Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-07-26
LYNCHINGS RETALIATION FOR
PARKER DEFEAT

New York, July 49, You have had In
the Uuited States, Since Parker's defeat
II lynchings, and you will have more"
shouted Cole Blease in Unios, S. G. on
July z, according to the Columbia, s. G.
State. Confirmation is thus given to
what has been generally believed by
intelligent observers that the mobs
depend on the success in the campaig
agaiset confirmation, against John J.
10 4IIIds eql qsnIo o. 31oJIs ue VI
Parker, and resorted to mob terrorism
Negroes. 80
whenever the Negro press and mig
ger association are to tell me how to
VOTE" the South Carolina Senator de-
clares, "then 1 ask my God to deprive me
me of the right to vote. White supre-
macy, and the protection of the virtue
of the white womanhood of the South
come first with me-" Is this fashion
BBlease resorts to his usual tactics in
dragging the sex question into every
aspect of the Negroes struggle for his
rights.
A front page editorial in the Columbia
State and the Charleston News and
Courier of July 9, declares:
South Carolina Democrates cannot
renominate Sesator Blease this year
without endorsing lynching.
There is no way of getting out Of it.
The News and Courier regrets that the
issue has been made. The people can
not reflect Mr.. Blease without endorsing
lynching.
Mr.. Blease's speech was not so intend
to the propaganda of Northern Negro
agitators and especially the Society for
the Advancement of the Colored People
that has been made in twenty years.
They will say when the bill to try lyme
cheers in federal courts shall come up
again if South Carolisa shall reflect
Mr.. Blease:
"Look at South Carolina. AS state
it endorses lynching. With white judi
ges, white sheriffs, with courts and
government all white, and no Negroes
on juries, it still endorses lysching.
Senator Blease challenged the people to
reject or endorse his advocacy of it.
1t is the duty of the Congress, of the I'm
-ited States, to protect the lives of its
citizens. Shall the courts and the laws
of state that endorses lynching in a
statewide election be trusted to protect
the lives of American citizens? That will
be the argument for law to transfer
trials of lynchers to United States courts
How can any senator or congressman of
South Carolina answere
Across the state line in Georgia, John
M. Slaton, Ex-Governor and candidate for
the United States Senate is devoting
much of his campaign to an attack on
Praekr. In his campaign speeches and
Senator Harris for votisg against Judge
padi advertisements, Slaton is givi ng
much advertising to the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Colored
people. In an advertisement in the
Greensboro, Georgia, Herald,Journal'
Mr.. Slaton declares:
"Anyintelligent man who was in the
Sesate anlheard the debate ought to
have known the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People
defeated him bease Judge Parker de-
clared Negroes ought not to partici-
pate in politics.
"The result of the Parker rejection
is that the Negro newspapers of the
North gleefully proclaimed their victory
over Parker and declared that hence
firth the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ames-
ments shall be enforced.
may mean in the future to the South
do not know. Senator Harris refused
to vote to place Southern man there
and who was defeated because he (Par-
kerr believed is WHITE SUPREMACY
Walter White, Acting Secretary the
N. A. A. C. P, in commenting upol the
use of the race issue in Southern polit-
ical campaigns declared: