The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-02-26
THROUGH
HAZEL
EYES
BY H1zel Brannon

Those persons VINO nave Deen
worried about boiling" the Demo
cratic party should not be greatly
concerned with such matters. After
all, FDR himself once boosted that
he did not always vote the straight
Democratic ticket, citing the time he
voted for Teddy Roosevelt.
Southerners are not boiling the
Democratic party, anyway. AS we
said in this column once before j. :.
it has bolted us.
The only valid excuse for a poll
teal party is to serve as an instru
ment whereby people of the same
principles and ideas may express
themselves in government.
Inc northern Democrats are as
foreign to southern Democrats as
people of any two political parties
could be. The interests of the two
groups are as far apart as the poles.
Thus the only logical thing southern
,ers can do is divide the party by
rdiin.4ig their own candidate a
liam OF principles who can be Deepen
.ded upon to uphold the constitution
OF the United States and govern the
nation as whole rather tnan by sec
tons or groups.
1t is generally conceded that SOU
thern people are in dead earnest IN
their tlgnl against President Truman
ana ms civil Rights program
that they will fight him to a finish.
The main thing for southern peo-
pie 10 guard against at the present
time. as we see II. is net permit
ting the professional politicians tc'
sen US out.
We can rest assured that the Tru-
man administration and the national
Democratic party will allow any
amount of money to be spent in the
south in order to keep the revolt
from taking away from it any cleo
toral votes.
The people must be vigilant and
guard against the professional poll
ticians taking over.
The only thing the politician is in
terested in is holding his office and
getting his patronage. He cares moth
ing for the people of the south /. {.
I.or our problems. He wants nothing
more than to keep on the Federal
payroll and in good standing with
the party bigwigs.
At the next convention this sum-
Eler we must be prepared to guard
against making deals" without
Lowing who is dealing.
If we don't we may wake up to
fine ourselves back in the fold and
Saorn of our wool.
Rep. William Colmer. chairman of
the l2-member Congressional STRAIT
ogy committee in the fight against
the proposed civil rights program of
resident truman and the Democra-
tic party. hit the nail right on the
head when he said: eve love our
party but we love our country more
nd the love of country should al
ways transcend loyalty to party"
Clayton Rand says Its a pity the
Republican leadership is so damned
dumb. Everytime the south gets ripe
for the Republicans they chunk
stink bombs at u.s."
Clayton was referring to the let
ter mailed out by Chairman Reese
of the Republican National Commit
tee to 10000 Republican officials
which urged two-party system in
the south as one way of preventing
what he called "infringements upon
civil liberties"
He asserted that infringements
upon civil liberties "are nearly al
ways to be found where one-party
system prevails"
Though there may be differences
in degree" he went on, that princi-
pie would apply regardless of wheth-
er the party bears the Communist
name, as in Russia, the Nazi label in
Germany, the Fascist label in Italy,
or the Democratic label in Mississip-
A."
That is nice company Reece is
T ting the people of Mississippi in
e Stain, Hitler and Mussolini.
Dumb is mild word to use de-
.eribing the present Republican
leadership
We consider it tragic that this
great country of ours commands no
otter leadership than now heads all
a the existing political parties in
this country.
We greatly need statesmen but all
we get in our national parties is poll
tics.
One thing behind England's pres
cnt plight has been the lack of
craftsmanship in government as
pointed out in an editorial in this
i7sue of the News. The same thing is
opening in America.
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