Show p A A tA IN Coolidge Rebukes Foe Of 01 Negro Ne r NA NATION nON CHIEF I SAYS LETTER I AMAZES HIM Hi I He Is Asked to Oppose Negro Candidacy for Political Office forI I REBUKES WRITER WRITE andI I Quotes Constitution and an Roosevelt to Show Hia His Attitude I WASHINGTON Aug II 11 Ito plying to a letter o ol protest against the candidacy of a negro In New York state for tor congress President Coolidge today o prees- prees ed amazement at the Suggestion tion that ho he Intervene and eat c-eat- firmed hi Intention of o the constitution which he pOinted out guarantees guarantee equal to all our citizens without out discrimination on on account or Of vs-ce vs or color MADE MADE ADE PUBLIC The letter made public at the White House was as written by the president to Charles R n Of Fort Hamilton N l K Mr Gardner l ad had ad sent a newspaper clipping concerning the candidacy of a negro f for tor a sd seat Ins In congresS J from o New York and suggested s repeated Ignoring of tho the growing race problem does doea not excuse us for allowing encroachments Leasing Lea out of consideration the manifest Impropriety O of the president intruding himself In a local contest for tor nomination Mr Coolidge wrote rote In reply I I 1 ant am amazed to e e such a 0 letter WAR WAlt RECORD ULC During the war cot cot- colored colored ored men and boys were called up under tho the draft not one of hom sought to evade it It They The took their places wherever as- as assIgned assigned assigned sIgned In 10 defense of tho nation of which they are lust jut as s trulY trul citizen citizens as os are any others The suggestion of o denying any mess mess- ure of o their full political rights right to such sucha a a great group of our OU population Be as the colored people is la i one which bleb flow bo boover over ever t it t might be received in sc some me quarters quarters era could not possibly be per per- permitted permitted by anyone any one who ho ho feels a responsibility for tor Hi 11 Ing ill up to the traditions and maintaining the I principles o of the Republican party HI KIGHTS G IA ti 1 J J i t-AD t D Our equal lights sights to all our citizens without discrimination on account of race or color I 1 have taken m oath to support that It is the source o of your rights Is and my rights I propose to regard it and administer it athe lIS as the source of the tho rights of all althe the peo people peoble le whatever er their belleC belier or race A colored man Is pre pre- precisely pre precisely as much entitled to submit candidacy in a part primary as la Ja allY any other citizen clUzen The decision decisIon io ion must mut be bo made roade b b the tho con con- constituents con to he offers otters him him- himself himself self and by nobody else ele dee You have suggested that In some COlne fashion I 1 should bring in influence In- In Influence Influence fluence to boar to prevent the pOssibility of a colored man being nominated Dominated for tor congress In reply I quote my m great Theodore Roose Roosevelt cit elt I cannot emnot consent to take the position that the door of hope the hope the door o of opportunity Is Is to Tie be be shut upon OMy alty manno man no matter how worthy orthy upon tIme the grounds ot of o race or color color col- col or AA |