- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Negro Attorney is GOP Delegate
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1928-05-02
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper (Arkansas Gazette) article describing election of Scipio Jones as delegate to GOP national convention.
Civil Rights -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Russellville -- Pope
NEGRO ATTORNEY IS G.O.P. DELEGATE ______________________ Scipio A. Jones Will Attend National Convention Uninstructed. ______________________ Special in the Gazette Russellville, May 1.- With the ele- ction today of Scipio A. Jones, negro attorney of Little Rock, as the Fifth Congressional District delegate to the national Republican convention, the reported pledge of white leaders of the party to the negro faction was ful- filled. As the alternate, the conven- tion here selected A. C. Logan of Lit- tle Rock, also a negro. Today's action, it is believed, will forestall any contest by Arkansas be- fore the Republican National Commit- tee at Kansas City in June. Twice in the past 12 years Jones has sought to unseat the "lily white" delegation from Arkansas, but each time he was unsuc- cesful. For this, he and other negroes blamed Wallace Townsend, Little Rock attorney, in part at least, and, when Mr. Townsend was endorsed by the Re- publican State Committee as a candi- date for federal judge, they undertook to prevent his appointment. Election Due to Bargain. After President Coolidge nominated Judge Marteneau, a Democrat, the "lily white" and "black and tan" divisions of the Republican party in Arkansas apparently reached a peaceful solution of their differences. One of the con- cessions, it was reported, was that Jones should be a presidential delegate. His election today, with a negro as alternate, was regarded as an indicat- tion that the four delegates-at-large, to be named at Little Rock Thursday, will be white Republicans. They, like Jones, probably will be uninstructed. Alonso Rosa of Conway, deputy in- ternal revenue collector, was nominat- ed as the Republican candidate for Congress from the fifth district, and Oden Williams of Little Rock was nom- inated as presidential elector. The district committee for the two years retains practically the entire membership of the body, and Mr. Townsend was re-elected chairman and George E. Owen was re-elected secre- tary. At today's session, A.L. Barber of Little Rock was chosen convention chairman, and W.B. Payne of Conway acted as secretary in the absence of Mr. Owen, who was ill. Tributes to the late H.L. Remmel, who was state chairman and nationa; committeeman when he died, and to the late Judge Jacob Triebet were embodied in reso- lutions adopted by the delegate. The Republican State Committee will meet in Little Rock at 8 tonight at the Chamber of Commerce auditorium Second and Scott streets, to select a temporay chairman and secretary and to prepare a temporary roll of the delegates for the state convention be- ginning at 10 tomorrow morning in the Kempuer theater. No contests of delegations are expected to require the committee's attention today. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/542
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:542/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- Arkansas Gazette F419.L7 A74
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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