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WESTERN
UNION

NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT

J. C. WILLEVER, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

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West 135th St., New York

N149 32 BLUEFIELD WVIR 9 358P

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON.
87 WEST 135 ST.

1927 APR 9 PM 4 23

SHALL ARRIVE MONDAY AT ONE FIFTY AFTERNOON HAVE ASKED DILL
TO LEAVE OFFICE AND TRANSACT NO BUSINESS HAVE WIRED
DR WRIGHT REASSURE GIRLS AND HOLD THINGS DOWN UNTIL I
ARRIVE MANY THANKS.

W C B DUBOIS.

## INTENTIONS

The Republicans did not intend to pass the Dyer Bill. Local political pressure and team work engineered by the N.A.A.C.P. and extraordinary thoughtful and determined lobbying by James Weldon Johnson forced the bill further than any American, black or white, dreamed. Politicians were surprised when the Bill emerged from the House Committee, and when it passed the House, they were astonished; but they said; "Well it is over now and the 'buck' goes to the Senate." The Senate intended to burying it in committee. But the seat of Chairman Knute Nelson became so hot that despite long squirming and excusing, he had to let it be reported. Then the approaching election forced it on the calendar. And finally there was nothing to stop the Bill from becoming a law, but the Southern Democrats and the Southerners picked the Republicans' chestnuts out of the fire, to the great joy of Medil McCormick, James W. Wadworth and their kind. The Republicans never intended to pass the Dyer Bill.

## POWER

First of all, conceive the power of the black man in American when he learns the mere rudiments of using it. We made a great political party filled with men who despised us, hated us, and wished to ignore us -- we forced them up to the very threshold of doing our will and they rescued themselves only by condoning the collapse of popular government. What a sight for Gods and men!

## LOSS

Many persons, colored and white, are bewailing the "loss" which Negroes have sustained in the defeat of the Dyer Bill. Rot. We are not the ones who need sympathy. They murder our bodies. We keep our souls. The organization most in need of sympathy, is that century-old attempt at government of, by and for the people, which to-day stands before the world convicted of failure. Alone of civilized countries,

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We are amazed that Republican leaders placed as much confidence in his advice as they evidently have. Probably they believed in him because they wanted to believe him. At any rate, Perry W. Howard wrote the following letter, November 23rd, 1922 to T. Coleman DuPont, defeated candidate for senator in Delaware, where Negro votes returned Layton who opposed the Dyer Bill:

"I received your letter of Nov. 22 upon my return from the West where I have been almost the entire time since the close of the campaign.

"I confess to you that I have blood in my eyes for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and others who have used them with sinister designs to defeat some of the best friends that we have in particular and the Nation in general.

"The purpose of this letter is to call attention to you and other outstanding statements to the fact that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is purely a Negro Democratic organization and has always been found on the side of the Democrats in the final analysis. This organization was used by Bob Nelson and others, and you owe your defeat to no other agency. I corrected the evil in Wilmington and if I could have gone into the Dover neighborhood on the following Monday I could have saved the day, but I had an engagement to fill for Senator Frelinghuysen and you know it was impossible for me to do so.

"Now, I may call attention to the fact that whatever legislation or whatever else is done for the colored people of this country ought certainly to be done and done promptly, but I insist that none of it ought to be done through or by reason of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or any of its sympathizers.

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"I therefore think that it should be the policy of the leaders of the party like you to absolutely ignore and give the back of your hand to such men as Nelson, James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert L. Vann, of Pittsburgh and others of their ilk. There should be no quarters; and while treating every colored man with fairness and looking well to the interest of our group, these political bolshevists should be annihilated as the basest of intrgrates."

(Signed) Perry W. Howard

Mr. Howard stated that he was sending copies of this letter to Frelinghuysen, McCormick, Watson, Moses, Atty. General Daugherty and Chairman Adams. It is said that copies were also circulated among a number of other influential Republican Senators.

Of course, this lying politician did not defeat the Dyer Bill but he gave those Republicans who were determined to defeat it, aid and comfort in their apostacy.

Mr. Howard who hails from Mississippi, is also stated to have
helped defeat the Liberian Loan Measure, by furnishing to Senator Pat
Harrison of Mississippi, a statement of certain enormous sums which
colored Americans expected to get if the loan was made.

THE DEMOCRATS

Once we hoped that an offer of our support would induce the
Democratic party

(a) to curb the Bourbon South

(b) to work for the human uplift of the black and lowly

We thought Wilson wanted to, when he wrote to the late Bishop
Walters promising us "Justice and not mere grudging justice." After
election he called the Bishop to him. "Er--Bishop, what is this I hear
about some letter I wrote you during the campaign? I don't seem to
recollect its terms."

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and Democratic parties spell anathema and death. The trend toward
a Third Party is irresistible. It may take years but it must come;
and when it comes, it means the death of the political power of the
disfranchising South, for until this is accomplished, no Third Party
can survive.

Our duty is clear. We must, in national politics, vote for
the Socialist or Farmer-Labor party. And in order to systematize and
concentrate our votes, we must early in 1924, assemble in National
Congress -- a Congress duly representative of every locality, to decide on methods, ways and means.

In local elections we can continue to cast our vote regardless
of party labels. Vote for friends and defeat our enemies, be they
Republicans, Democrats or Socialists. Let us stand by Tammany in New
York and Thompson in Chicago as long as they stand by us, and as long
as snobs and high-brown like James W. Wadsworth and Medill McCormick
lie to us and betray us.

The way then, is clear and simple. No Negro voter in the future
can in national elections support either the Democratic or Republican
party. To do so, would be to write himself down an ass.

LYNCHING

The fight against lynching is just begun. This is no time for
a hint of discouragement or hesitation. American Negroes have had
little experience in winning group fights. Usually they have lost and
consequently their enemies depend on seeing them fly after the first
defeat. This time, they are going to be disappointed. The time to
fight is not when you are victorious but when you are repulsed. The
time to gird yourself for putting down lynching is when the Dyer Bill
is defeated by thugs, and not when politicians are making gay promises.
This is going to be a long fight and it is going to be a costly fight,

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but we are going to win; and the reason that we must win is because lynching and mob violence has got to go or civilization in the United States cannot survive.

Unless the states immediately and stringently end this shameful custom, the United States is going to pass an Anti-Lynching Bill. The next Congress is going to see an Anti-Lynching Bill similiar to the Dyer Bill introduced and pushed by the United votes of all lovers of justice and decency.

COST

There are certain simple souls among us who seem to imagine that the emancipation of the colored people of the United States is going to cost about $1.98, and that anything more than this is evidence of theft. These people should contemplate this single fact:

On November 22nd and 23rd, the N.A.A.C.P., spent $5,136.93 for the following advertisement in the greatest daily papers of the country:

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th>Circulation</th><th>Cost of one insertion</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>New York Times</td><td>Nov. 23</td><td>Full-page</td><td>327,216</td><td>$1,539.20</td></tr><tr><td>Chicago Daily News</td><td>Nov. 22</td><td>7 columns</td><td>412,304</td><td>1,387.75</td></tr><tr><td>Atlanta Constitution</td><td>Nov. 22</td><td>7 columns</td><td>109,787</td><td>379.26</td></tr><tr><td>Kansas City Journal</td><td>Nov. 24</td><td>1/2 page</td><td>40,266</td><td>258.72</td></tr><tr><td>Kansas City Star</td><td>Nov. 23</td><td>1/2 page</td><td>439,374</td><td>532.00</td></tr><tr><td>San Antonio Express</td><td>Nov. 23</td><td>1/2 page</td><td>30,536</td><td>168.00</td></tr><tr><td>Washington Star</td><td>Nov. 23</td><td>Full page</td><td>92,555</td><td>488.00</td></tr><tr><td>Cleveland Plain Dealer</td><td>Nov. 22</td><td>1/2 page</td><td>181,756</td><td>394.00</td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td colspan="3"></td><td>1,633,803</td><td>$5,136.93</td></tr></tfoot></table>

In this way, on one single day, they made five million intelligent Americans think about lynching. Was it worth it? We ought to have spent ten times that amount and we shall, if possible, spend that next year. Advertising is costly. Propaganda depends on advertising as well as other costly methods. What every great cause -- the Red Cross, Jewish Charities, the Knights of Columbus, the Hospitals -- what all white folk must do to get their

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cause before the public, we black folk cannot afford to neglect. All Ameri-
cans do not understand about lynching. Few Americans dream of our daily life
of insult, cruelty and discouragement. If we do not let them know, who will?
<u>Who will?</u> We must advertise, we must agitate, we must, as Jehovah told Isaish,
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people
their transgression."

There is no royal road to publicity. It costs money and much
money. We need to advertise as never before in the daily press, in the week-
ly press, white and colored, in monthly periodicals. We need lecturers
and organizers of first-class ability, paid first-class wage. Now is the
time to pour money into the Anti-Lynching Campaign -- now or never.