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Writing not of politicians by & large, but of such specialized spellbinders as Big Bill Thompson, Tom Heflin, Cole Blease, Smith Brookhart, and Huey Long, Author Wallis' humor is often dated, with the date somewhere before 1929. And his grave instructions that candidates emulate the more impressive fatuities of eminent statesmen lose much of their sardonic sting when it is noted that most of his examples are chosen from the doings of political has-beens...
...what the psychologists used to call an inferiority complex. ... I cannot escape the conviction that Southerners would have a better chance to find the philosopher's stone by opening their eyes than they would by keeping them tightly closed." Southern politics, says he, with its Tom-Tom Heflin, Huey Long and The Man Bilbo should be reported on the sport pages where it belongs. The Southern conscience has never honestly faced the Negro question: the Civil War amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) should either be legally repudiated or enforced. "On the whole," Author Cason concludes, "the South would profit from...
...Senate. Because of the political degeneracy of the one-party system, the incompetence of the Deep South's voters or the type of man who there goes out for public life, the Senate has in late years suffered such people, as Alabama's Heflin, South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's Watson, Louisiana's Long, Mississippi's Vardaman. Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis lived, where the illiteracy rate is the fourth highest in the U. S., where poverty is said to have driven 'all the good niggers' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid...
...know nothing of Mr. Bilbo, the subject of your editorial, neither do I know anything of Mr. Blease, or Senator Long, but I have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Heflin, and found him to be, personally, a most pleasing gentleman, certainly a great deal more than I can say for the Editor of TIME from having met him through the columns of the magazine...
...Senate. Because of the political degeneracy of the one-party system, the incompetence of the Deep South's voters or the type of man who there goes out for public life, the Senate has in late years suffered such people as Alabama's Heflin, South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's Watson, Louisiana's Long, Mississippi's Vardaman. Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis lived, where the illiteracy rate is fourth highest in the U. S., where poverty is said to have driven "all the good niggers'' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid itself...