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GOP Convention
(Compiled By Associated Negro
Press Staff Writers)
CHICAGO, (ANP) — Here ave
some sidelights of the Republican
National Convention held here last
week:
A bevy of pretty girls from Chi-
cagoland attracted wide attention
at the press party tossed by the
GOP at the Conrad Hilton. They
included Carrie Miller, Rose and
Joanne Jourdain from Evanston,
Clarice Williams, Brusetta How¬
ard from Gary and Mattie Smith
Colin, Chicago news and PR gal.
Dr. C. B. Powell, publisher of
the Amsterdam News in New
York, was busy with pad and pen
cil during the convention. He in¬
sisted he had been assigned to
cover the clambake by his manag¬
ing editor, Jimmy Hicks.
Julius J. Adams, former New
York and Chicago newsman, wai
a member of the New York dele
gation. He took the opportunity
to greet a number of old Chicago
news cronies while in the city.
S. B. Fuller’s $12,000 shindig
at the Palmer House left many of
the delegates gasping. Newsmen
wondered who scouted up all the
beautiful girls serving as hostesse
for the affair. They included
Berry Brooks, Marlene Fitzhugh
Rochelle Simmons, Oristene John
son, Audria Huntington, Sandre
Powell, Julia Futrell, Gwendolyi
DuBose, Velma Martin, Joan Wig
gins, Dorothy Scraggins, Ven
Rockhold, Aurlyne Jourdan, Jacki<
Fields, Cynthia Cole, Margaret
Whaley, Ernestine Ray, Doris Zol
iar, Arlene Sykes, Judi Albritton
and two of SB’s daughters: Ethe
Cameron and Jessie Spraggins.
Conrad Hilton, the hotel mag
nate, had to occupy one of his
two $300 per day penthouse suite'
because none of the GOP bigwig:
asked for them. When the Demo:
w r ere here in 1956 both were occu
pied, one ,by Stevenson (you re¬
member hj;n, don’t you?) and tin
other by a. wealthy Texas oilman.
Could it be the GOP conventioneers
were broke?
Everyone was expressing regret
that Perry Howard, the national
cbhimitteeman from Mississippi
couldn’t attend. This was the first
time since 1024 that Negroes didn’t
dominate the Mississippi delega¬
tion. There wasn’t a Negro from
Mississippi this year.
Rev. M, Earle Sardon, who pro¬
ceeded the march on the conven¬
tion with his station wagon, wu:
a sort of Paul Revere warning the
public blocks ahead that the
marchers were coming. His lea¬
ther lungs amplified through a
PA system carried his message far
and wide. Ip one urgent plea for
brotherhood, he said ‘ We don’t
want to hy your brother-in-law,
we want ty be your brother —
NOW.”
The Rev. Thomas Ellis, pastor
Lincoln Memorial Congregational
church, delivered the invocation at
the evening, session, Monday.
Lincoln is the first Negro Con¬
gregational church organized in
Chicago and many of Chicago’s
prominent citizens are members of
the congregation. The church’s
expansion program at present in¬
cludes building of a parsonage and
a community center.
Band leader Lionel Hampton,
appearing in I.as Vegas, called Val
Washington to determine whether
he could do anything to help pro¬
mote the candidacy of his man,
Rockefeller. Hump campaigned
for the New Yolk governor in
1958.
Charles (Lefty) Robinson,
Negro shortstop 40 years ago was
a delegate from Jefferson City,
Mo.
Louisiana's lone Negro delegate,
Jesse Dee, from New Orleans is
executive vice president and sec¬
retary of the Good Citizens Life
insurance company, and Rev.
Noah Copelin, the state’s lone
Negro alternate is pastor of Great¬
er Liberty Baptist church in the
Crescent city.
Thirty-nine year old Dempsey
Travis, president of the Chicago I
NAACP, is one of the city's ablest
businessmen. He attended Chicago
Kent College of Law, but while
clerking was "exposed: to the real
estate business. Today, 10 years
later, his first venture, Travis
Real Estate company, averages
better than $2,000,000 in sales an¬
nually, making it one of the larg¬
est Negro run realty concerns in
Uie state. Theie are 20 full time
employes, 15 salesmen and five
clericals.
Tiavii collects rare jazz records
(has over 700) and books on the
Negro (over 30).
Atty. William A. Booker made
a presentation before the civil
rights subcommittee on behalf of
the Baptist General Convention of
Illinois of which Rev. J. Alfred
Wilson is president. Booker a-
general counsel for the body which
is affiliated with the National
Baptist Convention USA, Inc., ask¬
ed for, among other things, a guar¬
antee of “more adequate represen¬
tation of our Negio lawyers as
judges on various federal judicial
benches.”
Dr. Charles D. Proctor made
such a scholarly presentation be¬
fore the civil lights subcommittee
.hat he was commended by several
if the committee members. Proc¬
tor, who was representing the
American Negro Emancipation
Centennial Authority, is a profes¬
sor of pharmacology and therapeut¬
ics at Striteh School of Medicine
ind Loyola University.
Alexander Barnes of Durham
vho is public relations director for
he AME Zion Church was the
inly Negro in the North Carolina
lelegation. He was an “alter-
late's alternate.” He is a
late in November for a scat in
he state legislatuie.
George W. Hamilton, an alter-
late from Milwaukee, told the sub-
onimittec that congressmen who
icrsist in denying the right to vote
o Negroes should have their eon-
tressiona! seats challenged.
Most state delegations had diffi
ulty ill rounding up their mem-
iers when they wanted to caucus
lecause delegates were busy in-
lulging in the frivolities that wen
imply provided for their enter
.ainment and relaxation. But th-
ituation was different with th>
Firgin Island delegation. It ai
vays had a quorum for the simpi
reason that it had only one dele
rate with one vote, Jose Shaubah
Mrs. Willie Pelham of Philadel
uhia who was a visitor, wore i
pecially made dress that told in
cords and illustrations the historj
if the Republican party. He
incie, Benjamin, was the first
Negro auditor of Wayne County
(Detroit) Mich, and his son i.
low budget director. She is a
•ousln of K. Washington Rhodes
editor and publisher of the Philo
Jclphia Tribune.
During the march on the conven¬
tion, several whites viewing the
proccssinii shouted "communists, I
communists”, but the marchers
gnored the remarks. Next day, i
a reporter in the American, an
afternoon paper, charged that. 10
percent of the marchers were
munists. However LI. Frank llei- j
moski, chief of the police security ]
detail, said he had no evidence j
that Communists were connected i
with the demonstration.
When someone asked Rev. Carl I
Fuqua, executive secretary of the 1
Chicago NAACP, why Mayor'
Daley had not been invited to the
pre-convention rally at Liberty
Baptist church, Rev. W. N. Daniel
who was nearby replied that “This
is a Republican meeting and the
Mayor is a Democrat.” A news¬
man overhearing the remark cor¬
rected the minister: “This is a non
partisan meeting sponsored by the
NAACP," he informed Rev. Dan¬
iel.
William Nunn of the Courier
was prevented from attending the
convention because of the illness
of his- wife, Mae, who reportedly
had a leg amputated in Pittsburgh.
I **71 year old Leon Thompson
did what many GOP bigwigs were
unable to do. He had a 15 minute
chat with V P Nixon, He aecom-
plished the feat by turning up in
the lobby of the Sheraton-Black-
stone hotel where both Nixon and
Ike stayed with a shoe shine box.
“How about a shine,” the west side
youngster asked the convention’s
most important man. The VP
looked at. his shoes and agreed he
needed one.
While Leon did his job, he said,
in answer to Nixon's questions,
that ......... he wanted to he t(V a « soldier BUIU1 ,., and alla !
fight for his country and wanted
to be a ballplayer. The job finish- \
ed, Nixon asked about the charge.
“Twenty cents,” Leon told him.
I he \ eep gave the youngster a i
dollar and told him he'd done- a
good job.
* 5 ou’ve done a pretty good job
yourself,” Leon told the Vice
President.
A Negro once served as tem¬
porary chairman of a GOP con¬
vention.
He was Major John R. Lynch,
S. Congressman from Mississ-!
fin SAVANNAH TRIBUNE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
ippi, who later served as U. S.
Army paymaster at New Orleans.
Majoi Lynch was temporary
man of the GOP national conven-
tion, held June 30, 1884, in ( hi-
cago. I be presidential nominee at
that conclave w$s J^mcs G.
elected on the Wurth' ballot and
t h e vice presidential nominee
chosen on the first ballot was
General John A. Logan.
The failure of Rep. Walter H.
Judd of Minnesota and of Presi¬
dent Eisenhower to mention civil
rights in their convention address¬
es stood but like a sore thumb be¬
cause at the time each was speak-
ing, the battle over liberalizing
the civil rights plank was in prog¬
ress. It dominated the headlines
and the conversation of the dele¬
gates.
Many persons here were struck
by the amazing resemblance be-
tween Judd and former President
Iiarry Truman. Judd's ‘give-em’-
Hell” style, his gestures and other
mannerisms including his vocal in-
flections recalled the old Harry of
1948.
In I860 when the second GOP
convention was held here in Chi-
and Abraham Lincoln became
the presidential nominee, the big
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later — when the Republicans
again met in Chicago and the
nominee was Richard Nixon, the
big issue was civil rights.
White House Aide Fred W. Mor-
row , s tribute p resident Eisen .
bower a t the convention went over
h»i|f except with ome Negro dele-
; jr a ^ es who objected to hi > reference
to s ] aver y,
Morrow said the measure of
j by racial the progres fact that can his be grandfather computed
i
was a slave 100 years ago and
that he is on the White House
staff. “The country has come a
long way since Abraham Lincoln
was President,” Morrow told the
delegates. “In the end, it is only
tvhat is done that counts.”
“No man has done more to
true democracy to the world than
Dwight D. Eisenhower.”
Political pundits, hers, failed to
understand the underlying cause
of the refusal of 10 Louisiana dele-
gates to switch from Sen. Barry
j Goldwater and make the nomina-
< tion of Nixon unanimous. It was
their way of protesting the civil
! rights plank in the party’s plat-
form which they couldn’t do effoc-
tively in the voice by which the
platform was adopted.
The 50-voice choral group you
heard singing the Lord’s Prayer
at the conclusion of Wednesday’s
session at which Nixon was nomi¬
nated was the Chicago Layman’s
Joseph La
Rue.
Though civil rights was
toughest assignment, the 103
ber platform committee had
one Negro member, J. Flipper
ricotte, a Washington
Yes, you guessed it, he was on
civil rights subcommittee.
A new kind of Republican
born here last week. He is a
scriber of the extreme
views of Rockefeller and
and is known as a
Republican.
Theie were two Mr*. Jack
ers at the convention. One
Jewel Stradford Rogers of
who seconded the
of Nixon. The other was an
ternate delegate from
Retired history professor T,
Curry who was an alternate
gate from Atlanta, enjoyed a
union with four of hi3
college schoolmates. Chief
was Frazier Lane, of Chicago
ban League, who was his
mate and classmate in the
class. Others were R. M.
Morehouse ’ll, who is retired as
Supreme Liberty Life
company branch manager
James H. Jones, Supreme
treasurer, who was graduated
1911. Turner and Mordecai
son, who just retired as
of Howard, played in the
field on Morehouse football
during their schooldays.
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