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TRYING TO CUTCONGRESSIONALREPRESENTATION■WASHINGTON. Jan. I.—Sou thorn members of Congress will appear before the House Census ('oininlttec tomorrow with nflidavits to refute statements made before that body by a delegation of Now York Negroes that many blacks were denied the vote in the South. lt;*The delegation from Florida, led by Representatives Clark and Sears, are particularly bit;*or against the! organization .which made the I charges, tin* National Association for I * ho Advancement of Colored People, j They style this body a bunch of I viodding New York Negroes who are I attempting to stir up racial strife.”I They will present allldavits now In I their possession to the committee In I which, they declare, many Florida I Negroes flatly dony the allegations I made ly Representative Tlnkham, of I Massachusetts, and representatives I of the Negro organization.I At today’s session of the commlt-I too Mr. Clark presented a letter from I Joseph II. Jones, State’s attorney at I Orlando, Fla., relative to the Ocoee I riot. Jones averred that following I the nfYalr he saw only three dead I Negroes ami two dead whites at I Ocoee. One negro also, ho said, was I hanged at Orlando, making tho total I killed as the vosult of that affair I four nogroes and two whites. “I I think it probable,” he said, that two I other Nogroes were killed.”I Twenty-one Witnesses Kvamlned.I Mr. Jones said that twenty-ono I witnesses had boon examined before I tho grand jury as a result of the nf-I fair and ho was sending Represon-I tatlvo Clark a copy of the jury’s pre-I Eontinont.I C. (}. Hoag, of Philadelphia, rcprc-I Renting tho American Proportional j Representation League,* urged theI committee in making up Its renppor-| tionment hill to include an optional I systom whereby the States could I elect their Congressmen on propor-I tional voting.In answer to tho charge of W. F. White, assistant secretary of the association. that two negroes named Jones wore whipped at Live Oak, W. C. Sanders, John L. Hopps and W. R. Robinson, Negro members of the Republican campaign committee there, In an nflldavit, said no such occurrence has taken place in Live Oak or Suwance County. The Negroes here went to the polls and voted, and we were told by W. 11. Lyle, sheriff of the county, that we would ho protected in voting: that on the day of tho general election in November, as far as we know, nothing was snid to the Negroes, men or women, to try to keep them from voting, and several hundred did vote in (ho countv on that day.” iFleet Ion No Dlft’civncc,Continuing, the nflldavit said: We have resided in Suwaneo County for some years: wo have seen and participated in several general elections where the Negroes did not generally vote: the general election in November was no different from previous elections, everything being quiet and orderly on that day.”An nflldavit signed by ton citizens! nearly all of whom were said to becounty oHirers, declared the incident alleged did not take place, and ndd-(Conbinued on Fourth Page)
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Richmond Planet
Richmond, Virginia, US
Sat, Jan 08, 1921
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