The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-07-02

line of which is bitter in hat
red for Harry S. Truman, Presi-
dent of the United States Of
America, and I shall discuss
this one subsection.
1T says that our delegates
to the national Democratic
Convention in Philadelphia
must walk out unless the cam
didate nominated for president
and the candidate for vice.
president do PUBLICLY CON-
DENIM AND REPUDIATE the
Civil Rights program.
Ladies and gentlemen, that
is highly ridiculous and ignor-
antly impractical.
There has been some sort of
of a Civil Rights program in
the platform of both national
parties for many years.
with this resolution you tie
the hands of our delegates.
Should the national convention
nominate General Ike Eisen-
hover, they couldn't support
him.
''Our delegates might as well
bypass Philadelphia and go di-
rectly to Birmingham. Where
they are to nominate a South
ern President and in SO doing
they merely take Dur votes
away from the Democratic
Party and throw them into the
sea. Surely we're not going to
cast our electoral vote for the
Republican nominee who will
support a strong Civil Rights
programl
while there is no disagree
ment in Mississippi over the
Civil Rights program, here is
the tragic probability of all this
uproar:
Have you done anything to-
day, or during recent months,
EXCEPT CONTRIBUTE TO
THE ELECTION OF A RE-
PUBLICAN PRESIDENT?
IF that is what you want,
and / think some of you do,
then please accept my compli-
ments.
but are you sure the peo-
pie of Mississippi want a Re-
publican president?
Senator Jim Eastland has
made a violent, bitter speech
today, devoted almost entirely
to the racial problem.
"But he did not make one
statement about how during
the past 16 years the South
has made more progress than
any other sectioni
Under what national admin
istration has that progress
been made? The Democrat!
And under the economic philos-
ophy of the New Deal
And today il appears high
ly stylish in Mississippi to cuss
Roosevelt.
"Now, Mr.. Chairman, you've
heard from Long Staple Jim,
why don't you call on some of
our other national representa-
tives who are here today?
ASK Congressman Jaime
Written about the agricultural
programs for which he has
worked so hard and which the
Republicans have fought so
hard. He told me a few min
utes ago, give them the presi-
dency and it would really be
tough. The Republicans have
been trying to kick the prop
out from underneath cotton,
they have been trying to elm
mate the Soil Conservation
Service and slash the produc-
ton credit funds. They want
a high tariff. Four years from
now, after a Republican admin
istration has accomplished some
of those things. how are you
going to explain TO Mississip-
pts struggling farmers why you
contributed to the election of q
Republican president? How,
MI Ransom Aldrich?
MIR. Chairman, why don't
you ask Congressman John Raj
kin what the Republicans have
been doing to the IVA. In my
county there are still some REA
lines to be run to country
homes. But the Republicans
are trying to hamstring the
iva. With a president they
nigh kick it out.
Next year some old Itawam.
ba county farmer may ask
Congressman Rankin. why
can't I get my REA line?