The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-03-15
"A chiefs amang you takin'
notes :"

A nous pre-Presidential
note-taker is among us, taking
notes. He is Sam Lubell, and
oh, how is findings shock some
Southerners about other South
erners!
Mr.. Lubell hears Nixon. Nixon
Nixon. He finds him with q
great deal Of support In these
states. About half the Essen
hover voters Of 1856 to whom
he talks tell him they are for
Nixon now against ANY Demo
.crat." And only one out Of
seven Eisenhower voters are
saying they will vote for ANY
Democrat"
He finds large and increas-
ing numbers for putting up with
token integration if necessary to
keep schools open-two out of
three in 10 cities now as against
one out Of four in 1853.
Reporting numbers Of South
erners feeling there isn't any
difference between the Demo
Gratis and the Republicans on
segregation" M. Lubell
says:
Perhaps the most surprising
finding is how little resentment
is directed at Nixon because of
the segregation issue
MR.. LUBELL SIMPLY RE-
PORTS. If he went in for ex-
planning he might say this lack
of resentment is due to the fact
that even if Mr.. Nixon desired
Indignation as much as Steven
son, Kennedy and Humphrey do,
he and his party have both
philosophical and practical rea-
sons for leaning Southwark in
years ahead.
Philosophically they talk
states rights. decentralized gov
eminent, anti-socialism just as
Southern Democrats do an d
Liberal Democrats don't.
Practically they face the fact
that they have more future with
the South than with organized
labor or the Negro. The Liberal
Democrats will always outbid
them for the latter two.
Significance should go to
Nixon's choice of former Sec
rotary Of the Treasury George
Humphrey to manage his cam
paigns. People who accuse hin,
of going left will recognize Mr.
Humphrey as the rightest Of
, Eisenhower cabinet members.
If Democrats and Republicans
are equally against the South
or the race question, why shoult
the South desert on nationa
levels the "partv Of its fathers
FOR the party Of its longtime
fees. The answer is that ever
if Nixon were no better thai
the Democratic favorites (an(
he is. on both race and anti
socialism, a South for Demo
cratic President again will b,
simply a South gone slave agar
and destined to be treated again
as slave. But a South for {
Republican President will be ;
South dramatically announcing
its independence and its title t
the theological concessions ant
political cajolleries that go t,
the free and the doubtful.
WHY NOT JUST TRANSFER
to the Republican Party all tn
way then? That answer is plail
as arithmetic, as important a
power. AS Democrats we con
troll the Southern states. TIL
name is sine qua non, with
cut which not for this control
Why throw SO much away for ;
name!
A THOUGHTFUL READEI
would have me know that In
terposition, as passed by man
Southern legislatures, means
lot more than merely mora
justification for torturing tn
desegregation decision with ma
neuvers. subterfuges. fictions
and obfuscations. It means de
fiance of the decision, yieldinl
only to Federal troops and re
Stunning when the troops depart
| But since we are not doing
that way and are trying mean
while the reverse way of
placement law which would Ger
tainly be thrown out if we too
Interposition seriously, we ar
wiSe, 1 think, in letting the Leg
Station amount only to wha
I've called it, a moral justifi
cation for the other things W
are doing.
| There may come a day. Thi
and not the closing of publ
schools-is the really ultimat
resistance. School closing i