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Easing in to the dock at Yorktown, Va., Harry Truman had one small reminder of the political storms to come. The Williamsburg was overtaken by a small runabout carrying a dozen teen-age boys and girls alternately shouting "Hurrah for Thurmond!" and singing Dixie...
...modern records for emitting rebel yells, waving the Confederate flag, and complaining about the North. Nevertheless, with the Democratic National Convention and their own Birmingham convention behind them, they gathered in Houston last week and went through the noisy act all over again. The occasion: Governor J. Strom Thurmond's formal acceptance of the Dixiecrat presidential nomination...
South Carolina's Thurmond, who fervently hoped to capture Texas and its 23 electoral votes, made it plain to his cheering audience, at least, that the Dixiecrats were the only hope of the South-yes, of the whole country. He lumped Harry Truman, Tom Dewey and Henry Wallace together and solemnly declared that they all hoped to give the country the "new Russian look." Harry Truman's civil-rights program, he said, was a plot to make the U.S. a police state...
...South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, candidate of the bolting Dixiecrats (TIME, July 26), confirmed the birth of a fourth party (the States' Rights Democrats), announced that it would try to get on the ballot in every state. Said he: "We are running for President and Vice President and expect to be elected...
...Bolt. Just what they hoped to accomplish-or how they would go about it-no one seemed to know. So far, only Alabama and Mississippi electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...