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Rhubarb & Calomel. The pattern emerged most clearly in South Carolina, whose Democratic leaders gathered at Columbia to complete the state convention recessed last April. The man whose attitude counted most was old Governor James Byrnes. Southern Democrats, he told the convention, had won some victories at Chicago. Stevenson was the...
There was cheering and applause from a majority of the delegates, stony silence from a minority. Jimmy Byrnes, whose word would be listened to all through the South, had wiped out the possibility of a leadership bolt in South Carolina.
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...
The 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...
Career: For 18 months, between Harvard and Northwestern, worked as a reporter and editor on the Bloomington Pantagraph, owned by his mother's family. After graduation from Northwestern, entered law practice in Chicago. In 1933 he went to Washington as special counsel to the administrator of the new Agricultural...