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Nothing would so delight some Southern sheriffs as "an official sanction to keep utterly silent," adds the Washington Post's Associate Editor Alfred Friendly. "It would help immeasurably to harass, if not frame and convict, a civil rights activist, and it would help a segregationist bully slide through court to an acquittal...
...month ago former Governor Ellis Arnall, a moderate with a distinctly liberal image, ran ahead of five other candidates by 55,000 votes in the Democratic gubernatorial primary--a comfortable margin, but not large enough to avoid a runoff with staunch segregationist Lester Maddox...
...weeks later in the runoff, Maddox startled everybody by defeating Arnall by 70,000 votes. The moderate Democrats were left in the cold. Overshadowing the whole primary, however, were the Republicans and Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a segregationist and Gold-water conservative who loomed this summer as a solid favorite to win the November general election no matter whom his Democratic opponent happened...
...rioting in the cities. In Maryland, Perennial Also-Ran George Mahoney beat out seven rivals for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by keying his campaign to prejudiced-or frightened -whites. In Louisiana, twelve-term Congressman James Morrison paid for his moderate racial record by losing the Democratic primary election to Segregationist John Rarick, who attacked Morrison as an ally of "the black-power voting bloc...
...bumper stickers. By one estimate, they cast 100,000 votes for the balding bigot, enough to give Maddox a startling 430,000-to-360,000 victory. As a result, liberals and Negroes next month are expected to either support a write-in candidate or vote for Callaway, himself a segregationist but of a subtler hue than Maddox. Thus the G.O.P. has every chance of electing its first Georgia Governor since...