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...attacks on opponents that were the stock in trade of such old masters as South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe-taking, Eastland is the epitome of respectability-a devoted family man and a prosperous landowner for whom politics is a passion rather than a livelihood. And even in his most intemperate outbursts, Eastland never descends...
...intrepid Bilbo Baggins, another weekend rears its ugly head...
...first term in office. (He was elected again in 1951.) Eleven weeks later, White went back to work. "I had a special session of the legislature on at the time," White recalls, "and the next year I was out stumping all over the state, trying to get Senator Bilbo's seat in Washington. That was no easy job. I lost the election -but it wasn't because I wasn't speaking in every little town in Mississippi." Says White today: "My health is perfect-couldn't be finer." Another governor, Colorado Democrat Ed Johnson...
...boob for so libeling Oppenheimer, but tend to forge that the other two really were atom spies. Similarly, the grouping of "such Mississippi stalwarts as Bibo, Rankin, and Fielding Wright" makes the average Southerner think that not only is all Northern criticism without basis in fact, but that Bilbo and Rankin were not so bad after...
Professional white supremacy agitators will always have an appeal to those whites who live in densely Negro populations and compete with Negroes for employment. The Southern politician of the Bilbo school has been keeping himself in office for years by kindling the unemployment fears of poverty-ridden whites...