Word: rubell
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Mississippi: Back to One Party In Mississippi, Republican Rubel Phillips, 42, an erstwhile segregationist who this year appealed for an end to racial rancor, lost to Democrat John Bell Williams, 48, by a vote of 293,188 to 126,753. Williams, a strident dissident who bolted the Democratic Party in 1964 to support Barry Goldwater and thereby lost his seniority in the House of Representatives, cashed in on Phillips' plea to voters to give up the fight against desegregation in order to elevate Mississippi economically. Phillips' radical suggestion tarred other Republicans: only one of 60 G.O.P. candidates...
Republican Rubel Phillips, 42, who ran unsuccessfully in 1 963 as a segregationist, opened his gubernatorial campaign by pleading for a truce in Mississippi's racial war. "Trying to keep something from happening has absorbed so much of our total energies for all these years that we haven't had much left to devote to the really important task of developing our state," declared Phillips. "It is painfully clear that the race issue has retarded the development of our human resources. The white cannot keep the Negro down without paying the awesome penalty of restricting his own development...
Come November, Mississippi's Negroes may have even less inclination to go to the polls. For their choice then will be between Williams and Republican Rubel Phillips, a Jackson attorney who is as outspoken a segregationist as his opponent...
...Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips (Rep)" billboards, "Maintain White Democratic Solidarity--Vote Paul Johnson (Dem)" billboards, Kiwanis! Rotary! Order of the Eastern Star! White Citizens Council...
...Lieutenant Governor, had a head start as the outdoing disciple of segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. Once a man gets the Democratic nomination in Mississippi, he is usually as good as elected, but Johnson had to work hard to win the general election last week. He was opposed by Republican Rubel Phillips, who ran as a Goldwater-backing candidate and polled an amazing-for a Mississippi Republican-123,000 votes. The last Republican to run for Governor in the state, in 1947, got 4,102 votes...