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Many an Alabama newsman and politician was startled at the vote-getting power of Attorney General John Patterson, 36, running for Governor in the primary three weeks ago. His 34,000 plurality in a field of 14, segregationists all. made him odds-on favorite to win the June 3 runoff for Democratic nomination, which means election. Last week one powerful reason came to light: Patterson is the candidate of the Ku Klux Klan. now making its boldest bid for public power and approval since the corn-pone days...
...Montgomery Advertiser, tracing ties between the K.K.K. and Patterson campaigners, turned up a form letter which was a signal to Klansmen to back him for Governor. On his official Attorney General stationery, Candidate Patterson wrote to the K.K.K. hate-sheet mailing list quoting "A mutual friend, Mr. R. N. (Bob) Shelton." To anybody on the list, that was enough, for, as every Kluxer knows, Tuscaloosa Rubberworker Shelton is the Grand Dragon...
...leading last week's field, John Patterson drew heavily on the crusading father-and-son background, even more heavily on his record as an attorney general who would enforce to the letter Alabama's harsh segregationist laws. He won 160,000 votes to 134,000 for his nearest rival, Circuit Judge George Wallace, who had promised to jail any FBI man found snooping around his jurisdiction to investigate denial of Negro voting rights. Patterson is strongly favored in his runoff with Wallace next June, but either way, Alabama can be sure of having just the sort of segregationist...
...argue the merits of integration v. segregation, simply maintained that the sole question was "the supremacy of the government of the U.S. in all matters of law." Throughout the struggle, Ashmore was sturdily supported by the Gazette's 85-year-old President J. N. Heiskell and Publisher Hugh Patterson...
Backed by Governor Faubus, the White Citizens' Council tried hard to bring the Gazette to heel with a boycott. Last week Publisher Patterson acknowledged that the boycott had reduced daily circulation 10.6% to 88,068 and Sunday circulation 9.7% to 97,449 for the six-month period ending in March. Over the same period, Little Rock's Arkansas Democrat, which carefully avoided taking a stand on Faubus' defiance of federal authorities, gained more than 6,000 readers for both its daily and Sunday editions, now trails the Gazette on weekdays by 2,800 and leads...