The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-04-27

HAZEL
EYES
BY HAZEL


Can there be a revolt gainst the pres
emit Democratic party in the South? Can
there be a revolt against the Demo
cratic party in Mississippi
If the strong indignation expressed by
most citizens in these parts is indicative
of the feelings Of the other states In
the Southern section Of our country then
we can expect a complete revolt from
that party unless it is purged of every
vestige Of the New Deal.
Aged men and men of every age, from
every walk Of life, who have never voted
anything but the Democratic ticket in
their lives, express themselves quite
openly here that they will never vote for
Roosevelt or. his ilk again t. that
they are not going fishing on election
day All Of this is in Mississippi,
state Of the deep South. which has
always boosted of being the most dem
~ocratic state in the Union.
There is a strange silence on the part
of some of our Mississippi representa-
tives in Washington. After the recent
ruling Of the Supreme Court re. pri-
mary elections IL seems that every rep
resentative in Washington worthy Of his
name would have expressed himself
publicly and in no uncertain terms as
to how he stands on issues of such great
concern to every white Mississippian.
Congressman Rankin Is the only Mis-
sissippi representative to come out in
the open and denounce the New Deal
for just what it is. The others for
some unknown reason, have remained
quiet.
1t is time for our representatives in
Washington to consider the predicament
they will find themselves in should the
Republican party go into power in the
coming elections. Many Of our rep
resentatives, now chairmen of impor-
tant committees, situated in places
where they can be Of great service to
their people and the South, will have
to step down and give over to Republic
cams SHOULD they come into power.
The only chance the Democratic party
has of staying in office is to purge
itself entirely Of the faint Of the New
Deal and its half-baked ideas and get
q real Democrat to run for president on
. democratic ticket. Even then we fear
that the day of the Democrat is limited.
No longer can we cling to the party
of our fathers and our ancestors. We
are not forsaking the Democratic party
fOrsaken us.
Traditionally the South has remained
Democratic because of it's low-tariff and
white supremacy principles. The Dem
ocratic party has abandoned its position
on the low-tariff and the principles now
practiced by the Roosevelts and their
kind in Washington are as repugnant to
Southerners as the worst carpetbaggers
OF reconstruction days.
The South no longer is protected by
the Democratic party which, under the
leadership of the Roosevelts. has done
more to set class against class, race
against race, labor against capital, cap
ital against labor, labor and capital
against the farmer, than any person or
persons or group in the history of this
country. They have fomented race pre-
JUDGE for political purposes; they have
used the war as an excuse to further
their communistic ideas and principles
embodied in the New Deal which is
nothing more than the "New Order" for
America patterned along the same lines
as Hitler, Mussolini and Stain.
Mississippi's only real Democrats, be-
levers in free enterprise and govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people, are going to clean house.
Those representatives in Washington
c~linging to fourth term ideas and I'VE
cannot desert the party of our fathers"
had better catch up with the homefolk
in their thinking or they are going to
be retired very shortly.
We are sick of officeholders on the
public payroll, both state and federal,
saying we've got to keep Roosevelt
party in power" We're sick of the god
they worship, MI. hooseVeit, anu MS
chief lady. If they (the officeholdersl
don't shut up we're going to get rid Of
them too. The chief concern OF almost
all the few persons in Mississippi who
still talk Roosevelt are the fat salaries
they are drawing from the public
trough.
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Over in Alabama Sem. Lister Hill,
GRAND boy of the New Deal. is having
the fight of his life trying to persuade