The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-04
Presidential
Race
BY The Associated Press

ov the ASSOCIATED freS9
While Republican and Democrat
ic party leaders shaped campaign
strategy today, a Negro congress-
man suggested a "plague-on-both-
their-houses" boycott on election
day.
The Republican presidential
nominee, Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, said party professionals and
self-styled amateurs have agreed
on how to conduct his campaign.
The Democratic nominee, Hin
dis Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, drew
bipartisan plaudits for setting up
his national campaign headquar-
tiers at Springfield in his home
state.
But the congressman, Democrat
ic Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr,
New York, told a Harlem mass
meeting Sunday the Negro was
sold down the river" at both par
ties national conventions.
Powell said "Uncle Toms" a
reference to the title character in
meaning a Negro who is a yes
man - had "Spearheaded the sab
otaging of civil rights planks in
the platforms of the two major
parties"
He said the Negro has enough
votes to control the outcome of the
Nov. 4 election and "just will not
60 to the polls at alp unless pied
ged an acceptable" platform.
Powell has date, within the
next 10 days, to discuss civil rights
with Stevenson and his vice-pres-
idential running mate, Sen. John
J. Sparkman of Alabama.
Sen. A. S. (Mike) Monroney Of
Oklahoma said Sunday night he
sees no Democratic Party dissen-
sion arising from Sparkman's nom-
nation. When asked on an NBC tel
evision program. He declared:
"Only one or two Negro leaders
have disagreed with the nomination
of Sparkman. Northern liberals will
appreciate that Sparkman has lit
orally taken his life in his hands
to be liberal"
Civil rights was also the topic
of a statement issued in Washing
ton by 16 Republican leaders,
among them several key hackers
of Eisenhower.
The statement said the Is inter-
preted the COP civil rights plank
to mean that "FEPC (Fair EN-
ployment Practices Commission)
with enforcement powers and sim
liar laws will be accelerated by a
Republican victory"
The Democrats 1913 civil rights
plank, strong for an FEPC which
could enforce decisions on job dis
elimination against Negroes and
other minorities, caused the South
ern revolt then. It was carefully
worded this time by platform-draft.
ers trying to seal the North South
rift.
The 1852 Republican civil rights
plank endorses federal legislation
to further just and equitable treat
ment in the area Of discriminatory
employment practices"
Democratic standard bearers
Stevenson and Sparkman, mean
while, turned their attention to an
other issue, foreign policy.
Stevenson messages Ohio Demo
Gratis, in convention at Columbus,
that bitter division" among Re-
publicans over foreign policy has
the COP "split down the CENTER"
In a Richmond, Va, radio broad
cast Sunday, Sparkman said the
nations prime task is cementing a
free-world wall against the march
Of Communism. The program Is
doing well, he said, and perhaps
in two years may be far enough
along to permit an "appreciable"
cut in taxes.
Privately, chieftains Of both ma
jor parties credited Stevenson with
making a smart move in estab-
fishing his headquarters at Spring
field. They said this will aid his
effort to separate his
campaign from President Tru-
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