U.S. SOUTH REBELS
TRUMAN’S POLICY GOVERNORS’ THREAT NEW YORK, Feb- 24. Amid the din of wild rebel yells 2000 South Carolinians at Ridgeland tonight approved a resolution formally withdrawing from the National Democratic Party—the first formal revolt of the southern Democratic organisation as a protest against President Truman’s new civil rights programme. The resolution, which was passed by the Jasper County Democratic , Committee, declared: ‘The President is trying to reconstruct the South more drastically than was ever conceived by the Republican Party.” Mr. Klugh Purdy, county Democratic leader, said: “Truman isicompelled to get the Negro vote in the North or lose the election. The issue is clear. Is it better for the President to win or for the South to be destroyed? We hope to have struck a match that will set the South aflame.” A meeting of southern governors in Washington today threatened to resort to “whatever means are necessary” to fight federal laws against racial discrimination, adding: “The Democratic Party will soon realise that the South is no longer in the bag.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22571, 26 February 1948, Page 5
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