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...McMath was elected twice to the governorship as a Liberal Democratic candidate, and then suffered an overwhelming defeat...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 27--Governor Faubus acted out of desperation to create an emotional issue for his political gain, Sidney S. McMath, former two-term governor of Arkansas, said tonight...
...People may be against integration because of tradition and their environment," McMath said, "but they will not defy the government of the United States." He asserted that when the facts behind Faubus's action are known, Arkansas voters will repudiate...
...McMath predicted that a major effect of the Little Rock integration crisis would be to insure the passage of a severe civil rights bill in the next session of Congress...
More Than He Could Handle. Faubus had other qualms. The political effect of his stand was not quite what he had expected. His old boss, Sid McMath, was busy rounding up liberals to denounce what Orval had wrought. Little Rock's respected Congressman Brooks Hays, top Baptist layman (president of the Southern Baptist Convention), checked with the city's leading citizens, found them shocked and ashamed...