The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1956-10-19
2 800 In Mosque
Hear Candidates
Acceptance Talks

Two hundred Prince E ward
county citizens and many more
from nearby areas were among
$500 persons in Richmond's Mosque
Monday night for the public launch
ing of the presidential campaign of
the states rights-independent voters
party.
Keynoter Clarence f. Manion
former dean of the Notre Dame
law school said the official pur-
pose Of the rally was to notify the
candidates IT. Coleman Andrews
for president. Thomas H. Werdel, of
California. for vice president of
Their drafting.
Then he brought a burst of ap-
plauSe in describing the deep-lying
purposes climaxed by the rally.
THE real and actual purpose of
this meeting is to tell the world
that uncounted millions of Ameri-
can citizens are fed up and disgust
ed with bipartisan socialism. BIZ
partisan internationalism and l.
partisan destruction of constitution
al states rights and are going to do
something about it.
Income Tax Blast
The Andrews-W erdel movement,
Nani0n said. is lin fact telling the
people Of the United States that we
are outraged at the unrestrained
use Of unlimited power by the fed
eral government and that we recog-
ni1e that the root of this evil con-
cehiration Of despotism is the inn
MOI al unconstitutional federal in
come tax"
The presidential nominee. " h O
served nearly three years as Presi-
dent Eisenhower chief tax collec-
tor, told the rally after he and Wcr-
del were formally drafted to lead
the protest ticket:
That he was proud to help give
the voters something besides "a
choice between Socialist party A
and Socialist party B reference TO
Democratic and Republican par
ties
He accepted as a call to public
duty the nomination as the presi-
Dental candidate of states rights
tax reform forces offering the ma
ton a conservative third choice in
the 1856 presidential election.
Andrews Speaks
/ In his acceptance address. the
former federal tax commissioner
now a Richmond business executive
charged that both old parties are
committed to uncontrolled spend
ing. oppressive taxation. reduction
Of the states to the status Of po-
litical subdivisions Of the union ...
and to war breeding international
| entanglcments .
To his party, he said he would
welcome all believers in states
rights and constitutional govern
ment
Andrews reiterated the points
made in the platform his followers
released last week calling for heavy
cuts in government spending. re-
form of the income tax. and with
drawal from "mternationahst en-
tanglements.
He called for Americans to rise
up e and become forever free of
that fraud known as federal aid and
masters of their own fates instead
OF mendicant pawns of a SPRAYING
and unmanageable bureaucracy
Denounces Supreme Court
He denounced the presumptuous.
ness Of Supreme Court that has
discarded its law books for Com.
muniSt novels" But the one thing
that people are most concerned
about, he added, lis the fact that
they are being surtaxed not just
taxed. mind you. but surtaxed- to
support backward or decadent for
eign countries and their people"
WerdeI Accepts
Verdi, former Republican Con
gresham from Bakersfield, Calf.
also spoke in accepting the running
mate nomination He emphasized
the party's break with the roads
being taken by the present national
political groups.
The Rally was attended by many
persons with political views similar
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