The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-10-05
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Prominent Alabama Attorney Resigns
is Democratic EIedor Nominee

as unconstitutional by The Soprens
Court Of the United States. q majority
Of which judges were Republicans, and
some Of whom we're Federal soldiers
! during the Civil War.
The National Democratic Party and
the present administration no longer
| believe in the wise philosophy Of DR..
Samuel johnson that government at
a distance lie tyranny, or with Sir Ed
mund Burke that "the greater the pow
] err. the more dangerous the abuse, but
rather in their own motto, "eat, drink
spend and make merry for what has
posterity done for us"
While the platform Of the National
Republican Party on the race question is
| repulsive to me, and, therefore, pre-
vents me under any circumstances from
voting the Republican ticket, should ]
otherwise be disposed to do SO, expert
ence teaches me that the South will suf-
fer less in this respect from the election
Of a Republican administration than it
will from the reelection Of the present
administration; and ! am further thor
oughly convinced that this government
and its people would be in far safer
hands otherwise IL the Republican Pres
idential ticket is elected.
For my own part, | should want a
ticket headed by Senators Harry Byrd
Of Virginia or Lee O'Daniel Of Texas
or some other Democrat Of their sta
ture, integrity and political principles.
The National Democratic Party
through the present administration, is
gradually destroying those sacred tradi-
tions Of the South, which have conduced
to such peace and harmony among our
races in the ease and felicity of their
existence. 1t is my firm conviction that
IL the present National Democratic tick
ct is elected, Negro engineers and pas
senger conductors will operate our
trains along with white men; all dis
t~inction between the races in hotels
inns, restaurants, theatres and public
conveyances will be abolished; ultimate
ly, white and colored children will at
tend the same public schools; and
/, chaos will envelop two races which for
generations have lived in close friend
ship.
1t is die to argue that Negroes will
not be voting with absolute freedom and
abandon in the primary and general
elections in the Southern states in the
next few years. The present Supreme
Court of the United States has already
upheld the right Of Negroes to vote in
democratic white primaries. In fact
our present Supreme Court is introduc'
ing into our governments, local and ma
tional a new order which is in such
conflict with accepted constitutions
principles of more than a half century's
standing as to make our whole judicia
system appear p~aradoxical and unsub'
,%,antial,
The present Democratic Party is the
Pied Piper of Hamlin leading the chill
dren of true democracy to complete ex'
t~inction by it's enchanting music ano
soft phrase of speech. In exercising its
feverish solicitude for the rights OF
minorities it is swiftly destroying the
principal rights of the majority. Like
some mythical and fantastic beast, it is
devouring with a carnivorous appetite
its own flesh and blood-its mother
whose body gave it birth n at whose
breasts it was nurtured for more thar
a century-the Southland; a beast who
with cunning but insidious means, Gov
ers its body with the colorful robe Of
Responsibility, but carelessly expose
now and then to the public the hideou'
outlines of it's overswollen nav.
The National Democratic Party az