Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-15
Negro Vote Called
G.O.P.D Defeat Cause
BY ISABELLE SHELTON
Star STAFF Writer

BY ISABELLE SHELTON
Star STAFF Writer
Republicans suffered Gig
nominiouS defeat" last No
vember and may do so again
next year primarily because
Of the party's basic failure
to recognize Negro Americans
as first-class citizens" Re-
! publican women leaders were
told here yesterday.
The speaker was E. Fred
eric Morrow, White House
Administrative Officer for
Special Projects, who ad-
dressed the seventh annual
Republican Women's Confer
ence at the Statler- Hilton
Hotel. The three-day con-
ference. which concludes to-
day, was attended by 100
G. o. P. women from across
the country.
Despite the adminiStra-
tion'S brilliant record on a
national scale, President
Eisenhower'S philosophy of
democracy has not pene-
trated the local precincts, the
county and State govern
ments and local party ma
chinery," Mr.. Morrow de-
clared.
Until it does, he said,
"there is no remedy available
that will overcome the Demo-
cratic Party'S ballyhoo that
it is the poor mans party,
and-deSpite the intolerance
of the Somth on the matter
Of human rights that is--the
Democratic Party has an eX-
elusive patent on a brand of
democracy that embraces the
owntrodden and the
damned"
More Than Lip Service
Negroes will support any
party or individual who will
give more than lip-service to
their cause, and who will &C
lively preserve, protect and
defend the inalienable rights
of all loyal Americans" de-
clared Mr.. Morrow, a Negro
who has been on the White
House staff since 1865. He is
in charge of co-ordinating
special projects such as for
elgn economic surveys.
The Republican party must
awake to the fact that Negroes
all over the land are alert
and aware and militant over
the issue of first class citizen
ship" the speaker said.
I'VE can no longer preach
to Negro voters with any hope
of success the fact that they
should be everiastingly loyal
because of what President
Lincoln did. 1t should be
repugnant to the party's own
sense of decency to expect a
race of people to forget and
ignore the realities of the
time"
The Negro voter wants
visual evidence of the SINGER
ity of Republican leadership
on the matter of human and
economic rights, and this can
not be proved by the Presi-
dent alone" Mr.. Morrow
asserted.
Seek Evidence in Congress
eve must have evidence of
that in the halls of Congress,
and in the State legislatures
and in all city and State
endeavors, where we expect
candidates who run on Re-
publican tickets to stand up
and be counted where issues
and programs involving the
God-given rights of Ameri-
can citizens are offered for
decision he said.
Self-interest in the present
world situation also suggests
that this country can no
longer afford segregation and
discrimination, Mr.. Morrow
declared. I'VE must realize
that our attitude toward basic
human liberties here is care
fully scrutinized abroad" he
said.
I'VE too easily forget that
the minority at home is in
many parts Of the world the
majority. How can we dare
to preach the brotherhood Of
God in Africa and Asia when
we cannot practice the broth
erhood of man within our
own borders?"
Mr.. Morrow said he is
firmly convinced that his
tory will record our actions
today in the field of human
rights as having as profound
an influence on the goth
Century as did the Industrial
Revolution upon the 18th"
Balanced Budget
At banquet speeches to the
women last night Senate
Minority Leader Everett
Dirksen of Illinois and House
Minority Leader Charles A.
Halleck Of Indiana stressed
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