The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-05-10
THE six weapons Of the South.

Congressional seniority, when
it produces such chairrnen as
Emanuel Celler, william Daw-
son. Adam Powell and Clarence
Cannon. suggests that perhaps
it is time to consider the FEAST
biljty Of substituting talent for
time writes Editor Hammer
Cobbs in The Greensboro. Ala,
Waterman.
Doesn't he mean principles for
time?
And isn't that matter for
US the people to remedy by not
letting a man have his job for
ever on a basis of political es-
adjustment and political in
ertia?
BY and large, seniority is one
of the South's few remaining
weapons, not to be surrendered
because it works sometimes in
reverse of what we want.
TALKING TO THE UNIVER.
SITY of Alabama's Young
Democrats last week l under
took to review the weapons en-
ployed by the South through the
years in protection of a minori-
ty position too vital to lose
There has been the Constitution
of course, first, last and always.
And the TWo-thirds Rule for
Democratic Presidential noni-
nations (fatuously surrendered
in the high of the New Deal
And always the Filibuster
And lately the Electoral Col
lege with its dream of either a
third force or a third party.
And there is the Seniority
system.
And, daWning upon many OF
us now as the most powerful
operative and natural weapon
the coalition of Southern Demo
Gratis and Republicans. in the
Congress and in the White House
e coalition of no use on the
race question but valid and vic
torious in all else.
The six weapons Of the South!
WHAT TIMES ARE THESE
when champions of free speech
forget it includes freedom to
reply. Yet. there actually are
people who think you are pro
posing to deny their free speech
when you speak freely yourself
against what they say.
1T IS A PITY THAT our So
called "Loyalists" should be al
lowed so noble a name.
Especially when the right name
is "Disloyalsts." For however
wel-intentioned they are, there
is no disloyalty so great as 10y
atty to a lesser over a larger
cause Southern Loyalists are
true to a national party that has
betrayed the South many times
and is preparing now supreme
betrayal. Socialism, centraliSn1
and integrationism will run wild
with tax-spend-elect if these
originators of the present at
mOSpheres in Washington are
restored to spoilS and power.
There is no question of con
troll of Congress. That's Demo
cratic again, almost certainly
You can understand why
Southern Senators and Congress
men want the Democratic Party
in control of the White House
with all its pap and patronage
But you can't condone theil
Misrepresentation of the seniori
ty and Craftsmanship situation
their resurrection of the lie thai
failure to vote the national ticke'
will cost Southern Democrats
anything in Congress. T h {
Democratic majority would moi
dare punish the South by tax
ing away its chairmanShips anC
seniorities. For without t h {
South it is no majority anG
can't organize Congress at all
And there is the experience Of
1913 and ever since. Not since
1914 has the South gone Sohdly
for Democratic Presidential
nominee yet no single chair
manShip or seniority has beer
lost.
An enigma wrapped III ar
enigma is what The Brnling
ham News says Winsto r
Churchill said of something OF
other. That wou!1 have beer
pretty good but what he actually
SAID was better. In a broadcast
on October /, 1889, he said: u
cannot forecast to you the ac-
ton of Russia. l. is a riddle
wrapped in a mystery inside ar
enigma
why" Lidia Bondra, of De
troit, asks tie Saturday Evening
Post, should one criticize the
happiness of Princess Grace
and Prince kainer unless out Of
pure green envy?'' In their
first-class cases. why indeed