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...Alabama the Democratic Party last week pledged itself to the brand of extremist politics that has been rife in the South since Little Rock. Items: EURJ In the runoff primary for Governor, Attorney General John Patterson, 36, piled up a record vote to defeat Circuit Judge George Wallace by 64,388 even after Patterson had been unmasked as the favorite of Ku Klux Klan leaders and had made a public appeal for the votes of Klansmen. Opponent Wallace, himself an unhooded knight of white supremacy, first attacked Patterson for his K.K.K. ties, then shut up when he saw that...
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...
...opponent, George Wallace, stormy 39-year-old circuit judge who only threatens to toss FBI agents into the jug if they come in his district investigating civil rights cases. But rare was the Southerner who did not shiver at the new high stakes in next week's runoff. "The election of John Patterson will be interpreted by the Klan as a major victory," warned Greensboro Watchman Editor Hamner Cobbs, Antiviolence White Citizens' Councilman. "In that event, for the next four years the escutcheon of Alabama will proclaim the bedsheet and the burning cross...
...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 Governor it likes to succeed outgoing Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom...
...seat by accident the first time) tirelessly reminded voters that he is a Negro. Insurance Dealer Theodore Morton Alexander, 48, first Negro to run for alderman in Atlanta since 1871, finished a close second with two white candidates against him, stands an outside chance of winning a top-two runoff next week. After what he considered a moral victory, Alexander paid high tribute to Bill Hartsfield: "As I listened to the returns, my heart was beating faster for him than...