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National States Rights Party — Part 1
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would neither campaign for the ticket nor repudiate it. Faubus received
44,977 votes out of a total of 68, 838, 005 cast.
During the 1964 national election, the NSRP placed on the ballot
in Arkansas arid Kentucky the names of John Kasper and NSRP official
Jesse B. Stone? for President and Vice President respectively. John Kasper
has been highly publicized for his extreme racist activities.
The campaign conducted by the NSRP resulted in an expenditure of
$33,090. A typical campaign rally held in October, 1964, attracted hut a
handful of onlookers. Stoner and the "Reverend" Charles Conley !"Connie"’)
Lynch, a prominent hate group personality, expressed hatred for the late
President Kennedy, President Jobnson, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI), and selected officials, alleging them to be contrelled by the
communists. Kasper polled only 4, 291 votes in Arkansas Because of sts
inability to receive the required percentage of the vote, the NSRP was denied
recognition as a party en the ballot in Arkansas and in Kentucky.
Like similar extremist groups, the NSRP engages in demonstrations
and counterdemonstrations in order to air grievances and to chtain public
notice and sympathy. In December, 1964, an NSRP official stated that the
NSRP intended to engage in more street demonstrations and to held
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