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...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...
...became the first Deep South Congressman in this century to put a Negro on his staff, was the only one to vote for all three of the Administration's major civil rights bills-in 1964, '65 and '66. Weltner further outraged Southern racists last year by initiating a House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. His resignation from the race prompted hundreds of tributes from across the U.S., including a telegram from a non-Georgian that read: "I never heard of you. Now I will never forget...
...Time to Fight." Weltner's opponents charged that he had good reason to resign. Until two weeks ago, he had been easily favored over his Republican challenger, Fletcher Thompson, 41, a handsome but undistinguished state senator. However, Maddox's victory raised the possibility that Atlanta's Negroes and white moderates-the bulk of Weltner's support-would go fishing on election day. Close friends of Weltner's insisted nonetheless that had it not been for the moral issue, he would have stayed in the race, whatever the odds...
Other friends, even while sympathizing with his dilemma, had their doubts about the wisdom of Weltner's move. "My position," said Georgia Congressman James Mackay, a fellow liberal and political ally of Weltner, "is that if there ever was a time to fight for rational leadership in Georgia, it's now." Therefore Mackay decided to stay in the fight...