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FRIDAY. JULY 30k 1M<
The New Gitu AdtnbUetratien
' CahS3’4A* will‘ ge undeii^the commission-
city manafer form of government on next
Monday whin Mhyor-elect Henry Savage
,aiid Councilmen-elect joe McKain and
Sam Karesh assume office. A city manager
who has already been agreed upon will as
sume office a few weeks later.
While the people of Camden have a
right to_ expect many benefits to accrue
from the new form of government they can
not expect the new governing body to revo
lutionise the city overnight or to perform
miracles. It will take time to bring about
many of the changes that are to be hoped
for under the new system.
The city is indeed fortunate in having
men of the type of Messrs. Savage, McKain
and Karesh at its helm in these days when
Camden is going forward.
A Southern Repubtiean View
John A. Wilkinson, an able lawyer and
excellent genUeman who lives in **lilHe"
Washington, N. C.T is the Jtepnblican can
didate for the United* States Senate from
North Caroliim.
^ Last week^he made a speech over Radio
Station WPTP in Raleigh iii, which he
stated his-poosition on the civR rights ques
tion.
We^uoti from hil speech; ^ ^
me say to my friends, both white
and cofored, that I am. personally abso
lutely opposed to this type of Federal legis-
hetlbifL It is unconstitutional and dhivork-
able. It will defeat the very thiiig It eets
out to accomplish, which is to improve the
colored man’s condition in the South. If I
were a negfd, I would bo just as* violently
Opposed to H as I am now. Why. Bbeau^
IlH-
May Be Ranking Party
If, as some people seem to think is pos
sible, President Truman does not carry a
single state, or at best only two or three,
and if, as many think possible, the States'
Rights Democrats should carry several or
all of the Southern States, then the States’
Rights Dlihocfati would be thb ranting
minority party in Congress and as such
would have a distinct advtntege.
With the States* Rights Democrats the
ranking minority party they would be in
excellent to block anti-South leg
islation. The Rephldicans would be more
inclined to play along withe States Rights
Democrats than with the so-called regular
.“Democrats”,
Congressman L. M. Rivers of the first
South Carolina Congressional district is
quoted as saying th'at he does not believe
Mr. Truman vdll carry a single state and
other political leaders feel the same way
about it. It ia pvtty generally conceded at
this time that Governor Thurmond is sure
to carry a number qf Southern statee.
Should this conle about he would be the
second high man in the race.
The States’ Rights 'have made a wise
move in attempting to have a ticket in
every state because there are thousands of
states lighters in the North, East and West
who will be glad to vote for a States Rights
ticket
A strong States Rights party may easily
become one of the two big parties in this
country.
J^ot A Pleasant Outlook
It is a great tragedy that the President
of this country should be doing everything
in his power to split the country in half at
a time when the nation is facing perhaps
the gravest crisis in its history.
The news from Berlin is not at all good:
An incident that may precipitate war may
occur at any minute. Every one who is
keeping up with the news from the Euro
pean front must recogiii|Ze this fact.
So here in the South we have two
enemies to fear, the Russians and the
crowd in Washington that is trying to force
intolerable conditions down our throats.
It’s not a pleasant outlook at this time.
The Wallace Party,
One can very readily understand now
why the Comtounists annouhced that they
Aot
would
Taylor ticket ' ^
It is hard to believe that in this coun
try, the greatest in the world, such a con
vention at the one held in Philadelphia
over the weekend could have been poesible.
Thei Democratic convention rwas bad
The WaHdce convention was be-
the pale. 1’^ .
' Thej :
ebdug^
70110 thi
ThtAmliiyer
When tile Alabama
and Missiseippi
del^gatiobJi walked out of tiuit convention
la raladel]
leiphia last week one of the radi-
eaM lefiwtefiati jeeHhg at them aek-
e4: "Wmia can you go?”
'are yaa
my coihitiOil sense and my reading of
tory teach’es me that yotf cannot from the
outside impose upon a section a sys
tem of laws attempting to regulate rela
tions between two different races against
the will of the majority group. Whenever
that is tried, everybody is the loser, but
the loser is the minority group who inevit
ably ^comes the target of resentment of
the majority and the goats of the whole
transaction. How anybody can read Ameri
can history and have any doubt left on that
point is beyond me.
“As a matter ofi fact, those who make
the most noise ab^t it are often the most
ignorant. On Wednesday, I listened to my
radio and heard yankee Democrat after
yankee Democrat rare up on his hind legs
and bellow out a condemnation of the poll
tax, and in nearly every c^se, bis own state
had a poll tax, as thirty^ix states of the
American union do.
“There is nothing new about the Civil
Rights program of"^President Truman. Al-
mpst the identical thing was pushed
through Congress in 1868. It was called the
Force bill and it laid the foundation for
Reconstniction. This bill ^was piushed.
through bjr a Republican Congress.”
Mr. Wilkinson then went on to review
the reconstruction era during which it was
necessary to keep 50,000 Federal soldiers
in the sopth and said:
“The program failed as.all such pro
grams will fail. It held back the advance
of the negro instead of helping it; it created
the Ku Klux Klan ; it impeded tiie econo
mic development of the South for fifty
years to the great harm of the white and
colored alike and Anally, instead of sew-
.ing up the South for my party,^ it acted
just in reverse and delivered the ^uth for
seventy-five years to the opposition party
beyond any hope of redemption.”
Then Mr. Wilkinson said :
“I will say for the Republican party
that it was able to learn f jpm that mistake,
for it was a Republican President and a
Republican Congress in 1876, after an in
terval of eight years, that ended the trag
edy of reconstruction.
*T will My for the Republican
party tbat from 1876 to tlio pireeent
day, tiioufb they have been in control
of the machinery for the Federal gov-
emment for a large piart of the inter-
venmg tim^, they haVe never again at
tempted to force upon the South fhU
particular kind oT legislatioh. Maybe
if the New Dealers and other ad
vanced thinkers from New York City,
Wisconsm and Minnesota who have
now taken over control of the Den^o-
cTalic party had q>ent more time read
ing American history and less reading
Karl Man and other great “liberal**
thinkers, they would have been able
to learn from our mistake.**
This was a very frank discussion of the
subject by the Republican candidate. He
openly admitted the part played by.his
party in reconstruction days but said the
Republicans had Iqarned bettei* and that
they would never again make a mistake
like the Trumanltes are making now.
As Mr. Wilkinson Said his party, al
though in absolute cental of the govern-
. ^ t mMh of the time since 1876 had
ye^. They will have one in the Wallacer*^ ® ®
never again attempted to put revolting
le^lation over on the South. And H never
will again. IPs not th^ Republicans that
we have to fear. It is that motley array of
people in the North ai^ West mas^uerad-
ing under the name of “Democrats** that
we have to fear.
Backing Thurrtum4 ———
. The newspapers of Jkha-atat^very geii-
drsHy kbe given Goveteor Thurmond very
hesrly support in his battle for sUtes'
HgiitS. From the News ainl Courier on the
seHtiiore to the Greenville papers in the
fka press qf tlie ‘itiiteil
bidiiiid the sta«e*8 Chief Bxeei».
did dtsfAiced persona (N
now are over s mflllofi
Toters
tile the Wallace pertj synTS
igr wHh Rntale vouM Ip
ute tor oor form of fpy-
_ the aame form ot goTem-
ment Rdlaia haa.
ing Bhlrtmaker aijra but*
ve been derlaed ttiat
cajinot taer off ot the
The ao bfil well Bet that
t be long before aomebdy
a laundry than ^ tear
It if very evident now that P. T.
Barautti underestimated when he
said there was a eucker being bom
erery minute.
While we in this country look
upon him as Uncle Sam, the people
of Europe probably look upon him
aa a gr^t grantfatber.
If a Baseball player atrikea too
much hia manager firea him.
S(Kne of the atuff
through the maila ai
matter isn’t
that cornea
I first class
An agriculturist says that the
earthworm la the farmer’s greatest
frleind. That knocks the prop out
from under some of the politicians.
Refttting an old theory that if it
rains on the first day of dog days
it will ynln every day for 40 days,
tha Bamberg Herald says that It
rained in Bamberg on the first
day and. hasn’t rained since. Well,
anything can happen in leap year.
A well known physician says in
a "magnsine article that doctors
are only human and that like all
other humans they make mistakes
sometimes. Yes, and we heard the
other day of' a mistake one had
made. It seems that a specialist
hi^ a male patient whom he waa
convinced was Just imagining that
he waa ill. He called the patient's
wife to the office one day and told
bw that there was nothing wrong
w^ htf husband—(hat he was Just
tmaglSmg he was sick. Sorie time
later he met the wlwfe on the street
and aidced her how her husband
was. ‘THaven’t you heard?” ^she
asked. "Why he*s been imagining
•that he’s dead now for two weeks.”
Life Is a hK and miSs proposttion
with a girl. It ahe doesn’t make a
hit she .jj^jemalns a miss.
can remember the good old
days when everybody respected the
sanctity of the Sabbath?
A writer eay* that the Demo
cratic party la flat on Us back.
How can you expect a party that
is flat on Ha back to put the na
tion on its feet?
The success at tb^ vacat8|ft, it
seems, depends on how much ot a
coal of tan was gotton on it.
'Phis is the time of the year when
you say you 11 not fuss it- mattere
)ia It gets next wlnt^-
not how col
The conventions at Philadelphia
seem to have grown progressively
worse.
When George Washington Smith,
88, died on July 12, ha left 214 de
scendants.. They included 11 sons,
six daughters, 87 grandchildren,
111 great-grandchildren and seven
great-great-grandchildr. Because of
the "George Washington” in his
name he must have felt that it was
incumbent upon him, too, to be the
father of hia country.
There’ll be a good bit of swear
ing in (onnectlon wHh the Demo-
.-^ratic primary in Kershaw coun
ty.
We can’t imagine why even a
communist would want Senator
Glen Taylor for vice president.
Here's another case of a man
biting a dog. A bMCball umpire
out in Georgia insuHed a fan and
then hit the deputy aheriff that
came to reprimand him.
We try not td‘ think of Henry
Wallace on' Sunday becauM we
think ,that would be profane.
There rsilly Isn't any excuse for
a druggist over getting sick with
all of the medicine which he has
at his disposal.
Now that Wallace’s party has
adopted the ^paflle "progressive’'
people will hNkate to. ihy longn
use the word "progressive.” We
wish they had adopted the name
"liberal” lastsad.
Wlfli The Tress
Most laok Thufmend
The questkm has reachad the
stage where a decision must be
made. Are we gding to support
Thurmond or ’Truman for presi
dent? ^
Governor Thurmond haa waged
a detennined fight for what are
Cpncelved to be our Democratic
prti^eu. Netther officials of the
party or individual members have
sought to dlscoarage him. He has
been led to brieve that he had ouf
support ^
The fight be has waged has led
up to his nomination (or the preal-
dency.
He has accepted the chAUeoge
and risked his pdUtieal fntnrs on
k.
As a measpiu of sportsmanship,
if tor nothing eiao, he deserves our
snpport There Is no other expus-
^le altomatlve.—Lanremh Adter-
Thlng Per South To Do
The thing for the South Hi do
is to nnlte on the States’ Rights
candidates. Even if we uufer de^
feat, which we well may, we will
have voted for constitutional gov
ernment and that is worth while.
There were a few Democrats at
the Philadelphia convention. Out
side of a scattered few from the
North and West they were dele
gates from the South. The rest
were New Dealers. Left Wingers,
Communists, Socialists, 'and what
used to be the renegades of the
Republican party.
If a seit of real Democrats were
ever insulted, spat upon, derided,
and made fnn of, it was those'
Southern delegates. ’They were|
sat upon and s(^d down the river j
on every dicaaion and at every I
opportunity. How they managed'
to sit In the convention and take
all the punishment handed to
them is- iMyond us, although we
think they- did the best thing to
sit H out.—Bamberg Herald .
Southern Voters
Without any chance of electing
a president oc a Tice-preeident they
can cast their votes for Governors
Thurmond, of South Carolina, and
Wright, of Mississippi. In sb Moing
they will serve notice that the
iSouth still has power and that It
can be reckoned with In coming
eleettond.—Lee County Messenger.
i
^ Worthy Standard Basrer
South Carolinlaas who believe in
the principles of Democracy and in
the Constltntioa of the United
States, should be exti-Muely graU-
fied at the s^ection of Governor
J. Strom Thurmond as five Stand
ard . bearer of tbe Stwtes Rights
Democrats.
Governor Thurmond, a true' be
liever In the democracy ot Thomas
Jefferson, is an able man, fki*
superior to Truman in ability and
charactey, has served his state and
country In aa outstanding manner
in peace and war. He la an excep
tionally energetic man and will
Somelhi
Someth,
The road back to normalcy is
certainly a rough ona.
What hag .bacoma of those Demo
crats who F®rs pullinff so hard for
Eisenhower tor Praaldant?
"Almosr eweiry bnibah befbd his
a feeling of snperiorHy,” says a
Boclologiat And that brings to
■ilnd the hM schdhl |(li'l was was
seated next ^ a famous astronomer
at a dinner |M*y. "What do you
do In life?” ^ iiktii toe aatrono-
mer. “I stidy aiCrttoomy.” he re
plied. ‘*Duiir mis,* iaid young
^ idpertcrlty, «r
flnMied ySar.®'
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