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LAssociation for Negro Ad-Representativ^s Clark and Sears Before Census Committee.PREYS ON SOUTHERN NEGROES, IS CHARGE*s.. ■ ■ '•'*•'i...-\ i ’ y. * • , :i.r *“Has Never Ahy-. thing' That* Hasn’t Injured Honest Negroes, Is Declaration of Clark.'99- Washing ton; Jaimhry S^The National association tor.the Advancement of - Colored • People1 was de*; Pounced by '.Representative Clark, democrat, of Florida, today, as beingcomposed of ^meddling, fueling per** sons ’ working on the Ignorant-: negroes of the* south.- Persons who . mad^charges before the house census' IfomraUtee- .that negroes /were prevented from, voting In FIor{da' were described by M. Clark as •‘Mew ' York negroes tvhoare feasting aind fattening on tjie honest negroes'of the south/* ■ . ;Representatives of the society who Vmade similar charges, have never done a thing that ha| not. Injured ' the negroes of ithe south/ the FJor-% Ida repiroB^ntative aald^-^and their ’ a-ctlons l*ave rajade for racial claah-^ •es- They seek-only to keep them-: selves In goodj Jobs, and t afe not ' really .Interested In* tho- welfare-of /vWe-nogrp/* • ;• . •Presenting further^ denial before the: census comniittee that Florida.' election offIceri\ had abridged the yrights Of .negroes to .vote, Repre-' sentative Clark presented a telegram from Mayor .Martin*, of Jacksonville, declaring that no negroes were deprived of the vote there on Novembter 2, and another from J, Seth Hill; a n egro physician, ■; stating ,. he had . yo.ted: on election day. Mr. Clark said Florida's election laws.were fair and ‘were Justly administered and . read a tolegfami from the* supervisor of Orange county stating the negrolover .Whom the Ocoee race clash oc-. icurred November 2 was not a, quail-; fled voter. .of Who Is. *»„ Secretary of fStat^ Sen--ate Will TTake Lead in ;Iht^rnational ‘Affairs, Says Penrose. :POSSIBLE SELECTION: OP HUGHES RESENTEDfjepresen tat lye Sears, .also.. pfIda, .entof^d .-a general denial: of . :acousa;tiohs:' against his ; state, .'clarlng there was ;na discrimination ’ in Florida against the negro.:,----Lieutenants of Commercial Interests, and Like-* , • * ■ . S1' ,wise Politicians, Let It Be IbwnHardihg fijusi Be for World PeabefA-i... • :• BY ROBERT ^ DENDEn, .United New. Staff Conttpondent.Nejv.. York. Januaryv 6,--WhenSenator Boies Penrose declared recently that: “it does, not roaketnuch dtfferenca who Is- our Be^retryv of .state; the senate will blaze 'the way for our -foreign, policies,’*; be greatly disturbed business interests who want a pe'ace. footlng eatebiisb-ed ' by this couhtry soon,' and politicians . who are in to*icb with thetrend of thonght of .buBlness,:. 'As a result the last two days has' developed: Anumber-'of longdistance. plione calls, between’'New York and President-elect Harding’s counsellors in.. Chio; and - therewill b«v a : number of ; conferences in :WasijIhgton. this; week' ? between members, of the .United. States' and republican lieutenants outside con-exeati.::_ - .r-■■ ■ .vv./.;• Penrose’s declaration Ii£.regarlt;Jed bqth as,, an {ndlcaUon .tilst.spij^tpolitical' leaderk'dreoon vlnb^vth^*Hirdlng has completely 'madSiip' his
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Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Thu, Jan 06, 1921
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