St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-10-17
Adlui Coins As
Ike Keeps Still
On Civil Rights
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Usher of the Spokesman and Rec
order papers was at the speakers
table at the Hotel NiCollet dinner
and on the platform at the St.
Paul Auditorium. On October s
two of the leading Negro papers
in the country, the AFRO-AMERI-
CAN. with papers in Baltimore,
Washington, New Jersey, Phila-
delphia and Richmond and the
Norfolk JOURNAL & GUIDE an
nounced their support of Steven
| son.
In Milwaukee, Wise. large num-
bers of Negro voters greeted him
1000 of the crowd of 10000 at
the Milwaukee arena were Ne
groes. On the platform at Mil
waukee with Stevenson was Isaac
Coggs, Negro, Democratic can
didate for the state assembly.
At Kansas City before huge
Negro crowd which halted a mo-
torcade. Stevenson said: There is
no need for me to give you a
political speech. You know where
I stand in the things that you are
most concerned with"
At st. Louis where he was
heard by $4,000 in Kiel Auditor
ium there were 5000 Negro voters
in the audience. On the platform
there were five prominent Negro
political leaders John Green. Le-
roy Tyus. Walter Lay, T. II. May
berry, Frank Mitchell Sr., Frank
Mitchell Jr. and Nathan Sweets.
In East st. Louis sharing the
Stevenson platform was 100 year
old Henry Fuller former slave.
Stevenson said Of him: mir. Fuller
was born In slavery and now lives
In America with freedom and dig
nifty. We must work further to
establish a sense of respect and
regard for each other"
Down in New Orleans, La, in
the heart of the south Stevenson
reaffirmed his previous stands on
civil rights, At that place inept
handling by his press relations
people caused a Jim Crow flareup
when FRO-AMERICAN staffer
James l.. Hicks. crack correspond
ent who has covered much of both
the Eisenhower and Stevenson
campaign left the party when he
was not permitted to stay with
the correspondents from the white
papers at the Roosevelt Hotel in
New Orleans.
The Republican National Com
mittee through Valores Washing
ton issued a blast on the incident
pointing out that Hicks had not
been subjected 10 such treatment
when he toured the south with
Poor handling by Stevenson press
secretary on a similar situation
in Florida had been reported by
Hicks when it was suggested
that he and two other reporters
stay at the York Hotel in Tampa
while the white reporters were to
be CHARTERED at one OF the leading
big hotels. When Hicks informed
his fellow correspondents of the
situation all OF them to a man told
the press secretary they would
stay at the Negro hotel. Faced
with this the press arrangements
man went into a huddle and all
correspondents black and white
stayed at the same hotel in down.
town.
President Truman srwrd up the
New York City Negro vote for
stevenson when he spoke in Har-
lem last Saturday In a tremen-
dous attack on race and religious
bigotry, in a speech which at
tracted a bold face streamer on
the front page Of the Eisenhower
supporting N Y, TIMES Truman
told how the binding of a Negro
soldier in Gov. James Byrnes
state Of South Carolina and the
lynching Of two married Negro
couples. both Of the men were
veterans, following the close Of
World War II convinced him that
II was his duty TO do all in his
power to secure civil rights legis.
lation.
Truman said Stevenson had been |
a good civil rights governor and |