HYRC Leader Attacks Dem. Record on Civil Rights, Opposes HLU

Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the H.Y.R.C., last night blasted the University's "confused and confusing liberals" for their "inconsistent" support of the Democratic party as the "champion of civil rights" and "challenged" the Liberal Union to explain this inconsistency.

Schroeder focused his attack on Senator Sparkman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, as an arch foe of civil rights legislation.

The Young Republican president pointed to repeated "grandiose promises" of federal FEPC, anti-poll tax, and anti-lynching laws and charged, "In all but one case since 1932, if proportionately as many Democrats as Republicans in both Houses had voted for the various civil rights proposals, those bills would be law today."

He said the Democrats have "sold out" to the anti-civil rights faction in the party. Calling Sparkman's selection to the ticket a purely political move, Schroeder quoted him as having said, "I am against the civil rights proposals--always have been and always will be."

Speaking of G.O.P. actions, Schroeder said that 11 states now have FEPC machinery. The model for these state laws, he said, is the ives-Quinn Act, "an example of Republican achievement."