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...ballyhoo in trying to clear himself, he is nevertheless morally honest, and certainly not reactionary. He is not McCarthy. (The CRIMSON's coverage of his Boston appearance was not only slanted but inaccurate. Nixon was introduced not by Lodge, who never spoke, but by Herter.) On the other hand, Sparkman has been kept pretty far in the background. Do the "liberals" in the Stevenson camp really think they can kill the filibuster or legisislate FEPC with Sparksman presiding over the Senate? Is it "honest discussion" to raise such a furor over Nixon, while deliberately disregarding the alternative...
Fully aware of New York's highly developed social conscience, Dewey first turned his attack on Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman. The Democrats' man, said Dewey, is "the Jim Crow candidate for Vice President." Sparkman, who had just completed a three-day tour in upstate New York, "brings into this state the worst record of hatred and warfare against minorities of any man who ever walked into this state." Twice, said Dewey going to the record, Alabama's Sparkman voted against anti-lynching bills, and twice he voted against bills to abolish the poll...
...June 7, 1948, said Dewey, John Sparkman became the "busiest Jim Crow agent in America."* On that he voted against 1) abolishing segregation in the armed forces, 2) an anti-lynching measure to protect members of the armed forces, 3) exempting servicemen from paying poll taxes...
...Dewey, who rarely misses a point in this kind of argument, forgot one: in Sparkman's Alabama, the Democratic rooster at the top of the ballot bears the printed legend: White Supremacy...
...Sparkman's presence on the ticket," he stated, "symbolizes the Democratic compromise on civil rights, a compromise which I deplore, but Nixon symbolizes a Republican surrender on civil liberties, and that surrender threatens our future as a democratic society...