Word: rocke
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Assessing the political aftermath of Little Rock, Democrats last week saw small humor in Chicago Daily News Columnist Jack Mabley's new word definition. Federal bayonets in Arkansas might have cut away from the Republicans those Eisenhower Democrats who last year helped Ike win Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Tennessee-and might have skewered hopes of a Republican Southern wing. But the Democratic Party was in far worse shape. The Little Rock crisis crumbled the shaky foundation of compromise which had underlain Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign and the Democratic record in the first session of the 85th Congress...
...Little Rock grew by cotton culture and by steamboat glamour-creaking wharves piled high with cotton bales for loading on shallow-draft paddle-wheelers such as Reindeer, Cinderella and Spy-and Little Rock seceded along with Arkansas and the Old South from the Union in 1861. Two years later Little Rock was captured by the Union Army without a fight, set about treating the Union men courteously. And when the Confederacy and Reconstruction were done with, Little Rock grew-from 12,000 in 1870 to 26,000 in 1890 and 46,000 in 1910-and became a state-capital leader...
...would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote for impeachment right now.'' South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston went even further. "If I were Governor Faubus," he said, "I'd proclaim a state of insurrection down there, and I'd call out the National Guard...
...Force All the Way?" By week's end the South was moving on to consider what next. Would the 101st Airborne at Little Rock advance integration or retard it? "Little Rock," thought one Negro leader in border-state Missouri, "has put a great number of people, both white and Negro, to thinking. Many consciences have been affected by the sadness of the story, and these consciences will help crystallize action." A Charleston, S.C. moderate disagreed: "Those who believed that integration could be accomplished gradually and peacefully are now convinced that Eisenhower will have to use force...
Said one knowing New York Harriman Democrat gloomily: "Until Little Rock we figured we were going to make great gains in '58. The way things look, we may be down the drain for the next 15 years, and Nixon is the great civil rights champion. If Ike and the Southern governors compromise, the Democratic Party is compromised but not lost. If they don't, we're not just split-we're amputated...