The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-11-01

Leading Journals
Train Guns Upon
Republican Party

NEW YORK, Oct. 31--(SpeeiaD -
The Chicago Defender, weekly con-
sidered the most powerful of Negro
publications, climbs upon the Demo-
cratic band-wagon ir its current issue
with a stern denuneiation of the G..
o. P. simultaneously, the Baltimore
Afro-AmeTican, another leading jour
nal, is firing broadside against the
party of Abe Lincoln" in its news
columns and cartoons. p. B. Young,
editor and publisher of the Norfolk
journal and Guide has also swung
his publication into the Democratic
column.
Many reasons have been advanced
TO account for the swing to the DEM
ocratic nominee. IS
The ostensible reason is that the
Republican party has deserted the
Negro but a more accurate assump-
tion is that the Republican party has
deserted the old Negro Republican
leaders and placed party affairs in
the hands of a more progressive
group. Campaign expenditures have
been held down to q minimum, and
the amount of money several pub
fishers expected to receive in ex-
change for their support of the Hoo
ver-Curtis ticket has not been forth
coming.
The Democratic party. through its
Negro committee, is believed to have
made more lucrative offers.
Reviewing the history of, the major
parties since their birth in their re-
lation to the Negro constituency, the
Defender declares, editorially: "If
we have outlived our usefulness to
the Republican party. there is a pos
sibility that we car be of the same
service to the opposite party" Al,
though it does not editorially an
nounce for Smith. the Afro American
IN a signed article by Carl ,Ms-phY
the editor, charges the Republicans
with desertion of the Negro.
The decision of the Chicago Jour-
nal comes despite the fact that in
its city Negro is candidate for Con-
gress on the Republican ticket; that
there are civil service and commerce
commissioners chosen f rom the
South Side, and scores of other ap-
polntments have been granted Negro
G. o. P. adherents there.
The most severe Indictment of the
G. o. p. by the paper Is the failure
of the party to protect the people for
whose freedom it was founded. Fail
urc to enforce the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments segregation
in Washington and in the Govern
ment service, and the ousting of Re
publican leaders in the South are
cited. st.. f8, 5
The Baltimore paper takes a rap
at Herbert C.S Hoover in cartoon.
picturing him as a bird cuddleds i'm
nest with race eprej1dice, bigotry and
the Klu ;Kluxi Klan.5 Smith, in an
other nest,t. is, tucked in with reli-
gious freedom. industrial democracy
and personal liberty.
Extending The fight to the local
field. the A fro -A4uericangis support
ing the icandidacy of William Cabell.
Bruce for re7electionfto the United
States Senate, and urging a defeat of
Phillips Lee Goldsborough, \ former
Governor. "A, Democratic 4 candidate
was supported byEthes papers in; the
last Mayoralty camp paign, though two.
Negro Republicans were supported
and elected toathes City Council.a 3
Throughout the country the politi-
cal muttering on both sides contin-
ues. In Chicago the Democrats
claim an advantage, citing the fact
that registration dropped in the
South Side wards. The Republicans
blame the decrease upon the move
mont to new residential sections.
With the Negro population in New
York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Ten
nessee sufficient to swing majorities,
concern is being entertained by lead
ers of both parties.