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...supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S. Representative Robert L. F. ("Daddy") Sikes, campaigned hard for their candidate as a man the South can trust on the race issue. The locals called in Mississippi's Political Strategist Sam Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson's cause; they gave wide circulation to a newspaper editorial that branded Kefauver as a "leftwing integrationist" and a "sycophant" for the Negro vote. As Florida's ex-Governor Millard Caldwell put it with some approval, they sold Stevenson as a "more...
...charge, levelled in the June issue of a highly conservative monthly magazine, Facts Forum, comes from a report prepared by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee under the chairmanship of Senator James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) and released in January...
...After listening to a bitter Eastland-McCarthy attack on Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee approved a bill to restore to the states the power to punish subversion and sedition against the U.S. Government, a power removed by a Supreme Court ruling (TIME. April 16) that the Federal Government has sole jurisdiction over subversion and sedition cases...
These first two years have proven that Southerners who said it could not be done are wrong. There are the examples of Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and increased stirring in other states. Far more significant, too, there is the wail of Jim Eastland to his Deep South colleagues that, unless integration in the border states is stopped, it will inevitably spread to his center of Anglo-Saxon purity. But this period, with its trials, disappointments, and its bitterness, has also served to remind people of what Southern liberals have often said--in a sometimes weak and strained voice...
...labor movement collectively ought to say this: that I believe we ought to say to the leadership of the Democratic Party, who I believe overwhelmingly believe in the things that we believe in, that in 1956 you've got to make a choice-you cannot have Mr. Eastland and have us at the same time...