The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-11-25
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The HegHa Remains True TO tn,
New Deal
The shock which the New
Deal received in tie recent cleo.
tion was hardly due to the color.
ed vote. Insofar as the general
returns car, be analysed and the
coiored vote segregated from
the rest we may fairly conclude
the Negro voted as generally
for the New Deal in 1888 as he
did in 1882, 1884 and 1886. The
acid test can be found n segre-
gated districts where Negro
Democrats were opposed by a
Republican Of his own color. Con-
gresham Mitchell was reflect
ed in the first District in Chicago
over his Republican opponent by
a sweeping majority. Judge Ed.
w. Henry Of Philadelphis, who
is in the habit of shifting from
one side to the other with the
regularity of a weaver's shuttle,
afforded the spectacle of a De-
mocratic municipal judge run
ming for congress on the Republi-
can ticket He was defeated by
the Negro vote upon which he
relied. sd ......
Robert L. Vann, editor of the
Pittsburgh COURIER with circula-
ton of 1900 attracted wide
public attention, by a sudden re-
versal of form in the heat and
height Of the campaign. BY the
reason of internal dissensior a
mong political bosses, Mr.. Vann
bolted the gupbernatorial candi-
date in Pennsylvania while VOW
ing his allegiance to Governor
Earl ard the fest of the Demo
cratic ticket. Curiously enough
the candidate whom Mr., Vann
commended WIS defeated lby a
larger margin han the one who
e liz Glllhe uarfiss dfss
affection however. influential
was not effective. The candi-
date whom he bolted was defeat
ed by a smaller margin than the
one he commended.
The Negro candidates against
their Republican rivals were all
elected to the legislatures in
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New
York, Chicago, Detroit, and In
dianopolis. In Cincinnati alone
did a Republican Negro succeed
in breaking into the state legis-
lature. Thus it is perfectly safe
to say that at least three fouths
of the Negro vote remains loyal
to the New Deal.
Analysis Of the situation
shows that the Negro is likely
to remain true to his new line
up. AS far ahead as we now have
data to predict the Republican
or anti New Deal vote is recruit
ed mainly from the rural areas
and fom the smaller towns and
cities. The larger cities have be-
come impregnable fortresses of
the Democratic party and are
shaken ffom thei legions only by
of a half-million or more inhabi-
tants are irreclamabie liberal
DEMOCRATS in normal elections.
Cleveland, Ohio, is the only big
large city of its class which has
stuck to the Republican fold, and
this merely because the Demo
cratic bosses could not agree
among themselves. The effec-
tive Negro vote is found in the
mort and west and is large in
the great centers of population
where it adheres to political for
tune of the dominant city
machine. E.
In the last election there was
certainly no reason why the
Negro should forsake Roosevelt
and the New Deal for its poll.
tical adversary. For it has beer
to him "a friend in need which
is a friend indeed" He coulC
truthfully say Il was an hunger
ed and we gave me meat; wa.
thirsty and we gave me a drink
l was naked ard We clothed me.
This fulfills the requirements o.
a practical political religion. 1
is entirely probable that ,
higher appeal might prove more
persuasive than the argument
/ of the Ioaves and fishes but M
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