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crowds down here, it has been DOS
sible to observe white men In his
audience standing pext to Negroes,
angrily hurting such epithets as
"Nigger-lover" at Mr.. Wallace. No
drop from their brimming cup of
hatred has spilled over on the COL
ored people around them. It is all
poured on MIR. Wallace and his
doctrines.
At Durham, N. c., where Wallace
supporters tangled fists with anti
Wallace picketers, no Negro in the
crowd took part in the brawl, al
though they made up the bulk of
the friendly audience.
To say this is a white-man's war
is in no way to suggest that Mr..
Wallace is not undertaking to fight
the Negroes fight for them, or that
the colored people in his audiences
do not believe it. But however that
battle may develop, they remain
almost uniformly docile. They ap-
pear as helpless as partisan pawns in
bitter struggle between the third
party leader and the States rights
Democrats, and so long as they
stand by they apparently are not
involved in its passions. Not on
the receiving end, anyway.
Mr.. Wallace's schedule for today
is typically rigorous.
He left his special Pullman car, in
which he travelled last night from
Birmingham, at S 80 am, Mississippi
time. Behind a large police escort,
supplied by Gov. Fielding L. Wright,
vice presidential candidate on the
States Rights Democrat ticket. he
motored to the Southern Christian
Institute, a Negro college, "a nil
away Gov. Wright had appealed for
the same courtesy to Mr.. Wallace as
to any other visitor.
Meanwhile, on the radio an early
morning disk jockey was broadcast
ing pleas to the populace not to mo-
lest Mr.. Wallace, and John Long,
president Of the institute, was re-
ceiving several anonymous and
threatening phone calls.
After breakfast at the institute,
where an impromptu Progressive
Party convention was held to desig-
nate the Mississippi electors the
Wallaceites hope to qualify in time
for the November election, Mr.. Wal
lace and party returned at speeds |
over 30 miles an hour to the State
House in Jackson. He had been re-
fused permission to speak from the
steps of the building. 1t was pointed
out that it would be a precedent for
political gatherings.
There, in five-minute visit, the
candidate presented the electors
credentials to Heber Ladner, Secre-
tary of State.
Mr.. Ladner said he doubted the
Progressives' convention procedure
met the requirements of the law
He advised them they might more
surely put their candidate on the
ballot through a petition. Prepared
for such a contingency, the local
party already has a petition pre-
pared, and j. Lewis Henderson,
Progressive State chairman, said it
probably would be presented to Mr..
Ladner later today.
Mr.. Wallace, meanwhile, was
dashing back to the Negro college
to make a radio speech. In it, as
prepared for delivery, he quoted the
Sermon on the Mount: Blessed are
the peacemakers: Blessed are they
which are prosecuted for righteous
ness sake"
THE time has come" he said, "to
strike out boldly in defense of our
great traditions of faith and free
dom"
The rest of the day was to be
similarly paced.
Appearances, possible speeches,
Vicksburg, Miss, and at Monroe
and RuSton, La.
State wide radio broadcast from
La.
Airplane flight from Shreveport to
Little Rock, Ark. Sleep at Little
Rock.
There is little doubt but that trou-
ole would have resulted yesterday at
Gadsden, and possibly at Birming-
ham and Bessemer, had Mr.. Wallace
sried to talk. At all three places, the
armed with their now
familiar missiles - angrily voiced
heir disappointment when it was
announced the candidate would not
provide them with a target.
Invited to Go to Moscow.
At Gadsden and Bessemer, Mr..
Wallace was on the scene in his car
when the cancellation announce
nent was made. The vehicle was
quickly surrounded by the bolder
elements of the mob, peering
through the windows and inviting
lim to return to Moscow.
At Birmingham. where some $500
we're gathered in front of the court II
house and Police Commissioner Eu-
,ene Bull Connor received walkie-
alike bulletins on the candidates
ldvance into town every five min
ties. Mr.. Wallace's car remained at
he rear of the building while an s
,ide made the announcement in
ront. {
There again, however, those lucky
'nough to find themselves on the
ide of the building where Mr.. Wal !
ace halted formed enough of a jeer-
ng crowd around his car so that
police had to spend some time clear
ng lane through them before the
candidate could drive on.
The strategy employed by the
Wallace group yesterday at Gadsden,
and BesSemer had been
planned in advance and announced
oy implication since the start of the
rip. The idea was that If the police
attempted to enforce rigid racial
segregation in the crowds waiting
Tor Mr.. Wallace. he would not talk.
Crowd Separated by Rope.
At the first two places, the colored
had been separated from the white
people by ropes stretched between
the groups. The situation at Bes-
Semer was somewhat different.