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...month ago former Governor Ellis Arnall, a moderate with a distinctly liberal image, ran ahead of five other candidates by 55,000 votes in the Democratic gubernatorial primary--a comfortable margin, but not large enough to avoid a runoff with staunch segregationist Lester Maddox...
...weeks later in the runoff, Maddox startled everybody by defeating Arnall by 70,000 votes. The moderate Democrats were left in the cold. Overshadowing the whole primary, however, were the Republicans and Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a segregationist and Gold-water conservative who loomed this summer as a solid favorite to win the November general election no matter whom his Democratic opponent happened...
...volatile is the political situation that Maddox, the Democratic candidate whom Republicans calculated would be easiest to defeat is now far ahead. The old-line segregationists who were talking up Callaway during the summer are now deserting the Republican camp for Maddox, who gained fame several years ago when he sold axe-handle "drumsticks" to beat Negroes away from his segregated Pickrick Restaurant...
...stumped California and three other Western states. Just how much it might hurt Democratic prospects was demonstrated on the other side of the continent the same day. In Georgia, moderate former Governor Ellis Arnall entered a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination as a heavy favorite against Lester Maddox, a strident racist who first made headlines by refusing to integrate his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Maddox became a hero to the racists at that time by giving white customers at his fried-chicken restaurant ax handles-he called them "Pickrick drumsticks...
...will carry the barer of the Democratic Party -- or party of it anyway -- is not a racist in the sense of Jim Johnson of Arkansas or Lester Maddox of Georgia -- both primary victors this year. He has been around Maryland politics a long time and this year everything just worked out right for him.GEORGE P. MAHONEY The 58 cent victor...