St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-09-29

Swallowed all others in the cam
paign.
Commenting on the results,
Mayor Hartsfield, who backed Mr..
Allen, said:
Race Issue PredOminates
THE race issue was the real
issue in this campaign. I think
this is the last time that a can
didate will bank on it openly, but
there will be candidates trying to
make use of it surreptitiously as
long as we are alive.
IT think we have buried the race
issue here in Atlanta, and I wish
we could bury it throughout the
entire State of Georgia. But we
can't as long as we have the unit
voting system" (under which
Georgia's rural counties have dis
proportionate political power).
Most Heated Campaign
The eight-day runoff campaign
was one of the most heated in the
city's history and brought out an
nprecedentedly large vote for an
election of this type. Complete I'M
official returns from the city's SO
precincts Friday night showed a
total ballot of 99,444 cast on ma
chimes, of which Mr.. Allen received
SO per cent. Tallying of the alb
sentee ballots Saturday will raise
the total to well over 100000 out
of 100000 registered voters.
Mr.. Allen will take office the
first Monday in January, 1862. In
the city primary of Sept. 10 in
which 100000 ballots were cast,
Mr.. Allen and Mr.. Maddox were
the two highest of five candidates
but neither received a majority Of
the total vote. Under the city's
election laws a runoff was re-
quired.
Loser Injected Race Issue
In his campaign before the first
primary Mr.. Maddox subdued the
race issue and sought votes by
promising a businesslike admins
tration with emphasis on industrial
growth. In his runoff campaign he
changed tactics and sought to stir
up fear and resentment of white
citizens against alleged Negro
plans to integrate the city's swim
ming pools and make other in
roads into presently all-white
areas.
He charged that Mr.. Allen was
the candidate of the Auburn Az
enue crowd" Ia Negro newspaper
and a number of Negro lawyers
and realtors are located on this
thoroughfare), the Atlanta news
papers, and the big bankers" He
also charged that Mr.. Allen had
bought" the Negro vote.
Mr.. Maddox Is one of the three
leaders of "Georgians Unwilling To
Surrender" an organization which
fought Indignation Of Atlanta
schools. For many years he pub
Hshed as paid advertisements Wit
riolic attacks on Georgia's mod
crate" political leaders and the
Atlanta Constitution, who were
arguing that Georgia could not
defy the United States Supreme
Courts decision of May, 1854.
Negro Wards Solid For Winner
AS might have been expected,
the wards in which there is a
heavy Negro population voted al
most unanimously for Mr.. Allen.
For example, the one in which At
lanta University, a Negro institu-
ton, is located, returned more
than 1000 votes for Mr.. Allen and
9 for Mr.. Maddox.
The winning candidate also piled
up huge majorities in northeast
Atlanta, where most Of the city's
exclusive residential sections are
located. The bulk of Mr.. Maddox
votes came from areas predomin-
antly peopled by low and middle
income groups.
In the next most important race
for chairman of the board of al
dermen Sam Massel, Jr., con-
nected with a family of multimil-
lionaire builders and realtors, de-
feated the veteran incumbent Lee
Evans with 47,749 ballots to 45,449.
One interesting political sidelight
was the election of two aldermen,
Rodney M. Cook and Richard C..
Freeman, who received strong Re-