The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-07-27

WORDS.
After four hours Of speeches nominal
ing vice-presidential candidates Friday
afternoon one elegant looking lady from
Michigan remarked: II am so tired OF
these 'favorite sons | am ready to start
calling them some other kind Of sons"
Weren't WI all.
The majority is supposed to rule in
any Democratic gathering. When Sena-
tor Jackson, Indiana Democrat, who
presided over the 1914 convention called
for a motion of adjournment Thursday
night and got one that that was out
voted by the delegates at least 2-to-1 he
was stricken with a touch of deafness.
He adjourned. The delegates didn't want
to go home. They had listened to the
President and they were then ready to
name a vice-president. But Sen. Jack
son, Mr.. H%annegan and others who oil
ed and creased the machinery Of the
convention were not ready for the vice
president to be named. Henry Wallace
might have been named that night 4.
such was the apparent mood Of the dele
gates and the galleries, Of course,
were all for Wallace. One wondered then
how the man could lose.
The ditching of Wallace for Truman
should mo-. discourage too much the
radical elements in the Democratic par
ty, the Clio, the Communists and all
the other liberals that call the Demo-
cratic party their own. Political expedi-
ency comes first with politicians and if
these elements have suffered tempo
rarily or momentarily' while the Demo-
Gratis try to WOO back enough conserva-
tive support from the "solid south" to
as soon as the Democrats are sure of
staying in power four more years they
might surprise you what they'll do. . /.
just how liberal they will again be-
come. Didn't Mr.. Wallace, thrown off
the donkey in the middle of the stream,
liberalism has been further advanced
by the nomination of Mr.. Truman"
Some other Democrats are calling Sen.
Truman. the Missouri Compromise"
and the lesser of two evils the other
evil being Douglas.
Yes, we, the delegates, were threaten
ed with Douglas. After Mississippi had
officially decided in caucas to pass on
the second ballot for vice-president and
then at the end of the second ballot if
Il appeared that our vote would help
nominate Truman to give him our 20
votes; il not to give our second ballot
vote to Sen. Bankhead, Albanian as
we did our first ballot. Then the mach
inery started rolling. Chairman Robert
Z. Hannegan CAM back on the floor
where We were and contacted Sen. James
o. Eastland, Gov. Bailey had gone
home by then and Sen. Bilbo was sick
in the hospital) and later Hon. Walter
Sillers, of Rosedale, and Judge Herbert
Holmes, of Senatobia. According to these
gentlemen Mr.. Hannegan told them in
substance that IL their man wasn't elect
ed on the second ballot that they would
try TO run Douglas in and put him
over" or course Douglas was just about
as acceptable to the South as Wallace
and they knew it. So the majority of
Mississippi delegates voted to switch
our 20 votes on the second ballot to
Sen. Truman in doing so We aided
directly in the defeat of Wallace thus
giving the Democratic party one more
chance to stay in power. With Wallace
the campaign was sure to be a Lost
Cause and the high ranking politicians
that control the Democrat party know it.
None of them are confident in private
about the Forthcoming election. Again
they must depend heavily upon the
solid south to keep them in power.
Mississippi delegates to the conven-
ton voted 1914 to IL to cast their vote
for Sen. Byrd of Virginia, for president.
Gov. Bailey's half vote and Judge Jesse
Grahqm's whole vote were the only
ones east against Byrd, which may be
interpreted naturally, as a vote for Mr..
Roosevelt, since he WAS the only other
candidate.
Congressman Dawson, Illinois color
ed representative, made an outstanding
speech TO the convention on the open
ing day. He berated the Republican
platform considerably and said that the
eolored people of the United States
would not be deceived by it as they
knew the negro has made more pro-
gress under Mr.. Roosevelt than any
other administration in the history of
the country and they would continue to
give their allegiance to the Democrats
because they had delivered whereas the