Word: hatchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategy, identical to Hatcher's in Gary, was to organize the Negro vote solidly and chip away at the white electorate. It worked: his plurality over Locher was a comfortable 18,736, even though the Cuyahoga County Democratic chairman, Albert Porter, had allowed letters to go out calling Stokes a "racist Republican...
...last-ditch attempt to defeat Gary's Mayoral Candidate Richard Hatcher, the local Democratic machine set out to steal the vote in vintage Tammany Hall style. And the machine under Boss John Krupa, Hatcher's archfoe, was just the outfit to do it. As secretary of the board of election commissioners and the board of canvassers, Krupa dropped from the registration lists the names of 5,286 voters, mostly Negroes. At the same time, hundreds of fictitious registrations were added so that paid impostors could cast ballots against Hatcher. Since his winning margin last week was only...
Fortunately, Hatcher was one step ahead of the machine. He fired off a telegram to Attorney General Ramsey Clark urging that the Justice Department intervene; then, a week before the election, he charged in Federal Court that Krupa and others were violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His charges drew nationwide attention and brought demands for federal action from both of Indiana's Democratic Senators, Vance Hartke and Birch Bayh...
...before the election, a panel of three federal judges heard the combined suits of Hatcher and the Government. Gary resident FBI Agent Donald Lotz testified that investigators had already discovered 1,096 "ghost" voters registered in 33 precincts. The most damaging testimony to the anti-Hatcher forces, however, came from a veteran Democratic precinct committeewoman who first confessed to LIFE Correspondent Bob Bradford, and then told her story...
Peaceful & Fair. "They told me that we would have to cheat because the other side was cheating," Mrs. Tokarski said out of court. "They had me believing that Hatcher was a Communist. But what I was doing began to bother me. I just couldn't live with...