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...Pennsylvania, an anti-lynching bill (much resembling the federal Dyer bill, which was talked to death in the last Congress) was passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Pinchot. It makes lynching and kidnapping which results in death, murder; a person who tries to take a prisoner from an officer shall be fined not less than $10,000 and imprisoned not more than ten years; a county in which a lynching occurs shall be fined $10,000; and other drastic provisions design to allow no loophole of escape to participants in a lynching...
...helped write the Republican tariff plank and yet attacked the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for its wool duties. An enemy of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwest, an opponent of the soldier bonus (although one of the two civil war veterans in the Senate), a supporter of the Dyer anti-lynching bill and an advocate of a child labor amendment?he leaves behind him the memory of a fearless, independent and forceful...
Leonidas C. Dyer, Representative from Missouri, whose AntiLynching bill was talked to death in the last session of Congress, is to make a tour of the West speaking in behalf of his bill. He hopes to talk it to passage in the next Congress. His speaking itinerary includes 17 cities, and his expenses will be paid by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Meanwhile an equivalent of his bill was passed with only one dissenting vote by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
...Dyer Anti-Lynch bill provides that culpable state officers and mobbists shall be tried in Federal Courts on failure of State courts to act, and that a county in which lynching occurs shall be fined $10,000, recoverable in a Federal Court...
Leonidas C. Dyer. His antilynching bill was talked to death by the Democrats. He will talk it back to life...