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...draw fire away from their own ambiguous an inadequate stand, Republicans have been pointing to John Sparkman, predicting he will try to block FEPC, if elected. Admittedly, Sparkman's civil rights record has not been good; it has been a reflection of his constituents. But Sparkman, who has an otherwise excellent voting record, wrote the Democrats' civil rights plank. Like Hugo Black, who was also a senator from Alabama, Sparkman promises to be a champion of civil rights, once away form his electorate. There is no reason, however, to expect Senator Nixon to change. Although he represents California, a liberal...
...Senator Harry Byrd has been picking apples and refusing any public commitment either to Stevenson or Eisenhower. Last week, in a radio address, he came out of his political orchard. Said he: "I will not, and cannot, in good conscience endorse the National Democratic platform or the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket." But he did not, in so many words, ask anyone to vote for Eisenhower...
...Senator Sparkman did not make public the tax returns of his wife...
Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the HYRC, who earlier this week challenged the HLU to justify liberal support of the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the basis of its civil rights position, charged that its reply consisted of "a shotgun blast at Eisenhower, Nixon, and myself, and completely evaded the issue...
Schroeder quoted Sparkman, "Let us never for one moment be fooled into thinking that we can depend on Republican help to defeat these measures (civil rights)." "And the earnest Democrats want to make him president of the Senate," Schroeder added...