Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, 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 1t urges his
As Vice President Wallace said in New York Tuesday
of this week. Governor Thomas E. Dewey lis patriotic in
tegent and fine in every way buthe is not Roosevelt
To this newspaper as we'll as to many thousands of
Negro voters this presidential election does not hinge
prncne for which thew stand Thousands of Negroes who
otherwise Republican will vote for Roosevelt They will
be voting for the man-not the party.
No fair-minded person deny the great benefits
ceived by the Negro under Roosevelt Many of these
made in spite of RooseveS party members The most
bitter critic of the president forced to admit that FDR
the first president to make the Negro feel that he be
onged In each of his major Recovery programs Roosevelt
that safeguards erected to insure the equitable
AAA and other Federal projects, all attempts to include
diferentas based color Immediately scotched by
No honest Roosevelt critic can truthfuly deny that
Roosevelt is 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 0ppor
tuntes which Negroes obtained under Roosevelt The Demo-
cratic South and po-tax Congressman, who much
opposed to Roosevelt the Republicans are the only
antraca issues of the campaign which Republican
point in the Roosevelt armor the treatment OF the Negro
in the Armed Forces but Governor Dewey other out
standing white Republican leader has dared openly attack
the anti-Negro elements in the military forces.
Mr. Roosevelt and his good wife Eleanor Roosevelt have
had to face mountainous abuse and vcaon for exhibiting
interest the welfare of their thirteen million underpriv
legged Negro fellow citizens We ascrbe this courageous in
solely the staesmanke that the presidency of
the United States carries with 1t the sacred obligation OF be-
ing president of ALL the people Roosevelt statesman
enough 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 ROoseves 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 as 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 country armed services and
for the humble exploited coored 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 that will be forever outawed.
We think Roosevelt is admirably fitted to lead the
try victory the Axis and exceptionally well prepared
build understanding and confidence between the Allied
Nations We doubt that Mr. Dewey this time could gain
the full confidence of Russia much less the people of France
We ignore the when enter the voting booth
In so far space has permitted, readers have
been presented both sides the presidential
columns We have purposely made little editorial
the campaign because wanted Negro readers
especially to get for 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 the revocabe conclusion that for the best
interest of the people and the world in genera still
Franklin D. Roosevelt for president of these United States