JL ADA Asks Demo Convention Seat Miss. Freedom Party WASHINGTON — Americans for Democratic Action at t'r'Cir recent convention here called on the Democratic National Convention, which meets in Atlantic City in August, to seat the "integrated; Freedom Democratic Party delegation" of Mississippi unci to "refuse to seat the traditional segregated Democratic Party" delegates from the State. The ADA ii> its resolution described the traditional Demo cratic Party of Mississippi as "basically undemocratic" and accused it of denying "participation to many of the citizens of Mississippi because of their race." The old-line Mississippi Democrats, the ADA said, "failed w&rzx: to support the candidates and the plaiform ot the National Democratic Convention in 1960 despite a pledge of party leaders to do so." As a result of the old-line party's jimcrow £etup, the Freedom Democratic Party was established in the state, the ADA said. Democratic National Convention The ADA resolution declared: The Freedom Party "is open to all citizens of Mississippi /regardless of race. The party is being sponsored by a coalition /of liberals and civic rights organizations called the Council 'of Federated Organizations. "It has decided to aid local citizens in setting up a Democratic Party structure to challenge the existing party and give Negroes an experience in the politics from which they have been excluded. "This party will be open to citizens of both races, will encourage political participation on the part of all, and will conform to the platform and support the candidates of the National Democratic Party. "Delegates will be chosen in party meetings, closely parallel State Convention ing the Mississippi election laws. These delegates will attend the National Democratic Convention where they will challenge the credentials of the regular party through the Credentials * ' a. Committee."
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FREEDOM DEMOCRATIC PARTY literature explains the mechanics of the planned challenge of the regular all- white Democratic Party of Mississippi. Freedom Party work ers plan to challenge the regulars at the National Democratic Convention,
'w" .' •'•'••Mil' • w. '!"» WtLm wtm*&P^^* >itrn ?•"' hU-of.v. ••• ••..-. ••••: i »•; ^ . 'wfi erts so noiee^oaiS : fcj r. 1! 3 ' ?£fl . rfw IRH'-U? •r:^' r.f.c.rpnr. UluoflS IP&ael rr'T ,d Ho .;• JaVti ':. fc?ifh.Mno5 -blvc-.r o* >a jnn-f'j P-"»i t±**a .Y. Demos to Challenge g *'.""•. ; •'.•ierffchi lacists from Mississippi ^ 'v NEW YORK State Democratic Mississippi and Alabama." Committee last*—wuuk unanih~ William F. Haddad, unsuccess Sualy voted 10 lllslruct its rleh"> ful Reform candidate for the gaTSS-rm tin mdeniials minTnit- Democratic nomination in the tee at the national Democratic 19th Congressional District cimvuiillon to oppose Hie-seat- raised the issues during his cam inn tl UCILABUJI ulilLli lUf"*Ke- paign. Haddad pledged that his gma fmm voiing. TiieijEHon slate, if elected as delegate to tvas clearly directed against the the Democratic convention would regular DRBDBRR delegation fight against seating the regular fa 8111 WIMllllUUl. Mississippi delegation. Civil s groups organized The action of the powerful in the Council of Federated Or New York delegation guarantees ganizations in that state have that the issue of the Mississippi been challenging the regular de delegate will be forcefully legation since it was "illegally placed before the Democratic elected because Negroes were convention. excluded from the regular elec • tion process." MILWAUKEE — The conven The Reform Democrats initi tion of Wisconsin Democrats ated and particularly pressed for here passed a resolution Satur this action by the N.Y. Demo day urging its delegation to the cratic State Committee. Democratic national convention Arnold L. Fein, chairman of to be held in August to support the Committee for Democratic the delegation of the Mississippi .lit -' . :.•:'••:•• it Voters, city coordinating body Freedom Democratic party and ;>•:•*•> •:•-: '.biro•:>.•••:-=.:5:••?« :•"""' of Reforms clubs, May 20, called to oppose accreditation of Mis upon the Democratic state plat sissippi delegates who "are not I'^A-T-' .srf3 ftp doi^iCiSai? form committee to "urge the loyal to the basic civil rights New York delegation to the principles of the Democratic national convention to take all national platform," and who "are 'appropriate action to deny cre elected by a non-representative dentials to the delegates from white majority."
,-i BRfl iicrJv •. :•: v r".r •:''-*:'• { H ;:v: 5 "frj'OiW I •..-;.r0:'j•)•::..;- j*p,iiltvTCifl jnriVn»,i 1 r : ' DFL a. Continued from Page One f\ l .i n •*- •< r,„/, ; ississippi National and harm to volunteers in the Mississippi Summer Project, some of whom are young Y people from Minnesota. &/} r/t, Parley Delegation On other matters, yester day, the convention: Named Robert Hess, execu tive vice president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, the Opposed by DFL party's first vice chairman. The post was vacated by By FRANK PREMACK ^jjZ^SZ^ Stephen Quigley, state com Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer ^"^ missioner of administration, who resigned early this month The Minnesota DFL went on record Sunday opposed to after Republican charges of the seating of the regular Mississippi Democratic delega an illegal conflict between tion at the party's national convention in August at At his party and state jobs. lantic City, N.J. Picked Morris (Doc) Shep- Meeting in the St. Paul Auditorium, the state DFL con ard, Madison Lake resort vention urged its national delegation to oppose the Mis- owner, to replace R u s s e 1 . 1sissippi regulars because Schwandt, state deputy com their party excludes Negroes missioner of agriculture, as from membership, tries to a member of the state DFL keep Negroes from register ExecutiveCommittee. John Nevin, Tower, recently ing to vote, refuses to sup Schwandt had resigned the resigned deputy commission port the party's civil rights party post when he was ap er of business development, plank and threatens to put pointed deputy commission and John Curtis, business up a slate of unpledged presi er by Gov. Karl Rolvaag. agent for Hotel and Restau- ;rant Employees Local 45S. dential electors instead of Amended the party consti one pledged to President tution to abolish state con Selected as alternates were: The convention's action, ventions in odd - numbered David Roe, business repre taken on a voice vote with years after 1965, thus provid sentative for the Minneapolis out opposition, has no bind ing for the election of party Building Trades Council; ing effect, however, on the officers at the convention in State Rep. D. D. Wozniak; Minnesota's delegates to the the even-numbered years. William Collins, Blooming- national Democratic conven ton, carnival operator; Mrs. tion. Selected without any fuss Rav Hemenway, wife of the on the floor at-large delegates U.S. marshal in Minnesota; NOR DID the action go as and alternates to the party's Clayton Rein, St. Paul busi far as the wishes of the national convention. nessman and head of the Americans for Democratic Named delegates yesterday Governor's Business Advis Action (ADA) and represen were: ory Committee; David Grav tatives of the Student Non- en, university I a w teacher Violent Co-ordinating Com Rep. John Blatnik, national from Minneapolis: Joseph mittee (SNCC). The SNCC committeeman; Mrs. Burton Robbie, Minneapolis attorney representatives appeared be Joseph, national committee- and member of the State fore the convention's Plat woman; Sens. Hubert Hum Municipal Commission, and form and Resolutions Com phrey and Eugene McCarthy; Agriculture Secretary Orville E i I e r Ravenholt, Mankato, mittee to seek support for Freeman; Gov. Karl Rolvaag; assistant librarian to the U.S. the newly formed and inte Lt. Gov. A. M. (Sandy) Keith; Senate in Washington, D.C. grated Freedom Democratic Secretary of State Joseph Party in Mississippi, instead Charles Simpson, DFL Con Donovan; Atty. Gen. Walter gressional candidate in the of the regulars. Mondalc; Ron Anderson; Members of the committee 2nd District, withdrew from chairman of the State Rail consideration as a delegate said they declined to support road and Warehouse Com He told the delegates that I the request for seating the because he wanted to stay there are some 450,000 Ne mission; Reps. Joseph Karth, home in August to campaign. Freedom Democrats because 4th district, Donald Fraser, groes of voting age in his they knew almost nothing 5th district, and Alec Olson, The delegates and alter home state, but that only about the new party. 6th district; DFL congres nates selected yesterday met 25,000 are registered to vote. sional candidates George Da after the convention with Instead, the committee those picked previously at This, he said, is the result resolution, adopted by the ley, a state representative of the refusal of Mississippi running in the 1st district; party sessions in each of the convention, asked the na state's eight congressional Democratic officials to allow tional Minnesota delegates Richard Parish, state senator Negroes to register. running in the 3rd district, districts. Rolvaag was elected "to look with favor" on the chairman of the delegation IN ANOTHER civil rights I Freedom Democratic party and Ben Wichterman, run ning in the 7th district; at the meeting in the St. Paul matter, the DFL convention at the Atlantic City conven Hotel. urged the federal government I tion. George Farr, state chairman; 1 to use all of its powers to Mrs. Betty Kane, state chair prevent further harassment I AFTER the action the con woman; Hess; Jack Jorgen- vention heard briefly from son, head of the Minneapolis DFL * Dewey Green, a 23-year-old Teamsters Joint Council; Continued on Page 10 Negro student at the Univer sity of Minnesota from Greenwood, Miss. sympathy" the seating of a ithe right to vote or to parti- dfclegation m^p—rwn CggeBl C'Pate In state affairs. INSURGENT PARTY Democratic pnrtr nf IHwllrt|ntl Th* resolution also said that IN SOUTH BACKED A-—r 7 '. ' * . ..j the traditional Democratic par- M AThe resolution does not bind ty of MisSjSsippi had refused to Mississippi Delegation fthe delegation. However, party support the 1960 national plat- / leaders said they expected the form or candidates "and now ;«««»«+, r>»™,«^„+. r , JhW—Mat f" f"""'" the rcqucsUProclaims that it is not a part innesota Democrats Score j^fnTaicnTglini State ijemo^of the Deomcratic party." cratic Convention earlier thisjf The Freedom Democratic par- Jmonth passed a similar resolu-Jty was organized last April 26 tion, which party officials therefin Jackson, Miss., by the tudent Bv AUSTIN C WEHRWEIN sa'd wou'd probably bind thelNonviloenraces antd Coordinatinin the senatoriag Com-l • „....* ,' ',„ '™jMichigan delegation. The Wisfmittecontese t iann dth e thMississippe Congresi Dems of tiow^ttTth., e Democi, T vatic„.~"-ipiconsi NatiO] n State Democratic Conl ocratiRacialc Equalityprimary. JunIt era n2—with candi- convention of the Minnesotaj„„nt^^ iast week also passed f] dateout ssuccess In thre, aes waCongressionas expectedl. Convention today to oppose wit The Minnesota resolution. The New York State Demo- Democl'ali1 c - Karmer - Labor;similar resolution but withoi patt"al ,y .ipprnpriaturged the a state'artintls delega-ibindin" thohike thg eth eothers delegation, left . the way!cratic—LunlWUltce—T seating of the "traditional D— OP*" ior similar action against pasSiMl H I'BSUIutlUH aSlting that owtit pnnv" nl Miss.i-isxri " - 'otherSimila Southerr Action staten Possibls besidee s I the—Credentials colnminw "f HMc resuiution, approved Wit Mississippi. the Mew Yum UuH'ijilU^ftJfl.the outMisscnt aT~ffle~TTiecTIrrg herej It declared that the tradi-1 national convention, nga- every in-thy-9t: Paul Atiflltgrluiti, alsdtional party of Mississippi wasieflfort to make certain that urgcd"~tnat the 5o"-vote Minn-; "totally segregated" and denied orrty those delegates^tocking I"ntiiJTinlinjTant rnnnlrirr "frith liiinrirril of thousands of Negro the flalWIlal pHrry rig seated. California Democrats Join Drive To Unseat Mississippi Delegates By LAWRENCE E. DAVIKS Spcciil to The New York Time*. SAN FRANCISCO, June 27- -[Democratic party, said he had California Democrats joined'been traveling about the coun- IfclW ii> '••. w TBTO flhH Bpveraijtry for several weeks promotin; otlici' stales lud,iy Iff seeking to'the adoption of similar resolu- HIOCK .tne regular1 'Dcmocralic;tions at Democratic state con- Misslsslpiil ik'li'ttalluri IVom. ventions and in convention being seated at the partv's'delogate caucases. Nallohal ff"»"'»" •' tuantlcj He noted that the New York cjity lnAueust. Slate Democratic Committee —nT executive committee ofjhad adopted one on June 15 this state's Democratic State'calling for the seating at the Central Committee asked the convention of only those dele- California delegation to vote forlntcf. from any states who were the seating of delegates from j "pledged t" the principles and the Freedom Democratic partyjobjectives of the national Demo- of Mississippi. | Cratic party as expressed in the The resolution, offered by,party platform." Assemblyman Mervyn M. Dy-! Mr. Smith said that Wiscon- mally of Los Angeles during alsin. Massachusetts and the Dis- session at the Hilton Hotel, was1 trict of Columbia had taken adopted without opposition. f similar action. The resolution criticized thei The Californians in another traditional uemocjatie pnrtv M resolution commended President Mississippi as not siippnrtiat- Johnson, this state's Demo- trur platform and policies of the,cratic Congressional delegation national party and as often and. in particular, Senator Clair anstiUiilj that it "is not a part Engle, California's ailing junior ot tne national PWlhUTlUlc senator, for their contribution Pariy1." — ; toward passage of the civil —"A Freedom Dcmocralicrights bill. The committee also party," the resolution continued,;pledged its support to Pierre "is being established, which is1 Salinger, former White House open to all citizens regardless.press secretary, in his campaign of race and which will support to succeed Mr. F.ngle. the national platform and can- The California delegation to didatcs." Ithe convention, led by Gov. Frank Smith, a Mississippian; Edmund G. Brown, caucused who works out of the Washing-I during the afternoon. It is sup- ton office of the Freedom I porting President Johnson. Challenge Scheduled 'Freedom Democratic1 Party Maps Its Strategy JACKSON (UPI) - Leaders listing its "registrar" as Willie of a pro-integration group chal Scott has been circulating and lenging the seating of the regu accepting notarized "Freedom lar Mississippi Democrats at Registration Forms" and has the national convention next set precinct meetings for to • month were scheduled to an morrow. A legal notice called nounce detailed plans of their South Clarksdale voters to meet strategy today. at Centennial Baptist Church at | The "Freedom Democrat 8 p.m., Riverton voters at Si- ic" party held a strategy meet lent Grove Church at 8 p.m., ing Sunday. and other county precincts at the First Baptist Church at t The group was expected to p.m. The county convention has announce its tentative platform been called for July 28 — site and philosophy of the conven unannounced — to elect 8 dele tion challenge. The schedule for gates and 8 alternates for the its district caucuses and state district caucus in early August convention also was expected. and the state convention in In Coahoma County, largely Jackson on Aug. 9. , under the impetus of "summer project" white students, the The regular Democratic state 1 "Freedom Democratic Party" convention will be held in Jack son July 28 where a floor fight had been expected over the un pledged electors movement. However, Alabama Gov. George Wallace's withdrawal from the presidential race put Democrat ic leaders in a quandary. The "freedom" party, which lacks official recognition from the secretary of state as a po litical group, comprises civil rights leaders and unsuccessful candidates for statewide office in the recent Democratic pri maries. Purpose of the group, leaders said, is to challenge the seat ing of the state delegation at the national convention in At lantic City and also the seating of Mississippi's all-white con gressional delegation. Mississippi Freedom Party Bids For Democratic Convention Role Faction Petitions Bailey for Admission to Parley and Asks Repudiation of the Regular State Organization By CLAUDE SITTON Special to The New York Time! ^^^^^^^^^^^^ JACKSON, Miss., July 20—[member delegation to the na- The Mississippi Freedom Demo- tional convention, opening in cratic party urged national ] Atlantic City Aug. 24. Deocratic officials today to Mrs. Gray and Mr. King cited recognize it as the legitimate pledges of convention support branch of the party in Missis from eight Northern and Mid sippi. western states. They said that The largely Negro group said if the credentials committee of that the regular state organiza the convention refused to seat tion should be repudiated, that their delegation, the issue would its patronage should be cut off be carried to the floor. and that it should be denied representation at the Democrat Sees Negroe Vote Limited ic National Convention. Mrs. Gray read a statement] The Freedom party, formed that said white opposition thhhh in April by civil rights leaders, evented Negroes from regis made its bid for recognition at tering to vote In sufficient num a news conference held by Mrs. bers to change state party po Victoria Jackson Gray, a Hat- licies. tiesburg1 Negro housewife, and The regular Democratic the Rev. R. Edwin King, a white party has known for years the college chaplain here. They are situation of the Negro voter in expected to be named national the State of Mississippi," she committeewoman and commit-'continued teeman of the party at a state] "It has stood silent while the convention.in Jackson Aug. 6. 'all-white delegations from the A tantative platform vowing Magnolia State have come to loyalty to the national party party conventions with no and endorsing many aspects of thought of contributing to the the Johnson Administration's solidarity of the party behind program was distributed alongla common platform with copies of a letter to John "It has turned deaf ers to M. Bailey, the Democratic na announcements from the Missis tional chairman. The letter re sippi delegation that it would quested tickets, floor privileges, not support planks dealing with badges and housing for a 68- civil rights." rJ ,V/V A. DEMOCRATS FACE MISSISSIPPI SPLIT Challenge by Negro Bloc to Pose Convention Dilemma I By CLAUDS SITTOX special to The New Yolk Times JACKSON, Miss., July 19 -—j Mississippi Negroes set events in motion today that might lead' to an embarrassing dilemma for the Democratic National Con vention. Leaders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party met know we're going to make the here and completed plans for challenge—there's been no en naming a 6S-member delegation couragement from the White to the national convention in House, but then there's been no discouragement." Atlantic City on Aug. 24. He and other party leaders This delegation, which will be said precinct and county meet fulty committed to support the ings would be held this week in party's Presidential ticket, will 30 of the state's 64 counties to challenge the seating of dele name delegates to the Freedom party's state convention here '' gates from the regular state Aug. 6. party organization. Backed by Dr. King The loyalty of the latter group in the Presidential race is now The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the South considered highly questionable.' ern Christian Leadership Con Thus, the convention must ference, will make a speaking choose between a loyal delega tour of the state this week toj tion with no power and few raise funds and encourage sup votes and one of doubtful loy port for the party. alty representing the state ad Mr. Henry said the partv h?d approximately 80,000 to 90,000 ministration and a majority of members, all but a handful of the voters. them Negroes. About 20,000 are channel through which all citi Under ordinary circumstances, registered to vote. zens, Negro and white, can ac the Freedom party representa I The idea for the party arose tively support the principles and tive would get short shrift. But from the mock election last; programs of the national Demo November in which Negroes, its leaders contend that support cratic party," the group said in registered or not, cast ballots. describing its goals. for seating its delegation has The Freedom party was founded been pledged by the Democratic here last April 26 at a conven In a summary of its activi organizations of eight states — tion attended by some 300 i ties, the party asserted that its delegates. members had been barred from New York, California, Michigan, precinct and county meetings of Minnesota, Oregon. Wisconsin, Organizational work is a the regular organization this Massachusetts and Colorado. project of the Council of Feder summer. Aaron Henry, chairman of the ated Organizations, a coalition It said this action had denied Freedom party's temporary state made up of the Student Non it any voice in the state demo iexecutive committee, said at a violent Coordinating Committee, cratic convention to be held the Congress of Racial Equality here at the coliseum July 27. 'committee meeting here this and other groups that are co The state's Democratic lead morning that he thought the operating in the current civil ers have ignored the Freedom chances for the delegation's rcc rights drive in Mississipp. party and its activities. They The party contends that its apparently believe it represents ognition at Atlantic City were formation was made necessary no threat to them. good. because of the following: However, Eidwell Adam, the Mr. Henry, a Clarksdale, Miss., Faction Petitions Bailey for Admission to Parley and Asks Repudiation of the Regular State Organization By CLAUDE SITTON Special to The New Yorlt Times JACKSON, Miss., July 20— member delegation to the na The Mississippi Freedom Demo tional convention, opening in cratic party urged national Atlantic City Aug. 24. Ceocratle Ofllctim today to "* Mrs. Gray and Mr. King cited retua'U"- it a° the tggTtijrlatc pledges of convention support nranph nt mp party in Missis from eight Northern and Mid sippi western states. They said that The largely Negro group said if the credentials committee of that the regular state ortzaniza-ithforganiza . convention refused to seat tion snoutd be repudiated, Plat1 their delegation, the issue would iYs patronage snouifl be cut off De carried to the floor and that it should be denied representation at tne uemocrat- Sees Negroe Vote Limited -1C NaU01l.il CuiKenlion. iig ^irnv -°,"i I <•>—«< The FieedUlll unity, formed said white opposition thhhh. •in April by civil rights leaders. WhteH rsleL'rWirfruirT made its bid for recognition at ttjring to vote in sufficien—mat pnum - ig to vote in sufficient num Victoria newsa conferencJackson e Grayheld, bay Hat-(HciesMrs.jbffs . to cnarltiti stale uaftv'uo ticsburg Negro housewife, and (—"i he' regular Democratic the Rev. R. Edwin King, a white party has known for years the college chaplain here. They are I situation of the Negro voter in expected to be named national j the State of Mississippi/! she committeewoman and commit-jcontinued. -""I tooman of the party at a statej '^H has stood silent while the convention in Jackson Aug. 6. ;alI-\VnltC delegations from the A tantative platform vowing Afagltnlla State nave come to loyalty to the national partyipaily cinivt'iuiiHiK vvllll lTo and endorsing many aspects of thougni oi conuihutinp- to the the Johnson Administration's •nl'jl""il.y "r lite BflHy behind program was distributed alongla common platform. with copies of a letter to Johnp "It has turned floaf era to M. Bailey, the Democratic na-Jinnouncements from the Missis- tional chairman. The letter rc-"sippi auU'gallun that it wouia quested tickets, floor privileges..mil MIIIIUII'I UlallKH dcallfil! with badges and housing for a 68-; civil rights." COHfiteCML Afifcti Kingtorning L^JA^ To Aid Party; "" Pro-Integration Group Seeks Mississippi Seats "* At Convention JACKSON, Miss., July 20.-^. (UPI) — Rev. Martin Luther King, also a member of the King arrives here Tuesday to" new party's temporary execu tive committee, said there were whip up support for the Missis 75,000 to 100,000 whites in Mis sippi Freedom Democratic sissippi who want to vote for i Party, which hopes to have a Johnson and would vote for pro-integration delegation the new party's electors if they | seated at the Democratic Na were placed on the ballot. Mrs. Gary said the party's tional Convention. delegation "will present our- The new party, composed i selves for seating as the mainly of Negroes, hopes to democratically const i t u t e d body of Mississippians worthy be seated at the convention of taking part in that conven Aug. 24 in Atlantic City and tion system." thereby become the Demo 'The time has now come for cratic Party in Mississippi. It a change to be made and we would support the re-election feel that the Mississippi Free of President Johnson. dom Democratic Party is the instrument from which that change will come," she said. There has been speculation the Democratic machinery in Mrs. Gray said Reverend Mississippi, controlled by King, one of the nation's best whites, might support an un known civil rights leaders, was pledged slate of electors which not coming to Mississippi to might eventually vote for Re test the willingness of Negroes publican presidential aspirant to hold public demonstrations but rather "to assist us in a Barry Goldwater. statewide campaign to get Mrs. Victoria Gray, a mem 100,000 Negroes on the Free ber of the new party's tempo dom Party registration books." rary executive committee, said Mrs. Gary acknowledged the group was firmly com that most of the new party's members were not registered mitted to the support of Presi voters but she said this would dent Johnson, "dramatize" the plight of the "This is one of the reasons Negro in Mississippi and would we expect to be seated," she win support from Democrats said. from other states. Ed King, the white chaplain She said the party would at the predominantly Negro hold a state convention in Tougaloo College here, said he Jackson, Aug. G. She said a thought it unlikely the national nationally prominent Demo party would seat an all-white crat would be asked to make delegation of regular Missis the keynote address. sippi Democrats because of the The regular Mississippi possibility the group might, support Goldwater. Democratic convention con venes here July 28. Mrs. Gray said a petition would be filed with the secre tary of state in an effort to have the new party chartered. Drive To Reject y^/A^t The Freedom Democrats are Mississippi Slate closely allied with the Council of Federated Organizations which has brought 700 stu dents into Mississippi this Alarms Johnson summer to staff voter regis tration drives, schools, com munity centers, and research Southern Walkout Foreseen projects. If Convention Accedes To I The Freedom Democrats' [challenge of the regular Mis Negroes' Claims sissippi Democrats is based on jtwo points: By MORRIS CUNNINGHAM jThat the regular Dcmocrats- From The Commercial Appeal Washing ion Earou I systematically exclude Ne groes irom participation in WASHINGTON, July 21. — all Democratic Party activi President Johnson is seriously ties. concerncc about the drive to That in I9G0 the state Derr.o-. turn over .Mississippi's seats in cratic Party repudiated the, national party's platform and the""Democratic National Con presidential candidates. vention to a delegation of The Freedom Democrats re Negroes. portedly have the support of The President is portrayed Democratic tercet frigrdiyTtn as believing that the drive, it" Aity. Ccr, Robert F, Konnpriv it succeeds, could lead to walk ana which hope to see him nominated vice president- outs by other Southern dele 'Suille obseivtii lic-ie believe gations and a Southern debacle that a big national convention for the Democrats in the hassle over the Mississippi November contest with Repub seating contest would spot lican Barry Goldwater. light the civil rights issue and The President is looking for strengthen the attorney gen some way to settle the poten eral's chances for the v-p spot. tially explosive dispute. But Walter Tillow, a worker jat Freedom Democrat head- But the situation is extremely jquarters here, said he didn't delicate and ihere is little ;"know a thing" about the in- 'room for the President to jvolvement by Atty. Gen. Ken- j maneuver, since the contend inedy. ing parties are civil rights groups on the one hand, and I The dispute first will go be- Democratic forces led by Sena ifore the 110-member creden tors James 0. Eastland and tials committee, composed of John Stennis and Gov. Paul a man and a woman from each Johnson on the other. state and territory represented The Negro group, calling at the convention. itself the "Freedom Demo President Johnson was re- cratic Party" will complete port'ed Tuesday to be consid selection of its delegates at a ering uyili", P tail oil the state convention in Jackson 'freedom Democrats on Aug. |. gToi.ncis that Mississippi Regular Democrats in Mis IHiiirK mat tne BBSS sissippi will pick their delega oresidcatial ticket will he on tion at the state convention in Jackson next Tuesday. tne~ballot. ' At stake are Mississippi's 24 delegate, votes at the national convention opening in Atlantic City Aug. 24. Meantime, the Mississippi Democrats will meet at City Auditorium here Tuesday at 10 o'clock in the morning for their fA *"M I'^l state convention. Gov. Paul B. Johnson Is to I 'Freedom Party be the keynote speaker. There is a strong movement in the state to send unpledged To Meet Requirements electors or electors pledged to By CHARLES M. HHU the election of Sen. Barry Gold Clarion-l-cdger Staff Writer water, the Republican standard Secretary of State H e b e r bearer as a conservative whose Laatier reported here Thursday views most clearly align with afternoon, that he had declined Mississippi aims. tn register the Mississippi Free Just how the state conven dom Democratic Party. tion will designate their elec tors by name is a big ques Tltis is tha group of Negroes tion. While there is favor for; and whites who claim that they Goldwater, the Democratic I will unseat the regular Missis NOT PRESENT leaders are not anxious to ac-l sippi Damoeratia Party at tha j He said that he was not pres tually become straight F National Democratic Party, ent when the Freedom party cans and align with the prat- '• Convention in Atlantic City, leaders appeared at his office j ent Republican faction headed | Aug. 24. but that the application was by Republican State Cha.rman . Ladner laid that a letter of j handed by them to Ben Haw Wirt Yerger of Jackson. application had been submitted! kins, head of the securities de to him bjf A group of whites partment of Lacner's office. FORMULA and Negroes who said they rep Hawkins said that King wish Question as to how to work resented the. party. ed to get advice on how to regis out a formula that will not split Edwin King, of Tougaloo Col ter a party and that the white the Goldwater vote in this state lege, and Annie Devine, signed man was informed that the Sec is desired, if it can bo solved. the application. Among the retary of State would have to Yerger and his Republicans group appearing at the secre handle that matter, since it was have shown no any inclination tary of states office were whites out of Hawkins' jurisdiction. to relinquish any of their power and Negrf.es, both male and fe Ladner, after conferring with and tha Democrats, especially male. Some of them carried the attorney general said that • officials, don't want to bs class cameras, apparently expecting! a number of laws dealing with ed as Republicans farther than to takf. pictures of a registra registrations and elections had for this year's general election. tion. "-» to be satisfied before a new As one delegate to the state The^ secretary of state In a party could be recognized in convention. Former Legisla;,.- brief note Thursday said: this state and that the Free Jesse Shanks, of Purvis, jaid "I have declined to register| dom Party had not met re here Thursday afternoon: the Mississippi Freedom Demo-j quirements. "I want to vote for Goldwater cratic Party on the basis of' The group reported through . . .but I am not going to be Ifteir letter of application, be King that they were in process called a Republican." cause their request wholly fails' of organizing their party, hold Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin told •to—comply with (he require ing precinct, county and state newsmen he had no intention of ments of law governing the reg-1 conventions. They had appar going to Atlantic City and isfration of political parties in I ently not completed any of said he could not sp?ak for Mississippi/' these procedures. Gov. Johnson but doubted the -Secretary of State Ladner Previous report* have been chief executive would attend issued the statement after con that the Freedom Party will either. ferring with Atty. Gen. Joe T. attempt to oust the regular Patterson. Mississippi Democratic candi dal es to tha national conven tion. Demo Convention Delegates Asked For Mississippi Stand By MERVIN SHOEMAKER delegates will help by publicly California. Political Writer, Tha Oregonlan declaring their position in fa Other States Quiet Each Oregon delegate to the vor of rejecting the illegal and Porter said he is worried, Democratic National Conven disloyal 'official' delegation however, by lack of knowledge tion in Atlantic City next and in favor of seating the as to the degree of commit month is getting a chance to Freedom Delegation. This will ment by the other states. say for the record whether he help in the national cam In Atlantic City, the ques favors seating or refusing to paign." tion will come before the Cre seat the "regular" Democratic The convention at Coos Bay dentials Committee. Party delegation from the state was told Democratic organiza Oregon members of this of Mississippi. tions of six other states and group are Reps. Edith Green, Ex-Congressman Charles 0. the District of Columbia have Portland, and Al^UUman, Ba Porter, Eugene, a member of taken action similar to that of ker. the delegation, said Friday he the Oregon convention. Porter said he is.-confident is sending questionnaires for The other states are New Mrs. Green shares his view on this purpose to all the Oregon York, Massachusetts, Minne- the Mississippi question. He delegates. sota, Michigan, Wisconsin and wasn't so sure about Ullman. The questionnaire also asks whether the delegate favors seating, or not seating, the Freedom Democratic Party delegation from Mississippi. State Meet Takes Stand The Democratic State Con vention at Coos Bay July 4 voted to seat the "bi-racial" Freedom Democratic Party delegation, and turn a cold shoulder to the "regular" par ty group. This was on the representa tion that the Mississippi reg ulars have said they will not support President Johnson. Monroe Sweetland, Milwau- kie, a member of the Oregon delegation and a veteran of six Crucial Time Nears Democratic national conven Porter told the delecatei J tions, told the convention this is an old story with the Mis weekse"'mavY the "« H sissippi delegation, and now is the time to blow the whistle S ele i0na on it. and thTthe f Sl Porter tried unsuccessfully to get the Mississippi question added to the agenda of the o^SeSn our party." credit3! delegation's organization .,"*2J 'roni moral and W-1 meeting at the Eugene home of al considerations," Porter con Sen. Wayne L. Morse July 13 Voting with Porter were State Sen. Vernon Cook, Gre- most of the presently register sham; Robert W. Straub, Eu- ' gene, and Morse and Sweet- ed Mississipp5i voterUrs wi I h* land. S^dT'" ', ° «| Porter considers the ques tion important enough that he js planning to visit Mississippi on the way to the convention, flying in a private plane. Oth er delegates may accompany him, he said, although there will be room in the plane for only two. AfP Freedom Democratic Party Given Boo arkin areaandm the back steps of the FREE Crowds Turn Out p s °^ted PRESS building and gave Martin Luther King • his worshippers a short pep talk on why Negroes For King should register to vote The FREEDOM DEMOCRATIC | and why they should also PARTY is the only political register with the Freedom party in Mississippi open to Democratic Party. every Citizen The quickly gathered He walked out of Stevens crowd numbering several Kitchen into a mob of hundred gave Dr. Martin worshippers who just Luther King a roaring ap wanted to touch him. He plause everytime he walked around into the (Continued on page 2) Page 2 .MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS • - .; ' ; L V. ' u - • Martin Luthor King drawl crowd on step* of FREE PRESS building in Freedom Demo Party stump. 1I1CV HttV Htl'Ll UM UHC7K L( 1 Lllllt Ol VtJtJRL*H. Freedom Demo Party.. Africa, but how the hell (Continued from page 1) can we go back to where we ain't never been! paused, just as the huge Until the white man goes Greenwood crowds had back where he came from done earlier and the jam- and let the Indians have packed Masonic Temple their country back, WE crowd had done the night AIN'T GOING NO before in Jackson. There WHERE!" were many uniformed and As Dr. King began to plain-clothed policemen speak, the hushed audi pressing close to insure ence seemed to hang to his safety. every word. The King had finally "I hate to call a sena come to darkest America tor a liar, but the senator to be among the people. from Mississippi didn't He recalled his mournful tell the truth when he said visit a little more than the Freedom Movement a year ago to pay his re is communist inspired", spects to the late CR King said. "We are here leader, Medgar Evers, because we are tired of whose murderer or mur humlliuLiuti and we will derers have yet to be tgSgfl il LSOiaagM U« punished. are to be free, we must An overflowing crowd desegregate our minds. of about three thousand The tragedy of segrega- who had braved an electric tion is what it has done to storm, sparotic showers • the NejJfo, nut just physi and threatening heavy cally, out psychological- rain, waited over three ly", he said. hours to hear the dynamic Some Negroes are sit leader at the Masonic ting back letting others Temple Wednesday night. carry the ball for them, Dr. Martin Luther's but when freedom comes, counterpart in Mississip they will be the first to pi and founder of the Free-. jump out front, hollering, dom Democratic Party, "Look at what WE did", Bob Moses told the crowd King told the crowd. that the Freedom Demo If you want to be free, cratic Pa'rty grew out of you must be willing to go tlvg_Negro's need for some to jail and to suffer physi place to turn politically in cal harm. Whenever a man a state where both Nation refuses to stand up for his al parties excluded him. rights, he is dead, re Mrs. Donna Moses foT- gardless of how much lowed her illustrious hus longer he continues to band and told the people breathe. that "every citizen, has He told his anxious lis a right to choose his lead teners that they must re er." Whether he had been main non-violent hate enabled to learn to read is never the way, for hate and write did not really, is too great a burden to matter. Citizenship should bear. be the only yard stick for The present rate of vo- measuring the right to tor registration in Mis vote. "Nobody has aright sissippi would required to select your leaders," 135 years to register half she said, "only you have of those presently eligible that right." to register. Then the Rev. Ralph Dr. King told his lis Avernathy of Montgomery, teners that they must be Alabama told the roaring come registered with the crowd that "God's child Freedom Democratic ren left Egypt for the Party. It provides the best promist land, but WE way to break down the bar AIN'T GOING NO WHERE! riers to official registra They say send us back to tion of voters. 7*7 bi 1952 RULING IS KEY IN DELEGATE FIGHT Mississippi Slate's Party Brief to BA Prepared All evidence collected will ap Loyalty to Ba Attacked pear in a brief to be written by Joseph L. Rauh Jr., a lawyer • and a delegate to the convention Special to The New York Tlmei from the District of Columbia. WASHINGTON, July 26 —j The Freedom party has com Strategists for the Mississippi1 piled an extensive file of state Freedom Democratic party here ments made in the last 18 are convinced they can make a months by Gov. Paul B. Johnson • Jr., former Gov. Ross Barnett, Senators James Eastland and John Stennis, and others who will most likely be named dele gates by the regular state party at its convention in Jackson that fol Tuesday. lowed m Dixiecrat rebellion The insurgents say the state of lgig;^^-^- ^^^~ ments gleaned from newspapers| The Freedom party, whose and campaign literature will be membership is largely Negro, used In their attempt to show was founded in Jackson, Miss., the Mississippi party's "disloy last April 24 by a coalition of alty" to the national party. civil rights groups. The party By statute the national con maintains the regular Mississip vention credentials committee, pi Democrats should be sup- which will make an Initial rul planted because they have ex- ing on the insurgents' plea, must eluded Negroes and repudiated be named no less than 14 days the national party's candidates before opening day. A man and and platform. a woman from each delegation Th«f lovaltv oath the party is picked for the 108-member points to war on» nf inrSf committee, and a number of ad6ptM By the Bemocratic con- .places have not yet been filled. vfeniion in Viill after a number Freedom party officials are of ISouther n DemdcTatS na3 I fairly confident that they will bolted" the" party in m& aflgj backed Senator SlrW 'nyirrnnnH Of South ' -arnl|pa faa-frpslrient against Harry s. pjunaa •have enough votes on the cre-j Oath Required of All dentials committee to secure a' The loyalty oath, required of (minority report, which requires all delegates to the convention, the votes of 10 per cent, or 11 reads as follows: members, of the committee. "It is understood that the del 9 States In Favor egates to the Democratic Na Once the minority report tional Convention, when certif ied by the state Democratic reaches the floor, eight state party, are bona fide democrats delegations must request a roll- who have the interests, welfare call vote. At last count nine or and success of the Democratic 10 states had passed resolutions party at heart, and will parti backing the Freedom party chal- cipate in the convention In good faith, and therefore no addi . lenge. tional assurances shall be re There are four possible re quired of delegates to the Demo sults of the challenge: The cratic National Convention in regular delegation could be the absence of credentials con seated, the insurgents would be test or challenge." seated, both could be seated or Given this wording. Freedom neither could be seated. Most paTtV Strategists reason that if l.'vl observers expect a compromise. ^^^^M a challenge is made, the jugular There is no hilitirinl prrrr ^ / delegation must pj1""1 B3 B has tH6 "interests, welfare and dent for excluding both delega- -T\ . jrtJ—. /r/2/ [ajggg th» Democrats party trans, But there is amm* -~^ LflfrC^''' at heart. n"f ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ —In LIIH uoillso- of their re search for the national conven tion beginning Aug. 24 in At lantic City, Freedom party workers decided that no clear standard existed by which cre dentials of delegates to the con vention had been judged. They believe, this will hinder their appeal, since they can make no firm legal argument against the regular Democrats. But they are coAiTdcnt that a combination of the loyalty oath argument and an appeal to the emotions of the delegates will succeed, Democrats to Seat Regular Delegates From Mississippi By Chalmers M. Roberts stair Reporter Regular Mistig-aippj rtomn.iriphts problems. He can be ira'tTwiii ho spa«Pd and thx expected to uphold any pres- rival Freedom Democratic jdential view on the contest. -However, Democratic parties in numerous Northern states Ventlon, it now appears. where civil rights are an im- At least that is the view of portant election issue have persons close io President passed resolutions favoring Johnson who have been look the Freedom Democrats over ing into ways and means of the regulars. That poses some heading off a major row re thing of a problem for Law volving around civil rights as rence and the convention, de epitomized by the rival party pending on how mjich that groups. view is now pressed. Mississippi Democrats un Negroes in Delegation der the leadership of Gov. It is argued by those work Paul Johnson, according to ing on the problem that to these sources, adequately met unseat the regulars would also the rules for the convention require unseating all other by agreeing on Tuesday at Southern delegations which their state convention in also are sending no Negro - Jackson to put the ticket delegates or alternates to the headed by the President on the convention next month in At November ballot in their state. lantic City. Georgia's Gov. Challenge Planned Carl E. Sanders announced on The Freedom Democratic Tuesday that his delegation Party, largely Negro though will include Negroes. including some whites, will This word from the White challenge the regulars before House sources fits the known the credentials committee on effort of the President to con the grounds that the regulars ciliate the South on the racial oppose the national party on issue and to keep the lines of key issues which they, in con communication open to Missi trast, fully support. ssippi in order to obtain en A hearing on the contest forcement of the new civil over seating the regulars thus rights law. is expected before the cred- Whether there is now a ma 1 entials committee. To head jor storm over seating the that group, the Democratic Na Mississippi regulars apparent tional Committee yesterday ly will depend on how much named former Pennsylvania leaders in Northern states Gov. David L. Lawrence who want to buck the White House has been working closely with and, presumably, the Presi President Johnson on civil dent himself. , 1 Hi n ***—*m—1*^*9****^— jpriJ By TOM ELIAS A LITTLE-TOLD STORY may be making state NAACP, ran as a candidate for governor and vania Gov. David Lawrence's credentials com inch-high headlines by the time Democrats con polled fully 90,000 votes in the mock election, while mittee, it may have enough support to bring the vene their national convention in Atlantic City. Paul Johnson, the winning Democratic candidate, issue before the full convention on the floor. It involves a possible floor fight over seating drew 125,000 in the regular election. How is the Freedom Democratic Party or he integrated delegation of the new Mississippi Thr full turnout for Aaron Henry not only ganized? How were its delegates chosen? "reedom Democratic Party (FDP) in place of demonstrated the great desire of the Mississippi The six per cent of Negro Mississippians who he segregated regular state delegation. Negroid Vote^JEcbrcUhg to civil rights-leaders, have been permitted to register as well as every Although some discount the FDP's chances, , but also his desire to support pro-civil rights can- other white and Negro Mississippian who meets •ight states and the District of Columbia have art-. J( didateF voting requirements except for the much-criti lounced support so far. ^~*l*l*{/'f And here lies the crux of the convention seat cized literacy test is eligible for membership. No "There is no other thing I could support more | • ing fight. In two of the last four presidential elec tally has yet been made of the total number of ladly^and more fully," said California Gov. Ed- tions, a segregated Mississippi did not cast its people registered by the FDP. nundTTatl Brown when informed of the decision electoral votes for the Democratic national ticket. It is thought that much Of the membership is f his-=snite'sJDernacratitv«t-etttive committee tol The FDP, consisting of Negroes and some the same as the group which voted for Aaron ack the FDP maneuver. J whites, is pledged to support the national ticket. Henry in October. In fact, Henry is the tempo What, then, is the FDP and why the battle' To counteract the convention threat posed by rary chairman of the state organization. The co- ver recognition? .— the FDl*,"G6v. Johnson last month pushed through chairman is a white Protestant chaplain from IrTone sense, the answer goes back to the the regular organization's convention a resolution Tougaloo College in Mississippi, Edward King, "ear 1876, when President Rutherford B. Hayes stathng that it '"might" permit President John- who ran with Henry for lieutenant governor in ithdrew the last federal troops from Mississippi. son's iiai»eTbT>eput_on the ballot. October. ince that date few Negroes have been able to .This I {solution leaves room for the raaulnr The registration drive for the FDP has been 'gister to vote and no Negro has achieved elec- party to eliminate his name after the convention. conducted primarily by out-of-state college stu ve office in Mississippi. In recognition of this fact, the Democratic" dents who are there as part of the Council of Fed- More immediately the roots of the Freedom Parties of California, New York. Michigan. Wis» crated Organizations' Mississippi summer project. emocratic Party began last October when the consijia. Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts and They have been used for this drive because there ate's NAACP and the Student Non-Violent Co- Minnesota, as well as the Djstrict of Columbia, is too much personal risk of life involved if Mis dinating Committee combined with hundreds of have committed themselves to support the seat sissippians do the work, according to COFO illege students from Yale and Stanford to stage ing of the FDP in Atlantic City. sources. mock election in which Negroes were permitted This list represents a roll call of every state • * * a vote if they met the normal residence require- to whose Democratic state convention the FDP THE FDP is organized identically with the ents. i has been able to send a representative. It means regular party. Precinct meetings, often with as A Negro lawyer, Aaron Henry, head of the that if the FDP is not seated by former Pennsyl many as 300 registered FDP members present, elected representatives to conventions in each of the state's 89 counties. These in turn elected dele gates to the state convention held last week in Jackson. A full slate of delegates, both white and •rtfl* • . Negro was then elected to go to Atlantic City. A compromise move suggested by Illinois o^ooT Sen. Paul Douglas, by which half of the regular delegation and half of the FDP group would be seated, was rejected just last week by Henry, in dicating the FDP will make no conciliatory ges ture for the sake of party unity. The FDP feels this is a matter of principle. The question Democrats who support the party's past platforms will be asked by the FDP is: "Why seat a delegation that is segregated and probably will not even support the party's ticket, when a democratically selected integrated delegation of a legally constituted political party pledged to support the national ticket is avail able?". Tom ZUas is a N»ws-Sun slati writer who . has closely tcllowrd th« gtowfh of (h» Ficc- dom Democratic fatly in Mississippi. Mississippi Judge Curbs Biracial F^omParty Jackson, Miss., Aug. 13— WHTcT'ceasS "using the name (AP)—A state judge has banned "Democratic" because the word jperatfOiiA uf—rmr—Mississippi • Freedom Democratic Party, already appears as part of an formed TSV civil- ligliL IrarJeTs other party name. :o Challenge Mississippi s ""all- State Laws Attacked Affile delegation oft regular Meanwhile, a suit was filed in Dumocta's at ~TnT Democratic U. S. District Court asking that National CnnvpnTiftn- 16 state laws designed to bin —orange Stokes V. Robertson, der civil rights activities be Jr., issued the temporary in struck down. junction yesterday. With the The Federal Court suit asked Democratic Convention close atjtha't a three-judge panel be con- hand, the FDP is expected to venefj to consider the constitu ask that the injunction be dis tionality of the 16 state laws, solved and a hearing held with which the plaintiffs said main in five days. The normal date tained "a form of government for a hearing would be after the . . . of lawlessness and tyran beginning of the court's new ny." term, Sept. 14. The 16 state laws, the suit The biracial Freedom Party said, abridge freedom of speech, has said it hopes to unseat the freedom of the press, the right state's regular delegation at the to assemble peacefully and peti Democratic National Conven tion for redress of grievances tion which opens on Aug. 24 in i and deprive Negroes of "life. Atlantic City. liberty and property without due FDP spokesmen claim state!process of law." delegations supnorting the Ne- -— :gro party are New York, Con Alabama Negroes Hint Fight necticut, Illinois, Michigan, Cal ifornia, Wisconsin and Minne Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 13— sota. (UPI)—The Negro section of the Democratic Party in Alabama Obtained By State has urged that the regular Ala Lawrence Guyot, chairman of bama delegation be barred from the Freedom Democrats' Execu the National Convention unless tive Committee, said attorneys the unpledged elector movement were considering action to is ended. counter the injunction. He de The Alabama Democratic clined to say whether the party Conference, Inc., in a statement, would obey the ban. said it would send observers to State Attorney General Joe the convention and if the regu T. Patterson, a Democrat, ob lar 38-member delegation refus tained the injunction. ed to pledge unqualified support Patterson's suit said it was to President Johnson and his filed for "the preservation ofjvice presidential running mate order and the protection of the, the observers would try to be public." It charged that last|seated as the legitimate delega- week's state convention of the tion. Freedom Democrats was de In the state's primary, Ala- signed to "intimidate and em bamians overwhelmingly chose barrass the lawfully existing 10 presidential electors pledged Democratic Party ... and to cre to no candidate over 10 who ate confusion in the minds of would have supported Mr. John the electorate and bitterness son. Gov. Earle C. Wallace back hatred and discord among the ed the unpledged electors. As of citizens now it appears Mr. Johnson The injunction ordered ten won't even be on the ballot in persons connected with the par- Alabama. Mississippi Judge Orders Ban 3-;..:;^Jc:;.J By JAMES SAGGUS state to maintain the status quo tive committee, said attorneys son, a Democrat, obained the JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A and on the other hand by Ne were considering action to coun injunction. slate judge has banned opera groes to wui civil rights includ ter the injunction. Patterson, along with Gov. tions ot the Mississippi i-rcedom es recognition from the nation- State Atty. Gen. Jot T. Patter- Paul B. Johnson and other state Democratic party iormefl by jl Democratic party. officials, was named a defen dant in the federal court action. civil rii;!"|ji 153*5 tn r"|,'i """' Lawrence Guyot, chairman o£ cr'pf thf all-while rppilnr Df-m- the Freedom Democrats execu- Guyot declined to say if off nrratc fi"" >V. ' 1 i icers of the Freedom Democrats | would obey the injunction order- . At almost the same time that ing them to cease activity for Chancery Judge Stokes Robert the group. son Jr. issued his injunction A floor battle over the issue at Wednesday, a suit was filed in the Democratic National Con federal court asking that 16 vention, Which begins Aug A ' at state laws designed to hinder Atlantic City, ."-..J is virtually civil rights activities be struck aSSUi-ed. At leas'. Egn •rate down. •Ucniocratic THE WAiaOAH mS-SU: Thursday, August 12. »« 13 . > ' filed for "the preservation of or barrass the lawfully existing The attorney genera! argued der and the protection of the Democratic party and to create that the word "democratic" is public." It charged that last confusion in the minds of the el- already in use as part of anoth week's stat convention of the ectorate and bitterness, hatred er party name and under Mis Freedom Democrats was de and discord among the citi sissippi law a second group can signed to "intimidate and em- zens." not use it. All Contested Challenges Promised Rauh is representing the Free dom Democrats, who are chal lenging the right to convention Delegations seats for the all-white and pro- segregationist regular Demo cratic Party delegates from Mis Face Tieup sissippi. The Freedom Demnrrati Democratic Leader claim that the regulars in Missis sippi rebulted all etlor" Would Keep Them groes to take part in the selec f r Ro tion ui iimvUHiloii delegates. flJ! £m£ Y " Haul! cllal'g'ed Hut there has Washington, Aug. 14—(AP)— been systematic discrimination Democratic National Chairman against Negroes by the regular Jcrnn M. Bailey says he will rec- Democratic Party of Mississippi. £•f ommend that neither of two con Further, he said, the regular testing groups of delegates from Democrats have been disloyal to Mississippi be placed on the the national party ticket. He temporary roll of the Democrat said there were indications the ic National Convention. regulars might try to put Repub Bailey said he will recom lican nominee Barry M. Gold- mend to the Democratic Nation water on the Mississippi ballot al Committee, which meets Aug. as the Democratic candidate for 22 in Atlantic City to make up President. the temporary roll for the con The regular Democrats, head vention, that all contested dele ed by state Chairman Bidwell gations be kept off the roll. Adam of Gulfport, have largely Other Disputes ignored the insurgent group. There also are minor scraps Will Press the Fight over delegates or alternates from Oregon, Puerto Rico and But a Mississippi state judge the Virgin Islands, but most of Wednesday barred the insurg the attention is focused on the ents from using the name Free Mississippi challenge. dom Democratic Party. 1 1 Rauh said the ruling will not The deci,''"", fliiir """ b* keep him from pressing the case Bailey yesterday in an inter- before the convention Creden view, was- hailed By Joseph L" tials Committee, of which he is RauhrJr, as a iikirmisn-llne VIF a member, and, if necessary, on toryTrira preflnmlnaMiy NegrS the convention floor. slate ot aeicgates who will try to altenfl the convention, wnicn He said he hopes to get the required eight seconding mo -onens in Atlantic City on Aug. tions for a roll call if the mat 24. ter goes to the floor, believing Rauh. a Washington attorney that an open vote will put pres and delegate to the convention, sure on the large states with big is seeking recognition for the Negro vote blocs to reject the! Mississippi Freedom Democrat reeular Mississippi Democrats • ic Party, a group which was or ganised this year with the strong support of most civil rights groups working in Missis sippi. '^ IS I DEMOCRATS FACE Mr. Ruan feeuu jreawMuety] there were alrea/ly enough; SEATING BATTLES When ho withdrew as a can pledged votes on the committee! didate, early in June, his hos to force the Mississippi case on tility to President Johnson and the convention floor in the Convention Challenge Set on the national Democratic) Ad event the credentials panel ministration was such that it failed to scat the Freedom , Alabama and Mississippi was widely believed that he delegates. would transfer his support to Political observer! do not Barry Goldwater, the Republi - P.y CABELL PHILLIPS can candidate. Spfvlal to Tl-.e N*w York Timea Pledged to Wallace WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — In the primary election held Major fights on the seating in May. ail 3S convention dele of at least two Southern state gates elected were pledged to delegations at the Democratic Governor Wallace. When he re is Lc<::u.ica:,y a:\ :. : ,_. National Convention are begin nounced his candidacy, he also released his delegates from their Ariel the .^l:ite r.r. - ; I ning to take shape. pledge. How many of these art late September the designation Alabama faces a fight on the now "favorable" to President of electors and whether they seating of any delegation, and Johnson is unknown. shall be instructed for a par ticular candidate. Mississippi has a contest be Conceivably, the Credential Committee could also challcng No Overt Actions tween the "regular" party d'.le- the Alabama delegation o grrtran—and that ronrcser.-, Ing Thus Mississippi has not] whether they are "bona fid taken the overt steps that Ala Freedom, Democratic party fac Democrats who have the in bama has to thwart the will of terests, welfare and success o. tion precior.tma^;ly w^rn ; the convention, and there is a —J WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Mississippi's regular] Democratic'Beiegntcs boycotted the pai-ly's platform' RearfiTfis IfSre today rather than be scate' SiS QuSVTVttrS. The delegates, G. C. Cortright' and Ben C. Callon, s.aid that they would remain in Washing ton "available for consultation." The Democratic National! Chairman. John M. Bailey, told] alt-delegations whose credentials hatJrheen challenged that they: coTfld remain as observers at! the platform hearings, but that they could not be seated untir the Credentials Committee had ruled on the challenges. " A spokesman for a predomi nantly Negro group that is chal longing the right of the all- white delegation to represent Mississippi at the party's na tional convention, opening next Monday in Atlantic City, asked President Johnson to stay out of* the dispute'. Tie said tha* "benevolent neutrality" on the President's part wulu result in victory at the convention for the Mississippi Freedom Demo cratic party. The Credentials Committee will consider the dispute Satur day and will report Monday night to the full convention on challenges to the Mississippi delegation, as well as to the delegations from the Virgin Is lands and Puerto Rico, and pos sibly Alabama. Unfair Selection Charged The Freedom Democratic par ty charges that the regular Mis sissippi delegation was unfairly selected and that it has ex cluded Negroes. The Freedom Democrats at torney, Joseph L. Rauh Jr., who is also chairman of the District of Columbia Democratic Com mittee, said that Mississippi's regular Democratic party was S'-rporting the Republican Pro-j side-ntial candidate Senator Bar-] ry Goldwater of Arizona and t'-nt it was trying to hold onto its Democratic convention seats to keep anyone else from fil ling them. Mr. Rauh said that if Presi-; deaf JMBlSBii ii-iii.-.ihed neutral,; this would allow the dispute to go ttUHH C I 1 r. u MUa x PHEPAFK Meanwhile, the attorney flit- eral's office continued prepar ing Tuesday a brief supporting the seating of the regular par vm 0 ty's delegation. m Griffin conferred with Sen. E. K. Collins of Laurel, newly- 1 elected national commit 'Freedom Demosr teeman, and Douglas Wynn ot Greenville, who will present the brief to the Credentials Committee Saturday. „«• Facing Contempt (^ Griffin said he will represent By WILLIAM PEART the "regulars" aj counsel at ^^^^^ Daily News Staff Writer ^^^^^ the convention at Gov. John-1 The attorney general's office said Tuesday it wr son's request. contempt 61 court charges against the outlawed Free-' Meanwhile, Mississippi s un-1 c&rrrPCTioi'rallC Party if the group attends the National seated regular delegation to Democratic (jomaation. the Democratic Platform '—"We leel"wehave duties to uphold the orders of the Committee meeting in Wash court," Asst. Atty. Gen. Rubel Griffin said, "and if the ington failed to .appear at a scheduled n e-o n i news con party goes to the convention we will file a petition ference Tuesday, United Press asking that it be cited for' International rfeportcd:.- contempt; The two - man delegation, Griffin' said that "we wont SUPPORT FOR JOHNSON Rauh claimed that the Free through a;^.committee .spokes be so presumptious as to de man said ihey may make an cide what the court will do." dom Democrats, under conven tion rules, have the right to be announcement later. — — Hinds County Chancellor "It was- understood "they Stokes v. Kopcrtson issuea an .seated since the "regulars" don't support the national par were waiting to cl"ar a pre Injunction Wednesday Barrinmge pared statement of their posi thg pro-civil rtgnts party irorn ty and haven't acted to insure using the name "lipmmjraniv"' that President Johnson's: name tion with the head of the dele-1 Ifalso ordered 10 persons from will be on the ballot in Mis gation in Mississippi," UPIf sissippi Nov. 3. said from Washington, adding: functioning as party officers'. _ "The Mississippi fielegates -""The Freedom Democratic Rauh, who addressed the Freedom group's state conven were represented as feeling Party will challenge the seat they warded to take no step ing of the regular Mississippi tion here earlier this month— the state charged in its suit which might jeopardize the Democratic Party at the con seating of the all-white delega vention opening in Atlantic that it was a fraud designed to "intimidate and embarrass the tion at the convention at Atlan City, N. J.,- Monday. tic City. The Chancery Court suit, lawfully existing Democratic Party — acknowledged that "That is why they had de filed by the attorney general's cided to remain in Washington office, charged the party "did Gov. Paul B. Johnson had im plied electors pledged to the 'available for consultation.' As not lawfully organize, did not delegate G. C. Cortwright put give proper notice of precinct president would be on the bal lot. it, they are determined not to meetings, county conventions, attend further hearings as ob and that in fact it was con But, he added, there was no evidence they would be. servers." ceived in the minds of COFO The Platform Committee de (Congress of Federated Organi The predominantly-Negro par- j zations)." ty will present a brief to the The Associated Press report Credentials Committee in At-' ed from Washington Tuesday lantic City Saturday. It will be I that a leader in the fight to seat submitted by Negro Aaron Hen-1 ry, president of the Mississippi] the Freedom Party said the 1 battle could be won if.-Presi Chapter of the National Associ- nied them participant seats dent Johnson maintains "a be ation for the Advancement of Monday although the two dele nevolent neutrality." j»> Colored People, Laurence Guyot gates aid sit in as observers. "We ask only a fcjhjwolent and Raugh. The Mississippi Democratic neutrality ; by" the"'"p r e s i- The brief, unveiled to newr Party, at its state convention dent," Joseph L. Kauti Jr., men In Washington Tuesday saic here last month, delayed en Democratic national . coirimit- the Freedom Democrats have dorsing a presidential candidate i • teeman for the District of - Co the general support of state until after the national get-to lumbia, said at a netw Confer conventions or state committees gether. A second convention will ence. I ' of California, Colorado, District be held Sept. 9. of Columbia, Massachusetts, "Is the national party once - Michigan, Minnesota, New again going to seat those who York, Oregon, Washington and oppose it?" Rauh asked at the Wisconsin. Washington news conference. Raugh predicted the Freedom "Is it going to seat the repre group will win its fight to be sentatives of a recessed state seated. convention that will find a He said he did not know what method of supporting Barry position President Johnson will Goldwater (Republican nomi take. nee) on Sept. 9? Or is it, at Griffin said the "state's stat long last, going to seat loyal utes are being challenged by Democrats ready and willing to these people." support the national party, its candidates and its principles?" David Wolf Urges Seating Of Mississippi "Freedom" ( Delegates At Convention The key civil rights battle Convention, to keep their Fed- shaping up for the Democratic eral Patronage under the Dem- National Convention will be the ocratic President, and to keep challenge of the newly- their committee assignments organized Mississippi Freedom under the Democratic major- Democratic Party to the seat- ity in Congress." ing of the "regular" organiza- In his ietter to Connecticut tions delegates, according to delegates, Wolf wrote: David Wolf, of Hartford and Z= ... , Lakeville, who is a field coor- .. 2! Sg-SfiiLgftiS dinator for the party. seating- ^tarJgBMroHJrM- PartJ II Uivltl to Prestdertt-ond reas0"..u one of con- Juliiisuil and lb». National Dem. sclence • • • ocratic Party, and therefore He explains that Negroes are should he seated at thp i-imvtm- n°t allowed in the 'regular Hun, Ml1. Wolj declared in a Democratic party in Missis- letter ]ust sent to all conven- siPP'- and adds that "there is tirTn rielpi»afp^ from fannwti. no way to bring Mississippi out cut. The letter included are- of the dark aSes without the print of Mr. Woli's article. Political franchise that the Mis- wrrrch abpe°rff| £SSauE5£»- sissippi Freedom Democratic tufe in the Aug. 6 LakeviUe Party represents. Journal ~~ Mr. Wolf is one of more than • Tilt! article gave a first-hand 20 Connecticut young people report of the State Democratic who have been helping the civil Convention held in Jackson on rights cause in Mississippi this July 28. It showed strong Gold- summer. 'The terror of that water sentiment and seemed police state, where three of my to indicate a plan to use delay fellow-workers were murdered tactics in the selection of pres- is unbelievable unless you have idential electors until after the actually experienced it," he National Convention; a device says. used in 1960. Mr. Wolf has just returned Explaining the dilemma from five weeks in Mississippi, faced by Mississippi Democrats preparatory to leaving for At- who are also for segregation, lantic City. He has already and are backing Senator Gold- turned over the Mississippi water, Mr. Wolf wrote in his Freedom Democratic Party's Journal article that these poli- voluminous legal documenta tions are trying to determine tion to Attorney Joseph Rauh, "how to keep the Republicans Jr., of Washington, D.C., who from gaining credit for a Gold- will present the party's legal water victory in Mississippi and brief before the Convention at the same time to be seated Credentials Committee on Sat- at the Democratic National urday. Rival Delegations From Mississippi Bid for Seats at the Convention 1 ..., ..^. ^^^i^i^Baa^aaa^BBaaaaaaajajaji Aaaocialed rress Wirephntnl State Senator K. K. Collins speaks for regular Democratic Aaron Henry, leader of Mississippi Freedom Democratic delegation. At right Is Uuble Griffin, Mississippi lawyer. party, represents his group before Credentials Committee. , . ^leFregdrtrn party rnntrfitsld,— . • , I •y'Tht of the rcgulai delcga- a.1 CM to represent Mississlnnilrf. ™Hvr-ra^ on the ground that I Mississippi Factions Clash "iocswere systematically 1 (j < Yd the right to take part inin itU {Process of selecting dele-r Before Convention Panel lei trnm precinct meetings to j i~_ efitate convention. \T_\dltaOtml Support Cited By E. W. KEN WORTHY • • „ was an emotional session Special to The New York Tlmea IWitn' -isscs for the Freedom par- ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 22—The Credentials Committee |ty, kM by its chairman, Aaron ,of the Democratic National Committee listened today with \Honr;e of Clarksdale, told In rapt attention to an, emotion-laden confrontation between; quiet, voices of the brutality \jr*l thi r-gttlnr delegation of the' " ' and '.terror they said they had ptate o.' Mis.vssipp' md tht expcrieHiced while trying to reg -hall-nting biracial dck*J»-[| ister and vote. Ition of th* Freedom Demo j The chief spokesman for the* 'cratic party. • regulars, state Senator E. K, The committee postponed de Collins of Laurel, defended the ; - risions on the Mississippi ron- right of his all-white delegation «"^ i test and a challenge to the Ala 0 be seated with an argument bama delegation until tomorrow hat relied heavily on the over- afcrnoon. vhelming support traditionally A reason fAr the T>ostpon.v given the Democratic party in mr*nt was that David !L. law. • Mississippi. rence, former Ponnsjiv^olaj '• ' • Then, toward the end, the Governor who is ehaiTnau Af • counsel for the Freedom party, the committee, was tryh.c "'o't Joseph L. Rauh Jr. of Wash work out a formula to avoid aj ington, told the Credentials Bruising floor battle In front of 1 Committee that its decision on tha television cameras. The the seating-challenge would de ill nccs for such a compromiselp termine the course of society ,IT'S believed to be fairly good'cl |in Mississippi, '.on,' ;-ht. "If the Freedom party is once seated, Mississippi will ichange," Mr. Rauh said. "The regulars come here and sweet- (talk you to keep the Freedom' party from the seats, because PACE I LONG ISLAND "FEES* AUG 24 1964 HKNRY AM) KING said Walkout they1* nad the votes in the credentials crtrnrnllleo need"- ell Ift tfil'PI' lllH KMIf onto, tfle? flnoT "I I lie convention ir IHf rtiiniiiiiiff MB "to By Some give seats and VOIPS to the freedom qeleganon. _ There has heen speculation that the committee, in an effort tar-s~a 11 s 1 y I ha Nrgrops, Possible wBuld give trtfrrl seats On" me lloor but no voice and ATI.ANTIC CITY (API- no V6te^ Mississippi Negroes said "no • llenry said his delegation compromise" and Alabama's voted-to reject such an of white delegates shouted "no fer. loyalty pledge" as Demo- Henry and his Freedom :iats searched for answers party want to be seated he- •ft the holiest issues at their cause, they say, the regular Mississippi Democratic lational convention. party will not support Presi Chanres of keeping the dent Johnson, his vice presi Mississippi and Alabama dis dential choice, or the na putes from bursting forth tional Democratic party. upon the floor of the con They also say the regular vention when it opens to "Democrats exclude Negroes night appeared slim. And the from their ranks. threat of a walkout by some * * • southern delegations re mained a possibility.' THE CKKDEXII ADS committee thought it had The credentials committee solved the Alabama problem failed to decide yesterday when it ruled that all the whether the largely Negro Alabama delegates had to do Mississippi Freedom Demo to he seated was take a cratic delegation or the all- . loyalty pledge. white regulars from that It was a thunderous no state should be seated. The that greeted this proposal. committee resumes today its The Alabama delegation, search for a solution it which got its credentials he- hopes will satisfy southern fore it was supposed to, states and southern and dared convention officials to northern Negroes. take them back. The creden tials were given national DR. AARON HENRY, committeeman Eugene Bull Negro chairman of the Free Conner of Birmingham and dom group from Clarksdale, he refused to surrender Miss., said the group would them. not take a "backof-thebus'J The credentials commit compromise. ^^^^_ tee, headed by former Penn Henry was hacked by Dr.' sylvania Gov. David Law Martin Luther King whoj rence, ruled that each dele said "a natural reaction ot r gate would have to sign a Negro voters would he to go statement pledging support fishing Election Day" if the for the candidates of the Freedom party is not seated. party before being given King heads the Southern credentials. The southerners Christian Leadership Con hoped to gain the floor to ference. night to contest the loyalty Two civil rights organiza ' pledge ruling. tions set up vigil in front of Convention Hall early today in support of the Freedom delegation. The nrgnni/alinns were Hie Congress ol Racial Equality find the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. More demon strations are planned later in the day after the creden tials committee makes its report. Texts of Convention Committee Report and Mississippi Statement Special to The New York Times call for the 1D6S Democratic parties in fully meeting the man, and the Rev. Edwin We, the Mississippi dele • ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 25— National Convention the fol responsibilities and assurances King, national committeeman gates, came here in good lowing amended first para required for inclusion in the Following are the te-rts oj the designate, of the Freedom \ faith. We were legally and graph: call for the 10SS Democratic Democratic patty, bp accord Credentials Committee's report ,' duly elected as delegates. Our It is the understanding that National convention, said ed full delegate status, in a | credentials are in order. All on the Mississippi seating dis a state Democratic party, in committee to report to the special category of delegates- ' honest-minded persons on the pute and the Mississippi delega selecting and certifying dele Democratic National Commit at-large of this convention, national Credentials Commit tion's statement upon icith- gates to the Democratic Na tee concerning its efforts and to bo seated as the chairman tee know this to bo true. tional Convention, thereby findings and said report to of the convention may direct. draicing from the convention: undertakes to assure that be available to the 1968 con The self-styled Mississippi Committee's Report voters in the state, regardless vention and the committees Delegation's Statement Freedom Democratic party of race, color, creed or na thereof. delegation, and its advocates tional origin, will have the At the outset, \vc express [1] our sincere gratitude to those and witnesses were forced to opportunity to participate [I] resort to misrepresentation We recommend the seating fully in party affairs, and to loyal friends of Mississippi as the delegates and alter We recommend that the throughout the United States and slander in their desperate east their election ballots for members of the delegation of efforts to make out a .case. nates from Mississippi those the Presidential and Vice- who have labored so faith members of the regular Dem the Freedom Democratic par* fully on our behalf. In this effort they have failed ocratic party of Mississippi Presidential nominees select ty, like the Democrats pro hopelessly. The Credentials who subscribe to the follow ed by said convention, and for posed, but not seated, as We have been advised that Committee was hard put and ing assurance: electors pledged formally and members of the Oregon, if wo are to receive our cre therefore devised a require We. the undersigned mem in good conscience to the elec Puerto Rico and Virgin Is dentials in this convention ment and procedure which tion of these Presidential and lands delegations, be wel we will have to take a loyalty bers of the .Mississippi dele Vice- Presidential nominees, they knew they could HOI* gation to the 106-1 Demo comed as honored guests of oath, which before has never lawfully do but which would cratic National Convention under the Democratic party this convention. been required of any other label and designation. delegation. This is a blind prevent the national Demo hereby each formally assure cratic party from having to the convention of our inten [5] oath which obligates us, the [3] Mississippi delegaton. to sup face the uncontradicted le tion to support the conven Wholly apart from the gality of Mississippi's creden- tion's nominees in the forth We recommend tha t tho question of the contest as to port whoever the nominee convention adopt the follow may be. tials and also to avoid a floor coming general election. the delegates from Mississippi fight at the convention. ing resolution: and in recognition of the un Furthermore, and most un RESOLVED: That the This final statement Is so W V usual circumstances presented believably, the Credentials obvious that no further com We recommend that the chairman ot i'".e Democratic at the hearing, and without Committee ridiculously in National Committee shall es setting any precedent for the ment is necessary. The Mis- i convention instruct the Dem tends to seat "an outside pres sissippi Democratic delegation ocratic National Committee tablish a special committee future, it is recommended sure group, which represents ; to aid the state Democratic that Dr. Aaron Henry, chair no one but itself. d d not leave the Rational that it shall include in the Democratic party; it left us. Gov. Johnson Hints Full Break by State WithNaiional Party By JOHN BERBERS Special to Tl-.e New Yorie Tiniea JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 25— Gov. Paul B. Johnson Jr. in-i dicatcd tonight that Mississippi was on the verge of a complete i break with the national Dcmo- i 'cratic party. i I Governor Johnson, a one-time a party loyalist, directed Minis- $1 sippi delegates to walk out of fej the Democratic National ,Con- a vention in Atlantic City rather .| than sign a loyalty oath as re- I quired by the Credentials Com- '•j mittce. The Governor then went on i "Mississippi's debt to the Imatinna! I Ji-!l •.i•; atn: -pa-rtv U j Inn-v -paid in f';ll ,'inrl we star.d ] tonight—as a state, as a pc<":-'e 4 and as rnen\S>ers of an organ*.::;d ? political group — abaahitcly fcee I of all obligations, all old ties J ana an aeats. We ireabs 'M ;freo to take sue:: :tiori as • feet to be in tli'J bt'^L ::.tere»t ...!j 0f~oTrr~state of our nation and of our people." — i- *-<•..,• »-l The Itltvislun— r This is your problem, your dilemma. We hope (hat you She tried to vote because she thought she ought to have • re concerned enough to investigate further. We are avail a say in the way she was being treated. She had been told able for discussion and you are most cordially invited to meet members of (he Mississippi Freedom Democratic that democracy meant she had the right to do that. Party at: The Gem Hotel, 505 Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City, She was blackjacked in jail in Wimona, Miss, after she N.J. , told people there about voting. And she finally got register Tne avove statement was from members of Mississippi's ed and ran for the U.S. Congress against Jamie Whitten. Frce.tom Party that attended the Democratic Convention Whitten is noted for having killed a program to train tractor last week. drivers because it included colored' citizeners. Jamie Whitten A booklet given each contained the following informa won. tion: MURDERED RIGHTS FIGHT THE SHERIFF Not enough of Mrs. Hamer's friends could vote for her. Who is YOUR sheriff? What does he believe about law Many of them had tried and for their concern were beaten, • nd order? Does he think that the "law of the !ai:d" should shot at, jailed, and run off the land. Some were murdered. be enforced? Herbert Lee was killed, but most of you don't know any Will he beat you and jail you if you try to exercise the thing about that. And Lewis Allen was killed, and Med gar basic rights guaranted you by the Constitution of the Unit Evers, too And Michael Schwerner was killed, and Andrew ed States? Goodman, and James Chaney who was from Meridian, Mis Will he protect you against anyone who threatenes your sissippi They, perhaps like you, were interested in seeing life and property? that everybody got a chance to vote. The sherifff is a part of government which is represent That is how Mississippi congressmen get elected. It'» ed by either the Republican or the Democratic Party. how sheriff are elected. And Presidents too. Mrs. Hamer In Mississippi, he may be a Democrat, and a Dixie- doesn't think it is right crat, and a member of the Citzens Council or the Ku Klux Mrs. Hamer is a Democrat who believes in democracy. Klan. But no matter what group he belongs to, and how And because she does she thinks that she ought to have a much that groups opposes citizenship rights for all people, seat in the convention. His delegates sit side by side at national conven The white delegates have come here .before and have not tions with other delegates who believe that the Constitution supported the man the Democratic Party decided to run for of the United States is the basic document by which all of ui office. They don't believe in the platform that the party runs should be governed. on. We think that his representatives do not deserve their gca'.s, and that the Democratic Party should tell them so. In the last election the white delegates from Mississippi And we have come here to challenge him, and those like voted for Senator Harry Flood Byrd, who wasn't even run him' who endorse state party platforms which call for sepa ning for anything. Mrs. Hamer thinks she ought to be able to ration of the races in public places, the impeachment of do something about that. She and the members of her delega Supreme Justices, who publicly and privately support in tion are Democrats. They are loyal to the Democratic Par- ferior schools, substandard housing and negligible econom ty and what it stands for. The white Mississippi delegate! ic opportunities for black people who happen to be Ameri- are not and they have proven it. ; cans. CONTRARY TO LAW The Mississippi delegates believe in segregated schools, FREEDOM PARTY And who are we? We are FREEDOM Democrats: even though the Constitution of the United States says that all Our state party is integrated, and some of our mem men are born free and equal; in spite of the fact that the bers have lost their jobs, been beaten, spent days in jail, Supreme Court of the United States says that black children been shot at and had their homes fire-bombed and dynamit have a right to go to the same school attended by any other ed all because we want to participate as voters in the dem American ocratic process. Some of the white delegates believe that the chief justice i It is up to you to decide which group should be seated. But bedore you make up your minds about which of us be- of our highest court should be impeached because the court i longs with you, we would like you to know something about decided that the Constitution included everybody. us, AND SOMETHING ABOUT THEM! AARON HENRY FANNIE LOU HAMER Aaron Henry is a delegate, and a presidential elector. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer is 46. She is married and has He is a Democrat, and he would cast his vote for the man two children. She has lived all of her life in Mississippi. It is that the party said it wanted for President. Mr. Henry is from not unusual, among those colored citizens whom she is a Clarbsdale, where colored citizens are banned from the representative, that she has,, only eight years of schooling. streets after midnight. Her husband is a cotton gin worker. He is 46 years old, he has one child, and he lives in a He formerly worked on a plantation, but when Mrs. home that is nicer than most homes. But men guard his Hamer tried to register to vote they were put off the land home with guns because "Doc" Henry believes hat every where they had lived for 16 years. As if that didn't make the body should have the right to vote. point clearly enough, somebody fired 16 shots into the house His people call him "Doc" because to them anyone who where she was staying. dispenses medicine is a doctor. It doesn't matter that he In Ilulcville, where Mrs Hamer lives, people crowd around" doesn't have an M. D. He sells the right kinds of medicine to her house. That's he-cause she is a lender even though her people who can't afford a doctor and who come and stand at house doesn't look like much. She Is an ample woman. Am- his counter and tell him what is wrong—with them or with pie means BIG, She Is big in girth, and big in spirit. And their children. "Doc" is a pharmacist, and he sees a kit of when she sings she can make a church tremble. She is big people. in love, too, and when she smiles, her smile embraces you in When the country was young, people like "Doc" used to warmth. As if by a miracle, she hasn't as yet learned to get elected to office. When you see a lot of people, and you hate, and that makes her strong and vital. talk a lot, and they get to know that you believe in things She is also innocent. TRIED TO VOTE-BEATEN . Her soul is free and she thinks her mind and body should be free, too." Free from wondering why white neigh bors don't think freedom is for everybody. ( " that are right and good for everybody then you ought to bave the chance to got elected to office. But where "Doc" lives, black people aren't free to vote because they'd vote for him and he'd fight to change some things that aren't right. When one man if free to go on the streets at night or day any time he pleases, while another man is arrested for stepping into the fresh air after the stroke of twelve, something isn't right. SERVED ON A CHAIN GANG "Doc" is also state president of the the NAACP. And he Is president of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), the group that sponsored the Mississippi Summer Project. "Doc" has served on a chain gang. He was with a roup of people who picketed some cnurcnes in a communi- ?y to remind the Christians that they weren't doing their du ty by fellow Americans and fellow human beings . . . People believe in him. They elected him a delegate so that he could come to the convention and get himself a chair, and sit there and listen to what the other delegates believe. They wanted him to come because they understand that the Democratic Party believes in something that is good. They know "Doc" Henry does, and they wanted him to be with you. They know that he will vote for the president that all of you agree is the best man to run the country. He said he would, and the people who have been to his drug store trust him. His word has been always good. DR. A. D. BEITTEL A.D. Beittel is a real doctor. He has a Ph. D and he is president of Tougaloo Southern Christian College Anybody can go to school there: white or black. He is secretary of the Mississippi Advisory Committee 'of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, a group that is sup posed to see that All Americans are treated alike. Some white people in places like Mississippi don't believe Ameri cans are the same no matter what the Constitution says. THREATENED He is a member of the Mississippi Council on Human Re lations. Somebody has to belong to groups like because hu man relations aren't good these days. Dr Beittel is the kind of man that people think will help make things better for everybody. He thinks the ballot is a precious thing. People in Mississippi threaten him on the phone because of his be lief. The State of Mississippi wants to revoke the charter of the college he heads because anybody who wants to can get an education there if he passes the entrance tests. It doesn't matter what color he is. People who live around him think that he should be a delegate because the Democratic Party supports integra tion, and stands for those things that are good for every body. He stands for integration, too. His college was inte grated before Ole Miss and nobody had to call out the army. MRS. VICTORIA GRAY Mrs Victoria Gray is from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She is married and has three children. She was one of the first colored citizens registered in Forrest County. That doesn't mean that she is an old woman. It just means that they haven't been letting colored get registered there for long. Mrs. Cray is just 37. Her husband was fired from his job because Mrs. Gray tried to get other people registered She is a coordinator of the voter registration drive in her home town, and she is a supervisor of citizenship education classes for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She ran for the United States Senate against Senator Stennis. She told people that she believed that '"unemployment, aua tomation, inadequate housing, health care, education, and rural development are the real issues in Mississippi, and not slates' rights or Federal encroachment." Most Democrats believe that. That is why the people sent her here to repre sent them. She is a Democrat! Atlantic City Dispute Solution Work /£ Mississippi- watch on the Gem Hotel, ans caused a ripple in the where members of the Mis newspapers but created lit sissippi Freedom Democra tle excitement .among the tic Party were staying, after milling thousand*! at Con receiving reports of a bomb vention Hall. \' ' threat. As of Thursday noon, For everyone 'recognized no incidents had occurred. Several hundred members that President Johnson had of CORE and the Student profited by the Republican Non - violent Coordinating fiasco at San -Francisco and Committee staged a 9-hour had done his homework by Buddah-likc vigil on the pla mending fences and reconcil za in front of the hall, but the demonstration was peaceful. » * • MEMBERS of the Ameri can Nazi Party, attired in Storm Trooper uniforms and wearing red swastika arm bands, managed to attract attention by molesting and interfering with passers-by at the hail. Eight were arrest ed, given 90 - day suspended jail sentences, and escorted out of town with orders to stay out. ' • Even Lester Maddox, the Atlanta restaurant ovfrner who closed up rather than ac cept the equal accommoda tions section of the Civil Rights Act, was hard pat to claim his share of publicity, j Maddox appeared on Con-, |vcntion Hall Plaza with three' I other placard bearers. He shook a few hands and gave a few interviews before the i blazing sun forced the party to retreat to a boardwalk restaurant for dinner.; I,.- .ittle Chance That State Solons Will Be Unseated BY PAUL riTTMAN Events in" tVashingten last public opinion than lo register week indicated a new dimen voters. sion to the effort to unseat Here in Mississippi, the order the Mississippi congressional de of the day was to avoid in legation by the bl-radal Mis cidents that would add to the sissippi Freedom Democra t i c FDP's growing dossier in sup Party. port of its case. This was re- Now it appears that while fleeted in tha egg shell-walking building testimony to try to stance of the congressmen in prove Negro voter discrimina the seating challenge, and the tion in the congressional seat unusual degree of cooperation ing challenge, the FDP was al state officials extended to the so collecting ammunition for Civil Rights Commission which a cadre of liberal senators to added some pretty damaging use in pushing for federal vot testimony of its own on the ing legislation. matter of Negro voting in hear Bemused Washington observ ings which concluded in Jack ers have watched with interest son last week. the intense efforts of the slate's The outlook is that it will be congressional delegation to meet difficult for the state to avoid the" FDP challenge. Their le some incidents between now and gal efforts, spearheaded by for the time the expected federal mer governor J. P. Coleman, legislation on voting comes be have been widespread and have fore the congress. marshalled the voluntary ser vices of as many as fifty at This is. in part, because of torneys to provide legal servic the vacillating position of Gov es at the TOP'S deposition hear ernor Johnson, partly because ings in towns all over the state. of the current controversy ov "As fa ras I can find, there er whether school boards should is very little possibility that sign civil rights complia nee the Mississippi regular? will be pledges. ;.nd partly because of unseated. This is the opinon a reaction which is setting in of the regular House Democrat to the moderate cote which ic leadership, and a good many business and political leaders of the liberals as v.ell." says have exuded in the state in a well informed Washingto n recent weeks. In addition, step observer. 'They feel," he says, ped up pressure from civil that former Governor Coleman rights workers can be expected, and other M'ssissippisns are especially in the area of vot really exercised over nothing." ing. At issue, however, is far more "The FDP is hoping we will than the curient seating con give them something to use troversy. Observers who watch against us," said one state ed the FDP adroitly exploit the official, "and I'm afraid that podium of the national Demo we will. Sometimes, we can be cratic convention las; August our own worst enemies." to build public sentiment for The threat of sweeping fed their case, recognize the same eral voting legislation is the FDP tactic in the buildup of most acute of all the problems pressure for federal voting laws now facing this embattled sate. which could put a federal regis For the state's congressmen, trar in even" countv of the the governor, and other state state. officials know 'hat mass Ne In Washington last week, Sen gro registration and votiny ate liberals met with Attorney would transform the state vir General Nicholas Katzer.bach to tually overhigh:. It would top discuss the matter. Included in ple the existing political struc the meeting wan Republicans ture and expose the state's eco Jacob Javits of New York, nomy and government to the and Clifford Case of N?w Jer stress of radical change. -1 sey, at- Democrats Pi:'.:p Hart This Is really what the con of Michigan. Paul Douglas of gressmen and other state offi Illinois, and Robert Kennedy of cials fear. And that is why New York. the concern over the seating Ironically, it was £*na tor challenge has reached such size Kennedy who defended Katzen- able proportions. bach's efforts in the field of It is al?o en? reason for the Negro voting. Kennedy pointed peaches a-.d cream cooperation out the apathy that ex;<:= anion? the federal government is get Negroes in :he area o: voting ting out of Governor Paul B. and identified Martin Luther Johnson, the man who st o o d King's Selma voter drive as tall against federal officers a: Ffi, (ftps t a a p>»8>« _ _ ri ?W S " H. 5 2 ° ? 2 M - C: s: 3 2 S JT.~ K - ? « c 5 b, >N. »&«»{ 'clA , „ B sr< £ s- • '3 5« a. to w) (r f 1 ^B.^^S.ii^ & -n,M'§§ S 5* f 1 6 I -I & 5&re-3ttt»Pi*9 e* a. * r •* a «* » 5. *"> .J ??&cifBg>i"lft "I-0- -s-ls'g* § S3 t) » ? >o£i§e,aoB'« » 2. o gc 3gro wt Cr"R £•• ^ at>. B.S E S I H 9. e•> a » c 3 •) =.. 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Sui: writer ( .) •* J The House of Rer-rcswrrr?- eluded guards and burst onto ives voted vjcsterd'ay lo scat ,),(, floor, shouting: .he regular five-member Mis- ,Tsc Il)e MisSjSSjpDj delega- issipiv cli-lcigaur.n pcr.miia ;.:: (ion. , [!rmamis mv seat:" invcsT'galiu-u into ihcir clcc- . lion, which ,.. being contested Delegation Challenged by~Xegicrcs from that State. The rlei-iinn of the Missis- A voic/.'vote made the action ^ippj delegation has been formal after members had challenged by the Mississippi ,voteu 276-H8 to seat the rcg- Freedom Democratic Parly, •tiler-delegation in a test vote.'which contends that Negroes The vote came ai'it-r three arc excluded frr>m voting a::d Ijfegro women who claim Mis- -,iu. rcuiar election process in feissippi congressional scats ih^i State. were turned a\iay by CapitblBerore the opening session police as they attempted to of the 89th Congress yester- enter the House chamber. clay, some 500 Freedom Party And it came after a noisy members and supporters vis- House was Startled into i;ed Congressmen in an effort] silence as a member of the to gain support for their chat , American Nazi Party—dressed lenge. Jn) a grotesque costume of' A few minutes before noon,1. lick tights and blackface— Fannie Lou Hamer, Annie De-j vine and Victoria Gray pre-' sented themselves to Deputy! Chief Carl Schamp of the Capitol Police outside the. House Chamber. As television : cameras recorded the scene, tne three Negro women ex plained they wanted floor privileges until the Wpis- sippi challenge was cleciiV.'i. / Thc-vl had been elected InW Freedom Party election hfV simultaneously throughout th State with the regular loting last November. to the administering of • the oath to the Mississippi' delegation, as he had an-: nounced he would. House Ma-i jority Leader Carl Albert of: Oklahoma, however, moved | jtiiat the Mississipcians be I 'seated. The Mississippi deleaationl had certificates of election in! due form, he said, and thei challenge could be taken up! by the House committee under! rules governing contested; •lections. The votes supported, his motion. i. The regular Mississippi dele-i gation members, forced to; ~ stand a=:de -x.ien the oath was: administered to the rest of the: Hou-e. then took their oath in a separate ceremony. Tha ?3ular delegation in-i dudes veteran Democrats! vTUIian, M. C.i.-rier. JaiBie L. 1 imss G. .'-.he.--: t ethy snd Ji . ..::.-.-. - , - • •'.':.- i,..-.. \v the Mississippi d< le f*Ut • £; he had an- Inouneed hi would House Ma jority Leader Carl Albert • I Oklahoma, however, moved I that tha Mississippiar.s Del iseated ' Tne Mississippi delegation1 had certificates of election :n! due form, he said, and the: challenge could be taken up by the House committee under, rules governing contested! elections. The votes supported; his motion. The regular Mississippi dele-j gation members, forced toi- island aside when the oath was! iadministered to the rest of the; I House, then took their oath in- a separate ceremony. The regular delegation in cludes veteran Democrats William M. Colmer, Jamie L. I ! Whitten. Thomas G. Abcr-| ir.elhy and John Bell Williams. I and freshman Republican a ! Prentiss Walker. j Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Wash-.r iingfon attorney and vice chair- \ man of the Americans for » the Americans for Democratic | Action, who had helped plan:; :tite Mississippi challenge, said • he was "tremendously en couraged" that 148 Congress men had voted to support it. It successfully dramatized the situation in Mississippi, hej saidT just is the Freedom ; Party had .icr.e last August at • -theTafjuiia", Democratic Con- vention-*w«-n-it challenged the • regular delegates. "But now it is time to turn, from dramatizations to action,"; he said, predicting that this- Congress will pass legislation, for Federal registration of;; qualified Negroes in Missis-! 'sippi, perhaps at post offices 1 throughout the State. '• Nor was Mrs. Hamer. of," Ruleville, Miss., disheartened. | The Freedom Party will con-; tinue tile challenge before the ' proper committee, she said.;' She did wonder about that t Nazi, however. 11 "How could they have 12 f policemen block us from the floor but couldn't see that man In blackface?' she asked. i As for the 148 votes that 1 supported the challenge. Mrs. I Hamer said: "That is great. It shows that> some people in America arj^t oncei>eceratd about democracydemoftacyrll! i 'We Are All Right,9 Abernethy Believes After Strategy Talk State Congressmen Confer With Lawyers On Challenge By CLIFF SESSIONS The Mississippi lawmakers WASHINGTON (UPI) — Mis expressed hopes during the sissippi congressmen agreed meeting that they could count Tuesday to challenge the right er MFDP charges with facts of several Negroes to contest presenting the state in a favor their elections. able light. The congressmen held a ABERNETHY CONFIDENT three-hour meeting with their "We think wa are all right," attorneys, former Gov. J. P. said Rep. Thomas G. Aber Coleman and B. B. McLendon nethy, D-Miss., as the meeting Jr., to lay plans for opposing broke up, "but we will have no an effort to oust them from comment now since this is a their House seats. matter for the House to de The effort, organized by the termine." Mississippi Freedom Demo cratic Party (MFDP), was be Coleman was just as noncom- gun with petitions to the House mital. He.said the "attempted By a number of Negro voters contest... is a matter left by who claim the elections were the Constitution to the decision void because of voier discrimi of the House. We are not going nation. to discuss it outside the House." DECLINE COMMENT Neither the congressmen nor Coleman, who has the repu the lawyers would comment on tation of a top flight constitu their plans alter the meeting, tional lawyer, is defending the but it was learned they decided Democratic incumbents: Aber !o question the legality of the nethy, William M. Colmer, MFDP proceeding. i Jam'ie L. Whitten and John They are expected to file a Bell Williams. Republican motion with the House within a Rep.-elect Prentiss Walker is few days asking that the peti defended by McLendon, a long tions be dismissed on the time GOP leader in Missis ground that the Negroes were sippi. 1 not candidates in the elections 1 and therefore have no right to :ontest them. They also agreed to point out that a resolution to "deny them seating penrTrng' a settlement of the contest would leave Missis sippi without House representa tion for several mo.nths._Lib- erals hope to inixoduce the resolution when Congress con venes Monday. II 10 I r FDP Gives V6*f** ™— , Slate For " ' 1 If ^c 66 Races m CL— -^ By JAMES BONNEY # _, Associated Press Writer ./j t *• The predominantly Negro Mis- /f sisslppi !• I'tJfdiur—Democratic / C ~ 'Party plans' tu ttiiiiT candidates^; S \* v/> <"; M irf this SUfflmer's ja^rissienal ' * ' •^ ; arid SMtoriaTpHmary elections, 1 ~ L: ^ ah officiaj_an.riou.nced Thursday. ^ • '.' "FDP Chairman Lawrence s Guyot said the FDP would run Hj T C . Negroes in three of the five con- v5 : gressional districts and a white • candidate in another, <<* A candidate is also scheduled Mai , to iun against veteran Senator. * / James Eastland. le_ •-* ^5i "We plan to campaign hard ;T. *: | w* and "'ill start our campaigning u'. -s *- *I _ : early," Guyot said. "This is the i. w i ~ reason we're announcing our a candidates now." U--i'•*-- B 1 — 1 %ar ' & Congressional elections in Mis •—- - sissippi are scheduled in June,; 10 «- ' - " I but a move is afoot in the state,, v.._ 4 ty>£H j ' legislature to set the elections jj i back until August. g I "We would welcome that < ill * x — oa move," Guyot,said. "It wouidi^" 5c give us more time to registers- l V ,wri I voters." •*« 1 Candidates announced were all officeholders in the FDP., They included: Guyot, of Pass Christian, in A the 5th District; Rev. Clint Col c lier, of Philadelphia, 4th Dis +> zx trict; Ralthes Hayes, Holmes It ' c- County, 2nd District; and Rev. si « Ed King, of Jackson, 3rd Dis 0 trict, King is the only white can S <•-« c didate representing the predom CU (•a inately Negro party. I •* o o 3 • Rev- ... C.v,. L_. Whitlewmtley Jr., ooff I • gCu. r-i 4J a o d senatorial race. * c: '/> sM *;*« 10 Mississippi candidates fradi-'' " o -t •w ti fionally have held rallies at I > « '/) i3 courthouses and other public) » « X c By T. R. BASSETT a pp^ THIRTY-ONE lawyers, 21 in N. Y. City and 10 in New s Orleans, last week, signed up with "ne.nr.sil ions Cara van" and volunteered to go ''"'"'"'->,,*,.,„. tu Mi.\sissi;>,>i to assist the i»t<". i«>-is! MUsitttftM V •warned by the Congress when ; •'.. •;•.;:• :."•''• -.•;• ^ readmitted to the Union in 1370 ':'' UM\ '*.,.,-! i^',. that she would lose her repre : K sentation in that body in case -•' hn eSrff-j ;.-,v of wholesale denial of the vote to Negro citizens. tn U6*;st ts»A uui Community, civic and labor , groups and individuals are lot. p«**A >.7e potu urged to press for Congress ac tion after the evidence is prc- to bjfTcibaje) i seined. To Ac ... -.. -*.., ,i, ,.v,,,, z-.iir jMtjtnt.• r4 .j• v i\ ( tun -»- r t»- nu; rwi l p /)V l bS / M JACKSON FREEDOM SCHOOLS. AUGUST, 1964 NEGRO HISTORY THE FOLLOWING IS MEANT TO SUPPLEMENT THE OTHER 'TWO ITEMS ON NEGRO HISTORY (that covering materials 1860-1900 and that dealing with 1900 the 1960's) and to round out information on the lo cation jf*^1 " he Jackson Freedom Schools. ***** Two State ****** ****** ****** As presently Officials ols will meet at the following locations: .^^^^^^—. „ __ M WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Blair Street Subpoenaer d , No. Blair i Supreme Court Monday directed Cades Chape] ^v THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -^ ^ _j more proceedings in Mississippi way) vr... T._J.,. -•. a Freedom Democratic PartPartyy : •j''" „. 1 courts on the conviction Ne_ w, Bethe, „ _l i leaderi.f^^Z.'ZrZ,s subpoenae d two Vacatustate r St. of NAACP leader Aaron He.iry Pratt M. Um officials and sought to subpoena beyond thj of Clarksdalc, on a charge of (starts here On Mor two others Monday in cor.nec-]_}_ use p J disturbing the peace in an al leged sexual assault on a hitch 1 then) St. John M. *•<>" with its effort t0 un- -mfnT-t- ^ + oI VcfnJt me-mbers of the Mississippi ort St. hiker. St. Peter's congressional delegation. •; 125 Eas Henry's appeal was based on tst St. the claim that evidence used New Hope A.M The subpoenas- went to Gen^d Bonita against him had been unconsti Mount Nebo B IJLI™™^ **? „°I J5*Tupolo St: tutionally seized. SKTte Highway Patrol, and wle i"--1-" The new hearings will deter _. , Johnson Jr., director of the mine whether he waived the i of IJ Th* work state Sovereignty CoTrrmission..0uld begil right to have the trial court [ £ +-\Q 5Sm Q African 0'Capitol sources said there alson(j patteri make a determination on this ,fT,. ^ were efforts to subpoena Gov. fl .. point. If he loses in state courts, -Vated Airicn p. ^ Gen.2serve at he can turn to federal courts. ie Af riean paul Johnson Atty# Justice William J. Brennan ^j_^ they European ;Jo€ Patterson. ake their Jr. spoke for the court, which,. TT o Continent The subpoenas under the l^cooperatil split 54 on the case. ; ine u •" • meet? (T' civil rights act were signed by , • 3 The slate's argument was that 'ef 6T for „H+Awr+'Notary Public William Edward ^V* some Henry's attorneys did not ob-!n the 16th History t Mi!ern and directed the nam-OCh, to Wj| ject—as required by Mississippi! general b ^d persons to appear for ques-2rji polic. procedure—when the evidence j Century a Honing by attorneys of the ^^ fl •was introduced but waited until | FDP at the Fansh Street r° •**»» J-M the prosecution rested. 'sed in the „ (Negro) Baptist church Jan. 25. | Henry, state president of the Comparisons J it also directed them to bring ition of I National Association for the Ad- i Curriculum 02 correspondence, records, files | p vJ rov u e vanccment of Colored People.! and other material in the area f *"• "1 was sentenced to 60 days in jail j -fche JJGW _,... ,_ , of registration and voting by | II) What wore Negroes. Le Negroe i'.he fact that World? I Patterson said both Birdsong LJ +. jsentative 161 Q -«w and Johnston had turned their *«" "•** onies. 1619 saw *tlb naes over to him for;ion Of S jtoo and dif— governmer study. jses) int. white? In What V, Patterson said he understood Lg f Qr ^ ferent fi*e FDP had tricd_.t0 H°SI A*trbox*A to take shape xeren-c .LX^ ^ home but his wl{e hadia. ensure a aern colonies, refused to accept service for j ninant white Note that him. Another capitol source'- the Neg during ti-said a subpoena was left for » liriTNotet thu ea Gov^ZJ^^S'iie. Johnson at thtare mansion fttOf. ie l/nrepression C n in northern colonies Wnat nad ..Tne governor has executive; ical pat durinCommunitg thy immunitcivil righty fros mac tsubpoena, amounte"d Pat to- ejnportan 18th centurt y when whites there succumbed tersotakinng saiddeposition. s from *"» f Negro uprising (cf. es The attorney general said the mor8 0 a pecially »%'* are l00king into whether ew York). the act carries authority to I What grou subpoena records such as wereL an(^ xraprove the Negroes' lot? Dis- cuss rol« 2fi?*"^™SLSr ^rtha Middle Colonies and their belief in brotherhood and non-violence. How did New England merchants in their patterns of trade contrib ute to Eastland Calls FDPW Communist 'Stooge'''^ WASHINGTON (AP)-A Mis Also present at the party con sissippi Congressman has brand vention in Jackson, Miss., «was ed the conlroversial Mississippi Benjamin Smith, a New Or Freedom Democratic Party as leans attorney. He said Smith an example of the Communists' is a director of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, strategy of creating "stooge which he said has been cited as political parties behind which ' subversive by the Senate Inter- - they operate." ! nal Security subcommittee. Sen. James 0. Eastland, D- i The FDP announced two Miss., lashed out at the predom- Ij weeks ago it planned to run can- inantly Negro group in a speech !I dida-tes for congressional posts < Wednesday. He said the FDP jI this year in Mississippi. The^ did not tell the press of two !J party said the candidates would men who at'ended a statewide seek election within the frame-1- party convention Jan. 2. work of the Democratic Party- Eastland said one of these j and not as an independent or' men had worked behind the splinter group. scenes, in shaping the so-cai'.ed Eastland also said that in party's policies and directing its January, 19S2, Smith registered activities. with the Justice Department as He listed one of the men as representing the Communist | Carl Braden. Eastland said Bra- c government of Cuba and that j.den has "a long record of nb- Smith is listed as a member | vcrsive activities" and has been of the executive committee of / identified in court proceedings the National Lawyers Guild, J,and in congressional testimony. which the House Committee ort l£as a Communist. Un-American Activities has cit ed as "a legal bulwark of the Communist Party." The Mississippi Democrat, charged that the FDP executive chairman Lawrence Guyot did not tell the press tha: an invi tation had been extended to -< as Herbert Aphtheker, "a notori oo in ous Communist." Eastland said "this is the same APtheker who recently violated State Department se curity regulations by making a trip to Communist controlled 0, c, Hanoit as part of a conspiracy *M 1 to discredit' United States policy TJ with respect to Viet Nam." Tne FDP was formed in 1S53 9) and caused a major stir of the c National Democratic Party con u. o . -rt *> <-> y vention in demanding it be recognized instead of the regu ** ee lar Mississippi Democrats on o grounds 'the FDP represented O o Negroes and the regular party *> -I « didn't. -I O -w All but four of the regular Mississippi Democrats walked out the convention, refusing to >n take a Royalty oath. .11,fl<1 . afl&XaavkJ' ' By MARY ANN PARDLE i crs Party, the Progressive Par- litically under the Communist WASH1NGTON - Sen. James &. &* American Labor Party, label; so they have made it part 0. Eastland Wednesday brand-1 l«") the Peoples Party, o£ their political strategy to set ed the Mississippi Freedom! He said because the Commu- up stooge political parties be Democratic Party the last in a; nist Parly, U. S. A., "finds it- hind which they operate." series of "stooge political par i self held in deserved contempt CAN BE BRAZEN ties" set up by the Communist i by the great mass of the Amer- Eastland emphasized, howev Party and its supporters to veil j ican people," the party and its er, that "when it suits the par their operations. ; supporters "have found them- ty's purposes to move openly, Eastiand said others in the se-; selves in political bankruptcy no group is more brazen, or rie3 "have included the Work-1 when they tried to operate po- gives more outward evidence of can t,• ^ cuvugi'"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^l mi oi"ma t nun IDOUI self-assurance and confidence.". ie top, and vies vsrsa, In a speech on the Senate floor, Eastland declared that the "so - called Freedom Demo cratic Party is neither free nor aw is outlined a program for the crea democratic," i disi«miiiation of information In thai He referred to a slate - wide rta and oclonces which are relevant t convention held by the FDP in the Masonic Temple in Jack I Movfcment. It in an sducotlonsl pro!son , Sunday, Jan. 2, following i unusual one in that the "curriculum which he said a statement was id in largo pari created by the studo, issued to the press "about plans of this so-called 'party' j teachors. It i ;i actually a communi!to enter candidates for congress /hich transmits useful information in ional peals in the elections to be an increasing number of Mlaalssippia: held this summer." that knowledge, efficiently shared, < (This year the MFDP made an unsuccessful attempt to un ;ho basic tools of the Movement Tor o: seat the five Mississippi mem Ing, and acting with all the poople o: bers of the House of Represent atives.) CONCEALED "Spokesmen for the co-called 'Freedom Democratic Party' S THEREFORE PROPOSED: carefully secreted from the press any mention of two men who attended the state THAT CITIZENSHIP WORKSHOPS BE ESTABLI wide convention and participat MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITIES WHICH WOULD I ed in the discussions, and who, Continued On Page 16 A MOVEMENT UY PERFORMING- THE FOLLOWING r \jn\y i Amur a ' Continued From Page 1A at greater length, the Cbmmu- behind the scenes, have wielded I nist ties of the so - called 'Mis great power in shaping the so-J sissippi Freedom Democratic called 'Freedom Party's' poli-; Party.' " cics and directing its activi-' Eastland said Carl Braden ties," the Mississippi senator once served as "field represent asserted. ative" for the Southern Con He identified these two men ference Educational Fund, and at a March 1960 meeting of the as "Cari Braden, who has a 1 Ions record of subversive ac fund in Orlando, Fla., "Braden tivities," and Benjamin Smith, distributed Communist litera-' a New Orleans lawyer, and a ture and was among those membe,,„,r o,„f the board of direc„_- openly urging clemency for tors of the Southern Conference j Motrol Sove, a convicted Com-' Education Fund." I mumst spy." He said the Southern Confer-1 "Braden served a federal ence Education Fund, Inc., has! prison sentence for contempt of been "cited as subversive" by j Congress," the senator added, the Senate Internal Security sub-1 "He was released in Febru- committee, of which Eastland is; ary 1062." chairman. IDENTIFIED AS REDS The Senator further charged I The senator also stated that that Lawrence Guyot, chairman | "in 1954, in Jefferson County, of the FDP, held a press con- Kentucky. Court proceedings, fcrence following the Jan. 2] Carl Braden and his wife, Ann meeting, and not only did not j Braden, were identified by ar divulge the presence of Braden j former Communist as active and Smith at the meeting, but: members of the Communist omitted to reveal "that the j Party in Louisville, Ky." convention accepted a sugges-i "When questioned by the- tion from Guyot that an invita- j House Committee on Un-Amer-i, tion to speak at the so-called, ican Activities on July 30, 1958, 'Freedom Democratic Party' j as to whether he is a member I be extended to Herbert Apthek- i of the Communist Party, Carl er, a notorious Communist." i Braden refused to answer," "This is the same Apetheker: Eastland declared. f who recently violated State De- j Eastland said according to a • partment security regulations | New York Times article of July by making a trip to Communist-1 31, 1965, the MFDP "urged its I controlled Hanoi as part of a! followers not to honor the draft' conspiracy to discredit U. S. in Mississippi." policy with respect to Viet "This is the 'line' followed Nam," Eastls-nd asserted. by various so - called 'pacifist' EDITS' RED ORGAN organizations which are either Eastiand said that Apthekcr, Communist - infiltrated or Com for some time, "has been the munist - controlled," he de editor of 'Political Affairs,' the clared. oretical organ of the Commu The senator also said the nist Party, USA," and that (Communist) 'Worker' of May his daughter, Bettina Aptheker, 12, 1965, featured the "activities'" "recently made' a public state-: of the MFDP and "has continu- ment that — she is, and has ed to give that group and its been, a member of the Com activities frequent and favor munist Party." able public mention." In con The senator said Benjamin '3. cluding, Eastland assured the Smith appeared before the in Senate he would "have more to' ternal security subcommittee say later about the so - called | April 6, 1956, -'and under oath 'Freedom Party' and its activi- i denied Communist Party mem ties." bership;" but on Jan. 22, 1952, Smith "registered with the U. ' ACTIONS: S. Department of Justice as representing the Com people could munist government of Cuba." 1C r lo Eastland further said "Hunt \n°t, f * v«nt er Pitts O'Dell, a Communist; '"•*•" organizer, identified Benjamin i'*-1 the resourc* E. Smith as 'our attorney' " in!' (coo l B.) testifying before the Interi.nl; ' Security subcomittee in 1954, j and that "the (Communist) i 'Worker' of Dec. 8, 1965, identi- fied Benjamin E. Smith as j 'legal counsel for the Mississip- j pi Freedom Party.' " "I have heretofore discussed the record of this man Benja min Smith in more detail on the floor of the Senate," Eastland reminded his colleagues, "just (,, as I have previously discussed, | \Create Stooge Parties— ;;:.'•:;:._ • //:._.:,, WASHINGTON (AP)-A Mis-] chairman Lawrence Guyot did sissippi Congressman has brand-j not. tell the press that an invi- cd the controversial Mississippi! tation had been extended to Freedom Democratic Party as'Herbert Aphthekcr, "a notori- an example of the Communists' ous Communist.' strategy of creating "stooge Eastland said 'this is the political parties behind which same Apthcker who recently they operate." violated State Department se Sen. James 0. Eastland, D- curity regulations by making a Miss., lashed out at the predom-! trip to Communist controlled inantly Negro group in a speech i Hanoi as part of a conspiracy Wednesday. He said the FDP j to discredit United States policy did not tell the press of two;with respect to Viet Nam." men who attended a statewide! .—a*— party convention Jan. 2. la Til f Eastland said one of thesel 13VfPPC IA H _men had worked behind the!JtifVOJ SU II ""scenes in shaping the so-called % » , Siesolicies and directing its!U5nciressfiian At :« He listed one of the men as-|» « T 'I Carl Braden. Eastland said Bra! lianflUGl IOIHCM J a. I j t u |a/UllUUvl Ivllliiti , r den has a long record of sub-j Member1 s of the :.-•—•. w • nr < n 1 >. . Kl in *.*•:-•-* t -• Sr-.-x r.ry G: Stati ;• f 5 5 artpe; r. B had cte.:-" n . d.r'..;e; cte d *upp in format: r. on \ nter rt5i.n1 j unoer * fee tenr « of n F cue: -i. Is v of ] 5"• " that sets f rul »j J >T rha! ienging the o. ection c Rr? esentat ves. y he he; was r eli wit ioa»t a •mdge or i eferee. Time p.: er lime. Mr. Ladner, :r. reply to Mr. Kunstler's ques- llonj about Negro registration, said, *'i decline to answer on the advice cf my attorney," Mr. Patterson was serving as his attorney. -%. Early in the hearing, about SO your.? Negroes riled silently ir.to the room to watch the pro ceedings. Former Gov J. p. Cole man, who is counsel for four ot the five Representatives un der challenge, rose and declared : that he had not known the hear- llng was to be held "for the enj Itertainmant of a local audit; ! ence." I i "So I'm going to take it upon} myself to lock the door." he .said. "Those people have no in\ fttreat in this." , "Just a moment. .Mr. Cole- ;man," Mr. Stavis said. "This is; a group of 20 to 25 people.' vitally interested in the pro-^ iceedtngs, and they are quietly standing and listenir.z. ^* | "As long- as these proceedings remain orderly, we will insist that the doors remain open. We will not toleiate the exclusion of any citizen of Mississippi." ! Mr." Coleman and Mr. Patter son said that most of the Ne- srroes were not even old enough to vote, hut in the end they did not press their point. "Let's move on." Mr. Coleman said as he sat down. At issue is the legality of the Matins ot Representatives Thomas G. Aoemethv, Jamie L. Whitten. John Bell YVii'.iams and William M. Colmer. Democrats. ;'.nd Prentiss Walker. Republi can. Mr, Williams v.-as at the hearing today. The Freedom party, made up of Xegroes and white Integra- Uonists. has charged that the five were Illegally elected in bal loting that unconstitutionally excluded Xegroea. Three Mis sissippi women—Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. Mrs. Annie Devine! ami Mrs. Victoria Gray — ran: last summer in mock elections. iov three of the scats. I Last Jan. 4. when Congress convened, the House v.-as asked' to refuse to scat the white men and to seat the women instead.; but the men wore seated by a vote of 276 to 148. j Now the Freedom party is pressing Its challenge under the terms 'of the 1S"1 law. The) party's lawyers Will collect dep-i ositions from Mississippi Ne-j grots, as well as state officials, •for a 40-day period ending Feb. 12 Then the Representatives have 10 days to collect testimony of their own. Final briefs and other matters will consume additional time, and it will be about July 1 before the \nattcr is sent to the House Subcommittee on Elections and ; Privileges. 73 \ .:; • J -.;• v.,-- ..';.i :.:>"'tJi. jm fai vJ..Jr.i ki J ., ,.,,. fbt - I Ctir-e g fttood Co AJ* «« »«<• M fa) - iff •jti^Jiiii'VJ t.': *W- 6/ r.-'i ' .77, 1 ^.- _j u Similar Sessions Scheduled For Other Parts Of State By BILLY RAINEY Commonwealth Editor /, An attorney representing the so-calied Freedom Democratic Party (FDP) was in Greenwood today questioning- Holmes County Negroes about their at- npt« to register to vote in that county. fhe questioning session was apparently one of a f-eries scheduled throughout the state in which the & 1—«— ^ FDP is gathering information to be used in its ef forts to unseat five Mississippi congressmen. Froadom Party - (Continued From Patte 1) Members of the Leflore County Bar Association Foimer governor J. P. Cole \ were taking turns sitting in on the local questionin»}»g man, representing four Missis session today. r sippi congressmen, objected to The attorney conducting the, "" " all questions about Citizens' hearing here was questioning Council membership by state only Holmes County Negroes! and congressional members on today. It was not known how grounds it bad no bearing on long the session here will con the hearing. tinue or if I.eflore County resi FDP lawyer William Kunstler dents fitly be called to answer maintained the council advo questions' It was understood cated speakers and members that no Leflore Countians have interested in boktiBf down the thus far been subpoenaed for registration of Negro voters. the heariug. I Patterson compared southern The predominately Ne 6 r o orfiei?:s' membership in the FDP maintains that the con | council with northern official' gressmen won scats under laws membership in the NAACP, the which systematically deny Ne- Congress of Racial Equality and •"•oes the right to vote and other pro-integration organiza . ior office. A staff of volun- tions. tccr attorneys from other states Tne FDP co-'.er.ds tie „ have until Feb. 13 to compile sissippi congressmen have been their information and present elected under a system which it to Congress. discriminates against the Ne. Ha.A"- " " two gro. Testimony gained at. the t •ith hearings will be turned over to the BOOM Committee on Admin i istration with the lower body to uoiAil %0•Sc have the final say on who holds 3 the Mississippi seats. Uty The hearings have periodical 1 *ho«- ly run aground over jriumcnts •S on procedure since there is often »; 9i|AJ>V %0S e, disagreement on what is admis »r sible ar,-l what is relevant. <• 1 t>. Leonaid Caves, Jones Coun y circuit clerk and voter rej, ;- trar, said he would ignore 23 M noA 8>iJd » .' FDP subpoena to testify Feb. i 1 o| 8inS 5,iB<4« , '- e at a Negro church. i e si i'^i Caves said Saturday r.e would '" e .{uedtuoo appear only if the FD? deposi tion were held tt the eourtBoan pusdop ' ! cr the federal buUdlnr. « JO / / I» ' > / •v.. • ' •-- the tasr) Uro terms M Wfr islature. He refused to answer DEPOSITIONS many of the-questions. iut the state. ,-here violence Continued From Page 1 Campbell testified he is a -We see so many pieces of member of the Citizens' Coun legislation," he said, "it is dif make all ten rontrts of what they saw at cil but that he docs not always ficult to recall details." He the flrive. nforcement 1 subscribe to council policies. was advised which questions r KDI ailuiuuys requested "Occasionally I agree with not to answer by Atty. Gen. p the day Johnston make reports avail ihcm," he said. "Other times Patterson. red . able but State Ally. Gen. Joe I do not . . . I think for my The taking of depositions will Patterson objected and advised self." continue across Mississippi for be instructed Johnston to produce no reports. Most of the questions asked the next two weekst. When the 3 = TO PRODUCE REPORTS Camphell pertained to legisla depositions are completeipletedd , theyLnt s where Shortly before noon, however, tion enacted or defeated dtn- will be presented to ConCongressg . I* power of Patterson reversed his advice 1VUJ.VCU. Mat* a&ciaui-i and told Johnston to produce „. . should investigate imme- "onlv those reports dealing with'en more important, they the voter registration drives." ;n SO requested Johnston stressed throughout his testimony the,commission ,t Johnson confer immediately with COPO had "no authority over voter-esiaenx; juruiovu »* > -*-***** ttA qpveral times in registrars and no influence withrhis meeting has been requested several oiii. them." He said his men ob-rf0 months, Ththouge presidenh they tpredicte declinedd thato t i, violenc- - -•- -e served drives in Marshall, , . . ral Holmes, Leflore. Madison, Pike.sentaTJlves, if Federal aid were not Sunflower and Forrest counties.r early in the summer The director was also ques-p. 3 disbursemenlioned aboutt othf e fundcommission's's to the * Citizens Council. He acknowi- Americans this £ DRIVES OBSERVED , edged that the councils riadface value the si been receiving funds but said- . , ... .,,NV.<. does l the last funds were disbursed in GOV^rnmenT, withi) December of 1964. -he country $10,000 FOR COMMITTEE will fall on tho Dzzzx:':, Johnston testified that $10,000 v can use the in was once given to a Committee " T. . ure th of Fundamental American Free-isnti to en doms—an organization formed iin the coming nc to lobbv in Congress against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Continuing The committee was retired, he said, after the controversial By WILLIAM L. CHAZE i Johnston made the statement act was passed. Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer in jotiponj.e to q'jcsliui.s asked After a noon recess, Andrew The director of the State Sov-Jby Freedom Democrat Party Hojjlflns, a etfmmissjon_investi- gaToTT'te'sWIcd about his" nhsr-r- ereignty Commission testified i attorneys. The atloniSY? ration ot voter r°fiictr'»>i'"' Monday the commission's soe- --mmissios trives. cial field investigators "observ nts itT" Hopkins sajfj he nci-asinnajly ed" voter registration drives. bhnston iestified the spnfrau-ith KH' °gp"'" fllirX"ET way h5 had ot learning ol vfit- hi^Ttfliyrvatinnc: hl" ""' '".I""'- Krle Johnston Jr. testifies for mere than three-hours at a •m ii'i'i.'.ii.niiiii [trJiB — bf el- examined voter registration deposition hearing called by the TOilS nor WjjS. j\? peroiiipg thg outlawed Mississippi Freedom - sairj he. had never rereiv- ' UMuaj^acj nl nuiMli'i llljj ^ Democratic Party; The party cxTTvord" of impending drives "^^REPORTING FACTS is attempting to compile testi intra—ruuiifT registrars. "I He said his role was to "re mony aimed at unseating five would send an investigator out," port the facts as I saw them." members of Mississippi's con "Johnston said, -after readiltg On several occasions, he said, gressional delegation. abiml a dl'Kc." he saw Negroes refuse to take Johnston said the inveslisra- Wlimevm there is a well the voter registration test be tongTOgfflB "in tgj "same advertised drive and wc TTave a cause -'they could neither read ^T-T^p-e in. ;„nd liim nor write." capacity as a newspaper re- j rrrarr Hopkins said he never ob pjirt.er." i '^"JlL/'l nhsp.-vpr served any voter discrimina "They were present to see I Jonnston testified tion while observing the what was trappeiiirrgT rjotms- i three~1flVestigato;-s made Wr drives. ton said. "iNolhin; ilser"- I Continued On Page 10; He testified he has investi gated several church burnings; in the state but that the probes i were "not detailed." ! Hopkins said none of the L PAGE TWO e, GREENWOOD COJvJMC TO tafecV: Y' 7;--' ''j-1: j ,,-i^ ';<", ,,|^ ... ; .-.., ^ , , ;. i'7 " "' ••"•, •:-••> .)/..-i • >J u M • '.in By JOHN HALL things that i'.'.e closed society of Hams, D-Miss., openly declared Associated Press Writer Mississippi has kept from dis-i for Goldwater. JACKSON, Miss. (API—Loyal cussion. When we discuss them No elected officials were in ist Democrats—while and Negro we win begin to solve out prob vited, and National Democratic —have launched a new political lems.'' Committeeman E. K .Coliins of organization to support Presi Charles Even, state NAACP Laurel, a state senator, and dent Johnson and find a middle secretary, seconded Oswald's Committeewoman Burnett Y. ground in Mississippi's race- nomination. Evers attended Hennington of Jackson, a real shredded polities. along with state NAACP Presi estate dealer, did not attend. The races sat side-by-side Sun- dent Aaron Henry of Clarksdale. William Ready, a white attor lay afternoon in a downtown Alonzo Westbrook of Jackson ney from Meridian, was elected notel and voted to form the. His-, and Wade Lagrone of Tupelo, secretary, and Levi ChappeU, a sissippi Jt)ems£r£.tic..Coju"er-ence. Democratic presidential elec Negro owner of a cosmetics sup "About i2o persons attended tors in 1954 and both white, also ply house in Greenville, was the session, mostly whites from participated. eleeied assistant secretary. the Mississippi Labor Council, The Rev. R. L. T. Smith of AI-'D-CIO, and Negroes from Don Eiiinger of Washington, Jackson, a Negro, was elected the National Association for the a staffer of ti-e Democratic Na treasurer. Smith is a Baptist Advancement of Colored People. tional Committee, promised help minister, a supermarket owner There wee also a number of from the national parry, and, and local NAACP leader. white and Negro college stu noting the federal voting rights Prof. Flavous Hutchinson of dents, businessmen, attorneys bfla would change the complex Mississippi State University vrai and polities' figures present. ion of Mississippi politics, urged elected parliamentarian. Editor Hodding Carter III of the group to get votes at the the Delta Democrat-Times took grass roots. The grot;? approved a resolu an active part tion setting up the conference "Looking at the voting per as a temporary organiza'ion un Attendance was by Invitation centages in Mississippi in the til precinct, county and state only, and no bids went to last election, I would say we convention work can establish "rever, never" segregetiaalsis need every friend we can get," a permanent group. Or to bard-lire integration Eiiinger said. "We reco-r.ize," the resolu groups the Freedom Democrat Mississippi gave 87 per cent tion said, "a need for r. sti H ic Tarty, Student Non-Violent of its presidential vote to Re wide organisation for the pur Coordba-:-.' Committee and publican Barry Goldwater in pose of bringing together elec Council of Federated Organiza lft>i, and most Democrats failed tors interested in advancing the tions. to support the national ticket. principles and goals of the Na Charles Young, a wealthy Me Some, like Rep. John Bell Wil- tional Democratic Party.'" ridian Negro busir.esrrr.srj. and Claude Ramsay, white president of the state AFL-CIO, were co- chairmen. Whites and Negroes were elected alternately to six offices by acclamation, and whites and L Negroes took turns nominating WiU M and seconding officer*. fjL 7 Robert Oswald, a white attor- U,RDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1965. - "/W Q from Pascagou'a, was 1 chairman, and Young .vas chosen vice chairman. Barnett Defends Citizen Council I Oswald is Jackson County At a Freedom Party Deposition Jemoeratie Executive Ccmmit- tee chairman, and was presi dent of the State Young Dem-o- JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 12 has been discriminated against." crats until the organization's (UPD—Former Gov. F.oss R. He s?.id some Negroes received charter expired in 19S3. , Barnett appeared before l+W£SS~Ml&& "There may be one more ra position-taking group today hf¥ .__d done t0 holp Sefreea cist, bigoted (poUtioal) cam that is trying to unseat Mis- vote |n -Mississippi. He declared paign we have got to endure in sissippi's Congressional delcga- voting was a "privilege and rot Mississiopi," Oswald said. ,-a- tion. but he had little to say. a r;rh~t." {enia( to the 1S57 go-.civ's Mr. Barnett said he was- "If a Negro has the energy race, "but that is going to .-e "mighty proud" to be a mam* and ambition to vote, ail he has Ui5 last 0'.:e. ber of the "'{Will a*V"""^T but to cio is go before a registrar refused to "confirm or deny;and take a test like a white 'Then we can talk a bo:*, 'he charges that the council eon- man has to do.'' he said, economic issues. Those are tot spired with Mississippi leaders Mr. Barnett was asked if he in denying Negroes their voting bad considered appointing Ne- rifthts. grocs as county election com- The former Governor, who missionera when he was chiel made world headlines by re- executive. He said ro Negrc fusing to admit a Negro to the ever asked to bo appointed. •University of Mississippi, de- In politics, if they don't ask clined to answer questions :'o: it, they don't get it.1' Mr. about activities of the council Sarr.ett said. K-c said as many on grounds t.-.e questions were as 25 white persons bad su'o- "immaterial and wholly ir- milted applications for a single relevant." commission chairmanship. Mr. Barnett was Questioned Mr. Barnett said he had no by attorneys for tile Freedom personal knowledge of violence Democratic party, which is to Negroes who had attempted challenging Mississippi's five to register. He said he cad" not members of the United States come "face to face ir. any man- House of P.epresentatives. The net ' with any vtoitnet or dis part;.' conter. is the Congress- cr--.--.nation, men were illegally elected be- I've read 3 '.ot of them [re- cause of discrimination against porta) :n liberal, left-wing Negro voters. newspapers and ma-^ iz-.n-.-s. * Mr. Barr.et: said be did not Mr. Bainett ?a:-i. He refused to know of a "s:r.gte Negro who rr.rr.c the puolications- j Washington, March 19—Mis-,"We're not going lo be a push- jsissippi congressmen aren't ad- ing boy for that element ;. vcrtising it, but almost even']again." j weekend they arc flying back. Only a short time ago, Gov. j Washington Mcrry-Go-Round :homc to defend their scats inj Johnson was hand - in . glove 'Congress. [with Mississippi right-wingers. This is not because ihey arc When Mayor Thompson, of Mississipplans Worry , being challenged for reelection,!Jackson, announced that he '.but because a battery of Newiwould obey ihc 10(M Civil York lawyers has been taking) Rights Act, Gov, Johnson a-l- i depositions showing that the'visc' Miuissmpiaru not la Over Seats in Congress •congressmen were not clectcrilobcy it. But today his advice is By DREW PEARSON 'by all the people of Mississip-jdiffcrcnt. 'pi—that Negroes were cxclud-i "Law and order is going lo ed from voting. ! prov*a"iT — particularly for the I Under the law by which Mis-jnCxt six months," Gov. Joi-in- r • sissippi was readmitted lo the.son told a gathering of 300 'Union following the Civil War,;banker." and business leaders ail the people of the slate arc'sponsored by the Dconsit ~~"~^""> ~ „ .. « PHILADELPHIA guaranteed the righl lo vote j Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. CLaieJaicmtiBBulletm Friday, Mereh wn»M and Mississippi Negroes are'of Jackson last month. no" "w ' claiming tha'' t the la' w is; Reported W. .F. Minor, Jack- not enforced, son correspondent for the New Alabama, incidentally, gavel Orleans Times-Picayune •similar guarantees when it was! "There are indications that restored to statehood. i Mississippi unofficially sec, At first, ihe challenge to the thai weakness of its position in r seating of Mississippi con-jthe denial of the vote to Ne.: l" o ft, Lhf* r-M aw! 0* : gressmen was not taker, scr-lgroes in lhe p.ist, and the slate iously. But it is today. Missis- i( quicily going to set about r*l ~ •«*•« ' sippi corrgrpssincn are so wor-'doing something to change It. ricd thai they have set up! "Compared with every other headquarters in Room 10C3 of j.Southern state, Mississippi has the King Edward Hotel innust a fraction of the Ncaro i* ft•<*,dom JLfetoBVtOi\ic i ar |y • Jackson, under Charlie Grif-| population now registered. The fin, Washington administrative)latest unofficial estimates P.— | / —a* - ' .—, , i assistant to Rep. John Belli place the figure at around 20.- Williams. They have also hired 000 out of 600,000 total regis- cc^ (Z R.r»«h St , President Johnson's old friend,} tered voters in the state." :ex-Gov. Jim Coleman, as legai: _, counsel. I Pressure Grows I Williams, although recently; since i4s c„ngreiwn,n voted .refused all Democratic senior-,asainst seating llie Missi;>sippi ity privileges, has been f.yingi conmen las, .,anuarv, bac* and forth to Jackson to cvents in M*0rim3 havc £. help both himself and his three; llamed Northern puh.ic up. other '..., ::,,..-r..t.c Colleagues; jnion and brouo.u pressure .,n keep their seats. I every member of Congress. Among the Congressmen Savior Sought who have been pressured after Coleman, now retained by voting to seat the Mississippi ' the congressmen, was slapped delegation are: James Fulton down by Mississippi voters (R-Pa) and William Moorhead when he tried to run for gov (D-Pa), both representing heav ernor because he was consid ily Negro districts in Pittsburg':-; ered a moderate. Manny Celler, Brooklyn Dr.nio- However, Coleman is nowjcrat who claims to tie a .treat. considered a- possible savior: civil rights advocate: Cecil Kin^. because he once served as an!ij0s Angeles Democrat, another administrative assistant inlcivil rights champion: Jed John- Congress when the President; 5l-,n (D-Okla); Dante FfttceH, ID- was a young congressman, and; Ha), who deserted other Halo- knows him well. .Americans on this \ v.t.\ Today the challenge to Mis-)George Fallon, Baltimore Dc-ni- l sissippi's congressmen is caus-: ocrat who represents a .-. v 'ing such worry that Gov. Pauljwith a big Negro populatir.i-,; Johnson has called off a spe- jim Dclaney (D-NY), a gicat , cial session of the state leg-is friend of Cardinal SptUmau, lature originally planned for who has just contributed Sld.- the purpose of denouncing the 000 to the family of Rev, new Civil Rights Act. James Rceb, the white Massa i "One reason," reported the chusetts cleric slain by racists Tupelo Journal, "was to avoid in Selma last week. : providing a forum which Among other Democrats might produce inflammatory who voted with the Mississip- statements or resolutions pians were -Wayne Aspinall, of 'which might prejudice the con Colorado; Edward Dcrwinski, gressmen's defense/' of Chicago; Spark Matsunaga, When Gov. Johnson returned of Hawaii, who claims to be a from the inauguration of Prcsi-J great civil rights champion; dent Johnson last January, he, Walter Moeller, of Ohio, who immediately warned- Mississip- once wept and wrung lus pi leaders that the challenge to hands over the opposition of their congressmen was serious.: the medical lobby; Claude Pcp- _ , c .. i per. of Miami, the one-time " Governor S iW/fCrt New Dcal ser,ator and hauler Ever since then, Mr. John-jfor civil rights: John Xiuiney, son has endeavored to change;of California, son of former the state's image. He has come! heavyweight boxing champ. out emphatically for law andjGcne Tunncy; Ben Rene!. order, has even criticized thc|of South Dakota, the omy Southern Review, a right-wing! American Indian in Congress; publication, for calling him a|Rolland Rcdlin, of North Da- i "first-class integrationist." |kota. elected by northwest lib. "This element is the typclerals who got very sore that I that would turn on their own he voted with Mississippi. \ people," Gov. Johnson said, (c 1965) . tg I- WASHING i ON MERRY-GO ROUND v ' ' "W.iT I "5 %. lSii of Mississippi \ i- jWilliamsj of Mississippi f 1 To Keep Democratic Label pjjCongressmen Worried VYASHlXOTOJTiian.* ari - Representative John Bell WB U&ms of Mississippi said Wednevday that he would keep t Ihe Democratic label despite his less of pa; ty seniority. 1 •? Washington. Mr. Williams said ho wa seniority privileges, has b-_-cn has endeavored to change the MISSISSIPPI Congre s ? m •' n elected as a "Mississippi D<-mo- flying back and forth to Jack state's bwtga, crat" ano. would retain the des aren't edvertlsing it, h:;t son to help both himself and almost every weekend they ignation in Congress, although his three other Democratic co!- Only a short time ago, Gov. are flying back to .Mississippi the state party Is at odds with leagues keep their scats. Johnson was hand - in - glove to defend their seats in Con with Mississippi right-wing the national Democratic organi gress, Ex-Gov. Coleman, now zation. retained by the Congressmen,! ers. When Mayor Thon i n This is not because they rre He announced his intention in was slapped down by Missis-I of Jackson announced pubiic- rejfcUnrr an invitation from heir.; challctiyfci for reelec lv that he would obev the new tion, but because a battery of sinpi voters when he tried to\ iRcprest ntative Prentiss Walker, Civil Bights Law, Gov. John New York lawyers has been run for governor because he/ [Republican of Mississippi, to': talcing depositions gbowing was considered a moderate. son publicly advised Missis- join his party. I that Congressmen were not si] pians not to obey it. \ Mr. Walker praised Mr. WB- elcclcd by all the people of U'as.'it'iigio.'i :,lcrry-Go-Rr,HP.d | Ularr.s and Representative Albert ADVISED Mississippi—that Negroes were appears regtttcrly in the daily "Law and order is going lo Watson ot South Carolina, who Atlanta Journal. excluded from voting. prevail—particularly for the were placed at the bottom of Under the law with which the Democratic seniority list next six months," Johnson Mississippi was readmitted to Today, however, J. P. is con-/ told a gathering of five hun for supporting Barry QoMhva the Union, all the people of the sidered a possible savior be-! 'or President. dred bankers and business slate are guaranteed the right cause he once served as an ;-c!-' leaden sponsored by the De to vote and Mississippi Ne rniri'itrative assistant in Con-j posit Guaranty Bank and Trust groes r.re now claiming the grcss wncn Lyndon Johnson: Company of Jackson last ft-*- ';• law is not enforced. was a young Congressman, j month.—(clf'55.) of Mississippi and knows the President weuy rvmocDcratir c La Alabama, incidentally, gave Today the challenge to Mis similar guarantees when t'r.n sissippi's Congressmen is caus was readmitted into the Union. a1^.1j1j,|||^^^^.Jan.'6 (UPI)j 1 ing such worry that Gov. Paul CULTURAL MATURIT native John Bell Wil-j .MODERATE Johnson has ca.'led off a spe •A Mississippi said today At first the challenge to lite cial session of the s'ate leg h : ne would keep the Demo- seating of Mississippi Con islature orginaiiy planned to i P V • c: ic label despite his loss of gressmen was not taken ser denounce the new Civil Rights * Sad 5' party seniority. I iously. But it is today. Act. '- Mr. Williams said he was Mississippi Congressmen Ere. "One reason," reported the , .'elected as a "Mississippi De.T.o- so worried that they have set Tupelo Journal, '-was to avoid Is? ^f f\^fhr] . i crat" and would retain the Acs* up headquarters in room 1003 providing a forum which might a a*i tw'lVjj \*-*,i I; ! icnation in Congress, although of the King Edward Hotel in produce inflarr.r-iatory State ; ttie state pa»-ty is at odds with Jack-ton. under Charlie G.-i:'- ments cr resolutions which ' the national Democratic organi fin, Washington administra might prejudice the Congress THE PERFORMING arts zation. tive assistant to Ken. John Beii men's defense." He announced his intention in are in trouble. Bad trou Williams. When Gov. Johnsofl returned - rejecting an invitation from ble. So says the long-awaited They have also hired Lyn from the inauguration of Pres study of the Rockefeller • Representative Prentiss Walker. don Johnson's old friend, cx- ident Johnson last January, be Bro-hers Fund on "The Per ; Republican of Mississippi, to Gov. J. P, Coleman, as legal immediately warned Missis forming Arts: Problems and < join hi- party. counsel. sippi loaders that the challenge Prospects" (McCraw - H.il, Mr. Walker praised Mr. WB- Rep. Williams, though re .- liams and Representative Albert to their Congressmen was se cloth. M.0'».) ') Wilson of South Carolina, who cently refused ah Democratic rious. Ever since then. Johnson Public financial support of 1 were placed at the bottom of ' the Democratic seniority list for supporting Barry Goldwater n for President. i 1 .Mississippi Representatives Negro Leaders, i '.Act to Fight Ouster Moves tCi|e U^. Judge \ -' c, -f - • > '-l-t'""'-' V-Uc; Wpp. -L--3 WAStaNCTby. Deo. 0iCha^ge^^Ppl, (UPD—Mississippi representa For"Tr.ipe'Gcrirncnt| tives agreed today to challenge) 1*1 1 the right of several Negroes to ATLANTA. ^*yuitU Jackson. Vti=i aAPI—UWH contest their election?. Tne Rev. Dr. -*}rK,rs to Con- rer.ee Guyot. executive chair-i Tr.ey held a. three-hour meet King Jr. has sent-e^ w sup-; man of the Freedom Derr.ccra-I ing with tlieir attorneys, form tic party, say.-, summer plansl er Gov. J. P. Coleman ar.d B. B. tort McLendon Jr.. to plan 'or op in Mississippi include a movel posing an effort to oust, them %&* «*£%&* thCi, to impeach ?. fe-deral Judje. from their House seats. *i %%JS£ 'leadership:! -Ouyot said the predominantly: S0U^L.C'a^Vif.-.e Congress-:, The effort. orga.-iir.cd by the; Conference, w" -./lirrtess res-,, Kefro party—not legally rtcog-i] Mississippi Freedom Democrat-j •nen to support » -:--.vo,lld -oe: Bind by Mississippi as a politi ic party, was begun With peti-1 >lUtion" that ne --';.. ,„. . tions to the House by a num cal organiiatioii—plana to "invi ber of Negro voters who called' '""^^-"resbv^present-,! p;-ach U.S. Dtst, Judge Har-|' the elections void because of c'.d Cox bica-.se of decisions voter disci Imination. Tr.ev are sometimes unfavorable to tne' exoccted .. _ ion' With evil rights cause." BW davs ^^^rcor^e^Wl the House within a five MlasUi^jCongre , He said the ?roup would also| -- be dis- 1 11 asking that the pet;, ste? iv-*,., ; - JT« offered: attempt to gals federal help to. missed on the frour ::-.at the cides on ^•..'"r^mDemO-ll ; 55 back an a.'e:=: cn that Negroes Negroes were not t .fates in ^ ^''a--;donunantiy: the elections and the - re have JTe c:-cr:::ti-.'.:-:d a:a:-.=-.- when no right to contest ^^5^-i'saidtr.attV.efive; leeklng hospital faciUtle^i. i The represent •IS are . Gdyot said other major oh-; '• ^".tn a-—.'a not =0 I Thomas G. Abernei •. '.Villiam 'ectives T.;r^ to unseat five:! M. Colmer. Jar..; • 'hitten Conf«s»rMn «oi-o ... . , e e jlississippi consressmea anii and John Bell lasts, aU seated Mcausc ; -, , : Democrats, and - . .-:an. denied OM rifM -- -JL- run FDP caruiiaatcs in r.tu:.:c -1 Watpptl eiect^ 1 pot elections. He taid the FDP.i had about : J Jtudenta avail- ( ;' '-- to -•• :•<. In th ! '. .:.' t I promts. ! Sapi/rt^ ^c^' £1 IClose s Shoj ^oves Into Washrngfon . ^ | JACKSON, Miss. (API— The state laws wrflcl mr discriminate• I Mississippi Freedom Democrat- agaiijst~"rv£gro« as tsuilkiaiti iic party (FDPi has closed shop and voters, temporarily to shift emphasis to Congress v.iil deciue who wi" | Washington ia its bid to unseat hold the live seals. Each side five state congressmen, had 40 days '.:> gather Informa- ,. , , , ,.,.j lion to back their claim to the f, Vomnteer lawyers completed uaj... three more days of deposition J1*41-- hearings over the weekend. At- i torneys for the congressmen/] I said the new hearings were un/ authorised and they would ig ' norc them. ' ' The FDP said it had JJiejighi to Stage the rebuttal depositions aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafl regal-illess of what the congress men did in connection with the' challenge. The congressmen's lawyers said they would file written ar guments rather than hold hear ings. Che PT>jUl.J, mostly .Negro "~~~"rTiTliac«.''a by ;'•-.? ma-- ,. . -.[.. lights organizations. |:Mississippi gives Hie FDP no Cnited Fran Ir.-.arna-.lonAl i legal recognition. Three Freedom Party candidates who will seek Congress j The FDP contends the . seats in an attempt to oust Mississippi's fire regular Cou- (congressmen won election under gressmen pose in front of the Capitol. Frem left are Annie\ II Deviue, Fannie Lou Hamer^aad Victoria Grey. \ Goal Is Misunderstooc•i i Say Misso Challengers By Susanna McRee ^~ Wutatawtan rtu entt Wrtur ' — jLa-j \, rjie. Leu Kamer is ascatin™ question," he said. short, riund Negro womanl"T* vote for the sealing of ' ;>7egro Leaders from Mississippi who hopes,"*"* 'iv/ »•* js t0 conc'"t i „ '' , , ' . . the murder and terrorism liat _Clre U.S. Judys | todky toteU Congressttshould h.ve ^^^^ in Mississippi' For Jmpecclimend do'-something about "my borne] State, the land o: the tret am: .' - > -- -»^-.,,W->_^;*A'-A* ^1 Jacfcscn. Hiss. •. - • • -. ' ,:. I Washington Post, April 22, 1965 Inside Report... Ity Roirland Evans and Robert Novak Civil Rights and Viet-Nam AT THE PEW Stale Uni This was apparent to any For others in the civil versity branch in Ogonlz, Pa., one who examined last rights movement, the con outside Philadelphia, a stu Saturday's "March on Wash nection between the rights dent antiwar rallv this ington" protesting the U.S. and peace movements is far month featured an English- presence in Viet-Nam. Acti more emotional. It is tied, language propaganda film vists in the Student Non in fact, to racist and revolu on the Viet-Nam war actual violent Coordinating Com tionary tendencies inside ly prepared by the Commu mittee were bused up from the civil rights movement. nist Viet Cans guerrillas. the South. A principal speak Swallowing C o m m u nist What makes this worth er was Robert Parris. field propaganda wnole, many" noting was not the Commu secretary*from SNuc in last civil rights radicals regard nist film (which has been Evans summers Mississippi project Viet-Nam as a classical"- bouncing around the college (WHO, wun curious logic, a"""- case of white imperialism circuit) but the rallv's spon- members did not get ap clafca: "it' you help the against a colored oeoDlo~ sorshiu. The snonsor was no proval for their anti-war identical with the situation Communist front or peace Miss.issippi Freedom Party rally from the parent CORE V/MTII he- liplninif Viel.Vam"! In Mississippi and Alabama. agitation group. The sponsor chapter in Philadelphia. was a campus unit of CORE, Some of this Is a matter Beyond this, the James James Farmer, national di if pro-Communists and gen- Formans frankly not only a militant civil rights organi rector of CORE, did not zation that does not officially dne pacifists (who arc in view segregation as a rotten know of Ihe meeting until terested mainly in getting institution in American so concern itself with foreign we telephoned to ask about affairs. Uncle Sam out of VieuNam) ciety, but sec American socie it. Farmer told us he dis trying to enlarge their fol ty itself as rotten. The in A CORE unit crusading approved of showing Vict: evitable extension of this rev against U.S. intervention in Cong films and that CORE/ lowing by hopping on the civil rights bandwagon. olutionary doctrine is op Vict-\am might he surpris- has no official position or] position to all aspects of U.S. ng to conventional politi- Viet-Nam. Consider the current liter society — including foreign ians who regard the Negro Nevertheless, the incident ature of the far left. The policy. evolution and the Viet at Ogontz was by no meaAs May-June issue of Young Compare this with the at 'ong as wholly separate, isolated. Though one of wie Socialist pays lip service to titude of white liberals in tut in recent months peace most reasonable of the civil civil rights, but it real mes- side the Americans for nd civil rights militants rights militants and a leader sage is praise for the Viet Democratic Action who want »ve approached an inter who sometimes is outpaced Cong. to bring the Negro into the action—an event with pro- by his follower^. Farmer is Yet, it would be inaccur middle class and certainly lundly disturbing impllca- personally committed /to a ate to paint the radical ele have no affinity for the ons for the civil rights pullout from Viet-Nam. So ment in the civil rights Vict Cong. When Prof. John ovement. are most other civil A-ights movement as simply dupes Roche of Brandeis Univer The Pcnn State COKE militants. of the so-called peace bloc. lh gv sity (immediate past Presi The truth '" nl '"''~ dent of ADA) declares that "whether we like the idea and other militants have or not, the Red Chinese long wanten lo bring the have been at war with us civil rights and peace move since 1950." he is in another ments closer together, world from James Forman's. nut wny.' CURE'S Farmer This is the meaning of the .a-f-jyt- Ihia iraiimnan 'ffn. intersection of the peace war against novrrty is pnrt-nf and civil rights movements. the s lauenge Erip3f(l«^ ' c am — > m It is bad ne*. -and bad tor their own prowl it 15 UclU lit'*- »-"• . . ,„\ Ltt-sjtat more than SCO Mississippi^ rnesrA g VASillN&TO^ PO« to come here today to pressure Congress into \ »»tln£ three of their own congressional can- A- dtdates in place of the five certified as Corgress- r,en-clect by the state. We say this in spite o I the fact that, we have already expressed a belief Mi«»M«PPf iat 0» certified Mississippi delegation should not be seated and In spite of the unquesa„nable freedom Parly constitutional right of the Mississippi Freedom ISefc Final Rally Par y delegates M come to the Capitol and pea- tion Conness for redress of their ;rtevaneeS I testimony !»» ™™ *£ ittt the Mississippi Freedom Party cannot have J witnesses wH oo presente things both ways. M they are rijht. as we be- ftl, when the £**£ lieve they are. in saying that the certified repre- - selves, are ui^alihed because they were - •makes its atw •» > MU. elected by no more than a UaCUO.n of t..c ..Uss* sippi electorate, they are -.ron; in clalrmng the , 5uade Conges•"£J£«^ the s 53ip 1 «eats for their own candidates wno. s arty, - t ? It Representatives. , :vcre elected fcy no more than a iracuon ot Ire House ot t-.e. -- • civil V BiectOT»c>* WE« Mississippi reus is a bom iW«t ] \olei-iibn in w'mc'a ail its adult residents ars t;^ , v\.::;: Z? ?.:•:,-.• ^- regardless of rac^ 6r eoj :-^ V I i a DP Will Attempi To Delay 1 * H » ^^^I 1* • Idatiava-aaai ,/av • Na-va-a a vr a aia* Stele MuniciDariltkfionIj vin. s ~-r- 1 * *J V''t U.l-t «-a»\ C;-iV\ 1 U*> U • «_-«-£ C (L. WASHINGTON (APi — Lead-1 the Administration vodng rights i , ers of the Mississippi Freed.>mj bill will bring increased Negro: Democratic Party, a predonvi-j rcgis:r«lion in the state. It csli-i \ aantly Negro group trying to mutes there are loO.OOO unreg-i I supplant the state's regular] i-tried Negroes of voting as* in : I Democrats, met here over the1 Mississippi. •weekend to map a new drive; The party has also challenge}: . keyed to the Johnson Admir.is-| Mississippi's delegation to the ! tration's voting rights bill. ! House of Representatives, de-l | ! manJing that winners of its' Arthur Kinoy. » Rutgers L rd-; Mock ciectio„ in wnicn !0me, vefsity law professor and one Mi60.000 Negroes "voted" be teat-1 the group's attorneys, said legal cd' in plaet o{ ,,e statc-s five steps '.could be taken to delay i House members, or that new, Mississippi's spring municipal c!cc-ior,s \lC held, elections until (all -o give Ne- j Uhen ,he HouM convened last groes time to register and qual- jamiarv, 149 ;; -1Se members ify as candidates. ibacked'the UFDP's effort to1 Elections are scheduled to**?8" tamediste vote on May tl and June 8. Kinoy laid »"he"set '?.d«°>, ' "c sc'-'.t' of.'he the" suits, to be filed in U.S. r"u'J- M1,,1*ii?^ "0:^T' district court at Oxford, Miss.,,';e »* "**! *£"** ? *! „ . : a,._- ,,,_„, .-,. house Flections and Privileges r',r n',r ^subcommittee headed bv Rep.i layed tin.-.l October. !Uobert T Ai,,n ,, D^c. • In one legal action already! Under House Rules, the tab-] filed. Fannie Lou Hcmci, 'committee must report tn -he a leader of the MFDP. is seek-; full House in June. The MI'DP ing to delay elections in Indian-' plans to file with the subcom- ola in Sunflower County. A he:r-! mittee on May : some COO depo- ing on The Hamer woman's suit! sitions and U.OM pages of testi- * class action in behalf of MOM ] mony from Mississippians back- 13,000 Negroes in the county, is! ing up its charges that the| scheduled" Thursday in federal! state's five representatives held I court at Oxford. -thcir offices Illegally because I 1 Negroes are generally denied Leaders of the Freedom Dem-I tnc vo;e : ocratic group, which failed to. «-et recognition last August at' Leaders of the MFDP think! the-Democratic National Con- they have ? rood chance toj- veo'ion are basing their plans.force a new election when the' in anticipation that passage <** House votes in June. j j . j The action ts- aimed at four I m 1 Democrats—Root. William M.' * iColmer. John Bell Williams. Ja-; j mie Whitten and Thomas Aber- . nethy — and one Seoubliean— Jcl I Reps. Prentiss Walker. -'^ I Some 330 persons at a rallyithe here Saturday -..ere tulj bylJS s-[ Annie Devine, MFDP candidate r,'for Walker's seat, that stepped- A is -«p Negro regis'ration is taking Ker. ie place in several counties be- Dirl a--cause "the white power Struc- shot ts lure" in Mississippi is fright- Sen. •n ened by the challenge. . said ! "On the surface.'- she said, lull I "Mississippi is trying to change air t J -ge to block the move to goMa c _ the deiefarJOO. Kut if raid! ' illegally elected repre-. "U 1 .ives are kept in Congress po-=i:. - —and in bcal o:'::;es—tiiere is esc. I no such thing as change." i pre si l,ila^a.i-,r«aiMaiafa i naw^aiaa-titataaw m >' "It is only when Congress unseats the Mississippians and conducts free and open elections will the forces opposed to Negroes voting understand that this Nation is serious about guaranteeing the rights of Negroes not only to register, but to participate in the political processes and to use their vote freely." JOHN LEWIS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL An Unspoken Threat Like most Tallahatchie Negroes, Gene Reed, Friday, May 7, 1965 a young farm day worker, has not been threatened by his employer. But he is fearful, nonetheless. "I'm not sure Mrs. Trout woulfl fire me for registering, but I suspect she would." he reflects. "At any rate. I'm certainly not going to register unless she encourages me to." Mrs. G. C. Trout, who with her husband Ballots and Jobs owns 830 arres of cotton fields, clearly doesn't plan to give any such encouragement. "I don't Economic Threats Seen think that Just to be 21, alive and a citizen gives people the right to vote." she says. "I -lon't think these people have yet demon Persisting as a Barrier strated the Intelligence and responsibility re- autred of a voter." To Negro Vote in Dixie "Open SeaMon" Under Mississippi law, names of applicants for registration are published In the local Rural Mississippi Mood Casts paper, assuring employers' knowledge of reg- | Istratlon activities by workers. "In theory, this Doubt on New Bill's Impact; ils to expose all applicants to challenge, say on moral character grounds," says one Fed Registrants Face Dismissal eral attorney. "In practice. It means It's open' season on any Negro who signs up, through economic retaliation or physical reprisal." Observes A. D. Beittel, a white man who A Field Hand Fears Violence is director of the Mississippi program of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quak By KENNETH G. SLOCUM er group seeking better employment opportunl- Staff Reporter of THE WALL FTBEET JOURNAL ties for Negroes: "Economic intimidation Is CHARLESTON. Miss. - Americans expect far more powerful and common in the race ing the voting law now taking shape in the Issue than Is violence. Violence Is the one you Senate to revolutionize Dixie elections over read about occasionally, but economic intiml-, night would do well to heed the words ot dation la the thing these people live with every I Roger Weston, a young Negro Held hand in day." this northwest Mississippi community. The economic dependency of Southern Ne. | "Maybe 1 could register and nothing would groea on whites Is great. Some 95% to 93% of! happen," says Mr. Weston as he stands be working Negroes in Tallahatchie County are, side his one-room shack in a sun-baked cot employed by white people, estimates Ned Rice : ton Held. "Maybe my boss wouldn't (ire me. president of the Tallahatchie County Bank!! Maybe no one would burn my house, throw "I'm hard put to think of more than a handful - me In the river or shoot through my door. that don't work for white people," he com. Maybe. But I expect they would, so I haven't ments. registered and don't Intend to." But few long-time residents doubt that The Impact ot any new voting rules enacted economic retaliation would be swift and wide- j Into law by Congress depends in Isrge part on spread if Negro registration picked up sig-. the thinking ot thousands of Southern Negroes nificantly. "There are plenty of folks around I like Mr. Weston. And thus the clear import here who will fire their Negroes for register- - ot his views, which appear to be shared by Ing." declares Rice Pritchard, who for 30 years I •liable numbers of Negroes in the Deep South, has run a cotton gin and a lumber yard em Is that a new voting rights measure won't re ploying some 25 Negroes. He says he wouldn't | sult in a sudden rush of Negro citizens to the do so himself and then adds: "My people: polls In many Dixie communiUcs. This Is like aren't registered-I don't fool with any of those i ly to be especially true in predominantly rural smart niggers. But it any of them did, I'd sure: sections, where more than half of all South call them In and ask them what they mean." j ern Negroes live. Barrier Lowered The possibility of swift action by the Fed eral court obviously holds some employers In Tallahatchie County, which surrounds -this check. "I wouldn't take action against a Negro I town of Charleston, is a particularly good who registered, but If it wasn't for the court spot tor gauging Negro attitudes toward vot Injunction, it might be a different story," de ing. Thanks to Federal court injunctions, there clares Jack De Mange, president of A. P. De I now exist no legal or procedural barriers to Mange Lumber Co., which employs some 301 Negro registration In Tallahatchie County. Negroes. "I can't say I approve of them Nor, according to local Negroes, are there voting." overt attempts to Intimidate Negroes at the registrar's office. Relatively Low Wages "No voting law the Senate could draw up Despite the immensity of the economic would be more stringent than the injunction threat to Negro registrants, the fear of! under which this county Is operating now," physical reprisal .looms even greater for some. claims George Payne Cossar, a local attorney "I'd probably lose my Job, but that's not the and a member of the Mississippi House of Rep main reason I don't register," says Frederick resentatives. "The door to Negro registration Thurmond, Jr., a Negro truck driver. "I have la wide open." a family, a wife and kids and mother and father. If I try to register, white folks around All the same, only about five Negroes per here are liable to do something to them." week are seeking to register, according to both civil rights leaders and local white lead The fear of white reprisal is by no means ers. Since residents must usually display two limited to day workers. "Frankly, were Just poll-tax receipts to vote in other than Federal plain scared to try," confesses the Rev. j elections, many of the Negroes now registering Jacob Courage Baiteast, a Negro Baplist j will not be eligible to vote In local contests minister, when asked about registration. i until 1B67. David Alford. Negro principal of the local Negro h'ijrh school, throws up his hands whcn-i asked w-.. -,-:icrs don't register. "I won't dlscuis 8," ys. "I don't want to get In volved. — ..vxK^KM-SJa. » • • • By lion-land Evans and Robert Novak Black-While Politics w.P*T5/7/0" JACKSON, Miss.—Just at -...,. aaaaafj ical sphere. For this much the moment when white blame must be placed on the moderate! here wore seeing Freedom Democratic Party new hope for racial —Mississippi arm of the Stu Mississippi politics may well dent Nonviolent Coordinat be heading for a tragic racial polarization. ing Committee, most radical of civil rights groups. The There is real danger that the Democratic Tarty here FDP is simply not Interest recognised by national Dem ed in a racially mixed party. ocrats will be predominantly • The FDP headquarters, a Negro, dominated by civil Evans rights radicals. Ever, if the Novak second floor walkup in a new voter-registration law is Negro section of Jackson, more effective than anybody Johnson has joined with the has the feel of a revolution business community in de dreams, such a black man's ary command post. Before party would be consistently manding law and order. He has all but emasculated the we were summarily ordered outpolled by a lily while out, FDP members told us Mississippi (as contrasted to State Sovereignty Commis national) Democratic Party sion, defiant citadel of seg they had no faith in voter sticking to bitter-end segre regation. registration and were con gation. Partly because of the Gov centrating on "the challenge" ernor and partly because of —a quixotic scheme to re And this, paradoxically, is the slight stirrings of real place Mississippi's five white the situation desired by most ism all over the South, fore civil rights radicals resisting Congressmen with three casts of the long, hot—and FDP Negroes. compromises of interracial bloody—Mississippi summer conciliation and by white The real culprits, of course. that stirred the air a year are not FDP radicals but supremacists trying desper ago are now absent. ately to cling to lily white Mississippi whites who for a politics. In fact, a racial po Consider McComb in south century refused to allow Ne larization of politics here Mississippi, which last sum groes into the white man's could negate the impact of mer was close to a race riot. politic*. Even today loyalist Federal voting registrars. The K.u Klux Klan is now- Democrats whine that they infiltrated by the FBI and could be destroyed political WHITE LIBERALS and actually seems under con ly if they were caught talk moderates are particularly trol. There are no signs of ing to reasonable NAACP another mass invasion of leader Charles Evert, no heartsick about this because Northern civil rights work friend of the FDP. This at racial tension in Mississippi ers. McComb's white leaders mosphere is made to order has cased measurably, thanks have finally consented to sit for the FDP. in large part to the cautious down with Negroes for bi courage of Gov. Paul John racial consultations. For instance, the FDP son. Abandoning the red it within a hair of captur necks and White Citizens BUT THERE is no such ing the national charier of Councils who elected him, the Mississippi Young Dem progress in the vital polit- ocrats. As we reported from Washington, the national YD organization refused to grant the charter to an FDP-sponsored group a few weeks ago. But since then, white moderators have not formed a raciaiiy integrated organization to counter the Nesro-domi n a t ed FDP group. This was seen last Sunday in 1870 after the Civil War, he' in a Y'D meeting at predom (siPMAHsriAM said, on a compact that its inantly Negro Tougaloo Col fiU DEFENSE W HOUSE State constitution would not lege fan FDP hotbed) near be changed to deprive any Jackson. Some COO Negroes, 0 0: the r ;:t i0 vote but only about 10 white Mis WASHINGTON. -Varch 2o New YorkS^fY- - rhCial* *!** " -? - sissippians. turned up. (UP]) _ Mississippi's House , „ OI ZuTIa I * T The on:-' qualifications then members, rejecting as illegal a ty/1sJf*>,"l,tPf'"»*/fcJ set were that voters be male THE MEETING was con Negro challenge to their elec A group of 21 lawyers yester- citizens who had lived six tion, declined today to go trolled by FD? leaders. through the formalities of de- day planned efforts in Missis-months in the State end er.e I While declaring themselves ! fending themselves. sippi to help seek the ouster o:' month in a county, he said, ! to be left on I "J's Great I "So alleged contestants do that State's five members ox However, in 1890, he added, : Society and denouncing U.S. .Inot qualify as legal contestants the U.S. House of Eepresen- the State repudiated this com- I "colonial" policy in Viet- 1 'Iby any rule of the Housf o or by tatives. The move was an- pact with a new constitution Nam and Sar.-.o Domingo, i'law." they slid ° tr-.e cnal- nottneed at a New York news requiring voters to be able to • they upbraided the few Mis- lileruie filed "°y a group known conference. give "a reasonable interpreta- 'as ""the Mississippi Freedom j sissippi whites who dated Democratic party. They said they would go tion" of any section, come. there to take depositions, start- Plans were to seek deposi-i The Freedom Deniocrits are ! What is happening at the contesting the election of all ing this week, claiming that lions chiefly from Negro citi- Young Democrat level to five members on the groun that Negroes have been "systemnti- zens but also from a number! day may be in store for the Negroes were exclude'- from cally excluded" from voting i& of State officials, senior Parly tomorrow. voting. The party seeks to seat elections there. ; ' While loyalist Democratic three candidates of its o'-vn, all The project is called "De-> Negroes. i politic:ins talk grandly of The challengers have boom position Caravan." sending a racially mixed coin-' through prescribed for-: Morton S'.avis, a Newark, | Mississippi delegation to the malltlea for contesting Hou-,e X.J., lawyer who is national, next rational convention fas elections. Todav's joint state- . coordinator of the Caravan,; required by the ISfM conven rnent by the five elected mem- • said the ouster effort was! tion) they do nothing about hers wa's to the {?-<:'- that they : based on the contention that I it. Thus, it is entirely possi did not recognise the contest i Mississippi had repudiated a' ble that the FDP will seat .'and therefore would not avail i themsevles oi machinery set up , pact for its representation, i a Negro-dominated delega for a rebuttal. Mississippi was reacimitiedl tion it the next national Fou-- of the five are Demo- to representation in CongreW convention. :C:ats - Jamie U Whitten. . William M. Colmer, Thomas 0. Such a racial polarization Abernethy and John c-.l Wil not oniy would please old- liams. The fifth representative. line segregationists. It also a Republican, is Prentiss would -take the goal of a Walker. reasona-,:-? racial relation ship her-? more distant than ever. Pass 4 Greenville, Miss., Wednesday, May 12, 1955 Were it left lo me to decide whether \vc should have a govern ment without newspapers or newspaper! without government, I should not hcsilate a moment to prefer the latter. -Thomas Jefferson 7hp §& "vVB Struggle For * fa sir a»» Party my eV There is a struggle going on for only from some white Mississip- the future of the Democratic party pians, There are elements within in Mississippi. Engaged in the the Mississippi Freedom Demo struggle are those truly interested cratic Party who wish to build a in the establishment of a real predominantly Negro party, with Democratic parly here, those only token participation by Mis whose chief aim is the retention sissippi whites, along lines well tc of political power under whatever the left of Washington. label is necessary and those whose ,* * * vision includes the use of the THE professional white poli Democratic party label for the ticians — the nominal Democrats fashioning of a political and eco now holding office — are perhaps nomic system for which the na the biggest supporters the FDP tional party does not now stand. has in Mississippi, because they As is seemingly inevitable, sup envision the creation of a perma posedly intelligent white Missis- nent three-party system in the sippians are kicking away oppor state in which an old - line, white- tunity after opportunity to help dominated "Democratic party" shape the future Democratic par would continue to have majority ty, because so far too many support. As these theorists see it, whites' lip service to a "new day-' the Republicans as an all-white is not translated into action. party and the FDP as a nearly all- The status of the party in Mis Negro faction would never be able sissippi today can be easily pre to muster enough votes to take sented."" As of this moment, it control of the state. The Negro population will continue- to decline stands convicted in the eyes of the in the state, this group contends, national party and in fact of hav ;o there will never be a real dan ing practiced racial exclusion. The ger of a Negro - oriented party national party demands that what getting control. With iust a little ever group in Mississippi Chooses bow in the direction of compliance to call itself the Democratic party with the national party's stric in the future, and to gain recog tures, political power can be re nition nationally as such, must tained indefinitely in the same old open itself to participation by ail hands — so the pros reason. interested citizens, regardless of race or color. Which is a sickening thought. * t » The state badly needs a two-party MANY white Mississippiar.s system on national lines, with the have already made their pergonal Republicans representing the gen decision about the national party's erally more conservative approach ultimatum and have crossed over and the Democrat- the generally to Ihe Republican party. We ex more liberal approach. We do rot pect they are in for a shock need a three-party system, but it around 1358, because the national begins to appear that is what we GOP is going to make a determin are going to get. ed effort to reassert itself as the If we do. the blame will ulti party of Lincoln, but that is an mately fall upon the "good" peo other ma'ter. ple who are all for statements of Other while Democrats have re intent but are short on desire for mained nominal Democrats, but action. They will have failed to are casting around for ways to do battle both with those FDP circumvent the intent of the na leaders who are attempting to tional party's demands while ap fashion one kind of racist party parently meeting its require and the reactionaries already in ments. These are the old-line ma office who want to preserve the nipulators of power, most of whom old kind of racist party. hold some kind of public office These timid heralds of a new today or exert political influence. Mississippi aren't ready to let the They would like to find a few world know they want neither manageable Negroes to throw Into kind of organization — that they secondary positions in the state are in foci tor Mississippi's Demo Democratic party, thus presenting cratic party becoming tally as themselves as in compliance with sociated with the national party. the national party's standards. In As a result, there is • very good meeting those standards, they chai ce that the FDP will be suc hope to retain official resigna cessful in fashioning a Negro tion as the Democratic party here partv with white civil rights si - and in Cor. reis. ie.•-::.•;. us as .-.:• - " :•:--• nipula: :: a-er. most of whom ol '. it:.-."'. i rati*! ::; ::..'. 13 hold some kind of public office These timid heralds of a new toiay or exert political influence. Mis .-.-. ". aren't ready to let the They would like to iind a few world kr v,- they want neither manageable Negroes to throw into kinc of y. conization — that they secondary positions in the s tale are in <•-.— 'r Mississippi's Demo Democratic party, thus presenting cratic tarty becoming fully as themselves as in compliance with sociated with the national party. the national party's standards. In As a result, there is a very good meeting those standards, they chance that the FDP will be suc hope to retain official designa cessful in fashioning a Negro tion as the Democratic party here party with white civil rights pro and in Congress. fessionals as its token white Finally, there are whites who membership. And, equally un wish to ;o:n their Negro fellow fortunate, the same sterile parody Mississippians in building a Dem of the Democratic party which ocratic party which conforms in has passed under the name in fact and in spirit to what the na Mississippi for too many years tional party wants. But some of will probably add one or two Neg these are fearful of moving "too roes to its rolls and continue to quickly" and others are not will function. Who will benefit from ing to make public battle with such an unholy arrangement we their opponents. do not know, but it will not be the The opposition to a truly open state as a whole or the Democratic Democratic party does not come party. Tributes TQ Intelligence, Bravery Intelligenc„ 1 1 .' rt ^ v. . e« an_, »-d J braverUvA,,^ ***y» ara- •*-.-e* tw4-**»rot IfIf, afte*-i f ' .-.r * i allail I, aat majoritMA A*A..fi-«y« o-. f1 the qualities often honored in men. If White community agrees with ever were both conspicuous by what the throwaways said, even cowards should have felt safe in theiU1C1rI tota(.*.'.-.l- absence.. .j.-i_n'_^,. iatt wawas iilnl LUthCe distribution of the two-page com- icumletting thmec worlwuridu kno*uow whwno tilune pilations of anonymous idiocy in "Washington County White Vot Greenville Monday night. ers League" represents. But thth«e brave distributors nof AlnntlaMondaiy With what bravery did the car night's missives knew that no riers of these semi-literate gush such support exists, and so they ers of hate skulk their way around hid their identities, the city, tiotoeing quietly to avoid same" ridkulous" little band^ of detection as they littered our bigots who are fascinated by bed yards with their trash. clothes and burning crosses. Those * * * whom the league attacked snould WITH WHAT an incredible show be honored by their inclusion on of courage did the perpetrators of those two pages. these tortured exercises in grade- It takes neither intelligence nor school grammar and public rest- bravery to crank out a mimeo room wall thinking decline to graphed broadside when you won t sign their names, although their sign it. What the various individu targets have gone on public rec als and groups who came under ord with their stands. attack have done in the past too* both. The community has oeen With what intelligence did the honored by their work. It is dis authors of these garbled tracts honored by the slavering oft build fact, fiction and innuendo faceless members of the "Washing into one long monument to bigo ton County White Voters League. try. HODDING CARTER HODDING CRTERIH "* ^OHN * GIBSON AssSSdSorSpubUslier General Manager Racial Leaders Issue Warninc Demonstrations Due If Five Mississippians In House Aren't Unseated WASHINGTON, May 17- . (AP)—A civil rights leader r Monday threatened demon strations throughout the coun try unless Congress unseats by July 4 the five United States representatives from Missis sippi whose election has been challenged by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. James Farmer, national di rector of the Congress for Racial Equality, said the dem onstrations would be directed largely at representatives who oppose the challenge. He said a major demonstra tion is planned for Brooklyn June 20 to call attention to the votes of Brooklyn House mem bers, including Chairman . Emanuel Celler (D., N. Y.) of; . the House Judiciary Commit-; tee, against the Freedom Party's position last Jan. 4. j It was on Jan. 4 that the jHouse voted to seat the five. : The news conference by Farmer and Freedom Party leaders preceded the formal presentation of more than 600 depositions to the House clerk "conclusively proving," the party said, that the five Mis sissippi renresentatives were elected last, year in violation of law. Lawrence Guyot, chairman of the party's executive com-; mittee, said 15,000 pages of testimony show Negroes were denied the right to vote by organized . -racism, intimida tion, shootings, bombings, beatings, evictions and dis- missnL from their jobs. -—"Via —c* \% K/Yo^ACvGS /3 ip HIA<|jn BSJOJV Ptoiptug -j PUB a 'tjii'ii'JSi.Ot'K jo ur a'Kiitveiv. •DfK sajJsillioH'-'tD '.'.oisoipjss.y. ;o piay I lt-fjdj-H uopSo 'sjiosm|;.v3s<:]ij jo >\ Jftrs[i»lUOO 'O oiA;ig 'ut,.»itUBH ;o iyni*Utfpun 'A uli°i' •«•* 0Aii snx 3'pEt'qj ,/toxUMli THE WASHINGTON POST Tuesday, .V«y M, 1965 J^g «.id,3m A-jnooJ ot Xiiuivwoddoj. .•ani'uaiit-E passim put- |dd!>*r**IK ui • |jestU|3 SU9SI1P UEOl.liHUV ooo'oot- ifsfll- •BIUJOO^JOIU ;o }u*uiM!ipireira»«ipj( JB 'o.iei^tll pouopuoa A\3.\\iDOi;d., pui[ 1 fo\r\ umsjspBsi XiMofetn oitj Jo|ates ie Harass epositions Ffl< pur kn»Oa»je}* V Ut pOtltof SJEpiSiU ss ss asnoH|l^ido oq.i wl'^ streanqrida*W 2urn'»H s 3AI.IpasoI d TV rr I P"« ,4.-. aaHaa .--a . i - -.- T - an ,- 1 , . n . T -T raidaH -tmmndeu ua Move t< sf Miss. gressmen juasqs ;stntoj •SjrSAk sitiuoJtj pue 's-)vjDOiuaa UJOAVS IIB 'stuatiu.vt u=a uijof pue tiers of the Mississippi committee; and by civil rights SNCC is recruiting 2000 sup ,itI,9aioqv o tenioiu Uaiujoo on) Democratic Party leaders supporting their ef porters to come to "Washing aqimvu K metniM "USIMllM 'T si"i«r utoie than 600 tleposi- fort, such as James Farmer, ton to lobby for the Freedom 'Y.Ya aas sjaquisiu iddtssrsfi:^ eiu, with the clerk of the national director of CORE, Party next month. •sapis i[loq " "" JUKUJ 3snE[ddB puus jaquteqa - yesterday as part of and John Lewis, chairman of At the opening of Congress (...<- Um JO nail am 0} petfMeui Aain effort to unseat the the Student Nonviolent Coor in January, the House refused III Z peusiddnspwm a.uj »tn sees s five Congressmen. dinating Committee (SNCC). to consider another challenge . oc+> 0* pee its J=I>OH *vn Ba*t»,a next step in the unprec- At a news conference, Far brought, as in the Mississippi * teteWl -iju 0j puUDdUlOO ou nM ed challenge of an en- mer promised "massive dem- ease, by someone other than iiil JOJ^I - Pl •eHUUUwaqns ii|) onst rations" across the the losing candidate. How ijSBJ WO peafp»l*0«lattVt S[X'J9q|1 yt' delegation is for a ssod £B ,K>oi 1 ' R. Roberts to sit country if Congress does not ever, Freedom Party lawyers ujuBd' •°i -! ' *" 'JSpisuos oj iinsSs '-"Hi auitiv-lup s| stein ;SAt.i 'uoi. i wyers for both j promptly throw out the Mis said they have other prece laEdap,-"3'-* aB0 « •*•*„,pi't-« J '.TOllUl p how much of sissippi members. Lewis said dents becking their position. 51oos -tuojqns »trt jo usujjieqo 'BUJ 'if testimony . -o.i*3 in"OS'»'o'l»Joota»a 'OJOU the s-ild -tl»V 'J. VftCci e.vn«'-55sjdsy i led pappB iSltitutuODqn! ipuuo imutuio^ ..uocommittee •ZlJEd SU011D3Iuot;ga3siuiuip0 m v PUa?noU H oqt o n. 1 , U015B.l5SIUIU.ipm" siiij, -ssnon sq- ..urn Party con- jpiiqo.PS-"-".';o y,.iap" «nql t1 q^i.w is'3tu^o .uo-n- i • i>.e Mississippi dele-1 iva -Kjs « ponj 3Avq uoit.ioia idci.n . nould be unseated* irilJOAe •V£ •SJSSJH otn jo sjajtuaiit-qrj >. most of the State's; ".la: 'tli . JOJ 05 patasp sq qoiu.v. 'i-ejaju s were unconstitution-i ,,',i-I0f OSS u° pssJJ ptre 5Dnpuo; t-nied the right to take; „*}|*l'1'»PJOi|p- tn;.w psi.ivqD MM n the election. I Bqt Plinq p«q sq piss sstiod »trj 'J?r-T depositions tell of cases! ' dot •piuuui Negroes were harassed,; pire B^nres IZE.S- t u; puEq .s-n Vi'p5-!" «>H 'atwed 12B'^ fsasicy ted and turned away> q 6-qi jo jaqtucujaqnj t t -p.ven JJI they tried to register.' -qoy JTJ j;osiq:i[ peyRnspl u^a :-.rty wants the Federal; aqt •XB.«'B piineq st.,-. sq sy intent to "conduct freci ,,-perMi en elections" of a new rq 05 3UVA1 i„ -p-j-jD 8q ..'uott isional delegation. -vlsjcp idd:ss-.i?:j-; ?p BS j„ depositions were car- uooij ssnoii »qt OJUO 3ut;'si'nq to the clerk's office in Ptre stumsoa 9x-t-2;q B pue dn-j.v-em soKjv.-iviq Junmep j?q jrj eartena by Law- sjsSusnBqD osis^ »tr) pejpoul Guyot, chairman of oti.ft uetu B .-.'q pept-iok SB.A edom Party's executive ButB.rp 5J3AO ^;uo sin tnq -sSua; -ItqD *q, srtttBtuBjp oj jddti -s!SJt;-; IUOJJ t,'.uB3 BTTUiTiTi pne ustu innoA oos Wvj saoj^ •piBS sq „--i o, p»sn tu.i., ..;-! l.ujsop 'JOI^BJ UlU pOO[q JriO.-; S9J[BUI .1.. 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November most of Mississip Though this was known In IT WILL probably be dented, pi's Negroes were prevented the past, no one ever took the but (jaunt, gray Speaker from voting. trouble to produce sworn af John McCormack of Massa- Furthermore, the law of fidavits proving the disfran cbttsetts bas 1(78, by which Mississippi was chisement Furthermore. Con made a *e- readmitted to the Union after gress for the first time since - • : deal with the Civil War. requires that New Deal days is dominated Miss btslppl every citizen be given the by Northern liberals. c ongressmen right to vole. F i n a 11 y, the Democratic to help them When a group of Northern study group has developed ;m r e m a i n in congressmen moved lo pre effective, vote-rallying wltip C an t;ress. vent the Mississippi congress system which has surprised Witliout liis men from taking their seals and often overwhelmed the help they as Congress convened Jan. 2, conservatives. would prob Speaker McCormack led the As a result, Speaker Mc ably be misled. move lo seal them. Cormack litis told Mississippi The Speaker has asked me congressmen But they would McCortnack'l secret prom lose a showdown vote to keep ise lo the Mississippians is to introduce a motion to seat the Mississippi delegation," their seats. Their only hope, u:n- of the strange paradoxes he lias advised, is lo sidetrack of Congress. Rep. Carl Albert, D-Okla., told Hep. William Fta Ryan, D- the move to unseat them. And Publicly McCormack is for N.Y., "and as Majority Lead he has premised to use his an amendment to the voting er I am going to do it." own tremendous power lo do righl bill banning poll taxes. Backstage Move No. 2 came so. Km Mii-i inure lie conies from after the Democratic caucus Iroiii'-ally, it was the Demo i! i-ily whose uncompromising stripped Hep. John Hell Wil cratic s I II d y group which aboliltuiiists damned and liams, Miss., and Rep. Albert helped give McCormack Ihis blasted the South in such a Watson, S.C., of llteir senior new power he now plans to way as to help precipitate the ity as Democrats because use against them. Civil War. they had voted for Goldwater. MKItKY-OO-WH.'ND Yet, privately, the congress Despite this official vote by Every official who has been man treat beaten has been the Democratic parly, Mc sent on an inspection trip lo working hand in glove with Cormack. a leading Democrat, South Vict Nam has reported the Mississippi segregationists gave Williams full seniority In back thai U.S. morale is high. ami has premised lo savo assigning office space. The jungle - fighting special tliein from losing their seats. As a result, the congress forces have shown a discour BACKSTAGE men from Mississippi gut one aging reluctance, however, to Backstage Move No. 1 dales of the choicest offices in the patrol the jungle at night or ; back ID Inst January v.-hi-ii the de luxe Sam Rayliurn Build- lo endure the hardships Ihal j,— issue of .sealin-; the Mississippi tag. the Viet Cong an- willing lo j CAfflgressiucn first arose. Backstage Move No. 3 B accept. . . . Willi Charlie \Itir- ; 'I lie Constitution clearly MeCormack's recent secret phy ut the Agriculture Depart •tales that if slates' Inhabi promise to help prevent the ment now chairman of Ihe tants ever 21 are prohibited unseating of tho Mississippi Civil Aeronautics Board, aad from Voting "the basis of rep congressmen. Bob Murphy already vice resentation Iherein shall be re This came about afte- hun chairman, Ihe problem of duced in the proportion*' to dreds of affidavits were col names on Hits CAB is going t!:u number prevented from lected in Mississippi attesting to become as complicated as voting. under oath thai Negroes were the traffic problem over La It was indie ••',-ar that last di: rrmu-ltisutl lust venr. c.i-..,;:.. »l - *— ' /5> THE WORKER, MAY 25, 19G5 Page 7 A •Broohlynites Petition-Reps - ... Ts Help Unseat Mississippians SOME 40 NEGROES and ous parts of the borough. It will Congressmen .to help them re whites collected 3,340 names be repeated this Saturday. main in Congress." Many of the 25,000 signatures Without the help of McCor Saturday in Brooklyn on a collected since January came mack, said Pearson, the Missis petition to that borough's from predominantly white neigh- sippi Congressmen "would prob six-member congressional bodhoods, said Pat Carter, com ably be ousted." delegation demanding that they mittee co-chairman. The Freedom Party's conten vote "to bar the Mississippi con Paul Kirchner, white, a mem ber of the group's seven-member tion that the live challenged con gressmen until elections in that gressmen were elected in viola state are legal and constitution advisory committee, displayed 600 signatures which he has col tion of the Constitution got sup al." lected during the past two weeks port Wednesday when the U.S. The signatures bring Brook in Sheepshead Bay, a white Civil Rights Commission stated lyn's total since January to neighborhood. in a report on Mississippi that 25,000 and N. Y.'s total to 100,- Negroes in that state had for 90 000. "The people responded very years been "systematically ex On Jan. 4, 149 congressmen weuT^'he said, indicating that cluded from the franchise by leg indicated their support of the they s'eemed to have been af islative enactment, fraud and vio challenge against the Mississippi fected by the murders of Andrew lence." •Goodman, Michael Schwerner delegation by voting against clos A few days earlier the MFDP ing debate on the question. But and James Chaney, and. by the Selma to Montgomery march. presented 600 depositions to Con the entire Brooklyn delegation gress upholding this contention. voted with the Dixiecrats and Andrew Cooper, the other com Lawrence Guyot, chairman of reactionary Republicans. mittee co-chairman, said that the the MFDP, told a news confer The aim of the petition cam work of the committee will be ence after the depositions were paign is to get the Brooklyn stepped up as time for final vot presented: delegation in the House of Rep ing on the challenge approaches. New actions will include pick "This testimony is not only resentatives to vote to unseat the statements of hundreds of the Mississippians when the ques eting of -Representatives Emanuel Cellar and Edna Kelly, and a Negroes In. the state describing tion comes to the floor at the end shootings, private acts of intimi of June or the beginning of July. June 20 rally at Tompkins Park. Drew Pearson, in his syndi dation such as bombings, beat The Saturday action was spon ings, evictions and dismissals sored by the Brooklyn Commit cated column last Thursday, said that "Speaker John McCormack from jobs which they suffered tee to Unseat the Mississippi Con for attempting to register. gressmen, 809 Fulton St. The of Massachusetts (D), has made committee set up tables in vari a secret deal with Mississippi "It also includes conclusive evidence of officially perpetrated and inspired harassment, the ad mission of state officials of their own participation in organized racism." James Farmer, national direc tor of the Congress of Racial Equality, and John Lewis, ex ecutive secretary of the Studen; Nonviolent Coordinating Com mittee, joined Guyot in the pre sentation and reiterated support for the challenge, including mass demonstrations. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., said separately that the light to unseat the Mississippi congress men was tied to the fight for a strong voting rights bill. "The unseating will make any voting bill meaningful," Dr. King said. King, Farmer and Lewis Backing the Challenge R. MARTIN Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership D Conference, pledged himself and the SCLC to the "fullest support" of the chal lenge. On May 17, the 11th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision outlawing seg regation in the schools, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party presented more more than 600 depositions to Congress to prove the five Mississippi Congress men were elected In violation of tho Constitution. The depositions described a The records pattern of Intimidation, violence and *'\ tenor which prevented Negroes from of the racists voting in 1964 elections. That day Dr. King, James Farmer, ex OUR OF THE Congressmen from Mis ecutive director of the Congress of Ra F sissippi whose seats are being chal cial Equality, and John Lewis, chairman lenged by the Mississippi Freedom Dem of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ocratic Party have long legislative Committee, renewed their pledges of records as racist reactionaries. They are support of the MFDP's challenge. Thomas Abernethy, William Colmer, MFDP CANDIDATES: VICTORIA GRAY, ANNIE DEVINE, FANNIE LOU HAMER Jamie Whitten and John Bell Williams, FARMER said: all Democrats who have been members "CORE unequivocally supports the these seats that the Negroes In that on March 15—"The harsh fact is that of the House of Representatives at least historic challenge of the Mississippi state will be free to participate. It is in many places In tills country men and since 1946, some longer. The fifth is a Freedom Democratic Party and calls for only when the Congress takes these ac women are kept from voting simply be Uepublican, Prentiss Walker, in his firs* a great coalition of civil rights, political tions that the political forces In the cause they are Negroes. Every device of term. Walker has no legislative record, and civic organizations and individuals South that are opposed to Negroes vot which human Ingenuity Is capable has but he celebrated his victory by making to join this struggle. CORE pledges its ing will understand that Congress and been used to deny that right."—applies his first public appearance after the fullest support of MFDP on this 11th the nation are serious about guarantee specifically to Mississippi." election before the Americans for the anniversary of the Supreme Court deci ing the rights of Negroes to participate Preservation of the White Race. sion outlawing segregation in the public fully In the process of government. Rec schools. . . . ognizing this, SNCC stands ready to DREW PEARSON SAYS: The four Democrats, because of the "As we take these depositions to the commit the major portion of Its organi seniority system, hold key positions in Congress, I ask of the Congress fast zational resources and energies to the Congress. They aret remedial action and the rejection of the support of this challenge during the next McCormack in a 'deal' regular Mississippi Congressional pre two months." Thomas Abernethy, 1st District, In the tenders who have been elected on a plat with Mississippi bloc House since m42—22 years. He Is fifth form of blood and rllsenfranchlsement. Lewis said that SNCC is recruiting In seniority below the chairman on the DREW PEARSON In his syndicated col "CORE is prepared to take whatever 2,000 students and young people to lobby House Agriculture Committee. Aberne In Washington for the challenge. He umn May 20 wrote: "It will probably be thy Is also first below the chairman on steps may be necessary to support this denied, but gaunt, gray Speaker lof the challenge. Discussions are under way as said: "SNCC stands ready to support the Committee on the District of Colum with all Its organizational resources, House of Representatives] John McCor bia. to a schedule of massive demonstrations mack of Massachusetts has made a se If the Congress fails to act and act both North and South, any call that comes from the MFDP and its allies for cret deal with Mississippi Congressmen Jamie Whitten, 2nd District, In the quickly." to help them remain In Congress. With House since 1941—23 years. He Is fourth a national mobilization of people In KING'S STATEMENT said: "The un Washington." out his help they would probably be oust In seniority below the chairman on the seating of the Mississippi Congressmen ed." House Committee on Appropriations. will be the test of the moral integrity LAWRENCE GUYOT, chairman of the Prnr^OTi rvn.rttc John P.HI Willlftmc -!.-! rK..t.-1-a i"<- Of IllP Cnnarace r.f +!-« TT,.t,„j r..-. ., r>0 Questions and Answers ...^ About the Challenge ERE ARE answers to some of the lined the procedures to bo followed for H questions often asked about the contesting elections. Notice of challenge Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's was served on the contested members challenge to the seating of the five and filed with the Clerk of the House Congressmen from Mississippi: on Dec. 4. Thirty days later the Miss issippians answered these notices. The iVhnt is the basis of the challenge? MFDP then had 40 days In which to Tho elections held In Mississippi were gather evidence and take testimony with in violation of the Constitution and the use of federal subpena power. The Con laws of the United States. Mississippi gressmen then had a 40-day period. All has blatantly violated the 14th and 15th evidence is submitted to the Clerk of the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution House, who, In consultation with the by preventing Negroes from voting lawyers for both sides, decides what through official and officially condoned material will be publicly printed and terror. Intimidation and economic re presented to the Subcommittee on Elec prisals. tions and Privileges of the House Ad ministration Committee. Each side then Mississippi has violated a federal law- has a 30-day period to file briefs. The passed in 1870 under which the state House Subcommittee must consider the was admitted to representation in Con issue and report early In July. Its re gress on condition that the then exist port Is in the form of a simple resolu ing Constitutional qualifications to vote tion requiring a majority vote. would "never be amended or changed so as to deprive any citizen of the right to 7n order to be entitled to use Statutory vote." Of the 400,000 Negroes In Miss Procedure, don't you have to be a issippi who meet age and residency re r claimant in the election? quirements, only 22,000, about 5 'c, are No. The statute reads: "Whenever any registered to vote. 500,000 or 67T, of person intends to contest an election whites of voting age are registered. to the House of Representatives . . ." aaaaavaaaaaaSaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*. Why should a Northern Congressman (But, the three MFDP Freedom candi NEW YORK SUPPORT: PICKETS AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING vote for unseating? dates, Mrs. Annie Devlne, Mrs. Victoria The lawlessness of Mississippi Is an Gray and Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, are American problem. The moral issue is valid contestants on the basis that their The need for a strong law clear and primary, but In addition, the petitions to be on the ballot were il Mississippi system has practical signifi legally denied.) THE MISSISSIPPI Freedom Democratic be held throughout the state. This will cance for the North. As long as the Wliot is the basis for the tlirec MFDP Party has urged that the voting right* mean that mayors, local law enforce Southern Democrats are unchallenged contestants? bill be strengthened to include a provi ment officers, and other officials who and allowed to build up seniority rights, The MFDP candidates did quality for sion for free and open elections. In testi have been the visible symbol of brutal . they will be a block to all progressive the regular elections by gathering peti mony before the House Judiciary Com ity and intimidation will be elected for legislation. tions with 300 valid signatures of regis mittee Freedom Congrcsswoman Mrs. four more years before Negro registra Victoria Gray explained why. She said: tion under this new law will be large 1} one supports Die MFDP challenge, tered voters, which meets the require "The Negroes in Mississippi and much enough to have any effect on these elec doesn't thai also mean recognizing ments of Mississippi law. These peti of the Deep South suffer at this mo tions. How- effective will this bill be in the FDP coutesttints' rights to sit in tions were capriciously rejected by the ment under the jurisdiction of elected Neshoba County. Mississippi, if local Congress? Secretary of Slate. In any slate other official! in whose elections we had no law enforcement remains in the hands ot No. The first step must be voiding the than- Mississippi Mrs. Hamer, Mrs. De- vine, and Mrs. Gray would have been part. Can such officials be responsive or Sheriff Rnincy and Deputy Price foi elections find unseating the so-called four more years? How effective will it l><- Etep -oscntatlvcs. Once tlie seats fire va candidates Willi their names properly responsible to the needs and rights of cated the MFDP Is calling upon Con placed on the ballot. the Ncuro people? The sad truth is that in Schna if Negroes en route lo the these officials have not been, and as courthouse must pass by Sheriff Min gress to order new, free and open elec Why isn't there a suit against the Mis tions. long as they are not the basis for op Clark and his posse? sissippi election in lite courts? pression and injustice will remain and It "It ts for these reasons that we arc a •'•.. What is the statuary procedure? Article I of the Constitution specifi will be the voteless Negro citizens of the ing for speedy relief. We urge that a pro The challenges to the Mississippi Con cally says that the House of Represen South who will be the victims. vision be included that will require the gressmen were filed in accordance with tatives shall be the Judite of the elec "Fur us in Mississippi, the injustice a formal Statute of Congress. Title 2 of tions, returns and oualifiraHoM-. r.f i< r>y> TT H CndP <3onc IQi^aaC—.A^ la seniority on the House Commutes on maiiaV, >\iiiuyir.! .' • Interstate and Foreign Commerce. gro people "! Mississippi have again William Colmer, 5th District In the SNCC's Lewis said: "The Issues raised come forward to risk reprisals of vio moving In a liberal direction. "As a re House since 1932 — 32 years. Colmer Is by the MFDP challenge to the Congres lence and terror. However, these deposi sult." Pearson wrote. "Speaker McCor mack has told Mississippi Congressmen first In seniority below the chairman of sional delegation from Mississippi go to tions, formally signed and witnessed, are that they would lose a showdown vote to the Committee on Rules. (This commit the heart of Negro exclusion from the an Incontrovertible body of evidence political processes in Mississippi and the proving that the general elections of keep their seats. Their only hope, he has tee handles the rules and order of busi advised, is to sidetrack the move to un ness of the House. It determines how South. November, 1964, in Mississippi were un constitutional." seat them. And he has promised to use much time any bill will be debated on "It Is only when Congress unseats the his own tremendous power to do so." the floor of the House, how much time Mississippians and calls for and conducts Guyot said: "They prove that the con The Clerk of the House seemed to each side will have to debate, whether free and open elections in Mississippi for ditions described by President Johnson have taken the first step in the "deal" or not the bill can be amended on the when he delayed a decision on when and floor, etc.). how much of the MFDP's testimony ALL FOUR have anti-labor, anti-poor would be printed for the public record. and anti-civil rights records. For exam Jack Anderson reported in the Washing ple, all four voted against public housing ton Post May 2D: "Obviously he ithe I in 1948. 1949, 1950. 1952, 19.J3, 1054, i * !ff|] Clerk of the House] was -in. no hurry to 7 1955, 1956, 1959 and againt extension of hare the House vote just after the Sen- / unemployment compensation, in 1949, ate fletiated the Negro voting rights bill./ 1954, 1958. Three (Abernethy, Colmer J . . . The temper of Congress right no*ff and Whitten) voted against rent control after the Selma beatings and the Klan/ In 1946 and all four In 1949. They have j I I » »!.»,, trial for the murder of Mrs. Liuzzo, would/ consistently voted against federal aid to be to unseat them." Anderson pointed/ education, for loyalty oaths and for the out that the clerk "who runs the red tapej House Un-American Activities Commit machinery In the House of Representa tee and against anti-poverty and public tives ... In answerable to Speaker John works measures. McCormack." In 1960 the four voted against federal funds for school construction and fed eral aid to chronic unemployment areas. I\. Y. City Council In 1961 Abernethy, Colmer and Whit ten voted to give police officers author Backs Challenge ity to arrest and jail for an Indefinite THE NEW YORK City Council voted period persons suspected of crimes. (Ab '-<. to memorallze Congress urging a vote ernethy, Colmer and Whitten had voted to unseat the five "regular" repre for the same measure In 1958). sentatives from Mississippi. All four recorded additional votes *t" "'" >• '--a- IP. The New York Ad Hoc Committee against public housing and federal aid to support the MFDP is now encour to schools In 1961. In 1962 they again aging political, civic, religious, trade voted against help to the unemployed *f*5* union, fraternal and other organiza and also voted to turn over control of tions to adopt resolutions supporting the communications satellite system to A.T.&T. though the government had the challenge and to notify Congress spent $25 billion to develop it. of their support. : • • The resolution Introduced by Coun In 1963 all four voted to discontinue :>. 1 cilman Paul O'Dwyer urges that "all the first anti-poverty program, the Area Redevelopment program and In 1964 they Congressmen from the City of New voted to outlaw any federal action to York, vote to unseat the five Con correct apportionment of state legisla gressmen from the State of Mississ tures and against the Economic Oppor ippi until such time as a congression tunity Act to provide training for long- 1 : al delegation is elected from that term unemployed workers and youth. ' • ...- 1 State through the operation of an electoral system open to all people Needless to say, they voted against ths ***-**" • < -•,- - . a-US. *..«•. :.- . • ••••'••"--• •• vmtW- • *,"-SaxRailaajaiai .tl wltr.out regard to race or color ..." 1957, 1960 and 1964 civil rights acts. MARCH LN WASHINGTON: MISSISSIPPIANS ON CONGRESS' OPENLNG DAY And Who Cares? rcAi.lZ'i Ijssissippi Cpngressm en iro On A Mot Seat A) This week may he a crucial one of the two-year terms to which in the lives of Mississippi's five they were elected. If Speaker John members of the United States McCormack of Massachusetts comes House of Representatives. It may- to the assistance of the Mississip well be a crucial one for Mississippi. pians, as widely reported, the mat Former Governor J. P. Coleman, ter may not ever get to the House who any day row will be nominated Committee. He reportedly has pro as a Federal Judge, State Attorney- mised to sidetrack the issue. General Joe Patterson and other However, the importance of the attorneys for the five men were seating challenge rests on action in Washington Wednesday attend that clearly will be taken in the fu ing an important meeing with House ture, if systematic denial of Negro Clerk Ralph Roberts at which a voting continues in Mississippi. The challenge to the permanent seating Constitution of the United States of the Mississippians was to be specifically states that if citizens considered. over 21 of a state are prohibited The reader will recall that seat from voting that the basis of ing of the four Democrats and one representation therein shall be re Republican from the Magnolia State duced in "the proportion" to the was challenged by a number of number prevented from voting. If Northern Congressmen on January this clause of the Constitution was 2 last year. But the Mississippians invoked against Mississippi, we were seated temporarily with the shudder to think of the conse understanding that the challenge, quences. We might have two repre emanating from the Mississippi sentatives left in Congress, al Freedom Democratic Party and though that is by no means certain. based upon Mississippi's systematic (On second thought, it might not deninal of Negro voting rights, make much difference, anyway. would be fully investigated and a The representatives we send to report made on same. Congress rarely do anything more Following the taking of deposi than vote AGAINST measures ap tions last summer for forty days by proved by the national administra attorneys . for the Freedom Demo- tion, AXY national administration. -rr.tic Party, some 15.000 pages of And their votes count for less each testimony involving denial of voting passing year.) rights has been filed with the Most Congressmen believe if the House Clerk—and it is this testi matter ever comes to a House vote, mony that is expected to deny the the- Mississippians will lose handily Mississippians their seats. The —and hundreds of college students meeting this week was to agree throughout tho nation are reported upon what part of the testimony ly poised to come to Washington to and depositions was to be printed demonstrate against the Southern and submitted to the House Ad ers. Their only real hope in hang ministration Committee. P.oth the ing onto their seats is by delay of printed testimony and the remain one kind or another, or in maneu der o'f the testimony taken by the vers by Speaker McCormack. FDP attorneys will be submitted to It will be interesting to see what the House Committee for disposi happens as a result of "the seating tion as it may see fit. challenge—and the funny thing is It is extremely unlikely the that most Mississippians, with the House Committee will act in time exception of a few state politicians, to deny the Mississippi representa couldn't care toss -, . tives their seats for the remainder 13 ft // 5,cUm/X'-t r Oaf, . • > L 59- 1 n Tnl CAII^'Lf T??/1!? *nd "''U.'Ill fllL'llen as did ercur. leagues, hope* to call UP, - Mississippi's elect** law, will To challenge'Compact' $c]n™t& Pel South ^'"^" flf t ; reach a high point on Monday. ^ fjve ^^ ^^ ?B. £Jm£ "e House Tiie challenger-- will attempt that other Southern Bt&tes «il> Administration Com; o deny ihe r'wh of office to all ject to the same "comnarfr" »!•«• ri'- r.V?.l' «»"~n • ivho claim three of the seats forrn t0 anv ;ixed v0(er cligj. g will ask for the privileges of blllty patterns. Hie House floor, and some 600 ' The Representatives-elect un Mississippians will make an all- *£ challenge are Jamie L h ten *:day, ktandlng, silent vizil at" " - JV lam M. Colmer, I i the Capitol and -.-ill picket the Thomas G. Abernethy, John' r White House and the Federal Bch Wllllarr ar,ti • all Democrats/ f Bureau of Investigation. Prentiss '•'alker, a Reoub- -, The realistic objective of the hear, i challenge is to dramatize the , *» thre...e ".omen suTTTaee problem in Mississippi, claiming the seats Educate MISSISSIDBI V t0i •^^^™ ^^^^^^^glr. Coin-.::-. an_^jjjjjjjajjaaa. Mrs. Farr.ie Lou Hamei ~"'-;vo,,for Summer m!Projec,„tsPr «Mr,^:r^SvrrS:t LTW* '°"'ard S««tSsiBnl v!!i - " education of therrSliv.!* / In addition to ov™Z^mml Jiy MIL MO.VTGO.VEBV -emor.s-.ratior.,-. -..-„ .'r.,;.1"''"" e: charge; EDWARDS,*>ll.>s„ June IX— t ,. , . , ,., , sentinc the Democratic mem « Exctasta. Is Charged bers-elect. B B. McLendon Jr. The Xorthern volnr.tecrs for the bersof the i'::" '":;h mem- at ; The Freedom Democrats, is representing Mr. Walker, mFreedo m Democrawt :<• _Party'H .s Party Vho, •::.:7 -^o<-rat,c' largely a Negro body, charge The prospects are that on Summer Pr^ecT ^ ««r • goH&ai ^:\!"^^ of 1 mass exclusion of Negroes from .Monday, when the momen...... t. had not been h, v.-,.;,"' n'"!1 lfVe »een given-ma™ iT*"r| thaIh? t .Mississippthe state'i electios election processn laws: icomen thse Housetor th, e ihmase fivs eoath-takin Mlssissips- til -.-0,.-.,..-;,.. •'" '"'PP'un- he cconomir ,^3 il1! "Uala crl -. -'i-.e the United States Con- plans will be asked to stand ition, and that the state has aside ::i view of toe formal te f u,e ?y ; quick ;-o: -m tZ:. |f"'5« ! i?h»« , ^ "' " ted a "compact" made challenge filed with the Clerk Congress on readmissior. -if the House. ^^^^^^^^ rs Union in 1S70. Resistance Is not expected al «*2L.bout sos: ,:c,llw.or, h; ,"-^'—'h^-'.Vo,:;:-; -sentatlves-elect will this point exclusion existed. Representative William F. i declare they wars not Ryan. Democrat of Manhattan. .ible for s.tcii exclusion supported by -t leas'- Ii3 col- hc Mrs. The-;-, c.-„. St r5i' ' Student .Volt! woman from th. p',^, 1 *«« tisbstS^SS*""* c°>™£\ : 3 j v committee of the r-- -\r ; ; "'- cc-r.e. "" ' **•« «"«*ed to youths thai , -,„!,.' : ''' t0|,J tr-o Tfcai ^, Fpfh WA/r«M„..H» " ftV. 9*Md the wor,/?,'*'^ "but, be a Little L«2 IB!tr-'W Ju-'t i C : 0 "«'illth„.; ^ ""'- '"' '" cn" of th. ,.„?. ,n-v a- [•Wtvously. VB,u««««r> st.s ?-•: asked/, I taSSHSasaa::"e sttu-Ji U'h;!^ vete, era s.-- 8n CHlJ ghts *»&3£SZ2L™* on 1!£?_'-P'"^r iSr:.:-»SS.::SeTt»r? 'P*efou« •. : I "i.er to.- ,h„ . • of I »-h?opi„ >^*">"' --mareh rt'O ; •verynR^'^dun^V, fr;, •••••; -na?0- the cheacl t - rucked c- ."," . "T:..- -'.ov- • . ;^' ' M". ':;.,• - The part-- . ./J ALLEN-SCOTT REPORT Clamor Against Mississippi Delegation Gains Volume By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT 10 publish this matcrial-Jae WASHINGTON—A well organized, carefully planned has given no reason tor his un amply financed nationwide drive is now in full swing to announced decision to do so. force a roll call vote in the House to unseat Mississippi's More than Too volunteer law five congressmen—four Democrats, one Republican. yers throughout the country Significantly indicative of the tactics and nature of collected this dala in 23 slates (his movement is the participation of Representative John and among Mississippi com Lindsey, liberal Republican candidate for mayor of New munities. The work was done York, in what is being characterized as a "giant out under the direction of William door rally" of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Kunstler, N. Y., chief counsel i» Brooklyn this Sunday. for the Mississippi party; Ar Chief promoter of this meet will converge on Washing thur Kinoy, Rutgers University ing is Ihe Student Non ton Ihis week for intensive lob law professor; Benjamin violent Coordinating Commit Smith, New Orleans attor tee (SNCC), mililantly in the bying of selected congressmen forefront of the civil rights —particularly from metropoli ney; and Morton Stavis, New fusillading. tan and olher centers with ark, N. J. Express purpose is to exert large Negro populations. Mississippi Attorney General direct political pressure on two Next weekend Freedom Par Joseph Patterson, former Gov leading Brooklyn repre ly. SNCC and other leaders sentatives—Emanuel Celler, D, ernor J. P. Coleman, reputedly will confer in the capital on under consideration by Presi veleran chairman of the Ju olher lobbying and politi diciary Commillee, and John cal plans. They will also seek dent Johnson for a federal Rooney, D, head of a major meetings with House leaders of judgeship, and B. B. McClen- Appropriations subcommittee. both parties — who so far don, are representing the five Last January at the opening have been quietly but flatly emhattled congressmen. of Congress both voled against opposed lo Ihe. ousler clamor. the Freedom Party's demand Vigorously supporting th*' that the five Mississippi con Freedom Party lawyers will Freedom Party and SNCC in gressmen be denied their file a 200-page brief with the the ouster drive are the Con seats. Elections subcommittee detail gress for Racial Equality, Other congressmen are ing the case for unseating the header! by James Farmer; slated to be subjected lo simi five Mississippi congressmen. Americans for Democratic Ac lar "heat-applying" affairs. Principal basis for that de tion, of which Vice President Among the cities on SNCC'l mand is the contention that Humphrey is a leading mem list are Boston, Phiadelphia, Negroes in the state are gener ber: the American Civil Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincin ally denied voting rights, and Liberties Union and a number, nati, Chicago, St. Louis, Seattle, therefore the legislators are of religious organizations and San Francisco, Los Angeles. In holding their seats illegally. labor unions. all of these areas, Democrats The five congressmen will The Washington office of the and Republicans voled to ac have .10 days to file a reply. Freedom Party has four full- cept the Mississippi lawmak While facing heavy odds, time employes, headed by ers' certificates of election and ouster leaders have scored Mike Thelwell. Numerous local to seat them. one lactical gain. and olher volunteers help in If a majority of those votes House Clerk Ralph Roberts the work. can be won, they would go a has agreed to publish as an of Of the 119 congressmen who long way lo reversing that bal ficial document all Freedom voted against ihe five Mis lot. Party charges and supporting sissippians in January 24 were material—running inlo some Republicans. They consist- As of now, the prospects, of 15,000 pages of affidavits, dep ed largely of Rep. Lind doing that are not promising. ositions, slatemenls and a say and olher members of the Numerous difficult, obstacles large mass of oilier ma so-called "Wednesday Club", stand in the way—slarting with terial. II is estimated this will GOP liberals of which he is the Ihe House Elections subcom comprise three volume s—of mainspring. mittee considering the ouster which Roberts is credited as action. Not only is Chairman Neither the Republicans nor indicating 1,000 sets will be Democrats have discussed the Robert Ashmore. D - S. C. printed. against it, but so are the other ouster move in their caucuses. four members. They are vir UNEXPLAINED DELAY Both are taking a wait-and-see tually certain to file a unani For months he had refused attitude. mous adverse report. In the full committee only r~ U six of the 25 members are known to be favorable. They are Representatives Jonathan Bingham, D-N. Y.; Frank Thompson, D - N. J., John Denl, D-Pa.. Lucien Nedzi, D- Mirh.; John Rrariomas, D- Ind.; Augustus Hawkins, D- Calif. With boih Ihe subcommittee • —"-- •• '"*• and full committee turning thumbs down, that means a strongly disapproving report- plus other hampering compli cations. LEADERS UNDISMAYED This is well known to SNCC and olher leaders, hut it's far from discouraging them. They are convinced an ag gressive campaign of high powered lobbying, demonstra tions, and olher pressure tac tics can make a big difference. Above all, ihey view this fighl as part of Ihe general civil rights agilalion, and feel It'l hound lo pay off regardless o! ihe oiiicomp In ihe House, Pursuing this backstage strat egy, following is what they p - "'.'! 7 •.!& ' ' L. BB.yv -LACJACK STACHEST.IClirL, ^^^^^ ^^^jjjaj— ) Goldwater. Secondly, it decided THE STRUGGLE against seat to enlarge many oi the House bring about permanent changes ing 'the Dixiecrat Congressmen Committees and make them more in 'he composition and policies from Mississippi led by the Mis responsive to the people's needs. of Congress, or if in the 1966 sissippi Freedom Democratic Thirdly, they decided on the Con u-ssional elections, the GOP will again be able to re-entrench Party has gained considerable change of House Rules which .-.as adopted by the house as a itself and consolidate its bloc support from Americans the with the Dixiecrats, because dis country oyer. On a test vote in whole by a vote c; 22^ to 201 making it easier to pass legisla illusioned voters will turn away the House on the opening day of from Democratic candidates. Congress, 1-19 Congressmen in tion and overcome tiie sabotage substance voted against staling of the Dixiecrsts who control Undoubtedly the argument will the Mississippi delegation -.vith the chairmanship of many im be made that it is necessary for 276 voting to seat them. In this portant committees. the Administration to concen vote 126 Democrats out of a trate on such issues as medicare, total of 295 Democrats in the But in the fight over the as war on poverty, etc. and for this House supported the challenge sistant Majority leader in the reason one must placate such and 23 Republicans out of a Senate, the Dixiecrat Senator politicians as Senator Russell total of 140 COP House mem Rtissel Long cf Louisiana who Long and not enrage the Con bers. A change of 69 votes would voted against Civil Rights, the gressmen from the South bj a have provided a majority test ban, etc.. was elected over challenge to the Mississippi , against seating them. Dixiecrats. This false argument • Senator Pastore from Rhode must be challenged and exposed, The Mississippi Congressmen Island with the votes of some of Appeasement of the Dixiecrats bavT"been_scated, but thechal"^" the "liberals" of the Xorth. This leuff fernains,~ll is now befaiu?. as well as the seating of the in violation of the election man the •Hmiti'"Tso^'fptnpD |— ry--- Mississippi delegation in the- date of the voters will only • strengthen the GOP-Di>::ecrat 1 House is a danger signal. It stranglehold on Congress and sippi ifemocratic Party will now means the majority of the Dem- 11,1- prevent the passage of progress _athe'*••'-'•r- imuiinauu' maliuu—tn 11s1 "HIT the ocrats on the one hand feel com ive legislation. This is seen in M«.i»ta*?s--eftrirrStafXio5ulaSaaSiliaa pelled to make some concessions the tact that the first act of Sen ••He- ttrc-crrslTcrxge. Our Press will to the will of the voters, but at ator Rjssell Long after becoming rworx On caTry regularly news of the the same time that this majority- majority whip was to join the ..ll|i;^ JULU progress of the challenge. Here is still appeasing the Dixiecrats. other Dixiecrats In an effort to we wish to call the issue to It is hardly likely that the Ad- prevent an end to the Senate your attention and its relation mlnistrttion has no hand in this i j.-eai-ySSa,-;1 -.-•' rule which makes possible the ship to all Congressional strug although officially it pursued a sabotage of needed legislation iSHINGTON (UPI)-House gles in the period ahead and Sn 'hands off" policy. through filibuster. Appeasing the whole struggle for political Ralph R. Roberts said- Ir. this issue — the final out them will create disunity and realignment and the fight for come of the seating Of the Mis ssday he had sent ell pa-: dissatisfaction within the broad the people's mandate as regis sissippi Dixiecrat Ccujressmen peoples coalition. It will lead irk submitted by (ha Free-i tered on ICovember 3rd. — much is at stake. rirst is in to the defeat of many marginal- Democratic party in its I Already the Democratic cau volved the fate of people's legis vote Congressmen elected in tho tnga Mississippi's five; cus was compelled to take some lation in this and the- next ses Johnson sweep come November ' ess. the public print- measures in recognition of the sion of Congress. Second, the 1966. Only an offensive against will of the electorate. First it put Influence of the people's coali reaction, whether the Southern on the bottom of the seniority tion that made possiole the Dixiecrats or Goldwater ultra- C" . d that list two Dixiecrat Congressmen landslide victory over Goldwater Rights as November showed, of -iiions, com- Who openly supported Barry and thirdly whether the people's can mobilize the people and lead s *1 . matter- submit- coalition will consolidate and (Continued on page 9) .' til. -orninantly Negro doe. ot comply with the ej governing, congressional i:jes. ile had noted before pmc r.f the material re- veriticalion in the way matures or notarization. ' idea right now is to print end point out the instanc- 5 wliich we do not think tha r'ether o'f'ir"ne «• Zrh'-Z -^ ial complies with the stat- ;-ehuZ^,Z . or ^•^' Cl w Koberis said. Be said he " UiZ°Z* PRINTING BALKED; LOBBYISTS JAILED House clerk reneges o on MFDP depositions By Russ Nixon The first section of the MFDP-SNCC WASHINGTON, D.C. Washington lobby of more than 200 stu (SEVERAL RECENT developments have dents visited congressmen and were <-3 demonstrated the importance which briefed on further Challenge work. The is attached to the challenge to the seat second group of 200 began a lobby June ing of five Mississippi congressmen hy 24. Plans for an all-summer lobby on the tiio Mississippi Freedom. Democratic Challenge were under discussion. Party: The formal basis for Robert's action o Clearly setting forth the House De was a letter from Coleman arid other law mocratic leadership's affinity with the yers for the seated Mississippi delegation Dixiecrats, House Clerk Reiph R. Robert? raising technical objections to the v;2y I alleged on bis commitment of June 4 to the depositions were signed and trans print the 600 depositions describing elec mitted to the clerk. MFDP lawyers la a tion illegalities collected by the MFDP. memorandum to the clerk documented • Twelve MFDP delegates to the Chal the fact that both in writing and in the lenge Washington lobby were jailed over deposition transcripts the Mississippi con the June 10-20 weekend and held in $500 gressmen and their lawyers had clearly bond. They were arrested for "illegal en- waived any such technical objections. ti-y-- when they insisted on waiting for The MFDP lawyers asserted that "for the Roberts to arrive for a June 19 appoint clerk to participate in the unconscionable ment his Office had confirmed in writing. repudiation by the Mississippi sitting • President Johnson appointed to the members of their own stipulations . . . Court of Appeals James P. Coleman, the would be to participate in a fraud upen Mississippi segregationist leader and this House . . ." counsel for the five challenged congress men 'see p. 5•. LED BY Mrs. Vie toria Gray, one of the • More than 800 Negroes were arrested challengers, 20 :. 'FDP members visited and given rough stoc'.tade impilsonm:-'.-.'. the Clerk's office to discuss the print ing in Jackson. Miss, for a civil rights dem- of the depositions Roberts was away and nstratlon i see p. I), the group talked with his technical es- sistant. Benjami:a Guthrie, who told RAKING FOR EIGHT other Demo- three separata stc ries in o.tiick succession ingressmeo at a press conference about Roberts's a vallabllity. The deleja- :-. Don Edwards iCallf.) who tion then said it WOUtd wait for Rob- 3-c national chairman of Americans ens to appear ur. iess an appointment for *r Democratic Action, expressed alarm made in writing. .it "the breach of promise" by House -.he next day was At the 4:30 p.: - closing time the cele- Clerk Roberts. Following a conference the ir.d began to sing: "We his office until he gives us a formal day before between congressmen and gallon sat down want justice, I.o id. Come by here. Ch, written date by which we will have the Roberts, the congressional supporters of re . . ." After much con- printed material." the dialler-je said: "By his refusal to Lord, Come by he House officials. Guthrie The 16 Negroes from Mississippi then print the testimony the clerk is prevent [erring with hKh r. writing a definite ap- sat on the marble floor outside the clerk's ing the House from obtaining adequate gave Mrs. Gray 1 ~.e delegation with the office to wait. Washington. D.C. Police Information relating to the Mississippi polntmenl for t June 19. Capt. Herman W. Xander took the name Challenge which the House should have clerk at 10 a.m. and full address of each Negro, and an available . . . We cali upon the clerk ot ARRIVING ON" TIME, the delegation v.as official police photos rapher took indi the House to print immediately all of the told by another assistant, Ray Young vidual and group pictures. Tne Capitol testimony and forward it forthwith to that Roberta could not keep the appoint corridors were closed to the public and the House Administration Committee." ment: "He had to attend a funeral." press entry was tightly restricted. When The unexpected problem of printing the Mrs. Gray said: "Our dealings with the the Capitol Building closed at 4:30 pun. depositions delayed the filing of the office of the clerk is an unfortunate the delegates were ordered to leave. They MFDP legal brief, scheduled to go to the record of dishonored commitments end refused and were arrested on charges House Administration Committee by broken promises on the clerk's part . . . of illegal entry. Ten of the group spent June 25. We feel justified in remaining sitting in the weekend in the Washington jail. 7 , I ii *, I I • : J I • - - lie » ." •? use./tfuITi/U t. arvices By JAMES E. BOMNEY lOCrati and copies were exhibited MenVlifAssociated Pross Write r I today on a bulletin board ir. the JACKSON, Miss. 'A!') —Nc-j parly headquarter! in Jack- gro mothers are. being urgfd by j son. a largely Negro political ore..: ;•: Asked today about the appeal, zation to keep theict sons from i liarles Horwitz, a spokesman honoring the draft and Nerro: s -fur the Freedom Democrats, in the armed services were {said, "Tne McComb Freedom asked to stage hunger strikes, j Democratic Party initially pub- The Freedom Democratic I'.tt- fished the letter and althou ll ty, composed oi some cull ihe executive committee of tha rights groups, mide the plea in FDP hadn't taken any action on a leaflet distributed in Negro it, we decided to reprint it hi Communities throughout the the official newsletter for dis state. tribution across the si ate." The appeal also is a monthly An editor's nole in the news newsletter ot the Freedom Dem- letter said ihe appeal was tu- T^ . >a • „«, thored by Joe Martin of Mc * I ' Z • Comb and Citit Hopson, a lav student from New Jersey. j The Freedom Democrats arc .4; OlltlCQi ITfltlf 'challenging the seating of Mis sissippi's five congressmen ou rxa. grounds they were illegally j elected because Negroes aren't &a !H ii ii Ji & 'v *> j -«ai 'iri a N* 't& »v registered in sufficient numbers 'f f' I in this deep Scuta state. By JOHN HAUL | fcfring ' to -he 1*87 governor 'rca LIBEL, SLANDER SUITS C^Z 7^3o/ Depositions Being Taken In Mass CR Arrests Here By WILLIAM L. CHAZE Stennett, the city's chief le tors were arrested during a J- Clarion - Ledger Stall Writer gal counsel, said the NAACP, weck period in Jackson. The Jackson City Atty. E. W. CORE and SNCC "will possibly demonstrators, the majority of Stennett revealed late Thurs be named in the suits." He said them Xegro, were protesting day his department has begun he was searching for a "tie - taking depositions from police in" with Freedom Democratic voter rights in marches in tha officers involved in recent mass, Party. downtown area. arrests of civil rights demon Stennett, who was ordered to Most of the arrests were strators in the Capital City. prepare the action last week, made on charges of parading The depositions, he said, will has promised a speed - up in without a permit. be" used in filing a number of the suits. Some of the prisoners claim $500,000 libel and slander suits "We'll be ready as soon as ed they were "gassed" and against civil rights organiza we can get some of these peo beaten by officers during their tions that claimed police bru ple into court,' he said. confinement. More than 70 com tality was used in the arrests. Mayor Allen Thompson or plaints were filed with t h a dered the suits drawn after Justice Department charging news stories and newscasts brutality. reported the demonstrators' Justice Department investi complaints of brutality in the gators dismissed all hut six. temporary fairgrounds jaii. The remaining complaints The mayor offered a $1,000 claim brutality was used in reward out of his own pocket the arrests. "to anybody who can prove brutality ever existed in Jack son." Stennett told the Clarion • Ledger his department is now considering slander suit action against newspapers which pub lished the police brutality sto ries. "We will filet the suits against any party or agency aiding and abetting in issuing the false statements," he said. The city attorney said h i s department has spent about a week interviewing officers ac tive in the arrests. He said he needs additional depositions and statements. More than 1,000 demonstra 7 laaaaafafafatafaeaHHIIlH uH /u"^ SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1965. >lWru< 3 (A^JACKSON01^ , SeVs^Miss., Ju!rv ^i^^^z^±}Zhj^^30|wc ^"-'ciclcd to reprin t it in thefand thZ e Mississipp^Z^> i tovommcnt-'Xcgrai-Ziro : Soys cm d•o the saine (Al>)- Xegro mothers are h,.- ufr'ci*i"newrpTTer^icr rii.Mimrr.,» c0:..<, wiaj, gtms dcJgS ar.djthing. We c.-.u write mid a.-k tne urged by a largely .Negro,'1'.0-1 "eross i..c gffl , trucks to lake om- sons away our sens 1/ they know what they political organisation to keep ^ colors r.o« in tho new^- to fi „, anJ b(5 kiiiod protect-ir. AgMlng tor. If lie answers their .sons from tonortng HJSu^ll j« ?llrtlilrt M? |B* Wlntolppl, Alabama, Geor- Iretsiom, till him that's what draft, and Negroes In the aniwd jf™"™ ?^,,. .. et ,eiii aril Louisiana »•» «« nffhttn.. IT„-.W<. ta services af.ha.lna- ult*d in'Comb and Clir.t Hopson, a law '.,„"» ,' ~ . ., , I"" . . -.'•= I I01 "cr- "• services aio Ming a.>Aea to. „ !,„. ' "No one has a right te ask ns Mississippi, stage hunger, strike* "tSniii, - to risk our lives and kill other! "And if he says democracy. •ihe Mississippi Free,!™ Dem-! *h« y,,' ,; ;,* k,P"c oW people in Santo Do-tell Mm Ihe truth—we don't ocratic party. organized mainlyi™-' £ -,»•» -^ -an., of ...K C ^ .T^ , . „ ,,,..,.,;„. , „. bythe Student Nonviolent Co- ™ ffl * SSff^SSv wer e "'flh'ta Al»«l«»n <*» M«« tl* aricher ;h ,];nov atomv . Socialism abc, anutd Comn:all that, ordinatlng Ccnuni too, a fM ^sllv^^ef t nd d beca^ »™ W« Vlli be :ooket! "P0"1 »"»" ,ve do tojw °"« *«*"*« right group, made tne pice in a," ;.^< > e'« tcj oec ause ««- „-] colored peo- have can?:- hell right here un- •leaflet distributed in Negro ^ "*£* **g5£f i° *j£ pitmltwe of t thb yJ worl thdc if the Me,:oc!e,- this African umc-raey. • ;eommunlUes -throughout the ™u *uV,,,,h..?.. ""people continue to fight *nd die m Waishinston, the Civil -sta'e. T^enewTlettcrsaid, , - without a cause. Rights Division of th* Justice The appeal is also.In smooth-; ,S* ** SKiJL~ :p, ' „„c r csJ f "Ust week a white wW!er,r*partrc.er,t had no comment as Democratsl»«.yoe:-ats.Co.y newslette, fjopler ;ieswe.-ecxhrSV:Ofs thwere eFreedom exhibit-;'houl!fhoii ,_ *°Md ^-"'-,be'fihiin-'be fiith::.:?;-- .m h ;..vieenvIr'ictna"rrr-m^ fi-J^.o n1' NeX-w JerseJ«.-=»vy ' wa«-,-s dis-'i. '.n "«•*»«•» -- - " - '&,*£%£? i fcrlcUn }^l 1» for th« white 1 i;„'s ,^0"™ cSrged t*Sm thSTrmv beca^'i" ^ethcr lh'? leaflet vioFa'ted »fe«n th« te«ft!eto r a pUinU about it. 'tpokesraunnim<:nvini /^.for. *>/Vr.Q_ _ _part . *y \<«?ic!: . i.. :t!.«**grc availo boy hers fhouUe InS MUslsMppinot h( . " J "Th.? ?-IcCor:ib }-'rccc!iVin Petri- Mothers should encouragt thtlr ocr:i'rr^ ;/rt)ty !i:;:iallv T.^.-'.lfl;r«! pons not to ro. thjb it'iior r>:\>\ .1 li'ioii.^li i'.:c cx-'s. "We will ?ai:i respect ami C - iAPHIC VISUAL COSVITRCl. ccul'iVi' cuniiriltUV1 ot the -L ,u.f. dQfnlty u «a race cr.ly by forcing ffc : A;i G hatf-t't' t:.krn~a;:v .tutlim i"' " * *»*-'•*-• State* " ' ^-^•Z^' :.\ - ->fT::i:-.VJ0cr!lfo-f^ «uSS?i> VOuroper.itenj.Y-i. See how Wf *aP •::',..,;' 9a 5 • !F*\ ,\ W %i M 1/ » n»9_ if f 4n¥ if t*.' I //_ J Q.rjrf"/,^.^^! ^^^^^^ i/ ,1=* e;-* v.-pj *es--J \.V»t MJ a»ai) ! NEW VOU.K TIMES, S.\ OJcS I A Mns nONNEY 1 Into words after talking with ..Freedcm House Electricity . :ss Writer | them, singing with thf m and Is .Cut Off in Mississippi! :--::. i.AP)—Clin- j living with tliem.' ton 1 .. a .Negro law student! Hopson slid Guyot's state- HATTIESBVRQ, Miss., Jan. I who co-authored a controversial j meat that the party nad no "of- ;1 (API—A civil rights Tree ar.li-military article said today ficl" position on the anti-draft dom Hou?e u.-here.l in the Ne-.' ;t was lauded when presented: movement and th? Viet N'am Year by candlelight today. The to the Mississippi Freed 0 ml war was just a matter of trying city hid cut off electric power, Democratic Party headquar-ito keep the name of the FDP ! "The reason I ordered the ters. | "off the line." power c;t off was because the "They '.old mo it was great! "Neither black no; white .wiring was not adequate to . .. beautiful," the Neptune, j should be la Viet Nam,," Hopson take csiet>f the tlectrlcal load." N.J., sammer vclanteer said inj said. "What in hell are we doing said Ralph Brehaney, city elec- an interview. there?" ttical inspector. "It eidangevc-l Lawrence Guyot, the ipoket-|. Raiter S^elig, the co-author, hunter, life and property." he man for the Freedom Detno- said his Freedom School class crats, said the article — which!of youthful Negroes has written added. called on Negro mothers to; statement! or. th?:r feelings on The Council of Federated urge their sons to ignore draft OrcaatxattOM called the action calls—did not reflect a policy the war. harassment aimed at shutting statement of his group. "They all say they don't want down the facility. -,i possible inytatnl to do with the war," :lt sail that some 30 college The article has drawn criti Siiciig said. cism from both Negro and white students spent tome of their leadership. It appeared in the Seelig—who says he has no Christmas holiday repainting official newsletter of the FDP. and cleaning up the one-story home address ard is 'a student •frame house. Hopson, a Student at Howard of the world'—nas saved tho \ "The Negro electrician who College of Washington, said the I statements and piar.s to take ma-le the wiring installation party's state headquarters mUhem to the "Congressol Un- ha.i no license to perform elec- Jackson saw the leaflet priorjr-jprescnttd People Meeting" trkil Installations -In tins city.' lo its publication i:i the official j this weekend in Washington. I Mr. Brehaney replied, newsletter and praised it. j Seelig said he would continue 1 The student? who worked on jthe house halted from it cam- Hopson said that "Free-lomlhis teaching in t'-e Freedom jpuses. including F'.orirfa State. School" teachers have been dis-jSchool, despite charges of auti- I Auburn, Vanderbtlt, Loyoia oi cussing the Viet Mam war with I Americanism raised againn it. -Ithe Stuth. Dull? and 8< teen-ate students all summer "Our right to protest is the tad the leaflet reprinted In •_*.»: principal that this country was FDP's newsletter was "notiiir.gj founded upon," Seelig said. "It's new." rai American as George Wash- "It came from the pcori»."i in;ton ... if our policy is la- Hopson said, "this is how they|beled un-Art: eaa or anti- felt, We Just put their feelings American, 'A'.- -::n was Wo/ jfilW AT FREE DOM SCHOOL|c f - HlAB A- Denonee Qt i Taught In FDP Class By JAMES E. BONNEY passed out in Negro commuiii- Associated Presa Writer lies across the state urging Xe A militanl civil rights group gro mothers to stop their sons that, called [or Negroes to defy from honoring the draft and the draft lias expanded its urg asking Negroes in Ihe armed ing to "Freedom School" classes services lo stage hunger strikes. of teen-aye Negroes. The leaflet was reprinted in Ranter Selig, a Freedom Dem Ihe Freedom Democratic Par ocratic Party worker from Chi ly's official newsletter and post cago, said today lie had instruct ed on the headquarters bulletin ed neaily 50 "students In «4c- board. Comb, in "the evils of the bomb DIGGS REACTS and what we can do to stop this It brought immediate Con war in Viet Nam." gressional reaction. Selig told a newsman he de Rep. Charles Diggs, D-Micli., voted an all-day session of his j told newsmen the Freedom freedom school class to the Viet I Democratic Party's plea was Nam war. "ridiculous and completely ir "1 told them about the de-1 responsible." destruction and damage wan Diggs is a Negro who as a causes and the effects of the I member of the Credentials Com bombs. I explained how they j mittee of the last Democratic dropped the bombs on colored i Continued on PageJU people instead ot while." Selig i said. LETTERS WRITTEN M "Al the end of my class I had the students write letters on »i'i iheir reaction to Ihe war. I'll carry these to Washington Aug. 16 when I attend the Congress of Unrepresented People." A* Selig said the ami-military feeling had been "sort o; in the •r air for quite a while, but only when we put it in writing did it Oi catch on." The writing was a leaflet IDRAF Ui zzi Continued From Page 1 letter said the appeal was au National Convention supported thorized by Joe Martin c: Mc- Comb, a Student Non-Vio'.e-.t Co r— seating of Mississippi FDP del ordinating Committee s : a:" I egates at the convention. worker and Girt Hcpscn. a "No Mississippi Negroes Howard University law" student should be fighting in Viet Nam from Neptune, N.J., working in the state this summer. for the white ma's freedom, until all the Negro people are The newsletter said "V-'e will gain respect and dignity as a free in Mississippi," the leaflet race only by forcing ths U.S. said. government and the Mississippi Diggs said, ''I think that our government to come with guns, domestic problem is separate dogs and trucks to take our sons from any conflict that this coun away to fight and be killed pro try has with any other country. tecting Mississippi, Alabama, There has never in the history Georgia and Louisiana. of the American Negro been "No one has a right :•> ask any such lack of patriotism. us to risk our lives and kill oth Negroes have always been er colored people' in Santo Do proud to have fought and died mingo and Viet Nam, so that despite imperfections of this the white American can get country. | richer. We will be looked upon "In event of any confronta as traitors by ail the colored tion or conflict with outside people of the world if the Negro groups." Diggs said referring people continue to fight and die to the urgings for a Negro draft I without a cause. protest, "any bombs sent over I "Last week a white soldier here will not be labeled for any from New Jersey wai dis- particular segment of society. cho.rgnd from the Army ':e-ca-;;c! They will be labeled for all of he refused to fight in Vir. Nam. us." He .vent on a hunger strike. Ne CHALLENGE SEATING gro boys can do the same thing. The Freedom Democratic Par ( "'.Ve can write and ask cur ty is the group that led racial i sor.= if they know what '.hey are demonstrations" in .Jackson last fighting for. If he answers month that resulted in arrests 'freedom,' te;! him tha-.'? what of over LOW. The FDP also is : we are fighting for. rsil him challenging the seating ot Mis that's what we "are fighting for sissippi's live regularly elected : here in Mississippi. Congress--, it. "And if he savs den: tcracy, An edit >r - note in the news- : tell him the truth—we don't too* anything tbout comma* SiSala, SeC^li-m. iOd i 1 that, . but -as do tows chat Negroes have caugnt nsr.t ;ere an> us American ssracy." 7 FDP Request To Deifibraft \- Conaressiona .KeGciiono . j By JAMES E. BOMNEYVa . -Ms;. An editor's note, in the news')' Associated Press Writer board. letter raid the appeal was an-1 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A It brought immediate Con merited by Joe Martin of Mc-- militant civil rights (roup (Sat gressional reaction. Comb, a Student Non-Violent Co- cafed for Negroes to defy the Rep. Charles Djgg&JUlk*., ordinaiing Committee s t aiff draft has expended Its urging tc^d^^ilTruerT the Freedom worker and Clint Hopson, a f lo "Freeelom School" classes of Democranc Party's plea was Howard University law student * teen-age Negroes. res.X'.naiolc"ricjj'culciis . sad completely ir- from Neptune, N.J., working in. Ii,-titter Sct-lg, a Freedom Deem- "D'iggs is a Negro who as a the state this summer. oci'STic.l'.'.'rTy worker from Chi- member of the Credentials Com- The newsletter said "We will earn, said today he had insirtict- mlttee of the test Democratic sain respect and dignity as a 7 (K[ nearly so students in Mr- National Convention supported race only by forcing the U.S. ! Comb, in "ihe evils ef the bomb seating cf Mississippi FDP del government and the Mississippi / j afST what we c-an do to slop this egates at the convection. imrmtllllll to come with guns,' inrr in Viet Nam." "Xo Mississippi Negroes dogl and trucks to take cur sons' | ""Selig tolc! a newsman he de- should b? Mrhting in Viet Namj away to flfhl and be killed pro- tf ! voted an all-day session of his the while man's freedom, tecting Mississippi, Alabama, A | freedom school class to the Met until all the Negro people are Georgia and Louisiana. Nam war. free in Mississippi," the leaflet "No one has a right to ask I "I loid them about the de- said. us to risk our lives and kil!_ oth- Idestruction and damage war Diggs said. "I think that our ejl_C'0iDi2d_ people In SarjCLlla.. f 'cTrruTes and the effects of the domestic pr'-hlemi U separate mlngo and Viet Nam, so that - u . Collibs. I explained how they from any conflict that til's coun tne wnite lAmefTcrirr c.-;n_ let j dropped the bombs p-i colored try fits-m*h 'any other cc-uotry. I -aacraez 'AS «.OUT be looked upon ;p?0Pie instc-ad of white," Selh free !l?« rover in the history I as traitor? by all the colored 'said. •ef-rtre Awerican Negro baen: people of the world If the Negro j "At the end of my class I had any such lack of patriotism.! ;.eople continue to fight and die ] the students tmtc letters on Negroes have, always been; without a cause. 'their reaction to the war. I'll proud to have fought and died 'Last week a white soldier carry these to Washir.g.on Aug. despite imperfections of this from New Jersey was dis ;16 when I attend the Congress coiu.uy. charged from the Army because 'of Unrepresented People." "In event of any cor-fronta- he refused to fight in Viet Nam. S?lig said the anti-military tlon or conflict with outside Ke went on a hunger Strike. Ne feeling had been "sort of in the groups," Diggs said referring gro boys can do the same thing. I I air for quite a while, but only to the urgiuts for -a Negro draft "We can write and ask our ' whan wa put it in writing did it pretest, "any bombs Stat over i sens if thay know what 'hey are catch on." here will not ba labeled for any i fighting for. If he answers 1 The writing was a leaflet particular Mg9MBt of society. I -freedom,' tell Mm that's what ,passed out in Negro communi They will be labeled for all (five are fighting for, tell him ties across the stote urpng Ne us." that's what wa are fighting for gro mothers to stop their sons The Freedom Democratic Par-1 here in Mississippi. •from honoring the draft and ry is the group that led racial | "And if he says democracy, asking Negroes in thetrme d [demonstrations in Jackson lest I tell him 'he truth—••re don't services to stage hunger trike-s. I month that resulted in arrests I know nothing about comma- The leaflet was reprinted in : o.' over 1,000. The FDP also islnism, sociaii--n. and ell that, the Freedom Democratic Par- i o'.-:ll.-:iging the scaling Of Mis- hat we do kr.ow that Negroes ty's official newsletter a t-ei post-1 sissippi's fiv* regularly eioctcd have eattgbt hell right here un-j ,ed on the headquarters UjHetlalCoogrossmen, 'ccr this American democrac)/ ii »• S i.j &t Tr K"S •? 9 * * 3 -., . a .-, s ii s -;-':-= ~ -„ •; o »>. ... £ ;. I 3*1 U It =S — O ._ /:••< _ '-• 'A A -n ^.^7 ~ ^i - -n--ajl. P ^ « 1 s/Ji;' S „ • a-r- &« 2 3 2.5-5 rE_ a- 8 <* P -> I I a. > -., ^ *l C 1-tT. _ J3 «-!• « ^. — —• —. * - S /-. Z. W 5i IT — a, '"t C — ? £ 6 |§|1 9 'ca'j-i y i Lvle«£j> il i ti i ment to look into an appeal cir G UeVi, rom culated by a militant civil r • frj^ I • Groups rights group callinar on Negro mother! to urrre ti-.cir sons" to Ihe draft dodgers. •i -J i HoL .Tames L. D.-ivis, the head •: - • of the draft in Mississippi, said JACKSON Miss. (AP)) — Ttlis-f Negro attorney v-Tin has ha was elected he hud forwarded the printed sissippi organized labor, a Ne-' died ca.-cs for rj-'j r-Ms v,,,.,},» ^^^^^^^^ . . =l:s ago oi appeal to tho United Stales At- gro civil rights attorney and the for years said that -.or \pj,;,t:i ti'.MVlracdal, kiyali.-t Mississippi torney'a office here. while leader of a new, biracial and other Americans lo defend ~ " aJaddLthei "I'm shocked," said Colonel : Davtat, adding th.-it similar inci political group have joined in their r r'-t< in the rnnrla~,-v only beneficiary of the anti-! dents had resulted in convic '.criticism of a call for Missis- j must, when necessary, "fiethl on draft statement would be Ihe i tions-. He declined to elaborate. • sip-pi Negroes to shirk draiti a battTefTgld" 10 CiTsy"'" <~ Communist conspiracy.' "Negroes should not honor j calls. j cotilU_—I "It is incredible," he said,| | the draft here in Mississippi," I The anti - draft statement "\'er---ie- haw tonghf '•'- "that any group in America: s-jd a newsletter printed "by •the Freedom Democratic party, I which also said Negroes were' the.)i- i-.-nntrv Yi'lirn I'm nd'i I would make such a suggestion.' !a largely Negro group. "fightinTT g° in Vie—t Nam"" fo-"'r Lthelialns'^|f,ai'i>lt ll.euthemi v.ciwere HilCmuetj ^ ;T This reported action of the FDP. I Lawrence Guyot, executive wmte man i freedom" was pub-, in this country iv.ar, ihev -Z. J*--makes one wonder what lnflu- 'secretary o? the party, hurried iCtually control and di back to Jacksi»n from the Mis- lished in the official publication! de|£5 S5 'I Sew ef w licences ictun 'sfsslppi Gulf Coast today after oPartyf th.e freedom Democratic'IjlflJK son .y-'-n - thev will ,„;„,. ,-. aw f" t th! IDI the newsletter was publicized E. Jess Brown gLjtfjggg. » In Fa.-cagoula, atbrnev Rob- I Oswald's group, backed heavi- yesterday. He said the party's ' ly by the National Association; exec utive committee had neither for the Advancement of Colored cor.clemed nor condoned the H H appeal. ***% EVE& C B £ t S I ier»«i § 1 jifisii M K V.- $ o — £T pom •a. * trem 5; r.^ejejt ~c ,' 18 ^ o n ft c) -H: g s c H P 3B •£ •*• a "' i i o fcLfSitJ iSfJ ^*5S 3 z^v' M 3 *J-I o *V«o» o y£.' i*• . - o 7 J-T"!'' ^^^^^^^^ Anti-Draft Appeal ~ Cmilimicd From Page I 4 them, singing with them and lit)::, with them." w Violate La^s monilhalHopson . thsnied nail Giivnt.'v hads noslaie "of- ficial" position on the anti-draft y ,r \ Q'jji&y LEE BANDY ; . ~W1 —: '.i-';':'- • v\ \,. Washington Bureau •:' •'':.:; war was just A BBBjf 61 trying v 5 to'kecp 8B IHlrTlS Of tiia FPr* WaASHINGTON—The Justice Department 'is trying "Mini hi'.fl." lo determine whether the Mississippi Freedom Demo Neither black nor white cratic party idolater! federal law in urging Negro mothers to keep their sons from honoring the military should he iu Vict N'r-rn." Ho pn said, "V7hat in hell are tie doing draft. [jj-l'i-o'"' A department spokesman said "we are dealing with STATEMENTS WRITTEN Rainer Scelig, the co-author. a complicated mailer here which requires careful study said his Freedom School class (o determine possible vio- j , of youthful Negroes has written tetion of the law." I "- *--•*' : statements on their feelings on 'I '! • the war. DirectoMississippr Co!i . SelecmJames eL .Servic Davies ;i W '•> "They all say they don't want aian L,. uavis! 'anything to do with the war," Saturday asked Ihe Scelig said. paaemthl to invesIhi e justice de- j P|f|f*|YAf Seelig — who says he has no peal to the Negrestigato motherse the. ip-J V*l IllVlwJ home address and is "a student The plea was ',romad mctherse in a leaf. of thp world"—has saved the let and] ^^^^^^^^^made in a leaf^- statements and plans to lake riii.iributeoit ami a mmonthl rfejzryo newslettecommunir- Wl . iuem tn the "Congress of l"n- tfr*tributea Ihtoughoud in tNetrr Mississiopio communi. - i * | represented People Meeting" URGES HUNGER STRIKES Sciys They First this weekend in Washington. Aside from its dOdge-the-draft See:'; said he would continue appeal, Ihe militant civil rights Lduded Article, his teaching in the Freedom group also urged Negroes in Then Backed Down School, despite charges of arhi- ire armed services io stage • Americanism raised against it. hunger s'rikes. By JAMES BONNET j ''Our right lo protest is the The Justice official said "we MCCOMB, Miss. lAPj-Chn- j principal that this c-ounti-y w-as must first of all decide whether ion Hopson, ?. Negro law student founded upon," Seelig s;M. "It's the campaign has had any efwho co-authored a controversial as American as George Wash fect on the Negro r-pulstion. ington ... if our policy is la If it hasn't '.hen there's noth-1 anti-military article said today it was lauded when presented beled un-American or anti- ing prosecutable." !,„ the Misefesir American, Washington was loo." HP jlsn nitrifd the rle-anmer.t Democrati•o the Mississippc pi i Freedom must determine whether -he sn- :„,.; headqua pijil was n.-,.y an cxi'-essio^of '-]-;-.ev told DM it was creat opinion or vdjejh^aCl^ll-piej.- -. , beautiful." the Neptune WMm --_-_v.-as rxcrtcd unon ihe .\c- \ .;.. nimmer volonteer said in \r° Continued From Page U The d-'-?r;mcrit will welch all until all the Negro people are ftTence Guvct 'h1* s-ookes- free in Mississippi. factors he-.or<: deciding whether man for the Freedom fceffin- 'Negro boys should not honor federal law was vionied, the cr?:.-, sad the article - which draft here in Mississippi. spokesman said. called on Negro mothers ro M- -.hers should encourage their "If there is a violation, the ,..-;e me,r sons to ignore f\<:-i: sons not to go. machinery will start rolling,"!calls—did rot reflect a policy "We will gain respect and he declared. statement oi his group. dignity as a race only by fore-1 NAACP HEACTS | The article h?s drawn cri'i- ing the United Slates govern-, The National Association for I ci-:m from faoih Negro and white meat and the Miss.sslppi gov-1 the Advancement o- Coiored ieadcrshio. I- appeared in tho eminent to come with guns.; People (NAACP) condemned; official newsletter of the FC?. . dogs and trucks to take our i the freedom party fcr i:s state-i Hopson. a student it Howard sons away to fight and be kill-1 ment. j College of Washington, said tho ed protecting Mississippi, Ala "In times of peril." the party's state headquarters la bama, Georgia and Louisiana NAACP said, "'it fi the duty of| Jackson saw the leaflet prior i "No one has a right to ask every American to give corn-< to its publication in the official us to ri'k our lives and kill plete supper: to the" fight for: newsletter and praised it. 1 freedom abroad and step up I NOTHING NEW other colored peopie in Santo - 1 Domingo and Viet Nam. so tha' - the pace for the fight for democ-1 Hopson said that -'Freedom the, w ii i t e American car. get racv at home." [School" teachers rave been dls- richer. . ." Nejro Rep. Diaries K2gs, D-JCBMin« tile Vic' Nsm war *ttl1 Mich:, said the Piea was" "ridi-1 teen-m students a;t summer cuious and completely i-respon-i^t,:™ lCa: « reprinted to tho £[K;e .> FDP s newsletter was "nothing The newsletter said in part: , "% ^ from th , ,. - •?, ^ r1 -rP:" •*£,*'£'.? Hopson said, "this is how "the-: should be fighting in Viet Nam fe£ w just , !h,,-r f „ • for the white mans irecdom, fat worJ. a;lcr tai;. w/g 7 CftC ClttiOtfZtb&t JACKSON DAILY NEWS 7 Sunday. August S. IMS SECTION A EN 1*1 7T71 • "^\T | I ">-•- - 111 ay ii\M1 \'l JTJJ!H J i£ vV Ey ANDREW J. REESE Jit I rights activists to unseat Mis- "1" • Negro citizens to ifr*l United Press International - sissippi's congressional rielega- nqre Ihe draft can only serve P An appeal for Negroes to ; tion. to destroy that which they evade military service has in The controversial plea, wide- have fought so hard to jected a new — and possibly iy distributed in Negro com-; achieve." said Evers. major - issue in efforts by Civil munities across the state ap- j The Justice Department is rc- pcarcd In a monthly newsletter | poned'y taking a close look into published by the" Mississippi- Ihe affair to determine if prose- Freedom Democratic Party , en-ions are warranted, A" fed- (FDP). era! law makes it illegal for | Already it ha? caused quite ; anyone to counsel another per- an uproar bolli within and out J son to evade military duty, of the stale, triggered a fed- i The controversial article was ' '••'• ;;" i ' a reprint of a leaflet prepared tiie ire of many Negro and in the MeComb area by a local while leaders alike — including civil rights worker, joe Mar sonic previous;-.' in s-.mpathv tin, and Clint Hopson. a 1 a w with Ihe FDP. ' student from New Jersey. It FDF Cliariman Lawrence firs! appeared shortly after a Guyot said the article did not McComb Negro was"killed on represent an official stand by duty to Viet Nam. his group, but admitted a draft The leaflets !i-,ird five rfasim; 1 evasion policy bad been taught "why Negroes sl-.r..-.-! denunded, ana t*« y «P- Or^•K Stud y Group^ , calle,...„ d somon e Rob-10l claimed the _recor d was not I TERMED TREASONABLE • In his telegrams to President 1011- -.IviUe, S. C, who snastet no se- ;. = , to demand that.?"nted •'«• l*™ roc 1'"d-\> on oUe af ueSl Johnson and Gen. Hershey. Rep. to I cret that he does net want to:the rccord fce printed. There printed and tiled Witt Speak- Abernethy described the alleged •".unseat his friends from Mis-<,V£,re some yelled hints in the er McCormack until one drait cedge propose! as "not irily sissippi, has made no effort to that Northern , ._-.<, five cloakroom ft utw Ju v a and only treasonable but is nothing sippi comply with the House rules, i Democrats might call a Dem- , nem0'cra-ic Party shor) of. an insult to the Eresi- :men ocratic caucus ano declare the.Freedom uemocra.ic -u.ty dem. the commander-in-chiet last No. 1 Sinner I office of Clerk vacant. '.was then permitted to file one over No. 1 staller. however, has Probably these hints got dav ,5.er JuIy JC1 Tfch jfujay of our armed forces, and to the of .itf.pn_gai.ph Roberts, Clerk oi delay co s United States 5 f r back to Roberts. At any rate "^ MM "..,c jHwisttppI Pair. ?'sur ofe »suc• h conduct - wa>s vot- lithe __o__e_who co^ 1P -' nwt^'avhOTlrTg how more than,C°n;i-e:smen inother SO y~Z cheered in Moscow, Peking ''?n' Vea.'son. Indiana. : one "third of Mississippi's vol-, in which to file their t efs, and Hanoi. Sincerely hope the >n there has been! After several weeksj__ar- ers had been deprived of the' and pushed the final show- responsible parties will' have- oa , i5ht W VOL down near the time of con- appropriate attention of your «n«ln« series of'^m"SaTT^____J«*SSl - ' °" - . gressional adjournment. goon oi.ioes and the L'.S. De- and J-meTT finally pverareQgfeo-. But petty sabotage contm derr.ar.cled partment of Justice." n* notice on Speaker eCormack and the e^___-w* leagues. Reps. William M. Col- , fighting mer. Jshn Bell Williams. Jamie . •-,.:.,.t-r:it on Com- caV.yca a hat they plan to do B. "SCOem un L. Whitten and Prentiss Walk- ,, about the delay. R ; I.' -lC ilCpOPl n . » » By Ron-land Evans and Robert Novak The Mississippi Moderates If a Courageous, biracial would destroy the moderates. band of Mississippi moder But there is another, more ates succeeds In its goni of fundamental reason. The CUSTER OF MISS. building a new state Demo President doesn't want to cratic Party, it 1.111 have to throw sand in the faces of S0L0N3 SOUG ii do it by Itself— Willi no help Mississippi's tv. o segrega from either the While House tionist Senators. James East (Special lo Tj;-_7 -es-P.cdvunc) or the Democratic National land and John Stennis. ALEXANDRIA, La. - The Committee. faces of Mississippi's two se- Louisiana Public Service Com Because oi' this fact of gregatlonlst Senators, James mission hoard 20 cases Wednes political life, the moderates Eastland and John Stennis. day and took action on 11. The may be crashed between the ... '. .- • ''.' . ... As chairman of the Judici remainder were either post-' extremes of white '"acisin Novak Evans ary Committee, Eastland por.cn or dismissed. and black racism. If that could torpedo LBJ judgeship The four postponed cases in I should happen, reconcilia Mississippi as labor leader nominations as well as his eluded: ' \"Vii - ." tion and racial harmony in Claude Ramsey and the immigration bill. As chair younger Brothers Inc., Mississippi will suffer an former state Young Demo man of the Defense Pre seeking certificate authorizing! other serious setback. cratic president, Robert Gas paredness subcommittee, transportation of dry eommodi-i Immediately at stake is ton. Stennis is important to Mr. ties; Liquid Food Carrier, ask-1 the composition of the Mis Johnson's Vietnamese war More important, Mississip effort. Both would frown on ing amendment to certificate; sissippi delegation to the Rice Transportation Co. of U-6S Democratic National pi Negroes — and not Ihe favors given to the biracial Uncle Tom variety — were moderates. Crowley, seeking amendment of Convention. A rule passed certificate to include shipment by the 1054 convention at present. The revered Dr. This means thai a modest Aaron Henry (who once co portion of Federal patOttage of dry commodities; and a com [President Johnson's urging plaint by the commission requires all delegations to operated with the MFDP) (perhaps some postmaster- be racially integrated. This and Charles Evers (brother ships), desired by some of against Leonard S. Fun of New raises the strong possibility of the s'ain Medgar Evers) the moderates as a signal of Orleans, allegedly for failure that Mississippi's delegation were there. Both are aggres White House endorsement is to maintain the required inxur-j '..ill be controlled by the sive loaders of the .state out of the question. Eastland ance coverage on file. Mississippi Freedom Demo NAACP. and Stennis will continue to Ei-K Truck Lines Inc. ot New! crat.; Party (MFDP), a pre The result: formation of the control all patronage. Orleans was allowed 13 days to; ponderantly Negro group Mississippi Democratic Con file a new bond or its permit! ference. WORSE YET. the hour is ilon . led and controlled by late for the moderates. They would be canceled. it., radical S lucent Non But founders of the new organization were chilled by face a 'oack-to-thc-wall fight violent Coordinating Com in Jackson next Saturday mittee (SNCC). the new organization were chilled by the har.risoff atti (Aug. 14) when SNCC-MDF? The seating of an MFDP activists plan to flood a state i .Ion would be tanta tude taken by Don EUlnger, a staffer for the Democratic Young Democratic conven '20 Cases Heafd \ mount to official recognition tion with thc-ir summer it the MFDP as the recoa- National Committee. Sent lo workers. Although the mod by Commission li :' Democratic Party in Jackson to observe the meet erates succeeded in getting j M: .isslppi. The MFDP does ing. Eiiinger wished the mod- the convention site switched I crates well — but promised WASHING!ON (AP—A group' ot want the participation from Tougaloo College -a • of House members are pushing >f toderate whites. Accord- nothing. SNICK stronghold) to the The truth is the Mississippi a move to oust the Mississippi y, Mi ilssippi politics Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, .delegation before the current could : tragically polar- Democratic Conference need they figure to be outnumber some 135.000 to send field ed Saturday. Moreover, the session oi Congress. ited i whites would Claiming that Negroes were ie- the arms of men around the state, the de odds are that the SNICC cision has been maae not to denied the right lo vote on the -hit.: I Bar- radicals will win national ; ic-tt (i iig a come- give it to them. recognition as the state's present House members irom ack :': governor in 1967.) Young Democratic organiza Mississippi, the group fed bv' ti a white vs. black con- ONE REASO N is that tion. Rep. William F. Ryan. D-N.Y., President Johnson's political seeks a vote in the' Reuse Sept. to. tatlcn in Mississippi, the advisers believe Federal- Recognition as the state's •hites will always win. 21 in an effort to unseat the Mis- phobia is so stron2 in Mis regular Party organization sippians. If Congress should ad 11 13 TO prevent just such sissippi that help from here may come next. This brine? polarization that a group of goose pimples to President journ before that date, the date orried white moderates met Johnson's political advisers, on the ouster vote is to be ad ne recent hot Sunday after- GEORGE DIXQN who fear that an MFDP dele vanced. oon in Jackson. Miss. Pres is on vacation. His column gation seated at the 1963 Ryan said Wednesday he an et were such remants of the Kill be resumed on his re convention, followed by na ticipated no difficulty in bring ational Democratic Party in turn. tional recognition, would be ing the issue to a vote because - "\ disastrous. Yet, they are un it is a privileged matter involv willing to intervene in Mis ing an election contest. His; sissippi with aid for the group is supporting a challenge moderates that could pre filed by the Mississippi Free vent an MFDP takeover. dom Democratic Party, a pre t 1965. p-^luhers XtvtptStl- Syncilcaie dominantly Negro organization. Ryan said House rules require that such a contest should be voted on within six months from the time the session begins. This period expired July 4. This privileged resolution, he explained, is to discharge the -•• '"*• •••"' Siif-i^ C'J?H^£ House Administration Commit c—] £ 5 S c ngK-'l'fil 5"P e £ *Z tee from further consideration O B • E 7z " f si's cs * £ « «c?c-;c<' of the contest and declare the _ n S tr seats vacant, unless the com :r o 11.1 JJ - _•? S ~ " :>..§ • a •- !5 "S P mittee reports to the House be -. £ 1.61 >- B _. *• fi j?" * a I fore then. He said 31 members !|. 1 of the House—29 Democrats aril 1 ^ • 1 'Is' >i If ^ s £ -5 -5 " ^ S a—""* 4 <~J> two republicans—v.ill ;oin in fnr~»a . • re intt-zcS 1'^-'>5 introducing the M ClJ - «-£>. s 111 i •a.-*,uar*t avl*-a* -' .__ o a-..-»- Vaaaaaa* I,- \ /a 14 DEMOC]: TS SEEK MISSIS" .PI PEACE Loyalists Try to Repair Link With National Part. sr«!M t« rha ? JACKSON, HBETTtti A Mrucg1ir.fi little bund of loyalists ha w^/ newnrp-anizalinn wi:l ciiiwive apparent reason for j bfirtrtrrp- iilf is II-.,-.I thf new group is less broadly based ti-.r.n nailing itself the Mississippi tUmaaaUs Gmtasos£ BW new organization was formally put together here July IS by leaders of organized labor, the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People and a handful of white moderates. Among the chief promoters were Hodding Carter 3d. edi tor of Tne Delta Democrat Times at Greenville and son of the late publisher and author. Hodding Carter Jr.; Claude Ramsay, president of the Mis sissippi Ln'.-or Council of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Or- gani/.uions; Aaron K. Henry, president of the Mississippi there has beer, a growing fear branches of the N.A.A.C?.; among Democratic loyalists in Charles Evers. secretary o: the and out cf Mississippi that the Mississippi N.A.A.C.P.. and radical group might er.d up Robert Oswald, a Pascaguula with national Deasoeratfc party lawyer who head* the Jackson County Democratic executive credentials. committee. Mr. Oswald is The national party decreed: chairman of the conference. at its last convention that fu Kaaiand Excluded ture delegations from MiaSaS-j The conference notably does sippi must be racially Integrat not include old guard Missis ed. The Democratic conference sippi Democrats such as Sena tor James O. Eastland on the was formed in large part to, right and leader of the Mili keep the nations! party :ecog-| tant Freedom Democratic party niticn from going to the rree-j on the left. do.-n party by default. Leaders) The leaders of the new group of the Freedom party -..ere ex purposely alrned at the political plicitly denied a part m the middle—in a state where the organizational meeting cf the middle has been considered dormant or nonexistent for five com'c-rence. years. There is talk this year The conference assumes that of ?. "new Mississippi." The it would inherit the Freedom Democratic conference will. be party's Negro support if the! one test of the reaiity of the rie-Micm party shouid die. butj change. It cannot assume sr.ythlng] The- conferences bases its about the opposite pele, the main hope for the future on a Mississippi old guard. large Negro voter registration. At the moment, the mos Federal registrars are expected r.ote:! absentee from the new to arrive tomorrow to'start loyalist group is Douglas -.Vyr.n. registering Negroes in certain a Lake Tlndall lawyer and cam Mississippi counties. The state paign manager for the Jchn- government, wider the leader son-Humphrey ticket in Mo ver N". ship ot Gov. Paul B. Johnson Mr. Wynn Is a family friend Jr. and a reluctant Legislature, Ot the President. His father-in- has already abolished a lough law, s. D. Clark, was recently- literacy test and made it pos named Ambassador to Aus sible for Negroes to begin regis tralia by President Johnson. tering In numbers Cor the first Mr. Wynn Is aisn close t-> Sen time "in 75 years. ator Eastland. Ke is known to- At the end of 1SS1. only about fee! tv>at any loyalist organiza 28,SCO Negroes -.--'c.-e registered tion should include the Senator In Mississippi. Sime sources be and his friends. lieve the figure was not that That mav sound preposter-- high. At least .151.000 were not sua In the North, where .Senator registered. More than 70 per Eastland is known only as a cent of the eligible whites diehard segregationist, bat it were registered—1:5,000 out of sounds less so in Mississippi.! 713,165 of voting age. The Senator is a : er mj llopi-s for Future his home state ar..] he is -:ne of, Tne hops of the Democratic the few friends President John-! conference Is that some Cay, sen has there. He dors not ad- but probably not in time for verUse h:s friendship, but he the IMS Presidential election, felt the Hi so strongly in the. the national party will fca'v« a November election that he base cf Negroes and liberal worked—quic-.:-.- to be -.re—i whites large enough to outvote for .he' Johnson-Humphrey: the conservatives •-• Stlsiuuppi. '.. K. The 3.:; of the ;:h was r.-a:.-: "•' : 1 of Ins sssoclat -i with clear in Xo-.-en-.oer. Senator the President .-.a-, lea < 1 out! Bai-.- G ' '-• •" - '•- boms 1- Ji -.-• -- la •: .'.-.- .-..- - tioni • • • n-.« .-•-.. ' ' • rerii' ' '• '•' r ti | .:: : . . • . .- rest rf :.-' eligihli • wcr» registered—51S,W0 out cl ''. . : i . -. .:•- • : 1 it (^ 7ts.i;s ct voting age. x .:- is less so in Ma . - ppl. Hope* for Future Tne Senate- ts '. ; e • r in - Is home s-.i-.-e and ns • ens cf The here of th? Democratic ire few friend? President Jo.-.r.-. eonterenc! is that seme day son has there. He does not ad but probably r.ot ir. lime fc: vertise h:s friendship, but he the 1MI Presidential election felt the tie so strongly in the; the national party will have ; November election that he base of Ne-'roes and liberal -.corked—quietly to be sure—. whites lame enough to outvote lo- the Johnsoa-Humphrey the conservatives in Mtssislppi. ticket. Tne size cf the Job was made Word of his association with clear ir. November. Senate r the President has leaked cut Barry Goldwater received ST back home. In Jackson last per cent of the votes in Missis week, a right-wing publication sippi. The conference had Its called The Southern Review as begir.nir.es immediately after sailed Senator Eastland as one the November election. of "Lyndon's men" and branded No prominent Mississippi him "a hidden liberal.'' officeholder had spoken up for Whatever his convictions. the national Democratic party Senator Eastland in the same since the administration of for organization with the State mer Gov. James P. Coleman ir. president of the N.A.A.C.P. 1936-60. When P.oss P.. Barnett would make a startling picture. became Governor in 1960, he The Democratic conference severed all ties with the ra leaders, who do not share Tho tional party. Southern Review's view- of the Under his leadership, the Senator as a liberal, have made state cast its Presidential Vote' no effort to entice him. Yet, for a. ilate of unpledged elec without Senator Eastland, they tors In I960. The "present Gov risk losing the favor of Presi ernor, Mr. Johnson, gave the dent Johnson. go-ahead for the Goldwater With all its handicaps, the landslide ir. 1961 by announcing conference is going ahead with that he would not vote for Lyn Its plans to organize an affili don B. Johnson. ate ir. each Mississippi county. After the 1961 election, Mr. Through the local" organiza P.amsay and others began to tlons. the conference hopes talk of re'uildir.g the natior a. eventually to gain control of party In Mississippi. Mr. Ram the county Democratic commit say got In touch with Cliff Car tees. The county committees ter, President Johnson's per deterr.-.ir.e finally" the makeup sonal representative on the na of the delegation .to the .• r.a- tional Democratic committee, tioo' ••-- and told him: "Labor is tired of knocking its brain* out in Mississippi lo' nothing.'' Gave Green Light Tn an interview this week. Mr Ramsay said: "The President apparently gave the green Ugh' to go to work in the five South ern states that Goldwater car-. ried." He said a meeting was ar ranged in Washington soon after the election. The partici pants were primarily labor offi cials and representatives of the national Democratic party, he said. Shortly after that, he said, C'.'.ff Carter called a meeting ol Democratic loyalists from all five of the disaffected Southern states to talk about rebuilding. That meeting was held on March 22. Among the participants from Mississippi were Mr. Coleman, who was recently named to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Oswald. "After that, we held a series of preliminary meetings In Mis-, sissippi. and they led to the or-' ganiritlonal meeting here in. Jackson July 18." Mr. Ramsay] said. ; One immediate aim of the! Democratic conference is to' squeeze out the Freedom Dem ocratic party, which is virtual-, ly all-Negro" and has little hope of appealing to whites. Since it sprang into prominence with- Its challenge of the Mississippi delegates to the 1064 Demo-: cratic National Convention, n ALLEN-SCOTT REPORT A)~k 8/17 Printing Cost Hits $60,000 To Unseat State Delegation By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT the challenge to unseat these WASHINGTON, T>. C—Cost of governmental printing illegal Mississippi congress of the various documents and testimony proffered by the men." Freedom Democratic Party in its effort to unseat .Mis BACKSTAGE ALLIES sissippi's five congressmen has reached .$60,000 according Actively participating in to disclosure here. planning and organizing this "massive pressure drive" are That's the undisclosed bill For Pcrsonal talks wilh suhcom- publishing a huge mass of a number of civil rights and mitteemen by other House olher groups. material submitted by MFDP members to urge prompt to prove its contention that the They include — the Student action. Chairman Ashmore al Non-Violent Coordinating Com- five congressmen (fnur Demo ready has met with one group crats, one Republican) are miilee (SNCC), Southern Chris — Representatives Don Ed tian Leadership Conference, holding office illegally because wards, D-Calif., John Convert Mississippi Negroes in 1964 Congress of Racial Equality Jr., D-Mich., William Ryan, D- (CORE), Students for a Demo were generally denied the right N.Y. They were given a cour to vole. cratic Society, American Civil teous hearing, but no en Liberties Union, National Coun Three of the volumes are couragement. cil of Churches' Commission on 1,000 pages, one 30 pages. The A "lawyers' lobby" to appeal Religion and Race. Americans largest consist of hundreds of to subcommitteemen, and House for Democratic Action. affidavits, depositions, state leaders and members generally In Guyot's backstage memo ments, etc., collected by a to put pressure on the former randum to these organizations large staff of MFDP lawyers. to act. This lobby will largely and others he stresses that only Of the 80 copies 60 are for be made up of attorneys who "public pressure" can bring the House Elections subcom collected the material publish about a House vote on the un mittee considering this contro ed in the expensive four-volume seating issue. versy; two for each of the chal report that is still under lock "It is our task to see that lenged congressmen and MFDP and key. The lobby is. being public pressure is maintained contestants. organized by Arthur Kinoy, on every congressman and on Neither House Clerk Ralph Rutgers University law profes the Congress as a whole to see Roberts, who finally ordered sor, and John de J. Pemberton that the challenge is brought the printing after months of de Jr., executive director of the to a vote this session," Guyot liberation, nor subcommittee American Civil Liberties Union. declares. "It is possible to bring authorities would divulge the Reportedly 40 lawyers have vol about a vote on the continued cost. All refused to discuss this unteered for this pressure op seating of the five Missis exceptional expenditure of pub eration. sippians if enough, public pres lic funds. A "clergymen's lobby" to fol sure and concern can be gen But from other official low the attorneys. Every faith erated. sources it was ascertained that is to be represented. Other de "Our job is to launch a na publishing such congressional tails are still incomplete. tionwide program of letters, reports costs taxpayers $19.92 a A delegation of nationally wires, phone calls, public dem page. Thus the 80 sets cost prominent figures to seek onstrations, delegations, press $60,357.60. meetings with House leaders- stories, radio and TV broad All officials involved were Speaker John McCormack, D- casts, and very other possible equally unresponsive to requests Mass. and Representative Ger means to being the challenge to to examine the costly report. ald Ford, R-Mich.—and to urge public attention. It's now or This was denied on the ground they exert their influence on never, and no effort must be that the subcommittee's consid the subcommittee. spared to force our challenge to eration of the MFDP challenge A "vigil by 1.000 Missis a showdown." had not yet been formally sippians at the Captiol" sup "opened." Of the 149 congressmen who ported by a flood of messages voted against the five Mississip No date has been set for that. from all over the country to in pians in January, 24 were Re Several of the five committee dividual congressmen. publicans. Thev consisted large men did indicate it would not "They will be there to peti ly of Representative John Lind be before the end of this month. tion the Congress to take up say, N. Y., candidate for Mayor Determination of that is entire the challenge." Guyot says in and other members of the so- ly up to the subcommittee. his memorandum. 'Their pres called "Wednesday Club"—GOP Chairman is Robert Ashmore, ence will be a great incentive liberals of which he is the main D - S. C, w h o is vigorously to the Congress to deal with against the MFDP's ouster de spring. mand. So are the other four members. If and when ihe subcommit tee does finally act, it is vir tually certain to vote unani :)A CKS-.xi '^k\ci (Vie:V4 S mously against unseating the five Mississippians. FAINT PROSPECTS ftviflW^ l<\<& Aware their chances are be n coming dimmer by the day with adjournment ncaring. Freedom Democratic Parly leaders are launching this week what is privately described as a "mas sive all-out pressure drive." Its immediate purpose is to go over the heads of the sub committee and bring the unseating issue direct to the floor of the House. This would be done by a peti tion to discharge the subcom mittee from further considera tion of the matter. This excep tional parliamentary procedure requires 2!8 signatures— a ma jority of the full House. MFDP strategists think they have fair hopes that their unseating mo tion at the start of the session in January got 119 votes. Their plan of operation] is spelled out. in a private mtmn- randum by Lawrence Guyot, chairman of the MFDP exerti- 1 HOUSE LEADERS:1 REFl.'SE TO voir'"' SUPPORT FOR FDP WASHINGTON (UPI) - House Democratic and Re publican leaders refused Wednesday to promise they would push the Mississippi Freedom Democratic , Party's attempt to unseat I the state's five congress men, a party spokesman said. Rev. Robert Spike, head Of the National Council of Churches Racial Relations Division, met separately with Speaker John McCor mack, D - Mass., and House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford. Mich., to discuss the challenge, now before the House Adminis tration Committee. Spike said Ford was "ex ceedingly rece-ptive and sympathetic" to ihe chal lenge, but he "made no promises." However, Spike said the GOP leader said no Republican house mem ber would put any obstacles in the way of the contest. McCormack also refused to give any promises about when the committee might consider the question, Spike said. IE, NEW ORLEANS, LA Y MORNING, AUGUS1 31 l&I ', istratlori committee has not acted by that date, they will zcsh Se ontesi, ve offer :: privileged resolution to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ distils*, the committee from sl,t c ! t! House Solons Ask, > ° ™' <'e since the House>the House and his notice of con-jfut,her consideration of the dc-clare the five .lsaa;,--,[i o,ti n.llav^iictiicnt-.—c 'cler k takes the rpositio n he never'tes' ,_t is ...... hereby dismissed.". . ir.taue„,.,,, r... an. ,.,,dt Ireceived a signed copy of th.:. Concluding tne tnets. Missis-]sep™ vacant CORDON BROWN inoticc of an inicnt lu fiic i sippi members said each "re- , -.ini' let;) 01 prcs HINGTO.N i Api—Missis-.'contest against Williams. -spcctfuliy submits tha! said at- I pjo.w Btinip .Oaia o.\atioq A\ embers asked ihe House Freedom Democrats contend tempted contest be dismissed or •I»tu 7,, 'pappe sua uairt puy ' (or dismissal of a con- it was noi necessary to file a that he be otherwise relieved ,,'oidoocl jo SJJOS us 05 e'-,:jocI aq o) o.\et( o) -tauussa.it; nod at unsealing them. s;gncd COpy with the clerk Greta taking further notice of v as made in •ttoo B aq oi p.uq x».\ oq c-quvst was made in M any ^ Kimms< ca8e.such matter." PIIIO.U 11., '01UIIS B l])I.ft piEE vhicli thee filed with thc.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_ Filing the contests were Mr dork against the chM- was nct referred to the admttv wailS **\11 Tt»M atrj ui ino Augusta Wtlgaten against Abcr- M'aiSOOAp« OAlSBllS.lOd if the Mississippi Free- istration committe-e for con nefhy. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer e-mocratic Party, a pro- sirieralion. AJOA,, o si aqs >»ifj AiiBotjEt-j agains: t WluUer.. Mrs. Annie De- -o;elip i«t| pp.) at; jng 'pa.ta.us ntiy Negro organization.! However, Williams has saidivinC -afa:nsi Walker Mrs Vic- De •ire angB?x u'\\i.\\ I ,«tr, aatre -reedoni l"«rals con-, ,d ^ ^ co!ka m,toria (fray against Colmer, and •AMI ott no., a.ug UBO i„ | i> Mississippi representa-: c /. ,.,,.. HTK MnA%»ri finm Mr* 'pascp Manual,- n Conere'ss hold their » requesl for dismissal to be gK. MflIdIf.edICoss. Mrs. Ilcgally because Negroes relieved of further harassment & *'• •; * " «m - ;« ; i H|»I no.i ^SB j,, j. j^iprno.vi jng 'a;c)s „-:, aoo -siematically barred from. Hie Freedom Demvraji .fik-d Abernethy c,l,mer m Wnit. „., „„ IJ ••"OH uotiBuituMOStp uoaq S»q .1- : ow in the state in tne 19841 voiamlnous affidavit \n suppor I, ^ h£ unopposed in 'lm "°;' P»>W»Pd A-,.;;,Bi,ai> -ptB. anSvo, -, is. They ask that the ot iheir contentions lb*., . - , ,'; ,..- V i „ . N r vorl : s gene H eI c Pifl ouuq oj ABAV AJUO aq)i '.'.. :.(,; be declared vacant Mississippi Negroes were pre-;(i Walkw ..../^ itkliie6 elections called. vented irom voting. They fol- t]]Cp R Arthur Winstead, x ng that the conies! be lowed with briefs supporting: Qemocnl I .pet} uo.uu.or -utM aw* lnos U1 ^ ou pBll 0,r^' . out, the Mississippi their arguments. „l .',.,.,, ,. n auaM » ,„,A''°,n ,l,^'0",q £!l";u! soo.tg.3x eanaoaq ueotu, ,-... mbers said those who in their bri: filed Mondav. Whitten raid Mrs. Hamer was'i I a candidate against him in the yil -^Z0'?^ J« n«» si op j p, ,,. "attempted contests" the M***i:*stppi House membersiDemocrat-Democratiic primary and was oj seu. uoeuuor ~nl nV -na J0IJ 9snB0 ;sn3Sf' puP"BB 'UO,IOpc::)''> ot . i :!sics In the elec-nwde tw reference to the cou 1 a l,s ss -defeated 35.551 to 81. Colmer: VovfiL anssir '25 S"iro5 "*i?'!iL?^lSS. ** ' nt!, theref er long tentions of the FDP. They con •: noted Mrs. Gray was a candi-: ,o i antu «uft™ShTi?'^ " ' ' 8I WW" **** "tiyW*' ; hloti . lined their arguments to one u wSB w -"datdate for U.S. senatoUnator aaalnsagainst ''" - " -f" P"e veq ?ua.w uaqt, *aiu, | srsou to contest point—that tire contests should;g^" john"'ire'-ni'"*D'Mrss inl aioit s.juapisa.rj 3,[j passnosiQ S5,utoj[ irU.i ='•:":• ... . . 'J* <»isoi5ied because the chal-l lhe "parl primary'and'was'de- scaaui :ni •aoead u.Snoji[j ops .. op oi Suto2 st -,uot 'Is were filed by lengers were noi candidates ancti {^[ft.j AOffl Ail •-•-ill M. Colmer. Jamie thus no: Qualified to bring enn-i . , ,, , ou aos A-ai„ ,j ".^S ^ !.•««! »*» "« *»*< Thomas G. Abernethy tests ^^^ '.WBI supporting the FDP has served'—-At-OAod ot,^; M- .«^! BrttH^aWT*-^ 0,u IJKmt aqi }8Bsu* rals, and Prentif:-. Walk- •ssssssssaasr" *c I A group of House members In support o: •:ieir pc itior notice they will seek a vote" {£{?*•» "JW sw=;a cj aSiia.3UBuo au; lublican. the Mississippi p li Ea a » JI ma ,,-si: M '._!?"'f Y,^ Sept. 21 on the matter They £S •« ?°; *' .. Ay- '^« «fl -dms PL-LB Jurtow John BeH Williams Dem cited several House actions—the ui*vj o} t»mm P 's Surw,, oi uajict jo lli» liflh Mississippi mem- latest lasi Jantisiy—in vhich announced if the House admln- the House, did not join the House voted lo dismiss con- brief*. His situation is tests filed b> non-candidates, *;»0[ si afuaiiEtio refei Xn?oi ' hat different—and slight Resolutions adopted in the -jod SUB Ji lit- I siov' oi --J -svwqJBf u - . ] el nically no case ca'c-s ci'.ed stated the House U JJ 0A : U 0 ; •s;2M MO/SO" P no?MIM r^ '- ' -' ^ ^: . gg Williamt he- did noi regard the contestant a w ,rprt» Jeuna twre^«2Si 1 «' t**^"" ."PWI- *D- ic House istration involved "as a proper person UB l3WA r r it'..- and its eiectionsito bring a contesi for a scat in I ..•-C|fHmu;.u,.iuoAo p^iV-at „„- mn ,„- - ' ; '^ •5\ MH utst;B-„-a Bd o„uw » V.'fi ,-^' *' d]l:-apM1 »*«» : a MB Sm, wp J na Pu;>i otfl AU.-xa si swi -anS ° *' ' ' Si Siqi ;uq; Htnumsw 2? HW O, M«t( l..,op , MM Wj„ •ptBi JSAQCJ rsiit „'snoi.to's'.'Xll!-oolus P!ES 3r-:?s0i ..'s! tu-sv su.noA o.\oi[aq atnaaj I^IBJ j,. ,-qctd uno.v }Bt[.w .v.ottJi no4\., IWiM'!!S! 55ptIS *-—y oq.rt -pies oq ,',-?Sutac, t-Bumt; 3'! "iss'ss;lvr ;c> *«ll>»»an 01 1 io Itioojp OJB iddtssissiivT uiojji ' l Vodins vS3, 0) uotu.q •uotu aewUn i-«eu jno u.v.o.rtr,, san-iaqn gtQ BtStaaMBV »IB lafaajonaaonq r-tc-pgj an; ioJji|** JO *uo *** **& *oiXa.qo, Pino.w otjAv fprs at, "sapiiaa "jiu-'os °P °* te?i*l$o.< fjiteo «o. ot, ;o aweoaq aoJc; u,U, 9Itl c,u, p tt , 5JJJ P1U ,S B KTiT " ""^ksoi?ru l^i-iSStJv SOT , B^ttA:-M!SV l»»0 ^ uot..H .o i j Bogoefa 11Mptir3 MaaJ. vciau;qstA, 96 0 u»*[iioo P-nripja *tg T T V>a3o> i -ciiiiLEiaii.^^ i -J A k-r c • • oJi/sU ras^j/nqoi-UaT^T JtO.l X0X0.V3HSVJI 3iir, rtartrW- i)V mmmmkwmkwmmmmmsmmmemmmmmmmm • . Mr Congressmen Mrs, Haaer •aid "We're z ::.u: no ens trora M I be seat ed until Co IJI res s his » chance to .:. . -.. tie real- sto—•- of vo:..-...... •:• State."] Tne three -.:•. • \ tad more' than 400 other- .' :.:-.ss-ppi Ne groes f.re in toa - lo dramatize tiie fad that N'ejroes ssre gen erally excluded from voting In tne State. Tbey ai-e mem bers of the Mi..- is-.iapi Free dom Democratic Party, which argues that because of the ex clusion all elections held by the State are unconstitutional. In a special Freedom Party election last Oct. 30-Nov. 2, the three owmen were chosen for Congressional seats by about 80,000 Negroes. Ballot ing was open to both races, but the State did not recog nize the election. Mrs. Hamer said she hopes to state the Freedom Party's case on the House floor. After an investigation Congress should seat her, Mrs. Devine and Mrs. Gray, or at least order a new election in which I Negroes are not barred from I voting, she said. I "The American people have jgot to realize that Mississippi | is a part of American society iand that what happens there I has a bearing on the whole : country," She added. | No one among the Negroes I arriving by car and bus yes terday at the Lincoln Me- 'imorial Congregational Temple II here seemed to think Con- « gress would actually seat the ' I three women. Many doubted ''that it would refuse to seat r Democrats Thomas G. Aber ' nethy. Jamie L. Whitten, John 1 Bell Williams and William M. 'Colmer and Republican Pren- itiss Walker, who were elected 'Nov, 3. 'I But most expressed thoughts : similar to Mrs. Devine's when : she53idr-"if w-e don't win this Itime, we'll just continue to Shammer away at the consci ence of Congress and the peo- ;ple." Lawrence Guyot, chairman of The executive committee of I tire" Freedom Party, said hun-' drccis of Mississippi Negroes will hold a silent vigil in front of the Capitol today. "We lxirx; there is a roll-call vote on tilt? CongressionaMl l Seats Fuss t' -rC'V-Iv.V'vt..\\\\\\\\M ' POLITICS & PEOPLE . wo (to summer :.T ' ^'Include rl^emls By WIIXIAM L. CHAZE • draft and refuse to "fight in Clarion-Ledges- Staff Writer Nam. Negroes already in •Vie; /**£nrs/ instant reappraisal of the Another of the Souih's long armed forces were advised ihe rop/Other civil rights groups hot summers is about to grind stage hunger proiesls. to denounced the FDP. to a close. The result of this was -So. tile summer s?.:v the And with the approach of an FDP fall by the wa; side as a crisp fall weather, civil rights j civil rights group of any in- activity begins to wane, falter | fluence. and dissipate. This was but one of manyj But, the almost four months skirmishes in the s u m m e r's j of activity have left their mark. civil rights battle. Northern newspapers are be ginning to report a "new mood The summer saw federal' of change" creeping over Mis voter examiners move into! sissippi "and her sister Southern Mississippi, set up shop, and' states. j begin the process of getting Ne-1 gro voters registered. They! Even Alabama's Governor were met with no resislanoe. A! George Wallace is reported to counter-move to regi'srer whiter | be seeking to alter his image- to was quietly begun as the state | fit the picture of (he statesman relaxed its voting quslificaatione j —a role he must assume to be As the Negroes flocked to the ; come a V. S. senator. federal examiners, the whites • OBVIOUS CHANG* went to ihe county registrars. The change in Mississippi is Perhaps a distillation of the obvious' en its face. Last sum j summer's activity can be found mer was marked by bitter and 'in Bogalusa, a paper mil! town violet fighting by a stats and in Ihe Southeast comer of Lou ber people protecting a way of isiana. life.' Th.er-e ...were. _ shootings, deaths and church-burnings. INTENSE CAMPAIGN Civil rights groups staged art The most recent assault on intense campaign for Negro Mississippi by a civil rights rights, tvming the ri'y into a task force w-as met with com- • hot-bed of resistance and hit- p lira lively little resistance. Mis red. The whites doggedly re sissippi's residents had become sophisticated in the way fused to budge. Nci-oes de-! —„.. ... me v.'cty. manding voting rights, c q u a 1 civil rights. The rights -. ion opportunities, integrated I ers no longer commanded the schools. It was an amalgama-i attention they once did. I don of situations found through-' And Mississippians wai: j out the ration. ! the civil rights group? to n The summer's civil rights! the mistake all react! movement could be summed up must make sooner or !a: .. by the statement made bv a wait was not a long or.-. congressman: Ihe civil rights The Mississippi F r e - . movement was signed cut of Democratic Party Bade . existence wnen tha President dertaf mistake — one ' sirred the voting rights legisla tion. joited North and Sou-h- The FDP made its mis Whether this is an accurate taaaaaperhni Hath oatriottsm. 5:z:rii-JT. it this tituarjon will WOIXD SHIN Dft.U i doubtless be determined during Tne M*TI the long -- Summers »irici. He •dristd .V-a.-o you ahead :i •'..-. South, . jod -he .-:-: 'e. 1 Subcommittee Favors \Both Sides Complete smissma Chall ng \Pr znTing Evidence WASHINGTON (AP) - The lo consider the matter at least> WASHINGTON AP — >!i«- tend Negroes were systemati consensus of a Bouse elections until Wednesday, lie said there jfasippi Freedom Democrats cally excluded from tailing subcommittee a-as reported to viii considerable discussion in and the five Congressmen they part, in the Mississippi elec day to be for dismissing a thal- tite subcommittee over the Ian- hope to unseat stood ready to tions and therefore the five I'l-.-c by Mississippi Negroes guage of the report. icoraplcte their case today be- represeatatirei are holding r.i-ned at unseating the stale's A showdown vote by the full: fore a House Elections sub- their ?.-..;:; illegally. five while coagresaatentn House of Representatives tvas [committee. The Congressmen argue that Rep. Om-er Burleson, D-Tex., expected later this week alter i The predominantly Negro none oi the c-.-Mepp-er^ w.-l-e chairman of the parent House the committee acts. i Freedom Democrats group be- bojTa I:ce ear.::: HaSuS aha Administration Committee, told laJaii-li£tU.-£XP*-:'-<>d tha-t the -gan its presentation Monday.-- 1 elections, ami so huve rp i ipht tbii lo newsmen after a sub subcommittee, headed by Rep. ibot the hearing was delayed to bring such 3 challene-e.. committee meeting. UoSert T. aiihmore, D-S.C, |when angry Republicans and Ttrs HVQH hr.s repeatedly He emphasized that no for Would uphold House tradition:some Southern Democrats tied upheld this view in past cares. mal decision has been made, •and precedent and recommend.Itlle House in parliamentary House leaders have contended and no formal vote tokon by dismissal of the. challenge hr I knots all afternoon and lata that to do otherwise would lay the subcommittee. The group the Mississippi Freedom Demo- illto ae ni£ht. The squabble all Congressmen wide open to completed the hearing of test: cratic party. was over an unrelated matter. any kind oi challenge by any mony by bo^i sides in Die dis The live wr.i-.c one on (Responsible charges The Freedom Democrats con pute, then began drafting i re ce .- a." •- 6 to n a ^ i~"*) s *latj-»- 8-3iS rl** i ,r r.ev voting -.iirhts till '-:•• gone Iftfo t-iinri una sneiii •"V.'tc c:.r7~M a-.y Ihequ-ties. , "The policy of our paper is very simple — merely lo tell the truth'' —Tttu! i'oyuler, publisher, 1912-1950 EDITORIAL 20-A Phono IM-1111 Thursday, Sept. H, 1745 Fy- /?V sr-« More Harm Than Good Almost since last November's Rights Act of 2063 effectively rem elections, members of Mississip edies the evils being protested. It pi's Freedom Democratic Party is and will be strictly enforced. No (FDP) have worked quietly to future election in Mississippi, or in challenge the seating in the House anvrjlher state where voting rights of Representatives of that state's have "been d-yir-d, will ever be the delegation. The House Administra same. tion Committee yesterday approv ed a subcommittee's recommen FURTHERMORE, the charac dation that the challenge be dis ter of the House would not be sig missed and a showdown vote by nificantly affected. After all, the the full House is expected Friday. historic S9th Congress has just about completed its first session. HE ARGUMENTS presented Following its accomplishments, Rgainst seating the Mississippi del next year's gathering, according to egation are well taken. President Johnson, can be expect There is no doubt that poll ed to be short and relatively sweet. taxes, discriminatorily-applied lit Then there are the repercus eracy tesls, tests of constitutional sions to be considered. For the interpretation, intimidation, threats House to unseat the Mississippi of economic reprisals and even vio delegation, immediately after lence have been used in Mississip passing sweeping legislation to pi to prevent qualified Negroes cure the cause of the challenges from registering, voting and seek against it, would be considered ing office. more punitive than corrective. It There is no doubt that the sys might hurt the cause of ihe appar tematic exclusion of Negroes from ently small but growing band of the polls in Mississippi violates the moderates in (he state working for 14th and loth amendments to the improved relations between the Constitution. races. THERE IS NO doubt that mem IN" SHORT, we fear that deny bers of the FDP are qualified to ing the Mississippi delegation its challenge this discrimination, or of seals might inflict harm upon the the House's undisputed powers to cause of civil rights outweighing "be the judge of the elections, re ?ny gains. The wiser course for turns, and qualifications of its own Washington is to make absolutely members." certain that no discrimination is practiced in nominating and elect What is of grave doubt is the ing Mississippi's delegation to the wisdom of kit-kin? present Mis EOth Congress. For the Freerlom sissippi congressmen out of the Democratic Party, the real chal House now. lenge lies in registering citizens of Except for the more subtle Mississippi to exercise the rights forms of discrimination, the Voting now assured them. A— - «-•ra rt n fti 3 2•yosft i B- -7 a jf a. 3 a r>- aa » 2 I . 18 2.3 \ a 1>. I - t • • 9a 11 • »t; 2 S S -J r irdS2.!TaSsT« r .J *•a S •*» 5 !5 1 -1 ra • .*«- --> 'ji -i aa. S ra 5 O. ; a** 1933 ra ~. = 2 * < f Z » 31 a Ha B t re* a- «r F5 re 11 ij C/l f 1 "O ._ -„ 3- • 5- —, • • SaliifglS 3 ~ 1 3" V! 2' atf ' 6 l aS 9 ill -J» >5* —--' O, — . IT-TJI • O. *- » £ W " •S.T"i •*? - I » 112 1 vf a=1 I' < O r -^' r> 215 tp T —« X o_. -5• " '' • B.L, M| ™ •= ra 2T "a — v -4 8 S" J it r 5 4 ? I -; '_. ~ > - 3 " I^§ = - =J r r r £T * & - ^ s ~- =3 :. T S : ra _ 5 •» vi 1 - - Vi —. S A 3 s 5 § a a I -9 g« -; 5 : T IP T" V T > . irJ ?-? "'-• ' tills-:* ? ^ 5 "IT 3" ra 2 X" ^- ra v -: " « *~ n fs ^ 5 5'5r.?^5 .ill a «» • j c is -* ,-."-, I? ' aaata* " .^ r» r? » ' -.- 1 if * 5 is i w "J r. 3 zr 2 H •-< -.'•<• hi ~ v'^r* ^ - •-• ' 17 E., Ji •- »- . S -'3 ^ -' E s ~ — _ — r ? 7 § 5 r; <>' ,±0*, <9 •<-> IjiRSDAY, SEPTEMUF.R 16, 1%K / lenrled thn the five Ropiv-on- should be heW and that it was Association for tha Advancp* \l TO UNSEAT! talive> v-ero lUeeally elected r,nt- ? "n<*i " valid i^sue" .hat men:, of Colored People. u:.ar.i- 0 111 HOUSE LOSES *zr^z:v]^ *,'«• M* >>r -^s,vh3 Hr-T;;eir ni;,::; i eft jut. in.nun.ILL, iiL.tutu "J» ,irgWB tonisiht ami signed by tentian v.-as: „/v Kull Committee Dismisses 0-.ri.il- Burtetala, a Texas Demo- the live mcmlx-is win- v. led "0-YK.'.'.vilayebee, n held, bottteh egeare ho-ard- .* crat, made no effort to der.y agrii.-i the committee rtconi- i Tie dismissaBeen lheld and, botto hn ogcare otherd ^r the 1961 general election. In- House precedent against con- s ; Freedom Party Plea that a Peec l c:" Hie issue. No nubiic stead. It adopted the main con- tests by noncandidates obvl- hearings have born held. Oopi s tenticn of the five ReprCMa- ously was intended to iiec;\or the' evidence on winch th* tatives— that there was no con-down the number oi contests, challenge is based have not By JOHN HERBEH3 test because tha challengers] However, some Congressmen been made available to Hou>e S--.:.-.l I* ThaJC*« YclK T.mrs were not certified candidates supporting the challenge eon- members. Dismissal of the eha!- WASI-nNGTON, Sept. 15 — for election. ceded that the motion to dis- lenge at this time would close ..[Despite new- and unified oppo- House leaders, who have miss probably would carry by the door to full hearings and lijsition by the civil rights move- .-.ever Supported the challenge, a wide margin. In January, the fun House discussion llment. the House Administration have been reluctant to authorize House voted 2 J to 149 to tern- Dl. Rober, Saike_ executive 'Committee recommended today a -neattng contest brought byporarily seat the five' Repie- director of the Conm.ission on noncandidates for fear of set- sentatives—Jamie L. V> bitten, j>Jg$ -a,rf Boil£ior pf that the proposal to unseat five a precedent that would .John Bell Williams, Prentiss ,iSra ^'„,..'.„ ippl Representaiives be bri* g a a babarragr g^oe of f contests!contests.' " :.Warner , William M. Colmer an«d p*v*7SSnll*^ dismissed. , Tne chaI!eng0rs contended.Thomas O. Abernethy-pcnding tKtberrerSkttlel3 The recommendation was ac- that there w-as both legal anditrie outcome of the corses.. -^]s . t!iPS,,.-1..,..L ,.,v,ps companted bv a warning that moral nrocodeiit for their posl- Ti:e Mississippi Kredorn Dem- »Th - lUe House 'would "carefully ttenjlujf nirl thill iiimWitliIes|ocratic party was orgr nlzed , commission has been working quletl behind the for Congress were either denied by civil rights workers to give m u ! rt the C A scrutinize" future electionlecnons foior - - .- 0 th" Mississippi baUoVMiss-lssippf Xegroes a voice in •"""*scenes. ,l* P ? , «f , "- : racial discrimination. The com- ^„^ rt technicalities and pel:'., s and instruction ill vot- |«lge In the belie that a moral mrttee also stated its intention ab„,e of the law- or because it tag. it has been supported issue is involved to review Federal Jaws govern-was ?.;;-.-.plv not safe for a Ne- largely by the Student Norn Dr. King Arrives ing contested elections in light ^ro to iam for office in that violent Coordinating Commit of the voting rights act ot 1965. fstate- . itee. which has been a: odd It has argued that th< Ne- Meeting In closed session, the In the future, the committee with more conservative civil £roe5 support the challenge committee voted 19 to 5 for a said, contested election laws rights organizations in the wer" e channeling their :11st proposal approved yesterday by should be reviewed and Clarified [South, grievances through legal pro an elections subcommittee do tests and that to dismiss it so that it can "deal more expe-, A number of Negro leaders would "contribute to his further nated by feoutiei-r. Democrats. diUou<;y" with seating chal-ch'al- ln >Mis-iissjpo. i have opposed the : disillusionment in the orderly- ' ""-lenites involving racial ais-m'iom party. They contend processes of la .'.-." lion is expected to be approved crim.naiion. ° " Ittat its advisers are too far to by the House on T : Voting against the motion to-tvc left and that Mississippi The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived here from Committee Report dismiss the challenge were .ton- .veerocs should form a new- eoal- athan Bingham of The Eronx. ujr:! v.llh Oavui whites within South Carolina last r.lsh-. to The con littee report said Laden N. Nedzi of Michigan, ,5., ft;ite gjjd affiliate with the h::i:; his support. Although the the action should not be In- Samuel N. Fnede] of Maryland. u^o'tial Democratic part". Voting Rights Act has been condoning anv dis- J""-- Branttenasoandemat off IndianIndiansa1 andi| ror r tbcs<.,,"."",".«"„! 1.er..=on;. ' t:,'-.-';-e " charh?I, helpful in opening elections to terpreted a r r ~'Augustus Hawkins of Callfor-Lr ° J£*l"^TL^-L^b Negroes Dr. King said, defeat enfranchisement 0 Ne !0 of the 0U e commi e c . = niar All are Democrats. oTisWeMI rights h^t"s . P ' "« « " - jlvottri in the 1964 1 eteeUoni or T-i-.c-.- will seek to raconvmttr "Sy ' ', "* . "^T" lommendatlon would give "a •lii-i prevteui elections. Nor does the matter to the committee for '-»••>-m.g.i c* ever, the broad tremendous psychological lift to lithe committee mean to Imply by further hearir.es. which would bai£_-9-£ tivil njhts. religious Negroes over the Ration." tilts recommendation of dismissal carrv the matter over until next ani. l^bor groups t..?.t have Several hundred Mississippi jof these cr.i.ests that the year". .wcrrtedfogailier fwMri, rights xej-.v-es are in Washington to :-e cannot lake action tej Mr. Hawkins, a Negro, said •e::-.ation united aga--.?t the w-ait action of the House. Thev ite seats a I silting,he would file a minority report mctWn to dismiss 'he c.-.allenge. are t0 be joined tomorrow bv -*rs." .contending that disenfranchise-' About 40 of these r.rganiza- members of the Congress of Mlssisslt Freedom atent of Negroes in Mississippi thus in the Washing'.Sri-bascd Racial Equality from" vi rious . which beganiwa* "clearly a matter of rec-*..: iership Conference en Civil cities and by'some religious January, con-'Oi-d." that public hearings'Rtjats, including the National leaders. / • 1 •™i (£> • c' h - g -ff-3 — S .» t- 5 1- -= •= y. _ '' 'C =i •-.% 1 5* fe"3 . 5 X % J9 £ 5 ,' .i- >" — * "K b h /^**\ ^««aaJ ' ' w .- < 3 -4 C ^ w '• ~E - —- '- - P. * - r' ~ -3 "^ .fH .. m—rp rr MI §ii iarfai u-BtTi illi|^l|.gir|£^ till I! ^r %1*I=i*H$H-* ^*iMl m < 9. •J x ^ •> v. < - m . ^ -S JZ. A NEV/S WASHINGTON BUREAU LZZ-: <&> Challenge Evoked 6jJj( Frustration, i rouble 'BKyv LEI.TBEE Rl\l>lBAND^^' ^ right and in their own name." WASHINGTON - Rep. Fob- ! That was one reason the ert Ashmore (D-SC) says the j House upheid the motion to di> /APPEAL, MgMPipg; 1 Mississippi Freedom Demo \ miss the case, Ihe South Caro- cratic Party challenge ''gave , linian believed. me my worst week in ten The vote was 224 - 143. years" since ayiuriing chair- The contestants. Ashmore mouse mwm \ ; said, should have gotten a House member to introduce a I Party's Unseat Bid!* resolution directing the sub ' •#& >e sky high a couple of times if committee to hold hearings. we had not compromised in i Freedom Democrats Snarjfi However, instead they filed s certain areas," the Dixie solon the challenge under the con ! On Committee Vote commented. tested elections statute re j The South Carolinian direct served only for legal candi rroir. tH? Ccnsni-rcial Appeal ed hearings on the challenge dates who the MFDP members W»s'r.-.::jfenfcrre-J — filed by MFD?. The predomi were not, the panel found. WASHINGTON. Sept. 15. —j nantly Negro group contended Tne committee chairman The Mississippi Freedom: Mississippi's five House mem termed "most difficult" the IDeri-iocTattc'PsiT^'p'erir'rrn to bers should have heen denied drafting of a report on tho joust Mississippi's five House seats because they were elect hearings. ed illegally. The Freedom Par- It had to be toned down sev. [members was rejected 13 to 5 tv defined Negroes were not eral times, he explained, in or (Wednesday by the House red to vote. der "to pacify and please cer '.Administration "Committee. y Asijaipre said the case was tain leaders en both sides of the The House is expected to i difficult'because it was built aisle, particularly those in the (ratify the committee's action . entirery-on -the foirndattori of liberal Democratic Study Group. "racism and emotionalism" a "I had to take out a lot o£ Friday. I Situation which prompted the the legal terms I hid planned | While rejecting the ouster ' chairmen to close the*hearings to use. and should have used, (move, the committee approved to the press. to make a strong report." la report designed to satisfy the Ashmore. said. "I threatened to 'House's big bloc of liberals. ; "They tlhe pree) wanted to , The report warned that get all the emotionalism they tear up the report several : could out of it," the chairman times. The whole thing was Congress will keep a close" asserted. frustrating. That was the tough [watch on future elections in He also noted civil righters est v.- e e"k I've spent in 10 the South to see that Negroes across the country were years." are not excluded from voting booths, the grounds for the threatening to bring in 2.001 Ashmore'i problems, how. demonstrators to lobby and ob action against ihe Mississip- ever, aren't over yet. He has ipians. serve the proceedings. another contested election case "We couldn't have had a ; The report said the commit crming up shortly, involving tee vote "should not be hearing wi:h judicial atmos an incumbent. GOP House phere under such conditions," member. H. R. Gross of Io-.va, interpreted as condoning any Ashmore said. "The hearlngl and the latter'! defeated Dem idiserifranchiseinent of Negro haa to be closed in order to pre ocratic opponent. Stephen Pe .voters in the 1K4 elections or vent a crowd like that from terson, in the last election. Tha iin previous elections. Nor does taking over the hearings." K°rjubl;can won by less than Ithe committee mean to imply The veteran lawmaker dis 400 votes. jby its recommendation of closed much of -he testimony (dismissal of these contests that The South Carolinian, how Ithe House cannot take action ' was emotion'! but by and large ever, expects little. if any, was controlled. >to vacate seats oi sitting trouble in" this case. To him, it members." The Dixie Democrat ssio he will be a welcomed change. allowed the contestants to go ' It said the House should beyond the rules of the commit ,"c a r e f u 11 y scrutinize" all tee in order 'to let them sav future elections and proposed what they did. I leaned over that the Administration backwards to help them." Committee look over contested However, he added, their iFederal election laws with the lawyers "were held in more iidea of initiating improve strict conformity with court ments and clarifications that' rules and regulations, as I had would expedite consideration warned I would do." of any future contests like the Five lawyers represented the present one. three Negro contestants — Fan The five committee mem nie Lou Hamer, Annie Devine bers who voted against the and Victoria Gray. (committee action were According to Ashmore, the 'Representatives Jonathan attorneys took affidavits on the 'Bingham (D., N. Y.). John challenge from 120 "lawyers Brademas (D., lnd.), Samuel across the country. N. Friedel (D., Md.). Augustus "They were trying to get pub Hawkins (D., Calif), and licity," the chairman contended. Luiien N. Medal (D., Mich.). "Most of the affidavits had ' They served notice they will nothing to do with the con- 'continue their tight when the ccn'ested election." Issue comes before the House. Ashmore ended the contest The Mississippians, who ants tor having "JJO reai chal stated their views at suocomrt»nt.-. lenge." mi-iee fjeSfjBgj uu tire- —rtre He argued they were not can- coremittee s act'on W g>«te John W AWVCocm,e, ' said they w-r* »Z..r5 k testants'j,,,,';,0"1.'1^. ascon- ">e floor d, ;', ',0n- <« °e on resolution Satf^f,5eba,« on a ">e challenge SS" di?mi« Mtth the n--|Si ?ed C0ll("t- l ,. ™« past disputes SEATING FIGHT I x'ore than JOO W«rZ- . Cr,ntim,ed From Page 1 There was a sprinkling of white !feiv white, nutotohEF1 a"d a I Hamer, \ ictona Gray and An-' youths and girls night vigil ac™ T,Ld an »«- nie Devinc. There were seven | Ryan and other liberals told a from fhe CaartoT" J -p,aza bs «•• 'he Hou^'tn !J"* , " . no all o: them had come to planned to trv lo jend back to ' to* $ ^^ST- Ihe House AcLirTirSiom" >>•«< The odds arc still considered mifiee IU IWmmendahon thm i strongly against the challenge, the chaliense be wTd $% But Nortnern and California instructing to ho'd" mr he?' hberals led by Rep. William iiearings, this timS»«W t. tZ: ,Fitts Ryan. D-N.Y.. said ihev public t™*-op*« lo tne wouid try a parliamentary ma-' He said he hrmrrt thii farmnl. 'ncuver that could, if successful, would attract more ttratic - mVr ? 1Z el-mcn'" . an:l R^W^ vote, ER* -Across the p,aza in front of certainly hope and expect to I the House wing of the Capitol prevail." ' expect l0' |Miursday a growing throng of Ryan's attempt could ha Negroes began a s, en- vigil and blocked by o-her VhameV-A- Mid they would maintain it until maneuvers. For one (SnT ihi the eniMost we members of right to offer such a rcconirli the Freedom Democratic party, tal motion - and there carite wMch organized the challenge., only one - lie, withthe Reouo -, lican members of the adminis- ' Iration committee. The Negro ehallengeri con- lended Mississippi's congress men were illegally ejected be-1 FDP's Seating Challenge ( cause Negroes were excluded from the polls and prevented from filing as candidates. AiVJ-' lh e ^ Snagge^"i n Panel Hearing j - L^' congressmen arsued but "ne NegTO ra-e roV proner WASHINGTON 'APi — A hearing in the afternoon. umc contestant-: because ffiey- were • : challenge aimed unseating couid not get the required or* not bona fide canoida—s-| and if i^.L leJ% lv;idd «W» Urtizen ', conld challenge any coiusfe.-s-' man for any reason. But ^^^^^^^ The admin!:t.-at;on commit- i lee s report cited manv prece-' lions Si.-'occmmittee began . «.. \-ucu uinny prece- , cents —r ' - ^ t long-awaited hearing on the; The conservatives were aneryji cents and recoimie.-ded dis- /> A . -n fl/1 Mississippii "mat'emat'er wnitwhicuh cuuauiucuauucould-becauses urthe w«uauv*»aaDemocraticv leader._-..s .I - missa;-.-i l of the challenge. It said S(4»tCCl>'/'/ move it along to a showdown had scheduled preliminary ac-jl it was confiden...... t. .iith*e ii=-.newv Votingvoting: Rights Act would come into play ' vote in the House later this tion on seven bills in a rowi to ensure fairness in any future i week. Monday. elections. I Several hundred Mississippi, This is the issue before e'.ec-i A test vote in the Mississippi- Negroes, some wearing straw lions subcommittee: case came last Jan. 4. when ihe I fieldhand ha|s, went to the The challengers contend that e'ected congressmen were seat-: Capitol Monday morning in a the 1951 eleclicn o£ the five j ed temporarily pending the out-1 peaceful demonstration aimed white congressmen was illegai. come of the chalienre. That at persuading the subcommittee because Negroes were sys-;. procedural vote was 2T6 to 143 to open its heating to the press tematically excluded from the for seating them. and public. They had no sue- election process. Some of the! The congressmen involved cess. challengers, members of the' are Rcos. William Colmer, John They entered the vast ro- largely Negro Mississippi Free- Befl Williams. Thomas G. Ab tunda and filed down the main dom Democratic Party, corrduct- ernethy and Jamie L. Whitten. corridor of the Capitol, but.ed momocck election; over a period ail veteran Democrats, and werewere, not allowed into the back cf four days bbefor e the Novem- Prentiss Walker, a freshman corridors leading to the healing ber election. Republican. room. Reporters were barred The five congressme^~.._—...... n. contend from those corridors too the Negro challengers were not The Negro group soo,„-.n. left candidates in the legal elec'.lon| the Capitol, and sang song*». £„s ..In. and therefore are not entitled front oi" the library cf Congress to challenge the results. while awaiting transportation The Howe has upheld thisi lo a local church. reasoning in past cases, and The Mississippi hearing was House leaders have supported it really an innocent bystander in To do otherwise, they have the par'.iamentarv manei.tverin g said, would make any rnemberl which tied ihe'House up in of the House liable to defend knots through the afternoon. ^challenge„ s from any citzen who The elections wocomraitteelmight want to do it for any ret had planned to finish up iUlsori whatever. vMT£X -1 iConltnued From Pae* 1 Oal g»t the 1W Democratic National Goodotl, Republican of upstate _ . ' Convention, whereby the party New York, said the recommen- demonstrations, even though It would require Mississippi Dem- dation was baaed on sev ral I •:••- had the approval of some lib- ocrats to accept Negro partlcl- tors. ierals on the committee, patlon In the future. "On* was th it thev I the ehal- 1 "We may have to put on our. Both the cluIm-.a-.-i of the ful! :..-np.-:rs| did not avail them- ' marching shoea," John Lewis, co:-.l..:ill ;<-, (.i:,-.n- i-,i,'rj.'-'ii!—rrr~.,.v,.< 0f the legal remedies chairman of the student >ton- 'rf-'--- '<••'"'. t-"-e ie-i.-i-.-r n a iiioc mailable to them to get can- violent Coordinating Commit- of liberal I'o'i-.ociats, Frmk didates on the ballot" |tee, told 350 Mississippi THBrflrlSSrl Jt.— " v--.,v -----.icr-ev• - . • "it's pretty hard lo ui leal • I it?,?™, ^"°,i!1;'nLCO;1,e here lJ tM.-ZZZ'^" v '^^l" Representative who had no op- support the challenge mend inei .." Mr, Coot ill said, The Rev, Dr. Mar"", f .••;!».• i ex] r-cted to give ii "The biggest thing I wanted broa KirtTJr snTi the Hi IV. in :ne i louse, l-li;:- j gi i into the report was that tin TT:ristia n ership Con- N'se:iU **- i ^P* \i I • 3 p fji * IS j " >.-^ .t .^. citrz £3 1 c c 1" — CO s •~ *•- -- *"—" — on 8 ft •** *c 9 -^ H o 0 fc ^7. > f- n pSi 8 - s * ? x •§ >• - | d r - i. > W v JS c «< •r- m 4 8 1 I s c CA —" Si rT1 i*Ij| i-i t; y ;- -^ . y, ^ - (* £. .' • .i r -' «||i> ;c 3 - g s - ?;• mm E » % S ;- .=? =- -s '"- -v: a r-r-, a ... ,J « J | | .?. ^ " V; ^ r ; • - i :' i U;j . E S :: ; -1 - r • :; z> 3 C anal v. 1 • 7L f_ * 1 • ' n.= t i, >' e^ H : ; •• >.:* \ U~ -• -. a C -- i: yi •, > •J * z. ' -^ ^ :^. - - - — \vsr^ ' \ r. 3'- " £ - E 5 .-'• j > '.:, rl? ?.' - i: - ^^"?i^ i—, i " - •.- . : > C =; * *J '•'• ^ rj >. z..\ 7 . i ^ „ :- J; - .-. .- - ; -- "r • i - - T ." .-::» JS - _ - • ' v/ - .: ( - . ; ^ r . - > . panj a_ *"- • - '' 5 r s f | :/;, ii N< ^ JtsL W^ Victorious plpns w /I 1.1 j OCT /I-/. -— asre t Chahanaers By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS M. i Gov. Paul Johnson and Mississippi's five coogress- l.ltcrr.l'ic-l.ll jirien expressed .justification and relief after the House Plans were announced ^^^^^^^^^^- boon assigne^d to four llissls- [rejected the predominately Xegro Freedom Democratic' 1 terday tn run N'oerc ca-vli- ''Pi ' colinliosi | Party challenge to unseat the congressmen. dates nt:; ~-»i .,..;,.., c„„ "The unwillingness of the Johnson and Atty. Gen. Joe Patterson praised the James O. year apast Sen. ,.C(lt.,..,, GovernroeBt !0 r,ct is House for voting- final rejection, 228 to 1.1.1, of the chal and Miss Eastland (D-Mlss. incomprehensible," Guyot said lenge Fiiclay.-^0jL|i^e^(5(vwL:7''-iif+;-vLCS - - member: slppi's five House in a telegram to President "1 fell nl] along." the gover-' *-lic attorneys representing 'he ^^^^^H Johnson. Attorney General nor said, "ho Congress would MFDP are members of the Na- The Mississippi Freedom Nicholas deft Katxeobach and PatwaeiutU Party said H would Congressional leaders, ,,;..;, v,.,-.. nYtte ertfteflce to this 'ional Lawyers Guild—a i ip ign :;,-•' ciied by mc House Un-Ameri- enter candidates in the Con- "We are going back to Mis- :: -cssion.-ii elections, after s slasippl determined to build a I "it was unfortunate." Poller- can Activities Committee as earI :9U as b in a massive voter registration Freedom Democratic Party I ana said, "that our congressmen >' •"•- " ? Com- drive designed to acid more that will register 450,000 Ne- Uvere forced to go through Ihe rnunisi front organization." than 450- 30 Mississippi gro voters, thai will run black hafassintiTt and haranguing John Sell Williams, Demo- .Negroes dp the voter rolls. candidates, and that will elect ihsv did to defend themselves pr«t-The challenge was "anj Lawrence Guyot. chain-nan them lo office." Guyot said. against something ihat was overt attack against the entire Of the predominantly Negro An estimated 60,000 Negroes nothing a! a!! lo start with." Pfopl* of a sovereign state" and! MTDP, outlined ils plans at a are currently registered in In Washington, there were re- the rejection of H "was i re news conference. The House Mississippi, actions of "the congressm e n' sfBrmation of faith by a ma-, rejected last Friday the Par- Guyot said after MFDP can- whose scats were challenged: l0i'1!.v of :he House In our Airier- ty's attempt to unseat the dictates are selected Oct. 2 to William Colmer, Democrat— 'can elective system." state's representatives or. oppose Eastland and the five Those who vo'ed against dis- Although Ihe challenge was grounds Negroes bad been House members in the missal of the challenge were turned back, Fannie Lou Kam- barred from votins November. 19G0 genera) elec- Guyot accused the Federal Hoc, the Party would gather "voting against nothing mure or and two other contestants, Government of failing to lm- signatures for petitions to put than a political contest., because Victoria Gray and Annie Define, plement the I0o5 " Voting them on th.- ballot as Indepen- of the racial overtones. Our pn won a victory of soils. Rlzhts Act in Mississippi. He d«at candidate*. siiion v.-as thai these people Invoking a privilege under the called for the assignment ot Jrgt laid ibi-r,-- was a nn'sihil- (Freedom Democratsi were no'- rules thai a contestant in an Federal voter registrars to aUjflty the MFDP wo'.:ld_cjitcr contestants In the light of the election may sit on Ihe House 32 counties in the suae. ff M\er cant!:.laics in the Uento- xt.-.tines, and therefore were not floor while the challenge is [Federal registrars hijyc- ciuiii ,uinu.i'y newt Jum1.— •entitled to contest." being considered. the> sal for Thomas G. Abernethy. Dem- an hour and heard reprcsenta- | ocrai—''V.'e are happy to be re- fives argue their ease pro and •' licved to the terrible strain and con. (expensive burdens ... the prin- Rep. Jn'-n Conyers Jr., D- |ei(>a! prosecutors of this so- Mich., a Negro member, lea the "called contes:. most of whom fight to have the five Mississippi ' v ere from outside the slate. Continued On rage IS are skilled, evpenrneed. and ; high-powered practitioners of! chaos and confusion. Consider jk&y ing their ability and tremen- ^,, dous finances, we were fortu-1 •*e to have whipped them." j C "nie Whitten. Democrat — | FDP THAI I FKI<^ tor the challenge "would , B ^a>* law - -den: that out- '.eulinued From Page 1 sentaUvei tcmporari'v. pending resenting per- I representative:- s ousted from the outcome of the challenge. .cho were not candidates. their seats. Many Negroes who Because cf :he legal factors .d have used as a basis for had traveled from Mississippi and longtime House traditions ;;ing attacks on a delegation crowded the visitors galleries. •a any state." The challenge's arc precedents, it had been ex I main impetus came from "the Afterward. Conyers said. "I pected Friday's vote would be National Lawyer; Guild and the am grievously disappointed by much the same. National Council of Churches. Ibis unconscionable yore with-' But among Negroes who wait Unfortunately trey spread a lot out even hearing the merits of ed across from the Capitol, the of misinformation across the na the ease." reaction was bitter and amo tion." The special elections subcom tion! ran high. Pren'iss Walker. Republican mittee did not try to -©ok into One waved an American fag. --'There is no question in my election conditions in Missis Others shouted. "Thro-.' that sippi. t'iag away" and "Put it down." mind as to the forces behind : this fchallengei and other ac "We'll begin organizing a new j Someone t ;o' anotner rag tivities of '.he Mississippi free challenge in the next election," I upside down on a parkin.^^^^^g sign^ dom Democratic Parly. Most of. Conyers said. until one of Ihe scores cf Capitol Fannie Lou Hamer said later: j police who stood by look it "My district is 60 per cent Ne- I down. gro. Who knows? Maybe in 1966 ' one of us will be a senator." "I'm one of the black people of America." she added. "My grandmother was a slave. V.'iih Ged's help, without violence. J"II j keep on fighting until the Con-| itltution means more than a l piece of paper." The five Mississippi congress men are Reps. VYiHi-.m M. Col mer. Jamie Whitten. Thomas G. j Abernethy. and John Bell Wil liam', Democrat?, and Prentisi Walker, a freshman Republican. They voted -present'' when the roil call came, but Whitten! first voted to dismiss '.he chtl- longe snd later changed his vote I to "present." Last Jan. I the House voted I" I to 143 !o seat :r,t rive repre-| /3 Saturday, Sep;. 18, 1965 THI-1 WASHINGTON POST! : >ians -at •'•""y: J ssue They Protest nty-five year-old Geor-' across from the East Front of 'by sat on the wall the Capitol. I "I'd sure love to be in! there," she sighed. "In there" was tho visitors: gallery of the House of Repre sentatives, where her fellow' members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party: watched in 15-minute spells! the Party's unsuccessful bid! to oust their State's emigres-1 j atonal delegation. "I'd sure love to be ml there," she repeated, "but my arthritis won't let me climb: the steps. So I just sit here! and mind these packages for! t the children so they can go in." Vigil of 24 Hours Mrs, Roby, daughter of for mer slaves, was one of some 500 Freedom Democrat? who • staged an all-night, all-day vi- jgi! outside the Capitol in sup-' I port of the ouster attempt. ! How did this woman, who; - j never knew anything but sec-i jond-class citizenship during j her entire life in rural Clay County, come to be a civil rights activist in her twilight [years? "I just got tired of staying In the back yard," she said. "I've been there too Jonr" Mrs. Roby admits being "ai j little outspoken." but she :doesn't consider herself a re-j jbcl. It was only about a year, ago, when the Party started! iorganiring in West Point, that; she tried for the first time to j register. Ji . ; After five or six attempts. Er J:r McN'air.ara. Sia.'t pl-iolGa-ran;-. with a mandator;.- 30-day wait ing period between efforts, Some of Ihe principals in the Mississippi Gray, Annie Devine, Rep. Don Edwards she was finally register last congressional election contest pose on the (D-Calif.) and Rep. Robert N. C. Six (D- month—by Federal registrars.; Steps of the Capitol. From left are Rep. Pa.). The three women were invited to William F. Ryan tV-S.TC.), Rep. John Con the floor of the House yesterday when In Politics to Stay yers (D-.Mkii.), Fannie Hamer. Victoria the vote was taken on the election Issue. "I never got involved in pc- litics until last year," she said,! "but I ain't gcair.g out till I'm farmers, sharecroppers, do est son left home to join a during the Atlantic City Dem dead." mestics, high school students voter-registration project. cratic Convention. Mr*. Roby isn't typical of and unemployed. Or.e of re-' "I figured if he felt he had Johnny Lee Jones. 18. c the Freedom Democrats, but. cently jobless is 12-year-old to slip away from home to do Phebe, and Helen. Willi ir? then, none of these who came' James Gulley cf Roiling Fork. what he thought was right, it 17, of Rosedale, live on the' here seemed to have much in He says he was fired as a farm- was time for me to take a good parents' small cotton • common except a history of equipment mechanic after he lock at myself." Mrs. Palmer Most of the Freedom Demi official and unofficial harass tried to enrol! three of his said. She and her husband crats have only fuzzy aotio: ment and a deep conviction seven children in a white' joined the movement. of what the eongressirr: that it was a good thing they- school. Loutisha Robinson, IP, join challenge was all about. Bu were doing. Willie H. Palmer, a 53-year- ed the Party before she fin they all sense that somethin Their ranks include small old factory worker, and his ished high school in Yieks- immense!.'- important is ha: wife , Hazel, were aloof from burg last year. The Rev. C. ".v. petting in Mississippi and wai '-nvement until their old Whitley, 62, got interested to be a part of it. \ \Pf Port I-SAT., SECT. IS, 1965 god f>njtfrs QntMl+ xT louse Blocks Move to Unseat Mississippians White Congressmen Beat Negro Challenge but Vote Fails to Endorse 'Title' to Jobs BY DON IRWIN ' fi Times Slalf Wnlw ll'tl id WASHINGTON -- The- re;;; to n-e ?r to hundreds of House rejected Friday a; thousands of other people." challenge raised by disen-j The Freedom Democrats franchised Xegroes against rested their demands iov tin- the seating of Mississippi's ««ing°f the Mississippi de- , . .legation on the basic conten- five • member congressional!,,tion^ tha„,,,.-.t , sUte.3 gv ' • 3 ""'• f ft at • j.^i' ?'• 1 ting ) I- WASHINGTON (AP) - The By a 19-5 vote, th: eomatti h I House is scheduled lo take final Wednesday approved a report action Friday on a challenge recommending it conduct a re by a predominantly Negro Mis view timed at handling sue; sissippi organization aiainst the cases as tt-ajy come up, particu Vote Is 228-143; state's five congressmen. Even its .sympathizers in Congress larly if they involve violaUo Further Anion don't e>:pect tha challenger., jo cf the new voting rights law. I win It said it was not trying to fore Is Not Expected | closcava e toe unseating of incum- Hy Richard L. Lyons i Meanwhile cm) rtrh's iMdsm I bent members. W.ThinitloD Post Sv.lt Writer | gathered in Washington and Eut, citing numerous pre*&- j talked cf posibie ii:..-.. ^.:. ...-j deuts, it concluded that the The House dismissed a ; stra lions in support of the effort challengers did not have les?d Negro challenge against i le nteat the congressmen, i standing because they were rot Mississippi's five Represent ! There seemed to be r.o agree- j candidates in too M'ssissir/pj atives yesterday and thus ment on whether to take this J general elections. step. I Xr.e Netiro cha".etige.:-s, rr.ent- apparently cnO.ed an 8- _, -,,.-,, -•• » I'-ftrs a SS • -a. *•> L'iiii:ji:r. :• Dr. Marti r. Luther King Jr., ^Partv. 'algaed that thev'were month fight to unseat them. said he had net discussed tie' •• ••*,i—• a 228-to-i43 vote, _fiej need for rr.:-«s deniunstn.::3ns i net or-i y evmuncq iron •ic c:-.:6rj*T voung, J i- dismlssed but added, "I support the cliai-j ••'ry-^-'e -mi"SS' i lenge all ihe way, and where 11 .aj^- ni:::-v.chiLio'i ..at the: can demonstrate in a deepi ^^^^^^— •icvtion wis in-. sense cf commitment, I Wall." I Cttnrryltie-s :itfcir.l>ir A'-iiiir.l,.< most Negroes! He said the unseating of lh»iF. HJWIIIDI.. n-Cai.:., a vga. T.tti thf mm ra voie^ congressmen would give a "psy-; ?ttid ne i- ::._.:.r ••;• a muni- cloinit so, tire J16r.se. ehological lilt to the Xegro and !l!p lU'ginrr, deleted Mississippi and all over the na-1calling ier tinner BTOn tion.** j t"e cr-se, n;a!i|j IbUi ar, -, 5a Eut the House la cxcpecled to I to tee puone. Be upheld the recommeadavcion a i iiis cave some I the He-use Administration Com- itga: JilcggrTnmnHgjiga :•!-• e.ic-i'se to vote for ciis- :niitee that the challenge he I ** ''. imr' y.-j-ijle il thniii-pl'f- dismissed. KawUat w*s ana at tfce tm .- " ,i:-:pits further challenge, committee mambers who voted .._• :.. in sight. " against the r=cc;nrner.:£-.iOD la of the challenge's— dismiss the challergs. Hs raU I Fennle Lou Hamer, Annie aa wi" try to datau II M tb» ine and Victoria Gray — itwc i'-ida.;-'. •e permitted to sit in the But ilawlri;^ conceded r:?? 1 chamber to listen to. *. sine prcichiy won't ret jay |ti - • tfr debate. House rules j man »iot«i than it did la t •rr. (perm -mtestants to ho pres- vote ia the esse last Jam • gh one reason for Tnct vet.': v JJ ;;g y. :: ; ,.., the case was that seating the elected coi t I f^M ' lerr-l contest- h.0nCir6aiiiHwJl S^IiCV.sVCi pe-ding the outcome at.' : . I not been 'ici.'i _. ] had m^ • Almexhers of the Mississippi WASHINGTON l* — r... i.i the lYe .- Party's om Democratic Party. [ 'X.:c ecmmSttee reporf* exact " II inofficial election. Koiise election; subcommit- _.gueFree d that -.hey had been 11 language beeam puhli- d&e House leaders took a libera! tee vflted Tuesday to recom denied the right lo run as view of the rules all day, bmeny Mississippd dismissai l oXegroef challengs trye - candidaterandiistes inin" thtite? rezularegular i It laid "-Le eonnatfttae!»swag /^rr* .bout 200 Freedom Party ^^'^^^'•••••aaaaaaaaaaaaaaing to unseat theS itate'State'si five election and to take part In lawarTTTn alt a> ' mi mbers vrho had watched «.-hite rnn21-es.sn-.en. I that election by voting. .'ne debate from the galleries white congressmen •thai •ere permitted to let off Subcommittee chairman The subcorr.rnittee was un- Itean with speeches on the' Robert T. Ashmore 'D-S.C.1 derstood to have taken into 'root lawn of the Capitol after said the report to the full. account previou,__ . s cases in .he vote. House Admin" ' *' :istratio n Com- which the House declined ... Xegro traders delivered, rnitiei v.iii Include a recom-junseat members en the chal- some fiery speeches, but! niendatior. that ^^^^^the Housejleng^ e of persons who were varxted against demonstra should scrutinize =11 elec bona tide candidates tions. They uri'ed their follow-! tions more thoroughly in the themselvss. B:rs instead to go back to! future, particularly under The report's language was '.lississippi and get registered! he Voting Bights Act." said to be acceptable It o liber- :o vote. They had no trouble; .ne v oxing. iMi.iio n**. ,5aia lo uc m„.Kt,„^„ .„ ith the police. . Asked II he mean-, that ev- aj Democrats on the eoramit- The alternative' to rTtsriirstng | •ry qualified voter should be tee, who had conceded pri- he challenge was to send it .Unwe.llovved tto vote. Ashmoreivatelv that the challenge:-.-'' laid "it doe that." The e K hai d1 a- shak-U^l..y. legal„„^il basiskaaia ; •' •ct'.lt'a'r.crtliferi-t.;;; o; j-\ tf . icarings. Tiiis.. iuoposal was .s-.ii'ror'.-mittec acted bv a voters :n tne v, g gggoiilj or" in ^fiO/'/r lefeated. 207 to 129, on a voice vote. 7t-IV.yi5fi.-fi".' \rf-_J^j__^f record Totea__^^^^^^_ A showdown vote of the cornrnittee m?an t'oTrrrT The dismissal resolution was House on the matter Is tenta rec-cinnu'n^Eiijn cf lllSKie liCDOrt . . e By RoKlmtA Evans and Robert Novak The Perverted Challenge TO THE very end, lead gressmen, did split the ers of the Mississippi Free establishment. dom D em oe r a tie Party (MFDP) followed a strange . GIVING the MFDP chal strategy calculated to insure lenge full support were topheavy defeat of its effort the National Council of to unseat Mississippi's five Churches and perhaps 50 segregationist Congressmen. liberal Democratic Con Some two weeks before gressmen. Partly because of the House vote on MFDP's this, the Civil Rights Lead challenge against the five ership Conference (a coali Congressmen, MFDP lead tion of liberal and labor ers were approached priv Novak organizations) reluctantly ately by the liberal Ameri endorsed the challenge four cans for Democratic Aetion. Congress, how to file suit days before the House vote. In Slate a ad Federal Another 50 or so Democrat The ADA men asserted that ic Congressmen, fearing the challenge was bound to Courts, how :t o bring the political reprisals, felt com lose. Therefore, they argued, strongest case possible to postpone the vote until the pelled to vote for the chal new congressional session Congress. lenge last Friday. next January when new de Because the advice was But other liberals were velopments might offer a ignored, the : IFDP's legal determined n o t to knuckle better chance. case for unset,.in g the Con- under to the Civil Rights The MFDP rejected this gressmen waii untenable. radicals. The big guns of out of hand. The inevitable Moreover, the MFDP and t li • Civil Rights Leader follow-up was an overwhelm- the Student Nionvlolen t Co- s-hip Conference — Clarence in:; vote..in the House last ordinating Corr. mittee anger- Mitchell of NAACP, Joseph ed po-eivil rig Rauh of ADA and Andrew | Young Democrats Hopeful Fildny—223 to H3—dismiss its Congress- Eicmiiler of AFL-CIO— OXFORD, Miss., Oct. 6. — ing the challenge. men by refui nff to push passage of th were not present when the filmier Young Democrat- 3065 Voting challenge was endorsed. In- ACTUALLY, the legal Rights Act — which could Mississippi were case for unseating the Mis dcd. the AFL-ClO's name lead to unseat::.-. g the Missis- was conspicuously absent Wednesday about sissippi Congressmen is so sippi segregate r.isls through weak that it's doubtful a from the statement of en -.X chances of receiving a democratic pre cedures. dorsement. lionr.i charter alter the1 postponement until next Worst of all ,vas the abuse Freedom Democr.itic Party-j year would have made much heaped on Ube -a! Congress- Most important, the lead dented Young Democrats re-' difference. Nevertheless, it men by the MiFD P spck«s. ership of the Democratic ported they would not seek the is typical that MFDP from men in facc-tc--.ace sessions Study Group — the influen • charter and had revised plans: beginning to end rejected durlng recem: month s. tial caucus of liberal Demo jto attend the National Yotingi all proposals that might con •When these guys started cratic Congressmen — with j Democratic Clubs of America! ceivably have led to victory. referring to : LM as a 'so- stood MFDP threats. Re?. ; Convention in New York next We have been reporting called white liberal' my Frank Thompson of New Tuesday. for-a-ree-r that MFDP and mind was marl e up—against Jersey, the hirhly respected its—parent organization, the them." relates on Congre.-s- Study Group Chairman, led The two groups split at a Student Nonviolent Coordi man. other courageous liberal! 'state convention in August nating Committee, are inter- Why this ma icchistie strat- voting against the chal vi;\ a group led by Hodding cited not so much in win egy? The ostc: slble explana- lenge. r-.-.^r III cf Greenville and ning as in demonstrating the tion is the pol: :ical inexperi- CI eland Donald, a Univer moral corruption of what ence of the y;r-uthfu l Ideal- THESE THEN are the se., o'. Mis . .'; pi Negro stu-j they~call the "power struc ists and supc:--eased Missis fruits of the MFDP chal dent from Jackson, walking ture." More and more liber sippi Negroes who fill the lenge: it of the meeting. j al Democratic Congressmen MFDP's ranks. Unfortunate- A wasted year by idealis now agree. ("I've never seen ]y, that is not the complete tic youths and courageous people so hard to say yes answer. Mississippi Negroes when to," one such liberal told Liberal Cor., ress,r.en be- they would better have been us.) lieve the mar. puiiing the helping register voters in strategy strin ft for the Mississippi: another split in THE STORY begins some MFDP cha!!er.i: e was no in- the civil rights movement: months ago when the MFD? experienced N egro field and, because of the size of began planning the chal hand but a s 'j r e w d New last Friday's vote against lenge. In private discussions York lawyer: '•''•illia m Ku::s- them, more raw material for , here, liberal Congressmen tier, long a -.It:...-ipio n of far the MFDP propagandists in and lawyers gave MFDP left-wing cause s. And Kur.;- ronclernn'ing the "w h 11 e leaders a battle plan—how tier's strategy, failing to tin- liberals." to .put up candidates for scat the segrt adonist Con £ 1965, Publish?" N«7.spao:r Sl.-r.rl-.calV Z 2. f» 2 "2 Iff! * 2 g ~ 2 .2 . ^ 3 3 a. 2 .2 2 ra •a ra rS o < QJ 5" -r 51.'- a * P- 9-1 v* ri . rerc 1-iS* o - • 6-3 -r- = ra _i 3 7 JI I ^-Clf ,l=g "ra ra ra 5' iff J2. g V cS .'•:,.,:. H MISUNDERSTAND' [n&] . ...,'.. . ..,z c#/- 7^ | 7 / ,-__ (r,\ ° J" J- o J?-/2dk» Jo,fyJ-zLJ By ANDREW J. GLASS cards showing me with my arm around I Mississippi Jieu. Eastland's po Bobby Kennedy." "mi Special To The Times son. litical power is being threatened "Why that's plain foolishness," the From The N.Y. Herald Tribuno senator argues, crushing a cigar and rivi for the first time in 24 years by a RULEVILLE, Miss. — Sen. James O. lighting another. "They want to tag me chi: shi; Republican opponent who's tr~:inp Eastland tells visitors to his huge planta as a 'liberal.' But that's nonsense. Peo ple have more sense than that." vid to pin a "liberal" label on him. tion in Mississippi's lush cotton delta of As chairman of the Senate Judiciary so black that a Republican is trying to seize the Here's whZ. things art. Committee, Eastland reigns as one of and white anymore in Mississippi. Senate seat he has held firmly for 24 the most influential men in Washington. tot —years by "flooding the state with post- Yet he is taking no chances that Missis tio sippi voters will accept the claim of Rep. de Prentiss Walker, his Republican oppo or nent, that the senator has "very, very m close ties with the Johnson administra cl tion." So the senator recently drove 100 tc miles from his plantation through the V delta's newly planted cotton fields to h seek support for a fifth Senate term a from the Rotary Club of rural Tunica P County. "I'm glad to tell you that my voting \ record on the Great Society is zero and t I'm going to keep it that way," Eastland t said during his "nonpolitical speech" to some 60 Tunica farmers and merchants. "WOULDN'T YOU BAY that was a thoroughly reactionary speech?" the sen ator asked a listener afterwards, chomping on yet another of his inexhaus tible supply of cigars. "I don't see how the Republican can get to the right of that." At 61, Eastland ranks as the most powerful political figure in a state trou bled by a declining cotton economy and torn by increasing racial strife. Missis sippi is also the victim — the senator would say the beneficiary — of an en trenched one-party system. But in November Negroes will vote in Mississippi in great numbers for the first time since Reconstruction and Eastland remains riddled by doubts over what that vote will mean to the future of his state. About 122,000 Mississippi Negroes are now registered, largely through last year's Voting Rights Act. By November, according to Justice Department esti mates Negro voters in the state will total Sen. Jamos O. Eastland: The OH Ways Changing 17o,000 against 550,030 registered whites. | simply ludicrous tho weird an tics and wild rantingi oi tne Colmer Connects FDP Mississippi Freedom Democrat 7 ic Pnrty and its .sponsors—not so long as they can wrap them Willi Commie Activity selves in the cloak of civil rights and fool even members WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. [ policy of the United States, of Congress into accepting them William Colmer, D-MIss said i thera5v~iTh'dcrrhining the secu as knights in shining armor em Wedhesdav a "communist - in rity of tho nation anfTjcopardiz- barked on a holy crusade." ing tne lives ol our ngnTing Colmer told his colleagues that spired conspiracy" lies behind men in Vict Mam.- ; j Lawrence Guyot, the FD party last year's effort to unseat Mis He said it cOtlld be shown con- chairman, "actually admits that sissippi's congressmen ana ihe j clusivcly that those encourag- ; draft-dodging techniques have current criticisms Ot th£_ VrM | ing draft dodging and disunity been taught in some 'freedom ^gam war. are the same groups and indi-! srhnnk' which ffie group l\\m-^ viduals who fostered civil dis- ates in the state, In a House speech. Rep. Col obedience in "so-called civil ' He said a ireeaom school in mer ailacKecl the Mississippi rights causes." Freedom Pepinr-ratic 1'arfvTanri structor Rainer Selig of Chica the" Sludcnt Non-Violent Coordi- He said the Mississippi Free go, admitted that while teaching na'ting Committee. The party dom nr-mCK-ratif Party "is nrre at McComb, he instructed some. spearheaded the drive to oust example of a group which is 50 students in "Hie evils of the the state's representatives. playing a leading role in the bomb al'ld Wlul we fan do to I "As an American citizen who draft dodging conspiracy stup" linn wnr in Viat Aim," he is gravely concerned lest the He said that some of the law plaining ''how tney drop the 1 security of this nation be placed yers listed on the brief filed in borj ' ftp? in jeopardy, I say to you it is the seating challenge case were of.' time to recognize the Mississip active Communists, others have FREEDOM SCHOOL pi Freedom Democratic Party, defended Communist leaders "It is not surprising that such the Siudent Non-Violent Coordi and still others were pro-Castro. a .revolutionary doctrine would" nating Committee and its other 14 C6.MMUN1STS be taugh at the Freedom schools affiliates for what they are," "In summary, of the 159 law in .Mississippi, considerlflgThe said Colmer, "a group of weird yers listed in the brief of the fdft that their iourtflBi—B-as and dangerous exiremistSTrTtBg. 'contestants,' 14 are identified j Sjaugnton Lvno. a Yale nrofes- leit, pent mnltsserision, revolu- | Communists," Colmer said. "A tion and na'icnal disaster. j total of 63, or ovpr one-third, I MIIKE to Miss j have some kind of Communist The Freedom Democrats last; or Communist front record." "He said Lynd w;is accompa year challenged the election of I Colmer said that last week a nied to Hanoi "by Thomas Hay- the five Mississippi House mem-! few House members mounted i **"• a foundcJ of Students for a bers, contending their elections j another attack on Mississippi, a ' Democratic Society, who was were illegal because Negroes j situation which resulted in a ; als0 aclivc. ln !he clvi1. ™8htl generally were barred from vot-; sham House exchange about the I moyement in Mississippi, ing in the state. The House dis- j operations of the poverty, food !. Co'»yr, "jfejM **??** missed the challenges. j and similar programs in Missis- i ™}W™ inf! r-irDP, Ihe "IVare- Colmer said the challenges! sippi ' ' • nik_Demonsirations anojjhe were a "determined, well or-T "Some members of thk 1 Communist conspiracy is con- ganized and well tinancecTeT-"' House, well-intentioned no doubt iclUi: ' Tfl an fort. " | but, in my opinion, uninformed artigte~ril'—Arme -Braden, an IN BACKGROUND and misguided, participated in identified communist," apnea "As is usual in such Commu- accusing Mississippi of waging ing-til tilt? gt'pi. ia.~WS5, issue of "Peace and Freedom News nist movements, the Commu-: 'a carefully calculated cons-pir- I wrTieri trie" congressman d nists as such manipulated in ] acy' against some of its citi-j scribed as "a publication of the the background, using left-wing j zens," he said. j 'National Coordinating Com- organizations and misguided j The accusation, Colmer said, 1 Imiitee to End the War in Viet and sometimes naive individ-, was ironic, since the program | Nam." " uals to front for them. t to provide free food was de-! He said Mrs. Braden's hus "The movement was carried '. layed chiefly because of "ob- band, Carl Braden, "also a hard on under the guise of civil rights ; structionism of the Mississippi core communist, was a guiding ... i Freedom Democratic Party, its • light in the formation of the "These same leftwing organ-1 affiliates and its sponsors . . .". | MFDP." izattems_ hartr now emoarned ' But. he told the House,'"We ; rnWr said Mrs. Braden upon a more arnnmous under- < in Mississippi have learned £wrot e tHaTjhe Anti-Viet Nam taklri : -to discredit tne torfflgn our sorrow not to dismiss fas policy "in a real sense, js 'a w crTTfor^tlTe-SouThern civil rights 1 -, J/tfj^mM ttmsSBSE" anollHit "many U/<*/0 f v-^->. 1 wnoare most-artivrworked first iri MississipBa," HeJudto nnotnH hor aa-aay- Ing thai the mnvpmail. "reflects a concept that is capturing the imAginatiOn oi people which recently tried to take over the deactivated Greenville Air Force Base, demanding land and jobs. He emphasized that even Pulilizer Prize-winning editor Hodding Carter, "noted for his liberal views," called the invasion "a shocking and shame ful performance." Colmer described the PPC as one of the "parallel groups" set up bv the MFDP. "The fact that the MFDP and 1 some other-so-called civil rights | groups are now aiding the com- | munlst conspiracy to enslave , the world by attempts to dis-1 credit our national policy is no 1 mere coincidence." he charged. HOUSE MISLED "What is alarming to me is f- ih.it despite these undeniah facts, some members of this | body have been misled into sup- | • -tine the MFDP and the Stu- f jtX^ J^/*Z^& *^f J d*'Ctej6£ ' <7&?^<^1 c*&^/>XdLf'/£~ jtce&tL; /Z&y}£ -ft/rVOb C^CC(^T^ sO/sCtdt*'7 A*«/*tf-j2.^^tt^zAS andsdafe Pauses Negroes Killed In Senate A legislative plan for moving ments in northern and western Unaware of Acs&^rm ribrninee's Race, Says Negroes to other states met quick states and to utilize federal death in the Mississippi Senate Mississippi Aspi/ar/t to Easiiand'a Seatj Monday when lawmakers voted homestead lands that are in to postpone it indefinitely. great abundance. . ' MBY JOHN H. ..VERIKfTT? /J^> By a 19-15 vote, the Senate "This will also allow certain Timo« Staff Wi-itur I ***\***'^ decided to delay the measure of our other states an equal op portunity to carry the cross i by Sen. Robert Crook of Rule- .^WASHIXGTOX — The In defense of himself, ville. that the southern states have nomination Walker said il is his policy had to carry for the last hun Sen. Ed Henry of Canton, dred years," he said. of .1 Negro lor appoint to let the Civil Service whose area lias been hit by civil ment to the Air 'ce Commission determine rights disturbances in recent "Most certainly the great •'•..- . - .'..Ling which applicants for the years, opposed it and asked critics of the South in the North : politici: ns service academies are the handlers if they felt it "consti will join hands with liberal con suprema best qualified. He said he tutional for public funds to be gressmen and help in assisting cy as their best formula innocently nominated used for personal use as mov these people to become useful for victory. ing expenses?" and productive members of Lang on the advice of the their (new) home states." This is shown by the commission, which he said And Sen. Bill Caraway of Le- fuss that lias arise;-, since makes no reference to land, located in the Delta area Sen. Paul Lee of Carthage Marvell Lang recently be race. where Negroes make up a ma said it would mean spending came the first Xegro ever jority of the population, asked: $150,000 to send people '"out of nated to a service But Walker said he now Mississippi when we have jobs is investigating whether "Have you got a reciprocal for every ablebodied man and . my from Mississippi. agreement with other states The man who nor..' Lang may have been woman in the state. This is a "planted" by the Eastland where they can send us some bad bill." ed him, Rep. Prentiss L. of theirs?" Walker, Mississippi's first forces to embarrass him. In a statement issued a ..ijlican congress! . Crook argued the bill was few days ago after the fur "designed to assist those per . Reconstruction days, ore over the Lang nomina sons in our state who have been insists he didn't know at tion erupted, Waiker chal displaced from agricultural time that Lang was a lenged Eastland to explain work because of modern farm Xegro. y he voted for Robert technology. Xow Walker is attempt Weaver, the first- Xegro "It would be purely voluntary ing to show he is a better ever appointed to the C'aoi- on the part of those who have eeationist than the net." a low per-capita earning be man he hopes to unseat in He also sought to identi cause of their unskilled status," November, Sen. James 0. fy Eastland with two poli he said. Eastland (D-Miss;), for tical figures most detested "Tne single most fundamen years one of the South's by .Mississippi white su tal problem that Mississippi has most prominent symbols of premacists — President faced in the past is that certain segregi Johnson and Sen. Robert of its citizens are nonproduc Seen as Threat P. Kennedy (D-X.Y.), the tive and primarily users instead Walker, a militant con- former attorney general. of producers." dative who won his Walker, for instance, de Crook did not mention the congressional seat in the manded to know whether word Negro in his talk but it Goldwater sweep of Dixie 11 a n d will sponsor was obvious he intended the re in 1934, is viewed as the "Bobby Kennedy when he location effort to deal with Ne first serious Republican comes lo speak at the groes. tiger Eastland ever University of Mississippi Caraway, supporting the Hen has faced. on March 18." Walker said ry motion to postpone the meas Eastland "hobnobs and ure indefinitely, said "I have From the time Walker . been delighted over the lack of announced on Feb. 7 that . prances with the Kenne dys in Washington, why racial overtones in bills we he would oppose Eastland, • have passed the last six months it has been clear he would can't he do the same in .'.. sissippi?" and I hate to see it come up bid for the white suprema now." To all this Eastland re cy vote that has been East Crook said the relocation com land's big source of fuses comment—including the issue of the Lang nom- mission to be set up by the bill strength. would help persons "who desire In the flareup over the tion. AH Eastland will say is: to take advantage of better than Lang nomination, Walker JO per cent higher welfsre pay has suggested that' East- "At the Xovember elec 1 his allies have tion, the truth and facts iim as ' being soft on Negroes. jj. Yon C;tn Earn Up To • notes that Mis- $ 00 ppi news stories of the I 20 kfl HOUR ' i *ang nomination and a let- •T by servicing estiblisharj refill outlets -fc tor Walker sent to Lang 1 in your srea. with NEW "ipend-iike- 4 ill unaware It csst." savings stamps. , was a Xegro, have '. widely distributed around the stale. He calls 100% F il yr.ur crcilit i, cootl this a smear plot by the N.D.G.A. • M.I2 Hollywood Bl., L.A. I. Eastland forces. I ?»**->**• HO. 2-0015 *i-*lrk**\ 3""W -i ;u "* f£ 12i -3 ga aa n -a f B" s g. 'is "- — CL aasi (Ti -"> • _ ri C i. re w _ c s .- 8 to ;a It 93.^ = • \ The Delta Democrat-Times be that some Democrats apparently moans the "low level" we have al believe the charge can be a success ready reached in the 19S5 sena ful smear. torial race in which Senator Jame3 "Senator Eastland's vote on 0. Eastland is opposed by GOP Weaver, a man selected by Presi Congressman Prentiss Walker._The dent Johnson after a long search Greenville daily had hoped the for the man best qualified for the presenT rjohtiea! camfiaura would job, should be judged on almost ri.-'Vftlr.p U'Ti.-tf. it r-.iiilfirl "rer.l issues" any ground except racial. Weaver instead of "the same single issue." is a veteran Federal official who That, single issue, as former .Mis knows his job. sissippi Coi-gresr.-.-..... Fr:.:.".: Z::....: "But here we have the same old so well s.alied cut :n iiis bcol;,*:a opening guns for the same old Mis rage^ Smith correct::/ str.t... t..s sissippi campaign. Two party poli question of race had dominate Ii tics like one party politics, seems Mississippi politics ~!tST—the past to be the/victithe*\ m of our tragic heri hundred jyr tage.e." / TKarj^"'""•'"r-Ti" "•"• -"s comments on triecun-ent static yciit-ct! scyrie: ThCWf ononl]y thing we find sur prising in this is that The Delta "From the Democratic sidei we Democrat-Times should be sur have the sly charge that Republi prised. The fa^o we now have a two- can Congressman Prentiss Walker party system of politics in Missis will recommend a young Negro for sippi, an 'encouraging development the Air Academy appointment. we have" fostered through the From the Republican camp comes years, does not necessarily change the denunciation of Senator East the people who are participating in land for voting to confirm Robert politics. The same old people emerge Weaver, a Xegro, as head of the with the same old prejudices and new urban cabinet agency. Neither passions and may be expected to do party has any reason for pride. so for some time, x^erhaps eventual "That either charge could be ly this will be changed, if and when considered an issue is a sad com we start growing a better brand of, mentary on how far Mississippi peopi<» *^ politics still has to go. There should —we are reminded of a sign which be nothing so noteworthy except in hangs on the living room of Dr. a positive way that a Mississippi Laurance C. Jones at Piney Woods N'egro might go to the Air Force Country Day School: Academy. That Congressman Walk "Great minds discuss ideas. er thinks such a chil.rge reflects on Average minds discuss events. his integrity is as bad as the fact Small minds discuss people." Ttevirlawin King, a white H'ree- | dom Democratic Party candi date who lost to William in the -tih District Congressional race. King's total was changed from (lie secretary's 13,313 to Ihe committee's 15,313. which still lefl Williams in the lead. The committee recommenda Labor Leaders, Negrc?" Moderates tions were adopted after sub mission by Byrd P. Mauldin of Pontotoc, secretary, and heac '}-z.ii: ississippi Political, Seethe of an auditing subcommittee thai made the findings. Bidwell Adam of Gulfport, committee chairman, presided. Adam said that he has not .-. handful of state ' bor lead Neither candidate. In their pi Democratic Conference effort heard of any defeated candi ers and Negro mode, .es have view, is favorable, to their objec have found that they can get lit date who has plans lo contest ...iletly been probing ihe Missis tives in Mississippi. So they are tle help from President Johnson the outcome of any election. sippi political front in recent regarding the senatorial race as and the national Democratic The committee announced weeks trying to stake a claim an opportunity to test the dimen committee so long as the presi thai it will actively back its on the as yet untested Negro sions of Negro voting strength dent pursues a course of defer nominees who face Republican voting strength in the state. and lay the groundwork for a ring to the wishes of the state's opposition in the general elec more politically practical voice two long-entrenched Democratic tion — whether on county. or In the upcoming senatorial in elections of the future. senators, Eastland and Stennis. district levels. election, this group feels that it Ironically, they view the vet ••I'll say this. The heat may have its firs; chance to The bi-racial Young Demo will be generated. That's for eran Democratic senator as one affect the outcome of a major of their biggest stumbling crats of Mississippi ran into sure," Adam? 'answered w h e ft Mississippi election. this situation when they invited asked if any special efforts will blocks. Ramsay and other state labor leaders currently vice-president Hubert Humph be put forth on behalf of Demo- Interestingly enough, people rey to appear in the state under • nominees. like Claude Ramsay, president have Eastland on their black list because of his recent fight their auspices. I had rather have Republican opponents of the of the Mississippi AFL-CIO and Humphrey down than Bobby four Democratic Congressional NAACP president Aaron Henry against the repeal of 14-B which nominees are Thomas Hal Phil permits state right-to-work laws. Kennedy, but the president won't are able to view the pending fight let Humphrey come because of lips of Kossuth, against Aber between Republican Congress # * * nethy; State Sen. S. E. (Bushy) the two senators," said one young man Prentiss Walker and veter- NAACP PRESIDENT Aaron Democrat who has an official con Wise of Jonestown, against Henry and white liberal Demo Whitten; State Rep. L. L. Mc THE TIMES-PIC - m All Heavy Leaders Primary Battles :'.; J: i- - V -c~ l c 4 •M „ By W. F. MINOR in thg Seennri District. Rep. IK^VM.W -OA3|O jo jopuexoiV— f6j) io& '' :D.inseotu A\retuud uodo aqj UO 3}0A ([BO not sqj SB* ajaj.; : ,,'AjBujud jsqj jo jno atuoo u;* ucui pooS B pojnsss aq UED 3* UMJSAS; AjBtuud AjiBd 3qj psq OAEq 8*1 { SE Suoj sy 'AjBtuud puooos sip pas \\L\\ sjEjoouiarj sn jo AVBJ1 f/v : AJSA usqj 'BJOA jsqj jqds pue pqcq aqj uo joS a* usqM.., 'SJ3J0A *0U jo dnojS O3JB[ B pue pcztuBS -JO st jEqj Ajaed ueotiqnd -ay B 3ABq a.u. AspoJ |ddis -stssjK tij,, tpoppB S3Aoay .."?! UO JBSJ9A3J. OlOldtUOO B 3pElU OABq i jnq„ 'AjBtuud uado s*sssssts^sss^^^m-\ , ,/ . , # aqj pevoddns Apsuuot oq ptBS 'qtuooo^ 'saAaovr -g -y 'UQSl B**% rt A 'soojSox! H| U'lf p3.I3JSlS9.t A[.'A3U Aq J9A0 U3JJBJ SI A.l3UitpBUt Ajtsd 3'.--.i3ouioa;puB 'p9J03JJB aq jou p;n-^_ JACKSON (UPD—A i-iepublican Partvj-'jlri-mar-r.... v IBOOI sqi 1U3A3 oqj u] sjuo 'ojnSESUt 3qj jo suuaj jopun fight, first since the Reconstruction era. was set -piisdsput Si3 un.t OJ S3 -'PUBD -SU0I}33(3 AjEtuud lEdptunK Tuesday when a gBTtg rgEggBgOVB H.'itt II seJaj,^t u.p IsjiqM JOJ As* aqj usdo pjno.w ,,'AjJBd 3qj County attorney qualified as GUF* cancictates loTcTSper Conr ',V\BI AjBtuud usdo oq; JEI|J pmsijoj jou pue UBUI aqj JOJ ejo.v gress in the 4th District;. " " ;3ABq Sj3AJ3SqO JBOIjqOd OUIOfJ 101 JUEAl 3]d03d 3t;i jeqj,, Sui Bistnct. ' TTSvir'Buckley of Louin, Jas-, trict." i-tiqndaa Jo'AjjBd onBjoomoaiuo^o ouj pres 'wgi ut UOIJEIS!§3[ er—Colin!;,' prosecuting aTfoT^" "* Democrats J. 0. Hollis and I oq jou IVBUI OJsqj sjsoAUenuire pejosuods peqoq.tt'puei ;?I JO 01 u!„ P!BS 9JnsB3"- ~~l-»'"* "j uss •secre- State Sen. Paul Lee, both of 1 9 1 s ipsjaoddns oqAt 'p3mBqoi\,-<-^^g sSsa H^EL^-^3- ' ' Kverai iwuYs ?.lf. Carthage, and independent Ster l I-op ein ut luiod jsqjoutri ^^.---«^-jJJu0 B OABU. "l-PR I 'apore woro fiiod by Etnlt flfp ling Davis of BoKalb have qual B 3 ified for the post. Si ite Sen. G. ',,-jsiununuoo B SB unt ppw P" ^ ; „ .S8„Bd gpri JI„ pjes 'jsmniutuoo E.s,3qj! '«3i W* "*" -ateqap'tin : V. Montgomery of Meridian has jni ng vacated by UcpaMTl qoiqAt oj AjjBd sqj jspui | ul 9jr,sE3ta aq, P' l announced his intention to enter 3? J0 tt 'remiss ''—"— -* ptnoqs ajepiptiBO E„ j[aj st ! ^d„ i0'w am $™ *pW ' -- ... .Viize...... the race. B § TTTar.-Tetl to oppose Sen. James ;',uoz,3a 'patuBqoM a,110 ' ?™g$£& SlM ' fS ' 0. L.iiUhd, DMISS Tor 'c scat. siqi jsqAt s.jBqx,, :papPB | ' -suotstA3J 01BU3S ^1 ;*J i hey became • fourth Ud-SSKIX anx XKOl .. —r .- m Z rOt-rlDNE—PAGE EIGHT THE TIMES-: land; Anderson of Okolona WEN PRIMARY' SYSTEM Bodron of Vicksburg; Burgin of Columbus; Campbell of Jack Continued from Page 1 son; Caraway of Leland; Dean of Corinth; Decell of Yazoo its going to be the Republican [party nominees for municipal City; Douglass of Hazlehurst; party," he declared. j posts would continue to be se- Foster of Aberdeen; Jones of le ctGd by the arty rimaf Plttman argued that the openi ; P P y Waynesboro; Lee of Carthage; primary system would permit I ,, ' , McCormick of Forest; Moham •,„«, av.„ M-™.- .,«! „«J n i Alexander was asked if party both he Negro vote and thel ^ ^ ed of Belzoni; Montgomery of primades mm be eIimi at Meridian; Mulholland of Por- Republican vote to consolidate- from the state political scene terville; Palmer of Pascagoula; en one candidate ''and no Demo under the measure. "I think Patridge of Schlater; Pitts of crat will ever again get'in the they could hold primaries but Lucedale; Rester of Picayune; runoff." they would be discouraged," Sandord of Collins; Smith o' Alexander said. The Hattiesburg senator said Natchez; Smith of Kokomo; Burgin said "if the party Speed of Prentiss; Strider of "We have in this state two bloc wanted to conduct primaries Charleston; Sumners of luka; votes—one bloc, the Negro vote under its own rules, it could." Williams of Lexington, Yar- I'm afraid, and a bloc Republi But he said it would not be at brough of Red Banks and can vote, I'm afraid. Theirs public expense and the nominees Franklin of Oxford. will be a candidate to represent would have to run in the open Against (15)—Collins of Lau primary. the bloc Negro vote and the rel; Corr of Sardis; Hilbun of Starkville; Jones of Brook- bloc Republican vote." Sen. John Clark Love, Kos ciusko, who later voted againsl haven; Love of Kosciusko, He charged the open primary the bill, proposed the amend Perry of Horn Lake; Perry of measure would abolish the ment which required candidates Louisville; Pittman of Hatties system of party primaries un to declare a party affiliation burg; Powell of Liberty; Purvis der which the state has oper or run as an independent on of Tupelo; Reeves of McComb; ated since Reconstruction. I the ballot. Ross of Pelahatchie; Watkins of Port Gibson, Wise of Jones don't know what the result is "Won't this make those who going to be," he said, "but we town and Littlejohn of New Al have been masquerading as bany. are going to have to go home Democrats all these years and re-educate our people on and voting Republican to come how to vote." forward and declare them Sen. William Burgin, Colum selves as Republicans," asked bus, who threv/ his support be Sen. Talmadge Littlejohn, hind the measure, said he felt New Albany. the bill would "do three things Sen. William Corr, Sardis that in his mind arc desirable." the only senator who ran as a He said it would "put all can-|Repub!ican] said iie agreed that didates on an equal footing tar it would. But Corr later voted a free and fair expression of thejagainst the measure. voters Sen. Love, said he felt the Burgin said "It would also danger in the measure was eliminate participation by "there will be so many Demo someone in a Democratic or crats on the ballot and only party primary who then be one Republican, and that's the comes disgruntled and can way to defeat Democrats." ntialify as an independent against the nominee. This puts He added: "That's what this your independents on the bill does." same footing, and so you Sen. Ollie Mohanied, Belzoni, won't have a three-cornered said he felt "a candidate should runoff as we have seen.' run under the party to which Under the system, Burgin Ihe belongs, if he's a Communist said, "tve would save money he should run as a Communist." I believe from $82,000 to $100,000 At another point in the de a year." bate, Mohamed, who supported Sen. W. B. Alexander, Cleve the measure said "in 10 or 15 land, who had sponsored similar years there may not be a legislation in 19S4, said the open Democratic Party or Republi primary represented the think- can Party in Mississippi." Ing "that the people want to Some political observers have vote for the man and not for said that the open primary law the party.' would open the way for white Municipal primary elections.!candidates to run as indeper.d under terms of the measure. |ents in the event the local -"uld not be affected, and;Democratic party machinery is taken over by newly registered Negroes. Sen. R. B. Reeves, McComb, said he formerly supported the . open primary, "but I have made a complete reversal on it." Reeves added: "In Missis sippi today we have a Re publican Party that is or ganized and a large group of new voters. "When we get on the ballot and split that vote, then very few of us Democrats will see the .second primary. As long as j we have had the ;iarty primary .system we can be assured a igood man will come out of that primary. was the roll call vote on the op. , primury measure: For ,(29i—Alexander (,; Cleve Zd • -i.• ^-S THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1966. Delta Negroes Threaten Whitten's Seat in House Ey KOV I5EEI> listered, with more being added tions subcommittee, he could; Special to Tlie New Yorlc Times I every week. expect important support from J JACKSON, Miss-, April 2 — I Mr. Whitten is not in danger farmers and their friends allj The Mississippi Legislature is ;in this year's election, but by over the state.. deadlocked over how far it 11968 the Negroes could be the Mr. Whitten's friends in the; should go to save United States [balance of power in the Second Mississippi House are pushing a Representative Jamie L. Whit District, as it now is consti plan that would divide the tuted. Delta among four districts to ten from the Negroes. devalue the potential Negro The House and Senate have Ironically, he may be rescued vote. The plan favored by the been at loggerheads for weeks. because of a Federal Court law Senate would divide the Delta: The House favors a Congres suit brought a few months three ways. sional redlstrlctlng plan that ago by the Mississippi Freedom would give Mr. Whitten's- Sec Friends of the Delta see any Democratic Party, a militant division of it as an unfortunate ond District a white majori.y. civil rights group. It was this 1 The Senate warns that the dilution of the area's community gerrymandering required to do suit that put the redistricting of interest. that would cause the entire question before the Legislature state redisricting to be thrown again this year. out in Federal Court. It favors The suit argues that the giving the Xegroes a 4S.000 ma state's Congressional districts jority. are wildly disproportionate in size. It points out that Mr. All six members of a Jototl Whitten's district, the state's conference committee resigned | largest, has a population of In frustration Thursday, decla:--' 608,000 and that the smallest ing that their task was hope-; has only 295,000. The party less. wants the districts made as „N CIVIL RIGHTS A new committee could not nearly equal as possible to con be appointed because the House. James L. Whitten form to the Supreme Court's Speaker. Walter Sillers, who, "one man, one vote" concept. Credits His Committee must appoint the House com-: Notified in January mlttee members, had gone to. with 127 Kills, the Delta district, he inherited; A thre5.judge Foderal Court, the horse races at Hot Springs,: with it about 100,000 Negroes of;headed by former Mississippi fij&,-r -p k/i//c-cp Ark. voting age. Negroes outnum-j Governor J. P. Coleman, now a The deadline for filing for the PASCAGOULA, Miss. (A) - bered whites 2 to 1 in the Delta,!judge on the .United States, Sen. James 0. Eastland, D- June 6 Congressional primaries but they never had been allowedlC°urt o'-^fV01". th? »«•» is next Thursday. If redistrict-j to vote. The on.y exception wasi" StftSISttt % Miss., told a courthouse audi ing is not finished before then,' Washington County (Green- had tw0 mo;lths to redistrict the ence here Monday "Public sen all the Mississippi Representa timent in this country has tives may have to run in state ville), where about 3,000 were state. wide, at-large elections. changed" regarding civil rights. There is speculation here that; registered. j Many legislators reportedly Nineteenth Judicial District a three-judge Federal Court will: Since 1962, the 100,000 Ne-iare ready to let the court do Circuit Judge Darwin M. Ma step in ?nd impose its own plan groes have become a threat to lit. That probably would lead to ples dispensed with his charge in the next few days. Mr. Whitten, a renowned segre- j statewide election of Represen- to a Jackson County grand jury gationist. New state and Fed-Natives this year, Trouble Began in 19G2 eral laws have made it easier I Mr. Whitten probably would and delayed opening of court Mr. Whitten's predicament for Negroes to : :ster. Civil fare better than any other can- one hour to permit Eastland to began in 1932. rights groups have pushed reg-(didate. In an at-large election, speak. Mississippi's lagging popula istration drives, and now an es-; Because he is chairman of the "We are fighting a great bat tion caused it to lose a Repre timated 30,000 Negroes are reg-|House Agriculture Appropria- sentative after the 1960 cenris, tle to preserve this country as reducing the state's Congres jwe know it," Eastland told an sional delegation from 6 to 5. applauding audience. He said Segregationists, led by Gov. : sentiment as to further civil Ross R. Barr.ett, had been look rights legislation "is now with ing for a way to get rid of the state's last liberal Congressman, jus." Representative Frank Smith Jr., ' The Senator, campaigning for of Greenwood. reelection, said the Senate Ju- Mr. Smith represented the . diciary Committee of which he Mississippi River Delta District. is chairman had "bottled up" The Delta traditionally sent lib- < 127 civil rights bills. !erals and moderates to Wash ington, possibly because of the "We not only bottled them area's heavy dependence on the lup, we killed them," Eastland Federal Government for flood | added. He said the 15G6 version control and farm subsidies. of the Civil Rights Bill which Mr. Smith had offended segre was killed sought to deprive gationists, first by refusing to Miss. Negro Vote fileavy "the individual control of his fight integration aggressively, property" through its open hous and second by supporting Pres ident Kennedy. mm l i • '. ' J ing provision. Aided by Speaker Sillers, a! hard-line segregationist and one of Mr. Smith's constituents, the Barnett forces put through the QlrlltiM)' <$a,?iUX 1962 Legislature a redistricting JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) — Sen. James 0. Eastland, D-Miss., plan that combined Mr. Smith's' easily won re-nc,,riination in Mississippi's primary election Tuesday, district with Mr. Whitten's dis hot battles developed in two of the five congressional races, and trict in northeast Mississippi. ] Mr. Whitten's old district had the six civil rights candidates fell far behind. There was evidence about 10.000 more votes than, of a strong Negro vote in sorm: Mr. Smith's. In the ensuing; reas of the state, but Negroes County official Eddie Khayat election, he defeated Mr. Smith were far outnumbered by white and the Negro chairman of the by a margin of 13.000. voters in each district and.their Freedom Democratic Party, When Mr. Whitten took over vote was to little avail. There Lawrence Guyot of Moss Point. were no county or city State Sen. G. V. Montgomery elections. of Meredith and attorney J. 0. Eastland, 61, a veteran of Carthage were fighting a close almost a quarter century of race in the 4th District. battling civil rights in Con Returns in the 4th Dis gress, swept to an overwhelm trict Republican primary ing victory over political showed state Rep. L. L. unknown Charles Mosby of McAllister of Meridian leading Meridian and Negro candidate county prosecuting attorney Clifton V/hitley of Holly Travis Buckley of Louin. Springs. Three incumbent Congress With 204 of 2,005 precincts men running with only Negro reporting, Eastland had 17,500 opposition won easy rcnomina- votes compared to 884 for tion. Rep. John Bell Williams, Mosby and 2,502 for Whitley. D-Miss., defeated the Rev. The senior congressman, Edwin King of Tougaloo, a Rep. William Colmer, D-Miss., was running ahead ot Jackson The Clarion-Ledger — Tuesday -- April 5, 1966 II 5 NeeroekO-White FD? ^t//' n Congressional Entrants By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS seat now held by Rep. William Si-I- "ffpadom ilimiMi-al;" Colmer. ^^UAZ?**" qualified Monday as candidates The six were accompanied by in the June Democratic primary Donald Jelinek of New York and fof Congressional seats although hp Jackson, from the Lawyers Con they advised, t y "™$rl not stitutional Defense committee, comply with state primary who presented the papers for the group to Ladner. Atty. Gen. Joe Secretary of State Heber Lad Patterson was on hand to advise ner accepted the affidavits un Ladner. der the state Corrupt Practices act and told 'them that the state Jelinek said the statement ment of opposition to the pri was tendered to advise of the mary laws was a matter for group's inability to comply with the Mississippi Democratic Par the election law requirements. ty officials and not his office. Ladner said the next step was He put a copy in the files at for the candidates to pay filing their rea.uest. fees to Byrd Mauldin of Ponto toc, the secretary of the State The group said they could not Democratic Executive Com comply with a state law re mittee. quiring participants in a pri mary to agree to support the Jelinek said he expected ' Mississippi Democratic party Mauldin to accept the papers principles and nominees in the and fees and pass the matter general election in November. along to the full executive com mittee to pass upon. He said the The six, one white man and group was prepared to go to five Negroes, were: court if -turned down by the The Rev. Clifton Whitley, 32, committee. of Holly Springs, seeking the U. In a statement read to news S. Senate seat now held by Sen. men by Whitley, the group said James Eastland. the Miss. Democratic Party at Dock Drunimond, 76 - year- its last convention endorsed old retired Kosciusko plumber white supremacy and that only seeking the 1st congressional dis a segregationist could comply trict seat of Rep. Tom Aber- with the law and be a Demo nathy. cratic candidate. Ralthu3 Hayes 50, a Tchula The legislature could remedy farmer seeking the 2nd district the situation, the group said, but seat held by Rep. Jamie Whit "it has not done so. And it is ten. significant that the Mississippi The Rev. Edwin King, 30- Democratic party which passed year - old white chaplain at pre racist resolutions . . . is the dominately Negro Tougaloo col same party which holds near lege, seeking the 3rd district absolute power in the Missis seat of Rep. John Bell Williams. sippi Senate and House." The Rev. Clint Collier, 56, of Philadelphia, seeking the 4th district seat being vacated by Rep. Prentiss Walker, who is running against Sen. Eastland. And Lawrence Guyot of Pass Christian, 26 - year - old chair man of the Freedom Democratic Party seeking the 5th district 'fie/A. // Continued From Page 1 „-pUB[ -?SBa jo uist[oqujivs jeq) s.eaam century when he upset Rep. Ar ?nq '3A!,BAJ3SUOD wow aq ABUI thur Winstead two years ago, JOJIIBM -lBJ3C-;i0a Br, /CjI°->""— seeks the Senate seat held by James Eastland, a Democrat. Slate Rep. L. L. McAllister of Meridian, the state's first Re-, publican legislator In modern times, and Travis Buckley of Louin, another Republican, are bidding for Walker's post. The predominantly Negro Mississippi Freedom Demo ilvUIi J cratic party is running candi 02) dates in each of the five House Democratic primary races and Mississippi's Grt against Eastland. Those seeking the Democratic nomination for Walker's seat 231 ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI are state Sen. Gillespie V. Mont gomery of Meridian, attorney J. 0 Bollis of Carthage, state Sen. FALL FASHION NOTE Paul Lee of Carthage and the : Rev. Clinton Collier of Philadel- jphia, a Negro. ! Another contest is expected in i the 5th district, where Eddie A. 11 ! Khayat of Moss Point is oppos- I ing veteran Rep. William Col mer, dean of the state's con gressional delegation. Another candidate is Lawrence Guyot, a Pass Christian Negro. The 61-year-old Eastland is op posed by Charles P. Mosby Jr. of Meridian, and the Rev. Clif ton Whitley, 32, of Holly Springs, | a Negro FDP candidate. The only opposition the Rep. Jamie Whitten of the 2nd Dis 'iflffc trict is Ralthus Hayes, 50, a Tchula Negro farmer. . The Rev. Edwin King, 30, of ^ Tha Mississippi- F. Tougaloo, white chaplain of Tou- Democratic Party says itplarm-1 galoo College, opposes Rep. ed further legal action for the, John Bell Williams, 47year-old| realignment of congressional dis-' Raymond lawyer in the 3rd Dis- tricts in the state. trict Lawrence Guyot, chairman of Rep. Tom Abernethy of the the civil rights oriented-FDP, 1st District is opposed by Dock told a news conference at '< i Drummond of Kosciusko, 76- tempts would probably be made 1 year-old retired Negro farmer. to remove U.S. Circuit Judge , In most cases the primary op J. ?. Coleman from the case. | position is expected to be only Guvot is the party candidate! token. |for the 5th Congressional Dis-; In addition to the congression trict seat. al races Chancery Court con He said that Judge Coleman, tests are scheduled in the 8th, had indicated Monday he would 9th, 10th, 17th and 19th Districts ! approve the present district re and circuit court contests are in alignment as it stands. the 3rd, 11th and 18th Districts. Guyot called the plan "unac The voters also will ballot on ceptable" because the FDP had a constitutional amendment to been fighting for a solid Delta change the way justices of the district. peace are paid for trying crimi Tn& Delta is split up into three nal cases. districts with Negroes having a The amendment provides that majority in one. peace justices be paid by the Guvot said that under the county for each case tried. At present plan the Negroes do not present they are paid through have a majority anywhere due retention of fines and forfeiture to lack of registration. money, which means they col "We plan to notify the three- lect only when there is a con judge panel we are ready for viction or a bond forfeiture. an immediate hearing on the Federal courts have rebersed matter," Guyot said, "and if we some criminal convictions on don't get it we're going to ask grounds the peace justices un for a hearing before tha United der the present practices have States Supreme Court." an interest in convictions. f\ The Times Picayune — New Orleans, La. Saturday Morning April 30, 1966 HALT PRIMARIES,' ASKS FDP SUIT. State Law Is Target in Mississippi By W. F. MINOR \ (Timcs-Plcoyune Staff Con-csoondcntl JACKSON, Miss.—The Missis sippi Freedom Democratic Party Friday filed suit to enjoin the June 7 Democratic congres sional primaries because of a state law requiring candidates to be "in accord" with state party principles which include support of segregation. Filed in federal district court at Aberdeen, the case was set by United States Dis ties secured by the constitution trict Judge Cluude Clayton for and laws of the United States, a show cause hearing May 9 specifically their right to equal in federal court at Oxford. protection of the laws under the Attorneys for the five Negro 14th Amendment and their and one white candidate of the rights under the Voting Rights FDP for congressional posts Act of 19fi5." called for halting the primary until determination is made on The federal court was asked the validity of the state law in the suit to declare the state relative to party principles. law unconstitutional and also declare the FDP candidates When the FDP candidates eligible to run as candidates in qualified earlier this month the general election. they notified the regular State FDP CANDIDATES Democratic Executive Commit The FDP camlli-ttes include tee they would not comply with the Rev. Clifton Whitley, Holly the state law on agreeing with Springs, for the U.S. Senate; party principles Dock Drummond, Kosciusko, They charged the State Demo First Congressional District; cratic Convention in 1964 had Ralthus Hayes, Tchula, Second reaffirmed its position in favor Congressional District; the Rev. of segregation and condemned Edwin King, Tougaloo, Third the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Congressional District; the Rev. PUT ON BALLOT Clinton Collier, Philadelphia, The FDP rnndirlnWfl—were Fourth Congressional District, notified informally nn April 11 and Lawrence Guyot, Pass By state Democratic Chairman Christian, Fifth Congressional Rjdwcii Adnm fiiilfpnil llii it District. torneys' brief said, that the FDP despite the law in hill n! rnmploint win. tends the law, section 3129 of the state code, is unconstitution al Because It seeks to, har ean- tnaaies unless tiiey agree to support policies which are con- -trai'V tvilh their constitutional TigWs- application of the law, said the suit, "plaintiffs and those similarly situated must choose between supporting seg regation or participating in the primary election. . . ." The law wniilrl further har tlierh from participating in the general election pecause oT the requirement party candi dates must agree to sunnort nominee "' "i" pnrty. flip suit said. 'J 115 VU1' candidates said the effect of the law, if applied, would deprive them of "their [rights, privileges and immuni- (ColiFin^SccriTPaiirToTcoiTl THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, MEMPHIS SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1966 Freedom Democrats Seek v To Stop June 7 Primary ABERDEEN, Miss., April 29.-(AP,-Attornevs for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party filed a Federal dis trict CCUrt sun rnday seeking, to stoo Big lilfitr's pri^,.^, elections .Or rnnfrKsinnal mi* .Tnnia 7 The suit was filed by the FDP's six candidates for the Senj[|T~aTHI Hnnaj "tftjil'*' Hi" pttM PWBBCHBtS Marty and state e suit hinged on a state law saving no person is eligible to participate in a prifflamnFT less he intpncjt tet support the' Federal District Judge nominees it produrp-j »nH un Claude Clayton of Aberdeen less ha mnr-ec with the nrin, ^ directed the defendants to.ap- ciplcs of the party h"'i1ing ""» ne!>r May 9 at district court in Oxford to show why the request should not be granted. Ijatjj Tiih tM* '* •"""••"• state law saying a person may The cult was Bled by Rev. llln as an InflePendent ifTa Clifton Whitley, Dock Drum- geiiertU eHullUllll .'16 Tiles a'mond, Ralthus Hayes, Rev. Ed pCTUUm iilgiiBd by lb'J Mere. King, Rev. Clinton Collier and tor a statewide olnce and 300 Lawrence Guyot, candidates voters if it is a congressional j for the Senate and five con- dtsTHcTTSrjEE; ' jgressional seats. ^>^.ruling by the state; Defendants weer the state attorney "general, the 1-PrtPemocratic Party; party gftup charged, a person wl.piChairn.an Bidwell Adam of runs as a candidate In—a4G"lfP°rt' Party Secretary Byrd primary may nnf it (.nrrH»*,Maulin of Pontotoc, Secretary nafjH~nin a« an i^pppn^pf^of State Heber Ladner and in'thfi Cfr.»r«l aalaaaaaiaa^ GOV. Paul JohnSOn. The combination of the laws; and tne annmpy fpnera" "tA/P :*Z TIM- ', '-'ICAYb NEW RlaEAt.8 lit i •7» r*rr>i -v< ;*;-,- \ rr.T.1" ji luiiiil 1 llil.liiili£u, lC«r.ti>'. __.-.-. Stic Cl8rion*iLatBttt{' Satuiav-, Apm M, ins ASKS FBP SUIT ;«*;• ,: the I their ; £cii (State Law Is Target in l.pvoicc-ton'.l iF t„ •- !•" ... FDP Files Federal : Mississippi •I 14th Arv:r.Si.- < I'lrcbts UltoW the •«>•••- i 1 Ac*b t om.r tl"i- ^ " By W. F. MINOR »s ;• Suit Against Stir. • ThThee ^rat courtj te .' (T.nsi-P.covune STcff Corrcjoondcnl, :h. ABERDEEN' (AP) — Attor-, They said that if the primary; :| JACKSON, Miss.-The Missis-! ''i"\in tthh e sw ™ution» r neys for the Mississippi Free- is held they could be irrepara-| Isirpi Prepriom Demn-ralie. Maw ^ -",,'.'c" pD? ! dom Democratic Party filed a bly injured if the primary were: .i PSr'.y Friday filed suit to enbinj, "|**^JJ m run dV. held and they not permitted to •itne June 7 Democratic ccngres•'" '.eligible to federal district court suit Fri |ihe rent" take part in the general elec sienai primaries because~5T fXff ry....:tA- day seeking to stop the state tion. JL '.-.-. "i'-' •' from holding its primary elec The six asked the court to ItalB law requiring capfii.in:i^. ^v, IT.P C -"-• '•:' 's . Uc'A.' 1 1 : tions, for congressional seats clear the state law on primary Ur Ue "in accord' witti state! the Rev. ~-;- .;-./, 8. '.' •' June 7. elections unconstitutional as ap Party Prlnfipll"! JaH iaaa-iairfaa. 5P**hr^-ZZ • The suit was filed by the plied to them and to declare •ffipport of spf ro^ati«n DocVt Drurw they could run in tho general 1 cnurr'aFiled i iAhemeen federan l distriet :l' First -•"-•-- FDP's six candidates for the j election even if they took part .Ihe WBTsTt liv L'nlf/-,! States n I BatiivtH ^V:; .•;,.. Senate and House against the'in tha primary. ? State Democratic Party and; Pending a hearing and deter- trict Judge Claude Clayton fur: i iConst"-;-"".f" - -.. .,- party and state officials. inv.naiion of the points brought a slum cattse hearing May 3 "II* Ed^ia «5g- ,.:.- •;•:;;;. m ^ilprol -a..rl ot fli-rnaal 'Coegretsto^ • .,. The suit hinged on a state "P. they said, they •toted a At-Tneys for^he five Negro; Il law saving no person is eligihle court order against holding ihe 2"^ *-c ivlli'" f'"-'';'l'"J "f "'"1; 1 a>l to' parlicipaie in * primarynn.! June 7 vote. rTJ^ fajf- ^nn|7r"'^-^'•^''"• —r 'if< ia«d -",'• F,. Co-' less ne intends fn suppnr? th»i Federal district jt:d;.s Claude called for fiai'ing th,^ primar ' 1 n m nominees it prod "''" =""* ""- i ")'< of Aberdeen directed until determination is made on-h District. tv , »»s«_h» 555 55 '"" prj-fJT I "* defendants to appesr May ihp validity nf? thfl„e. «">.-.T:,lA_4a» W t| pTes~iir the parly hiding »hgl9 at district court in Oxford relative tn party prin.-inles. n primary. I to show why the request should "When the FDP candidates! b united with' this Is another I not be granted. qualified earlier this month! ti Bidwell Adam1**) Gives Up On "y X K FDP Request GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Democratic Stale Chairman Bid- well Adam of Gtilfpnrl says the State party has done everything it can for the Freedom Demo cratic faction and can do noth ing else. The FDP put up candidates for the June 7 primary elections for the U.S. Senate and the five House seal?, then filed federal court suit seeking lo block the voting. A hearing on the suit is scheduled for May 9 at Oxford., The FDP group claims that a j state law requiring a primary candidate to suppo-1 the nomi nees and the party [..inciples is illegal. Adam said in a statement that the names of the FDP candi dates would appear oq the ballot by order of the si- ! executive committee and "we cannot do more than place their names on the ballots. It l| not possible for the committ' to give any candidate who isqualifled any more consideration than, lo place his or her name on the official ballots. it u Li ~* g tj, *_v. t. V"" .1 t /n 0 s KZ .!•;• •ii" •^W aia'iav aSAk t?**^ Mississippi's ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, MIS ^ aav-wi-. ,.—. .:_-..l^. ^*... •**^^.c^k• M Ju NSfe ^: S 2 ^ %Mc'-J SKI 3 recftesf Newspaper SISSIPPI, TUESDAY, MAY 3,1988 AP W1REPH0T0S 28 PAGES PRICE 10c •».»niw n r -^ fc.,4 V>i *••*?? %"A ....:1/^*i Ai'^-'VaJ m .; | ^/ i ' ^.OSaJl t 1 J:": . ;J 0 fP 1 '• , ffi? a ! :",A I3 ... S .-*. J ff.l K P ...-": J •:. u ui ^ i # i J Federal I y UlitU Stop-J un0 p i iiTiUI ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi F«e dom Democratic Party today filed a second sut eraLrtici'rirt cowrt ise'icing idkmf rt ,ll»—4w*n lyr-atir primary I The suit asked the election. I was 139 .f,oft. Before A-j far nomination ot senator --]"* ' lV ' ~~~ " '" coiitiressior.al candidates, he i .vier rajTStwed it tw held_iap. lirlil V'" art Hator.. Tile tCtB itrill! milted "the eligible citi7"""i *r 1 ;t_ la" - Hiaiiissipnt navt; 5S3 rM^nrnbiaJ Tho wit Hid tne rate of tirne and opnortnnitv in qualify ; gm ;'U;j^!l'.il!3B BgfSBHj in -..-"; to_participataJJiotieie^- j gt counties VHiet'e a'V'.'r.l!''''" ' un AprilMTthe Freedom Dtm-\ tiavc nnt been BgtgHBg .r~ ocrats filed the first suit in U.S. ] siibstariita-iy lcwei1 IIUA tr-.t tli District Court here contending i Hlg CbJltdei Vv'ai/e litev v.'t*:-; laws on party loyalty and a rui- j ifcgTfflSatf ing by the stale attorney gen-j -T7ie suit presented Nwo :*.::;- er?.l forced their candidates to: istraiion figures for six cc-uf"^ etoesi between supporting leg-1 at least one in each cwisre • '.» rogation and pa. ticipating in the; il district, where (federal exam- priroary. ; iners nave not been das':.--.::..:.-••!. They a?ked the primary be'; la fte cewtles. the suit s«id, held up until 'he court decided; thf j on their suit ag-iinst the law. | vrat ;. 1 The suit filed today contended: {free ^wr^ x^ai WT! j that Negroes had seen prevent-: \y> una l'u .-.i-i-no.-r v?:ijt:' ' I ed frcm ftglstratien and -ballot- j umi-t: Ai.yiii:.-. :t;; yas '.A&L | ing in large munbrs until pas-: UB lull tBIP'M thai In? pr' :sage of tM Utt Voting Rights; miry .Itittc 7 wettM be baser £ Act. ; most ot itec mattes '•upon • The suit said ;n lite 23 conn-1 pattern and practice o! r.n;1.: tie:r~lo witKh tsdera', voter e\-i cally toial exchiiion of H;jf. aminers t\r:- :.^xv:c tne num-: dt:::?n' frcrn >',-•• rct;is': !•: bers cf eliiii'lc .Negroes new; and voting r,v.:j.:. ••.'.•:.' The Times-Picayune New Orleans, L .A. -- Wednesday Morning Hay 4, 1966 f- SECOND FEDERAI K •L SUIT IS FILED Negro Political Party Acts in Miss. ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP)- A Negro political party Tuesday filed its second federal court suit in less than a week to delay the June 7 Democratic primary. The latest action contends the 10 months between passage of the 1965 voting rights law and the primary date were not suf ficient to permit a substantial number of Negroes to register to vote. The Freedom Democratic Party asked a judgment declar ing the primary elections— which include nominations for senator and congressmen—be held on a day set by the fed eral court when it finds eligible Negroes have had reasonable time to qualify to vote. Thn fillit pr°.fnlvti itntrtifri showing Negro registration in creased SnW'ply througn Aonrl in is counties with lederal voter" exaitlliiBH. ivlilld tilt! lnmease was significantly lower in coun ties withnnf thf ev'm'"""° U.S. Dist. Judge Claude Clay ton ordered the defendants to show cause May 16 at district court in Oxford why the state democratic party should not be enjoined from holding the elec tion. Defendants named were the Mississippi Democratic Party; Bidwell Adam of Gulfport, Dem ocratic state chairman; Byrd P. Mauldin of Pontotoc, secretary of the Democratic State Execu tive Committee; Gov. Paul Johnson and Secretary of State Heber'Ladner. The plaintiffs were the Free dom Democratic Party; five Negroes, Willie Thomas of Quit man County, Bill and Pearl Washington of Kemper, Ella Nora Mayers of Marion and L. T. Hubbard of Oktibbeha; and "all others similarily situated." "Acts of violence, intimida tion, terrorism and economic retribution have deterred many Negroes from attempting to reg ister to vote in all counties of the state, the suit said. Commercial Appeal -- Memphis — Wednesday Morning -- May 4, 1966 Second Suit Asks & De lay In Primary Additional Time Is 'Wanted IForNegro Registration ABERDEEN, Miss., May 3. — (UP1) — A second suit aimed at blocking the June 7 Democratic primary election was filed in Federal court late Monday by civil rights forces. The suit, submitted on behalf of the predominantly Negro Mississippi Freedom Demo cratic Party, asked United States Dist. Judge Claude Clayton to set aside the June 7 primary and set a later date for the election. The fflrrntlnint rharntd thnt unless the present date is changed,a "large majority" of Negro citizens would not ne aMe to participate because they -nave been sy^tematlcal- IV excluded from their right to mcW*""" The court was asked to set a new date When "it determines tnat the eligible Negro citizens of Mississippi have had reasonable time and opportuni ty tu uuallfv Id DartTcIBate therein." _ The suit .said the interval between the passage of the 1965 Federal Voting Rights Act and the scheduled primary was not sufficient to permit "a substantial number of Negro citizens to register to vote." I| r-hargftr] \W FprWal ""ti""finffll »°vv<'"Tiinp''"ninPrft h?n?*"* m"f' hoh°"""n designated in more than 70 per Cfint "f 35 '<"'"'' *"> "*'"'!"' that in counties where Federal examiners were assigned, their activities had been re5tTfCTSd to urban centers: and that "acts of violence, intimidation rprrnrism and wnnnmir rcrri. bution—have deterred. many Negroes from aJleniptiiig_4p "ftistiir to ""'" Defendants in the case included Gov. Paul Johnson, Secretary of State Heber Ladner, and top officials of the Mississippi Democratic Party. A similar suit was filed last week asking the courts to delay the primary until a tinal dutisiun was handed duwtt On a complaint against a provi sion requiting uaiidMaH-'iJ ~to pTedae support ot the party's sepregatinniif pniinpg The earlier suit was filed on behalf of six FDP candidates running for the United States Senate post and five,congres- sional seats at stakeaQQie_£UE candidates refused to sign the pledge but were certified ahytvay to law iiit'U1 Tames on the ballot. fov'XKCfAf fyjVfit *//*/(,(, Judge Rejects n a j% Vote Delay Bid (M Freedom 'Democrats Fail To Gain New Date For Primary Ballot j By RAMON H1MEL 'From Tha Commercial Appeal Northwest Miss., Bureau- OXFORD, Miss., May 17. — United States District Judge Claude F. Clayton Tuesday ""°rrillPd " rcquacf hy the Mississippi Freedom Democra tic Party tO de'ay {hp lima 1 Democratic primary on grounds that a sufficient nlimber of Negroes had not ad amnio limp tn rppjfitpr in vote since passage ff tllf r''v''1 RiPhfs Vntinc juSSJU— "1 will not undertake to tell undergone in weighing the undergone in weighing the evidence j hich has' been laced before me," Judge Clayton said in District Court . here before readding his decision. "The plaintiffs' attorneys have failed to carry a substan tial burden to show why any rgtlgflB flllP J'ha, mnKnn In delay thp Tunc 7 PBmnrrntir primary is denied and over- • jBg Attorneys for the FDP, a predominantly Negrn political acTion group, had argued* that rha prir"!"-y 3533 B st~y"^ hpransp thert- wprp pot- pnniiph Federal registrars pmplnyeri in Mississippi, those tha( werp employed operated in urban areas" making it difficult for heytential voter to come ana register and because "the people* lave been threatened, terrorized and intimidated.—- luuiiiuum unlcoKers seemed to think the decision depended a great deal on the testimony of a witness called by the ' plaintiffs' attorneys. Crawford A. Phillips, exam iner state superintendent, took the stand shortly after court resumed Tuesday morning after being recessed by Judge Clayton late Monday after noon. Mr. Crawford said statistics hhad pointed out that enough Federal registrars had been employed to take care of the number of Negroes who came to register even though some of the offices operated only one day per month. FDP attorney Donald A. Jelinek asked Mr.-Crawford if, in his opinion, there were enough registrars available and if the registrars had received full co-operation from ' various local and state agen cies where they had been working, "To the best of my knowl edge," Mr. Crawford said, I"everyone has co-operated to their fullest extent." /1 l,ja,,_a*.a vya ajA, *.*-«*»*. awv fj Asks Delay M!SSISSIPPI\NEGROE£> LOSEELECfTOinUir. (HrCMk !(:,t;z. j VOTE CALLED F!NE' | h JACKSO.V, Miss., Oct. CS # ->-? -/c£ CAP)—Federal District Judge ^1S.H Bf FREEDOM PARTY Dan Kusscu rejected today a yfflki suit to oust the state's 246 WmW m*tU HCT rort Tin-n "XBERDEEV, Miss. (AH-A county ejection eommltsloTafra JACKSON, Miss., June ft— nredominanllv X'prrn political or delay the Nov. S general Kni-M,::,.gccl by vhal it called Uariv lias liicti its second fed election. "a iMip slii-vvinp" in ',-''-;ri-.-i ii:',- ;t."iniH;-v rtoctii'nis |:. Mi.^i^;]-|- eral courl suit in less than a The rttatllg came in a suit by {•>., li.o .'rrcJom Dtiinucialio week to delay the Juno 7 Demo Fred Alien and other Xegroes I'-TmrV-.q it v.-ilj nin VryTfr"-- cratic against Gov. Paul D. Johnson, fJ^T^-Tr:! y :i" f' *»": ^ nf fires The latest action conic Attorney General Joe Patterson 10 months lll'l'.lt'nn p»s. and Secretary of State Heber?rsont "We are not gdnf to be li! A i . <^>./' ' V-> - - v__i J V^ DemWd, Balloting^*^ Revealed J .\2jr0 Power zn 2 Counties Several Speakers !BlastiIuka- to exclude Tishomingo ' ]and Itawamba Counties, which New Amendment he represents. By W. F. MINOR Watkins fought against any (Times-Picsvunc Stcff Corresaondent) floor amendment in order to JACKSON, Miss. — jV _ consti-jprpvpnt the measure being [Uli0 ia ame dme S1V n the a LeTlslaflll'' i e "poAve''Sr to conicme' "i. i """"" in House-Senate con- counties was stidde: jference. The proposal had pass- efr ailtl ydssiiT bv tne aei jgjed ihe House earlier in the ses- •WetlBesaay ailer 'liiesmyTvot-|sion- ir.g- re'.'iitllcll y^'.u ..ulitinal But he learned the measure domination a at least Iv.o MlnVhad already been amended in tiesT__^, [its previous outing in the Sen- v I lie "move to revive the pre-late to change the date for the viously defeated constitutional[amendment to be submitted to -. proposal was made by Sen. j the people from June to No- - P. M. Watkins, Port Gibson, jvember. whose home county of ClaihnrnaJ t™Lf%™fh°Ts.l^ Technical School : son nad showed distinct Negro i . , , margins. Titi' tufe \Kdi jU-U. j Cash is Okayed ~ 'IBVerai speaket's Blasted li'iel JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-The maneuver on the floor as an ob-j Mississippi Senate gave final ; 'vious attempt to circumvent;legislative approval Wednesday risin"Alg l Negrthey oar politicae tryinlg powerto do, is jttho e aGul S200.CGf Coas0 tappropriatio Technical nInsti for avoid a few Negro votes," de tute. clared Sen. E. K. Collins, Laurel The funds would help finance "I'm tired of whispering a program to trairr people for around the tree about it. Let's inossible employment at the Na- come out in- the open and say Uonal Aeronautics and Space it-" • 'Administration Facility in Han- He added: "If there is a Ne- cock County, gro that can come down in Sen. Bill Burgin of Columbus, Jones County and they elect!chairman 0f the Senate Appro- him to the Legislature, that's'priati'.ns Committee, said the their business." |figure was up $50,000 from the [J Collins, who threatened to!current biemiium. launch a legal fight against the I The Senate also approved a amendment, saici "There are [bill allocating $70,000 to repair Negroes down there . . . they • a building at the Farmer's Mar- .have a soul and eat and breatheiket in Jackson for use as a just like w» do. We have runliiquor warehouse. S ever them an these years. I'm The measure still faces House ' not going to put my countyjaction. with another one just because! Tne state will be sole whole- of them " sale liquor dealer when local - Collins contended that because! PP'1?" legalization becomes ef- fectlve Jul ! a "few Negroes down there: y - -'- (indicating Watkin's Countyj have come off the big planta tions where they had kept them all these years, and now they come in and have the right to vote, they want to put any two counties together. "We have the authority now lor counties to vote to come . together if they want. Why don't we leave it like it is." HELD EMERGENCY Sen. Hayden Campbell, Jack son, supporting Watkins move to revive the measure, charged: "This is a situation that is an emergency . . . and something should be done." "I'm sympathetic to what this resolution is trying to do," said Sen. John Clark Love, Kosciusko, "but I think the peo ple in the counties that are going 10 be consolidated ought tojiave some__v2ice-l T'TCeTVCrjosaTwould give the Legislature power to combine counties by a two-thirds vote. Under present constitutional authority, counties can be com bined only by a major! • vote in each of the counties in volved. Sin William aHaafaaaaaaaaaaaaaH &' g JACKSON DAILY NEWS W< C* ~ . .... ^i.i j \. imo...... su. T%.'Si /^ s-. Hll Kfll —-JaVllSS.. , )emocrats ll^n IA f AP-~3r*lA#a% riQlr;>'li II. I• ivviillJIwiit. I . :.•••!r X ...... J \\\ y ^ - v/. .^wro Bloc Vote By TOM NORMANT) 1 our own incumbent Democrats."! change - about nationwide, and OXFORD, Miss. HJPJ) - At Daily News Staff Writer ! A thorough investigation, Reed I it applies here. . . I think that's torneys for the Mississippi Free-, State Republican Chairman i said, reveals that the action i why they're so frantic on this dom Democratic Party (FDP) Clarke Reede charged Tuesday Ms "the most cynical and arro- I race thing." 1 pi.irii'.ed to complete their case tl-at Mississippi's: Democratic gant deal that has been perpet- I Southern' Democrats have today in a request to Fedeiv.l Congressional delegation h a s, uatcd on a state bv its own I falsely led the people to believe Hedge Uaudc L.uVtoir-ttrJt—The "made a deal lo use the Negro elected representatives and a I that they are as conservative '"^ 7 Pr-in"'"-'"''' primary be bloc vote at home just as they do i federal administration since j as their Republican counter- delayed. on a national basis." | Reconstruction." j parts, he said, but "this misin-' Tn another vein at a press tor was Rep. Charles Weltner of S, o 3 3 -3 o 2 J ,; Georgia, elected with heavy Ne- ra 3D. . • 1 - gy support from his Atlanta dis trict. A major reason for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's speech at Ole Miss several months ago was an invitation from the YDs. Some other Democrats are less enthusiastic because of possible retaliation at the hands of big Jim Eastland. la short, the door to the party's hierarchy in Washington is still almost tight shut. T hope of the Young Democ.-,u.s is to rn i«fi - fi ffljg r^r n\ wabl k Heroine "Says Threats Scare f By IOH.V W. KOI.E ~ .Of Uu Tnurn|| g»f f a _^» Rulevillc, Miss. — One result of the 1061 federal civil rights act will become quickly appar ent to a motorist who arrives Dixie Negroes ' here after a long drive if he stops at the grocery store which sells American gasoline. The operator or this estab lishment discovered a conven ient way to avoid desegregating ?*/< his public rest room. He ot closed it. highest proportion of any state And if it causes some dis in the country- comfort to his traveling cus Only 22,000 Negroes, repre tomers, this southern gentle '*• "Had to Scream" "It was horrible," she re senting only 5.2% of their vot man has a ready answer: ing age population, were regis "I figured it .o u g h t to fix called with a wince. "They beat me so hard I had to scream. It tered in 1960. Today, despite those civil rights agitators." te*aal j""1" "f tlfT"rf'i i«"--H"»n This reporter drove to this hurted so bad. I just couldn't keep still. Then I passed out a third of an r-stimatprt son nnn hamlet (1960 population: 662) eligible Negro voters are reais- in northwestern Mississippi, and they carried me out of the cell. I could hardly walk for fprpdRpjjaJrgrjJa^n.OOP 31^ atop,. about 30 miles from the Arkan 1 sas border, to see Mrs. Fannie days afterward." OOTTeligible Negroes r"" "'" ""- registere Lou Hamer, 4S, who has be For the most part, Mrs. Ham This is by far the lowest per come kind of a folk hero in the er has recovered from that centage in the south and is the V J southern battle for equal rights. trauma, although she is con main reason James Meredith Z vinced that the beating aggra-. Became Famous started his freedom march last vated her limp and damaged month. Because of her leadership role a kidney. I in the Mississippi Freedom She told her story while' Heavy Negro Area Democratic party, Mrs. Hamer cleaning beets under the pecan Sunflower county is in the has gained a national reputa trees in her back yard. Since heavily Negro delta region / tion In recent years, especially where cotton still is king. This with her televised description the Hamers were evicted, they have been living in a SI6 a fertile area encompasses much Mrs. Fannie Low Hamer of the terrors of voter registra of the western half of the state tion activity before the Dem month rented house. Hamer ocratic platform committee in has been chopping cotton at and runs from Memphis to Atlantic City two years ago. the standard wage of $3 a day Vicksburg between the Missis In 1962, Mrs. Hamer and her and growing some vegetables sippi, Yazoo, Tallahatchie and husband, Perry, were fired and for extra money. Coldwater rivers. evicted from the plantation "It still takes courage of In Sunflower rnnnty thp ^60 where they had lived and steel to vote in Sunflower coun-j population was 45,750. The vot- worked for all 18 years of their ty," she said. "So many Ne mgagc nonulation was almost married life. It happened the groes have been frightened by | fiTWT Negro. 13 524 tn 8.7R5 same day she first tried to reg brutality and harassment." But as of last month, only ister. The results of this intimida about a fifth of the Negroes In June, 1963, she was jailed tion are clear from the county' were registered, and civil rights registration statistics, which are; leaders said they felt it would low even by Mississippi stand-; be an accomplishment if they ards. j could achieve a 50% figure by According to the 1960 census,' next year. Sunflower county Mississippi had 2,178,141 resi-; whites have about a 90% regis dents. Of this total, 920,734, or! tration mark. 42.3%, were nonwhite, the Next year is important to Ne- ,groes in Mississippi, because /; jcounty and state elections will ,' """ be held. But unless they can in crease registrations substan tially, they have little chance / 7v |of winning offices, even in counties where they hold large Sen. James Eastland majorities. / Target of Movement contended that strong local or The county has been a par ganization is more important ticular target of the civil rights than federal registrars. .movement, because it is the "Counties which have seen 'home of James Oliver Eastland, extensive Negro registration, the powerful segregationist who! whether by local officials or by is chairman of the senate judi federal examiners, are counties ciary committee. Eastland has •] in which registration campaigns —By a Journal Artist cotton plantation near the Boli-j have been conducted," he said in In Winona, Miss., and forced var county line. I a speech earlier this year, "in to lie. dnwe. OJJ. z. b.w'A. 'tAiV.c Federal registrars have been! counties without such cam white lawmen carried out a placed in 23 of Mississippi's 82 paigns, even the presence of ex threat: "We're going to make counties, more than in alt the, aminers has been of limited you wish you were dead." Mrs.f other southern states combined.' gain." Hamer then was given the beat The justice department's re-i But Charles McLaurin, 25, a ing of her life. ifusal to send registrars to Sun Student Nonviolent Co-ordin flower county has been widely ating committee worker, be- attributed by civil rights lead ers to Eastland's influence. But the justice department insists that the main determination is whether th<~re is any kind of co operation from local officials. Atty. Gen. Katzenbach has II 5- lievcs that federal registrars wore invalid because so few! child of a tenant farmer. She would overcome Negro fear, es Negroes voted. recalls how her father scraped pecially if they were sent into A few courageous souls!together his meager funds fori rural areas. have received token integration!years t0 buy thrc* mules, Bert,, 11 SNCC Worker Differs in white county schools, but'E * and Henry. ! However, the justice depart they have encountered massive! . Mules Poisoned ' \ ment has not approved plans for intimidation. _. ' , .. ... ,. . ,. • mobile registration activities _. . The family didn t have the; anywhere in the south Their motive, however, is un-i , , . . ... I "I'll give you a good example derstandable. During the!"1"'63 long before a whlte mani of why there's fear," McLaurin coam1961-'6y 2 spenschoot l$12X3jLjan_eac year, SunfLg.wer!P°'h savingssone.d them. kill,nS >'ears 0*j said. "One constable told some white pupil, $11.49 on—eaeh| Mrs. Hamer is a religious Negroes that if they went to Negro pupil. Similar disparities'woman, and it is this perhaps register they would be shot can be found all nvEr^thfi_jtate.jmore than anything else that; down like rabbits. Now that Mrs. Hamer has suffered a; helps her to perceive some lightl probably would not happen, but long life of oppression from the'on the horizon. •' try to tell those Negroes that." white man. She was the 20th' "I'm not fighting only forj But getting Negroes regis tered is only part of the job. In last month's primary, nnlV 30.000 Negroes of at feast 1251000 registered turned out to vote!_for_the_R£iL_ Clifton Whitley, 'a' Negro running Negroes in Mississippi." she living at a time like this. One •gainst "Eastland. The senator said. "I'm fighting for human! day, if I do live to see it, Negro piled up more than 223.000 ballots lor an 84% majority. '.. beings all over the Unitedchildren will have a chance—a States. much better chance for educa- Others Did Badly, Too "I'm grateful to God to hertton and other goon tmnf>«r"~~ Freedom Democratic party candidates—four Negroes and \ one white—for the state's five congressional seats fared no' better. They got from 4.8% to 20.8% of the vote. '. Although Negro candidates; had no chance of winning any of the nominations, a larger turnout of registered Negroes could have made a substantial impact in a light voting primary. Eastland will have significant opposition in the November elec tion this year from Republican Prentiss Walker, another segre gationist who rode Barry Gold- water's coattails in 1964 to become the first GOP congress man from Mississippi since 1876. lenged the congressional re- apportionment plan, WhlclTthey say is designed to lesserrthe impact of^ r-iegro voiersTiv a etevef~"drawing of new dTstrict lines. They are encouraged by a fed- tttj tiiunl^iuuil of appeals brder tor new jnujyjcinal ^elcc- Iflai Irt cnvnRTTiTnflowpr coun ty towns. Elections Invalid Basically, the court ruled that the elections held last year 7/AfS pKHyvstl. ZJvL «y 'h(, SCOPE OF SUIT I Scope of the suit is in behalf SUIT IS FILED I of all persons "similarly sit- juated." It seeks a three-judge i federal panel to be convened to AGAINST ;hear the case, and asks the en- ! joining of drafting other Ne Miss. Negro, 20, Charges groes from Mississippi •"•until qualified Negroes are permitted Inequality in System to sit on local draft boards. Filed by the lawyers consti By W. F. MINOR tutional defense committee, a (Times-PIcovune Staff Correspondent) staff of civil rights attorneys JACKSON, Miss.-A 20-year- ; based here, the suit contends old Negro youth scheduled for -that "no Negro has ever served; induction in the Army Tuesday upon a local board of the Selec filed suit in federal court to tive Service System in the enjoin the operation of the Se state of Mississippi." lective Service law in Missis • In particular, it contends, no sippi because no Negroes serve I Negro has served on the Mar on draft boards. shall County draft board "re On a broader scale, the sulting in a willful systematic suit attacks the constitution exclusion of Negroes in that ality cf the universal military body which chooses the fate of training act on ground that it young men eligible for military discriminates against Negroes service." and the "poor and uneducat It adds: "Negroes have ed" generally. been systematically included The action was filed in fed in the military service, on the eral district court at Oxford battlefield and in Ihe casualty Monday by civil rights attor figures out of proportion to neys on behalf of Ulysses Z. their percentage of the popu JNunnaly, Holly Springs Negro lation. j youth, drafted last month bv "Upon information and be t h e Marshall County draft lief, Negroes constitute approxi board. mately 10 per cent of the popu Nunnaly, a civil rights activist lation of the United States, yet and member of the Mississippi constitute more than 20 per cent Freedom Democratic Party, of the armed forces. also contended in the suit that i "The obligations under Bw he had been drafted out of reg act of serving in the armed ular order before eligible whites. 1 forces are not shared generally Defendants named in the suit in accordance with a system include the United States Army, of selection which is fair and Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, di| just.'' rector of the Selective Service System, Col. James L. Davis, It asks the court to declare state Selective Service director, the draft act unconstitutional and members of the Marshall "on its face or as applied to County draft board. plaintiff and those similarly sit uated." ZTadClo* ba'iJy tft»4 ZTuly /?, fftt- OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Ulysses Z. Nunnaly of Holly three judge federal panel will Springs was drafted last month be assigned to hear a suit at by the draft board in Marshall 1 tacking the constitutionality of 1 County, just north of Oxford. DRAFT the Selective Service system on ! Nunnaly has been active civil grounds it discriminates against j rights worker with the predomi Continued From Page 1 Negroes and the 'poor and un nantly Negro Mississippi Free- i in the casualty figures out of educated" generally. | dom Democratic Party. proportion to their percentage Civil rights lawyers filed the i Tne suit was a class action— of the population." action in U.S. District Court I one that involves not only the • Tne suit said Negroes consti here Monday. j plaintiff but anyone else simi- tute about 10 per cent of the The suit also seeks an injunc ! larly affected. A three judge nation's population "yet consti tion against the operation of the | panel is required for cases in- j tute more than 20 per cent of 1 the armed forces." draft in Mississippi because no volving constitutional questions.! Negroes serve on Selective Serv i Because no Negro has ever j It asked for the draft act to ice local boards. served on a Mississippi draft either be declared unconstitu The Lawyers Constitutional I board—and particularly in Mar-, tional "on its face or as applied Defense Committee, a group of shall County—this results, Ihe to plaintiff and those similarly situated." civil rights attorneys based at I suit said, "in a willful systemat- j It asks also for an injunction Jackson, Miss., filed the suit on ! ic exclusion of Negroes in that behalf of a 20-year-old Negro against drafting of all Missis body which choses the fate of sippi Negroes until qualified Ne who was scheduled to report to young men eligible for military day for induction into the Army. groes are permitted to serve on service. local draft boards. "Negroes have been systemat Defendants in the action in ically included in the military j clude Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Her- service, on the battlefield and | shey, national Selective Service Continued On Page 16 director, and the U.S. Army. 6W tin-* 1/ '*/" FDP Sues To Block Operation Of Bra OXFORD, (AP) - Civil I Nunnally, an active civil rights attorneys Monday filed 'rights worker, is a member of suit in U.S. district court today i the largely Negro Mississippi to enjoin operation of the Selec j Freedom Democratic Party, tive Service law in Mississippi i The suit also attacks the con- because no Negroes serve on j stitutionality of the universal draft boards. I Military Training Act on The suit was filed on behalf I grounds that it discriminates of Ulysses Z. Nunnally, 20-year- | against Negroes and the "poor old Holly Springs Negro. He 1 ,So and uneducated' generally. was drafted last month b ' Nunnally contended that he Marshall County draft board had been drafted out of regular and was scheduled for induction order before white youths. in the Army Tuesday. The suit sought a three-judge federal panel convened to hear the case and asks that drafting of other Mississippi Negroes bs enjoined until qualified Negroe3 are permitted to sit on local draft boards. HOLMES DEPUTY TO PAY DAMAGES County Lawman Accused of Beating Negro [Times-Picayune Caoital Bureau) JACKSON, Miss. - Holmes County deputy sheriff T. J. Ev ans, accused in a civil rights suit of beating a Negro woman in the county jail last May has agreed to payment of damages to the woman for settlement of the case, a federal court was told, here Wednesday. Later Alvin Bronstein, a civil rights attorney who brought the suit, said the settlement "is the first time 1 know of that a law enforcement officer in the Deep South has paid damages for beating a Negro prisoner." Evans had been sued for $100,000 in federal district court under civil rights statutes for beating Maggie Gordon with a blackjack while she was being held in custody at Lexington May 2, 1965. Bronstein, who announced set tlement of the case to federal district judge Harold Cox, later DRAFTEE SENT said Evans' attorneys had asked to pay $1500 in damages and settle the case. BACK TO HISS. Mrs. Gordon, now living in New Orleans, had been active Selective Service Law Is in civil rights in Holmes Coun Challenged ty. At the time of her arrest, she was charged with a non- (The Tinies-Plcavune Caaital Bureau! civil rights matter. JACKSON, Miss.-Ulysses Z. She was one of several hun Nunnaly, the 20-year-old Negro dred Holmes County Negroes who participated in the protest youth challenging the Selective marches in Jackson last sum Service Law because no Ne mer sponsored by the Mississip groes serve on Mississippi draft pi Freedom Democratic Party. boards Wednesday was released She had been arrested and from an induction center at brought to the fair grounds Memphis to return to his home stockade, where she was involv ed in another incident with in Holly Springs. Jackson police. An attorney for Nunnaly said here late Wednesday he had re ceived word from the youth that Army officials at the Memphis induction center sent him home "because of the lawsuit." Alvin Bronstein, attorney for the Lawyers Constitutional De fense Committee, earlier had said he planned to file habeas corpus proceedings to gain Nunnaly's release from Fort Polk, La., where he had as sumed he was being sent. "I was told late this after noon that he had merely been kept at the Memphis Center shuffling papers and shortly after 5 p.m. was told to go home," Bronstein said. The suit brought for Nunnaly challenges the constittttionaly of the draft law on grounds it is discriminatory as applied to Negroes in Mississippi, since no Negro has served on local draft boards. Letters had been sent to Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Horshey, director of the Selective Service System and the secretary of the Army asking to postpone Nunnaly's induction due to the lawsuit, /a. U-Lc'/t' ' i /9tc- -A., SATURDAY MORNING. : ..-. • L.- • ', * ", ISS. EtECTffSr-l 1 Reps VOIDED BY COURT ••^—•> .1 Negro Appellants Win'- Sunflower Case Kuling in favor of Mrs. Fan-; V:m..z r.ie Lou Hamer and other Ne-: ! WASHINGTON (AP) - S e n. j gro appellants, the United i James 0. Eastland D - Miss., says the so-called civil rights States Fifth Circuit Court of j movement is headed by proies- Appeals on Friday said a mu-;, | sional mercenaries who gain nicipai election in Sunflower, favor by trading in on bloc Miss., should be set aside. votes in key areas. 1 In a statement Tuesday, he it thus overruled part of aj i Barnett 1 ft /-t. parneu . , said, -'This so - called civil federal district court's decision rights movement has been led | which permitted the 1965 elec- J I by professional mercenaries' tion. Mississippi who have bartered their bloc The appeals court noted that • votes in pivotal states to politi a district court order halting- cal underlings in return for spe racial discrimination in voter1, cial rights and the spoils of pub registration was obeyed by I Barnett's - lic plunder." county registrar. Eastland called for a defeat . :. three weeks of the of the Civil Rights bill before iet court's order, 306 Ne- < Return _ ' Congress. He said the bill's fail Igroes had registered for the ure would serve notice "that irst time in Sunflower County." 'rc'4!/'J)iu.i/.. this Congress will no longer be sot added, "unfortunately, their; By Charles Barllett intimidated by the threats of success in registering was il- • mob leaders." Susory . . . JACKSON, Miss. He said where rights leaders The social engineers in have failed to gain all their ot two requirements Mississippi, white and goals, they have turned to the lot" Mississippi law, these newly . streets blackmailing entire tared Negroes could notj' black, are restrained by an awareness that blatant •ities and communities with the ...ipate as voters in these Teat of mob violence. !ele-ctions," referring to t w o ' zeal will stimulate the re May primaries and a June elec--: action they fear most— Bon in 1065. the voters' return of Ross The court cited these reasons: Barnett to Jhe Governor's —A Mississippi muni c i p a ll mansion. 1 .- must have registered in. Indefatigable at 68 and {Mississippi Rights Forces he municipality more than four: already bubbling his reck ; A.sk for Delay in Primary nonths prior to the general j less brand of demagoguery .iection in order to vote in ther . fee • -'lU»-"SS—J> around the state, Barnett ' ABERDEEN, Miss., May 3 ;rirr.aries and in the general . must be counted a strong, -lection. (UPI)—A Federal district court perhaps the strongest con was asked by civil rights forces tender for the post he va yesterday to delay the June 7 —Poll taxes must be paid for." Democratic primary election in be two years preceding thei, cated in 1964. He is the Mississippi until all qualified aar in which the offer to vote, bulbous cloud that hangs Negroes in the state had - s made. H over Mississippi's political "reasonable" opportunity . to • Thus, the Negroes "would be.', registeregistcr. -*t*7l, U f .h^I HILGIV7/£ future. The .suite filed here was the able to vote in the forthcom-j; New Federal laws have nar second attempt by the Missis .Municipal elections, sine. rowed the options he would en sippi Freedom Democratic 'ould be impossible for them joy in returning to serve as a party to block the primary. > meet the four-month registra-;, The new suit contended that segregationist Governor, but he the period between passage of, on requirement and iiighly u.n- t would damage and delay the Iy for them to be able to) the Federal Voting- Rights Act' emergence of Mississippi as a of 1965 and the scheduled pri-! peel the poll tax requirement," | maries was not sufficient to| I.- court said. trumpet for the frustrations of his followers and as a symbol. permit "substantial number of; . appeals court also stated:,' Negro citizens to register to: "I know he can't do much about vote." ; "Since the district court I it," one typical supporter con _.iould have enjoined the elec : tion in the town of Sunflower,!; cedes, "but I just like to hear - *C'-hno| | .ve have concluded that under! him say it." the special circumstances of'- mis case we must now require L that the district court set It Barnett's stock has already ris aside." . en with the Alabama primary The Fifth Circuit court also triumph of Lurleen Wallace, said the district court must de-.. whose husband George is a wili "ids if other municipal elec-h er figure of the same stripe. ..ons in the county of Sunflower; Mississippi's racists draw inspi be set aside. ration from their neighbors and the moderates pray now that the Republican contender in Ala bama, James Martin, will some how defeat Mrs. Wallace in No vember. Stokcly Carmichacl and the militant marchers can do even more for Barnett. They have been coolly received by local Ne gro leaders because they may by mischance tilt the mood of the state, more tolerant now than ever before, back into the hands of Barnett and the White Citi zens Councils. The thought that Barnett may win the primary next June causes the social engineers to contemplate their present gover nor. Paul Johnson, with grati- ' a*j ^ %S£ ^£ *««*• > ^°\^ s^gsssgfct*V^V ? 0*\-LS'<" a,' x '^.* Jus?. ,$\\ iP P ^ \ •j.'' S«i?5'.^S^ ^ C^.^, ; : :?^Lf0~|j«2'| |'. Siffs-**afl to S^i? rff. aCaTfiaaaC *" •fff*S2 1 ^5 ff * ^ Q 1- .-*» -T *. A. ^To-^i irr.i^c O-HJi 'B-B.S'g'g..y i-> i— irr -, C- 5~ -^ O -""If"- f#«TS a a. So O S.CO Q_' ** ^ _. 5 >•« ^ ir-iTi? :a- >TJ co ^-13 . s:i*:~'$Skl83S:*M1 3 o • t» • nT~[ r* ff * 3 HSgfo. fates .Needed, I WO -:.V'<;_-..,.,,:;,/: .,....,..._.; , ,.;y By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of Fayette, whose home county n PDP Spiff Tipmnryfltir IfrHlf" ra- of Jefl"erson Save vote to *' The top state Republican and Under staid law, parly nomi di.'t the party must solicit Negro Negro slate last, week, was. the chief of a predominantly nees go on the general election among those present. ballot automatically, but inde votas to remain doi-"inan> in ^i"- Negro Democratic splinter party "What are you going to do in agreed Tuesday that the. state's pendents must qualify by pre sissippi. Francis' county if the Republi established Democrats were try senting petitions signed by a "We are going to have to so- cans solicit Negro votes and the ing to keep Negroes off the Nov. specified number of voters. The : licif-fflir Vfltes oi Negroes in Democrats kick them in the 8 ' general election ballot, hut number depends on the office. fncse counties where they are teenth?" Franks asked. from there they parted com The day's activity began when pany. Reed called a news conference Eg.'-.' ill IIM VnHim-iiv. ft well a! The executive committee en-, dorsed all Democratic nominees 1 Republican Chairman Clarke and made his original charge wh'jre thev have incy-'fisg-i thpir with Republican opponents in Reed charged that white Demo that white Democrats had tried wring strength. State teuttve: tr,„ Nw, 8 general election. crats had pressured the Free to neutralize the Negro vote for Co-imitteernan Donald Franks \ state chairman Bidwell Adam j dom Democratic Party, a most the general election. At the same time, FDP spokesmen ot ' Boone"'"--- said Tuesday | 0f Gulfport said he felt the big j ly Negro group, into withdraw tfrien th"i~Fvpc.ntivft Committee ' problem was to fight against de-1 ing its candidate. At the same were telephoning news media that the party would try to qual -SetTo announce official returns\ Action of white Democrats to; time, however, FDP Chairman Lawrence Guyot was announc ify Whitley and Drummond. -g*:a the June 7 congressional i the Republican Party. "I've got as many Negro j ing that his party would seek Reed said in a statement lat ana judicial primaries. i friends as anybody," Adam to.run two candidates as inde er that, "as we stated at the "~~™W5 can't lick mem in the pendents. press conference this morning, i said. "I don't mind talking to 1 teeth." I them about these elections." • Later, Guyot rlairnep UMl I the FDP had their petitions cir Former state Rep. Paul Mea- legislator had offered money to culated and there was a possi He said he felt the vote of bility we could smoke them out •effoi Newton, another commit Sen. James Eastland in winning the VUV it it would not field, teeman, said, "I think we can renomination "seals the doom, candidates. Guyot sa sway a number of Negro votes." | in my opinion of Prentiss Walk- was~"TaaflSS T ecause "we._wjll "They were ready with their '-'We are going to have to aUernate |an of i er." not be nii5h'ecT^:^JirlL-iaatal P action. This change our approach," Franks Rep. Walker, a Mize Republi- giTi>nrp"j'hp IpgisTatnr iyat. nnt j timing was evidence of the said, "or they are going to elect i , GQp nominee fe WjhTItie&L----— * : thoroughness of their plan. The all "Negro ticsets in some of! „._',__j c FDY submitted a petition I FDP candidates will get only Eastland. r these counties." asking that the Rev_ . ~...Clifto. n a»l.tokenMn 1.^.loca1l ...... suppor.t andi -1-almos. at State Rep. Francis Geoghegan However, Measell said, "I no outside money if they actual know that Jim (Eastland) is Whitley, 32, be put on the ballot as an independent candidate for ly file. The bloc vote will go to worried." the national Democrat Party in- Others cut him off before he the Senate. He lost in the June pursued the point with news Democratic primary when he|Cumbents as planned." men but he added later, "I do ran for the Senate. " think our party can defeat any Guvot saida petition seeking F opponent, if we get behind ev to quHlifyTnoI'ier FDP riindi ery candidate running on the daffi, Uoc Drummong of Kos- Democratic ticket." , ciusKo, would b? presented to Four of the five Democratic SecTelaFv ot ijtate Hcber Ladner congressional candidates as well ljl.er. Ditlmnumg will seek the as Eastland face GOP opposi 1st Ci'iiigmsslollal District post" tion. —Guyot said Ihe pellllons for Adam promised a hot contest. Drummond and Whitley did not have enough signatures under ' present law, but that they did have enough to comply with the number required before a 1966 ; revision. "fOJ-JYj , ' ~ ,-j "-•"••a.-rtrijo rr c ui - ^---'^:g^ter„;_-- th w: By Nicholas von Hoffman ti ' Wiiahln-lnn Post staff Writer JACKSON, Miss.-'. ,ere was the noise 'tr giant in the liberal fairy tale. Since he er of a plane in the low overcast. Ken Tolli- was first appointed to a vacancy 25 years do ver. the Senator's press secretary, heard ago, he has done his best to take the ei it and came out of the control shack at fewest possible chances, and with the help 1} Hawkins Field. He ?- -•»»-•• ----- , of the "power structure," as he calls it, to looked toward the matters have been arranged so that he st Northeast ir. the di- I seldom has had a threatening opponent Da reclion of the Delta The last time the Senator had to campaign thi was in 1954. tha. whera Jim Eastland air • would be coming This autumn, however, the power struc from his home in ture's control has come unstuck to the £aU extent that a conservative zealot and T Doddsville. "If the ceiling's ;. Republican Congressman, the state's first since Reconstruction, has filed against the A.LKER PRENTISS too low, the Senator - I . he'll take on LBJ" will tell them to fly • Senator. Prentiss Walter, the chicken on to Pascagoula. .' farmer with a full-hearted revulsion against Washington that Jim Eastland The Senator doesn't Eastland must hold cant pretend to, has been going around to his power structure. like to take chances," . the state shaking hands at the gas pumps Tolliver explained as .- • „ ,• '*'"• fa ..-• defenseless against the he studied the grays Eastland !? !'ln „0f the generaI stores a"d boasting e and unpremeditated and blacks of tha low iky. that he 11 take on LBJ even if the Senate? of Walker's far right But every six y won t . . . damn all that seniority anyway a United States 8 0 t0 prove how C02 gy. "To tell the truth," Senator must take a chance, e. ^l ' ^ y the Senator and the President really are. if the Senator's people I is James 0. Eastland of Mississippi, Chair ns, "he's not a good, man of the Judiciary Committee and bad Race, war, the new Negro vote, esti- See MISS., A9, Col. i or, and he's no handshak-^ all. He's shy, and he' more at home with; he h •rtied people of his own -u. o , J»~.nil Ca^r,.. ,. a.(.tv-tvJt j}-,> Oa»a»aJ II GO? Attempts Link f - » \ - * ** ' Of FDP Y/ith Denis Negro Enters Chairman Clarke Reed, of the brought to bear from spok s-- Republican State Executive man for L.B.J, administrat on ' Committee, charged here Tues and our own incumbent Dcio- j Senate ike ?/>fAOS day in a press conference at the crats. ' Eastland Again Will Face Hotel Heidelberg, that the Na "These same forces wart able' tional Democratic Party is con to dry up necessary he '3 out-1 Opponent He Defeated • siderably more liberal than his side the state at the same time," 1 {In June Primary own. Reed coptinuea, "thereby con-j From The Commerciol Appeal He cited figures lo prove his vincing even the most militant Jackson, Misu., Bureau claims that the Democrats are Freedom Democrats to go along considerably to the left of the with unifying the Democratic JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 27.— GOP at the national level. Reed Party in Mississippi." Rev. Clifton L. Whitley, Negro of Holly Springs who opposed also claimed that Southern Dem Reed, said the Democrats ocrats are more liberal in their Senator James 0. Eastland made a deal to use the Negro (D., Miss.) in last June's voting than Southern Republi block vote at home, just as cans. Democratic primary, Tuesday "they do" on a national basis. 1 filed as an independent candi The GOP chairman claimed The GOP chairman said that date for the post in the Nov. 8 that his party in this state has his party would get only a small attempted to steer clear of the • part of the Negro vote, claim general election. The Rust Col race issues, but, that Democrat- \ ing that the Democrats will get lege faculty member was de ic leadership in the state has 98 per cent. feated for the party nomina tion. 'mere is a question as to the forced the issue consistently. He said that this state's elect Reed accused Democrats of Rev. Whitley is backed by eligibility of Rev. Whitley to ed Congressmen stay with run as an independent since "irresponsible charges" that L.B.J., to protect their seniority. the biracial Freedotji Demo have made it difficult to keep cratic Party whose chairman, he was a candidate in the However, amid rumors that Democratic primary. A state campaigns on a high level, and the FDP is putting independent Lawrence Guyot of Pass Chris questioned a "smokescreen." tian, was present when the election law has been inter candidates in Congressional preted by the Supreme Court "A thorough investigation," races, Chairman Reed's state petition was filed. Guyot was Chairman Reed said, "reveals ments drew question. an unsuccessful candidate for as barring a candidate defeat the most cynical and arrogant Fifth District United States ed in a party primary from Thursday at 5 p.m., is t h e j running against the nominee in deal that has been perpetrated deadline for qualification of representative in the Demo on a state by its own elected cratic primary. the general election. independents in Congressional In the Democratic primary, leadership and a Federal admin races this year, or, 40 days prior Secretary of State Heber istration since Reconstruction. to the Nov. 8 general election. Ladner "received" the Whit won easily by Senator East- lahjf. Rev. Whitley c^rri1"* hv" "Neither the Freedom Demo Later the Negro chairman of ley petition signed by about cratic Party nor any other racist the predominantly Negro Free- j 2,000 persons, 1,000 more than nrjhet R2 rnnntipi!—Tpffersnn groups In the state will field a i dom Democratic Party told re required under a law previous and Claiborne. candidate against Senator East porters at the office of Secre- j to an enactment in the recent Rev. Whitley said the elec land or any of the i n c u m- tary of State Heber Ladner that: legislative session raising the tion law passed at the recent bent Democratic Congressmen," 1 a Democratic legislator had of- number of petitioners to 10,000. session raising from 1,000 to Reed said. ] fered money to keep Negores off Mr. Ladner said the petition ,10,000 the number of names Yet, at the very moment the 1 the November ballot. will be considered by the state required on independent peti- GOP leader was issuing this i He declined to identify the al-1 Election Commission on which jtions cannot be applied to the statement, the FDP said it is ' leged bribery author, but said he serves with Gov. Paul John present election. He said its trying to place candidates in the I the FDP opposes the two con- son and Atty Gen. Joe Pat effect "is to freeze Negroes out field against U.S. Sen. James 0. I stitutional amendments on the terson. The commission will of the elections and violates Eastland and Congressman Tom i Nov. 8 ballot, one to permit the meet later this month. the 15th amendment to the Abernethy in the First Congres i state auditor to succeed him- Federal Constitution." sional District, Rev. Clifton I self and the other to permit Recently, Atty. Gen. Patter Whitley and Dock Drummond, county consolidations by the son ruled the new law provi respectively. I legislature. He said the consoli sion requiring independent can "You will remember follow dation plan was designed to didates to qualify at the time ing the Democratic primary, "hold down the Negro major that party aspirants qualify is the FDP announced they would ity" where it exists in some not applicable this year be be running in the general elec counties. j cause it was passed after the tion and began filing and circu deadline for qualifying. lating petitions for their candi Guyot ran for Congress in 1 dates. Reed said. "Many of June in the Coast district and | The deadline for qualifying the FDP members wanted to received fewer votes than there In the November general elec continue as planned but agreed are registered Negros in the tion is 5 p.m. Thursday. to withdraw as pressure was district. Chairman Guyot said his Freedom Democratic Party may qualify Dock Drummond, P a-M»lPl 76 - year - old retired Negro FDP Attempts I plumber of Kosciusko, as an independent against Represent ative Thomas G. Abernethy On November Ballot (D., Miss.) in the. First Dis The Rev. Clifton Whitley, 33, crat in June, and was at the trict. Drummond was an un a member of the Freedom Dem time defeated for nomination successful candidate for the ocratic Party, filed his qualifi- ! by Congressman Tom Aber- Democratic nomination in the , cations as an independent can- ! ncthy, of Okolona. , June primary. 1 didate for the U. S. Senate, with ; Lawrence Guyot, official of the the Secretary of State Heber Freedom Democrat Party, said When the Freedom Democrat j Ladner here Tuesday afternoon. 1 that he expected Drummond to candidates qualified for tha I A teacher of religion and phi ' qualify prior to 5 p. m., Thurs-1 Democratic primary last June. losophy at Rust College in Holly day, the deadline for independ- they served notice they would Springs, Whitley previously ran j dents. He did not explain why enter the general election if as a Democrat in the primary j Drummond failed to present his unsuccssful. (lection last June, being defeat ! case at the same time as Whit Senator Eastland, who for ed by Sen. J. O. Eastland. ley. mally opens his campaign at The Negro candidate submit ' The Slate Election Commis- Forest Thursday, is opposed ted a list of 20fi(1 names on a I sion, composed of Gov. Paul by Republican Representative petition, a requirement under ! B. Johnson, Atty. Gen. Joe T. Prentiss Walker, who is relin Mississippi law for an independ Patterson and the secretary fo quishing his Fourth District ent. state must pass on all candi post. |. Another. Ncjro. Tfi-year-nld dates for election as to qmlifi- Reprc ntatlve Abernethy i Dock Drum-mind, of KfHchlffco, c^tion. The deadline for inde faces state Senator W. B. Alex ' appeared at the of ices if the pendent q'Plilioitbn is in tfoyi ander of Cleveland, a former j secretary of stale. b'it did not prior to the Nov. 8 genera! dec- Democrat running as an imlo- 1 immediately file n> I c-indi'htctio n d,:'e. pendent with Republican back for Cnnjress in the First Dis Secretary of St*to,La4ri T ;->id ing. trict as it had Ivon reported he tint he had received the Whit. vrmjifj rj.-,.* Icy apr!ic.-:i.--r. for a:!i.ta bj tit: Drunimmd ran a= a Demo com m i;-inn. / II few*. Pane! Denies FD.P nor LARGESTI Request 16 Sro-p .Tuesday Efecfionsl | NEW ORLEANS (API - A , : thrr-c-iiirije frdi-rnl p.ni-1 savs ; Ali'Vi.-isippi can conduct it- hl'^V^- i sclj7£iiii' Cut the qualification cf Mrs.. ; n lr: 1 Emma Sanders and two other till eirTTTR—" ' " ' " "en-'rf ' IANCIN mm 'members of the predominantly- 1 nf 'r. J- Wmm : Negro Freedom Democratic par *m*tZ2XZBM lined jo _bgr the A S U*Z*\s ity was subject to a ruling by P^C" A I ;|"°?|h 11 liiff€ Ihe State Election Comriission Attorneys f - th* mi, KM whether they were excluded, 0! i :li.- tec : - laws. ! The ether iwo, the Rev. Clif-' i Whitley of Holly Springs and . ck Drummond of Kosciusko, •• j ere losing candidates in the ! Democratic primary last .Tune I for th» c.'lices they now propose •Uo seek as independents. t»an,vu>if luaptjjrti,-JOO.V 'o latnotu »AH»juat»ja»u ^Stiuecf On PaVlS* 03U[B;UOD I'JU psq =Go.iiox ct-.uu .suivit una i|u-. -jsqiuniu ps.ti) 11 A state law provides that no l 'person having run in a party 3tri A'q ps^ituqna- KuoiJDad aq- -3.1 it ';.-lour.un.tCT ' 'X put' 'r-Ma Pius uoiss-itutuoj itotio::a atv.s-.-oiuaa « •puensta "o eaiuif acq i primary may later seek to qua.-' aux 'coo'c; oj oo?: uwj iwui -tu»g ssoddo nva A'larniAi 'aw lify as an independent ir. the gen-, leuoissiviSuoo tt| pue OOO'OI °i -uosifscf jo wapu-eg aiuiua "UW nc-ral election. 000'T tiio.ij >aaEj a^vuas ut ^.na put o:'-:'nt.);u>i ;J puoiuuamo Mrs. Sanders, a former em -j.i tajn,ruais ;J jaqtunu ain IWJJHO -A=-J st;i cte 'iiiM ploye cf a Head Start project iuisiEj d.iniv|s-iiisT cjogt sin .\'q 3|,sjooiu»a mopaajj iddtnii r.m by the Child Development paend .«t[ t uo paMatuao »«eo -stjij OJ;L-.\- iCnutuiuicpsad sti, i>\[\ ui r)U>uiTiaUi i>tii ;o t>m '.\(\ paii.irq 'isoiata ss-tiii am. •> of Mississippi, presented •xoo PPJ.'H -tusui tto laTieptpuoi y. ti'ion bearing 200 names, i ipue nansr.H uva ssSpnf -,jtj'-:a oiSa\z am jo iLiweu atfi -.no * • . ipue -jf ir)J»A gunny +JI1C0 -S'n 1 Xq , 031^11 loma so wii anno Msissffl - / •9>'6i ->z xzQOiip '.vv,as5.i //•j y i =*«»X,* ZZ&ft€& a*&cd£ .oi - &r^ != 5 c 9 S ^ II 3SBJ UO psnuijuoo 8i suBSiiqndsy (|B Moqs 'pies aq 'SSUIJBJ s,dnoj§ oiwj aqx •ptBS 3q ,,'jiaM SB SUB3I[ -qndaH ujaqyoN 3t]J jnq sssj3 -uo3 ui suB3i[qndaa u.taqjnos •Ajunoa tpeo JOJ pajaaps aqj ueqj IBjaqq ajotu qontu X[iio jauoissiuiiuoa uoipap ao.iin. jou ajB ss3.tSuo3 ;o s.iBqutom t(l jo auo juiodde ipea apis jEJDotuaa ujaqjnos jBqj ajE.tp j Ajsjajass sqi pue [BjauaS |UI -uoutsp A[.iBa[D (uotpv IBtioijnj aujoije am 'JOUJ3AO3 aqj, -ijsuoo JOJ sueoijauty) VOV I AX SAtjEAjasuoo aqj pus (uotpv at 'SJO[ -jB.taotUBa Joj suBDijatuv) VOV eq [Eptjjo ajedajd pue saorjjo [Bjaqi[ aqj jo sgutjBJ 3qx„ :DO[ JOJ sajepipuBO juapuadap w „'PJ033J 3UJ i jo Aiqiqigip aq) suiuuapp pa Aq JSSJ oj pd aq UBO uoiptujoj rauoissiujujoa uoipaja ApnoQ ut -uisttu stqi,, jnq 'piBS aq 'sjJEd 'jms aqj ui juepusj la/1 -japnoo UEDqqndaa Jisqj se p patueu SKM 'jaupeT JaqaH -epossy 1BUOIJB\ :- -.,... juc aAijBA.tasuoa SB SJB Asqi pqj ejj jo Ajsja.ioas pue 'uosuaj 'suiB!i[im aa-j jjaqoa i-i." j at aAaqaq oj ajdoad aq) pa[ ApsiBj •d 'J, sof 'U9D '^WV 'uosuqof 8Aeq sjBJOotuBrj ujaqjnos B -•'''.;.;: f/S/H 'L.ILJ ^^/T/' toft-ilk Vi AeSjL %l~»;' i :arm rks r M- i:ucw •,\tfkt ;-L ,;..--. ...,::_. '•i.Zf-Z'.Z} No Tax Recelp By JAMES SAGGL'S Besides the growing GOP il rights orientation and be to Associated Press Writer vote, Walker was expected to cause they feel joining a pre Required For Mississippi's Xegro voters get the support of dissident dominantly Negro group would may face a dilemma when they Democrats, including some who amount to segregation in re-j Tuesday Primary go to the polls next month in felt Eastland was moderating verse. These want to participate the state's general election for on national issues and some in the two major parties. By JAMES BONNEY one U.S. Senate and four House who felt he was too tough, and BASICALLY A DEMOCRAT ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER seats. the votes of many Negroes. "The more conservative Ne Several earmarks of a tradi Political observers, who had "The average Negro voter gro probably had planned to tional Mississippi election will hoped the election would fur could not ever vote for East be missing Tuesday when voters vote for Walker," the source choose party nominees for Con nish an indication of what could land," said one source close to said, "although the Negro is be expected from Negro voters, Negro political affairs, "maybe gress. now feel this may be impos not so much because of his rec For the first time poll taxes sible. ord as because he has been a wiirnot oe required. And ior tne Perhaps 130,000 Negroes are symbol of the old white supre first time. Republicans are 'now registered under relaxed macy philosophy." staging ^ a primary for a •' state laws or under the federal Some Negroes don't want to congressional post. '^^^^^^^ ; Voting Rights Act—five times identify with the Freedom Dem The election a]sn will mark the number on the books in the ocratic Party because of its civ the first major voter test~of 1963 governor's race. , Observers had hoped the elec- '• tion would indicate how many Negroes nave Boosted llrctr i Negroes would take part in bal- . lotir.g after they re-ister. how ! years ago to slightly over 20 per j many would bloc v. r Negro liCgnL nf thp pie. Nr,gra ! candidates, how many would voters now number 130.000 com- choose between the traditional , | pared to 30,000 three years ago. parties, and how close the Ne ., "Three dozen Justice Depart- groes would come to showing, J | ment attorneys, including the they had the balance of power. further Hokm^^^n -1 federal government's chief civil JUNE PRIMARY u 11 rights troubleshooter, John The Mississippi- Freedom! -] Doar, will keep an eye on voting In tha June Democratic pri-j Democratic Party says it'pla'fm- i mary. the Rev. Clifton Whitley; ed further legal action for the! I procedures. of Holly SDrings, a Negro, drew! realignment of congressional dis- j -j This unit will be supported by j only 34,323 votes of the 289.085 tricts in the state. i|200 federal Civil Service work- | cast in the Senate race. Sen. I Lawrence Guyot, chairman of • j ers who will serve as poll : James Eastland led with 240.171. ; | watchers in 24 Mississippi coun- ! the civil rights oriented-FDP, The only other white candidate, told a news conference at i ties. Charles P. Mosby Jr., was nev- tempts would probably be made The increased Negro vote was ', er regarded as a seriotll con to remove U.S. Circuit Judge not expected to be a decisive tender. factor in this election. Negro leaders had hoped for J. P. Coleman from the case. Guyot is the party candidate Rep. Prentiss Walker, a • a larger vote and felt that the J i for the 5th Congressional Dis chicken farmer frornjjjjg, who ; general election might bring j i gained the Republicans first i out more because Eastl and trict seat. Ha said that Judge Coleman congressional victory of tills ; faced stiffer competition in Re- I Continued On Page 20 / ] publican Rep. Prentiss Walker' had indicated Monday he would I —which would make their votes approve the present district re In addition to me tuug.vLM.u.i- • more decisive. alignment as it stands. al races Chancery Court con Guyot called the plan "unac tests are scheduled in the 8th, ceptable" because the FDP had 9th, 10th, 17th and 19th Districts been fighting for a solid Delta and circuit court contests are in district. the 3rd, 11th and 18th Districts. The Delta is split up into three The voters also will ballot on ', districts with Negroes having a a constitutional amendment to change the way justices of the I majority in one. peace are paid for trying crimi- Guyot said that under the nal cases. present plan the Negroes do not The amendment provides that ] have a majority anywhere due peace justices be paid by the to lack of registration. county for each case tried. At "We plan to notify the three- present they are paid through judge panel we are ready for retention of fines and forfeiture an immediate hearing on the money, which means they col matter," Guyot said, "and if v' lect only when there is a con ' don't get it we're going to V viction or a bond forfeiture. for a hearing before the V J States Supreme Court." X Federal courts have rebersed some criminal convictions on grounds the peace justices un der the present practices have an interest in convictions. !C 3lW „ A'\ lei ' •• - hree ^ ifo^a# -aarf ^ki» Bat*' ^W ll 1 I «•»»« Three Negroes who submitted for party nomination and thus •1th State Sen. G. V. Mont- petitions to run as independent! go on the general election ballot, eomery of Meridian, a Demo is also obvious that on a num- or as independents, but may not crat, State Rep. L. L. McAllis take both routes In an attempt in the Nov. 3 general election ter of Meridian, a Republican, were rebuffed Tuesday when to reach office. H and Davis, an independent, in a the State Election Commission 111 the case of Mrs. Sanders, three-wav 'race refused them places on the llie.cnpimiafiifi1n a snjpLiiTiUhjKlH nl ' 5th_KeP. William Colmer 1 ballot nrj^' ^'Snani " " o " ">^-^ The commission said the pe- i Democrat, against Dr. James 1 ilipfn yprp r"it'i" '>d M qiiaiiiipii Move of Laurel, a Republican. tilitffls did Hut liavt pWtnrs n.lmber cf yjiM sjgnaturesj- Other Independents approved Tfie. JVfl_ The commission gave routine by the commission included Ed approval to all party nominees. win E. Benoist Jr. of Natchez position in the primary and are Two white men were certified and Rep. Alonzo H. Sturgeon of thus_t!jjf[iufiii'l?d Itti3el'"a~1927 as congressional candidates. Woodville as independents to op Supreme Court ruling. They were state Sen. W. B. pose Democratic Judge Curtis Tne three are the Rev. Clifton Alexander, a former Democrat L. Collins in the 17th Chancery Whitley, 32, of Holly Springs; in the 1st District, and former Court District race. Dock Drunimong, 75, of Kos state Rep. Sterling P. Davis Jr. ciusko; and Mrs. Emma San of DeKalb in the 4th District. ders Of Jackson. Whitley want-l.™Alexande™ r qualified as an in- ed to run for the Senate against pgnnblican but is running as a Sen. James Eastland, D., and 1 "'' • • He entered the i. Pre :.Us Walker, R. Drum- race too late to secure party aond wanted lo run for the 1st nomination. District seat held by Rep. Tom Davis qualified as an in Abernethy, D. while Mrt. San dependent in February ar.d he ders wanted to run for the 3rd had enough signatures under the District seat of Rep. John Bel! old law to get a place on the Williams, D. ballot. The commission action set up Whitley polled UJSH votes in these district races: the primary against 210,171 for 1st—Abernethy. Democrat, vs. Eastland and 14.391 for Charles Alexander. 9 Cleveland inde P. Mosby Jr., of Meridian. pendent-Republican. •INSUFFICIENT 2nd — Rep. Jamie Whitten, The commission said Whit Democrat, vs. State Sen-. S. B. ley's petitions was "wholly in Wise cf Jonestown, a Republi sufficient." It said county regis can. trars' certificates said the pe 3rd—Rep. John Bell Williams, titions contained 2.0.:5 qualified a Democrat, unopposed. voters. Under a 1S66 state >=>"• DemocrcFLeaderQ . s >ay '•"''" lent candidates for a »} 1HK ASSOCIATED PRFsS /. : -?il of Newton/ another eoaidrir- * must have 10.- ieeman^^^^^. said^ . • 'I tliinK I L-an -i.es. The old law re- Jict ine pariy must siiliyii vie/,,. ••-•alrS Ml'fBla:n1..[rir,,| - St iy a number of Negro •- »fes " 4 1,030, "We sre join? to save to • change o * approach." Franks in? cflMBiaifl) IgM Whit- 1 DEMOCRATS said, "or tbe< are going to elect ••^y's petitions a c t uTTTT- con- jo-jll Negro tici.ets " iafnTd 3.5-10 r.ames~b"uT " Coitriducd From Page 14 in ome of : lr g n ifar fn- these counties sfan.-e- -tpp ITEM 5 - MFDP RECORDS - CLIP3INGS, 1964-1970 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1966 fensc Committee in District Negroes Sue to WinCour t here. It asks that the Nov. 8 general election be en Ballot Place Denied joineI d until the defendants are put on the ballot. •" By Mississippi Law Alvin Bronstein, chief staff cotlnsci ot tne ccommittee,"c ""sai d the theory of the lawsuit was Special to The New York Times that-the. state lud "na authority JACKSON, Mas., Oct. 21 to change a voting law without prior •approval Of a—Federal Three Negro candidates who eotn-t il file U. -ST. Attorney haiT bcSTl denied places on the Genual 111 accuidance with pro- general election ballot filed suit viMons ts! 3uctlmr~a of the ifl reilpral l.nur. here yesterday vorinTHIgEG e.-i»fiaa*" tr, ctrilan rimyr, >np ]n,.r under g requires a. state cov which they wore barred. er cd^^TTT^riiiiaaiQiiia!!t!oI^u b m 11 The Rev. Clifti>H Whitley of pTcTpos'cd voting law changes Holly Springs, Doc Drummond tTr-fhi; EE35B PgrBCTCOttrt in of Kosciusko and Mrs.Emma Washjnslan. , Sanders of Jackson had been gz*rfic now state law, passed barred from the ballot as in- soypi-al flivs after tho_Jiine 7 dCDcndc.-.t candidates in the N-v. uornftcratic primaries, raised 8 Congressional races. The State trnf-lf? l>e niimhpr of signa Election Commissioners rejected tures required for an Indepcnd- the petitions of the three can : ent to nin for Congress:- didates on tho ground that the petitions did not contain 'suffi|'violates the 15th Amendment, cient signatures under the new which prohibits the denial of law. Mr. Whitley and Mr. Drum 'suffrage because of race or mond were also rejected as in 1 color. dependent candidates because That part of the rejection of they had been unsuccessful the candidates on grounds they Democratic candidates in the had previously been Democratic primary. I candidates was based on a 1927 The suit against the action of state court decision, Mr. Bron the commissioner was filed by stein said. He contended that the Lawyers Constitutional Dc- it had no basis in law. H m -K-jur. !s>i~'s.vi'-iL."-. ~. THE NEW—PRACTICM f UT.""*"- SAP0 // ON, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, lDbfi VOL. CXXIX NO. 243 30 PAGES PRio. lection ConunissioB Denies \/V^ 0 allot lo Iiirec€ Rules Negroes' Petition Fall Short In Signature- vt * " By TAKES SAGGUS are illegible and it is also oh Associated Press Writer vious that on a numher of th' petitions submitted that sonv The Slate Election Commis person wrote a number of th' sion announced Tuesday it had 1name s appearing." denied three Negro candidates i places on the Nov. 8 congres-. NEW LAW sional election ballot. Under a new Mississippi lav; The board, headed by Gov. passed by the lOMfi leglslatun Paul Johnson, held that the Rev. this spring, 10.000 signatures ar Clifton Whitley. 32 - year-old rcquircd to run as an indepcr Holly Springs Negro seeking dent for a statewide office. F» '^CANDIDATES that scat of Sen. James East-1 the House. 2,000 names are in Continued From Page 1 ] dependents to oppose Democra- land, and two others had in-1 quired and for district Judgf sufficient signatures on their [ ships 1,000. The old law requli Alexander, a former Democrat | tic Judge Curtis L. Collins in I petitions to run as independents, j ed 1,000, 2C0 and 100. in the 1st District, and former | the 17th chancery court district The other two were Dock The commission gave routin State Rep. Sterling P. Davis Jr. i race HlalM Drumnwd, 76-year-old Koscius-1 approval to all party nominee. of DeKalb in the 4th District. ko Negro seeking the 1st Dis-, which set up a two - man rac Alexander qualified as an In trice congressional scat of Rep. between Eastland and Republ dependent in February and hr Tom Abernethy, and Mrs.. can Rep. Prentiss Walker b had enough signatures undei Emma Sanders, a Jackson j Eastland's seat. the old law to get a place on th« Negro seeking the seat of Rep. j The commission said Drun ballot. John Bell Williams in the 3rd mond had 537 names on his p< The commission action set up District. tition and only 4}9 qualifie these district races: RAN IN PRIMARY voters and said there, too, 1st — Abernethy, Democrat, The commission also said found that: Whitley and Drummond were vs. Alexander, a Cleveland in "In some instances the sa-r ineligible to run as independents I persons signed more than or dependent - Republican. ; because (hey had been candi petition, that some of the = :" 2nd - Rep. Jamie Whitten, dates for the same posts in the lures are illegible and it also a; Democrat, vs. state Sen. S. B. June primary elections. Under pears that the same perse a state supreme court decision wrote many of the nanus a; Wise of Jonestown, a Republi of 1927, a person may run can. peering on said petitions. . . either in a primary or as an It also noted Drummond ha 3rd - Rep. John Bell Williams, independent, but not both. a Democrat, unopposed. run in the primary and wcul Whitley polled 34,323 votes in also be ineligible for that re: 4th - State Sen. G. V. Mont the primary to 210,171 for East gomery of Meridian, a Demo son. land and 14.61)1 for Charles P. j In the case of Mrs. Sane!"' crat, state Rep. L. L. McAl Mosby Jr. of Meridian. lister of Meridian, a Republi I the commissioners said she ha The election commission, ;oniy 335 names and only 21 can, and Davis, an independ which is made up of the gover ent, in a three-wav race. qualified electors properly C«l nor, Atty. Gen. Joe Patterson tilled. 5th — Rep. William Colmer, and Secretary of State Heber There was also evidence, the a Democrat, against Dr. James laadner, said it found Whitley's said, that the same person sig: Move of Laurel, a Republican. petitions "are wholly insufficient ed more than one petition. th; Other independents approved in that according to the certi i some were illegible and t h a by the commission included ficates of county registrars at ,"it appears that the same r Edwin E. Benoist Jr. of tached to said petitions, said son wrote a number of t h Natchez and Rep. Alonzo H. I petitions contain the names of , names. . ." Sturgeon of Woodville as In- "2,1)55 qnalifi-d electors." TWO CERTIFIED The commission said the peti i Two white men were cer'i'" tions actually contained 3,540 , as congressional candidates. names but in instances "the I They were state Sen. W. 1 same person signed more than one signature, other signatures Continued On P.i;-' 3 Petitions Rejected .13 FO/CaniCj-idates JACKSON (UPl) — Petitions for three Xegroes seeking to run as independent candidates in the Nov. 8 general election were rejected Tuesday by the state election commission, touching off a possible court fight over a new state law. " ' The commission, composed of- Rej«=cted were the petitions of Gov. Paul Johnson, Secretary of 'he Rev. Clifton WhiUey of Hoi- State Heber Ladner and Atty. Iy Springs, Dock Drummond of jGen. Joe Patterson, tossed out Kosciusko and Mrs. Emma San- (petitions for the three Mississip- d,rs of jackson. |pi Freedom Democratic (FDP), party-becked candidates on! The commission rejected grounds tlieir qualifying peti-.Whitley and Drummend's peti tions did not contain enoughItlani both on grounds they con- signatures under a new law that gained insufficient signatures boosted signature requirements land that the men had been de- for independents. ifeated in the regular Democrat- T r- . trr>n L • 'ic Primary. Mrs. Sanders' pe:i- Lawrence Guyot, FDP chair- tio,. m helJ M ^ man, reacted to the commis- ;„ con(aine<1 ,M JJ si sion ruling by announcing a pe tition Mold be filed in federal court to ch-.illenge the 1S5G leg islative act. He said the FDP j would ask that a three-judge federal panel be named to rule on the case as quicklv as pos- »isible. i it a; »tter * * • !per j WB law was passed near the 3ny. end of the regular 1K6 session juld and raised the number of sig natures for independent con- jgressional candidates from 100 cid. to 2,COO and senatorial indepen- cial dents from 1,000 to 10,000. It al- ani- so said an unsuccessful party ton- jprimary candidate could not mi-j run again in the general elec-. tion as an independent. i I // Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1966 JACKSON DAILY NEWS , 3 Politicaf^teoderf^UBc: s itit* deals with matters of public in minute in Congressional races, terest for the welfare of the cit despite a latik required petition izens. signafures under a Hew" state? In a. spirited presentation, l§wr"wilT dennitely l?e ""' tha Leaders of several divergent will not help Mississippi with its •Ballot." Mississippi political forces Tues problems in Congress, he said. ChaTfrnanTrawrence T. Guyot day expressed their views in a He said that he favors a two- •Tr?L~ iit_ me Mississippi Free*^ He said, "We expect in the public affairs forum of the national-party, issues - oriented dom Democratic Party was crit- next three weeks not only to Mississippi Women's Cabinet of political system for Mississippi. icaT^of the takeover ot MissuP put our three candidates on the [ Public Affairs here. "Such a system can not be sippi's Head StarT Troaram ballot but also to file some very interesting suits in federal dis Spokesmen for both establish built around men like Barry ^^^^^^^^^IBevejopmerifrom the 0hTir t ed political parties and minor Goldwater or Prentiss Walker, Group of Mississippi by the Mis trict court." ity groups talked under a theme just like it can not be built sissippi Action fw_£ro£xess. Others who spoke are Dennis of "Established and Developing around men like Ross Barnett or Also the poweFoF'the Demo- Jackson, chairman of the Col Political Parties in Mississip Jim Eastland," he said. crgTlerParty—in Mississippi, he lege Division, Young Republi pi" at the fall meeting of the Speaking for the Mississippi said, lies in the hands of a few can Federation; Walter women's group. Republican Party, Chairman leaders; TFllie stlite Is tu prog • Thompson, president of the Col Jack H. Pittman, of the state Clarke Reed urged Mississippi ress politically, it hoc to be- lege Division, Patriotic Ameri- executive committee of the Mis- ans to join his party to prevent corno politically organised.—' , can Youth; and Rev. Allen L. , sissippi Democratic Party, told the country's becoming a one- I Johnson, vice president of the ; the gathering that Mississippi party nation, which he said ' Mississippi Voter and Educa ! today "stands for wealth, would be quite detricntal. vfuairiTcation papers_atjJ tion League. prosperity, and respect," thanks As long as Southern Demo ! to his party. crats remain under control of "It would be extremely haz their national party, Reed said, ardous to our state to develop they will remain ineffective in ! a two-party system at this curbine the liberal political ; time," Pittman said, adding trend in the United States. | later that Mississippi is a "no- "The shortest way to set a , party state." and it has never conservative trend in our coun /T By TOM NORMAND , tivity keeps pace with 'govern- \ offered "allegiance to any plat- try," he said, "is to organize N Daily News Staff Writer ! mental costs. ; form or anybody." the House of Representatives un State Treasurer William Win- A related key to smooth op- ; If the state's political forces der the Republican Party." ter advocated Monday that the i f ation of the government, Win- ; were divided, he said, opposing Judge Zelma Price, of Wash-| state government's top depart- i ,er sald' ls maklngjt ™ e£" ; sides would inevitably seek the ; ington County Court, served as ment heads organize for an ex ficient as possible. There are minority vote, and the minority moderator of the forum for the change of ideas and informa some areas that he thinks! , would hold the balance of pow- Women's Cabinet,, a group thr tion that would insure proper should continue to be appraised ;er. direction for Mississippi. for efficiency. But Robert D. Boyd, executive The government has reached Winter issued various bits of advice: "1 think the intelligent, I ,; director of the Young Democra such magnitude that he and tic Clubs of Mississippi, painted other state leaders see such a responsible people of this fttate • j a different picture of the state's procedure as one of the state's . . . have got to continue. . . . • to work together to ""reduce, j economy in a reference to the needs, said Winter, a potential 1 ' fact that a campaign is under gubernatorial candidate next wheUevei racial tensions may, , way to see who will represent year, at a luncheon of the North Still exist m our stale"" 'at in the U.S. Senate for the next Jackson Lions Club. t3R ne said, the practice of polmeauloliticaii"ahy pitting onee section"osection oft | | '.-1.-: years. He made the remarks in a s ! He said that the state will speech centered on the obser tHB—StatStatBe againsanainst th other have to see one-quarter of a mil vation that the key to running ShtHddhe ended, and Mississip lion new homes built during that a smooth government is broad pi sliuilld not try to jsolatphp,-. •• period; it will have to find jobs ening the base of the people's self from the rest of the mim. ; tor numerous college graduates, productivity. "We hav» •"*" i it will have to develop more in- he said, "had en'-' 1 dustry, and so on. tive people." j Simply being the most reac- As the cost of . •' tionary man in Washiitgtion, as government continue. ; in the case of U.S. Sen. James she is competing wit '•• 0. Eastland or his GOP oppon- states - the only wa j ent, U.S. Rep. Prentiss Walker, sfy the state's needs . tempting to insure that - - - r ft i IXCIIUill m Demos Ask Bloc RK.. cal tht. i Votes. fteea Says ture in the mirrui ** . 4W.SS -to J: |tA /I HATTIESBURG,G,, Miss. ((Spe - 3i*A| Reed charged that, when the I financial support of the Free- Negro Uevt-a )*a|l'cial) — State Republican Chair- "5.-? .-*• ^Knan Clarke Reed said Thurs- Mississippi State Democratic Ex | (torn Democr'atic Party, he said, their it tried to persuade FDP In 2 To r/SoUor / *%r day that Mississippi Democratic ecutive Committee met in Jack n jS- (A nXS.<*"-* i candjflSE sr-1'"'' rnir""-'ty* Nor son in June, "committee mem- iCTaers that us running candi hlXWOO-DTiiliss. (ATLT ; vSTii the sama as (heir rnimt.er- bers laid plans lor capturing dates would he futile? ^rofl distributor William L. Kel- . partai flgOjJgbMat ihg nation the entire minority bloc vote "When some of the FDP '" lum, a white man, has won a j In a speech to the University I run - off election for supervisor i Mj-etflej fin | HI aniiraaeh mgmBers balked at the idea." of Southern Mississippi Young by'their party to get theNegro .. in Leflore County over a Negro Republican Club, he said *B53 said. "they_fvan offered \ candidate. "Wttiai it comes to soliciting-ijafi"— tTiem money to keep them off i Complete tabulations Tuesday ; minority bloc votes, ytm {.nit | The commitee enlisted the aTThe ballot. Only the militariceTT j in the 3rd district, which covers i not tell a Mississippi DeirJoCfat j aid* of P. esident JUllllbUll and ofsom-*—^- e.— o-rf theIL."' FDI'mi.—,P leader. - j _T.s _ -t I t j Greenwood, showed 4,794 votes frOnT a New Vork'ileBlOtrat." ' National party leaders to cut off has kept their taction alive." ) for Kellum and 2.CS7 for the Rev.! I J. D. Collins._a Negro who oper-! ; ates a shoe repair shop. I ' Kellum wil serve out the un-1 i expired term of Robert H. . II Swanzy, who resigned and was j later indicted for embezzlement. | // THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, NEW ORLEANS. LA., FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 21, 1065 Bronstein said in the lawsuit SUIT ATTACKS that the uuipusti ut We illiW la..; vvds~tu "fimizti" Negiuus QUI uT the electorate 111 vl6latlon'~of ELECTION LAW the ism Amendment tn_jlic Ll a. Constitution! 3 Negro Candidates File -Tne state Hoard of election in Federal Court commissioners, which includes Gov. Paul Johnson, Atty. Gen. Joe T. Patterson and Sec. of By W. F. MINOR State Heber Ladner, had re (Tlmes-Picoyune Staff Carresoondent) jected Whitley and Drummond's JACKSON, Miss. - Three Ne bids on other grounds that their gro candidates denied spots on petitions did not have the num the Nov. 8 general election bal ber of signatures required by lot Thursday filed suit in federal the new law and also on grounds that they had both been can court asking that a new 1966 didates for the Democratic election law under which they nomination in June and were were turned down by the state eliminated. board of election commissioners Mrs. Sanders' petition had be declared unconstitutional. been turned down solely on the The three—The Rev. Clifton basis of theinsufficiency of her Whitney, Holly Springs, Dock petition. *^^^^^_ Drummond, Kosciusko, and r Ail three of the Negro can Mrs. Emma Sanders, Jackson, didates are supported by thei had been kept off the ballot as Mississippi Freedom Demo-j independent candidates in the cratic Party. Their petitions Nov. 8 congressional races had contained the required when the state election commis number of names under the sioners rejected their petitions law prior to its revisions in as insufficient under the new June. law. In the suit, the plaintiffs Filed by the lawyers Consti charged that no Negro has been| tutional Defense Committee in nominated by the regular po federal district court here, the litical parties of the state for suit asks that the Nov. 8 gen Congress since prior to 1900. eral election be enjoined until It added that "so effective and the plaintiffs are given relief. complete nas been the program' Alvin Bronstein, chief staff of dlsfranchlsemgnt ot tne Ne- counsel of LSDC, said the gro_people of that state~bTMTs- theory of the lawsuit was the sissSppX" that when the fast state had "no authority to gcneraT" election in 19C4 was change a voting law without] held, less than 7 per cent of prior approval of a federal court eligible Negroes were register- or the U. S. Attorney General edto vote. in accordance with provisions *Xs nf Julv~1. 1966, the suit: of Sect. 5 of the Voting Rights said, "approximately 34 pel- Act of 1965.'" cent of tne eugiple Negroes The new law passed in June were registered to vote in the e-tv ItfJf-'-i several gays alter" the June J state of Mississippi. A' Democratic Party primaries,!?? "Thus, for the first time in creased tne numoer of signa this yeniury, a suTJstanHal pro tures for an jnrl°p^"^""t W rlm portion of the Negro electorate for United States Senate from is in a position to voTe"iti a~gen- I.uuu to IU.UUU and for a con leral election of federal elective gresslunal fllsll'lcl candidate officials." from 200 to 2,000. ^^^^^ """""Mississippi is one of the states eovered~riy the provisions of the The Rev. Whitley had sought 1965 Voting Rights Acf which fe-, to run as an independent candi quires approval j" rhangpt: nf| date for the Senate against Sen. el'ecTOiiiaw pursuant to the fed James O. Eastland. The Demo eral act to be sought from the cratic nominee and Prentiss LOnastrlcrCoiirt for the Dis- Walker, the Republican nom trlcljOJciurribia. inee. Drummond sought to run in Tly rnmplnint snirl that the the First Congressional District state had not submitted the new law to the court tor approval, in the race which pits Rep. nor has~it gggntgd it to the Thomas Abernethy and State attorney general as required by Sen. William B. Alexander, an the Voting Rights Act. independent running with Re " The purpose Of the new state publican endorsement. law, said the suit "is to perpet Mrs. Sanders tried to get on uate the white political suprem the ballot as an opponent of acy that has prevailed in the Rep. John Bell Williams, the stale of Mississippi since prior Democratic nominee who has to 1800." no opposition. ^cciired by Mondale on '68 Seatin, /tfa-yft ii BILOXI, Miss., Aug. 261 based on racial discrimination, at the 1964 Democratic Con (UPD—Sen. Walter F. Mon-and to support in its place any vention, when the Freedom d&le (D-Minn.) told the inte delegations sincerely trying to grated Young Democrats of live up to the rule," he said Democratic Party challenged Mississippi toAiy there will be in a speech prepared lor de-the seating of the regular Mis empty se*tt at the next Demo-!livery before the year-old or- sissippi delegation. He helped (•ratio National Convention ifiganization. write and win convention ap • Southern political parties bar "And I am convinced that I Negroes. proval of the rule against fu the overwhelming majority of ture segregated delegations. j "I firmly intend at the 196S the delegates . . . will do the j Convention to honor the man same." The Senator credited that date of 1964—to oppose the Mondale was chairman of rule with the formation of the ;Seating of any delegation ithe credentials subcommittee YD11, which now counts morel than 1200 members, 60 perl cent of whom are Negroes, in 18 counties. $~~2-7- oyemBer Ba MUSI J n> XJ XJC'LM l-i L Judges Rule Negroes oj Run As 'Independents' BILOXI (AP) - A three-, tional. He said it violated the judge federal Court held 15th Amendment to the Consti Wednesday that the names of tution, and also the 1965 Civil three Negroes must be placed Rights Act. H the Nov. A election ballots to; OLD LAW 1,00(1 run as independents. Under Ihe state's old law, Bronstein pointed out, an inde The ruling was unanimous pendent could qualify for a that the three candidates sup place nn the ballot if he had ported by the predominantly Ne 1.000 signatures for a Senate- gro Mississippi Freedom Demo seat and 200 for a House scat. Defendants in the suit are cratic Party should he nn the Mississippi state official:; who ballot. One- is a slate-wide race, arc members nf Ihe Stale Board for a Senate seal, th° other two of Election Commissioners. are for congressional district The plaintiffs are supported posts. by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. They quali The court said they have the fied under the old slate law, but power to "effectually suspend" were ruled nut by the commis a lOfifi state law which required; : sion on the grounds their petj. more signatures than the Ne- tinns did not have the required groes had on their petitions. number of signatures. In Jackson. Secretary of Stat? Heber Ladner said he would ad-' vise election officials and cir- j cuit clerks throughout the state | by telegram that they would have to add the names to the Nov. S hallnl. Each county prints its own ballot. THIIEE JUDGES The suit, was heard by Judge Robert Ainsworth Jr.. of Ihe 5th U.S. Circuit Court, nf Appeals: and Dist. Judges Harold Cox and Dan Russell. : Plaintiffs in Ihe suit ware th" RtV. Clifford Whitley nf Holly Springs, seeking to run for the Senate seat held by Son .fames Eastland. D-Miss.; Dock Drum-1 mond. Kosciusko, candidate for Congress in the First. District, and Mrs. Emma Sanders. Jack son, who would run for the Third Congressional District post. j Each wants In run as an in-' dependent. Their attorney, Alvin Rrnn- sfein, told the court that a 10051 state law requiring IO.OOO <.ig. natures for an independent to run for the House is unconstitu It THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, MEMPHIS THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1906 3 Negroes Gain Place On Ballot JACKSON DAILY NEWS Thursday, Oct. 27, 1965- In Court Action Neqro CaodidaJes7 Noisnes Freedom Democrats Cleared To Contest For Seats o fnPtzsA Willi1 "In Senate, House THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, NEW ORLEANS, LA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1966 running against Eastland, and| NAMES ORDERED ON MISS. BALLOT Drummond against Abernethy One of the provisions of the (Continued from Page 1 new law provides that any per U.S. Jurists Rule for FDP son who vite'd in a primary! Holly Springs, a candidate for:didate in a statewide fontpsi^p,^ no( ]a>e,. become an in- Aspirants the U. S. Senate; Dock Drum-iW"T~rflOD to 10,000 and for ajdependent candidate in the g»n- 0 ,l ! J,1:i :>; mond, Kosciusko, First Congres>froI!Im ZOO: 'to 2,000! .!' . <••»>*«•"" >rd .1 -.:. i. By W. F. MINOR sional District, and Mrs. Emma Bronstein contended in his (Times-Picayune Staff Correspondent) Alvin Bronstein, chief coun Sanders, Jackson, Third Con arguments that the law did BILOXI, Miss. — Three Ne sel for Ihe Lawyers Constitu gressional District. no exclude Whitley and gro independent candidates pre tional Defense Committee, Drummond from running be viously rejected by the state All three had been turned Jackson, charged that the cause it used the term "vot- | down by the election commis state was bound, under the ed" rather than "candidate" board of election commissioners sioners—made up of Gov. Paul 1965 Voting Rights Act to were ordered placed on the in this primary. Johnson, Atty. Gen. Joe P. Pat submit the change in state Judge Ainsworth inquired state's Nov. 8 congressional terson and secretary of state election law to the U. S. Dis why the Mississippi Legislature election here Wednesday by a Heber Ladner — under a new trict Court for the District of had not said specifically that three-judge federal court. state law vastly increasing the Columbia, or have it approv a person had to be a candidate The ruling came following a number of signers for indepen ed by the U. S. attorney gen in the primary to be excluded hearing here Wednesday in dent candidates to get on the eral before it could be effec from the general election, as which one of the judges ac ballot. tive. the Louisiana law provides. "Our position is this does not cused former Atty. Gen. Nich The three-judge panel said "I guess they just assumed olas Katzeubach and higher in effect it was suspending ap inteifwe .villi vuling and dues you would automatically vote courts of "throwing mud at plications of the state law "in not have to be suDmittel Jojhe for yourself," Wells reported. Mississippi" for alleged voter an effort to avoid undue 15 1 S discrimination. harm and injury" to the ^^Z?. ^^ ^!'," 'l BALLOTS PRINTED Judge Harold Cox of Missis rights of the candidates to run Wehs, assistant Mississippi at- We!ls to!d the court the state sippi's southern district lashed in the upcoming federal elec tornJey_genejsjJJaliDlie.jBhel.; election commission nad au out from the bench when an at tion. Wells said "there is nothing;ready sent out the form of the. torney for the Mississippi Free Whitley will oppose Sen. East raciatendeld inth ethi changs at eall. In" Hihee con-;ballolaw "at least tot ththree countiese countie, san Id kno thavt dom Democratic Party referred land and Rep. Prentis Walker, to language in a major voter was_maae to correct a loophoTe of have already printed their the Republican nominee. Drum undeFwfuch candidates with no ballots." case in which the U. S. Su mond will run against incum preme Court overturned the ha'eking~rnuld clog iftirhatlotf He said he doubted there bent Rep. Thomas Abernethy We had a situation where a would still be time to get ab state's traditional voting quali (D-Miss.) and state Sen. W. B. fication. Republican^ or afTalleged Re sentee ballots to servicemen if Alexander, an independent with publican, 'couig vote in the the ballots had to be reprinted. COX 'RESENTS' Republican endorsement. "I resent those decisions," I^mocraticpnmary and then Atty. Gen. Patterson de charged Judge Cox. "Loose talk Mrs. Sanders will oppose Rep. fended the 1956 state law on as it is, coming from high John Bell Williams, the Demo a petition ap Tuesday refused to certify the independent candidates of three uf) - imposes Eastland in the Novt 8 screen to cover up their sup- 'A 'Negroes backed by the biracial Freedom Democratic Party. port for the nominees- of thel",m/ The result is expected to be a Federal suit involving the Nov. il l{ A? election, predicted the ruling general election. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I £ y would "result in Senator East- regular Democrat group. They Basis of the decision of the commission headed by Gov. ( «r land losing some of the Negro will not wage active cam Paul Johnson was that the peti-T" " \Y vote he would have gotten due paigns and will get very few tioners failed to obtain the re Thomas G. Abei-nethy (D, aiiiniiiiWtn his close friendship with[v<>tes ^^^^^^^^^^ quired number of signers to Miss.,) First District; Repre to his close friendship with get on the ballot and because sentative Jamie Vhitten (D.. President Johnson." Whitley, an instructor at two of them had participated Miss.) and state Senator S. . "Negroes in Mississippi and Rust College, opened his cam as candidates in the June Dem 8. Wise, Republi:an, Second paign with a blast at both District; state Representa throughout the nation UTe Eastland and Walker; "My ocratic primary and were bar Democrats and WUltl cm taiiily red by state statute from op tive John Bell Williams (D.. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ iOpponents have tried to out-do posing the party nominees. Miss.) unopposed in thr be expected to vnift ppmrwrat-jone another in racism and in Third District; Si ate Senate Icln any event?' Walker said, opposing all programs which Rejected were the independ Gillespie Montgomery, Dem "There has neverbeen any'l could help the poor of Missis- ent petitions of: ocrat, and state Representa reason "for me to helievp iSsS-\ | sippi^" Rev. Clifton Whitley, Negro tive L. L. McAllister, Reput- would receive any ft'ifTTVfira"L _^.^ college professor of Holly ican, Fourth District, and - Springs, as an independent Negro supportr"-" A fljIIflllflTONegro candidate prom- Rjpresentative W. M. Colme ^-^^hved, if elected, to "work for against Senator James 0. Eastland D., Miss., Whitley (D., Miss.) and Dr. Jame: Some high-ranking officials laws that would bring 50,000 was a candidate in the June Moye, Republican, Fifth Dis- in Eastland's camp had said new jobs in the Delta, to give privately they expected Walker to tlie thousands of workers party primary but lost the 44jThe commission-*]^ noted"! who are now no longer able to nomination. • 1927 state Supreme Court Ueci- II to get the majority of the J sion holding that a defeated Negro vote, although both can find work in the cotton fields.,"! Dock Drummond, 76-year-old party primary candidate is in didates are running as staunch Whitley also pledged to sup-l eligible to run as an independ segregationists. port the controversial Child retired Negro plumber of Kos Development Group of Missis ciusko, as an independent ent in the general election. A Federal court panel in sippi, an anti-poverty group, against Representative Tho In Drummond's case, the Biloxi ruled Wednesday that and opposed two constitutional mas Abernethy (D., Miss.,) in commission said he failed to three Negro candidates must amendments to be voted on the First Congressional Dis j j secure the required 2,000 signa be added to the ballot as next month—one allowing the trict. Drummond also ran in tures under the 1966 law which independents. Rev. Clifton Legislature t o consolidate the June Democratic primary raised the number for district Whitley of Holly Springs will counties and another permit and lost. offices from 200. He had 449 oppose Eastland and Walker. ting the state auditor to seek Mrs. Emma Sanders, Negro signers but the commission Dock Drummond of Kosciusko housewife of Jackso.i, who said some were duplications, is seekirtg the post held byj immediate re-election, others illegible and several in Representative Thomas Aber- sought to enter the November ; general election against Repre dicated forgeries of names. nethy (D., Miss.) and Mrs. sentative John Bell Williams The commission pointed out Emma Sanders of Jackson (D., Miss.) The commission that Drummond had entered opposes Representative John said she failed to support her the June Democratic primary Bell Williams (D., Miss.). petition with the 2,000 electors and thus was ineligible to op Abernethy noted his district required under a 1966 law. pose the party nominee in the is^THS"-oniy one tinder the Prior to to that enactment, general election. ststrs~new cohj^eBLaOTrat-re- only 200 signers were required districting plan which lias "a on independent petitions. Mrs. • The commission certified the NSgro population THajonryrHe Sanders had 386 signers. ? independent candidacy of state stUd, 11 UIB WgfWg cast, bjoc Lawrence Guyot, chairman 3 Senator W. B. Alexander of vules "and B8 While volers of the Freedom Democratic Cleveland, who is backed by are divided intotwo_groups, 'Party, said earlier that if the o the Republicans for the First this~cotlld be a Serious thing.' commission ruled against the e Congressional District post. Aoernetny aireaay was op- three Negroes the issue would [s Senator Alexander's petition posed by state Senator William be taken to Federal Court. Also,ij e had more than the required B. Alexander of Cleveland, an involved is a statement by L 2,000 signatures. independent with GOP back Rev. Whitley and Drummondv j Other independent candi- ing. Alexander said he did not when they entered the Demo r dates certified for the Novem- expect the court's decision to; cratic primary last April that | jber general election as having have any effect on the cam if they lost the nomination they n met the requirements of the paign. would run as independents in fejlaw were: the general election. State Representative Alonzo State GOP Chairman Clarke The Election Commission — H. Spurgeon of Woodville Reed said the decision would other members being. Atty. and Edwin E. Benoist Jr., of "cost Jim Eastland and Tom Gen. Joe Patterson and Secre Natchez, for chancellor of the Abernethy very few if any tary of State Heber Ladner — 17th Judicial District in opposi .Negro votes. Although - the is defendant in a Federal Court tion to Chancellor Curtis L. Freedom (Democratic candi suit filed by four Negroes chal iCdliaSw.the Democratic nomi- dates* may siphon off the votes lenging recent appointments of' 'h Ster"Sterhng.p,^ ———-vi7jjr-j— Sij^ wx>t a few more revolutionary all-white election commission-" legislator of Dekalb, for Fourth •Negroes, the controlling Negro ers in the 82 counties. The suitf" Congressional District rem-e- seeks to vacate those appoint bloc vote is still going for the FebruZ-^6 <5«edTS I '-regular Democrat candidates ments and require the selec rhZZS* bef0re the 196<5 law \ just as the bloc will go in the tions on a basis of Negro popu-[f| changed requirements. I lation to white; or 44 per centj The r e lxlar I nation. to 56 per cent. iv ,, s & Democratic and ' "The court ruling must have Kepublica th r n nominees qualified |: come as more of a surprise to ... , _ „„ .t, ' )?;' f' Parties and certified the Freedom faction than to In the case of Rev. Whitleyfi fi r placement on the ballot the commission said his petfe were: tion required 10,000 signature* For United States Senate- Sen- under the 1966 law whieje ator Eastland, the Democrat- raised the number for stat"1 ic nominee, and Republican wide filled offices from l.Offg Prentiss Walker. He had 2,055 signers. The coi jUnited States Representatives mission said there were nunu ous duplications of names - - ..- --.,.-, ..> ie petition. ithe J X^^iadft-i* 11 - ItJgv /*/> e/6 6 AFFAIRS OF STATE V. By CHARLES M. HILLS Whitley Will SILVER LINING? Seek Jobs, "Well, there's one thjl\g_ abouTtne latest lederal court \ He Declares decjijonniUng Negfo~^amh> Last Chance By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ta_tes_eligible for the state A new face joined two hard ballet. . Lost, Claims ened campaigners in the Missis White party nominees may sippi race for a U.S. Senate scat not have- any Negro" votes Thursday. forTfr~Sr senator anaTor Bid well Adam The Rev. Clifton \Thilley, of Congressman in. the First and GULFPORT (AP) State Holly Springs, a Negro Freedom Dcrnocratic Chairman 'Bidwell Democratic Party cconlender, Up in the First District. Adarnof Gulfport said Thurs- joined .Sen. James Eastland, I> Congressman 'Tjnu^Abexnetliy.' day a Federal court ruling Miss., and Rep. Prentiss Walk and lWffleruTtlrirj^illAipv^n. Wednesday which places er, R-Miss., in the speech mak ing and statement issuing war. names of Freedom Democratic Whitley and two Negro con Party candidates on the Nov. gressional hopefuls, were or the Negrg vole 8 general election ballots "hasT" dered placed nn the ballot blbcYTor one of their race. glverT the Republican Camp a Wednesday by a three judze fed Of course, Congressman eral panel in Biloxi. John Bell Williams, in the "Prentiss Walker and Dr Whitley lost little time in get Third District, was unopposed Move^-Klth- their strinp nf* ting his first statement, before but, he probably wouldn't the public. have gotten any minority "If elected to the United Stales votes anyway. It is just warn been thoroughly' flyhariiITecr""6y Senate. I promise lo work for ed that the white people had th*JlF^^^^^F*derWTu^]cIaI laws that would bring 50.000 better get to the polls in sub edit," Adams said new jobs in the Delta, to give stantial numbers for fear of Kep. Walker, R- Miss., is op to the thousands of workers who a big display of black power. posing Sen. James 0. East are no longer able to find work land, D-Miss., an£Jh£___Maye to find work in the cotton field," As for the senate race, he said. possible hopes for black votes is seeking the House sea t may pall in both the Demo heTOy tilth district RipTlv'il- "I shall pledge myself tn sup crat and Republican camps. liam M. L'olmer^JiiiMaSs. port ' the Child Development Group of Mississippi to the ut "The court order," Adam said most," he said. Tne CDGM was in a stalement, "seals off the recently cutoff from federal last chance and hope the Mis funds because of allcsed irregu sissippi Republicans had to woo larities in money management. and wed the Freedom Demo crats as they had been in Eastland said he would wait structed to do hi- the National until Saturday tn resume active Republiran Headquarter] from ; campaigning. Roth he and Walk Washinclon." er stopped spcechmaking aft er Eastland's campaign man-! ager, Rep. Jimmy Walker, died ' In an auto accident this week. Eastland appointed Courtney- all ballots in Mississippi must Pace, his administrative assist Hinds Pays include the name of Clifton R. ant for 24 years, as campaign Whitley, a Holly Springs minis- manager. ter as a candidate for the U.S. . Extra For Senate. Ballots in the first dis trict of the state must carry New Ballots the name of Dock Drummond H. T. Ashford Jr., Hinds for congress and ballots in the County Circuit Clerk said Thurs I third district must carry the day the federal court decision ! name of Mi's. Emma Sanders requiring Mississippi to put ! for congress, three Negro candidates on the I Hinds County in the third Nov. 8 election ballot would I congressional district will carry cost the county an additional I the names of Whitley and Mrs. $500. I Sanders. Hinds County had already printed over 90,000 ballots after the State Election Commission ruled against adding the nam es. After Wednesday'i ruling by a throe judge panel in Biloxi, I / ffeJ*lO fife: FDP Leader ^Claims Bribe 4Vas Offered J The leader of the Freedom Is Democratic Party has claimed »^he was offered $20,000 by a sup porter of Sen. James Eastland to keep a FDP Senate candidate off the ballot. The claim was made in an interview by FDP Chairman Lawrence Guyot with Wilson F. Minor, Jackson staff correspon dent of the New Orleans Times- Picayune. A spokesman for Sen. East land denied the assertion "cate-' gorically." He said that East land's organization had done all it could to put FDP candidate Rev. Clifton Whitley of Holly Springs on the ballot to insure there would be no challenge of the election. GUYOT SAID the $20,000 of fer was made three weeks ago by a South Mississippi legislator _whom he declined to name. He . said the legislator offered the $20,000 and promised more later if the FDP would not file Whit ley's petition to get on the ballot and would help "unite the Demo crats in the state." Guyot said negotiations with the legislator went on for 10 days. j He said the FDP candidates fin-- ally decided to proceed with fil- i ing the petitions to run as inde pendents "but we let it be known we wanted to leave open some negotiations from a political standpoint," Minor reported. The FDP candidates were ruled off the ballot by the State Election Commission because they did not have sufficient names on their petitions. They are challenging the decision in the courts. FDP Loses Loses Round BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - A fed eral district judge has denied a " preliminary lnlUnction to stop Mississippi officials from en- forelng_Jhg_5iate lawlhat pro_- vides a four-month waiting pe- flod betweenyoter registration mid an pl^Tio", The opinion was filed Saturday by Judge Dan M. Russell Jr. following a hearing Wednesday. The suit was brought by the Mississippi Freedom Democrat ic Party against Gov. Paul B. Johnson, Secretary of State Heb- ner Ladner and Atty. Gen. Joe T. Patterson as members of the State Board of Election Com missioners. The.siiiL.KaS.fi from a conflict between federal law and.state law. The federal act pro vides that where federal warn- iners are sent into a county to register voteis,. those voters they register-15 day3 prior to i.i election awe-ehgibhrTcrvoTe in JhaLeleetietn must register four months prior tejn election to be eligible to vote in thatelecjion, fr-MlssTssTppi federal exam iners were sent into 24 of the state's 82 counties. Plaintiffs alleged thev repre sented those Negroes who regis- teredin tne t>i count'**' where no federal examiners were sent between July 6 and liefme SEP.. 23,--and WOllld he qnalifierf-ln vote in the Nov 8 generaL elec tion except for the state waiting '"The court found that "the group of voters for whom relief is sought are caught in a situa tion through no fault of the de fendants whereby they consti tute a temporary exception to the Mississippi law." C/^VLTA - UfcK /gfoA: C(tt,:vK - L <-l i M' ItfV A'& \AXUI %Y(\ ••'.: AFFAIRS OF STATE ,—.—| f .Majority .Rule Gone By CHARLES M. HILLS Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer ! Now that the federal courts A federal court, sitting down' have spoken, the law is to all on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, j irrtent repealed, certainly as to has decreed that three Negroes effectiveness. HMt have their names placed In the court's wisdom, it must upon the November ballots as be that in the future, the de Congressional candidates. cision as to this year's Con Therefore, the whole election gressional elections will hold in machinery of the state must be this state, and, since the gov JUNKED? altered even at possible cost of ernment has acted, no doubt' Is majority rule therefore to; printing new ballots to accom any slate having similar laws • be declared obsolete? Or, do de-! modate the decree. as Mississippi has on its stat cisions rendered already take: State laws enacted by the Mis ute books must realize its le the rule from the majority? sissippi legislature, 174 men gal status is affected. The lay mind is having a hard strong, and approved by the gov Everybody affected may in time figuring the trends of the ernor of the state are abro deed, in this state, be momen time. gated or nullified. tarily happy with Wednesday's Recalling a little history, it is Upon three men, the decision federal court decision. disheartening to mull that for a majority of the people of AND HEREAFTER much - ravelled old term "the a state as to its elections has Now that minority candidates least governed is the best gov evolved. have been placed on the state's erned" while remembering that Now, we will not say that the ballot, what of the future? i centralized goverment has a decision is altogether unpopular. Will other candidates who history of the fall of nations. Certainly the minority group have failed in primary elections But, one thing, even in our en- j which protested the state law is lightened age has always sort: gratified. of mystified this writer. And there may be some sat be eligible to re-run as independ isfaction in candidate camps, "Why is it that we have three ' because it is highly probable ents? equal facets of government, the that the minority candidates What if next year, losers in executive, legislative and judi •will be easily eliminated by the primary elections decide that cial, none being eligible to in superior white vote in this state. they'll try again as independ fringe upon the other, yet two But this will also eliminate ents? are elective and one appoint the probability that, barred • This legally uninformed mind, ive .. . for life?" from the ballot, the minority •. or. perhaps we should say il The people have recourse to candidates and their backers legal mind, is hard put to see the polls in the instance of a might have entered a protest [ how any can refuse a disgrun President or a congressman, sgainst the seating of the win-| tled loser the chance to try but, federal judges are appoint ners of the upcoming elections. I again. ed for life. This could have led to lengthy i Maybe a winner in the future The President and the con litigation, delays in the seating may never be a winner, or at, gressman have to face constit of winning candidates or even | least have to fight through uents at the polls, but, not the the refusal of the courts to al- • races innumerable to finally federal judge. i low the elected candidates to' I achieve a victory. , The former have to account be seated at all, and, another) But even this may be a minor to the people for their doings, \ election held. but the federal judge doesn't effect as compared to the poten give a rip necessarily whether HIND-SIGHT tial or the ultimate. But, the federal court deci-j anybody likes, or thir.-ks fair, the We have always considered j decisions that he makes. sion, as we see it, has not al I that the most basic concept of ! tered the fact that the State Disgruntled? No, just disil j a democracy or republican lusioned! Election Commission, acting un I form of government is the right der Mississippi law, was alto-! gether correct in barring the ' of majority rule. minority candidates from the In Mississippi, the legisla •ballot. . ture has been elected by the They did not in any w-ay com people, represents the wishes of ply with the slate law. if any the people, and the legislature thing was wrong, it was the has in majority spoken. The law itself. j governor, elected by the people, Gov. Paul B. Johnson. Atty. I has agreed with the legislature Gen. Joe T. Patterson and Sec and since there has been no retary of State Heber Ladner, majority clamor or refutation, as the three composing t h e their decisions and home - bred election commission, could do laws. must, in the opinion of nautmt hut ohey the state law Mississippian majority, he to which they are sworn to up the hest interests of most Mis hold. sissippians. // ii NEW YORK TIME,.;. ..'•aliSDAY, rVu\ • .itf-ll W$6. Basfl&hd Facini Battle Against Strong G.O.P. Rival M Special to The New Yor* Times in 1960, Mr. Eastland in 1964 —is a highly speculative factor Mississippi ic party, fi;: JACKSON, Miss., Xov. 1 — gave the president only mild that could be felt for the first j support and declined to cam time in a Mississippi Federal portion of t Representative Prentiss Walker, paign for him in the state. He election this century. politically who came off a Smith. County [has voted consistently against Last week a three-judge Fed grocs are r. chicken farm in 1964 to becor.ie| ithe legislative program of his eral Court ordered a Negro in their vote i Mississippi'! first Republican j I old Senate friend, but as chair dependent candidate, the Rev. merely to s man of the Senate Judiciary Clifton Whitley, who had run is a Negro. Congressman in SO years, is: Committee he has sometimes against Mr. Easlland in the Jun Much of t i trying to unse.it Senator James; j helped along Johnson ap- 7 Democratic primary, placed stay at hor. •O. Eastland, the crusty | j pointecs. on Ihe ballot as a Senate op-jJune 7 p;-inr .... Dixiecrat who has been en j A Negro vote that has ponrnt of Mr. Eastland and Mr. have little c trenched for a quarter of a cen- temerged as a major new politi- Walker in the election Tues-1 |cal force—now estimated by the day. ' tlll'V. Justice -Jcpartment at 173,000 Mr. Whitley, backed by the J Mr. Eastland. 61 years old. has not faced a test at the polls in Mississippi in 12 years, and Mr. Walker's bid has I-.im run- iriing scared for a number of reasons. ! This is a battle between a I man who is quite unlike the stocking image cast by the new Republicans in the South, against a cotton planter j from the Delta country. I At least 40 per cent of the rate — both white • and newly registered Negroes—is a strange new force to Mr. East Assacialcd Pram land and the Senator is find. Prentiss Walker it hard to reach it with his old arguments of seniority and his , «/ct-xA. XQ- chairmanship of the Senate Ju-|top local party officials wher- 'et '4*%/* 3 O ^*> diciary Committee. ever he went. A Fi.ll From Grace The thrust of the Republican Besides, Mr, Eastland does not campaign has oeen to link Mr seem to know the depth and j Eastland in the minds of Mis-, character of the "frontlash" thatH'Pg^.L™1"1 ^tn^J^i exists in Mississippi against the f°n- Ml; .Ea3t a"d- although he- Democratic party, President:has voted solidly against the ~°: FDP On Ballot Costs Coahoma Negroes Testing QttS Printing Voting Strength CLARKSDALE - Keprinting By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ballots for the coming election Negroes are testing their has cost the Coahoma County j [ voting strength in Mississippi Election Commission ?223 be- j cause of last week's federal 11 and at least nine have made bids for posts on county boards of education. Three other Negro candidates are seeking local office in spe court decision allowing Freedom Democratic Party candidates to cial elections. be put on the ballot. Another three are asking vot ers for places in the U.S. Con- Commission Chairman James Upshaw said secretary of State, gress^___ . Heber Ladner "should havej 'TTiprp hasn't Tieen a Negro ivarned us" of the possibility elected to public o'iice_in_..Mis~- the ballots would have to be stssippi since It.'.'", but this Inly changed. • he the, turning point, hopmige tfip Justice Department esti- Upshaw said the first set of gtc r pH ballots was printed before the | m-iip. m,""" pre rf*ei ' ' court decision in order to mail Negro voters now outnumber absentee ballots to local citizens whites in Jefferson, Claiborne, "across the world," including, Madison, Holmes and Wilkinson those on the front in Viet Nam. i and hold large blocks of votes in These, when returned will be• other counties. void. | Negro candidates have quali fied for the county board of ed ism ucation in Issaquena, Jasper, Neshoba, Marshall, Holmes, Jefferson, Claiborne and Madi son counties. In Holmes county, Robert Chinn, son of C. 0. Chinn, a Canton civil rights leader, is seeking a constable post in the first district. The Rev. R. 0. Whitaker, Tchula, is running for a justice of the peace post in Holmes county and the Rev. J. D. Col lins is seeking a spot on the Le- Flore county board of supervis ors. . su. :^V'-. MU<. II , "M. Mr. Eastland h „,, —is a highly speculative factor that could be felt for the first time in a Mississippi Federal lie party, figures to draw off a !to the segregationist app -';-i consistently »„.,£. election this century. I portion of the Negro vote, but Mr. Eastland and Mr. Walker Last week a three-judge Fed 'politically knowledgeable Nc- But sources among' Negro ••;-.? Program "ofi^ eral Court ordered a Negro in -,-roes are »»> — politicians strongly indicate --iendS, but asJud1 ,.;...;... dependent candidate, the Rev. that they would prefer to see -' .'1-e '1,r. ^' Clifton Whitley, who had run their perennial antagonist, Mr. • .-"on,S- JoT ;>s--ometur.es against Mr. Eastland in the June [Eastland, ousted from his sensi mtccs °" " ™ ap-i tive spot in Congress. Conse 7 Democratic primary, placed quently, the feeling here la that > Negro vote that • on the ballot as a Senate op- most Negroes who do turn out ed as a main. r,"c' w **• ponent of Mr. Eastland and Mr. force—aaJr,' - politi- Walker in the election Tues will probably vote for Mr. ... "*r-now estimated bv th . day. Walker. -lce Pq^-tment at 173.000 Mr. Whitley, backed by the -; " z I: ?^^: . . - J - -... Cs :.J u .: .._,-•..„ J - - .. •; t_J _ \ '.If -V /]' By TOM r/0RMAND /f- ? - £ £ •J Daily News Staff Writer Mississippi voters will go to the polls Tuesday to vote for a U.S. Senator, five U.S. Representatives, a number of judgeships and ether posts, and two pro posed constitutional amendments. The polls will be open from 7 a.m., to 6 p.m. .Sec retary of State Heber Ladner predicted that about 375,000 of the estimated 650,000-plus registered voters will turn out for the general election. The June pri mary drew about 200,000. j ,-?=: 0lat Candidates were issuing elec-: Wise e Sen. s. 2. 3r tion' ctiti llil'imils llil'ii.tillulll'the d Distric.„„.,t. _ -n„, m„„. .. 1 em0craticC,atl StatrgJayVatepiibiican Scnarbr^ - . >Rep- . John BelBe nl WWilliam,w,nhams S(' -^^-.-d.r'.l.- '",-,:: = 3ESpr,.' W : I "dependenindependent juig ^ fc» an«*d I -;•-,•Jgfo- d -inn...... hr-i :•• .fiv.. .• -MS group ders- a San"!n ; endnrsr-ri n.imnnrnti. C,. 1 4th Dislrict n ' „ Democ e; .•gmr-c O r-gstia^ ! State Sen G v 75 ™ticI «£*Congrcssm:..'. sinc» e KdUtilisli'ut:first 0QP|^- . Bjig^gftL I j Ron who nas vigorously cnal- md 5* fficT-rS " s-Mtl In u aggjH I'r^al'cq Tor. ! di.'lli'l'l'y In a rrea:-' • me-iling ' 0' supporters m anxn r.at ii"e wnlUl'.-.emeni of ITTis opponent .'Tvyiti iRMi'ii' by a local nml a? —nie NAACP endorsed Sen. Eastland just as we thought I they would," Walker said. "Sen. • Eastland was quietly endorsed : Friday at a meeting of the NAACP at Woodville headed by James Jolla, president of the lo cal NAACP branch." Walker said that cards were handed out at a church meeting urging Negroes present to vote f for Eastland and against two proposed constitutional amend A*0 **' ... ments; afterward, a group;'-' marched to the town square for: h speeches. i* Eastland has scheduled a 30-; << minute television show for 8 J? u>AJ*nr •p.m., today on a number of Mis sissippi stations and slations in Memphis, Tenn., unci Baton Rouge, La. Democratic U.S. Sen. John Stennis will be among the guests. sslppi Democratic Chair- tn»»)»iuMnmnm*w "•> Cffiivivaamili'a'^v ""• •".» »Hlfc4ar% iNegro Voters Negroes File Suit ,3 Negroes bain FaceReal Test For Spot On Ballot 1 Election Results Place On Ballot .Mississippi stn Three Ask US Court To Throw Out VOn Local ii JACKSON, Miss., Nov. -6. — Law Setting Mississippi Qualifications MnCo^rUclionl (UPI) —. The first real test of JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 20. — (UPI) — Three Negroes,, \ Freedom Democrats Cleared Negro voting strength on the denied a spot on the Nov. 8 general election ballot, filed suit local';tevel--^ajpossible_£re- Thursday in Federal Court attacking a state law which tossed 1, To Contest For Seats • yiewLOf the lW~s7a7o~«-ieotion out their qualifying petitions as inadequate. ,ln Senate, House 'n.nit"i Tnnaiiny whrn ID rTpflrn The suit was filed in behalf of Rev. Clifton Whitley of Holly Springs, Mrs. Emma Sanders of Jackson and Dock Drummond candidates seek office. of Kosciusko, all supported by the Mississippi Freedom Demo i BILOXI., MISS.MISS...o^'-, vu. _ l Thg_hitllr nf the' candidates cratic Party, a biracial political group. I (UPI)—A Federal court panel', seeS^eiection to county board _ ~\ The suit asked that a 1966 Wednesday cleared the way for J9 state law governing petitions of education posts, •With eight three Negroes to be placed on rVn n i n g fOTjasitinn^-Rve for independent candidates be the Nov. 8 general election bal %hjcnis^gnthis year across Johnson hi declared unconstitutional, and lot in Mississippi as independ 1 tne state.. A Negro also is that a three-judge Federal '•'. running ^rTaeTlOT^County's panel rule the law in violation ent candidates lor the United By Rockefeller of the 1965 Voting Rights Act States Senate and two House tqgc^-ele^oirtor and the 14th and 15th Admend- Isupervisorjost^another seeks I seats. ments to the United States 1 'tlie-israivy^constable seat W The court issued a written Charges Foe's Silence About Constitution. Madison tjounty and1 the hip* opinion a few hours after hear Highway Situation Means 1 The court also was asked to ing arguments on a civil rights |-Holmes_^ffihTy3as. a Negro of Policies Won't Change issue a preliminary injunction, suit seeking to force the state "candidate^ "c enjoining the state Election to allow the three Negroes to By CARL CRAWFORD Negroes also are run- .- • 3- Commission from enforcing run. A formal order in the Staff Writer ' case is to be issued later. ning as independents in state "" t& the law and from refusing to wide ejections for Senate and' . SPRINGDALE, Ark., Oct. 20. accept the petitions of the The three-judge panel's de congressional seats. Rev. Clif e — Winthrop' Rockefeller, his Negroes as independent candi cision had the effect of tern- ton Whitley-;of Holly Springs st voice heavy with a chest cold, dates for the Senate and two | porarily suspending a new 1 : oppose! Senator James 0, «•'Thursda y charged his oppo House seats. state law which raised the i qualifying requirements for in- |Eastland; - Dock Drummond, As nent's silence on "the scandal The suit also asked the court '76 year-oId' retired plumber, js • f\ dependent candidates. A civil : :''»e ous highway situation" makes for a temporary injunction ! il running in the First District enjoining and restricting the K| rights attorney charged the [against Representative Thomas it clear Jim Johnson will not state from holding the Novem ' law was in violation of the 1965 Abernethy, and Mrs. Emma- . 6s change things if elected. ber general elections pending Voting Rights Act. I Sanders of. Jackson opposes m "Jim Johnson's election will the outcome of the case. Moments after the court dis | Representative John Bell Wil ry The state Election Commis liams in the Third District insure that the same people closed its decision, Atty. Gen Be will be doing business at the sion, cited as the defendant, is Joe Patterson, said he callet I The predominantly N tvex o composed of Gov. Paul John the secretary • of state's of ^Mississippi•-. Freedom • De^mo- same old stand," Rockefeller son, Secretary of State Heber . fice with instructions to ad< | « said. '.v^| Ladner and Atty. 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AuEyj 'JSaUe/iV Plo-JB3^-zi B 'puoiuunurj -IBq aqj uo sjuauipuauiB jBuop 3AlJB}uaS3jd3a JO JU31U1JJ3P sir, oj ^JOM ABUI pue ajOA. OJSSN am jo ouios JJO upup. ; ot pspsdxa s; uoispop aqj. fW l\ - /,, ;.-,t "'kii-*ah d(Wi-U(fz tj±ht FDP Says Reseating Is Illegal By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Civil rights forces MpMd Tuesday Mississippi's new.Jfigi.s- f lative apportionment is illegal-. because it contains population variations and racial gerry- mandei ing. ' -^TH a ttriefsubmitted to a special three-judge court, attor neys for the Freedom Demo cratic Parly plaintiffs contend ed "coastitutional standards of equality have not been met." The brief charged the exist- ence gf rai-|{ll flfcrrymandm-lng and said 12 senatorial districts contained TTOHTtes with Negro majorities linked to counties wTOnvhitc lUHjoi'ltltfrtSirroaijee districts wim white majorities. Tl'iere was similar gerryman dering in Hie House apportion ment, the fig said, "although I the'greater correspondence be- : twecrl w>uiilies and—districts IlirfiTT the nossin-ility of such racial gerrymandering/'" I The HIP Had" forced the state to reshuffle both its con- | grcssional and legislative seats j by winning a federal court de- [cision that the present lineups I were unconstitutional because I they were not based on popula tion. I During the 19G6 regular ses sion of the legislature, the law makers adopted a restricting plan that won approval of the court. The court gave the leg islature until Dec. 1 to come up | with a reapportionment plan ! and Gov. Paul Johnson called j the legislature into session Nov. i 9 to work on the problem. The ! new plan was drawn up to meet the deadline. The FDP challenged both the redistricting and reapportion ment plans in the court, but the court ruled in favor of Ihe state on the redistricting plan. That decision Is being appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court. The three-judge federal court will stage a hearing Jan. !) on whether the reapportionment plan meets court tests. >K 11 'Serious Disparities' Seen L . .nt asked Con- V. ....> aO advance S32-million to supplement the land and water ing Ii, .via conservation fund. This fund is cm-es wi*. jpacf.- made up of revenues from park 1960 and t.. . .gers will admissions and user fees, sales fiscal year. o send in- of surplus Federal property The" rise, accordir s down to and Federal taxes on motorboat cial budget analyi ;e. fuels. $444-million in 196 space efforts, The Department of the In billion in 196S. Tota .ient resulting terior's Bureau of Outdoor Rec- private support of ogram will dc- reation, which administers the search amounted t< 't of 420,000 a fund, allocated S142-million for lion in 1960 and is J.000 by July, land purchases in he coming be about 52.5-billion year. The biggest portion, $65- Department Control idget also calls million, will go to states for .jases In weather planning, acquisition and de In 1968, more than idies and experi- velopment. Tho National Park of all Federal health Service will get S48.2-million. will be done ilian ooeanogra- partment>f-'Hea!th more research and^Welfare. The I /er reactors that ogical and medic ore rapidly than MISSISSIPPI IS SUED. supported by the • ,t. is administered throi ON NEW COUNTY LAW tional Institutes of branch of the Un; JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 24 Public Health Scrvh (UPII—Civil rights forces chal edings lenged today a recently ap While this resean proved constitutional amend tinue to cover virtu ment allowing Mississippi coun pects of the nature HOUSE ties to consolidate. the functioning of the President's systems, there wi The suit asked the United creased emphasis c sage; adjourned States District Court to declare unconstitutional the law adopted called -targeted resc: at the 1966 legislative session are broad researcl .airs subcommit- and approved by voters last aimed at specific oh. going Assistant November. The law allows the Emphasized today State for Latin Legislature to consolidate coun programs as the sea rtn Gordon say ties by a two-thirds vote. causes and cure of kemia; new vaccii atlon in Nica- The suit, filed b vthe Lawyers Cdtistltutional Defense Commit virus diseases; bettt "greatly 1m- tee, contended the law would cal devices to aid discriminate against Negroes human heart; methot Tn county of- kidney transplantatio .TS& AGENCIES seejtri fective and to deveh ecretary McNa- fices in the 1967 elections. It was filed nn behalf of the jMis- more efficient artifit ere was no rea- sisstppl Freedom ljernocratic machines that can of an antimissile party', fcnvreHg^giyQt^ party the patient's home. U. S. has "corn chaTrTrTaTT; CharlesEvers of the Increased Convm ice'' that It can Natl6Jial""J3i34wiaBe« for the Even more than tl issia's new mls- aVrlvanoempnt. of. Colored Pco- portion, the new bu pTe^prd^fivp other Negro citi- trated the increasin .D FOR TODAY Tr-'n-i nf the .tiaVr-i— ment of the Feder 25, 1967) The suit pointed out that un ment to the whole h ohnson sends fis- der the 1960 census, 28 of Mis It is estimated th dget for the Dis- sissippi's 82 counties had Negro cent of Federal pa mbia to Congress, population majorities and that the public are for ! these counties could be consoli grams and that tl: 1 House meets at dated by the Legislature with this is in Medicare counties with white majorities.! aid. Ackley of the The suit named as defend Virtually all of t Council of Eco- ants Gov. Paul Johnson, Attor-! lion Americans ovr isers holds news ncy General Joe Patterson, Sec signed up for Mcdii the President's retary of State Heber Ladner,] went into operation Message, for re- Acting Senate President George j to help pay hospitt on, E.S.T., Thurs- Yarbrough and House Speaker r tors' hills for persr. John Junkin. I afro group. The budgt £ Consolidation Plan Attacked In Suit Mississippi Negroes iProtest legislature's Action JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 24. — (UPI) — A new Mississippi d^-lt(ur //- law allowing: the, legislature ^ n-XM to consolidate counties caine, under attack Tuesday in a suit filed in Federal court on grounds it could prevent the eterTWr; pf f Ner/mranrlidarp County Consolidation to a public office. The suit, filed in District Amendment Is Attacked Court here, asked jr^m*ee~- iMis.sissipPijneW county con. the AMBte— judge panel to declare the wlffalluurimeiailiia l/ ftr^ Union ttvil—Libctties recently approved constitu- stale conjITlujionTva' a.". •ay e '| union, names js_.deicndentsas—defendents, tioBaI~amendment unconstitu- ...... qj "attackeTl: Gov- Paul Jolinson^JaUy^. Gen. as '"unconsliTutional" in a suit J Joe Patterson, Sec. of State 11tfdnal and in violation pf the 1 5 filea in lederaljjc^rJlTFre T "" - [ H"-!""' Ladner, actihgTTe s i-1 1965 Voting RightsAct, dav_bv lhe"MTFsissippiFre^tlojn I dent of the state Senate George I ihe new law was adopted Democratic Party. I Yarbrough and Speaker of the by the Legislature in regular The suit alleges "the Amend- House John Junkin. session last year and "ap ment-trr-the'i^ftj5lssinji_^oji|tj-1 "A state - wide pattern and proved this past November in tfltlon was passeoLtfitlthe-4iur-: prat-tice of racial dlsorTihmaiion ^y. ' / s- j pose of. and wjnjiayg.JhB._ ef-! has beWllT"eTre~~lh "Mississippi, ^ ^ ' a statewidgreferepdnm allpw- a /tjt-r fe"ct_gt_ aenyirig~o"r abriding, on ! denying and abrTdgingJhje rights mg_the~Legi.sla.Uire, bv two- accoiiiiPof race ui culuir'the of-flfegFoes to vote, to run for third's yote_to_€OJ«olidate ad- votes of the plaintiffs.and pre-1 public office and olhenvise ffflmi^£QuntieSi- vJjBfig thr^Wli"!! at—Wayo; take part in the entire elective Tlieold law provided that c§adidates_r-r'' ! process.'' the suit claimed. existing counties could consoTF The constitutional amendment! Named as plaintiffs in the date it a maiority of the waTapprovecTpv state voters,' '.,,. al-e the FDA, Laurence qualified electors v"ie ~ tr, do N°vJ11966jndaJlmyx the - chairman of the so< G stat?^eini~atuj_e_to_consolidate , vr;n ',„, , LM W1C t~~TKe""suit contended the new existing "counties by r^! FDP, Charles Evers, field sec- provision would discriminate thirds vote in_each-hi>»ae. ' retary of the NAACP and five against Negroes seeking elec The suit, filedjjy rHinrnryi of other Negroes the suit said the tion to county otfices in the FDP "intends to sponsor" as 1P~rrj>e_>pral rlpcrinn f candidates for county - wide "Twasfiled on hph->'f " +*"» offices in the 1967 general elec Mississippi Fr"^"™—Demo tion. cratic Party. EOP Chairman Lawrence Guyot, Charles Ev The five were: Robert Chinn, j ers OlJh&Jiatioiiai .Association Lynn Collins. Sylvester Gaines,, f6r~Jfie_^Adva»eeiiieiil of Col Ralthus Havea. and Will T. | ore'! people—»«"—five—ether Turner. Negroes who claim th"y in tend to ^5g_canrfirf3tp'! fnr a Legislative backers during "«ntv o" the pre - election day scramble said 82 counties were too many for a state the size of Missis sippi and pointed to economic gains that could be derived from consolidation. Supporters also denied racial overtones were present. The suit said, that according to the 1960 census, "28 counties: in Mississippi have Negro popu-: lation majorities and that un der the new law these counties: could be consolidated by the: Legislature with white majority counties, thereby rendering Ihe Negro voting potential meaning less." // Gerrymandering Charged, in Mississippi Reseating U.S. House Districts Pro strength of the state's 43 per cent Negro population. mote 'Whites'—Claim Mississippi's Negroes are con centrated largely in the north By BARRY SCHV.'EID west quarter of the state—the WASHINGTON (AP)-A civil area known as the Delta. To rights group charges in a Su-[dilute their vote, the appeal preme Court appeal that the.saui, the section was divided Mississippi Legislature gerry-Jon an east-west axis and dis- mandered its U.S. congressional |£ricTs~ created running horizon- districts to promote "white su-j tally, across the state, premacy" and to block election Attorneys of the lawyers con- of a Negro congressman. istitutional defense committee of The effort to crack the all-'the American Civil Liberties white composition of the state's union, in filing the appeal with congressional delegation, unsuc-^he high court this week, claim- cessful in a lower federal court,jed raciai discrimination in vio- was brought to the SupremeIbjUon of the U.S. Constitution. Court in a suit against Gov.j As Mississippi's five congres- Paul B. Johnson Jr. and other:sional districts are now laid out state officials. | the total population of the small- The main argument in theest is 423,300 and of the largest appeal, filed for a number of] 449,565—a balance "as nearly Mississippi Negroes and the;perfect" as the state Legisla- Mississippi Freedom Democrat-:ture couid be expected to agree ic Party by civil rights law-:uponi a three-judge federal yers, is that the congressionallCOUrt sajd ]ast September, districting law enacted by the! However, the civil rights group Legislature last year was de-said more pertinent are "eligi- signed to minimize the voting bie voting" figures. And these, the appeal said, show a white eligible voting majority pre served in all five districts— from 32,581 in the First Dis trict to 143,923 in the Fifth. The redistricting law, the three judges said unanimously, "Is in all things valid and con stitutional." And the legisla tors, the court said, had gone as far as could be expected to make sure "the vote of every citizen, of whatever race, will now weigh equally in the se lection of representatives in Congress." U.S. Circuit Court Judge James P. Coleman, a former governor of Mis.Ncsippi, and U.S. District Court Judges Wil- ham Howard Cox and Dan M. Russell comprised the panel. AFFAIRS OF STATE To .ii. j7]£/'hi ('. ] i JL By CHARLES M. HILLS WHAT'S UP DOC? proved by the Legislature Well. . .the federal court gives Hinds and Claiborne Gets Aiopeal has under review the 1966 re four senators. We now have apportionment plan adopted one. There seems a chance by the state legislature. that Claiborne and Hinds may Now, the court has express be divorced by the court, but ed dissatisfaction with the that is future politics right plan as too far removed in now. Incidentally, Ha yd e n places from the U. S. Su CampBell will seek reelection. preme Court's one-man, one- AS WIND BLOWS WASHINGTON (AP) -A civil I dilute their vote, the appeal) vote recipe. But, the advance sheets of rights group chaises in a Su said, the section was divided on The court asked an explana conjecture see the incumbent preme Court appeal that the • an east-west axis and districts tion" of the disci euaiiCles, but nine House members choosing Mississippi Legislature gerry created running horizontally was tola in eitect, that ifie up to some extent. mandered its U.S. congressional across the state. lawmaking hnrly had done the Just rummaging around, district tn promote "white su Since 189-1, the court was told, best it could under the cir the lawmakers seem to have premacy" and to block election the Delta counties had been in cumstances. sort of decided that Reps. of a Negro congressman. a single congressional district, So," the court has the plan James Arden Barnett. Bill The effort to crack the all- "reflecting their historic, geo in hand and It Is the lntiis- McKinley. and Charlie Hen whije composition of the state's graphic, economic and social putable prerogative of the ley will run for the Senate as congressional delegation, unsuc unity." high tribunal to amend as it well as Sen. Campbell. cessful in a lower federal court, NEGRO THREAT sees fit or even substitute" a Rep. J. H. "Farmer Jim" was brought to the Supreme Why the change? The appeal j whole new plan. Neal, is not announced, but, Court in a suit against Gov. claimed thaat once Negroes won | The legislature awaits fu we hear he is running for Paul B. Johnson Jr. and other assurance of their right to vote ture court decision with the chancery clerk of Hinds coun state officials. "their majority status in the fear and trembling of any ty. WEAKENS VOII delta became a threat to those man whose job is at stake, And, Reps. Joe Moss, Ray The main argument in the ap previously in political control of especially since not only the mond, and Russell Davis, peal, filed for a number of Mis the state." court, but, the voters as well, Horace Lester, Sutton Marks, sissippi Negroes and the Mi<=is- Attorneys of the Lawyers Con- have a stake in what is to be. and W. I. S. Thompson, of sippi Freedom Democratic Par Stitutional Defense Committee This year is the year of Jackson, will seek reelection. ty by civil right; lawyers, is of the American Civil Liberties general elections, you know, Under the new apportion that the congressional district Union, in filing the appeal with and everybody from constable ment plan, which the federal ing law enacted by the legisla- the high court this week, court is to d e c i d e upon, ture last year was designed In claimed racial discrimination in at the county level to gover minimize the voting strength of nor at the state level, has a all legislative candidates will violation of the U.S. Constitu run by posts, but county-at- the state's 43 per cent Negro tion. job at stake. population. Of course, there are ex large. As Mississippi's five congres pected to be full slates of This is not taking into con Mississippi's Negroes are con sional districts are now laid out candidates in all directions sideration any challenging centrated largely in Ihe north the total population of the small and the incumbents in every candidates, but, yith a sal west quarter of the -cl^lp _ the est is 423,3n(\ and of the largest category, except sheriff, state ary raise taking effect in 1958, area known as the Poll a. To Continued On Paje UA treasurer and governor, the we have a pretty good offices denied for reelection "hunch" there will be some. by the state constitution. LEGISLATORS' QUANDARY COURT But we here concern our- Continued From Page l.-\ self with the subject of leg Suggestion that the court islation, since the status fed might order Ihe governor to 449.565—a balance "as nearly erally of the legislature is in perfect'' as the state legislature call the legislature back to re could be expected to agree doubt. do the job evokes horror. upon, a three - judge federal It is go-orally anticipated BE AS IT MAY court said last September. that the federal court will act As the case may be, legis as expeditiously as possible, lators- in office seeking reelec MORE WHITES ELIGIBLE ; since elections are at hand. tion and such opponents as However, the civil rights j Above all, ihe lawjiiakws-ef may arise to challenge them, grouo said more pertinent are have only to await and see "eligible voting" figures. And It ippnr,, sin.-r-rply hopp That what they run for. these, the appeal said, show a j the__courL_aull—not order, a One, Sen. Clarence Strider, white eligible voting majority. statewide or at-large election of Charleston, told us awhile preserved in all five districts— for the 122 Jlouse^ members back, that whatever occurs, (ran 32,581 in the first district anpMhe_52_Siuiatoi's. he is running. Right now, he to 143,923 in the fifth. It would be exceeding diffi has a four-county district, one The lower court stressed that cult to get-acquainted with aTF of the largest area-wise. Like rural electrification, he just the largest variation from a I lhe~candidates before thjTBal- perfectly equal population in all lot and perhapt- as arduous has to go farther to see his customers. districts was 3.2 per cent, in the to count the ballots after the fifth. vole. Here in Hinds county, the —ir^yotTcan beircvrrwhaLyou ten lawmakers assigned" may The redistricting law, the heararqjjnd Capitol Hill, be justified by the court, as three judges said unanimously, most of tHe lawmakers and ~k to the House of Representa "is in all things valid and con lot of the voters, hope that tives. stitutional." And the legislators, the court will leel out^The" the court said, h-->d gone as far In such case, there has as could be expected to make faults and mane such correct been a suit of I o o k s e e at tions as Ihecuui'l BB fhyin sure "the vote of every citizen, what is to come. . of whatever race, will now the—plaTTjsuiunjttedby the Seems that some choosing lawmaking body. i weigh equally in the selection of of sides has been done, and, j representatives in Congress." After adjustments are M take a .ook with you. . . made, Ihe court's dreire an interested look. U.S. Circuit Court Judge ' James P. Coleman, a former would be in effect and the Now, the senate formula ap- elections could proceed in an governor of Mississippi, and orderly m a n n c r. The cam- U.S. ""1st Judges Howard f'o\- paicins [or office could also and pan. M. Russell comprised proceed with luch decorum Hie pane'. as uiually accompanies. il APPEAL JURISTS HIT ORDINANCES C LcX* \ OlA • L-ccv 1 Jackson, Miss., Handbills, "It is the law of Mississippi V *" Parades Affected that where a power is granted 3//-ST/0-) to a public board to be exer An ordinance of the city of cised at 'its discretion,' the grant means a legal, not an ar Jackson, Miss., requiring a per bitrary discretion," the opinion mit for distribution of handbills said. '. and a portion of another ordi "We are, therefore, of the nance requiring parade permits opinion that this ordinance is Two City Laws were declared unconstitutional indeed unconstitutional on its Tuesday by the U.S. Fifth Cir face and cannot be squared Overturned By cuit Court of Appeals. with constitutional guarantees," it added. Federal Court In companion cases the ap The court held that the deci peals Court reversed federal dis sion does not prohibit the city NEW ORLEANS (AP)-Two trict court rulings denying in city laws in Jackson, Miss., form prohibiting the use of its have been ruled unconstitution junctions sought by civil rights streets for the distribution of workers in June, 1965, against al. One required a permit for purely commercial leaflets or passing out handbills, the other enforcement of the laws. punish the throwing of papers The opinions in both cases required a permit for a parade. and like objects upon the The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of were written by Circuit Judge Stl*6CtS Appeals decisions Tuesday said James P. Coleman, Ackerman, PARADE PERMITS CASE the city is free to regulate such 'Miss., with concurrences of Cir In the other case the attack activities—but only under fair cuit Judge Jolin R. Brown, on the constitutionality of the laws meeting constitutional Houston, Tex., and District requirement for parade permits standards. Judge Ben C. Dawkins Jr., v.-as the result of the arrest of Civil rights leaders filed the Shreveport. a group which marched on the two suits involved. HANDBILL ORDINANCE state capitol to protest the A temporary injunction for The case involving the hand meeting of the Legislature bidding Jackson to bar distri bill ordinance resulted from the _ which ultimately relaxed state bution of political handbills was issued by the appeals court arrest of a group of civil rights literacy requirements for regis workers supporting the Missis June 30, 1965, pending its final tration and voting. decision. sippi Freedom Democratic "It is of interest that during Party who were distributing In striking down the part of the three-year period immedi an ordinance dealing with pa handbills protesting a special ately preceding this attempted session of the Legislature. rade permits, :he court said it parade without a permit that Continued On Page 5 It was the position of the there had been 13 parade per- ] city that the purpose of the or mil applications filed in the city dinance was to prevent the side of Jackson and none had been Continued From Tagc 1 walks and streets from becom denied. Almost half of those was too vague and broad in. its ing littered and unsightly and granted were for Negroes and wording. to prevent sewers and culverts or civil rights demonstrations," Both suits, which lost in Mis from becoming clogged, creat the opinion states. i sissippi federal district court, : ing an unsanitary condition and Pointing to the section's pro were filed after civil rights menace to the health of the hibition against conducting or workers were arrested while community as well as to pre participating in "any parade or protesting against a special leg- vent injury to pedestrians or marching in which floats, ban ! islative session in 1963. property damage. ners, placards or other distract Among a number of cases ing agencies, noises, objects or ^ cited by the court in support vehicles are used; and for any of its decision was one holding person to engage in shouting, that an ordinance prohibiting a singing, orating, speaking, or person rightfully on a public any other distracting activity oi J street from handing literature any kind on any of the public to one willing to receive it can streets . . .," the court said that not be sustained on the argu there is no standard prescribed ment that the purpose is to as to what constitutes these ac keep the streets clean. tivities. Another holds that municipal LANGUAGE HELD VAGUE ities may enact regulations in The court held that the lan the interest of the public safe guage of the section of the traf ty, health, welfare or conven fic code is "vague, broad and ience, but these regulations lacking in standards." may not abridge individual lib The opinion cites the testi erty, guaranteed by the consti mony of a police official who tution, to ..peak, write, print or said that the only reason for circulate Information or opin requiring a parade permit was ion. ir. order that traffic could be NO STANDARD FOR DENIAL controlled and law and order The opinion of Judge Cole maintained during a parade. man points out that the ordi These are legitimate objects nance requires a permit from of municipal concern, the court the City Council but lacks any said, which can be handled in a provision requiring the council constitutional manner. to is:U-^ a license and does not The appeals court left the set up any standards for de matter of whether or not injunc nial. tions should bo issued against the enforcement of the re jula- tions, in view of the decisions, to the district WJrt. /I CexvKMt,;,/ fUtlJ y/>-y/t,7 MISS. COWTIlfe RESEAT BATTLE FDP Case Appealed to Highest Jurists WASHINGTON" (AP) - The state of Mississippi filed a two- pronged motion before the Su preme Court Tuesday seeking to uphold congressional districts drawn by the state Legislature. The Freedom Democratic Party, which had contested the state's old congressional dis tricts because of population im balances, lost in a federal dis trict court challenge of the new one and appealed to the Su The new congressional district preme Court. plan was passed by the Legis In its motion, the state ask lature last year after the dis ed the high court to dismiss the trict court gave the Legislature appeal or as an alternative to time to correct population in-i uphold the decision of the lower equities in the former plan. The biggest discrepancy in the old court. plan was found in the Delta, In a supporting brief filed by where the population was 608,- Asst. Atty. Gen. Martin McLen 000, compared to 295,000 in the don, the state noted the Free East Central District. dom Democratic Pary (FDP) McLendon said under the pres had challenged the new plan ent plan, District One had 48.64 per cent white and 51.38 on grounds lines had been per cent nonwhite population; drawn to dilute the effect of District Two had 56.80 per cent Negro voting. white and 43.14 per cent non- The main argument, he said, white; District Three 54.54 per "is based upon the premise of cent white to 45.46 per cent alleged racial discrimination in nonwhite; District Four 51.91 the failure of the Legislature to per cent white to 48.09 per cent create one or more districts nonwhite; and District Five with larger nonwhite popula 76.19 per cent white to 23.81 tions." per cent nonwhite. Statewide, the percentages are 57.73 per He contended the FDP want cent white and 42.27 per cent ed the Supreme Court "to en nonwhite. force the particular kind of seg regation that appeals to them In the first four districts, Mc (the FDP)." Lendon said, the nonwhite pop ulation percentage exceeds the But McLendon said the argu statewide average. In the fifth ment of discrimination "is along the Gulf Coast, there are wholly without factual proof fewer Negroes than in other (and) was resolved against ap areas. pellants (the FDP) by the dis trict court." McLendon noted the district court opinion saying that if the The FDP attacked the plan on grounds it divides up the districting plan were thrown heavily Negro Delta area in out, candidates would have to northwest Mississippi among run statewide. three districts. This, he said, would reduce the percentage of Negro vote in "The Delta has been divided four of the five races. almost equally since 1"92," Mc Lendon said, "for the purpose In his motion, McLendon ar of electing all of the judges of gued the appeal should be dis the state Supreme Court." missed as the FDP had not shown the Supreme Court had He noted many state boards jurisdiction, and the FDP had have membership baaed on Su not filed a complete record of preme Court rather than con lower court testimony and pro gressional districts. ceedings as required. "Even if appellants had filed the complete record, or are per mitted to do so," he said, "the judgment of the district court snould be affirmed without fur ther argument." He said the appeal was with out merit on the basis of evi dence presented and previous federal court cases. MISS. RESEAT PLAN - -.CcLy^W- ^ DRAWN BY JUDGES State Given 10 Days to.File Revision [E^PLAN In the House plan, the court By W. F. MINOR The three-judge panel, which provided that in the Seventh (Timea-PlcaVLint Staff Correspondent) had said last year in ruling District, composed of Coahoma JACKSON, Miss. - A three- Mississippi's present apportion and Quitman counties, posts judge federal court Thursday ment invalid that if the state one and two would be nominat threw out the reapportionment did not come up with a satisfac ed and elected from Coahoma I tory plan, it would possibly or County, post three from Quit plan written by the Legislature man County and post four from in November and drew its own der the election of legislators from the state at large. * the district at large. _^^H plan for reseating the two legis ELECTION OUT In the House Eighth District, lative branches based on strict But in the opinion Thursday, post one will be filled from La population parity. the court said: "We have dis fayette County, post two from Under the court's plan the missed as utterly impractical Panola County, and post three maximum deviation from the from tho district at large. any idea of requiring the elec Senate (52 seats): Desoto- norm in either House would be tion to be held at large." I In the House 15th District, 12.54 per cent. Only six of 36 posts one and two will be Tate, one; Lafayette-Marshall, It said that the possibility of! one; Benton - Pontotoc - Union districts in the Senate and two reapportioning of seats by con-' filled from Leflore County, of the 52 in the House would posts three and four from one; Alcorn-Tippah, one; Ita gressional districts had alsoi wamba-Prenliss - Tishomingon. vary more than 10 per cent been ruled'out. ' Sunflower County, and post from the norm. five from the district at large. one; Lee, one; Quitman-Tuni ca, one; Coahoma, one; Pano The federal panel, headed The judges said they looked In the House 19th District, upon the state of Mississippi la-Yalobusha, one; Grenada- by Court of Appeals Judge post one from Holmes County, Tallahatchie, one; Calhoun- J. P. Coleman held that the as a "big house" which, they post two from Yazoo County said, "must, in one Instance Chickasaw - Clay-Monroe, two; plan drawn by the Mississippi and post three from the district: Lowndes, one; Noxubee-Oktib Legislature failed to comply be divided into 52 rooms con at large. taining substantially the same beha, one; Choctaw-Webster-, with the mandate of the "one In the 24th District of the. -Winston, one; Attala-Carroll- man oce vote" doctrine. The House, posts one and two will Montgomery, one; court said the Legislature's be filled from Lowndes County, plan was "unconstitutional on post three from Oktibbeha Bolivar - Washington, three; its face, null and void." County and post four from the Sunflower, one; Leflore, one; Because legislative races are district at large. Holmes-Humphreys, one; Issa quena-Sharkey-Yazoo, one; upcoming in August, said the number of occupants and, in On the Senate side, the court: three judges, "there is no al in only one instance provided1 Warren, one; Madison-Rank the other must be divided in-Scott, two; Leake-Neshoba, ternative now to doing that into 122 rooms." for the floater system—in the which we have tried so hard to lCth District composed of Boli-j one; Clarke - Kemper-Lauder Its overpowering considera dale-Newton, three; Covington- avoid. tion, the court added "has been var and Washington counties. Senate post one would be elect Jasper-Smith, one; Jeff Davis- EQUITY POWERS to make the elective districts Lawrence-Simpson, one; as nearly equal as possible in ed from Washington County, "The equity powers of this population, without discrimina-. Senate post two from Bolivar Hinds, five; Claiborne-Copiah, court must be exercised and we tion or favoritism of any kind." County, and Senate post three one; Franklin - Jefferson-Lin Maps of plans for the from the district at large. coln, one; Adams, one: Amite- Gov. Paul Johnson, who was Pike - Walthall - Wilkinson, Mississippi Senate and the defendant • in the reapnor Miss. Reapportioning two; Forrest - Lamar-Marion, House drawn up by the tiqriment suit, said later inLTae- two; Jones-Wayne, two; Han dw5 33 i sre,a, aisappoint- Plan Is Presented cock-Pearl River-Stone, one; U.S. court are In Sec. 1, m Page 9. "lent, ta " " JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-The Harrison, three; George- 'MORE DIFFICULT' i legislative reapportion- Greene-Jackson-Perry, two. must proceed to order a reap Johj]son_said the ruling "cer Iment plan drawn up by a portionment which will meet tainlypoints up tne tact that three-judge federal court for constitutional standards." 'Mississippi Thursday: The reseating which the Tqr more (lillicult ~nrarr~the House (122 seats): Alcorn- Legislature presented to the court initially implied?1 Tishomingo Counties, two court drawn in a special ses BUI he gave a w"arning to fu seats; Prentiss, one; Tippah- sion two months ago had pop ture Legislatures, which he said Union, two; Benton - Desoto- ulation deviations as high as "must give more searching con Marshall, three; Tate, one; 42 per cent. Sixteen of the sideration" to plans of reappor Coahoma-Quitman, four; La Senate districts and 23 House tionment to prevent the neces fayette-Panola, three; Pontotoc, districts exceeded population sity for the federal courts to one; Tunica, one; norms by more than 15 per decide legislative matters. Itawamba-Lee, three; Mon cent. Because the court retained roe, two; Chickasaw, one; Cal The court gave both the state jurisdiction of the case until houn, one; Tallahatchie-Yalo and the Mississippi Freedom after the 1970 census, he said busha, two; Leflore-Sunflower, Democratic Party, which "it behooves future Legisla five; Bolivar, three; brought the suit, 10 days to file tures to act promptly to re-' Issaquena - Sharkey-Washing any alternative plan which they store this legislative function ton, five; Humphreys, one; believed "more nearly com to its proper place." Holmes-Yazoo, three; Grenada- Johnson also told reporters Montgomery, two; Attala-Car that he had no intention of re roll, two; Choctaw-Webster, plies" with the mandate of the. convening the state Legislature one; Clay, one; Lowndes-Oktib Supreme Court in the recent in an attempt to draw a new beha, four; Winston, one; Nox Florida reapportionment deci plan within the 10 days permit ubee, one; Kemper-Neshoba, sion. ted by the court for any alter two; L«ake, one; Madison, its opinion add-id that the native plans to be presented by! two; Hinds, 10; Claiborne- court expressly retained full the state or the Freedom Demo Warren, three; Rankin, two; jurisdiction over the case ' for cratic Party, ^^^^^^^^^^ Scott-Smith, two; Newton, one; any reapportionment of the In its ruling, the panel said Lauderdale, four; Clarke, Legislature under the 1970 cen it would permit the election of one; Jasper, one; Jeff Davis- sus. The court had used 1960 lawmakers from multi-seat dis Simpson, two; Copiah - Law census figures in reaching its tricts by posts as has been the rence, two; Jefferson-Lincoln, decision. practice in the state in the two; Adams, two; Amite- "We .; expressly point out past. Franklin-Wilkinson, two; Pike, that the exercise of this un The court's plan also permits two; Marion-Walthall, two; avoidable judicial duty can in several instances for multi- Covington-Jones, four; For not, does not and will not in bounty districts to establish rest-Lamar, four; Wayne, one; any way tie the hands of the posts for each county and the Perry - Greene, one; George- Legislature at any time to election of any additional seats Stone, one: Hancock-Pearl Riv adopt and enact any plan of from the district at large. er, two; Harrison, seven; and its own for the reapportion Jackson, three. ment of its membership so long as it complies with con stitutional requirementr,," the ...... - .,.,{,: at | // MME 'lUMi.S-i-'lw'AYUiV'i. NfcW ORLEANS. LA., SATURDAY V JRNING. MARCH 11, 1957 Ml:. z Recommends Four mm OFFERS r "TERtJED •Mil' x*l i^iic3inch^,nge iiJ&& s in Federal PSia l 'State Attorneys Make '•. In the court District 39, the No Proposals '".proposal said the district is 4.363 per cent above the norm (The Tlmes-Picovune Caait"! Bureau) t-aTid in the court plan 40, it is JACKSON, Miss. — Mississip .. 3.333 per cent above. pi Freedom Democratic Party The combining of Copiah and attorneys Friday recommended Jefferson counties under the to a three-judge federal court 'MFDP proposal would provide FDP Asks four small changes in districts -a District 39 which would be the court created in a plan for •4.156 per cent above the norm, Reshuffle reapportionment of the Legisla -and the combining of Law- The Mississippi Freedom ture. -rence and Lincoln as District 40 Democratic Party took advan Alvin J. Bronstein, attorney would be only 3.545 per cent tage of an invitation offered hy representing the MFDP, said above the norm. a three-judge federal court Fri recommendations, which had « The proposal pointed out that day and asked the court to mase -been invited by the federal 4here is no direct road between two minor changes in the court's panel before making the reap- nthe county seat of Copiah new reseating plan for the Mis .portionment plan effective, :.'County and the county seat of sissippi Legislature. "were only "small changes" in 'Lawrence County which are The federal panel ruled March Tour House districts, and none ^combined in the court plan. 2, the legislature's latest attempt •in the Senate. ' "In the plaintiffs' plan," said at reapportionment was invalid ^Meantime, the state of Mis the brief, "the county seats of and gave each side ten days lo sissippi, represented by Atty. :the joined counties are much submit a plan if they believed Gen. Joe T. Patterson offered .closer to each other and have theirs was better than the plan | ho recommendations for any •much better highway connec drawn by the court. •changes in the court-order plan. tions." The state, defendants in the -In ruling last week on re 1 suit, has offered no suggestions, apportionment, tossing out the J Bronstein said the plaintiffs and the FDP request for adjust -plan drawn by the Legislature . believed the court's plan for ments, filed in federal court here last November, the three • the Senate "is a constitutionally Friday included only two minor .judges said the courts decree permissible and feasible plan revisions. .would be made final in 10 days and should be incorporated in No request for a change in , unless revisions were made pur ,the court's order." the court's Senate plan was suant to recommendations of made by the FDP, but it ask either side. ed the court to reconsider the c The revisions proposed by plan which involves representa ..the MFDP, the plaintiffs in the THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, MEMPHIS, tion from only eight counties. .'reapportionment suit included One group of counties the FDP ; the following districts: asked to be reshuffled included '. District Eight (Lafayette and SATURDAY MO.SNING. MARCH U. 1W7 Panola, Lafayette, Tallahatchie .Panola), District 14 (Tallahat and Yalobusha and the others chie and Yalobusha), District involved were Lincoln, Jeffer 39 (Copiah and Lawrence), and son, Copiah, and Lawrence. District 40 (Jefferson and Lin Rights Group Asks Changes The court's plan had combin coln). ed Panola and Lafayette in one In Mississippi Remap Plan district, Tallahatchie and Yalo- ' The MFDP proposal would bush a in another, Copiah and 'change District Eight to com- JACKSON, Miss., March 10. — (UPI) - A civil rights Lawrence were combined as I bine Panola and Tallahatchie group recommended changes Friday in four proposed House were Jefferson and Lincoln ;and District 14 to combine La- districts under the Mississippi legislative reapportionment Counties. -'•fayette and Yalobusha. plan released last week by a Federal court panel. The FDP asked Lawrence and : According to the MFDP brief, The modifications sought by the Mississippi Freedom Lincoln to be combined; Yala- the court's District Eight is Democratic Party apparently would give Negro candidates a busha and Lafayette; Jefferson '6.38 per cent below the norm stronger chance to win a legislative post, especially in the and Copiah; and Panola and and the court's District 14 is Jefferson County stronghold of Negro leader Charles Evers. Tallahatchie. 2.448 per cent above the norm. The FDP proposal, submit Alvin Bronstein, attorney for ;•• The MFDP proposal, said the ted by attorney Alvin Bron comment. the FDP said the FDP felt their brief, would put the two dis stein of the Lawyers Constitu The FDP made no recom proposed modifications would tricts closer to the population tional Defense Committee, mendations regarding the pro "improve slightly" the equaliza- norm, making Panola-Tallahat was offered as an alternate to posed 36 new senatorial dis I tion of population among the chie only 1.288 per cent below the reapportionment plan out tricts drawn by the court, but ! legislative districts. • and Lafayette-Yalobusha 5.184 lined earlier by the three- suggested .changes involving I The FDP said, "When exam- ."per cent below. judge panel. eight counties in the realign • ining each four county unit as a ment of House seats,. The whole entity, that the improve The court had given the eight counties are Lafayette, ment in the population relation state and the FDP 10 days in Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobu ships between the counties in which to file an alternate plan sha, Copiah, Lawrence, Lin these units Ii substantial and "if the parties believed and coln and Jefferson. I further that there is a slight re were prepared to demonstrate duction in the percentage de- that such plan more nearly Tho court plan combined I viation from the norm...." complies" with the United Lafayette and Panola counties States Supreme Court's "one with three representatives; man, one vote" mandate. Tallahatchie and Yalobusha, The state was not expected with two representatives Co ' submit a new plan. Atty. piah and Lawrence, with two Gen. Joe Patterson 'was out of representatives; and Jefferson the state when the FDP sub and Lincoln, also with two mitted its proposal and was representatives. 1c«| Administration Commit- le»S^\eVL »«* til ha gets back proofs. hs *^ » •Acs Vfi'*--' »c* A**" Av> c ^'v FDP is cballengirj the & nv.^-v'° :^- i lississippi Democrats and [** \P -v-.a , xrt . e* .vxc ipublican en grounds they I afHH chosen in elections in ^;0v^: fse-tro citizens wore bar- ! )m voting. Je -'" the committee g-sts the ;^'"-r *v-*.,vu v$- record, it will consider | i request b,ZZ *'*»e-l f, - . '*•'* Z^ \'<^.0 fv>**etr< mnendation to the House. when o,- / *•-'• -o not /-* hi» normal cotu-je of events. -.=" a <:• * ,c.v> •1*' 11 rot reach the House -:^'..:^-.,-^ :, **,* icn until late next veer. ^ii^zz!;Uz^: -:.° Zp •'". &*Z»s :: Vs rts said there will bo no »*5i>v • * ,--0-- 9' ,-rt-- ,S;» * \ distribution of FDP rec- c c -S '' said 80 copies would be co^-v*.-* rf >• i**. V ',.v< for tha committee, as e.^ i by law, and one each T: iff' " •••- on -,:;, .••-•"-• contestants V -••:. Z \,\ ;** 'ens? £5 • •" '..;/:•,:? '""ial ^:^:-\Z'fZ Z >-,/' *"-v tne "-- ''•''*' :-i '=-,-,- *,» o June 26, 1965 ',/..-- f ^'j^