Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-12-05
Another Side of The Story
BY Eugene Gordon @ru !
HANDPIcKED, RURBER-sTAMPED AND MAcHINE-cUT

Two Associated Press stories in the November IT New
York Herald Tribune rdiced voting for ahand-
picked candidates behind the iron
The first was continuous gigge
ton outcome IN East Germany twas foegone conclusion
before the first ballot APPS foregone conclusion
was based the size of the 1850 per-
cent were said to have Single Communist ticket
the first time; 9946 the Only slavery
OF communism, AP implied could produce such results
these.
The writer of the story bevdered at
eyes and ears-n Short intelligence indicated actually
to be happening. If only the Hungarian officials had made
hard for him to get in! They hadn't Foreign-or they
prefer Western-reporters and observers will
Throughout the country; observed 100000
grans voting for 1913 members of Parliament and thousands
OF seats in local councils The people general
their civic duty in calm and businesske AP
writer resolved something be wrong He found it,
though there few uniformed police evidence
mo Soviet troops visible either everyone concerned
officials of the soviet satellite regime just
going through the motions Yes they voting,
atmosphere of Indifference officials the
Free World United States would ths-he
ballots showed only the candidates selected by the
party acnn TWO additional discoveries confirmed the AP
writer's suspicion that the whole election seup phony
"everyone than 18 under heavy pressure to
and 1.-THE persons Jail or under
rest and the insane
see voting procedures in those coun
tries compare with our Free-World methods bring
close to home by referring New York y home Ala
bama (Dr Martin Luther King js home) free sovereign
states of the eest and soveegnest of all Free World
tries The Democratic and the Republican New York
mating conventions met respectively Buffalo Roches
August primary selecting
candidates for and lesser state officers and for the
y. S. Senate Party leaders, they called themselves
known the party boseshad already chosen and
would nominate the men for whom I, Republican
Democrat must vote had absolutely neutrality-suspicious. of
New York voters had absolutely nohingto do with picking
either Republican Rockefeller Democrat Hartman Both
handpicked for rbberstamp job part of machine
operation only political setup
change Let doubters recall Tamany machine operator De
Sapios forcing District Attorney Hogan into nominal
tion against Governor Harrimans wishes Handpcked? Rub
ber-samped Zone slate of candidates? The November 16
AP story from Berlin written from Bufaon important
deais-neary three months earlier The Republicans Ro
chester at the time duplicated the tale
What of Alabama? East Gerrnamnys RED regime called
for heavy vote APP Hungary pressured everyone
IS" the polls barring except hose in
Jail under and the insane At Tuskegeea center
merely of Alabama Of Southern but of u S. culture
forbidden register u. S. District Judge Frank
NJ Johnson upheld the Alabama Legislatures gerryman
deng all but 10 of skeges APO Negro voters outside the
legal voting 1t universally known that the fewNego
whitewho may vote in the South have only slate
candidates. handpcked by the whiesupremacisted Dixie
Gratis and election of these candi
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