Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-27
State School Crisis
Blamed on G. Q. P.
Democrats Hear
Keynoter Blast
Administration


crat of Virginia. today blamed
the top Republican leadership
for the Southern school crisis
and said the record of the Eli
senhower administration was
one of broken promises.
Keynoting the Democratic
State convention, the Congress-
man from Appomattox bid Eli
senhower Democrats who did
much to put the State in the
G. o. P. column in 1852 to shun
the Republican ticket and fight
out their battles within their
own party councils wherever
possible.
He spoke softly of the 1852
Democratic detection in rolling
out the welcome mat.
Those Democrats who sup
ported the Republican Party in
1852 could not have foreseen
the rapidity with which the
promises that attracted them
were to be shelved after inaug-
uration day." he said.
Democrats Out-PrOmised
1.-THE Democrats were not out
voted in 1952-they were OUT
promised. Today, however, fell
low Democrats, we in Virginia
and the Nation have the Eisen-
hover record of three and one
half years in Office on which to
base our judgment next Novem-
ber."
Mr.. Abbitt called for a united
Virginia Democratic Party in
fighting the unauthorized.
unwarranted and Ubiquitous"
Supreme Court school decision
and the civil rights legislative
proposals whose main sponsor
as of this moment is the present
administration that told us in
1852 that they we're running on
IA great platform of States
rights"
The keynote appeared to call
for a full Endorsement of the
State Democratic administra-
; tons program of resistance to
any school indignation anywhere
: in the State as laid down by
Gov. Stanley in his call for the
General Assembly to meet Au-
, gust q on the school issue.
Il do not know what sacrifices
, will be necessary or what hard
+. ships we will have to overcome, /"
: Mr. Abbitt said, but whatever
is necessary-that we will do or
we will forever and a day lose
| our way of life as we know it. . !"
The question, Mr.. Abbitt said,
is what can be done ito preserve
our way of life" And he added
Il say to you in all candor,
there is no hope in the national
Republican Party or those who
are running the present admins
tration In 1852 we were led to
believe that the present admin.
iStration, if they were elected,
would stand firm for States
: rights. Apparently, since the
election Of 1852, not a thought
has been given to that campaign
promise.
THE present Attorney Gen.
. erall (BrownelD, upon the
bidding of the Chief Executive.
: has done more. in my opinion,
than any one man to bring about
: the crisis we are now facing.
BrOwnell Criticized
He interviewed in the famous
school case. insisting and de-
manding that all of the past
legal precedent be ignored and
that the Supreme Court, in eff.
feet, amend the Constitution.
1t was he who appeared before
the appropriate committees Of
the Congress. urging those COM
mlttees to report out legislation
known as the so-called civil
rights bill. The name, of course.
is a misnomer. 1t is anything
but a civil rights bill unless the
depriving of the individuals of
their liberties and the States Of
their sovereignty is civil
rights.
THE Republican leaders in
the House who had charge of the
civil rights legislation boldly
Shouted at the tops of their
voices that the legislation not
only had the blessings of the
Chief Executive but was intro
duced at his bidding and upon
his urging. :"
Mr.. Abhitt also accused the
Eisenhower administration of
broken promises with respect To
finances, farm prices, aid to
small business and a halt in what
he called the creeping social
ism" of the previous Democratic
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