St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-05-23


Negro city political appOintee NELL RUSSELL
shamey predOmnany proPowen crowd 1t an
amazing display of bad manners and mass hysteria
present writing is impossible Negroes to-
geer informal social evening without verbal bwng
erupng mention Of the congresman
divides the company antPowelhe and proPowelitcs
There to be middle ground on the subject
charges the indictment amounting to-
only little three thousand doas) deliberately planned "
Negro his support to Essen
Presidential election The Democrats Powell
officially longer Democrat because OF his Eisenhower support
They insist the charge has nothing do with the
case the Harlem Congressman.
supporters and Powell opponents
very very deepseated Powell Negro I'M
America today, his devoted followers
Powell is the biggest politics, his enemies
Powell is present day Messiah in modern garb the most
fanatical his church members
Powell Lucfer ncarnate who win later plunge
himself followers depths disenhand
Of his former friends and eS-congregaton members.
Regardless Of what he be pretends to be- Powell Is at
the takedabout individual the New political
has embarked his political
Congress Independent
get enough signatures petitions
name in the August 18th primaries.
my opinion mistakes strategy
During speech NAACP-sponsored rally charged
West Indian Borough President Ilan Jack is West Indian
Negro the district
This injecting nationality certainly anything
better relations between Amecanbon and wesIndan born Ne
groes.
of controlled great
extent by outside The
the Negroes
American Negroes I've written occasions little
the form Of seowned economic show their
Negroes politically aggressive than Amer
Negroes a result Negro
omic and political influence spurred
by their political leaders, large
cause of his injecting the nationality that
more than his large congregation to bail him
The second mistake when the Congressman suggested
Tammany bgwig sapo Borough
Jack had better walk
much Powell said We're not going to give them the same treatment
the Communists gave will
make it mighty uncomfortable for
Hulan Jack lives Harlem. he would be
subjected kind
need about
Harlem anyhow, eas publicly
AS write this column the Tammany political machine an
octopus with myriad enaces
Robert Wagner practice Interfere I'm
local primary contests" The quiet Tammany
quiet Something cooking downtown range
Can upset political stranglehod
on Democratic politics in New York; Has that
questions will be an
swered in the coming months
This column completed mailing 10 Minneapolis
late last Monday night spent part Of the day
on Sunday discussing the Powell people some
them Congressman violently opposed 10
him The opinion seemed part who hate the
man. that he has chance being Independent Mon
day evening talked has been
an influential Democrat many years
He said he thought Adam spite tremendous
pressure against him Tammany They'll get
MN sooner or later told him that thought Congressman
made mistake by injecting campaign
Tuesday morning bulletins OF the dav an
nounced that the NAACP had years Of close
association with the politician NAACP apparently
furious at the having political ogapz
onal rally 10 further his personal Tamany Han
charged that Powell guilty resortng extreme racas
10y using the West Indian sur against Huan
Indian leaders,
It effect the NAACP action will have nm
this entire that tailor made for the Corrad
70 step IN and cause even more disruption feelings dsuny