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...Republicans in the South who didn't want the party to grow because it might outgrow them." Under Chapman, South Carolina Republicans are running their first major candidate for the Senate since Reconstruction: William D. Workman Jr., 47, a widely known, highly respected syndicated columnist and pro-segregationist author (Case for the South), who is seeking Democrat Olin Johnston's seat...
Serious Candidate. In South Carolina, where a victory in the Democratic primary is almost the same as election, the Republicans have put up a serious Senate candidate for the first time since Reconstruction. Running against Johnston will be William D. Workman Jr.. 47, a segregationist and former reporter (he still writes a syndicated column) who joined the Republican Party only last fall...
Alabamans last week picked for their next Governor a man whose segregationist ideas would make Orval Faubus seem like an admirer of the N.A.A.C.P. Winner of a Democratic primary runoff: former Circuit Judge George C. Wallace, 42, of Barbour County...
Wallace, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam"), campaigned on a segregationist platform that seemed extreme even by Alabama standards. The federal judiciary, he claimed, is "lousy and irresponsible." U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., who once ordered voting records turned over to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, was an "integrating, scalawagging, carpetbagging liar." Promising that he would refuse to obey "any order to mix races in our schools," Wallace offered to "stand in the schoolhouse door," and, if need be, go to jail before permitting integration. To suggestions that his position might be too strong...
Wallace's opponent, State Senator Ryan deGraffenried, 37, assured the electorate that he was as good a segregationist as the next man. But Wallace's intemperance, he charged, would only stir up violence and chaos. Cried he: "It's been the same pattern in every state where you have a loudmouth, rabble-rousing Governor. They have brought the walls of segregation tumbling down on their heads...