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+ Sept. 2. 1946 Edited by Kenneth M. Ellis ' Ne. § . a ATR OH ES mT ON my _ 4 . : . a __._ .. The Democratic Party-in the State ef Georaia was thia week offia alle eonficr-4. as Fascist by a Federal Court ruling. It is no longer possible for Democratic Pa-ty ‘voters, white or black, in the State of Georgia, to secure by the ballot any ¢en- resentation not under the domination of the Ku Klux Klan, chertered or unchartered. The three-man court upheld the county-unit oseen which can throw out, bv private commitment the choice of the majority of perty meoters in any primary election. In the last pricary the Negro-baiting, labor-hating Eugene, Tal radce, Phi Beta Kappa’s only red-suspender sncopper, was declared the winner in ae election in which the admitted and duly ccunted majority voted for his somewhat more acceptable opponent. We were never anong those ehe sang such poeans ef peliticel] praise over the fact that in that prinary "Negroes voted for the first time in Georgia’. feeling thee shot happened Loth to them and their votes was more importantly the issue. Nor did we join in the chorus ef acelaim that accompanied the junket of Georgia's Don Duke to accuire for Northern consucptiors a few photographs of himself holding up a Klien hood (no Klanssan in it!) ond inforeation which he could have got by picking up the telephone ond calling the NonrSecta tian Anti-Nazi Leacue, the Friends of - Denocracy.\Unbon for Denocretic Action, or even nore easily by idly turning the pages of John Roy Carlson’s UNDER COVER. We hove very good reason to believe that : Mr, Duke hisself hes been sphinkied with the ‘sccree fluid* and thet be is fer - wore familier with ‘whe’s who’ in Walton County than he is willing to cdait. Tal- — wadge has publicly declared that a fascist system of ‘selected franchise*® uncer the control of secret societies organized for surder, rapine and theft of the tax-payers’ funds, as eas proven in prosecutions which resulted in convictions of Klan leaders on al] these counts, will, undédr his administration, be the future systes of election in Georgia's Denocratic party prisaries. The controlliny maiorit in Georgia’s bockward counties is attained by terrorist tactics, the licensing through the Klan ond/or similar ,reups of private controls over the reli’ _s. meet and Pif. ak ahs fini dines at pelitics? ond social Life of the fesidents of the State. It secures in tie hanis of the fascist machine perpetuity ef tenure in office unless the inpossible policy of seizure is undertaken, There is not the slightest political hope that a rajerit will vote in any Republican or » her party primary not committed te the unit-vote systema. With his right of franchise thus destroyed, the Georgia citizen, aireasy inured by tradition, custem and iron discipline to the fascist program witling'y will suffer the disability and this degradation of his citizerskip. Nazsz cia not and do not ‘suffer* under the yoke of their servitude. Tkev !ixo it. Caorgians do not ‘suffer’ under their fascist form of governsent. Ap wae »ublicly scrected offos atlanta over a national roadie hook-up on juiyZy We a iti’ q \ In making its decision the all-Southerm court dointed bar® 2 iatliure of the ectoral Collece to follow the popular will “It.the elcction. cc three Frosidents, ri a= r bn Quincy Alans, 1624; Rutherford B. Hayes. 18763 and Benjasia Harrison, i888; but it did not point cut that there twa gpen a movement to crolisah the Elecieral College on those same grounds. If such a welcome abiulition sovement grows, there is not a Southern state which will lend its supzort ts eay such increase of dea- _ O¢ratic preachwent or practice. The danger to the uation as a whole from this decision of the Geosgia case is not yet as apparert as it will bo2ccae when the Southern bloc in Congress, foudai to the core in its politica: philosophy. ruth- less in ite abuse of the slightest public power, bitter and hate-‘ilted-in its '. viewpoint, and cruel and unjust in its every political decision, go-s to sork on « the legislative’ proposale essncting from the ‘alien’ remainder of _he United States ots INDEX Lis 7 weed NT ““\° on