St. Paul Recorder

Humphrey's Critics

The "quick on the trigger" critics of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey who have been watching his every act since his stand for civil rights way back in 1948 at Philadelphia are ever alert for signs of a change in H.H.H. They were no doubt discomfited by his announcement last week that he planned to introduce another Federal FEPC bill in the Senate.

Humphrey's critics in Minnesota and out of the state profess to be terribly afraid because southern Democrats, notably U. S. Senators from that area, appear to be friendly to Humphrey. This newspaper believes the Dixie Senators have decided that Humphrey is not anti-South, but simply against any attempt to keep from minority groups first-class citizenship, their just due. The southern Senators like Walter George of Georgia have grown to respect Humphrey's ability and sincerity they know he's not playing politics when he takes the position that the U. S. cannot afford to withhold from the Negro, or any other minority group—that which is their just due as Americans.

Writers like Louis Lautier, NNPA writer and Earl Brown, N. Y. Amsterdam News columnist who are ready and willing to throw up their hands at the slightest evidence that southern Democrats have an increasing respect for Humphrey ought to spend some time trying to convince the U. S. Senators, whose states have large numbers of Negro voters, that they should get in and help Humphrey enact some federal civil rights legislation. This would be more profitable to the Negro than trying to embarrass the best friend the civil rights movement has in the upper house of the U. S. Congress.