The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-07-16

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On June 18th the Mississippi State Bar Association held its
convention in Biloxi One Of the speakers present jamie
When Congressman he spoke good like Magnolia Congress-
man should His address concerned problems growing out Of SU
pree Court decisions and socaed Civil Rights legislation
Actually, what Mr. Written did was to outline program
whereby The South Can Rise Again. The basis OF the pa near
k as determine lies in this sentence: I'VE must regain
bargaining POSITION He pointed out that Most OF our troubles
from deteorating power Of SoUthene in national pot
cal parties and of their Representatives in Congress- who for
years were able the fbuser and their camanshps Of
various committees to provide degree of balance in national
affairs Present conditions show the buste no longer works.
Formerly our delegation could use their key positions to
prevent passage Of dangerous legislation Our Senator's with
other Souherners, could buse in the Senate and thereby
many times blocked such measures Civil Rights, etc. Mr. Whit
ten then continued by pointing out There several courses
open U.s. all of which require support Of the people in other
Southern States He then concluded that IF keep level heads
we will gain the help need from the people of other states
As understand Mr. Whttens proposal he contends that to
form coalition between SoUtherners and Republicans would
give the South the energy to again. In the U.s. House there
are 46 Republicans outside the South Southern Representatives
number 1906 That coalition would amount to 252 to 1884, In the
Senate there % Southern Democrats and 81 Republicans out
side the South of Yankee Democrats number only a. To
Join forces with the Republicans would give margin of 81 10 "a
in the Senate.
And believe or not all this makes good sense Personally
for all my life I've commended that the South there were far
more Republicans than Democrats, anyway
Now you see Congressman Whtten plan for the rise of
the South again. For long, long time I've suspected something
like this was our basic trouble the Yankee Democrats that u.s.
Further suspect strongly that the rasca led by Senator
Paul Douglas The thought that these unDemocratc Demo
recognize that equal rights under the law applies to all ct
zens Of this Naon regardless race creed color makes my
sickH cell anema blood bo But alas did intend preach
I'm not TOO sure about this but the Congressman may have
made slight contradiction in his thinking when he said The
Supreme Court nteeaton decisions motvated by politics
conceived In politics. and in the long only be corrected
through effective political action.
III not undertake to expIainit it.
Contradiction not that statement by Congressman When
leads to wonder about the matter of Correction he
recon Of what exactly isn't too clear however, Anyway
understand the function of the Supreme Court is TO interpret
laws of the land the Court does not make the law that the
sponsbi Of the Congress TO make law and further Court de-
csion be voded by the ppontng Of law by the Congress-
think I'm correct in this Three times the Supreme Court decided
that tde|and oils belonged to the Federal Government; finally
the Congress acted the matter and said dead oils belonged
TO the States
And there you have it Corrected through effective po-
ca action the Congressman puts it. All we in the South
have to do get enough support by forming coalition between
ourselves and the Republicans TO pass law which is most clear
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