The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-10-31
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your race has been an issue In q
Michigan election. Heretofore 1t
has apparently been the rule that
this question should be ignored be-
cause of the relatively small num-
/ Der of colored voters in COMPARE
son with the total electorate" :.
Continuing, Mr.. Brucker said:
Il want you to know, however,
that 1 do not agree with this atti-
tude. My platform on behalf Of
equal civil rights is based on my
personal adherence to the spirit of
the 18th, 14th, and 18th, amend
ments to the Constitution regard
less of how small the number of
persons affected may be. Your
rights are as sacred as any other
mans rights. If they can be de-
MED to you, they can also be de-
MED to me-,
Let me warn you, however, that
you will be assailed by many false
leaders from both your race and
mine during the next few days.
First there is the oily, Shiny fell
low who comes around during the
few weeks of a campaign and who
insults both your intelligence and
your proper pride of race by as
Stunning a familiarity that is Who'll
ly hypocritical and which is prom
pity forgotten after election day.
You know who / mean. He is
the kind Of man who forgets all "a
bout you and his promises to you
from one election campaign to the
next.
"Then there is the man who deals
solely in glittering generalities and
meaningless phrasS. You know
him, too. He makes a stirring or
atorical plea, and winks at his
friends when he leaves the hall.
When you stop to analyze what he
said, he said nothiAg,-made no
definite pledge to right the wrongs
which your race has suffered.
FINALLY there is the purveyor
of untruths and half-truths,-the
character assassin. Regardless of
his color, hi very presence is an
insult to whatever company he is
in. Obviously he must despise the
intelligence of those upon whom
he practices his art of villification,
for if he respected them he would
know that such tactics would be
of no use.'
He is the worst of the lot. His
day of glory is brief. He begins
his deadly work in the closing
hours of campaign, after it is too
late for anyone to answer him"
81 do not know what lies will
be told about me in the next few
days. However, experience has
shown that these unprincipled
liars will spare no pains to attack
me.
whatever their stories may be,
I have just this to say to you:
AS God is my judge l have so con-
Quoted my public and private life
that | can look any man or woman
in the eye and truthfully say I
never once have knowingly or in
tentionally brought shame, injury
or humiliation on any man because
OF his race, nationality or religion.
"That is my solemn pledge to
you on the eve of this election.
with your aid I will go down to
Washington to fight for your civil
rights and those of my fellow citi-
zens and your brethren in the
Democratic States of the South.
II will begin at once the fight
for a rigorous anti-lynching bill,
your proportionate share Of ap-
pointments to Federal jobs, and
the creation of Negro units In the
National Guard, beginning with
Michigan. I will also fight to Sc
cure equal benefits for Southern
Negroes from Federal aids for edu-
cational purposes, under the Har-
rison- Fletcher bill now pending"
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