St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-10-19

gresham H. Carl Andersen and the former Joseph
Patrick OHara of Glencoe who during their entire
congressional careers could be found voting with the
Didecrats most of the time on most domestic un-
economic issues and all of the time on civil rights
issues.
Present Congressman Anchor Nielsen Repubn-
candidate for Congress from the district form
erly represented by OHara Is in point. Wash
ington DC. newspapers on October reported that
in the matter of the House of Representatives Dis
trict of Coumbias request for freezing anti-dis-
elimination housing regulations sought by two Re-
publicans along with seven Dixiecrats found the
move losing approval by vote of 10 to IS. Con-
gresham Nelsen whose native state has fair hous-
ing measure told the Washington newspapers he
didn't vote because he felt he did not have enough
information the matter to take a stand He
should have stood with the majority on such an
issue.
Does Congressman Anchor Nielsen want the
people Of Minnesota to believe he does not know
that the shameful housing bias in the nations cap
ital directed at all darker groups has cost us the
respect of nationals Of the Asiatc and African
nations because diplomatic representatives of these
new nations still find harsh discrimination in our
capital when they seek living quarters?
In taking this position Nielsen, as many Republi-
can congressman from this state before him, plays
the game of the racist Di1cecrats who are in the
Congress.
In contrast former Minnesota Third District
Congressman Roy Wier Democrat defed the District
of Columbia committee composed of some of the
same Democrats. When the committee set up a study
of the public schools Of Washington Congress- Roy
Wier Immediately charged the study was designed
to prove that school desegregation was a failure
and wrong. Wier while serving on the committee
honored the liberal name of Minnesota by shouting
from the housetops that the committees investga-
ton designed to discredit the school Indignation
program in the District Of Columbia.
Wer a liberal Democrat who with Blatnik
and Karth constantly voted against the anti-Negro
positions Of the southern Democrats, who connived
for 30 years with conservative northern Republicans
to keep a status quo In race relations in the US.
The northern Experimentation Democrat
informal "unholy' Congressional alliance blocked
any meaningful federal legislation to protect the
Constitutional rights of the southern Negro for 7s
years from 1879 to 1857.
This shameful conspiracy kept the Negro in the
South without the ballot and in position of second
class citizenship Without the vote he could not
cessfully protect himself family from discrmin-
atory practices and downright oppression Nor could
he fully enjoy the fruits Of a citizenship granted
him almost 100 years ago.
These are some Of the reasons why the in
teligent Negro voter still finds it difficult to vote
for any conservative Of either party There are
liberal Republicans whose positions the human
rights matter fair and sound but they too, are
rejected by the bulk Of the Negro voters because
the partys Congressional coalitions with the Dixie
Gratis which too many Republicans try to shrug off
as Congressman Walter H Judd is wont to do