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...country counties, where ignorance and prejudice rule, and there is a Negro problem, Ole Gene [Talmadge] got his big votes; but in the city counties, where education and enlightenment reign, . [James] Carmichael piled up a huge vote...
...apologized, they said darkly, they could not be responsible for what might happen. He went along with them, found 100 angry men waiting outside the Times and decided to eat a bite of crow. He had not aimed that editorial at anybody in Upson County (it had voted for Carmichael), he said, and if he had hurt anybody's feelings, he was sorry. He would say so in the next issue...
...chock-full of excitement: barroom brawling, gunplay, gold prospecting, gambling, whizzing tommyhawks and flaming arrows, sudden romance and sudden death. Canyon Passage has all this and more-plus better-than-average dialogue and competent players (Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, Brian Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls, the superb outdoor scenery...
...subject of Taimadge's wavyhaired opponent, candidate Carmichael, she said simply, "Bow ties aren't generally worn in the South...
With that kind of setup, it was no particular trick for Ole Gene. Unworried by popular majorities, he bypassed the cities where Carmichael appealed to the voters (including Georgia's 650,000 adult Negroes belatedly enfranchised this year). He just concentrated on the farmers. Gene had always had the farmers right by their pet prejudices. Once more, he snapped his red galluses at them, borrowed chaws of cut plug from crowds, ranted about the Negro menace, the labor menace, the new carpetbaggers-and promised little but a return to normalcy, Georgia style...