St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-11-03
Roosevelt Should Be Reelected

Three times before this newspaper has supported Frank
lin D. Roosevelt for president Again this year it urges his
As Vice President Wallace said in New York Tuesday
of this week. Governor Thomas E. Dewey rs patriotic IN
telgent and fine in every way but-he is not Roosevelt
To this newspaper as well as to many thousands of
Negro voters presidential election does not hinge
party lines but rather the personalities involved and the
principles for which they stand Thousands of Negroes who
otherwise Republican will vote for Roosevelt They will
be voting for the man-not the party
No fair-mnded deny the great benefits re-
ceved by the Negro under Roosevelt Many of these gains
made in spite of Roosevets party members The most
bitter critic of the president is forced to admit that FDR
the first president to make the Negro feel that he be
onged each of his major Recovery programs Roosevelt
that safeguards erected to insure the equitable
AAA and other Federal projects all attempts to include
derenals based color were Immediately scotched by
No honest Roosevelt critic can truthfully deny that
Roosevelt anything but real friend to the country
largest minority group None of the outstanding Negro Re-
publican speakers this year have dared to discount the
tuntes which Negroes obtained under Roosevelt The Demo-
cratic South and poltax Congressman, who much
opposed to Roosevelt the Republicans the only
antraca issues of the campaign which Republican
Negro speakers able to dwell The only other vulnerable
point the Roosevelt the treatment of the Negro
in the Armed Forces but Governor Dewey any other out
standing white Republican leader has dared to openly attack
the anti-Negro elements in the military forces.
Mr. Roosevelt and his good wife, Eleanor Roosevelt have
had face mountainous abuse and utilization for exhibiting
interest in the welfare of their thirteen million underprv-
legged Negro fellow citizens We ascribe this courageous
erest solely the staesmanke view that the presidency of
the United States carries with it the sacred obligation of be-
ing president of ALL the people, Roosevelt statesman
enough to know that he could not pull the United States out
of the slough of the greatest depression in history by pulling
up the white alone His great interest ranscends all
differentiations of race color and religion
Aside from Roosevets proven interest in the advance
ment of the American Negro the situation is prime
consideration in every voters decision who should be
elected president.
We ALL Negroes well whites have large stake in
winning the and the future peace We want which
will be lasting Along with that peace, want freedom
for the million Negroes in the county armed services and
the humble exploited colored peoples throughout the
world We want peace that will tie in the diverse interests
of nations like Britain Russia and China and coaesce them
in such a manner that will be forever outawed.
We think Roosevelt is admirably fitted to lead the
try victory the Axis and exceptionally well prepared
to build understanding and confidence between the Allied
Nations We doubt that Mr. Dewey at this time could gain
the full confidence of Russia much less the people of France
We cannot ignore the when enter the voting booth
In far space has permitted, readers have
been presented both sides of the presidential
columns We have purposey made little editorial COM
ment the campaign because wanted Negro readers
especially get themselves both sides of the picture
We believe they have it.
This newspaper has studied the records of Roosevelt
and Dewey the party Platforms the backgrounds the
cates of both especially regards to the Negroes and
it has to the evocabe conclusion that for the best
interest of the people and the world in genera still
Franklin D. Roosevelt for president of these United States