Evening star., 1948-10-19
Truman Warns
South on Voting
byP'rejjudice
Walking Out in Huff
Won't Solve Injustice
He Says at Raleigh
DEWEY's CONFIDENCE Indicate,
by Slowing of Campaign.
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Rv Ioeanh A Eax
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Staff Cerrespondenf

President Truman today warned
North Carolina voters against
exercising their right of fran
chise in the spirit of passion
and prejudice" as he took part
in the dedication here of a me-
mortal to three Presidents whom
the State claims as native sons
Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk
and Andrew Johnson.
Later today the President speaks
at the North Carolina State Fair,
then flies back to Washington, where
he is due at Sis pm.
In a speech that was interpreted
as bearing generally on the Southern
fight on him because Of anger over
his civil rights program, Mr.. Truman
declared that "the way to correct in
justice in a democracy is by reason
and debate, never by walking out
in a huff"
Then he added: ITO attempt to
correct injustice by disunion is to
apply remedy that is worse than
the disease"
Thousands Line Sidewalks.
The President paraded to the
State Capitol grounds for his speech
before thousands lining the side
walks of downtown Raleigh.
A husky-voiced spectator at one
intersection carried. on a one-man
demonstration for the States Rights
ticket.
Gov. r. Gregg Cherry, Senators
Hoey and Umstead. and Secretary of
Army Royal joined Mr.. Truman in
a reviewing stand to watch 30
minute parade which included, be-
sides military units, car of
Daughters of the Confederacy and
a Marine band playing Dixie"
Troops included the all-Negro 503d
.Antiaircraft Unit of the 82d Air
borne Division.
The monument was unveiled by
three kinfolk of the three Presi-
dents, c. Lawrence VIM of Hermi-
tage, Tenn, great-great-grandson
by adoption Of jackson; James
Knox Polk Of Warrenton, a great
nephew of Polk, and Margaret john
son Patterson of Greenville, Tenn,
a great-gre at-grand6aughter of
johnson.
Truman Draws Parallel.
Mr.. Truman spoke against back
ground of bitterness that has been
engendered by the civil rights issue,
and in homely fashion he drew an
implied parallel between the era of
the three who were honored today
and his own administration.
Each of the three men whose
fame this monument celebrates held
the Office of President in time of
trouble" he said.
Andrew Jackson had to face the
notification crisis, which was the
first threat of secession.
James K. Polk was confronted by
the Mexican War.
Andrew johnson was caught in
the mass hysteria following a war
in which more American blood was
spilled than in both the World Wars
of our time.
Says Acts Were Misunderstood.
Because they lived through days
when reason was overcome by emo
ton, their acts were misunderstood
and misinterpreted. And because
they were misunderstood, they were
libeled beyond the lot of most Presi-
dents. Intense feeling obscures the
truth. And so it is not surprising
that estimates of these men made
by their contemporaries have been
almost completely discarded by later
generations.
The message Of the three lives.
Mr.. Truman continued, sis not only
true as to the past, but is also en-
couraglng as to the future.
That message is: Do your duty
and history will do you Justice"
Recalling Jackson's firm stand
when the tariff of abomination in
1928 provoked the notification
movement in South Carolina, the
President spoke of "the pain it cost
him to stand against people so
closely allied to him." He added:
1T was his duty, and he did it.
80 A man more careful to preserve
his own peace than to preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution
OF the United States, might have
drifted into ways that would have
ended in the destruction OF the
Union.'"
Tells of Folks Troubles.
OF Polk, MIR. Truman recalled that
his efforts to negotiate a generous
peace, after the war with Mexico
met interference in the Hous in
such way as to draw the lines for
great internal conflict in later years
the Civil War.
The reference was to rider on
the bill making the first payment to
(see TRUMAN, Page A-4.)
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