Harriman Nomination Seen Way to
Bring Two-Party System in South
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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.
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