Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-06-03

RANDOM WANDERINGS
DEMOCRATIC ADVISORS"
JIM CROW WASHINGTON.
Cecil E. Newman

Random wanderings: There oughta
be law against men wearing the
tops of female stockings on their
heads in public. A st. Paul barrister
thinks Twin City Aframerican bust
ness and professional folk should or
ganize for their mutual benefit and
protection. The same gentleman
couldn't see similar movement three
or A years ago. Sometimes we ques-
ton whether or not the NOrdic's con-
tention that the Aframerican is no.
toriously unreliable, might not be ac-
tually true in more instances than
we care to admit. The more business
dealings we have with the brothers
and sisters, the more we begin to
think that many of us are Strictly
Unreliable" Some observers claim
the Negro learned all of his poorer
qualities from the pale face brethren.
If this be true many of them sure
went big in the class in Unreliability.
The more we hear "JOhn Henry" over
the radio, the more we think it would
make grand stage or picture play.
Negro newspapers who favored
Hoover or stayed on the fence are
busy giving out editorial advice to
the four men who, it is understood,
will advise those who will dispense
with whatever Negro patronage that
may fall off the Roosevelt Democratic
plum tree.
The "Four Horsemen of Sable
Democracy" are understood to be
VIM. j. Thompkins, Kansas City poll
tician and publisher, DR.. Joseph l..
Johnson of Ohio, who held a job un-
der Wilson; Robert l.. Vann, editor
of the Pittsburgh Courier, who de-
serted the G. o. P. camp for a new
deal and Julian D. Rainey who di-
rected Negro Democratic work in the
AL Smith campaign. Just how Ferdi-
nand @. Morton, head of Harlem's
United Colored Democracy can be
left out of any national Negro setup
among the Jeffersonians is difficult
to understand, but, the ,aforemen,
toned four seem to be in the patron
age spotlight, at present. Morton is
a Tammany satellite and Tammany-
ties are not so 1t1pular with the
Roosevelt group.
Be that as it may, it is amusing
to hear the amount of advice being
handed out to the four gentlemen.
Such advice coming from newspapers
who have consistently shown mortal
fear of disagreeing with the Repub-
lican party, local or national, is to
say the least, homogeneous.
AS you have perhaps read in the
daily press, 1000 members of the
Continental Congress, liberal group,
meeting in Washington marched in
protest parade to Washington
Capital of the NatioD, d. c., hotel
to protest against refusal of the hos
telry to accommodate for night, a
Negro delegate, to the conference.
Over 100 white delegates who had
previously registered cancelled their
accommodations when the hotel re-
fused to accommodate the colored
delegate. Norman Thomas, Socialist
and perennial presidential candidate
of that party said in part concerning
the incident and general conditions
at the nations capital:
Zone of the important results of
the Continental Congress in Washing
ton was to shed light on the extent
to which discrimination against Ne
groes is carried in Washington, the
Capital of the Nation. the
NTourist Camp owned by the Govern
iment and operated under the general
direction of the Quartermaster's
Bureau of the War Department dis
eliminates against Negroes
this discrimination extends even to
the National Cemetery at Arlington
unless, perhaps, the unknown SOL
der was Negro, as well he might
have BEEN"
Speaking for myself and the So
ciaIist Party, we believe that all this
discrimination - economic, political,
and social-is not only unjust in it
self, but fraught with menace 10 the
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