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DAILY BULLETIN
Published Daily Except Sunday
1038 West Fifth St. Dayton, Ohio HEmlock 2172
Publication Office, 35 South St. Clair Street Telephone HEmlock 0351
Member Negro Newspaper Publishers’ Association and Associated Negro Press
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545 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT
STRONG PARTY IN THE SOUTH
BY A WHITE SOUTHERN EDITOR
Obviously Republicans are making a strong bid for the Negro vote in
northern states, Gov. Dewey’s record is not too good on issues which are
vital to the Negro, but the Chicago platform, on which he presumably
stands is more specific and more favorable than the Democratic platform.
In brief, it appears that Negroes should decide upon the basis of what
the respective candidates say during the campaign before voting in
November.
Negroes, and all other minorities, should also be sure they hit one
or the other parties so hard in November that they’ll know they have
been hurt. Minorities, and especially the Negro, do not owe either party
anything.
However, before going to the polls Negroes should consider a few facts.:
All of the things mentioned below are true, and can be verified by any
clever and impartial investigator.
They' include:
The Republican party has been in power, with some brief exceptions,
almost continuously since the War Between the States. During all these
years there has been no sincere effort to build a real Republican party in
the deep south. Goodness knows there is almost nothing complimentary
to say about Southern “Democrats,” however, it is obvious that the
Negro has received more benefits during the Roosevelt regime than dur
ing all the years since the Emancipatin proclamation.
About the only visible results of Negro loyalty to the Republicans is
appointment of Negro city mail carriers and the sending of money to buy
up delegates for G.O.P. candidates for President. (Needless to say, this
money never reached the poor people no more than Democratic pre
convention money ever reaches the rank and file.)
If the G.O.P. has ever made any serious effort to see that the Negro and
other underdogs in the south secured the ballot, his effort was so secre
tive that not even the Southern Negro knows anything about it.
As for the record of Southern Democrats in this matter, all there is to
say has already been said. Furthermore, it is too indecent to discuss in
“mixed company.”
The only time Republicans have carried any southern states in a na
tional election (in many years) was 1928, when the Hoovercrats went to
and fro, whispering that the pope had already packed up and was ready
to catch the first boat for America, and move into the White House along
with Al Smith.
Republicans have seldom had any effective help at election time from
southern whites and one wonders why they’ve never made any real effort
to build up a party in the south by doing something worthwhile for poor
whites and.Negroes. Furthermore, Republicans have never hesitated to
use, and encourage the use of the Negro as a whipping boy when they felt
there was the slightest chance to get some electoral votes in the solid
south. For instance, a day or so before the G.O.P. national convention met, i
southern newspaper editors received a pamphlet captioned in black-face
type: “The Only Sure Way to Abolish the Fair Employment Practices I
Committee.” Perusal of the folder disclosed that it said, in language i
which Herr Goebbels would envy, that the sure way was to elect John W.
Bricker, president. (Even non-gamblers would be safe in wagering that
this folder was not sent to editors of Negro newspapers).
Other items,indicative of the difference between G.O.P. tactics in the
north and south include:
Down here the people who say they are Republicans are the same peo
ple who most violently oppose Negroes, Jews and other “furriners.” With
few exceptions, it is the FDR-haters W’ho incessantly lambast the mi
norities.
One could go on for pages like this, but it’s unnecessary.
And, do not forget that Eugene Talmadge and Thomas Linder, two of
the most anti-social men in the south, held conferences with Republican
leaders during (or just before) the Chicago convention. A Chicago news
paper quoted the Georgia ex-governor as saying that the only friends he
had now wre Republicans and Talmadge has never denied the state
ment.
This is not a defense of the Democratic party it is simply a few facts
about the record of the G.O.P. in the south. (It would require a more
ingenious mind than the writer possesses to think of anything nice to
say about Southern Democrats.)
Meanwhile liberals, (radicals, Communists, reds, anarchists, or what
ever the status quo boys wish to call those who believe in the simple
doctrine of the brotherhood of mankind as taught by Jesus), must decide
between Dewey and Roosevelt in November.
THE DAILY BULLETIN
THE KITCHEN OF TOMORROW
The distracted housewife of Day
ton who finds she’s going without
hundreds of the pre-war conven
iences and services she has grown
accustomed to, will be able this week
to relax and envision Utopia in her
own home.
For Rike’s is presenting for her
study the “Kitchen of Tomorrow,”
the answer to every woman’s dream
for a kitchen that removes all cook
ing problems... and some problems
that aren’t even related to the
kitchen.
The “Kitchen of Tomorrow,”
which will be exhibited from Sept.
5 thru Sept. 18 isn’t a dream inso
far as plans are concerned. It’s a i
unit designed by Libbey-Owens-1
Ford Glass Company to point the
way for home designers when we’re
once more able to return the pro
duction of refrigerators, washing
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