The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-03-25
States Rights Democrats Southwide Conference
Will Be Held May 10Th In Jackson

JACKSON, -(SpeciaD- Chairmen
OF the Arkansas and Mississippi De-
mocratic committees today issued
Joint statement calling for Confer !
ence Of States Rights Democrats
from all the states" to be held in
the Municipal Auditorium, jackson,
Mississippi, at 1000 o'clock a m,
Monday, May 10.
Declaring the purpose of the con
ference to be to take such action as
may be deemed necessary for the
preservation of Constitutional gov
ernment," the statement calls for
volunteers who will go down the line
for preservation of States Rights. In
stead of merely Dixie Revolt" the
conference will be national in scope.
Arthur L. Adams, chairman of the
Arkansas State Democratic Execut-
i've Committee, and Herbert Hol-
mes, chairman of the Mississippi
State Democratic Committee, for
mally issued the call. 1t followed by
a week a meeting in Washington of
Southern governors who protested
the support, given by some Democra-
tic leaders, to the so-called civil
rights" program of President Tru-
| man.
Invitation to attend the May 10
meeting is extended, in the call, to
anyone who sincerely espouses the
| principles (of an indestruct-
ible union of indestru tible states
and the right of local self govern
ment and individual liberty free
from undue governmental Interior
ence) and who oppose the (so-called
civil rights program" Only require
| ment for attendance is that those de-
string to participate in the confer
ence should register their names
and addresses, prior to the meeting,
with the Mississippi State Demo
cratic Party, P. o. Box 9l9, Jackson,
Mississippi.
In the body of the call-statement,
the chairmen point out that the fun
damental principle of local self-gov-
eminent is threatened by legislation,
now before Congress, which has the
active support of President Truman
and other leaders of the national De-
mocratic party "as it is now consti-
tuted."
This program, while aimed at the
South, is threat and a menace to
the reserved powers of all the people
of all the states. Chairmen Adams
and Holmes declare and, must be
challenged on a national basis; there
fore they call for volunteer States
Rights Democrats" from every state
in the Union to assemble at the
Jackson meeting May 10.
The formal call follows in full:
Coll For Conference OF
States Rights Democrats
The constitutional principle that
stands for an indestructible Union of
| indestructible states is the founda
ton of American freedom and this
principle embraces the right of local
self government and individual lib
erty free from undue governmental
interference. But there is now pend
ing in the National Congress a pro-
gram of legislation which if enacted
will destroy States Rights as well
as individual liberty and will in eff
feet turn the Federal Government
into bureaucratic police state that
will regulate and regiment the peo-
pie from cradle to the grave. The So
called Civil Rights Program is I'M
constitutional and beyond the power
delegated by the states to the Fed
eral government, and yet this dan
gerous proposal is sponsored and re-
commended by the President of the
United States, who is the head of
the National Democratic Party, and
it has the support of the leaders of
the Democratic Party as it is now
constituted. There is nothing in the
Federal Constitution which authori
yes Congress to destroy the inherent
rights of states and individuals, yet
the falsely-named Civil Rights Bill