The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-02

the case, James +. Byrnes. for
mer New Deal senator and lat
er US supreme court justice
and secretary of state, is now
being doomed as states rights
candidate for president come
the 1852 election. On casual ex-
animation the plan seems to be
marked by some of the same
fantastic patterns and assump-
tons that were SO apparent dur
ing the past election when j.
Strom Thurmond, presidential
candidate. said that anyone who
did not vote the states rights
ticket was either a communist,
pink or subyersiye.
AT the time we received this
warning from candidate Thur
mond, through the medium Of
a press handout from the Jack
son, Miss. headquarters of the
group, we advocated all good
Americans going underground
in the face of the overwhelming
radical hordes who were about
to take over the nation. We
were right, too, as the election
proved, for more than 100000
900 Of these subversives voted
for Candidates Dewey and Tru-
man, a right healthy hunk Of
adult radicals out of a total
population of 150-milllon. How
ever. we have come to the CON
clusion that candidate Thur
mond was perhaps wrong, for
we haven't seen any states
Fighters or GOP'ers thrown in
Jail. Even a few of the latter
are running for reelection, and
Judge" Leander Perez, king of
Plaquemines and St. Bernard
parishes in Louisiana and also
national director of the states
rights party. hasn't even been
threatened with so much as a
muzzle, much less government
for all the people which we are
sure would hold a certain
amount of horror for him.
The states rights plan for the
last election. according to Sem
ator Jim Easiland's dream pipe.
was to throw the presidential
election into the national House
of Representatives on the as
sumption that a Democrat
would rather have q states
Fighter than a Republican. and
by the same token a Hepub-
lican would rather have one
than Il Democrat. Prestol There
would be a magical rush TO the
states rights bandwsgon and
their candidate would be elect
ed. II was never once mentioned
that a Democrat might prefer
a Democrat. or a Republican a
Republican. even Tom Dewey.
The plan now seems to be
working along the same lines.
We don't know whose brain
child it is, but frankly it's a
dillyl This is the way it goes,
so we are told in a news story
this week: Byrnes will be elect
ed governor of S. Carolina next
year and in 1852 he will be pre-
sented to the Democratic con-
vention as the states rights can
didate for president on the
Democratic ticket. If he is re-
jected by the Democratic party
then he will be persuaded to
run on the states rights ticket
as a third party candidate.
That's SWELL But it's still like
presenting Harry Truman to
the Republicans and saying:
Here, now. if YOU don't run
him for president we'll run
him on the Democratic ticket"
Or presenting Bob Taft to the
Henry Wallace progressives un-
der threat Of running him on
the COP ticket.
incidentally, who'll do the
presenting of Mr.. Bvrnes to
the 1852 convention? The same
group that walked out of the
last one and named Mr.. Thur
mon and Mississippi's Fielding
Wright as opposition candi-
dates on Il splinter party tieket2
Will Mississippi's Billy Snyder,
Louisiana's Eva Talbot or Ala
bama's Gessner McCorvey NOM
mate him? Seems to us like
these gentlemen walked out of
the party at Philadelphia. But
time is a great healer. Perhaps
tor, the fear that he will become
an automation dealing in num-
bers and forms. and the posi-
bile breakdown of a harmonious