The entire nation had its eyes focused on Cleveland during the months preceding the final election that was final dictator of whether Stokes or Taft would win the election. Whether pulling for or against Stokes, opinions were innumerable.
TIME Magazine
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"Hey! We got ourselves a mayor!" cried a white college student from New York. "We did it! We did it!" exulted a middle-aged Negro man. "Amen, amen," murmured an elderly Negro woman, tears starting from her eyes. It was 3:02 a.m. at a downtown hotel, and Cleveland, the nation's tenth biggest city, had just chosen as its mayor Carl Burton Stokes, great-grandson of a slave, over Seth Taft, grandson of a President."
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Everett Chandler; Assistant Chief Prosecutor under Stokes
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"It was an interesting time when Carl was elected back in ’67. Cleveland was something else before then, but as a result straightened out for the better from the election."
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"I think just merely by his being around and managing to appoint the right people to different places, this worked out well for the city."
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