Abstract

It Seems to Heywood Broun

This article presents the author's views on Judge Theodore Parker's opinions related to Negroes. The World, for instance, gave its editorial opinion that the organized Negro opposition had nothing to do with it. Journalist Mark Sullivan, in the Herald Tribune, allowed the colored faction the balance of power and assigned it ten Senatorial votes. lndeed, it seems to be the consensus that it was the disaffection of conservative Middle Western Republicans which accounted for the defeat of the gentleman from North Carolina. And this has within it a very satisfactory ironic quality. Until near the end Judge Parker remained exceedingly scornful of Negro opposition. He refused the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People the courtesy of a reply when it asked him to pass upon the validity of certain statements attributed to him by the press of his own State.