The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-10-24
Pastor Gives Advice
To Negro Voters


This is true because so many of
us are of a trusting disposition. We
believe things that are told to us
without investigating to get the
the tru efacts. Because Of this tell
dency, INSCRIPTIONS politicians
have frequently found 1t possible
to destroy our faith in our own
best friends my lying about them.
The present campaign will be no
exception. Former Governor Will
Der M. Brucker, the Republican can
didate for United States Senator,
has gone farther than any man Of
his race ever went in taking the
leadership to obtain for us the
equal rights to which we are entitl-
ed under the Constitution of the
United States, and which we have
never enjoyed in any state of the
/ Union.
He has promised to support q
strong anti-lynching bill, but he
has not stopped there. He promises
to introduce and work for the pas
scage of bill to guarantee that
we shall have our fair share of all
Federal jobs, both inside and out
side the United States Civil Service.
That means that almost $4,000 per-
manent Federal positions will
eventually be filled by our people.
If the same rule were applied to
our state, county, city and school
officials, thousands of steady gov
eminent positions would be open
ed up for the colored people of De-
troit and Michigan.
Governor Brucker also has come
out in favor Of establishing Negro
units of the National Guard in
states which do not now have them.
We consider this the most impor
tant step to prevent trouble be-
tween races that has ever been
proposed. Our boys demonstrated
on the battlefields of France that
they were a credit to the uniforms
they wore. They are richly entitled
to wear that same uniform today.
But that is not all. WILDER M.
Brucker has also disclosed himself
in favor of protecting our brethren
in the South against racial dis
elimination in the schools.
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississ-
ippi, democrat, has introduced a
bill in Congress to give Federal
money to the States to be used for
education. Being a Southern Demo-
crat, it probably was Senator Har-
rison's desire to use this money
exclusively for the white children
of his own state. Therefore he drew
the bill so that the Federal govern
ment would have no voice in say
ing how the money would be used
once it got into the State officials
hands.
This bill has the support Of the !
National Education Association, an |
organization of teachers which has
thousands of members in Michigan. |
Yet Governor Brucker courageous
ly told these teachers that the bill ,
they favored must provide against |
racial and religious discrimina-
tons before he could support it.
There can he no honest doubt as |
to WILDER Nj. Brucker's friendship
for the colored people and for our
rightful demands. Yet, we predict
that before this campaign is over, a
last minute effort will be made to
discredit our best friend by un-
truths and half-truths.
The signers of this letter have
carefully investigated all Of these
stories that have come to our at
tention. We say to you of our own
personal knowledge:
l. That Governor Brucker did
not pardon a colored man six
months after he was dead, as
charged The man was white.
2. That Governor Brucker did not
send a colored man to Texas in a
dog cage" ignoring the protests
of a committee. The man made no
effort to oppose extradition, and
no committee appeared for him.
He left Michigan in a vehicle which
was used before and after to trans
port many white prisoners to the !
same State. Governor Brucker had
no personal knowledge of how the |
man was to be transported until |
he was out of the State, nor did
he know his color.
g. Governor Brucker has never
knowingly had any connection with
the Black Legion. On the contrary !,
he has always fought intolerance
and racial bigotry beginning with
the Ku Klux Khan which he pub
licly branded as un-American as
far back as 1925 in speech before
the American Legion. Even his OPP
ponent, Mr.. Louis B. Ward, has
branded this story as a "danna-
BILE lie"
All of these accusations are ex-
actly opposed to the true character
of the man as the writer's can testi-
fly from their own personal know
ledge. None are supported by the
facts.
Let us not be fooled again by
political propaganda. The interests
of our race are at stake. Let US