Atlanta Daily World

Ben Davis
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ball rolling for his political comrades
I. D. Milton and A. T. Walden
were forceful in protests.
The former declared that Negroes here cast more votes for the last Republican candidates than all the whites of this district "put together."
A. T. Walden said, "since you're going to disfranchise us, you might at least let us have a word in what you have done to us today is the most outrageous thing I've ever seen."
Protests from the three men came just as the 'Lily Whites' skillfully rolled the 'Black and Tans' out of the convention. When the 20 or more colored and six or seven whites identified with the 'Black and Tans' refused to exit the 'Lily Whites' moved to one side of the building.
The Black and Tans, headed by T. T. Rose, white, elected Attorney A. T. Walden as their delegate to the National Republican Convention and Norman I. Miller as his alternate.
Their permanent executive committee includes Chairman H. A. Allen, J. J. Griffin vice-chairman; D. Donalson, secretary; Mrs. E. McCollum, treasurer.
The members are J. T. Rose, B. J. Davis, L. D. Milton, T. W. Holmes and A. T. Walden.
Delegates of Fulton County sent to the Fifth District Convention Saturday at the courthouse to represent the 'Black and Tans' group were J. T. Rose, N. I. Miller, B. J. Davis, A. T. Walden, L. D. Milton, Dr. Charles Johnson, T. W. Holmes, Frank Adair, Jr., T. M. Alexander, Mrs. L. A. Davidson and A. Price.
DeKalb County was represented by W. B. Watson, E. C. Talbot, S. W. Walker and J. J. Griffin.
H. M. Williamson was the delegate from Rockdale.
Four colored figures occupied seats in the 'Lily Whites' section. They were E. L. Collier, C. S. Cox, Dr. L. M. Hill and George Moore of Rockdale.
One white man, prominent as a 'Lily White,' in answer to Ben Davis' protest, said, "I've been a friend to darkies all my life."
The executive committee selected by the 'Lily Whites' for their permanent organization were Chairman, E. C. Talbot; vice chairman, R. Waters; vice chairman, G. E. Plunkett; secretary H. B. Cardinal and J. M. McCollum, C. W. Hagan, A. J. Slater, E. K. Large, W. A. Watson, E. L. Collier, Charles Donelson, C. F. Harrison, Dr. I. M. Hill, Harry Summers, H. H. Turner, Charles Cox and Frank Donalson.
Delegates from Fulton County to the Fifth District Convention, representing the 'Lily Whites' were Clint Hagan, Ed Humphries, Sam Thompson, H. B. Caldwell, E. L. Collier, P. A. Allen, Dr. L. M. Hill, T. L. Mudd, L. M. Crawford and H. H. Turner.
The alternates: E. M. Bishop, P. D. Allen, Somers Martin, Norman I. Miller, J. W. Hubert, W. T. Cunningham, C. S. Cox, P. Y. Bowden, T. S. Johnson, L. Shaddin and W. C. Henry.