Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-10-24
Thomas Surveys
Election Scene
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Hotel, Wednesday Candidate
Eisenhower spoke 10 q choral
group Of $50 persons and a au-
delnce Of 26O at q luncheon. His
winning personality won applause
from the crowd assembled but he
did not get down TO cases on the
civil rights situation. His words
we're not plain like Truman's or
Stevenson. This reporter asked
four persons In the audience about
their impression and three out Of
four were Of the opinion that the
General appeared afraid TO tackle
the civil rights lasue head on. The
fourth person said. We know
what he means. he doesn't have
10 write us q letter"
spaSkmAR Nixon In HATIsm
Here In Harlem, In the streets
the Republican pitch" on Spark.
man, which tells what a poor roc
ord the Democratic vics-presI-
Dental candidate has on civil
rights 10 falling ON deaf ears. A.
. matter Of fact the Democrats
here have sold most Of the people
this reporter talked 10 on the
idea that "spRrkman IL a civil
rights advocate In disguise" which
surely In some naturalization.
The best argument current In
that BparkmRn the southsrner IL
no good on civil rights, but his
northern opponent Richard Nixon
In no good either, Apparently the
Democrats are trying 10 sell the
idea that q southern Senator IL
expected 10 be wrong on rights"
but the northsrnsr ought TO know
better. Hot dawgI
Restrictive Covenants
The Nixon restrictive covenant
deal which alarmed the country
has been offset with the discovery
that BparkmRn himself had signed
n covenant q couple OF years be-
fore Nixon. II was also discovered
that Nixon has also signed q cove
nAnt on his California home right
after he became Senator.
Right now, real estate FeatFic-
tive covenants arc the most un-
popular things I'm the Iifc % the
average politician or candidate for
public offices.
One Minnesota candidate Kari
RoiVaAE. DEL state committee
chairman. candidate for the Firth
District Congressional seat held
by Or, Walter Judd (R) told q
reporter for this newspaper IN
Minneapolis last week. that the
revelations that both Democrats
and Republicans had signed the
covenants would be good for all
concerned. He felt that IN the
future candidates for public office
viii be careful 10 examine their
preIudicea and that he also felt
that from now on real estate oper.
atora, are going 10 have o more
difficult time, getting often un.
wary home buyers to sign such
covenants.
Newspaper reporters combed deed
registers In Chevy Chase. Mary.
land TO md out n Senator Hubert
II. Humphrey had a covenant on
his property, but found his record
clear and clean.
Humphrey told reporters my
wife and myself don't believe In
that sort Of thing,
II by chance the daily press had
been able to get something like
that on Humphrey II would have
affected the national campaign 70
great degree since the Mime.
sofa senator In the most popular
Democratic Senator In Washing.
ton among the Negro voters and
millions % liberals.
In Baltimore the other night
Humphrey gave Gov Harry Byrd
OF virginia u good oratOricAI drub.
bling for his refusal to support the
Democratic ticket
In New Jersey the popular Re.
publican governor Alfred Driscoll
has the eastern Negro Demo.
cratic leaders worried, DHacoll IL
aS popular with New Jersey Nc
groeS m cN-Gov Luther Young
dahl was with oolnred Mime.
SotanH, He's an Eisenhower man
and there II fear In the Democrat
and there IL fear In tho Demo.
cratic circles that the DriacolI in.
huence viii cause many Negroes
to vote for Eisenhower.
New Jersey Democratic leaders
cannot attack Driscol directly be.
cause he IL admittedly the best
friend New Jersey Negroes have
ever had In the New Jersey ex.
ecutivc mansion. The Demos atra.
tegy IL now apparently 10 tell
Negroes Ii alright. he's OK. but
he Ia just an Eisenhower cap.
tive" How well this angle 10 work .
ing IL difficult to tell. This reporter
talked 20 scores OF New Jersey
people and found that In that
state II was about a $3.50 split
between Ike and AdlaI.
Bcthunc Boosts stevenson
Perhaps the biggest lift 10 the
Stevenson campaign came last
week when Mary Mcleod Bethuno