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...mayoral nomination in Chicago, Byrne had offered herself as a write-in candidate in the April 12 general election, obviously hoping to attract the votes of white Democrats. Astonishingly, she apparently did not see that her candidacy was likely to draw white votes away from Republican Candidate Bernard Epton and ensure the election of Washington. Last week, with key campaign aides quitting and former Supporter Ted Kennedy stumping for Washington, Byrne, belatedly realizing she could not win, abruptly withdrew from the race. Her spoilsport campaign had gone nowhere...
Still clearly behind in a city in which voters are overwhelmingly Democratic and 41% are black, Epton, a millionaire lawyer, nevertheless now has a fighting, if slim, chance. Running on the slogan, EPTON FOR MAYOR-BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, he assailed Washington's conviction in 1972 for income tax evasion and added: "If it were my minority group, I'd be ashamed of this candidate." Said Washington: "If they [blacks] get the feeling that this is going to turn into a race war, then it might turn bitter, evil and angry...
...Only half of the 50 ward committeemen endorsed Washington, who declared that he would not "grovel" for their support and pledged during the primary campaign to strip the machine of its muscle, city hall patronage. Park District Superintendent Edmund Kelly went so far as to endorse Republican Candidate Bernard Epton, 61, a millionaire lawyer who had some slim hope of profiting from the dissension to become the first G.O.P. mayor elected since 1927. And then last week Mayor Byrne suddenly upset all the calculations by announcing that she would re-enter the race as a write-in candidate, giving those...
...editorial Ms. Williams asserts that the white Epton's "plans for the city are nearly identical to those proposed by the [Black] Washington" she then concludes that all of the white Democrats who vote for or in favor of Epton are therefore voting on the basis of race. That is a fair statement--any person who votes for a candidate solely on the basis of color deserves to be called racist...
...Williams, however, neglects to apply that standard to the other ethnic group involved in the elections--the Blacks. Given that there are no differences in the policies of Epton and Washington, one must conclude that the 80 percent of Blacks who cast ballots for Washington were also voting solely on the basis of color. And yet no mention is made of this in the editorial Whites who vote for a white are (and should be) called racists are not then Blacks who vote for a Black simply because be is of the same ethnic group equally racist...