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...reigning public has elected Wallace Governor of Alabama, Reagan Governor of California and, most likely, Maddox Governor of Georgia. I am beginning to understand why Hamilton said: "Unfortunately, they have truth on their side who say that the great mass of mankind cannot be trusted with decisions for their own welfare. The decisions had better be made by those who by birth, education or knowledge are better enabled to determine what is in their interest than are the people themselves...
Dixie Dozen. In Georgia, the hangup was a matter of old math-Southern style. With 451,032 votes, Republican Congressman Howard Call away had an undisputed lead over Democrat Lester Maddox, who had 448,598. But Democrat Ellis Arnall, a former Governor and the contest's only racial moderate, got 57,832 write-in votes and, under an amendment adopted in 1824, Georgia's constitution requires that a gubernatorial candidate must win more than 50% of the popular vote in order to be elected. If no contender wins an absolute majority, according to the constitution...
...Governor; hours later it became embarrassingly clear that the winner was Republican Spiro Agnew. ABC declared Thomas Lusk the winner in the New Mexico gubernatorial race; later the network had to retract when Lusk lost. NBC earned the doubtful honor of being first to announce that Democrat Lester Maddox had won the race for Governor of Georgia. After the other networks made the same mistake, a beaming Maddox was encouraged to announce his plans over TV. Attempting to play down his segregationist past, he said: "We're gonna have a lotta common sense and a lotta common people...
...GEORGIA GOVERNOR 65% of the vote Maddox (D) 305,000 Callaway (R) 315,000 U.S. SENATOR Russell (D)* (unopposed...
...Maddox, 51, has proved a wilier bird than even his most knowing opponents anticipated. He has promised to appoint Negroes to state boards and -while insisting that "these colored people won't be involved in our social life"-says that as Governor he would "treat all minority groups fairly." Textile Millionaire Callaway is a segregationist himself, though of a subtler hue. He claims that a Maddox victory would be a blow to the state "from which it may never recover," pleaded before a Rotary Club meeting in the tobacco town of Douglas last month: "Which one is going...