Word: griffins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spot radio commercials proclaimed that a vote against Marvin Griffin was a vote for Negroes next door and on the playing fields of Georgia. Ex-Governor Griffin, running for a return trip to Atlanta, assured an audience that there was only one way to handle integrationist "agitators." Said he: "There ain't but one thing to do and that is to cut down a blackjack sapling and brain 'em and nip 'em in the bud." Griffin hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles...
...Griffin, it was all to no avail. Georgians last week turned down his candidacy by a margin that must have made the state's Ku-Kluxers turn as white as their sheets. The winner, by a vote of 462,065 to 305.777, and next Governor of Georgia, was State Senator Carl Sanders...
...personable, good-looking fellow. Sanders had been described as too "suave"' for Georgia's political tastes. But in running against Griffin, he took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, loosened his tie and invaded the cotton lands (his wife Betty was once Georgia's "First Maid of Cotton"). He promised to try "to maintain Georgia's traditional separation.'' But he also pledged that "violence in any form will not be tolerated...
...MARVIN GRIFFIN Atlanta...
Surveying this new integrity pitch, the Macon News concluded in an editorial: "The miracle is that everyone who remembers the Griffin administration's shenanigans didn't fall right down laughing ... In some far-off limbo where old politicians go when they die, Jim Curley, the ex-mayor of Boston who was once elected while serving a jail sentence, must have nodded his head in admiration at the colossal gall of Marvin Griffin...