Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1936, Page 5

- FIXED PAY AL (FFEREDFORRALLY Colored Pastors Say G. 0. P. Prormised $7 to $8 Per Car for Attending. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 30.—A num- ber of colored preachers today exhib- ited letters in which Rev. Albert J. Mitchell, who recently sent $5 checks to a number of colored ministers, offered colored pastors a fixed scale of pay for attending a Republican rally in Baltimore. Mitchell, district superintendent of the Washington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Negro, offered $8 payment for cars coming to Baltimore from the Eastern Shore and $7 for cars coming from Western or Southern Maryland. The lettgrs were on the letterheads of Mitchell's Clergy Crusaders Circle of Maryland for Landon and Knox. They stipulated that each car must | contain ministers if the sum were to | be paid. Admits Sending 400 Letters. Mitchell admitted yesterday that he sent 400 letters, some of them containing checks, asking the Negro clergymen to support the Republican ticket. The checks were signed by the chairman and the treasurer of the Re- publican State Committee. The letters inviting the ministers to the Baltimore meeting were sent out October 3, before the letters con- taining the checks. The earlier com- munications said, in part: “We are inviting you to a State- wide conference of the clergymen of the State of Maryland to be held | October 9 in the interest of the Landon and Knox campaign. Rates for Cars. “We are in a position to say that those coming from out of town, the Eastern shore, five coming in a car, we will allow $8 for the car; from the Western shore, five coming in a car, we will allow $7; from South- ern Maryland, five caming in a car, we will allow $7. “Upon arrival give the 2t of the ministers coming in your car w the Rev. G. A. Crawley. The meeting will be called promptly at 2 o'clock. Dinner will be served to you free. “Among the prominent persons to be present will be his honor, Gov. Harry W. Nice, Hon. William P. Law- son, chairman of the State Central Committee of the Republican party, and other the party.” CAPITAL CRITICIZED AS POOREST HOUSED New Yorker Urges 4-Point Pro- gram for D. C. Social ‘Workers. “Washington is among the poorest housed of all the the New York School of Social Work declared yesterday in the third of a series of lectures sponsored by the ‘Washington Council of Social Agen- eies. Lindemann recommended a four- point program for social workers to eoncentrate on: 1. Housing. 2. A leisure time program for the entire population, but principally for Yyoung people. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1936. New York Vote Since 1920 In considering the polijcal situation in New York, a summary of the Republican and Democratic vote in tne last four presidential elections is of interest.” Here it is: NEW YORK MAJORITIES. 1920, Greater New York. Cox (Democrat) State Vote. Cox (Democrat) ... Harding (Repub! - 785947 Harding (Republica: Republican majority.... 440,946 Republican majority. .. Republican up-State majority, 648,983. 1924. 489,172 Davis (Democrat).-...... Coolidge (Republican)... 626,111 Coolidge (Republican). Republican majority._ 136,939 Republican majority.._. Republican up-State majority, 732,239, 1928. 1167907 Smith (Democrat)._.. Hoover (Republican)_ 714,102 Heover (Republican). Democratic majority. 453,805 Republican majority.... Republican majority up-State, 556,296, 1932, - 1455176 Roosevelt (Democrat)... 2.534959 Hoover (Republican) - 584,056 Hoover (Republican). 1,937,963 Democratic majority__. 871,120 Democratic majority__.... 596,996 Republicdn majority up-State, 274,124, 345,001 781,238 1,871,167 1,089,929 Davis (Democrat) 950,796 1,820,059 869.268 Smith (Democrat) 2,089,863 2,193,344 103,481 Roosevelt (Democrat) - the Townsendites. Dr. Townsend has urged his followers to vote for Lan- don wherever Lemke is not on the ballot. For years New York City has been oralty election the Roosevelt ad- ministration leaders insisted upon throwing McKee into the race as an independent Democrat against Tam- prominent members of | larger cities of | America,” Edouard C. Lindemann of | Democratic. It is the New York City slant in politics. It has been fos- tered by one of the most powerful political organizations in the coun- | try—Tammany. The Rooseveltians are | counting heavily on this fact. They are laying claim to the votes of the great mass of workers in the metropo- lis. They are aided by the leaders | of organized labor and by the new | Labor party, set up through the so- | called Non-Partisan Labor Commit- | tee, headed by Maj. George Berry, John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman. The Labor party is expected to bring to the New Deal candidate the votes of many of the Socialists, Communists and other radicals. They are count- | | ing_on recelving the majority vote | of big Negro population, located in | | Harlem, which is in Manhattan, They believe that they have with them the vast army of people on relief, ‘wmcluding the W. P. A, workers. And | particularly they are relying on the | support of the great Jewish popula- | tion, It is estimated that there are 800,000 Jewish voters in the metropo- | lis. Gow. Lehman is a Jew, and it | was in the hope of keeping the Jew- |ish vote in line for Roosevelt that | | the New Dealers insisted upon the | | Governor becoming a candidate | again, although he had declared his | personal desire not to run again. There has been much discussion of | possible deflections from Roosevelt by | Tammany leaders. So far as I have been able to discover, Tammany fis | | going down the line for Roosevelt in | the coming election, although old- | time Tammany leaders will do so with | a wry mouth. They do not like con- | trol from Washington, nor do they look with equanimity on the forma- tion of the new Labor party, brought | into the fold at this time to support Roosevelt. They look askance, too, at Mayor La Guardia, who is now | supporting Roosevelt. They still feel resentment because in the last may- | many's candidate, and so split the vote and made the election of La Guardia, running as a fusion candi- date, a sure thing. The registration of voters in New York City does not divide the regis- trants along party lines. There is no way of telling how many are Democrats and how many are Re- publicans. The supposition is that the vast majority of them are sup- porters of Roosevelt because the city has always been sc Democratic. Al Smith and other Democrats who are opposed to Roosevelt say that Lan- don will get a far larger vote in the city than is now expected. This is | the prediction which Smith has made to Landon, whom he met here Wednesday for the first time. Re- publican leaders are inclined to be- lieve what the former Democratic Governor says. In 1932, up-State New York cast 2,433,957 votes for Hoover and Roose- velt combined, and the city cast 2.- 039,242. While the registration in New York City has been greatly in- creased this year, the registration up- State has mounted to new records. ‘The Republicans figure to gain by the upstate registration, just as the HEIL OIL BURNERS DEPENDABLE ECONOMICAL GUARANTEED Wm. KING & SON Establizhed 1835 100 YEARS OF SERVICE 1151 16th Street District 8223 Democrats say they will gain by the city registration. In Erle County, which includes Buffalo, the largest political unit in the State outside of New York City, the increased regis- tration is 55,989 above the figures for 1982. The indications are that Lan- don will carry both the county and the city of Buffalo by substantial pluralities. The Republican comeback in Erie County began last year, when the G. O. P. elected its candidate for sheriff by 40,000 in Buffalo and 50,000 in the whole county. The Republican swing in upstate New York is very definite, notwithstanding the fact that the New Dealers are counting on mak- ing gains in some of the industrial cities, The Republicans have by no means given up hope of receiving a fair share of the Negro vote, which probably runs to 300,000 or more in the whole State. They frankly admit, however, that many of the colored voters have gone over to Roosevelt. Ocular evidence of Landon sup- port in New York City is found in the great number of Landon sunflow- ers worn by men and women, rich and poor alike. In New York as else- where, the Republicans have started an eleventh hour drive on the pay roll tax which Is to begin January 1 under the Roosevelt social security act, and conversation with some of the workers indicates that the drive is having effect. Not only are the FESTIVAL SPECIAL pro-Landon newspapers making much of the issue, as well as the employers of labor, but placards are installed in the subway cars dealing with it. Interest in the gubernatorial race in New Yerk is second only to the in- terest in the outcome of the presi- dential struggle. Gov. Lehman, the Democratic nominee, is a Jew, and the Republican candidate is Justice Willilam F. Bleakley, a Catholic. The election of Governor will probably run along with the presidential elec- tion—although this has not always been the case in New York State. In 1928, for example. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected Governor while Al Smith, the Democratic presidential candidate, was defeated. The Time - today until Tuesday STAR MAY ADOPT BABY Report Follows Visit to “Home” by Rosa Ponselle. CHICAGO, October 30 (#).—A visit by Rosa Ponselle, Metropolitan Opera star, to an adoption home in suburban Evanston gave rise to reports today that she planned to adopt a baby, Her visit Wednesday was described as an “inspection tour,” but she was quoted as confiding to the institution’s managing director that she was con- sidering adopting & bouy. Miss Ponselle is ia Chicago for & performance tonight. Caspian Sea Recedes. Russia’s government is being urged by 8 geologist to qjvert some of the - waters of the Don and other rivers ' into the Caspian Sea, which has lost 7.435 square miles of its area since 1925, due largely to irrigation works along tributary streams, Devoe’s Porch and Deck Enamel 922 New York Ave. National 8610 Extra! OVERCOATS tailored in Rochesrer 3. A consultation service for both | rich and poor on married life. Linde- | mann said the ratio of professional | ~headlining an advance showing of husky The Suits =iisted above people in Washington who have no intention of having children is “far above the average.” 4. An “intelligent method of han- dling the colored problem.” Social agencies must learn to deal with col- ored people on the same basis as with others the speaker said. At the final lecture of the series, to be given next Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Mrs. Harper Sibley will speak on “Building a Better Civilization by the Use of Spiritual Forces.” Lincoln (Continued From First Page.) & recrudescence of Republican senti- ment. In addition, New York City has its quota of anti-Roosevelt Demo- crats. Not all of Al Smith’s follow- ing of earlier days will be found voting with the President. So, not withstanding the great increase in registration, the Democratic lead in New York City may not pan out | 1o be as large as the Democratic lead- ers prophesy. 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