Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-10-02
A Voice Cries
In The South
BY Robert Darr

-THURMOND
We are all set for the big drive
to name the next President of the
United States of America.
The country would be safe in
the fands of either Messrs, Truman,
Dewey or Wallace. Mr.. Thurmond
and his sponsors. the Dixiecrats, are
trying to dressgur in Estates Rights
clothes - meaning the Right of
block of backward states to have and
to hold in political and economic
bandage twelve million other Amer
leans who happen to be coloreG.
Opposers of the Republican can
didate say that his party is the
party of the vested interests who
have consistently conspired with the
white supremacist groups in the
South to perpetuate degradation,
political and economic slavery of
the Negro in the south and to extend
that slavery to the Negro wherever
he goes.
Mr.. Dewey's admirers say that a
rebirth of the Republican party was
achieved at Philadelphia, and that
the Republican hosts are now led
by a cool, capable liberal and pro-
gressive candidate who, if elected,
would be President of the United
States, and like Roosevelt of the
New Deal party find a way to get
done what should be done. They
claim men like Mr.. Taft, Vanden-
berg and what have you saw the
handwriting on the wall at the re-
cent COP Convention and beheld
that monstrous Dewey steam roll
Ter rolling along, they scampered
out of the way and climed abroad
the band wagon instea dof pulling a
walk out" which would have been
approved by many as good radiance.
The sidewalk philosophers have
it that if Messrs. Dewey and War
rem are elected and Mr.. Dewey holds
forth for a whole term, we will
see a filibuster on the fi1ibuster by
which instrument anti-Negro south
erners and hence the enemies of the
colored peoples of the world have
used to hamstring, block enactment
of needed and just legislation -
strong anti-lynching law and many
anti-discrimination measures enacted.
hn1 {T,a& Ill
bursting forth of new, vigorous,
sound and progressive era of Re-
publican administrations unshackled
by reactionaires and selfish vested
interest.
In the case of Mr.. Truman, win
or lose, he will go down in history
as one of the greatest presidents of
tie United States, because the things
fer which he stands in The mat
ter of human rights can not be de-
feated. The enlightened people of
kmerica and the whole world for
tia matter, believe in those thingG
And they will see to it that they are
TOu,her SAT: > those to whom they
are denied IS of now rs fast as
The latter q ;nStrates by con iuct
an. otherwise readiness to e.
cept the responsibilities which go
with the enjoyment of the earned
fruits flowing from that which builds
and maintains freedom and equali-
ty.
Mr.. Truman's friends hold that
the Democratic Party gave itself a
much needed bath at it's recent ma
tional convention in Philadelphia
when it repudiated that segment of
the party which made bold, for
some readen hard to understand, to
have the party go on record as
the enemy of Americans of color
and hence against the majority of
peoples of the world. They hold that
the Democratic Party is washed of
its Deliberate element - for good
they hope. And that the Democratic
Party now has chance of becom-
ing what it should be an average
mans party, the party of the peo-
pie. And on the basis of Mr.. Tru-
mans fights for the people, they
think the people will express their
appreciation by returning him to the
White House for another four years.
They intend to do just that.
It is felt that the Southerners
who walked out at Philadelphia
signed their own death warrant when
nv their action they moved the
rest of the nation to give them the
"bad name" 81 "Dixiecrats.' They
illustrate by the story which goes:
And insurance man walked unlimited
ho1dor'c living