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...give 'em hell," and promptly proceeded to do so in one of the most inflammatory speeches he had delivered to date. Before the week was out, the September campaign circuits would be jammed with the trails of Alben Barkley, Henry Wallace, and the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond. The nation's cartoonists were already hard at work. Before Nov. 2, the air would be crisscrossed with brickbats, insults and loud appeals to party spirit...
...place, Louisiana's Democratic Central Committee put the J. Strom. Thurmond-Fielding Wright Dixiecrat ticket and committed the state's ten Democratic electors to it. Unless the action is overthrown in the courts, a Louisiana voter who wants to vote for Harry Truman in November will have to write in the names of ten new Truman electors...
...survey, Editor & Publisher found 69% of U.S. dailies supporting Tom Dewey (8% more than in 1944), 16% for Harry Truman, 4% for Dixiecrat Candidate James Strom Thurmond, .28% for Henry Wallace, 11% undecided. Said one Texas editor who was supporting nobody: "We're Pixiecrats: down on Dewey, tired of Truman, weary of Wallace, doubtful of Dixiecrats...
...which thinks of itself as-and is-a two-party nation, found itself last week with eleven different presidential tickets. Besides the Republicans' Dewey and Warren, the Democrats' Truman and Barkley, the Progressives' Wallace and Taylor, the Dixiecrats' Thurmond and Wright, there were seven other entries. Their backers were few, fanatical, as noisy as their budgets would allow...
...National Guardsman fired into the air. Wallace insisted on a police escort, entered the hall behind a Guardsman with drawn pistol. He spoke against a drumfire of heckling from spectators and counter chants of "We Want Wallace" from his supporters. "What do we want for the South?" he cried. "Thurmond," bellowed his hecklers. For those who could hear, Wallace suggested that the Federal Government allot $1 billion a year for loans to develop the South's industry and agriculture...