The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-04-08

Another old friend of Mr..
Rogers is Mississippi's Senator
Eastland. That makes things
complicated indeed.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL.
Strange to many of us was the
high regard of the South's late
Senator Walter George for the
South's often enemy, Hubert
Horatio Humphrey. And Their
there's the fact Of our Alabama
governors friendship for Sena.
tor Kennedy-whose anti-South
ern voting record is identical
with Humphreys. 1t seems te
grow with every blow.
SENATOR BARRY GOLD.
WATER, the nations most con
sentative statesman. fear
Nixon has grown too liberal. He
cites among other things the
Vice Presidents support for
some form of Federal aid to
education" Maybe it was BOB
Taft's form, the states rights
one. Do we forget SO soon that
only a few weeks ago the Vice
President broke the Senate tie
against a Federal aid to educa-
ton bill. avowing his desire to
maintain our traditional school
system without Federal control?"
It's confusing but Presiden-
tial election time is like this.
Senator Goldwater finds the
Vice President too liberal even
as Liberal Colunnist Darts
Fleeson explains the Republican
slump in California as due to
the fact that Nixon does not
have the liberal luster so long
lent to the party by its long
time governor, now the Chief
Justice" The Warren era is
passing in California reports
Miss Fleeson, but "a substan-
tial residue remains and it has
never cared for Nixon. 1t is in
fluenced by the Chief Justices
open dislike for him."
The most pro-South and
states rights statement the Vice
President has yet made was last
January 10. Asked in Miami
about the proposal to impose
Federal voting registrars on
states, he was quoted all over
the nation as saying, II believe
that situation is and should re-
main local and state re-
sponsibility.'
What other Presidential candi-
date would conceivably say a
thing like that now!
And yet the paralysis and
their Washington correspondents
have it that Mr.. Nixon is be-
hind all the civil rights move
in Congress, especially the vot-
ing rights ones. Senator Hill
speaks of 1.-The Vice Presidnet
and other civil rights hackers
as if Mr.. Nixon were walking
the Senate floor in illegal ex-
horton. And Senator Hills
favorite Washington corresond-
ent describes clever maneuvers
for civil rights bills by "Mr.
Nixon's Republican friends" as
If Mr.. Nivon had organized
a verita bic commando
force against the South and the
Democrats (even though til e
latter make up the majority for
the bill.
HOW CAN I CONVINCE some
who accuse me of having gone
about for Nixon that I'm simply
trying to broaden the viewpoints
Of those who are about against
him, in order that our free
electors may really be free?
They aren't free when they stick
to the old idea that Satan alone
is worse than a Republican. The
absolute horror with which some
of our old -fashioneds look upon
the possibility, even now, with
nowhere else really to go, of
voting for Nixon is the South 5
biggest handicap in the shining
last chance to make its balance
of power count.
This column isn't trying to get
anybody to vote for Nixon. 1t
is only trying to get everybody
to see there's no sin in it and
some sense.
THE PRIN ICE EDWARD
County, Virginia Story" by John
c. Steck '"who saw it. unfold">
has been published in pamphlet
there by The Farmville Herald
Mr.. Steck. managing editor Of
The Herald. may certainly
claim TO have seen the story
unfold. and he tells it with a
frst-clasS newsman sense Of
the value and drama and know
ledge Of the facts. It's partisan
ship multipleS its value for the
Prince Edward story is a story
of partisans even though utter
ly without hate. A peoples calm
and total determining fi0n ic mir