Word: ballot
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...been worse if the South hadn't been in there fighting. Then the governor got to his recommendation: "To pledge the electors of the state Democratic Party to vote for the candidates of the Republican Party would not be right . . . The state executive committee [should] place on the ballot under the name of the Democratic Party . . . electors pledged to Stevenson and Sparkman...
Having done so, Byrnes promptly cut the rest of the pattern. Every voter, he said, should have the opportunity to vote his convictions. Since the South Carolina Republican Party is weak and tangled in litigation, the thing to do is to get the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket on the ballot by petition, as an independent slate. "Many Democrats," said Byrnes, would sign such a petition. Later, he said he would sign one himself, although he was still not certain how he will vote in November...
...course that Byrnes suggested would not have been possible in previous South Carolina presidential elections. Formerly, the voter had to select a Democratic or a Republican ballot, and not many South Carolina voters wanted to be seen taking the latter. In 1950, South Carolina became the last state to adopt the secret ballot with all candidates' names on one sheet.* With an eye to this change, Byrnes charted a course by which voters can stay Democrats and vote Republican...
This was not enough for some of the hotter heads, who still wanted to give the Democratic spot on the ballot to the Republican nominees. Said James A. Mayfield of Bamberg County: "Senator Sparkman is just the sugar-coated candy to get rid of the rhubarb and calomel taste of Truman and the C.I.O. gang." But Jimmy Byrnes's plan, as is customary in South Carolina, was adopted...
Died. Senator Brien McMahon, 48, congressional watchdog of the atomic energy program, who received 16 first ballot votes at the Democratic Convention as Connecticut's favorite son candidate for the presidency; of cancer; in Washington. A Yale Law School graduate (1927) and a protege of Connecticut's shrewd old Boss Homer Cummings, 88, he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General when he was 33, was first elected to the Senate in 1944. After the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, he crusaded successfully for civilian control of the atomic energy program (now headed by his onetime law partner...