SOUTHERNERS WITHDRAW
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRAMME OPPOSED Rec. 10 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Amid the din of wild rebel yells 2000 South Carolinians at Ridgeland to-night 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 H. Klugh Purdy, the county Democratic leader, said: “ President Truman is compelled 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 the match that will set the South aflame.” A meeting of Southern governors in Washington 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26704, 25 February 1948, Page 6
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