OPPOSITION TO MR TRUMAN

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25549, 17 July 1948, Page 7

OPPOSITION TO MR TRUMAN

Meeting Called In Alabama NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENCY (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK. July 15. Mr Fielding Wright, Governor of Mississippi, to-day appealed to “every man and woman who believes in States’ rights and who opposes Mr Truman and the things he stands for,” to meet in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday. Mr Wright, in issuing a call to i Southern Democrats to attend a States' rights conference, said that the national Democratic Party’s platform made it impossible for States’ rights . Democrats to work with the present • party leadership. The object of the conference is to : select a candidate for the Presidency of the United States and to write a I States' rights platform. Mr Ben Laney. Governor of Arkan- ■ sas. who was first considered as the ! South’s representative to oppose Mr Truman for the Presidential nomina- ; tion. but who withdrew his name, said that he would have to consider further before he decided whether his State would be represented at Birmingham. Senator Walter George, who is Georgia’s senior senator, said he could see nothing to be gained by the Birmingham meeting. ; i ! 1 j • : | i j • ■ i ; i