Word: segregationist
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...want to bring on trouble," purred Alabama's segregationist Governor George Wallace. "I'm a guest in Maryland." But he wasn't a guest to Maryland's Democratic Senator Daniel Brewster...
Still Seething. The night before Wallace arrived, handsome Matt Welsh, 51, blistered his segregationist opponent at a district Democratic meeting in Tell City, accused Wallace of "trying to wreck the Democratic Party." Cried he: Wallace's campaign "smells sweet, but it has the taste of death...
...month before the Wisconsin presidential primary, Democratic Governor John Reynolds knew he had trouble on his hands. That was when Reynolds, running as a favorite-son front man for President Johnson, heard that Alabama's Segregationist Governor George Wallace had filed against him. Reynolds promptly canceled a junket to Europe, flew to Washington for advice from Administration leaders, returned home to campaign for all he was worth. As the voting neared, he predicted that Wallace would get no more than 100,000 votes-but even that "would be a catastrophe...
Touching on the recent Wisconsin presidential primary, in which Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, a staunch segregationist, amassed 260,000 votes, the Senator said he felt encouraged, rather than dismayed. The Wisconsin voters handed down a clear mandate for the present bill by voting three to one in favor of candidates who advocate civil rights, he said...
...extent to which the approximately 100,000 votes case by Democrats for Governor Wallace represents opposition to civil rights demands, also will be measured more closely in Indiana and Maryland. If large numbers of northern Democrats continue to vote for the nation's most notorious segregationist, President Johnson could be in more trouble in November than current opinion polls suggest. Wisconsin is only one of several Northern states where Johnson can not afford to lost many once-dependable Democratic votes...