NATIONAL OFFICERS

PRESIDENT
MOORFIELD STOREY

VICE-PRESIDENTS
ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE
REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
BISHOP JOHN HURST
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

70 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

TELEPHONE CHELSEA 9386

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
MARY WHITE OVINGTON

JOHN R. SHILLADY, SECRETARY
J. E. SPINGARN, TREASURER

DR. W. E. B. DU BOIS, DIRECTOR
OF PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON,
FIELD SECRETARY

WALTER F. WHITE,
ASSISTANT SECRETARY

April 30, 1920

LIST A

To the Editor:

We send you this interesting bit of political
publicity which speaks for itself.

Very truly yours,

Secretary.

(Exact facsimile of a printed bill circulated in Birmingham, Ala., and received in the office of the Association. The underscoring is ours.)

FOR CORONER
VOTE FOR
J. D. GOSS

"THE WHITE MAN'S CANDIDATE"

They have disqualified the negro, an American citizen, from voting in the white primary. The Greek and Syrian should also be disqualified. I DON'T WANT THEIR VOTE. If I can't be elected by the white men, I don't want the office.

A Syrian, by the name of R.M. Saliba, wrote a piece to The News, asking the white voters of Jefferson County not to vote for me for Coroner. He went on to say that he was born in Syria, and that his wife was born in Greece, and that he was proud of it, and it made his Eastern blood run cold to look at my platform.

My father was born in Georgia, my mother was born in Alabama and I was born and reared in Mississippi and it makes my Southern blood run hot to see a Greek or Syrian standing on a street corner talking to a white woman.

He went on to say that Christ was a Syrian, and if this was the case and he was in Jefferson County, I would not want him to vote for me. We all know that Christ was a Jew. We all know that Christ would not run an assignation house, nor would he sell blind tiger whiskey, nor would he run a gambling house, nor would he buy stolen property, nor would he put a 1,000 gallon still in the heart of our city and make moonshine whiskey as Mr. Colias did, nor would