The Omaha guide., 1932-11-26

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today made public a summary of in
formation received.
Striking returns are reported by
the Kansas City Call, whose editor,
c. A. Franklin states that in Kansas
City, Mo-, where the Negro vote is
approximately $4,000, Hoover receiv-
ed 25 per cent less votes than he re
ceived four years ago.
The Call reports that in the 18th
Ward, the largely Negro 1st, 3rd, and
18th precincts gave Roosevelt 1850
votes against Hcover's 38S.
From st Louis. N. B. Young, Jr.,
of the St. Louis American reports
that whereas in previous elections not
more than 5 per cent Of Negro voters
voted the Democratic ticket; in this
election one-third Of the approxim-
ately 10000 Negro votes of Missouri
went to the Democrats.
In Texas the Dallas County Negro
Ferguson-For- Governor Club urged
all Dallas Negroes to oppose the Re
publican candidate on the ground of
his alleged opposition to the Negroes
voting.
Va. Negroes 40 percent Democratic
In Virginia, P. B. Young, editor of
the Norfolk Journal and Guide re
ports that of approximately 5000 Ne
groes voting, estimates give 40 per
cent to Roosevelt
"This represents a so per cent drift
of Negro voters from the Republican
to the Democratic party" writes Mr..
Young to the National Association
for the Advancement Of Colored Peo-
pie.
From Pittsburgh, Mrs. Daisy E.
Lampkin, Regional Field Secretary Of
the Association. reports that the 9Th
Ward gave only a 300 majority for
Hoover and adds: "This ward has
formerly gone overwhelming Repub-
lican and it was a decisive Democrat
ic victory to hold the ward to almost
a 5000 vote. 1t was a new day in
Pittsburgh for Negro voters who for
the first time showed their indepen-
dence in thought"
Indiana Gave 5000" Vote
In Indiana, Robert L Bailey, Spec
ial Assistant in the Office of the
State Attorney General, reports esti-
mates show "the Negro in Indiana
and in Indianapolis voted on an APP
proximately 5000 basis" The mar
gin of votes was SIN II in many Ne
gro precincts he states. His estim-
ate is corroborated by F. B. Ransom,
General Counsel for the Nine. C. J.
Walker Manufacturing Company.
A strong swing toward the Demo
Gratis in Philadelphia, hitherto strong
ly Republican in Negro districts, is
reported by Isadore Martin, colored
the National Board Of the NAACP.
real estate operator and member of
who writes:
philadelphia has always been a
Republican city and for a Negro to
say that he was a Democrat meant
that he would be considered a kind Of
outcast and a traitor to his race. But
now things have changed and one
Baptist minister went so far as to
preach a sermon the Sunday before
the election against the Republican
party and to give splendid reasons
why he was supporting Roosevelt"
Mr. Martin reports that a conserv-
ative Republican estimate 25 per cent
Of the Negro vote hitherto Republic
an in Philadelphia. had gone to the
In Ohio. in the absence as yet Of
final figures, an estimate by the As
sociation's local executive secretary,
Gordon H. Simpson, gives a large
Democratic increase among Negro
voters in the 18th, 18th, 18th, 18th.
18th and Both wards Of Cuyahoga
Reasons for Change
A consensus of opinion among in
formed Negroes. as to the reasons for
the swing of Negro voters, compiled
by the NAACP. lists the following
main causes:
General economic conditions and de-
preston; "Lily-white" policy of the
Hoover Administration and especially
the nomination of Judge John J. Par
ker to the U. S Supreme Court; jim
growing of colored gold star mothers
on the pilgrimage t graves in France;
distribution of the Negro regiments
in the Army to service detachments;
failure to appoint Negroes to federal
general Indifference Of the
administration n fha Noorn