The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-10-28
Citizens Are Urged
10 Go To Polls On
Tuesday, And Vote
RoIIy For Lead;
States Fighters
Electors Listed


Electors Listed
All qualified voters are this
week being urged by interested
officials to 60 to the polls and
vote IN the general election, Tues
day, November 2. Poll tax re-
celpts will not be required.
States Rights Democrats. which
have been the most active in the
county throughout the campaign,
and as early as last spring, are
at the last minute substituting an
elector on their ballot Names
OF the ballot for the other parties
are also being listed by the vari-
Gus parties, in an about effort
to gather votes.
Vote On Amendments
To be vote on in this state.
besides the presidential electors.
are two proposed constitutional
amendments which Q would
change the present bi-ennual ses-
slons of the legislature to yearly
sessions, and (2) would place up-
on the shoulders of county elec-
ton commissioners the determi-
nation of whether or not a citi-
zen is "of good moral character.n
Electors of the various parties
as named on the official ballot of
hte state of Mississippi will be
Mississippi Democratic party,
pledged to vote for j. Strom
Thurmond for president and
Fielding L. Wright, for vice pre-
sldent-Murphy Thomas Jr., Jack
Frost, Frank Everett, Hurd Hor-
ton, Walter Dent May, Jesse
Byrd, Mrs. Julius Brent. Edmund
Taylor, and Clarence Morgan.
Candidates Listed
Candidates pledged to vote for
Harry S. Truman for president,
and Alben w. Barley for vice
president, nominees of the Ma
tional Democratic party. are: w.
I. Helms, w. r. Creel, Forrest A.
Jackson, DAVIS B. Gore. Mrs. w.
II. Weathersby. Phillip E Null
len, John G. Atwood. John w.
Scott, and D. Lonnie Hardin.
Nominees of the Independent
Republican party of Mississippi
pledged to vote for Thomas E.
Dewey for president and Earl
Warren for vice president are:
Roy Russell, Nelson Taylor,
George L. Sheldon. J. J. Reginald.
Fred Grimes, j. G. Carr, w. H.
Ellard, Ralph Haxton, and G. S.
Goodman.
Nominees Of the Republican
party of the State of Mississippi
pledged to vote for Thomas E.
Dewey for president and Early
rem for vice president are: F. M.
OShea, j. C.Feazell, Vernon Dah-
nner, j. L. Peach. F. w. Hale, r.
A. Whelan, E. F. Shanks, c. v.
Taylor. and j., H. Gearhart.
Independents Nomed
Independent candidates pledg-
ed to vote for Henry A. Wallace
for president and Glen H Taylor
for vice president, nominees OF
the Progressive party of America
are: j. Lewis Henderson, Frank L.
Armistead, Robert Knox Wansl-
ey, Thomas Armstrong, Gus 9TH,
Earl B. Brown, and Clark H. Will
son.
All electors in a given party
must be voted for, in order that
the ballot can be counted.
Only candidates running for
United States senator and con-
gresham of the third district are
James 0. Eastland and William
M. Wilmington, respectively; and
for supreme court judge, Julian
P. Alexander and Percy Mercer
Lee, Sr.
Change Pointed Out
States Fighters have urged
voters to be especially cognizant
of the fact that the name of Mrs.
Julius Brent, who was this week
on the ballot for her
late husband, Julius Brent, must
be written in longhand on the
ballot just under the list
of printed Mississippi Democratic
electors, and urge voters to place
an (x) in the space designated for
that purpose.
Mississippi Democratic electors
appear at the top OF, the official
ballot and are designated as
pledged to Thurmond and Wright
County election returning Off
GERS are urged to telephone into
the ADVERTISER office their re-
turns as soon as they have been
tailed