The Gazette

BEN AND PERRY "DUMPED".

If dispatches to the daily papers of the country, this week, from Washington, D. C., are to be credited the "lily-white" Republicans (half-Democrats) of the South are "in the saddle" with a vengeance, as far as President Hoover and federal jobs in that section of the country are concerned. Ben Davis and the old Republican crowd he trained with in Georgia, and Perry Howard and those he leads in Mississippi, as well as the old Republican organization in South Carolina, dominated by white Republicans, have been "dumped" by the President and will not be recognized when it comes to federal appointments, says Postmaster-General Walter Brown (of Toledo, O.) That makes the outlook for "the Colored Republican brother", South and North, anything but good, if the dispatches to the daily papers of Wednesday and Thursday tell the truth. We will shed no tears for Ben and Perry for reasons repeatedly given in these columns the main one of which is the fact that they were absolutely no good to our people but seemed to be looking out for their own selfish interests all the time. According to various reports, all of which have not been proven false, they are only getting what they deserve. The pity of it is that apparently they have made it bad for all of our people, South and North, for some years to come. Elsewhere in these columns our Dr. Wm. A. Byrd gives the remedy for this condition so plainly and well it is not necessary for us to repeat it here at this time. It certainly looks as if the political house-cleaning in the South so sadly needed for so long a time is on at last and as usual our people must suffer most even tho we are not most to blame for the miserable condition that has existed in that section of the country for so many years.