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...Negro vote was also evident in the gubernatorial race, in which two comparative middle-of-the-roaders-by Mississippi standards-beat former Governor Ross Barnett and four other candidates. Facing each other in the runoff will be State Treasurer William Winter, 44, an able administrator and reluctant segregationist, who won the top spot with 218,045 votes, and Congressman John Bell Williams, 48, a Democrat for Goldwater in 1964, who generally avoided airing his racist views and got 194,230 votes. Despite Winter's early lead, the pros picked Williams as the likely winner, since he stands to pick...
Maddox's current reactionary mood is probably the result of his responsibilities becoming to complicated. It is not a coincidence that his segregationist praise to Lowndes Country came one day after a meeting with members of a three-man team from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. When he is forced into this kind of administrative responsibility detracts from his fun-time with the people, then he is likely to express a few of his old-time slogans in frustration. It does not mean any policy changes, for Maddox does not execute any policies. The primary result...
Williams, calling himself a middle-of-the-roader, has appealed to the "reasonable" element among segregationists and conservatives and has left Barnett try to out-scream Swan for the rabid-racist support. Williams has the distinct advantage of having lost his House seniority by supporting Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election. This made a minor martyr of him. In a Southern state like Mississippi, where personal attacks rather than issues dominate campaigns, promises differ in tone and emphasis and not in content. Williams, who has amply proved his conservative credentials by giving up his Party power for Goldwater, does...
...racist vote will probably be so split today that the "moderate" Winter should be at the top of the balloting, somewhere near the 30 per cent mark. In the runoff, however, it is almost unquestionable that the more militant segregationist--Williams, or possibly Barnett--will win. Both Barnett and Williams have tried to stick the "liberal" deathmark on Winter...
Realistic Negroes have no hope for anything less than staunch segregationist Democrats in all the State's top posts. Only in the 12 counties where Negroes hold a substantial edge in voter regiistration do they have a chance to elect their own candidates or sympathetic whites. In the other elections, it is only a matter of which brand of segregation is most suitable...