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...aged Negro man. "Amen, amen," murmured an elderly Negro woman, tears starting from her eyes. It was 3:02 a.m. at a downtown hotel, and Cleveland, the nation's tenth biggest city, had just chosen as its mayor Carl Burton Stokes, great-grandson of a slave, over Seth Taft, grandson of a President...
...ardent conservative, so far out, I secretly suspect that Taft was the guiding light behind the Politburo. I loved your article on Buckley, as much as I love the man himself...
...integrated crowd of 1,100, gathered to hear the candidates debate, greeted the charge with boos and derision. State Representative Stokes, 40, was visibly shaken by the reaction. Attorney Taft was hopping mad. "Well, well, well," gritted Taft, 44. "It seems the race issue is with...
Surprising Guts. The campaign meanwhile has been slipping farther into irrelevance. While Stokes gibes at Taft for his monied background, Taft has hardly uplifted the campaign by harping on "carpetbagger" donations to Stokes from "people like Sammy Davis Jr." Nevertheless, the guttersniping has rebounded in Taft's favor, unstarching his early do-gooder image and unlimbering his political muscle. His record as a civil rights advocate is well known, and the unexpected vigor of his campaign has been impressive. "I think Stokes pushed him too far," said a Negro. "Taft has surprising guts...
Even so, Stokes has retained widespread support among Cleveland's establishment. The Plain Dealer strongly reaffirmed its earlier endorsement of him as "the skilled professional" against Taft "the pleasant amateur." The Democratic Party has given Stokes enthusiastic backing, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Teamsters Union are for him, and he continues to enjoy overwhelming popularity among the city's 120,000 registered Negroes (v. 200,000 whites). "I can lose the election only if I make a big mistake," says Stokes. Some of his supporters are worried that he already...