Some Democratic campaigners last week tried to make out that Wendell Willkie was anti-Negro because his ancestors were German, and some Negroes charged that the Negro press was unfairly biased against Willkie. Actually the Negro press, which in 1936 was overwhelmingly for Roosevelt, who gave Negroes relief, this year is heavily for Willkie. Of 55 most influential Negro newspapers surveyed by TIME, 27 were for Willkie, 11 for Roosevelt, 17 had not declared. Line-up of top-flight Negro papers:
> Robert Lee Vann's potent Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 126,962), for Roosevelt in 1936, this year...
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