Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other non-contender that will draw a sizeable vote today is Jimmy Swan, a country singer and radio-station owner. Swan is the only candidate to undertake an unrestricted campaign of racism and paranoia, thus undercutting former Governor Ross Barnett's support. Swan proposes "free, private segregated schools" to save Mississippi "from the moral degeneracy of total mass integration that Washington has decreed for our children this fall." He says that to grant equality to the Negro is to make savagery the equal of civilization. "Communists are right here among us," he declares. Swan should receive 10-15 per cent...
...Barnett gained local popularity and national attention by standing in the school-house door at the University of Mississippi in order to block desegregation. Ironically, that stand five years ago has cost him support now. Extremists figure that he did not go far enough in the Ole Miss. crisis. Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, has said that he and Barnett agreed that Barnett could make a short stand and then get out of the way. Mississippi rednecks call it selling out. Charges of financial corruption and old age (he is 69) have further damaged the Barnett cause...
Williams, calling himself a middle-of-the-roader, has appealed to the "reasonable" element among segregationists and conservatives and has left Barnett try to out-scream Swan for the rabid-racist support. Williams has the distinct advantage of having lost his House seniority by supporting Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election. This made a minor martyr of him. In a Southern state like Mississippi, where personal attacks rather than issues dominate campaigns, promises differ in tone and emphasis and not in content. Williams, who has amply proved his conservative credentials by giving up his Party power for Goldwater, does...
...racist vote will probably be so split today that the "moderate" Winter should be at the top of the balloting, somewhere near the 30 per cent mark. In the runoff, however, it is almost unquestionable that the more militant segregationist--Williams, or possibly Barnett--will win. Both Barnett and Williams have tried to stick the "liberal" deathmark on Winter...
James Meredith, the first Negro at Ole Miss, has dealt his old adversary Barnett a similar blow by endorsing him: "Leaving out race, the Barnett ticket is the one that will bring the Negro out of political obscurity and into political significance not only in Mississippi, but in the nation." Barnett immediately blasted it as a political trick. Meredith sounds convincingly sincere as he travels through Mississippi, ruining Barnett by saying that none of the candidates offer any real attraction to Negroes, but that Barnett has shown an industrial program that will provide jobs for Negroes...