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...funeral procession, led by two of the city's finest mounted policemen, was routed down the main street right through the heart of town. Thus the city of Griffin, Ga. paid its final respects to one of its oldest Negro citizens. Despite all the puny efforts of Gauleiter "Hummon" Talmadge, the people in the South will still abide by the laws of the nation; and if he would pull off that storm trooper's uniform, he wouldn't be so bad himself...
There were some things to be said for Hummon's own first legislature. It had finally discovered and approved the principle of the secret ballot (only South Carolina still held out against it). It had passed a law requiring blood tests before marriage and it had approved a program to raise the depressed level of education in Georgia (the paid lobbyist for more education was Hummon's chief crony, ex-Speaker Roy Harris...
Also rammed through was a re-registration bill, the net effect of which would be to disfranchise more Negroes, cut down voters' lists and make elections easier to swing. To supplement this, Hummon's boys extended the county-unit voting system to general elections, subject to approval of the voters in 1950. The unit-voting system makes it possible for Hummon's beloved piney-woods counties to outvote their city neighbors...
Take Your Pick. And lastly, it passed two pieces of legislation which would allow Hummon to succeed himself. With this and the unit-voting extension, Hummon could take his pick: he could either continue as governor or take his political ambitions to the U.S. Senate; some said he was narrowing his eyes speculatively at Georgia's senior Senator Walter George, whose term...
There were some Georgians who still insisted that Hummon might prove to be a better governor than his father before him. It was an extremely modest and narrow ambition, but no one yet knew whether Hummon aspired...