The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-02
States Rights Party
OF Virginia To Start
Local Campaign Soon
Glenn Calls This
Return TO Two
Party System

c. w Glenn. Of Farmville, one of
the slate Of electors for the States
Rights Party of Virginia, said today
that this is not third party organi-
cation, but is rather a conservative
movement
The two major parties have been
gradually merging" said Glenn.
and their political PHILOSOPHERS are
almost identical. Our movement for
the independent slate is an effort to
preserve the two party system in
this country
The movement is gaining national
recognition. and Morgan w. Stroth-
ers. Of Richmond. has been appoint
ed Virginia s representative on the
national committee which will be
announced soon. Clarence e Man
ion. former dean of the Notre Dame
Law School is chairman of the in
dependent electors movement.
STROLLER. in a statement to the
News Leader. said that the com
mii'eemen from 20 TO 80 states will
meet in Richmond or Washington
this week for national organizing
session. Following that meeting he
will call meeting of Virginians in
terested n the movement to orga-
ME. the state campaign.
The dependent electors. of which
{. w. Glenn is member have
filed petition with the state board
OF electors to have the name of T.
Coleman Andrews appear on the
Virginia ballot as candidate for
president of the United States. His
vice-presidential running mate is
T Fl Werdel. a former California
Republican congressman.
Andrews said the action was
strictly draft proposition and that
business interests would prevent
him from waging an active prevent
paIgn. Re Will rely on the means Of
mass communication to carry his
message to the people rather than
go on whistle stop speaking cam
palgn
Andrews and Werdcl were en-
d0rSed by conference of more
than 800 delegates from conserva-
tive splinter parties in Is states. in
Memphis Sept 10 At that time a
movement to set up a third party
was defeated. and the group called
themselves conservative move
mem, II was termed "a federation
Of ndepenjent state parties.
The group meeting at Memphis
adopted declaration of principles.
A summary of these declarations is
as follows
l. We believe in the limitation. by
the people, of Government power
Q We denounce all forms of cen
trailzed power, be they socialist
communist. fascist or other,
3 We believe that the heart of
American Government is local self
government. II is the duty of the
several states to protect this right
4 We believe that Constitutional
principles should determine and
control al practical measures.
- We believe that taxes should
serve the people, not punish the
people and the sole purpose of tax
alton. lnder the Constitution, is to
secure revenue for the expense Of
a constitatjonallv limited govern
ment and the defense of the coun-
try
And lastly that. We affirm that
the national states rights movement
is the first defense of American con-
stitutiondl principles and is unalter-
ably ana forever opposed to t h e
ma or party merger which now con-
fronts us.
r. r Crawford. one of the Viz
ginia leaders III the States Rights
movement. SAID that groups j n
other states have been working for
months to set up slate of electors
in their states to sponsor a conserv-
alive candidate. The process is rel
ativelv easy in Virginia. and An
drcws viii appear on the official
ballot as a presidential candidate.