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With such impassioned oratory, James Douglas Johnson, 41-neither a consanguineal nor a philosophical relation of the President-last week handily captured the Democratic nomination for Governor of Arkansas. Not too many people in the capital of Little Rock gave Johnson, an out-and-out segregationist ("I don't shake hands with niggers"), very much notice when he entered the campaign last spring. Many even discounted his chances after he ran first in the July 26 primary, expecting most Democrats to rally in the runoff behind J. Frank Holt, 55, an easygoing moderate and the candidate of the Arkansas...
According to Usher, the Observatory continues to practice the following segregationist policies...
...Gang of Parasites." Johnson, the front runner with 25.2% of the Demo cratic vote, campaigned as a segregationist, even though Arkansas voters have shown signs of increasing moderation. A founder of the state's White Citizens Council, he identified himself with Alabama's George Wallace, refused to shake hands with Negroes, fulminated against President Johnson and "that gang of parasites in Washington." His showing in the primary was due mainly to the fact that he was the only avowed segregationist in the running, thus had the racist vote all to himself...
...Young Harry, who was opposed by Armistead Soothe, 58, he concentrated on refurbishing the Byrd image. Styling himself a "progressive conservative," he coolly ignored Boothe's invitations to debate, and parried his opponent's efforts to label him a segregationist. Though Byrd helped lead Virginia's "massive resistance" campaign against school integration in the late '50s, he proclaimed that such efforts are now "passé." Said he: "I am for education." Byrd, who has been serving in the Senate by appointment since Harry Sr.'s resignation in November, probably attracted some sympathy votes, since...
...Representative Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, who two years ago was elected Georgia's first Republican Congressman since Reconstruction, officially announced his candidacy for the governorship. A states' righter and segregationist of the George Wallace stripe, Callaway promised a "new Declaration of Independence" for Georgians, vowed to resist "the unwarranted onslaught of federal domination" of the state's affairs. With no opposition in his own party, Callaway is given at least an even chance against the disorganized Democrats (TIME, May 7), whose candidate in November will most likely be former Governor Ellis Arnall, 59, an outspoken liberal...