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...Faubus has baldly drawn the line between defiance of the law and orderly adjustment of our difficulties," said the Arkansas Gazette two days before the Arkansas Democratic primary last week. "In effect, he is asking the people of Arkansas to endorse armed rebellion against the United States...
...Orval Faubus got his endorsement. In a landslide that rattled the nation's teeth -much as they were rattled when the troops landed in Little Rock last September-Faubus won the primary, thus is slated to be the second man ever to spend three terms in the Arkansas Governor's chair. In a record turnout he defeated two opponents, won a historic 68% of the vote, carried every one of the 75 counties, from the rich, black Delta, heavily populated with Negroes, to the northwestern mountain counties, where Negroes make up only a tiny minority of the population...
...returns cascaded into his headquarters in Little Rock's Marion Hotel, Faubus paraded his pleasant smile before the Dixie-singing, button-wearing hundreds on hand to celebrate his certain victory. "Don't leave now. Governor," cried a hanger-on as Faubus started off to make a victory statement somewhere else. "Ike's on the phone." Faubus' cocky answer brought cackles and rebel yells out of the sultry night. "Tell him to call back later," he drawled...
...Mail legalistic pamphlets in support of Arkansas' Racist Governor Orval Faubus to 20,000 Little Rock voters on the eve of their gubernatorial primary...
...both the South and North reacted predictably. Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas declared that Judge Lemley seemed to have "yielded to the threat of mob violence. I have never understood that mob violence took precedence over the law of the U.S." Said Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who was now helped mightily by Judge Lemley's ruling in a primary campaign for an unprecedented third term (TIME, June 23): "Most gratified . . . The Negro citizens in the community would do well to accept this ruling." Little Rock's School Superintendent Virgil Blossom summed up the sentiments...