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Events the World Over
Wirt’s Rrd Plot Story Flattened Out by Investigators—
Senate Votes for Extra 10 Per Cent Income
Tax—Auto and Coal Troubles.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
J"VR WTU.TAM A WIRT, the really
eminent educator of Gary, Ind.,
told hl 8 story of a “red plot” to over¬
throw the government of the United
States, so far as the
Democratic majority
of the house investi¬
gating committee per
mltted, and the gen¬
eral opinion through¬
out the country was
that it was “not so
hot." The Democrats
\ ... declared it was utter
- A bunk. The Repub-
Jt llcnns, who had
Dr. hoped to find good
W A. Wirt political material in
the affair, asserted that gag rule had
been enforced.
The revelation of the alleged scheme
of the radicals, said Wirt, came to him
at u dinner given by Miss Alice Har¬
rows at a country house near Wash¬
ington. The other guests were Robert
Rruere, David C. Coyle. Miss Milde-
garde Kneelnnd and Miss Mary Tay¬
lor, all, like the hostess, connected with
the government, and Lawrence Todd,
chief of tlie Tags, official Soviet gov¬
ernment news agency in the United
States. From their conversation, Wirt
said, lie gathered that men high In the
councils of the administration were
plotting tlie overthrow of the Ameri¬
can social order and that they con¬
sidered President Roosevelt as all¬
ot tier Kerensky to be followed by an¬
other Stalin. The six men named by
Wirt were Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace; Prof. Rexford Guy
Tugwell, assistant secretary of agri¬
culture and recognized head of the
brain trust; Prof. Milhurn L, Wilson,
head of tlie subsistence homestead di¬
vision of tlie Department of Interior;
Dr. Robert Kohn. head of tiie housing
division of the public works adminis¬
tration; Dr. Frederick Ilowe, consum¬
ers’ counsel for the agricultural ad¬
justment administration, and Henry T.
Rainey, speaker of the house of repre¬
sentatives.
Tlie most serious charges made by
the gentleman from Indlann were di¬
rected at Professor Tugwell; but his
bnsls for these, ns for practically all
of his story, was hearsay, second-hand
information and vague statements by
some of ids fellow guests at tlie din¬
ner. In that lay Its weakness, though
there are many serious-minded Ameri¬
cans who Insist that there should he
a real investigation of any govern
nient officials seeking to undermine
the present form of government.
The committee, having lieard Wirt,
adjourned for some days with the In¬
tention of calling as witnesses those
who attended tlie country house din¬
ner. Some of them already had denied
flatly or belittled tlie statements made
by Writ.
If OTS of bickering resulted from the
1 ■> Wirt case, and in this some of
the Demoerals concerned did not make
a good showing. Chairman Bulwinkle
of the committee, for Instance, as¬
serted that Wirt was imprisoned at
Gary during war times for pro-Ger¬
man activities, and this was indignant¬
ly denied by numerous persons who
were in position to know its truth or
falsity. Secretary of the Interior
lokes accused Doctor Wirt of having
sought to obtain public works money
for a “Fairyland” project In the In-
dlann dunes by which Doctor Wirt
was to sell 2 ,<hX) front feet of dune
land along Lake Michigan at $50 a
foot, a total sale price of $ 100 , 000 .
Tlie project was disapproved by the
Public Works administration as "vl-
slonary and Impractical," Mr. Ickes
said.
Doctor Wirt Issued a denial of Sec¬
retary Ickes’ talc, explaining that tie
had no connection with the proposed
project and that the company with
which he was connected had held the
land In question for 12 years to pre¬
serve It for park purposes.
Representative McGugln of Kansas,
Republican member of the Investigat¬
ing committee, was “gagged" when he
tried to make a speech on the ruse
in the house, but managed to get tt
inserted in tlie Congressional Record.
At the same time the Department of
Justice was seeking to revive a five-
year old matter in which McGugln
appeared as a lawyer for Mrs, Har¬
nett. wife of the wealthy Indian Jack-
son Harnett.
r\KSPlTE the opposition of tlie
E' house leaders and the doubt of
its approval by the President, Sena¬
tor Couzens persisted in his effort
to put through his amendment to the
tax bill calling for a flat 10 per cent
Increase in all income tax returns.
Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate
finance committee had approved it as
an emergenccy measure and showed
no disposition to reconsider.
When the Couzens amendment was
first voted on in the senate it was de¬
feated by the bare majority of 46 to
44, the Michigan senator changing his
vote to the negative so as to move a
reconsideration. He got busy among
his fellow senators and was successful
first In having the vote reconsidered
and then in the measure's adoption by
a vote of 43 to 36. It was certain the
proposal would be firmly opposed when
the revenue bill went into conference.
Under the Couzens proposal, a per
son subject to a normal tax of $100
on his 1934 Income would pay $110.
Next day the senate adopted the
La Follette estate taxes amendment
to the bill, thus adding nearly $ 100 ,-
000,000 more to the tax load of the
country. The amendment puts a tax
of 1 per cent on estates of $40,000.
Tills percentage is Increased rapidly
until 60 per cent is levied by the gov¬
ernment upon estates of $ 10 , 000,000
and more. Under the present law,
estates up to $50,000 are exempted
from the tax.
O RESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S fishing
* trip on the Nourmaiial ended with
the arrival of the yacht at Miami.
Friends advised against ids landing,
remembering the attempt on his life
there two years ago, but he laughed at
their fears. However, he and Secre¬
tary McIntyre drove directly from the
pier to tlie train and the President
was back in Washington on the next
day.
General Johnson, Donald Rich berg,
Secretary Mclnffc<“» *>d some twenty
White House correspondents and their
wives narrowly escaped death as tiiey
were going from Coral Gables to meet
the President at the water front. A
big combination automobile trailer In
which they were riding got across the
railway tracks Just in time to avoid
by inches being struck by a speeding !
train. I
JUST Miami before meet tie left the Washington President and for
to
accompany General him back to tlie Capital, |
Johnson decreed a radical re¬
organization of the
NRA along lines sim¬
ilar to those of the
army. The most im¬
portant part of this
shakeup was the ap¬
pointment of Lieut.
Col. G. A. Lynch, an
infantry officer of the
regular army, as John¬
son’s right-hand man.
Colonel Lynch, whom
Col.G. A. Lynch the administrator de¬
scribes as “the most
advanced thinker In the United States
army,” Is given full Jurisdiction over
all mattersJE^ot otherwise assigned.
He has con^Mrte authority to approve
codes, orders, amendments and other
modifications, and may sign codes that
do not require the signature of the
President. The NRA administration
no longer will be a one-man affair, and
Indeed, the ground Is now laid for the
retirement of General Johnson, which
has been predicted for some time.
T ABOR conditions in the Detroit
area, mostly affecting the automo¬
bile industry, remained in chaotic con¬
dition, despite the partly successful
efforts of government mediators. The
strike at the plant of the Motor Prod¬
ucts corporation, which had caused a
shutdown of the factory of the Hud¬
son Motor company, was settled when
Edward P. McGrady, assistant to Gen.
Hugh Johnson, laid before the strik¬
ers terms that had been accepted by
the corporation. The workers agreed
to the terms, which called for a 10 per
cent Increase In pay and arbitration
of disputes over piece work pay rates.
This enabled the Hudson plant to re¬
open.
The 1,700 employees of the Camp¬
bell, Wyant & Cannon foundry nt Mus¬
kegon, Mich., struck. The concern
makes castings for automobile build¬
ers. The 4.600 employees of tlie Nash
Motor company still were on strike at
Kenosha, WIs.
The Mechanic Educational Society
of America, an organization of tool
and die makers, had voted to strike
unless executives of Jobbing plants
met their demands for a 20 per cent
pay Increase and 30-hour week.
There was a strike by 800 employees
of the Detroit-Michigan Stove com¬
pany who demanded a 20 per cent
wage Increase, and pickets attacked
men who approached the plant to
work.
industrial plants in Connecticut
were Involved in numerous strikes and
labor disputes. The attitude of the
workers was expressed by John J.
Egan, secretary of the Connecticut
Federation of Labor, who said: “No
company should declare any dividends
until the 1920 wage level Is restored."
A DMIN1STRATOR JOHNSON’S or-
** der to the bituminous coal Indus¬
try to put Into effect a seven-hour day
and new minimum wage rates was
bitterly attacked by southern coal pro¬
ducers at a code revision hearing in
Washington. Especially objectionable
to the Alabama, Tennessee and Ken-
[ tucky operators was the reduction In
1 wage differentials accorded southern
coal fields.
CAMUEL INSULL. fallen utilities j
magnate, is on his way home to
be tried for his alleged misdoings in
connection with the bankruptcy of his
financial empire. Turned over to the
American authorities by the Turkish
government, he was taken from Istan¬
bul by coastal steamer and train to
Smyrna and there put aboard the
American export liner Exilona. He is
due to land in New York about May 20.
I)ADE COUNTY TIMES: APRIL 19, 1934
^ OECRETARY OF WAR BERN com-
pleted the formation of the com¬
mittee which will investigate the army
air corps and its tragic attempt to car¬
ry the air mails. Newton D. Raker
war-time secretary of war, accepted
the chairmanship of the committee
which was declined by Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh. The other civilians named
to assist the military members are
Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, president
of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Dr. George W. Lewis, di¬
rector of aeronautical research for the
national advisory committee on aero¬
nautics; t'larence D. Chamberlin, not¬
ed transatlantic flyer; Maj. James H.
("Jimmie”) Doolittle, widely known
flyer and aeronautical engineer, and
Edgar S. Gorrell, president Stutz Motor
Car company.
D F.FOHE the criminal court In
L* Washington Bishop James Can¬
non, Jr., of the Methodist Church
South, and Miss Ada L. Burroughs of
Richmond, his aid in
the anti A1 Smith
campaign of 1928,
were finally arraigned
to answer to charges
of having violated the
corrupt practices act.
If convicted they
would face a possible
term of two years in
prison or a fine of
$10,000 or both. Tlie
Bishop , Cannon specific charge is that
onIy 557,300 of the
$65,300 contribution made by Edwin
C. Jameson of New York to the anti-
Smith movement was reported by tlie
anti-Smith Democrats’ headquarters
committee.
It was Indicated that the defense
would contend that Miss Burroughs
did not have to report the $48,000 In
question, arguing that it was spent
within the confines of Virginia by the
state anti-Smith committee.
TF HENRY A. WALLACE has his
* way, Arthur W. Cutten, millionaire
member of the Chicago wheat pit, will
be barred from future trading on grain
exchanges. The secretary of agricul¬
ture summoned Cutten to appear be¬
fore the Grain Futures administration
in Chicago on May 14 to answer*
charges of failing to report his trades,
ns required by the grain futures act,
with making false reports, and with
concealing ids trades through false en¬
tries, dummy accounts and other col¬
lusive practices. The alleged offenses
were committed in 1930 and 1931.
fkFFTCIALS Y-' administration of the were Public elated Works by
a
report received from the F. W. Dodge
corporation which Indicated a pro¬
nounced spring increase in job-creat¬
ing building activity In which the fed¬
ing eral factor. public works program was a lead¬
Reporting on the volume of con¬
tracts awarded in March for both pub¬
licly and privately financed building
in the 37 states east of the Rocky
mountains, the Dodge corporation in¬
formed the PWA that $179,163,000 of
contracts were awarded last month
compared with $96,716,000 in Febru¬
ary. Publicly financed building ac¬
counted for $126,210,000 of the March
total, and privately finnneed building
for $52,953,000.
The $126,210,000 of publicly financed
work contracted for last month is
about five times the amount contract¬
ed for in March of 1933 and nearly
three times the amount contracted in
March of 1932, according to the report.
fT 1 RANK WALKER, chairman of the
* President’s national emergency
council, made announcement of the
next step in tlie administration’s re¬
covery program, the
financing of housing
projects all over the
country with federal
funds. New homes
are to be built; old
homes are to be re-
pa i r e d, remodeled,
spruced up. Mort¬
gages are to be given
on generous terms,
with interest low and
Frank Walker payment permitted
over 59 and ._>o years.
All of the activities of the govern¬
ment related to housing—such as the
subsistence homestead plan, the Home
Owners’ Loan corporation, the home
loan bank board, tlie farm credit ad¬
ministration, tlie Department of Agri¬
culture’s program of new housing for
farmers—are to be co-ordinated under
a single authority.
There is both an emergency and a
permanent program in the scheme, and
the temporary program as contem¬
plated will be a rousing campaign,
with citizens, real estate men, build¬
ing contractors, union leaders, and
laborers all being exhorted to Join in a
patriotic movement toward the restora¬
tion of the still slumbering construc¬
tion industry.
DECAUSE of reports that Colombia
L) had hired 24 American aviators
and was seeking to give contracts to
50 more through Its consul general In
New York, the Department of State
Issued a notice saying:
“The United States disapproves of
American citizens taking service in
the armed forces of any foreign gov¬
ernment and, if Americans do so, it is
on their sole responsibility and risk
and they cannot look to their govern¬
ment for protection while in such
services."
1 irlLLIAM WALLACE McDOWELL
VV of Butte, Mont., the new Amer¬
ican minister to the Irish Free State,
collapsed and died of heart disease
during a banquet in his honor given
by President Eainon I>e Valera in
Dublin castle. Mr. McDowell was re¬
sponding to congratulatory speeches
when lie fell back into his chair and
expired almost Instantly.
© by Weetern Ncv:,;:.>a^er Uniom,
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Revolution in Austria
Why Paint Toenails?
Slow Waltz, Less Fighting
Watching the Hen Lay
Vienna and what is left of Austria
are threatened with a revolution.
Signs placed secretly on mail boxes
read:
“Workers and comrades, remain
united and be careful. The day of
revenge is coming." Signed “A
Fighter.”
With that conies news that the
Vienna-Paris-London express train was
wrecked In Austria by the removal
of a steel rail, causing the death of a
fireman and one other and injuring
many. The result of such tactics,
keeping travelers and money out of
Austria, may be to bring revolution
more rapidly.
In New Orleans the convention of
“American Cosmeticians,” manufac¬
turers and distributors of things that
ladies put on their faces, announce
more in the way of transformation
than has been seen thus far—hair of
many colors, easily changed; very fine
“precious stone’’ effects on the finger
nails.
Many tilings can he forgiven, but
hope and pray that ladies and cos¬
meticians can be persuaded to give
up painting the toenails. It is a
terrible thing when a young woman
crosses her legs to see, peeping
of new-fangled sandals, a big toe
with a nail made to look like a cabo-
chon ruby.
Knowledge of mob psychology Is
shown in tlie statement of a night
club manager.
“When a fight breaks out in the
the orchestra has orders to stop
and everything exciting and play
slow, dreamy waltz. That quiets
them.”
According to information obtained
by Mr. ’“Whirligig,” a quiet waltz
those not interested in the fight
from joining it.
An intelligent Frenchman. Gustave
Bon, has written a book called La
Foule ("The Crowd”), that confirms
night club manager’s theory.
do not reason; logical argu¬
ments have no effect on them. But
does affect them, and so does
yelling. |
A distinguished American, living in j |
told how wonderfully fresh the
were. The farmer’s wife would
the hen sitting on the nest,
taking the egg as soon as it was laid,
give it to the American for break¬
fast.
Similarly, the earnest, conscientious
American tax collectors watch the
country’s business men sitting on the
Industrial nest and take away the
dollar as soon as it is made.
The veterans’ administration in
Washington laid down the interesting
rule that blind veterans of the World
war should receive almost twice as
much as a soldier who lost a leg in
battle.
The legless veteran gets $119 a
month as a maximum. If he has lost
the use of both feet, or both hands, or
one foot and one hand and one eye, he
can get a maximum of $175 a month.
A veteran totally blind is entitled to
$150 a month, plus $50 for a nurse
or attendant, “even though the blind¬
ness resulted from willful miscon¬
duct."
Except insanity, no misfortune
Is greater than loss of eyesight.
If you feel gloomy and perhaps begin
to feel that “the world is going to the
dogs,” remember that the Gracchi be
lieved it in Rome long ago. Adam
and Eve believed it when they were 1
put out of the garden. The world has
always been “going to the dogs,” yet
always getting better.
May first, according to tlie Presi
dent's proclamation, will be “Child
Health day.” Tlie best way to pro
mote child health is to encourage
abundant distribution of the right
kinds of food for children, partieu
larlv good, fresh milk, butter, eggs,
fresh vegetables, fruits, at reasonable
prices. down
To pay farmers to cut pro¬
duction of such things, and force up
prices, may be good for prosperity, but
it will not be good for the health of
children.
In tlie Stroud (Okla.) prison young
Mr. Raymond Boles, if that is his right
name, knows that young, shrinking
timid American girls are sometime?
dangerous. He walked into the Ru
dell home, pistol in hand, told Mildred
sixteen, and her sister, Lillian, seven
teen, that he was none other than tht
famous bandit. "Pretty Boy” Floyd
demanded the key to their absent fa
ther’s automobile. Lillian took awaj
his pistol. Mildred held him by the
hair.
Since Uncle Saul went off the gold
basis and began buying gold at any
price he had to pay. he has brought
across the water about $700,000,000
worth of new gold, an increase in our
gold reserve greater than the total gold
ownership of any other nation of earth,
except France. England and Spain.
This makes Europe feel dubious
about "selling dollars short.’’ To go
off the gold, and then own nearly all
of it. is confusing. We might get back
“on."
(& King Features Syndicate, Inc.
W.VIT Service
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bmckart
Washington.—As the political pot be¬
to reach the boiling stage through¬
out the country, it Is
Red Hot apparent that, in¬
Campaign stead of a dearth of
“issues" over which
candidates can harangue, there will
actually be many of them. A few
short weeks ago, political leaders here
either boasted or moaned about the
lack of issues for tlie campaign, ac¬
cording as the boaster or the moaner
was a Democrat or a Republican. The
Democrats felt President Roosevelt
had been such a huge success that Re¬
publicans could not find a vital or vul¬
nerable spot to attack. Republicans,
whether they said so out loud or not,
felt much the same way. In the in¬
terim, however, all of this has been
changed and there surely will be a
red hot campaign during the coming
summer and fall months.
Looking over the situation, one sees
as probable points of controversy such
things as the air mail contract can¬
cellation ; the charges that the “New
Deal” has overridden the Constitution
of the United States; the devaluation
of the dollar and the profit-taking in
which the treasury thereafter engaged
through seizure of all gold; the en¬
croachment of the federal government
upon business itself through NRA and
the scores of administrations and com¬
missions that have been set up; the
proposal to revise the method of elect¬
ing the President, and the use of tax¬
payers’ money in development of such
as the Tennessee Valley author¬
ity, to mention a few of them.
But it seems to me that the most
Important issue of all is only now
coming to the surface. Succinctly, it
is whether the voters desire to have
tile various New Deal items made a
permanent part of our national gov¬
structure.
It is to be recalled that virtually all
of the items of the New Deal have
been put through congress as emer¬
legislation. Some of them have
been tested in courts on a constitu¬
tional basis and have been upheld as
emergency laws. Hut it is necessary
to think of the pronouncements by
President Roosevelt almost directly as-
serting his intention to make them per-
manent. Otherwise, they would expire
in June, 1935, a little more than a year
now. The expiration date fur¬
nishes the basis for the issue that ap¬
to be so important.
The 435 members of the house of
and the 35 senators who
up for election this fall will have
been re-elected or defeated eight
months in advance of the time when
decision must be made on contin¬
uation of the New Deal items that
were enacted as emergency laws. Con¬
made up of the re-elected or
new members, will convene in the first
of January, 1935. Tiiat will be
congress to decide what the course
be. It cannot dodge the ques¬
If the President requests that the
laws be made permanent,
he says he will, the new congress
will do his bidding and re-enact
laws he desires or it will kill them
by its refusal to act.
So the candidates this summer and
must be prepared to answer wheth¬
they will support a continuation of
New Deal or will work against it
puts the question up to the vot¬
It is closely akin to a refer¬
For the farmers, for example,
will require a decision whether they
to go on into the future with a
functionary in Washington
AAA, telling them how much corn
wheat or cotton they can grow, how
milk, or eggs, or fruit, or cows,
sheep, or hogs they can produce.
the manufacturer, the Issue will
a decision whether he wishes
go on with production under the
likewise directed from Wash¬
For all taxpayers, it will re¬
a decision on the question of the
of expenditures that have been
are now going on out of the fed¬
treasury. It strikes me as about
most important set of questions
to American voters in many
Upon their decision rests the
policy of this nation.
* • *
I have frequently expressed the
in these columns that things
have happened so
Pace Is rapidly under the
Too Swift ">ew Deal” that
most of us here can¬
keep up with them. Frankly, as
unbiased observer without political
of any kind, I have been ud-
sometimes to reach a conclusion
myself regarding many of the New
projects. They have been thrust
us at such speed that it has been
Impossible to study all of them.
that Is the unfortunate part of the
campaign. If we, who
in the front rows of the theater,
puzzled, what then must be the
of mind of those who are far re¬
from the stage and caD Judge
by the few favorable or adverse
that reach them as individual
There will be quite a bit of water
over the dam before the votes are
in November. It may be, there
that a better understanding of
plot of the play can be dissemi
to the country at large. I hope,
because the decision to be made is
1 hope, too, that the cam¬
paign will be the hottest we have h.a
in generations. Otherwise the
tions, the issnes. will not be thorough
debated. bated, thousands If they are not thoroughly d Z
voters going upon thousands of
are to cast their ballots
as Democrats or Republicans just be-
cause they have always been Demo-
crats or Republicans. The comine
campaign is not of that structure
The best indication I have seen of
probability that a
all phases of the
economic policies evolved from the
New Deal will be thoroughly discussed
is the greater freedom of debate in
congress. All of us remember how
bills were sent to the Capitol a year
ago and earlier in the present session
of congress, and passed without de¬
bate, or with very little. There Is still
too little debate on much of the legis¬
lation, but that which is going on
serves to enlighten the public on the
subject matter proposed. This ought
to be. After all, congress and the ad¬
ministration are only representatives
of the people who pay the bill and
whose citizenship make up our nation.
* * *
Figures have just been released here
showing that the federal government
has approximately
U. S. Payroll 650,000 officials and
at Peak employees on its
payrolls. That Is
the highest point reached since the
post war days of 1920. It represents
a good many hundreds of millions In
dollars for salaries of wages. And the
Increase has been brought about de
spite the economy laws that were
forced through congress last year,
some 20,000 of the Increase having oc¬
curred since January 1, 1934.
The figures I have given do not In¬
clude the members of the house and
senate, nor their employees, nor do
they Include the scores of workers that
make up the staff of the house and
senate and the employees of the Cap¬
itol. The country’s federal Judges and
their staffs are counted in the totals,
but the army, navy and marine officers
and enlisted men are not included. Al¬
most 400,000 men who are enlisted in
the Civilian Conservation corps also
are omitted.
If one figures the average family as
four persons, the federal payroll pro¬
vides a livelihood for at least 2 , 000,000
persons, although I am assured by the
Civil Service commission that five per¬
sons is a better average than four, in
which event government pay checks
sustain about 3,250,000.
I do not make these statements in
criticism. Ours is a vast country and
a population of perhaps 127 , 000 , 000 .
But it seems important to me that
there should be such a vast number
of persons living on government p»J
checks.
• » •
I mentioned in an earlier paragraph
in this letter that one of the issues
about which argn-
Norris ment is likely to be
Election r-. *• Plan p»__ heard in every state
_
th[g fH „ |s the pr0 .
posal to revise the method of electing
the President It Is proposed, In ef¬
fect, to amend the Constitution of the
United States so that the method of
electing a President of the United
States would be accomplished by *
division of electoral vote in each state
proportionately with the division of
political party strength as shown by
individual ballots. For example, and
better way of explaining what is
as a
proposed: a state may be all°we
twenty votes in the electoral college
At present, ail of those electoral votes
are cast for the Presidential candidate
who receives the majority of the >n
dividual ballots. It is a nnit rule.
Now, the Constitutional amendracn
that is projected would force a division
of those electoral votes so that, as
suming the party votes were so divi
ed, eight of the electoral votes wou.
be cast for one candidate and twe'
for the other. aineD' .
The authors of the proposed
ment are Senator Norris of
and Representative Lea of Californ-
It Is the charge of the Republic
that the move is designed to g 'r
Democrats perpetual contre, 0 ,
Presidency. They are not making
charge out loud yet. They wan 0
the resolution P rfl I 1 ' 1
gress to pass ,
the amendment to the states. ! ' n
Republican speakers can argue a
it all over the country this .
The point the Republicans are m
ing is that the so-called solid -
will continue to vote nearly all »
electoral ballots for the Democrat
candidate. The case of Mississippi
cited. It has nine electoral votes.
Republican party Is virtually none*
there. The result would be **
ent
certainly eight, and maybe * ■
nine votes would be cast for 1
ocrat. under Just the present as they system. are each fonr^
•
electoral votes of the Soutn , Jy
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the Union. Representative
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