St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-10-31
Why'Majority VIII Vote Democratic

NOtC
Our Letters TO the Editor column this week well filled
with exhoraons Of those who prefer Senator Tye
Congressman Eugene Mccarthy for the post of US Senator
subject 20 the general elections next Tuesday.
The most vocferous letter writers NJ Culver and
members OF the Ramsey County COP Civil Rights Committee
which he chairman During all the past years in which
this has been printing the attacks the Democratic party
from this it has yet discover the arguments
offered why the northern Democrats like Humphrey Freeman
We Mccarthy who with others kind who have been the
real architects Of civil rights legislation local and national
should be punished rejected by Minnesota Negroes solely on
the ground that the southern wing Of the party has
been guilty Of excuses against the American Negro
Voters must not forget that although the first civil rights
legislation passed during the Eisenhower administration in
1857 the ground work for laid by the then mayor Hubert
Humphrey assisted by 0ve Freeman presen
the Democratic convention of 1913 when the northern wing
the party notice longer going to counenance the
civil rights opposition Of the southern wing the party without
protest and action
Later President Harry Truman appointed a bipartisan
commission which created the program and platform upon
which all sound civil rights legislation has been 10 date
No northern Negro who votes the Democratic ticket has
anything in with the anNegro southern Democrats
Most Of them recognize that the power the conservative south
ern Democrats IN Congress from the time unhoy
alliance with conservative Northern Republicans southern
Democrats the whom Vice President Nixon chose
to praise at his press conference the Twin Cities Monday
Since he presidential asprant he took to say that he
did not approve their stand civil rights
Nxons approval Of this wing Of the Democratic party as
opposed to northern liberal he labels rad
calls again hghlghs the why civil rights legislation
was passed in Congress for so years The southern Democrats
and Dxeeras whom Nixon approves allowed to stop such
legislation long they played ball with the Republicans on
economic legislation This the why the increasingly
intelligent additionally Republican Negro voter left the COP
in 1886 and has not yet returned.
Generally Senator Edward Thye Republican candidate for
Senator has along with the in the
Republican party Just three months ago he joined
Senators In an evil attempt to punish and the US
Supreme Court for its school Indignation decision.
His opponent Congressman Eugene Mccarthy has been
civil rights sawart from the beginning of his distinguished
Congressional IL has been necessary send him
kilograms mporunng him take position when civil rights
matters under consideration in Congress Through the
years just knew where he stood issues which is
something that has not been true Of Senator Thye
The Negro being asked exchange northern Democrats
known friends civil rights issues for Republicans most of
whom conservative with small sprnlng of liberals lust
because the Governor Of Arkansas sails under the Of the
Democratic party.
faith for those who have proven their friendship ON the bat
uegrounds of national politics Many of them who support
the Democratic party independent than Democratic
but logically have had 10 look that party real leadership
in the civil rights field This is say that there are no
northern Republicans who be considered staunch civil
rights supporters but they still few and generally they
are noumbents they not in trouble with the Negro voter
This newspaper expects the Negro of Minnesota
WIN only couple OF possible exceptions vote the straight Dem
ocratc ticket headed by Eugene Mccarthy and Orvc Free
man. They along with the Negroes of other areas
revealed by the recent Gallup poll unwilling turn he
backs the individuals the Democratic party who crec
the civil rights foundation just because they disSase
with what they in those who lead the Democratic party
the South.
There many other issues in Tuesdays election beside
civil rights but the Negro like the business interests the farm
e organized labor and others interested securing
himself those fundamental rights not yet achieved but
teed by the Constitution He has just much right
himself with this issue the farmers themselves wit
the issue Of rigid price supports organized labor RICH
owork or the with the sales issue When the
gro secures his civil rights then he viii be hme
more with the other important issues Today he has housn
problem which win require open Occupancy" legislation
and he going to be very impatient polls with am
body who thinks he spends to much time civil rgh
issue or who want to soft pedal the issue
Mccarthy Gets Nod Over Thye