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Harriman Nomination Seen Way to Bring Two-Party System in South 3 B- LYLE C. WILSON Ur.i:ed Press Correspondent Washington U " The nom-ir..-!t:on of Gov. Averell Harri r ;in for n res icier.' would do more than any other likely political action right now to speed th3 com ing of a two party system in the South. II a r r i man appears to be the Democrat Lyic k. ttuvjri moi leareu D conservative Southerners. He's toe only New Deal-Fair Deal candidate in the race. He has been warned by some Democrats that his nomination for presi dent probably would obtain a bolt on election day. If it worked out that way. the 1956 presidential election would be the third in a row in which Southern, conservative 1 Democrats had bolted the party ticket in a big way. A conserva tive state's rights party took 39 Southern electoral votes from ! President Truman in 1948. The.-e : so-called Dixiecrats won Ala ! bama. Louisiana, Mississippi and ! Soutii Carolina, and picked up ! the 39th electoral vote in Ttn- nessee. I Previous Southern Breaks i Four Southern states bolted Adlai E. Stevenson in 19o2 to cast their electoral votes for President Eisenhower. They were Florida, Tennessee. Texas and Virginia. Former President Hoover broke the solid South in Ex-Illinois Auditor Plans Full Statement Before Grand Jury Springfield. 111. ,u.F' Or ville E. Hodge agreed to "make a full statement and answer all ouestions" today about a half ii.iliion d"llar check scandal that forced his resignation as state auditor. Meanwhile raiders armed with search warrants wcrp reported to have moved in Tuesday night on an apartment near the Illin ois Statehouse here. Several Documents Found They were said to have found several documents including de maud notes on loans issued by the Southmoor Bank and Trust Co. at Chicago, which has been involved in the case. Edward A. Ilintz resigned as president of the bank last week and told au thorities he had cashed about S250.000 worth of state checks at Hodge's request. The raiders also carried a warrant for the arrest of Edward A Epping. an aide of Hodge's. F.pping is an officer nf mini '.' refluent associates, which was reported purchasing the buil- ! ed apartment was located. Meanwhile. Dr. Lloyd Morey, I university comptroller from I 1916 until 1953 when he be ; came president, w ill be sworn ! in today. j Surprise Conference Hodge held a surprise confer- ence with State s Attorney George P. Coutrakon Tuesday, land later pledged to pay back I as much money as he can. Hodge has promised to make a "full disclosure" of transac tions during his tenure as aud itor before the Sangamon County Grand Jury next Monday. He said he would sign an immunity waiver to ailow his testimony to be used as a basis for possible legal action. The check scandal has created a political tempest which looms as a threat to Republican chanc es of carrying Illinois for Presi dent Eisenhower this fall and reelecting the state ticket. Hodge also resigned as a GOP I candidate for reelection and as I a delegate to the GOP National I Convention in San Francisco. I the 1928 election when those states were afire about the issue ! of prohibition and the fact that j the Democrats had nominated a ; Catholic. Gov. Alfred E. Smith i of New York. i Prohibition is dead and relig ; ion is much less an issue now than then. But the issues pres i ently dividing the Democrats of j the South from the big city and i organized labor elements in the north and east are not subsiding. They are getting bigger every day. notably the issue of race re lations. The more important those is sue? become, tile greater the pressure for a Southern two party system. The plight of the Southern conservatives is this: They cannot nominate one of their own. Sen. Harry S. Byrd of Virginia, for example. They no i longer can veto a nomination because in 1936 the Democratic party abolished the rule which had required a two-thirds ma jority for nomination of a presi dential candidate. The once-powei ful Southern states are reduced within the Democratic party to accepting a compromise. That is what they seek this year. Most, or at least, many Southern leaders prefer Stevenson to anyone else in sight, even though many of them bolted him four years ago. It just about adds up to making the best of a bad bargain. Compromise Candidate Sought Stevenson has not changed much, if any. in four years. The Southerners were reaching for a conservative candidate in 1952 and Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia was their man. Russell lost and has hung up his shoes. He lost principally because or ganized labor now possesses in Democratic national conventions something of the veto power which the Southern states once had. Labor, with considerable aid from others, vetoed Russell in 1952 and could stop him again, or any other Southern candi date. Stevenson in 1952 did not look so good to many in the South compared to Russell. This car. however, Stevenson looks much better to many Southern ers when compared to the likely Wednesday. July 18. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE FINDING OF CHAIN-TRUSSED BODY in Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay leads to speculation it might be that of Dr. Jesus de Galindez, Columbia University lecturer, who disappeared after criticizing the Dominican Repub lic's Tiujillo government. (International Soundphoto) LOOKING AHEAD Los Angeles (U.R) The Na tional Automobile club advises drivers to be constantly driving ahead of their cars, meaning that they should look farther ahead than the road just in front of the radiator- cap. Motorists should be looking to that traffic light at the next intersection, to that driver who is trying to force his way into the line of traffic, to those kids who are playing on the sidewalk, they say. alternatives Harriman and Sen. Estcs Kefauver. Southerners, therefore, seek to make the best of it by a 1956 compromise which probably would lead in 1960 to another compromise, and so on. If Harriman were nominated, however, the Democratic party in the South probably would shake itself apart again, perhaps to repeat again in I960. That is the quickest path toward a two party system in the South. a n a. ID ttJ 2 -I T- O WO J 2 c5- 5 S - t oj - . a o X 0j -i m m o - . v x -. T CL O 01 -, -i , O -. n I. ? 3 S Watch TV in your own room1 & 1 ISrJdrM "go quieHy" with fh "Personal. " if j OPEN TONIGHT TIL 9 P.M. TV you can really call your own! new Pg flCfl "Personally Yoo-vt oot to set it, lift it, try it ... to believe it ! 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