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Brooke himself has not emphasized racial issues in previous campaigns. Yet, though his Democratic opponent, former Governor Endicott Peabody, 46, is an ardent civil rights advocate, Brooke has seen his early lead threatened by anti-Negro reaction, and of late has denounced both Stokely Carmichael and Lester Maddox as "the extremists of black power and white power...
Though Lester Maddox refused to serve Negroes his fried chicken, he makes no bones about soliciting their patronage at the polls. A noisy racist who shuttered his Atlanta Pickrick Restaurant in 1964 rather than accept an integrated clientele, Maddox won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in an upset runoff victory over former Governor Ellis Arnall, a racial moderate. Republicans thought that Maddox would be the less formidable candidate against their man, Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway...
...Georgia, the first published gubernatorial poll reported Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway ahead of Democrat Lester Maddox, 42%to 34% , with 24% undecided...
...beliefs. And while I cannot violate my oath, neither can I violate my principles. I cannot compromise with hate." Atlanta's Democratic county committee nominated in Weltner's place an old-line local politician, Real Estate Man Archie Lindsey, 55, who announced that he would support Maddox...
...Time to Fight." Weltner's opponents charged that he had good reason to resign. Until two weeks ago, he had been easily favored over his Republican challenger, Fletcher Thompson, 41, a handsome but undistinguished state senator. However, Maddox's victory raised the possibility that Atlanta's Negroes and white moderates-the bulk of Weltner's support-would go fishing on election day. Close friends of Weltner's insisted nonetheless that had it not been for the moral issue, he would have stayed in the race, whatever the odds...