TO MEET HERE AND SETTLE ON FUTURE POLITICAL PROGRAM IGNORED IN CONVENTION; TO DEFEAT WALLACE The Republican State Convention which came to a close Wednesday morning of this week after nominating a ticket to be pitted against one to be named by the Democrats in their August primary, and voted on by the people of Kentucky in November, determining whether the Commonwealth shall continue under Republicas rule or its destinies reverted back to Democratic supervision, did not make one move that had a tendency to make the Negro members of the Convention feel that as Republicans their present status was bettered one bit over that of the past four years, or were they made to feel that the election of Mr. Dawson as Governor would mean anything more to them in the next four years, than that of the past four coming from the same bunch of Republican leaders.
Dawson Rather Than Colvin
Out of the more than 2,000 delegates to the Lexington Convention there were just a few over 200 Negroes included in the large percent of colored voters which make up the constituency in Kentucky. From the fifth District which included Louisville only 25 Negroes were represented of the 341 delegates to the Convention and the percentage of the colored vote in this district is close to fifty per cent. With the exception of the colored delegates of this district, who were instructed and who followed Mr. Searcy to the letter in his fight for Mr. Colvin, and in all other things, practically every other colored delegate preferred the nomination of Mr. Dawson. And though it is claimed that much money was put out by the Dawson forces, which as usual attracted the attention of Negro leaders, it is very well known that there was an opposition to Mr. Colvin, the Superintendent of Public Instruction because of his failure to ring true in a speech before the K. N. E. A. same time back, and
  in recent speeches in Bowling Green and Lexington. Dawson was regarded as the better of the two notwithstanding his record as a Democrat in the election scandal of 1905, and as Attorney General of the Morrow Administration of the past four years, which has failed to keep a single promise made the Negro voters of the state previous to the election of the Governor and the successful Republican ticket.
Negro Leaders Indignant Over Convention Procedure; To Defeat Wallace So far as the Negro was concerned that was but a little difference to be seen in the presence of the 200 at this Republican Convention and the non-presence of a single Negro at a Democratic Convention. They were there and were voted by the leader, and in whatever way this leader wished to vote him, but as to the Negro himself, the evidence of his presence even in Lexington was not recognized to any appreciable degree only in meetings in which they called themselves to talk and to resolute as to what they would agree to and likewise oppose in the Convention, which got no further than the Negro's own meeting. The Convention, presided over by Senator Ernst did not recognize the fact that there was a single Negro in the Convention, and with all the things with which he was not pleased not a one of the many "big" representative Negroes present had the courage to raise his voice.
The only time the Negroe was favorably spoken of during the whole session, was when one Nr. Thurman Dixon, of Scottsville, who in nominating Miss Mary Long for Secretary of State told the story about the Negro who stole the chicken, (using the word nigger) hid in his coat, went to church, and, when the preacher cried, "Take the sin out of your bosom," he tossed, and said, "There, if you're going to make all that fuss about one little chicken, take it."
In the meeting of the Lincoln Civic and Political League on Monday night, previous to the meeting of the Convention, a non-partisan organization of colored leaders and voters of which the Rev. J. E. Wood is president, matters vital to the political life of the race were taken up. This meeting brought out the fact that there are at present many Negroes throughout the state who are far from being pleased with things, and are open in their opposition to the present Republicanism of Kentucky. Such leaders as Ed. Davis and W. R. Dudley of Georgetown let the members of the organization know during the Monday night's meeting that they would forever in the future assert their independenct in politics, that they would heed the advice of President Harding in the future, and support men and measures, and not be labeled as the property of the Republican party from the color of their skin.
The nomination of Treasurer James Wallace of Frankfort as Auditor on the ticket met with disfavor on the part of President Wood, Mr. Ed Chenault of the State Central Committee and every member of the organization present. After Governor Morrow had promised to appoint Mr. Robbs, of Frankfort, custodian of the Capitol, Wallace was called on by a committee of colored leaders to support the promise. When told their reason he replied that he was against the appointment and added that he knew of no "darky" good enough to be custodian. When told that he might need the Negro's vote again, he said he would not. All were loud in their denounciation of Wallace and the president was named to speak for the League and all the colored voters of Kentucky against his nomination when presented before the Convention. Of course Wallace was presented to the Convention and was nominated on the ticket for Auditor, and not a protect was raised by President Wood nor any one of the large number protes  ting his nomination in the League meeting. Accord, however, to such leaders as Saffel, George, Underwood, Bell, Mer- in November, and the League is to meet in Louisville August 6 to determine the best course for the Negro to take along other lines politically.
Resolution For Both Conventions
A committee was appointed from the Lincoln Civic and Political League to draw up resolutions to be presented to the resolution committees of both Republican and Democratic Conventions. These resolutions, of which a very small part were recognized and included in the Republican platform, follow:
1. We deplore and condemn the unequal facilities of travel provided the Negro citizens on the common carriers of the state and pledge ourselves to the strict and full enforcement of all laws providing for equal accomodations; and to the enactment of such additional measures as shall secure comforts and conveniences for all passengers.
2. We favor that facilities and equipments for education be equally provided for all citizens, and to that end we ask that such appropriations for the K. N. I. Institute be made, such as shall raise its cirriculum to that of a fully equipped Teachers College, and that such appropriations be made, and supervision assumed of the Western Normal School for colored persons, as shall esuip that institution to do the work for which it was established.
We further urge such an educational program for the Negro schools as well as for the white schools, as shall rank Kentucky among the foremost states of the Union in educational progress.
3. We believe that the unfortunate children of the colored race should have the benefit of being taught and trained as well as the care and protection of the state, therefore we favor that provisions be made for the establishment and maintenance of a Feeble Minded Institute for colored children as is now provided for white children.
4. We favor the selection of jurors without any discrimination as to race, creed or color.
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