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The Gary American
Gary, Lake County, Indiana
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In New Jersey on Oct. 30, NAACP speakers Arthur Garfield Hays, William Pickens, and Walter White addressed a crowd of 600 at St. Mark's A. M. E. Zion church, denouncing gubernatorial candidate Bair for his Senate vote to seat Judge Parker on the Supreme Court, urging colored voters to rebuke threats to Negro civil liberties.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 30 - Winding up the anti-Bair campaign in New Jersey, under the auspices of the State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, three speakers, Arthur Garfield Hays, William Pickens and Walter White, denounced the governorship candidate for his vote in the Senate to seat Judge Parker on the Supreme Court. A crowd of 600 crowded St. Mark's A. M. E. Zion church, and loudly applauded the appeals to colored voters to rebuke all enemies of the Negro's civil liberties.
Bair, who spoke on the same night in Jersey City, had been challenged to meet the N. A. A. C. P. speakers on the platform, and Arthur Garfield Hays roused laughter when he inquired whether Mr. Bair was in the house. When no answer was forthcoming, Mr. Hays placed a chair on the platform, addressed it as Mr. Bair, and read published quotations from Bair's addresses in which he sought to defend his Parker vote.
All the speakers insisted that Bair's pro-Parker vote was the chief issue in the campaign for colored voters.
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Under NAACP auspices, speakers Arthur Garfield Hays, William Pickens, and Walter White denounced gubernatorial candidate Bair at a mass meeting in St. Mark's A. M. E. Zion church for his Senate vote to seat Judge Parker, appealing to 600 colored voters to rebuke enemies of Negro civil liberties. Bair spoke elsewhere in Jersey City that night and was challenged but did not appear; Hays mocked his absence by addressing an empty chair and reading his defenses.