St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-29
How Negro Popers
Feel On Presidential
Race To Dofe
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Of compromise. The Democrats
civil-rights plank is also made
quate, it says. and Sparkman is
the big question mark for Negro
voters. But II points 10 Hugo
Black as a model for Sparkman.
Outside Of their political environ
ment, observes the Virginia
weekly, most Southerners are
fair-minded." Several other papers
feel the same way about Spark
man.
Wants TwO-Party System
The Souths sole Negro daily,
the Atlanta World, guide of half
a dozen papers that peddle its
editorial position, hesitates be-
tween admiration for strong"
Democratic civil-rights plank and
a desire to see the South develop
further a two-party system.
The two leading papers in
Louisiana, the Louisiana Weekly
of New Orleans and the Sun of
Shreveport have likewise clapped
their hands over their mouths.
The Sun sees Ike in a tough spot;
the Weekly hopes that the ma
jority Of Negro votes will go TO
the candidate whose personality
appears TO be sincere in regard TO
the welfare Of all people Of these
United States"
The Houston Informer, which
controls the Dallas Express and a
small Southwestern chain, gives
no indication that IL has departed
from its l944-4S Democratic al
lance. Its chief preoccupation at
present is the "fallacy Of the
states rights argument" as II af-
fects proposed federal FEPC ac-
ton.
Such papers as the San Antonio
Register, the Dallas Star-Post,
the Savannah Herald, the Green's
boro North Carolina) Future
outlook, the Baton Rouge Weekly
Leader, the Miami Times, the
Greenville MISS Delta Leader,
and the Columbia Is. c. Palm
etto Leader gave most space to
the Democratic proceedings.
Alone among the Arkansas week.
lies the Arkansas Survey Journal
OF Little Rock declared editorially
that numerous Negro leaders in
the state support Kefauver."
The Savannah Tribune, now in
its seventy-seventh year, has be-
come disillusioned with present
day platform promises. Two of It's
July 81 editorials Scraps OF
Paper" and "Democracy"-dis-
played mixed feelings; Demo
crazy loses no matter who wins
IL platform promises are not fol-
lowed through or repudiated."
Support for the party of JEFF
ferson is offered by the Oklaho-
man Eagle of Tulsa, which des-
cribes the Republican civil-rights
plank as clothed in Mother Hub
bard garb -. that covers every
thing and touches nothing"
John McCray, South Carolina
Negro Democratic organizer and
editor OF the Columbia Light
house and Informer, praises the
Democratic ticket, and that goes,
he says for Sparkman, who sat
tight in his convention seat at
Philadelphia in 1913 when the
Alabama delegation bottled on the
civil-rights issue. IT'S a pretty
good slate" in McCray's opinion.
Among Negro weeltlies the
strongest Republican rooters are
in the North, in places like Cleve-
land, New York, Boston and New
ark, but even they utter a few
cat-calls. The New York Amster-
dam News, while definitely Re-
publican, keeps a critical eye on
what the Ike zealots say and do.
Eisenhower, AYERS the News, is
the choice of Republicans and
Democrats" and II the five-star
general needs any prompting.
Dewey is always there to lend
firm hand"
"Spineless is the adjective APP
piled 10 the Republican civil
rights plank by the able Cleveland
Call and Post. but a bold banner
proclaims: "SparlIman Nomina-
ton Win Lose Negro Vote for
Democrats" and Negro Demo-
cratic Leaders Weep for Weep"
Those so-called social advances
under the Democrats, the paper
reminds its readers, actually came
as the result of Supreme Court
decisions.
A small Hamilton. Ohio weekly,
the Butler County American, ira
ditionally for the party of Lin
coin, points an accusing finger at
stevenson's Springfield eronies.
In Boston, the Chronicle sees
the weak Republican civil rights
plank as a costly drain on voting
strength, and the Guardian, other
wise a COP ally, says the "GoP
Pussyfoots on Civil Rights" The
convention, moaned the Guardian
editorial writer, "smelled of the
stockyards to me, and I am
wondering II the Democrats
would like to adopt a motherless
child"
II met Ike, I like Ike" declared !
the New Jersey Herald News |
editor, Oliver w. Brown, but ad-
ded that Tie would find ~ a