Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1936, Page 8

PRAVER IS SMITH'S NEED, PASTOR SAYS itolored Minister Declares Walkout Incident Is “Un- N : fortunate.” By the Assoctated Press. * PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—The “walkout of South Carolina’s Senator lison D. Smith on the Democratic ational Convention yesterday when a olored minister offered the invocation *was interpreted by the minister today as “simply an indication that Brother JBmith needs more prayer.” 4 Smith, a cotton planter, who has | fgerved 27 years in the Senate, said he | Swould walkout “whenever a Negro has @ part” in the convention proceedings. % Rev, Marshall Shepard, pastor of the Baptist Church here, who offered the rayer, commented: “If that is the way he feels, I don't “see what he can do. If he goes to the “"Republican party he will find Negroes #n their convention and if he goes m( “the Socialists or any left-wing parties | *he will find them ever more important n the activities. “If he is looking for a party without Negroes it looks like he will have to <form his own little party right there | 4n South Carolina.” : Pastor Not “Bitter.” Questioned by newsmen on his per- sonal reaction, Shepard said he was ““not bitter,” but thought the incident J“unfortunate.” “Rather than being bitter about it,” Uhe continued, “I feel sympathy and pity for him and pray to God that he may be emancipated from his prej- udices.” Officials said 32 Negroes have been | seated at the convention. They said Pennsylvania has its first Negro Democratic delegate at large. { He is from Pittsburgh. Kansas has the first Negro woman i.to sit as a district delegate. West Virginia has two Negro alter- “nates at large. »+ Other States said by officials to _have Negroes seated in their delega- tions include % California, Illinois, souri and New York A Officials said it was impossible to “issue a list of the Negro delegates’ wnames, as no effort had been made to £ compile one. » Officials said it was the first time »8 colored person ever had offered “prayer at a Democratic convention. »Even as Smith and one or two others “from the South Carolina delegation ,strode toward the door the minister ¢finished his prayer and the band| A#wung into the strains of “Dixie.” % The combination brought wry com- “ments from other Southern delegates, | but only Smith voiced his resentment | -publxrl\ Indiana, Mis- CHURCH OF GOD ELECTS SULLIVAN AS PRESIDENT Ballot Climaxes Two-Day Session of Bible School at West- minster. By the Ascociated Press. ‘WESTMINSTER, Md., June 25.— ‘The Rev. McO. Sullivan of Finks< burg, MA., was elected president of the Maryland and Virginia eldership of the Church of God yesterday. His election climaxed a two-day Christian Endeavor the church. Other officers elected were: Clopper of Clear .Spring, vice presxc dent; the Rev. H. C. Gonso of West- | minster, secretary, and Mrs. Ruth Shindledecker of Cascade, treasurer. convention of Safety Patrol Dinner. Commissioner Hazen and other offi- cials who have co-operated in provid- ing school safety patrols in Washing- ton" will be honored at a testimonial dinner at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Willard Hotel by the advisory board of the A. A. A. District of Columbia “MY BOY .- CRIED WITH RINGWORM How itching and burning of rin quickly relieved is -bn'! y this Mrs. C., Baltimore, Maryland : “He could not rest and eried all the tims. 1 wsed Cuticura Soap and Ointment and ufilulc‘du'dw.fll'fllumh without Cutiowrs.” Cuticurs relieves many externally esused skin troubles—helps nature heal more *ap- idly. Get yours mow! 25c. FREE sample, write Cuticurs, Dept. B2, Malden, Mass, trom AL SMITH SLIPS |Rumors That He Is on Way . Out of Harmony. Y ‘The outburst was the culmination | of a train of circumstances reachmg‘ “back even before the convention. In (the last days of the recent Congress “8mith was compelled, in the interests «©f party harmony, to forego attaching “to the Commodity Exchange bill cer- #tain cotton market regulations of his “own designing. ¢ Previously he had been out of har- mony with many New Deal policies. Then he came to the convention be- latedly after attending the funeral of Senator Fletcher of Florida, only to find his delegate badge—and the right to a seat in the convention—had tem- | gporarily been given to another. | As he left the convention floor Smith | {declared he was “through,” and would | 4*go home and do some talking," add- ing that he was “sick of the whole “damn thing.” Modifies Statement. Y Later he modified this to say he ‘would stay at the convention at least .through today to vote against abroga- §tion of the two-thirds rule. | Enlarging upon his attitude, Smith >eaid: “There isn't a man in America £ that has more regard for the Negro in £his place than I have.” But, he said, Lthe situation in the South, “before jand since the Civil War, makes it im- | s possible for the South to recognize and accept the Negro as an equal political # factor.” | i “Political equality means social Eequality and social equality means in- ‘ Ftermarriage and that means the mon- | rgrelizing of the American race,” he| msserted. | # He denounced what he called po- 7litical “catering” to the Negro vote, ;declaring the party didn’t need it. In modifying his earlier position, YSmlth said he had intended to say “he was “through with the Negro busi- ness of the convention and Il walk .ouc whenever a Negro has a part.” ' Gov. Olin D. Johnston of South mrnlml the State's national commit- {u'eman expressed regret that Smith ! had walked out of the session. “You can tell the Senator,” he . added, “that we will never be bothered with Negro equality in South Caro- lina.” PAST RECORD CITED. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 25 (#)— South Carolina’s State historian cited | Lrecords today as showing that United States Senator E. D. Smith, who +walked from the Democratic National { Convention when a Negro prayed, once {sat in the South Carolina Legislature | +with a Negro member. | ? A. 8. Salley, secretary of the State ¢ Historical Commission, said Smith sserved as a Representative in 1898-1900 falong with R. B. Anderson, Negro + Democrat from Georgetown County. § Anderson, he said, “was elected by { the white people on a Fusion platform, 4 to prevent the Negroes from getting all { the offices, and had served as a dele- rgate to the constitutional convention 4 of 1895, & Under present party rules Negroes {may vote in the Democratic primary sonly if they voted for Gen. Wade Hampwn for Governor in 1876, when ,ndicnl rule was upset. AT BETTER STORES Alcohol 20% by volume L.N.Renault & Sons, Inc. Egg Harbor City, N.J. | bridge Colby, | three other dissenting members of the | party last Sunday in a plea for the| At left: Aroused by the presence of colored delegates and other matters, Senator Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith of South g. the Democratic Convention. Here he is tearing up papers to indicate how Carolina, announced yesterday he was “through” wit disgusted he is. At right: Gov, secession of Smith and his group. Smith had no ticket when he arrived at Philadelphia, "and blamed Gov. omission. Inset: Rev. Marshall Shepard, colored pastor of Mount Olivet Church at Philadelphia, whose appearance as chaplain at vesterdays sesxxon aroused Senator Smxth Olin D. Johnston, left, and Alternate Daniel R. Cain of South Carolina, right, hold down their section after Johnston for the -—Copynght A P, Wzrephotos. terday morning and had not returned. | His sudden departure for an undis- | closed destination immediately led to speculation as to whether he was| | bound on some mission concerned witi | | last Sunday’s implied threat to bolt | the party if Mr. Roosevelt is renom- . maled b | am nul advised that Gov. Smith | has gone to Philadelphia or contem- plates doing so. It would be a very gallant thing of him to do and quite characteristic. Against Convention Visit. “But I am not sure that I would advise him to do so, in view of the composition of the convention, its| hand-picked and drilled membership, | and its complete submission to control. | “To address an argument on ques- tions of principle to a gathering which | | has so largely surrendered its thought | and political conscience would seem | to me so futile as herdly to be worth | attempting.” His associates confirmed the fact| { Smith left the cily, but unanimously | declined to disclose his whereabouts. | One close friend said that Smith had | gone away “for a rest” until Monday but that he did not know where he was. SUPERFLUOUS HAIR TROUBLES ENDED once and for all with the sure CROXON Method. Removes ail hair on first application, keeps you well groomed and hair.free dur- | ing time needed to com- pletely stop the growth.., -~ GUARANTEED SAPE FOR FACE, arms, legs .. . 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