The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-03-04
Peoples Committee
Named To Leod Fight;
Edwin White Is Member

JACkSON, MISS, March mis-
sissippi Democratic leaders Monday
served notice on the national party
that the price of the states contin-
ued support will be nomination OF
standard bearers who will take san
open and positive stand for states
rights and a promise to fight against
President Truman's so-called civil
rights program"
The action was taken by the Dem
ocratic State Executive Committee
which launched a campaign to elect
delegates to the national convention
and presidential electors who will
stand "hitched" to that demand.
Pledge Withdrawal
The committee will seek delegates
pledged to withdraw from the ma
tional convention If the party refuses
to abandon its anti-South program.
These delegates would then hold a
separate convention of true Dem
ocrats" to nominate candidates
pledged to uphold Jeffersonian prin-
ciples.
An elaborate campaign to carry
the fight to the crossroads through a
| 5O-member Peoples Committee and
a 21-member campaign" group was
| approved at the meeting over which
| Chairman Herbert Holmes of Sena-
tobia presided.
Named to the Peoples Committee
Aere the Hon. Edwin White, Lexing-
ton attorney, from the Third Con-
gressionol District, and Miss Huzel
Brunnon, Hclmes County editor,
from the stute-ut-lurge.
Miss Brannon served as a dele
gated from the state of Mississippi
| at the 1914 National Democratic
| convention in Chicago. The state de-
legation that year went uninstructed
with the objective of defeating Hen
ry Wallace's nomination for vice
| president on the Democratic ticket.
Chairman Holmes also set the
! state convention for June %, sug-
| gested to county executive commit
| tees that county meetings be held
may 25, and that precinct elections
| for delegates be called for May l8.
A bill to clarity the date-setting of
| these conventions will be intro
duced by Senator Nate Williamson
| of Meridian, a member of the COM
mittee.
Tubb Authors Resolution
T. j. Tubb of West Point, au-
thored a 11-point resolution setting
up the Mississippi plan of action.
1t was unanimously adopted after
being seconded by ]. M. Talbot OF
Clarksdale.
Campaign slogan of the move
ment, which will be made nation
wide. is, Lets give the Govern
ment back to the people and the
states" w. w. Wright, Jackson
business executive, was named
chairman of the Campaign Com
mittee. and Governor Wright deslg-
mated honorary chairman OF the
Peoples Committee.
Chairman Holmes said in event
the campaign is lost, the plan is to
withhold the Southern ELECTORAL
votes and force the presidential
election into the House in which
each state will have one vote. He
said he felt the Midwest would
line up with the South, and in that
way secure the election OF a Presl-
dent who would not continue to dis
regard states rights.
High points Of the unanimously
adopted resolution declared:
''That positive and militant ac-
ton must be taken now to make
sure that Mississippi's delegates to
the National Democratic Conven-
ton and Mississippi's nine presiden-
tial electors will stand firmly Tor
, states rights and, therefore, against
any nominee for president or vice
president Of the United States who
refuses to take an open and positive
stand against the so-called civil
rights recommendations OF Pres
ident Truman.
THAT loyal mississippi Democrats
must be absolutely contain that their
delegates to the National Demo-
cratic Convention will positively
withdraw from that convention I'M
less the party embody in its plat
form a positive plank to the effect
that it will fight to uphold states
rights as embodied in Articles 8 and
10 of the Constitution and guaran-
teed under the Bill of Rights; and
unless they secure open and COM
plete assurance that the party and
its nominees for president and vice
president will fight against the will
full invasion of states rights as urged
> by President Truman in his civil
, rights message to the Congress, they
will SO withdraw.
i, Sepmute Convention
'That loyal Mississippi Democrats
{ must be absolutely certain that their
delegates, if forced to withdraw
from the Philadelphia convention
will be ready and willing so to do
even if the Mississippi delegation is
the only state delegation to so with
draw.
"That in such event the States
4 Democratic Convention will be re
assembled and asked to authorize