The Augusta Courier

'DEMOCRATS' Snipe At Dixie

(From The Observer, June 24, 1955)

Nine "Democratic" congressmen have joined under the leadership of the Negro "Democratic" Congressman from New York, Adam Powell, to plan strategy for bringing civil rights legislation to the House floor.

The list is headed, of course, by Representative James Roosevelt, whose father and mother started this whole racial agitation business while the father, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was President. The other "Democrats" joined with Powell are Barrett and Chudoff, of Pennsylvania; Diggs, of Michigan; Davidson, of New York; O'Hara, of Illinois; Rodino, of New Jersey and Reuss, of Wisconsin.

Powell, one of the three Negroes in the House, all "Democrats", is the sponsor of an anti-segregation amendment which has stalemated action of President Eisenhower's military reserve measure. The President has denounced the amendment as "extraneous" and appealed for public support to get through an expanded reserve program.

Some 44 civil rights bills have been introduced to eliminate racial segregation on trains, provide employment rights and take other steps in the "protection of human rights", the "Democrats" who have joined with Powell said in a statement.

And so the "Democrats" are taking up where they left off when they lost control of Congress and are preparing to wage war on the South again. We have been surprised that they have waited this long since regaining control of Congress to start this offensive.

It is very appropriate that a Roosevelt should be leading the fight again on this section. It was his father and mother who started the whole sorry mess.

The South has about as much in common with the national "Democratic" party as the United Daughters of Confederacy had with William Tecumseh Sherman.