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...responsible for the evils of racism. We must all concentrate our efforts towards the goal of eliminating the George Wallace's the Ross Barnett's, and the Mrs. Hicks's. --Jefferson Frazier...
...Supremest? In Mississippi, where only 6% of the state's Negroes have the vote, the issue was who would be the supremest white supremacist. Paul Burney Johnson Jr., Democratic Lieutenant Governor, had a head start as the outdoing disciple of segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. Once a man gets the Democratic nomination in Mississippi, he is usually as good as elected, but Johnson had to work hard to win the general election last week. He was opposed by Republican Rubel Phillips, who ran as a Goldwater-backing candidate and polled an amazing-for a Mississippi Republican-123,000 votes...
Your constant reference to Governor Ross Barnett as "Ross" broke all rules of good journalism and conveniently confused the reader between myself--"Boss Burt"--and Governor Barnett, "Bumbling Ross...
...felt Governor Wallace's talk was a disappointment. For some unknown reason, you preferred Governor Barnett. On the contrary, I was not disappointed with Governor Wallace's appearance at. Harvard, nor was my Club, nor was Professor Arthur Sutherland, nor was the vast majority of 1,200 students who heard the Governor, nor were several members of your own staff who told me how much they had enjoyed the talk. The overwhelming support of the Governor's right to talk is a glowing testimony to our University and to the fact that our motto--Verites--lives...
...show up heard some changed talk from party leaders, who had previously devoted most of their energies to attacking the Kennedy Administration. Paul Johnson complained about "Republican carpetbaggers" and cried: "The birth of a two-party system in the state would divide the conservative white vote." Governor Ross Barnett shouted: "I'm fed up with these fence-riding, pussyfooting, snow-digging Yankee Republicans." And U.S. Senator John Stennis said that Mississippi Democrats must "get out and vote and thwart this challenge brought on by the Republicans...