
sociation to press it's fight more vigorou-
sly.
Even a determined opponent of the N.
A. A. C. p, West Virginia editor who
proclaims that this must be white
Mans country comedies that in the po-
litical fight in Washington, In the par
lance of the theatre, the Negroes ran a
way with the show.
The Washington correspondent of the
Outlook and Independent for April 80,
comments on the organized political
cowardice" shown by the Republican
members of the Senate, who tried to ig-
more the Negroes protest even after Wa
tier White appeared before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, until letters began
arriving from Negro constituents "by the
main sack" "Since then conditions ap-
proximating political panic have pre-
vailed on the Senate side of the Capitol.