The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-29
Thurmo d Wright
Electors Head
List On Ballot
sample ballot will be found on
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Jackson county voters will go
to the polls Tuesday of next week
to cast their ballots in a general
election to choose a president
and vice-president of the United
States, ratify the Democratic
nominees for U. S. Senator, Sixth
District Congressman, Second
District Supreme Court Justice,
and express their choice On two
proposed amendments to the
state constitution.
They will have their choice of
five sets of electors in the vote
for president and vice-president,
while the Democratic nominees
for state and federal office are
unopposed. The latter are James
o. Eastland, candidate for Sem
ator: w. NJ. Colmer, candidate
Tor Sixth District Congressman,
and Lee D. Hall, candidate for
the Second District Supreme
Court j~udgeship.
In addition District Three vot-
ers will take part in a special
election to name a constable to
fill the office made vacant by
the death of w. F. Stephens. The
names of eight candidates for
this office will appear on the
special ballot. They are Foster
Barrow, Calvin T. Bolding, j.
Varice Bosarge, c. R. Emanuel,
r. A. Helm, Louis H. Krebs, Eu-
gene Teddy Ladnier and l. F.
(Mac) MCGOWAN.
Vote on Amendments
The two proposed amendments
to the state constitution on which
voters will decide would provide:
The first, House Concurrent
Resolution No. 16, for an annual
session of the Mississippi state
Legislature. The legislature now
meets every two years. Under
provisions of the proposed amend
ment the annual sessions would
begin in 1850, and would be linn
tied to go legislative days.
The second, House Concurrent
Resolution No. Sc, would amend
! the constitution to provide that
a person, in order to vote, shall
sustain a good moral character
and that the wife of a minister
of the gospel shall be eligible to
vote after residence of six months
in the election district.
The ~so-called good moral
character amendment has been
subjected to considerable oppo-
sition on the grounds that it
would provide mean of indis-
criminate disqualification of vot-
ers of the state. Under terms of
the proposed amendment the
three election commissioners in
each county would be the judge
of a prospective voters good
moral character"
Dixiecrats Head Ticket
The electors of the Thurmond-
Wright States Rights Democrats,
head off Tuesdays ballot. They
are listed on the ballot as NOM
inees of the Mississippi Demo-
cratic party and are as follows:
Thomas Murphy, Jr., Jack
Frost, Frank Everett, Hurd Hor-
ton. Walter Dent May, Jesse Byrd,
Julius Brent, Edmund Taylor and
Clarence Morgan.
However, Mr.. Brent died at his
home in McComb this week and
at a special session of the state
Democratic executive committee
Mrs. Julius Brent, his wife, was
substituted on the ticket in place
of the late Mr.. Brent. Because it
was impossible to make changes
in the ballot it will be necessary
for voters to write in the name of
Mrs. Brent on the blank line at
the bottom of the list of Thur
Wright electors in order to
vote for the full nine Dixiecrat
electors.
Next on the ballot are the cleo
tors pledged to the Truman Bark
ley ticket, who are listed as nom
inees of the National Democratic
party. They are:
w. T. Helm, W. R. Creel, For
rest A. Johnson, DAVIS B. Gore,
Mrs. W. H. Weathersby, Phillip
E. Mullen, John G. Atwood, John
w. Scott and D. Lonnie Hardin.
The third set of electors on the
ballot are those of the Independ-
ent Republican Party of Missis-
sippi. pledged to the Dewey-War-
rem ticket. The group is headed
by George Sheldon. former Ne
braska governor who were de-
MED recognition by the national
Republican party at the Phila-
delphia convention. They are the
so-ealled "lily-white" Republi-