The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-05
John Temple Grove.
South Supports Johnson

Out last night upon the stair
I saw a little man who wasn't
there:
He wasn't there again today.
Oh, how I wish he'd go away"
Hail to the free electors Of the
South!
50 free all Vet 50 fettered!
Some Of them. at any rate.
They won't vote for Kennedy and
they won't do the only thing that
would give johnson chance of
nomination. Never and no, never
will they support Nixon. a Re
publican, ("Tricky Dick" - and
all thatD. If the National Demo
cratic nominee won't do they
prefer to cast our vote for some
Democrat of national stature who
sympathizes with the South -
Boy. page this some Demo
crat of national stature!" He's
missing. He wasn't there again
today. We thought Harry Byrd
might be the man, but he SAYS
not so. So also say Dick Russell
Herman Talmadge. Strom Thur
mond. They are all for Lyndon
johnson, and no third party or
ticket about it.
The whole South is concentrat-
ing on johnson now. But the BIZ
zarre situation is that the ma
tlonal party will never let us
have johnson unless it is made
to believe ID we'll take no other
Democrat, and ~ that falling
this one We'll not throw our vote
away but will elect Nixon with
1t. Convince the National Demo
Gratis of this and they will be
willing to forget the race
question as we will have to for
get bit = and take the mighty
Iexan as our only chance, thank
ing the Lord that he happens to
be 50 gigantic a statesman and
so little an extremist.
WILL 1T BE SAID OF THE
SOUTH one day that it died of
the sentimentality of voters un-
der pressure of leaders to whom
pap, patronage and personal ten
ure meant everything? That is
what could be said if the South
loses what may be a last chance
now by holding out for "a little
man who wasn't there
And the other way makes such
sense now that Kennedy has
cleared the Democratic decks for
johnson in the South and for
himself in the nation.
Not very merry was the
merry-go-round of the Mophead
from Massachusetts which fol-
lowed his overtures to the New
York liberals.
The liberals were pleased as
pie, of course, and may put him
over the top at Los Angeles. But
Southern reaction has been so
violent that the Senator is alarm
ed. Some 1913 electoral votes
can't afford to be insulted even
if you feel no more need of say
ing 'you-all." And certainly it
was insulting to read Washing
ton Correspondent James Free S
story that when asked by Negro
leaders to repudiate the support
of Alabama's Gov. John Patter-
son, the Senator said, Il don't
think l have delegate in Ala
bama. ! know of no candidate Sc
near the nomination who ever
had so little support in the South
as l have. So far as civil rights
is concerned. I want a clear
strong stand taken at the con.
vention."
THEREAFTER, THE NEW
YORK TIMES announced in a
two-column front page headline
Kennedy Assures Liberals He
Seeks No Help in the South" The
first paragraph of The Times
story then read: Senator Johr
F.. Kennedy told the Liberal
Party yesterday that he hoped
to win the Democratic nomina
ton without a single Southern
vote in the convention. He TOLD
them he regarded the civil rights
issue as a moral question -
The South h OW q Il and the