Democratic National Committee chairman Stephen S. Mitchell and Republican chairman Leonard W. Hall issued this week-end separate endorsements of an appeal by religious leaders of the three major faiths calling for the avoidance of religious or racial bigotry in the forthcoming Congressional election campaign.
Mr. Mitchell called the fair election practices declaration an “important contribution to American democracy.” He said “the basic issues in this important Congressional campaign can and must be made unmistakably clear to the American people. Any attempt to cloud these issues through the injection of racial or religious bigotry should be denounced by responsible leaders of both political parties and by the candidates aspiring to represent the American people in public office.”
In a letter addressed to the six originators of the 1954 “fair election practices declaration, ” Mr. Hall said, “we thoroughly agree that America’s role as leader of the free world demands that our elections be conducted fairly, cleanly and without bitterness of racial or religious bigotry.” He added that he would communicate the anti-bigotry declaration to Republican leaders throughout the country.
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