St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29

neWSpaperS-94 In the South, Z
Coast. All over the country the
story is the same: the Democrats
just have a little more to offer
this time. If the Republicans have
a good man, Dwight Eisenhower,
so have the Democrats, Adlai
Stevenson. Little can be said
against either one. It is true that
Ike's running-mate, Richard Nix
on, has drawn no noticeable ire,
while John Sparkman for Vice
President raises the Negroes
hackles-he's from Alabama, isn't
he? But some solid thinking
journals point out that died-in-the
wool Bible Belters like Hugo
Black and Alben Barkley went to
Washington and turned into fair
liberals; so there may be hope for
Alabama John, "calculable"
risk.
COP Plank Target
The chief target of the Negro
editors barbs is the Republican
civil-rights plank, which just did
not make the grade; accusations
of "double-cross" in the engineer
ing of it have also been heard.
Roy Wilkins of the NAACP label
ed it a "state's-rights" plank.
There are apologists for it but no
champions. The Democratic plank
praised by NAACP secretary,
Walter White as a victory" is a
stronger statement, say the edi-
tors.
Afro Headed Towards Adlai?
The nations largest Negro
paper, the Afro-American
weekly circulation POS .OO0), an
Atlantic Coast chain published at
Baltimore, Washington. Richmond
Newark and Philadelphia, seems
headed toward Stevenson, though
it supported Dewey both times he
ran. How else construe that
black, eight-column, two-line
streamer carried on July 10,
weak COP Rights Plank APP
peals to Dixie Voters" and its
editorial warning, by being
fortnight the Democrats can still
count on the support of the great
masses of the people? And what
about its reminder on August 2
that Dixie votes were not needed
to put Stevenson over, and its ex-
pressed admiration for Stevenson
as IAN experienced administra-
tor?
Defender Pro-Democratic
The New Deal-Fair Deal Chi
cago Defender, third among Ne
gro weeklies, stands firm, and its
four strategically located affii-
ates-the Louisville Defender, the
Michigan Chronicle lat Detroit),
the New York Age, and the Tri-
State Defender lat Memphis
are unabashed Democratic con-
verts. At least three officers of
the Chicago paper have received
Democratic appointments during
the past year. To its post-conven-
ton streamed "Dixiecrats Bow,
Eat Crow" the Chicago Defender
added a photograph of Sparkman
(no lessD, and its lead editorial,
headed Democrats Stay the Dixie
Dragon" was accompanied by
cartoon showing President Tru-
man holding a scroll labeled, The
Program Of Roosevelt and Tru-
man in one hand and raising
Stevenson's hand in victory with
the other.
The newly acquired tabloid, the
New York Age, played down the
Republican convention and amply
covered the Democratic. The same
imbalance was apparent in the
Detroit and Memphis papers. The
Louisville Defender prefers the
Democratic platform, but it can
not forget a blunt truth with
which every Negro editor must
reckon: Since Negroes became
two-party conscious 1t Is no
longer possible to presume a Ne
gro's political affihation."
Courier For Ike
It is safe TO place the Pitts
burgh Courier, second in circula-
ton to the Afro-American. in the
Eisenhower-Nixon camp. It's re-
port that Governor Stevenson
was to campaign on a watered
platform" went on the last page.
while page one carried this ban
ner: Clark Undresses Democrats
Empty Civil Rights Program:
LAshes Southerners, Gullible Ne
groes" John Clark is the Courier's
political analyst,)
Missouri Papers Play Coy
In Humans home state the
papers are coy. The additionally
Republican Kansas City Call, with
q circulation of $4,000, whose
general manager recently received
a Truman appointment, finds Ike
an attraction even II his platform