Evening star., 1948-08-31
Crowd at Charlotte Again HurIs
Eggs and Tomatoes at Wallace

if he thought he made q less inviting
target that way.
Finally, without having had any
part of his say. he shrugged his
shoulders, flashed a broad but un-
steady smile, and re-entered his red
Hudson sedan. Egg yolks, fried hard
in the monday sun, made yellow
streaks on the back of the car as
he was driven away.
In Greensboro, a youth in the
hostile crowd which gathered to
hear him on the courthouse steps
scored a direct hit with an egg on
the back of the candidates head
as he turned to speak. Mr.. Wal
lace did not wipe the gooey mess
away while he tried for about IL
minutes, with oply partial success
to make himself heard. He said
he didn't mind a little good
natured" pelting, but thought the
eggs and tomatoes might better be
fed to children.
Police Alert In Greensboro.
In Greensboro, for the first time
in the two-day-old trip, the police
were alert and conspicuous. De-
spite the raucous reception ac-
corded him, they made it possible
for Mr.. Wallace to retire in 'rela-
lively good order. Setting a pat
tern followed later in the day by
police in High Point and Winston
Salem.
They seized the boy whose egg
throwing aim had been SO good, and
whisked him off to the police sta
ton. Later. picnicking in park on
the outskirts of town, Mr.. Wallace
asked them to release the lad.
Il feel" he explained solemnly,
that 1t was not the boys fault
that he was in the grip of some-
thing bigger than him."
Mr.. Wallace, talking with equal
solemnity to reporters after lunch,
advanced the theory that he was
being pursued from point to point
by the same group who tried to
break up his meeting at Durham
Sunday night. He said several of
them had been identified in the
crowds which subsequently were
hostile to him. He apparently felt
they were the meters of all his
trouble.
Needed Little Inciting.
This much is certain: The crowds
which gave him such rough treat
ment at Burlington, Greensboro and
High Point yesterday needed little
melting. They were in the mood.
Mr.. Wallace is not the only per-
son to have expressed an opinion as
to the origin of unmannerly per-
formances of some of his audiences
Last night, at mass meeting Of
about 1000 persons in the Winston.
Salem ball park, about one third o1
the audience was composed a
whites, almost all OF whom haC
come to jeer. When the candidate
began to talk, they took up a chant
Of Down with Wallace"
John M. Gold, the town police
chief, suddenly sprang up into the
stands into their midst.
Don't you fools see what you're
doing?" he said. You're doing JUS
exactly what he wants you to do
It's the Communists themselves who
are getting you to pull this stuff"
When the crowd just laughed al
him, Chief Gold went on:
Alright" he said, I'm prove II
to you. Do you know who started
this Down with Wallace chantY
"It was a Communist, a Commu-
mist named John Hunt. And there
he is"
Union Publicity Director.
Mr.. Hunt, publicity director oi
Local % of the CIO Food. Tobacco
Agricultural and Allied Workers o1
America, stood grinning and fidget.
ing as Chief Gold pointed dramati-
caliy at him.
The point of this incident, it must
be said explicitly, is not that the
Communists or Wallaceites have de-
hberately stirred up the opposition
they have met here. No one in
that part of the stands could re-
member in thinking back on it that
Mr.. Hunt had in fact led the jeer-
ing or that he had taken part in it.
And again that crowd needed nc
melting. The point is two fold:
First. that Chief Gold succeeded
through his little drama in quiet
ing the hecklers for a while, and
second that he did hit on one great
truth. which is that Mr.. Wallace
is tine only man so far to have
benefited from the roughness of his
reception in the South.
Mr.. wallace was protected from
last night by the wire net