Word: weltner
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Strongly for Wallace, Georgia proved staunchly conservative again this year, even denying liberal Rep. Charles L. Weltner in his bid to regain his Atlanta congressional seat. Herman E. Talmadge, son of the Georgia demagogue, easily won election for a third term...
Some Democrats look beyond November in search of new strength. In Atlanta, former Congressman Charles Weltner, seeking election after two years of voluntary retirement, talks of a coalition of "people concerned with the development of human potential"-educated professionals, "enlightened" businessmen, Negroes, the progressive elements of organized labor, moderate Southerners, new voters. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh looks for a similar grouping and adds another target: liberal Republicans who could be weaned from the G.O.P...
There are two legal Democratic parties in the state--no one knows what will happen, though the traditional party of Gov. Lester Maddox might reconstitute itself after November as a grass roots Wallacite party. A biracial coalition of white urban liberals like Charles Longstreet Weltner from progressive Altanta and black community leader state Rep. Julian Bond comprise the new party. Old-style moderates like former Gov. Carl Sanders and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen will soon have to make a decision on which party--the redneck Maddox majority or the chronic minority liberals--they will go with...
...Georgia, for example, Governor Lester Maddox, a Wallace supporter, sat down with State Party Chairman James Gray to handpick the 64 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. "What it boils down to," says Democratic Congressional Candidate Charles Weltner, "is a weird perversion of the one-man, one-vote doctrine wherein one man has one vote, and that man is Lester Maddox." John Howett, an Emory University professor, and Businessman Richard Marsh filed suit charging that they are "thwarted from participation in the democratic process at its place of quintessence...
...most likely outcome is that Georgia will be compelled to hold a new popular election in the next few months. Even this might not settle anything, because the pro-Arnall faction, called Write In Georgia (W.I.G.), is growing in strength. Democratic Representative Charles Weltner, who chose not to run for re-election because he could not stomach Maddox, warned: "We could go on forever with write-ins. We might not have a Governor for four years." Meanwhile, able Incumbent Carl Sanders, 41, who cannot succeed himself, will stay on in the statehouse...