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James Strom Thurmond, a Southern politician little known and therefore possibly underrated in the North, made a sortie last week into political no-man's land. Appearing in Baltimore, in the border state of Maryland, he was met by a college student dressed in the full regalia of a Confederate brigadier and a mildly interested audience. Standing just over on his side of the Mason-Dixon line, the governor of South Carolina sounded his defiance...
With his forefinger chopping at the microphone, Thurmond told his listeners that what they had to fear was "a new kind of police state with all power centered in Washington." Cried he: "There are forces at work in this country today which would lead our people down the same pathway to the total state that was traveled by the people of Germany, of Italy, of Russia. Harry Truman, Tom Dewey and Henry Wallace are birds of one feather. All three are kowtowing to minority blocs by advocating the so-called civil-rights program. This time they can not fool...
Clicking along at an 18-hour-a-day clip, the Dixiecrats' Candidate J. Strom Thurmond turned up one night last week with his pretty wife Jean for an outdoor supper in Augusta, Ga. and a rally in the Municipal Auditorium. The crowd of 3,000 was well-scrubbed, well-dressed and soberly attentive. Candidate Thurmond's appeal, it was clear, was to Augusta's upper classes...
This week Candidate Thurmond would take his campaign as far north as the District of Columbia and the border state of Maryland...
...Dewey as a "limber trimmer," announced that Henry Wallace had manifestly lost "what little sense he had formerly, if indeed, he ever had any at all." He grudgingly admitted that Socialist Norman Thomas seemed to have some brains, but wrote him off immediately. He thought Dixiecrat J. Strom Thurmond was "the best of all the candidates," but with a final growl, he warned that "all the worst morons in the South...