St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-10
Other Editors Say
General Johnson DOns His Hood

Hugh would day
the Kuxers spiritually literally and he has not disappointed
those have closely studying the through his speeches and
writings the hectic when he had the job of whipping business
line with the New Deal under the NRA
Negroes fighting desperately against
wholesale codes
we're concerned impossible get edgewise
with the doughty General He always ou when Negroes showed
up.
Some time ago this native son of Oklahoma the
United States Army found the of the New Deal dstastef
and his walking euphemstcaly dubbed resignation
from the President Immediately he began knocking effort of the
economic social conditions America
Each week his column and his radio talks he has
reaching closer for the Kux hood
he not only reached but placed it firmly his head
Over the radio and his column he released blast against the
Wagnervan Mugs annchng bill and grauOusy nsulted the
privilege continuing lynch ground that they should
stopped from exercising their constitutional rights.
corpse Reconstruction repeated the old
lies that hurled since Appomattox
called "he disgraceful period history
during radical Republicans" sought enfanchse
whole Negro Republicans and since they were and still are
the majority States install Negro governments and their
nexpeence treat the white State population conquered
nces."
Warming his of falsehood
Negroes all New Dealers that the hrd Dealers
using them attempt induce Fascsm the United
All this mind because New Deal Senators who
sick and tired America being dsgaced with the criminal
ynching fighting to outlaw it.
plain Reconstruction gov
cOndned nng and mob violence Southern State
governments doing today
plain Reconstruction governments
the Southern States the first public school system they had
had
a of plain stealing by
State only typical of the politics of
that the Union Pacific STEAL obbg school lands
and the rigging of the New York Stock Market
is also matter of plain fact that Negroes did not control
although Negro
Legislators did introduce and of the enlightened
legislation that the South has heard had since
The North sent troops to the South annze" the
Confedeates because they had legislation calculated
the freedmen back into slavery and deprive the Union the fruits of
victory
Only three States Mississippi Louisiana and South Carolina had
Negro than white citizens and only State Mississippi has
more black than white people today.
With the Ku Klux Khan the hooded branch the Democratic
party during the Reconstruction period and aewad
respecng Negroes had choice but be Republicans the
South
AS the Solid South
party Negroes Joined the Democratic party
the South would have Joined
places it been for the
Negroes positively call Like other
in America there be among Negroes Republicans
Democrats Socialists
whit different from other American
who only yesterday enthusiastic Dealer
large proportion of the Negroes supporters
of the New Deal the last Presidential without any
shadow of doubt the citizens also are
porters of the New Deal
Like public fe impossible for General johnson
to forget his heritage divorce himself from the
which those who fought for long destroy and
long cha slavery have sought for justify their
Now that Congress long verge enactn lsla