The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1952-10-30
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By Hazel Brunnon Smith

~ Hazel Brunnon Smith
After careful consideration of
all the issues involved / have
decided to cast my vote on the
independent ticket for General
Dwight D. Eisenhower for pre-.
sident of the United States.
! shall retain my Democratic
party membership by casting
my vote for Frank Smith. the
Democratic nominee for con
sress. / do feel. however, this
may be the last time / may
want to vote Democratic. unless
Mississippi continues 70 pro-
vide for q split ticket for !
know that I shall never be
able to swallow the national
Democratic party again as il is
now constituted. shall never
be able to take that infamous
loyalty pledge that l will swear
to support whatever platform
and candidates the convention
may care to name and this Is
exactly what win be required
OF all Mississippi delegations
to future national Democratic
conventions. believe Cover
nor White and the other pro-
fessional politicians Of the
state are overlooking this i'm.
portant fact when they are
trying to keep the people Of
Mississippi In line for the De-
mocrats. They have forgotten
that just to enjoy the small
amount Of patronage involved
they must swear loyalty to all
future party conventions re-
gardless Of what machine cam
didate may capture the nomi-
nation. To me this Is degrad-
ing and humiliating. It is en-
tirely too big price to have
10 pay in order that Governor
White or anyone else may have
the "ear" Of the president or
get Gin" the White House.
I am making known my
stand on this election not be-
cause ! believe my choice to
be of any special interest but
because I believe like my good
friend and pastor, the Rev. c.
] II. Bay Of the First Bapfait |
Church of Durant who an
nounced his support Of Eisen
hover, that now is the time
for every man and woman to
stand up and be counted. I
feel that we should be honor
bound to let the world know
now we do not approve Of the
dishonesty, graft, stupidity and
bungling we have in our gov
eminent today.
II the Democrats are return
ed to power it will be a green
light for them to continue to
operate in the future like they
have been operating in the
past-and don't fool yourself it
will be otherwise.
Kefauver has said the Demo-
Gratis will clean up their own
mess but they've been in pow
er a hong time and it gets worse
every day. The mess" is OF
their own making and has
grown so widespread that it
will be impossible for any De-
mocratic president to do the
Job even if he wanted to. If we
vote a Democratic ticket now
we are telling the world we
are approving the Democratic
administration with all its cor
ruption-whether we intend to
or not.
] cannot give my vote Of ap-
prevail to Truman and Stew
enson who are one and the
same. 1t would he impossible
for things to be any worse un-
der the Republicans and l have
the assurance of General Eisen-
hover, an honorable man, that
they will be better.
There is much more in Wash
ington than just mess" of
corruption in government
there is the deadly menace of
communists in government and
throughout our country today
which neither the Democrats
nor Governor Stevenson have
fully recognized. When we
consider the widespread in
duence Of the communists.
placed in strategic spots in our
government and some labor
unions we realize the country
is in real danger and our actu-
al existence imperiled--in view
At those facts it is extremely |
foolish to talk about the i'm
portance Of congressional COM
mittee assignments, committee |
assignments which, by the
way, will not be affected by
the political party of the presi-