The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-01
Even the worthy Homer
sometimes mods"


sometimes mods"
Our Homer has nodded three
times straight. Our wise and
true friend David Lawrence
overlooks three epochal turn
abouts in discussing the South's
Presidential vote this year.
Calling proper attention to the
fact that the campaign won't
end for the South when the
Democratic convention is over
because our voters may take
things into their own hands at
the polls in November, he re-
calls the vote of four Southern
states against the Democratic
nominee in 1913 and sees large
possibilities of our doing that
again in greater number.
He recalls 1948-and nothing
more.
But there was 1852, also. and
1856, and now there is 1860.
Strangely Mr.. Lawrence speaks
Of 1.-THE assumption that t h e
people of the South will not
vote for the Republican nomi-
nee. He overlooks these three
alectionS-in all of which a
Southern revolt larger than
I948'S expressed itself not in a
third party but in voting for
the Republican nominee. + h q
South gave Eisenhower five
states in 1852. 1t gave him a
majority of its whole people III
1856. And. according to DR.
Gallup, it is voting presently
for Nixon over any Democratic
possibility except Lyndon John
son, and by bigger margins than
the country large, proving its
revolutions of 1852 and 1856 were
not just like Ike holidays.
MIR. LAWRENCE SAYS well
hat it would not be as difficult
as it was in 1913 to mobilize
the protest vote of the South. .
But l believe it would be diff
cult to mobilize it for another
third candidate in another hope
IF deadlocking the electoral col
lege and throwing the election
the House of Representatives
Too many of us who took part
in that 1913 movement see now
that it won't work and never
would have.
For if the South should dead
lock the electoral college. there
would be such a shocked gang
ing-up against us for what would
be damned as "a segregation
lst coup that we would get
nowhere.
Nixon would be elected-and
without credit to The South. We
would be alone. isolated, the ma
tional sympathy and under
standing we are winning thrown
away, the constitutionalism OF
our cause deemed only segrega-
tiOnalism.
If the South is going to do
something that would ele c t
Nixon, why not make it some
thing for which we would get
some credit and standing in the
Administration and its hopes OF
a Second Term? Why not vote
for him in the first place?
That Nixon would be tn G
choice Of House to which the
election had been thrown seems
likely because % he would have
received the highest popular
vote according to Gallup and
it would seem only fair, and
(2) the Democratic nominee
would be without benefit of the
votes Of the Southern states
which would already have re
fused him once.
AS things stand now, it seems
to me that the South's choice
is between electing Nixon with
credit and electing him without
credit.
THE ROANOKE, VA. TIMES
captions an editorial The Non
sense Of. Nullification," meaning
the nonsense of "interposition. ;
Looking back on the inter
position resolutions Of so many
Southern states are the deseg
regatiOn decision and the fail
ure to make any legal use O.
Them, you can take comfort il
considering them worth while
not for legal effect but fol
moral and historic justification
of the South's unblushing re-
sistance for the employment Of
every legal strategy, fiction, de-
lay, obstruction, filibuster ano
obfuscation its lawyers anC
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