The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-15
John Temple Grove.
Its an old Southern Democratic
custom J"

AACiuS NdutIlCll LII lit OOlulIlUld
Record, but it would be more than
the Republican President has done.
The Democrat would be ''irrevo-
cably indebted to the mass Negro
vote and to the, trade union vote
Walter Reuther, a powerful
figure in the Democratic Party, has
been leader of the indignation
movement, a member of the Execu-
tive Board of the NAACP and an
advocate of expulsion of the South
from the party"
MIR. CAUTHEN AGREES that
the Rockefeller withdrawal was not
mere decision but defeat. "a
further proof that the two parties
are not the same - If Republi-
cans had really changed from con-
servatism to liberalism they would
have welcomed Rockefeller, he be-
lieves. The differences in parties
are vast
This thoughtful Columbia editor
is Democrat and means to stay
one. None of this prevents ira
dltional Southern Democrats from
remaining good Democrats at the
local and state levels and reject
ing the party's policies and person
mel at the national level, as a ma
jority of South Carolinians did in
1856 and barey missed doing in
1882"
Also, Of course, in 1913.
1T HAS BEEN is YEARS since a
Democratic Presidential candidate
has carried the Solid South. In
1913 the nominee lost South Caro-
lima, Mississippi, Alabama and
Louisiana. In 1852 he lost Florida,
Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. In
1856 he lost all these and Louisians.
too, the Republican nominee win
ming an actual Southern majority.
Northern Democrats fear, says
Columnist Jay G. Hayden, that the
South has discovered in course of
President Eisenhower white
House residence that a Republican
President and Democratic Congress
are ideal from its sectional stand
point"
He points out that after the 1948
break many thought a two-party
system Just around the corner in
the South, but it hasn't come. He
would agree that what has come
IN its place is the Southern Demo-
Graf progressively more willing to
vote Republican on Presidential
levels. In l948 four states voted
against the Democratic nominee
but not for the Republican. In 1852,
with Eisenhower over all, four
states progressed further and voted
point blank Republican, In 1856 I'M
der that same star, five voted Re-
publican and the party had an
actual Southern majority.
|. THE NEXT STEP COULD be vot-
ing Republican without the Star.
And if Gallup polls count, that
can happen. They show Nixon and
Stevenson practically even in the
South, 81 per cent Stevenson. 40
Nixon. 1T will not be surprising,
says Columnist Hayden, IF t h e
Republicans should not only hold
their Southern gains flor PRESIDENT
but add to them. along with con-
tinuance of Southern ruled Demo
cratic Congress-
THE DEATH OF 33-YEAR-OLD
Jean Thurmond. wife of South
Carolina IS famous Senator, shocks
beyond words those who knew her.
She was SO young, animated, pretty
and competent, and she and the
Senator were so in love In Col
lu1nbla and Washington she was a
personality, with place of her
own. She had been his secretary
when he was circuit judge, mar
ried him in 1947. the year he be-
| came governor. When Life ran a
picture Of him doing a handstand
in his athletic shorts some said it
was undignlfi3d but if you were
married to girl like Jean you
couldn't help being exurberant. Aft
err all, the great Thomas jefferson,
counting a certain widow in Paris
when he was Minister there, under
took gracefully to leap a fence when
walking with her in a park. sprain-
ed his wrist and had to write with
his left hand the rest of his life.
The memory of Jean will flour
ish in immortal youth for her
Senator and all her friends.
"EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW
for all our people j.. - That's as
far as the President was willing
to 80 on civil liberties iii his State
OF the Union Message, and all Of
lis 60 that far.
1 Nothing on lnegratlon, nothing
on those Federal voting registrars
recommended by the Civil Rights
Commission. Can you imagine any
Of the current Democratic bidders,
except Lyndon johnson, holding out
like this in a state OF the Union
Message with Walter Eeuther
and Roy Wilkins watching in the
wings and the ADA on the alerto