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Between the Lines
B' Bean Gordon B. Hancock
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As one moves along Richmond s
famous Monument Avenue, one is
struct by the monument to Stone
wall Jackson, who was mortally
wounded in the nattle ol Chancel -
larsville during the Civil War. In
one of the fiercest engagements
of the war, one of the soldiers
said of Jackson, "There he stands
like a stone wall,” while shot and
shell and Hell in a hundred forms
raged about him.
The name Stonewall stuck; and
it is by this name that he will be
remembered by posterity.
President Truman’s stand on
crril rights is one of these “stone
wall” stands. While lesser souls
are dilly-dallying and quibbling
ht>ti quarreling and quaking amid
uncertainties and expediencies.
Truman stands like a stone wall.
In sc doing he is giving this na
tion its most dramatic lesson in
statesmanship and moral bril
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Today be is paying with his
political life fnr his: courageous
stand on the civil rights issue. But
•the political life he is giving will
be found in greater abundance
when posterity accords him the
immortality that lesser men would
deny hurt.
We are being treated to the
sorry spectacle of two Republican
candidates, Taft and Eisenhower
sacrificing a great principle tax
political gain. Both Taft and
Eisenhower are willing to sacri
fice Constitution and the future
of minority groups if they can
only win the Republican nom
ination which carries with it the
seeds of national calamity.
Expediency as formula for po
litical success will not regain the
lost prestige of this nation. One
of the calamities of current times
is this self-same loss of prestige
by the United States which fed the
hungry and clothed the naked and
sheltered the homeless in the
uttermost parts of the earth.
Why this moral debacle? Why
do nations have this subtle hatred
of us in suite of our endless phil
anthropies and benevolences?
Why do we of all nations have
to buy our friends who refuse to
stay bought for any length of
time?
It is because of the thing that
Taft and Eisenhower are offering
the people—expediency above
principle. Taft and Eisenhower
know the justice and righteous
ness of civil rights, but they lack
he honesty and the courage to
ipenlv advocate civil rights, as
hey pertain to Negroes. Only
rivil rights do Negroes pose any'
problem.
WMr Taft aad Flirftwnr aril fees
The call of the hour in this na
tion is not for candidates of ex
pediency, but for moral courage
which Truman is evincing in this
. critical hour of our nation’s his
i toiy.
"Stonewall Truman” is a moral
redemptionist. Hear ye him! The
[ fate or fortune of Truroanism will
determine the fate or fortune of
■ our great and mighty nation!
Appeals For Christian Candidates
A prominent clergyman last
week appealed to the American
people to join him and his church
in a pledge to support a candidate
fnr the presidency who will work
lor a true democracy.
He is Dr. J. C. Austin, vice
president of the National Baptist
Convention, USA Inc., which rep
resents some 5.000,000 citizens.
He pleaded tor the aid of de
mocracy bated on color in Amer
ica Him the beginning of true de
mocracy based on Christian ideals.
It ms appeal Dr. Austin said in
part:
“I move that we do here and
now pledge ourselves to give full
and united support to hie candi
date fur the presidency of uese
united States of America whose
platform anri policy stand for trite
democracy, for equality of all
citizens, lor a form of government
vi for and by the people, for a
form of government which makes
us one national invidisible;’
“A candidate who will give
himself unreservedly to the full
filling of the purposes of needs
of the nation under our constitu
tion which promises full protec
tion and equal rights to all citi
zens regardless of creed, color, or
conditions.
“We pledged to support the
man who guarantees to each and
every citizen equal rights and pro
tection in his pursuit for life, lib
erty and happiness, and who
promises that every citizen as a
toiler or laborer in these United
States of America will be guar
anteed equal and fair employment
“I make this motion in the faith
that cur performances will coin
cide with our promises contained
in our Declaration of Independ
ence and Constitution. Anything
else makes democracy a deception
and our pretense erf Christian liv
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Nebraska's Senators
Of Charles H. Van Wyck, U.S.
1 Senator from 1881 to 1887, the
I late Dr. Addison E. Sheldon once
wrote: “(He) was the most hated
man in Nebraska politics—at least
until the arrival of George W.
Norris.”
Senator Van Wyck was indeed a
controversial figure, and from al
most the day of his arrival in Ne
braska an active force in the po
litical development of the young
‘ commonwealth. ,
When Mr. Van Wyck moved to
Nebraska in 1874 to take up
lands he had acquired near Ne
braska City in 1857 he already
‘ had made for himself a rather
considerable record as a soldier
and politician. A native New
Yorker, he had been a congress-1
man from that state for four
terms, and had served as a briga
dier general in the Union army,
commanding the 56th New York
volunteers.
In Nebraska he continued his
political career almost without
interruption. He was a member
of the Nebraska constitutional
convention of 1875, and was,
elected to the state senate for
three successive terms. In the
legislature he was an active ad
vocate of railroad rate legislation
and tax relief.
Mr. Van Wyck went to the s
United States Senate in the hotly
contested legislative fight of 1881. •
Senator A. S. Paddock, seeking,!
re-election, was opposed by half 1
a dozen candidates, and it was not ’
until the 17th ballot that any man
was able to gain enough strength
to secure the election. That Van
Wyuck was the winner was at
tributed in part to the powerful
support given him by the Omaha
Bee.
Senator Van Wyck was elected -
as a Republican, but from the be
ginning of his term pursued a
course so highly independent as,
to alienate strong elements within
his party. He was a vigorous
supporter of tariff reform, rail
road regulation, protection of the
public lands, and direct popular i
election of senators. Before the
end of his term, he was considered
to be much more of an Anti-Mo
nopolist than a Republican.
He reecived an overwhelming
plurality for re-election on the
preferential ballot, but was turned
down by the legislature in favor
of A. S. Paddock, whom he had
defeated six years earlier.
1 —
Iing a curse.
“1 offer this motion conscious
that the critical eye of the world
is watching America today as she
offers democracy to others while
failing to practice it at home. The
world is watching the United
States and not the state of Georgia
or Florida or Mississippi of Hli-i
; nois.
| The President is the represent-;
ative of the United States to all
the world. Therefore, we will sup
port a candidate for President
who will consider it the responsi
: bility of the United States to see
[ that the Amercan promise is ful
■ filled, and that the American
- dream does not become a night
t mare to its colored citizens,
ij "The United States cannot con
i tinue to be the leader in the family
- of nations if it continues to have
. the reputation of mistreating peo
.’pie because of their color.’*
Dr. Austin also is president of
i the Illinois Baptist State Convec
tion, which includes some 125,000
: persons and pastor of Pilgrim
Baptist church, one of Chicago's
largest congregations.
The Political Picture
By ANP
Five minority parties to have
presidential candidates current in
terest centering on the activities
'of the two major political parties
!—the Republicans and the Demo
crats—has almost dwarfted the
fact that at least five other politi
cal parties will have presidential
candidates on the ballots.
Most of the minority parties on
this year’s presidential ballot
probably are more to the left than
either the Republicans or the
Democrats. They include:
Progressive party, Socialist
party, Troskyite Socialist Workers
party, Socialist Labor party, and
Prohibition party.
The Progressive party, which
polled 1,157,172 votes in 1948 with
Henry Wallace as presidential
candidate, will meet at Chicago
'during the July 4 week-end to
formally nominate Vincent Ham
nan of San Francisco for Presi
dent and Mrs. Charlotta Bass of
New York, former editor of the
California Eagle, as vice-presi
dent.
Darlington Hoopes, Reading, Pa.
was selected presidential nominee
in place of Norman Thomas, the
Socialist party’s candidate for
some 20 years. Thomas opposed
any presidential campaign for the
party this year. Samuel H. Fried
man, New York publicity man for
the United Jewish appeal, is the
party’s vice presidential candidate.
The Socialist party once polled
nearly a 1,000,000 votes, but sank
to a measly 139,521 last time. The
party is assured a place on the
ballot in 18 states already and
expects to be on those in 25 to 30
states.
Farrell Dobbs is the Troskyite
Socialist Workers party candidate
for president. The vice presiden
tial candidate will be chose at a
New York convention July 17-20.
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[ Dobbs, a candidate for mayor
of New York in 1945 and for
governor in 1946, served some 13
months in prison after his con
viction with others i n Minneapo
lis on charges they conspired to
create insubordination in the
Armed Forces.
The party maintains that its
members are “the only true Com
munists and the only true social
ist in the country—there’s no dif
ference.” It expects to be on the
ballot in 15 to 18 states this year.
Tlje Socialist Labor party, on
the ballot as the industrial gov
ernment party in some states, is
running Eric Hass, editor of the
party magazine, Weekly People,
for president, and a New York
subway dispatcher, Stephen Em
ery, for vice president.
The party platform has just one
plank—“abolition of capitalism.”
Its candidates polled 29,061 votes
in 1948 and they expect to be on
the ballot in 22 states.
The Prohibition party’s candi
dates is California singing cow
boy, Stuart Hamblen, who said he
is a reformed drunkard. They are
expected to name E. A. Holtwick
as Hamblen’s running mate and
come out for a platform against
communism, universal military
training, high taxes, extravagance
and corruption in government and
the production and consumption of
intoxicating liquors.
Other minority parties which
have an outside chance of being
on the ballot in some states, in
clude the American Vegetarian
party, and the Greenback party.
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