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...photograph, got a free lunch, free fountain pens and a chance to meet Governor Thomas E. Dewey.* In Democratic Tennessee there was a mild flurry of excitement. An elector named Preston Parks carried out a vow-and exercised his constitutional right-to vote for the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman...
Elector Parks's action changed the expected results by one vote-303 for Truman, 189 for Dewey, 39 for Thurmond. In each state the votes were bundled up and mailed off to Congress. There, on Jan. 6, they would be opened and counted. After that-and not before-Harry Truman would have been legally elected President...
...looks now as though labor will vote for Truman," the Ambassador explained, "the farmers will vote for Dewey, Negroes may vote for Wallace, and parts of the South will vote for Thurmond...
...second defect in the present system is that it places a variable factor between the voter and the official election result. Right now several electors in the South are talking about throwing their votes to Truman, despite the statistical fact that the voters chose J. Strom Thurmond. Such a move might be shrewd politically, but it would violate the principle of free election...
...South, the Dixiecrats were scrambling for cover. Over the flat cotton lands rose the wail of countless Dixiecrats protesting that they had considered themselves Democrats all along. Candidate J. Strom Thurmond wired Truman: "You are entitled to the united support of a united people," then quickly explained to newsmen that "the fight was within our own family...