Arizona sun., 1948-07-16
Disgruntled Mississippians Walk Out

Recent events have proved that not only will Russians
walk out issues involving democratic principles but
once again segmens of the south INDUCED act of
cesson from the convention of their party Ironically
enoug this gesture on the part OF Its per-
sorey needed by all concerned There those present
who proposedy representing the will of the people,
but who for prejudcia and selfish eXempfed
by their proclamaons and reactions that they arch
supporters of Groucho Gundys philosophy which is
bon started to yell from night till morn whatever
it is I'm against it, and if commenced it, after
With hope that was visibly faint, Mississppians led
the South in deyng the of Civil Rights by crying out
long before tore its adoption weFe against It, & Ihs IS sane I'M
old lady who had fallen into the dashng of
by river Upon attempting to recover the body of his wife
from the swollen tide, the bereaved husband oddly
enough, (Whe feguards searched for body that logl
cay should have foated down stream continued to fish
up stream for his companion. Questioned to the wise
of his actions, the husband replied 81 searching
against the stream because Hattie always contrary
So when the roll was called for Mississippi
her vote for Presidential Nominee reply that
veaed she had played her feature roll and had tucked her
the convention concerned, Mississippi drown
ing in her own polluted waters.
The delegation been by the Mississp
plans that Truman civil rights sympahizer were
nominated by the convention for president their deega
ton would bail out for home.
Southern representatives spared opportunities to
bolster their contentious and to muster voting strength
They searched among the tombs and literally unearthed
the convention martyrs of States rights true democ
racybu to their disgust their emotional strategy of
them tnkng symbols far removed from the ideals
which Jeffersonian democracy estabshede
While verbally digging in the graves of Jefferson and
Jackson whom they say championed the of states
rights Southeners conspcuously stepped the tombs
of Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt who were martyrs
the of human rights
So the invisible skeletons held up for the gorfication
of the South by southern delegates only served to make
tona tide turned their backs the states rights issue
That had its hey day in the days of Cahouns South
Carolina Exposition and in the days when a part of
Americas thinking creatures human and another
part was subjugated beasts.
In typical southern fashion, vce-chairman of the
Georgia delegation Bloch thundered paraphrases from
William Jennings Bryants famous Cross of Gold speech
when he beloved "You shall not cruelty the south on
cross of civil rights Perhaps the Diete was too drunk
with the stagnaon of the polluted racial nustces of the
Georgia atmosphere to hold memory the stark reality
that few are the trees in Georgia that do have the
stain OF Negro blood upon them-bood that gushed forth
from the bodies of Negroes (many of them
all OF them unfairly tred) who crucfied at hands
OF MODS whose skulls housed preudiced brains Negroes
nave been crucified in the South in manner equaled
only by the crucXon of the lowly Redeemer who died
Tor the rights of all mankind
In the face Of this unquenchabe and rejecting stigma
one can justly conclude that the North nor the
East nor the West that frustrated the states rights am
6ttons OF the South but it the hesh dongs of the
South years bythat defeated her on the floor
OF convention hall.
1t was this that finally to the rescue of minority
race for the progress of what will make America nation
OF liberty equality and fraternity!