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IIocsij!e(Omtinued rrom Pis* 1)date and wanted his statement back.Declaring that be Qualified sim-ply as A. S. Scott. the candidate stated that the Democratic exec-, utive committee refuted to allow I it to remain that way. but added 'a racial tag to his name and are I making it a contest between black i and white.Fearing that solid minority vote would elect Scott, the committee meeting was called as soon 1,'as it became known that Scott | had qualified- The committee .nominated El Almand for coroner and left the other candidates | as independents.; Scott, who said he didn’t know ; w here the committee s reversal left him. stated that he did not want to make a racial issue of the affair. [ i\His Brother's ViewC. A Scott, editor of the At-: lanta Daily World, and brother of Scott, said hn paper would not Cl support him becaii.se: . po*i do not think it expedient for tio eolored persons lo run for public be ofTicc at this stage of the State's!—; political development**In New York. lister B. Granger. National Urban League executive jsecretary, said, events in Georgia! were “a tragic instance that our international aims are frustrated by contradictions at home.Stand Pat•Criticisms should be leveled at the forces facing Scott rather than ;at him.” he added, j Declaring that Scott should!• stand pat, Roy- Wilkins, assistant] 'executive secretary of the NAACP.i said the incident was another ease !of Talmadge's intimidatioh of I Georgia s minority citizens., Also expressing a hope that Scott would stay in the race was jHoger Baldwin. American Civil •1.liberties Union executive secre-t tary. who thought the matter j j might be of concern to the Union I because it appears to be a viola-‘ tion of Federal law. jThe coroners ofTice was leftr vacant recently when Mrs. Paul Donehoo. whose term was until, 1048. resigned.Withdrawal Not OfficialKugenc Gunby. Fulton County Ordinary (clerk». has said that) rScott’s name would remain on ihe ballot unless he personally came to the Ordinary ofTice and write a statement of withdrawal on his qualification blank.He said . he had decided that Scott's withdrawal notice, penciled on a scrap of paper at the request of the County committee, was not official.9irA A-I.-J . I
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, Oct 19, 1946
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