The Augusta Courier

Georgia Democrats Seeking To Preserve County System Reject Republican Hotel-Room-Hand-Picked-Candidate-Method

Statewide Primary Fairest, Most Honest Way Devised For Selection By Voters

The fight on the County Unit System in Georgia is ridiculous.

It is more than ridiculous. It is evidence of the stupidity of the federal judiciary of the present day.

It is evidence of the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has gone haywire and swallowed the doctrines and the policies of the communist nations.

It is the finest evidence to be found of the fact that the federal judiciary has scrapped the Constitution as a worthless piece of paper and is now in the process of fashioning a document in their own image.

Mentally Unbalanced

The fight on the County Unit System in Georgia is all the proof needed to show that the federal judiciary today is guided by so-called principles that could only come from the wavering intellect of a mentally unbalanced person.

Here we are in a state where a little handful of carefully selected Republicans get together, name their own candidates and that is legal.

Here we are in a state where over a million people in a primary select the candidates of the Democratic Party and the federal courts, presided over by a Republican Judge, holds that our present system is illegal.

To show you how ridiculous the situation is, in every county in Georgia-with the exception of two small mountain counties the Democrats permit the Republicans to vote in the Democratic Primary.

Free For All Voting

To show you how ridiculous and crazy the whole situation is, in Georgia we Democrats permit the Republicans to help us select our candidates to run against their candidates.

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Statewide Primary Fairest, Most Honest Way Devised For Selection By Voters
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In Georgia, we Democrats let Republicans, women, children, Negroes, Chinamen and everything else, help us pick our candidates.
In Georgia, a handful of so-called Republicans meet in a hotel and pick their candidates.
The Democratic method is undemocratic, so the Republican judges say.
The Republican method is democratic, so these wildcats claim.
Resolutions Adopted
To point up the ridiculousness of this situation, the State Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Georgia, in its meeting in Atlanta on April 18, 1962, adopted the following resolution:
WHEREAS, the Republican Party acting by and through its State Central Committee, composed of approximately one hundred fifty members, selected by the various Congressional District Conventions, have recently assembled in the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia and nominated a candidate for Governor of the State of Georgia, without molestation, interference or dictation from the Federal Courts, and,
"WHEREAS, there is now pending before a three-judge Federal Court in the City of Atlanta a petition requesting the Federal Courts to destroy the method employed by the Democrats in Georgia to give over a million people a chance to participate in a primary to name candidates of the Democratic Party for the office of Governor, United States Senator and other statehouse officers,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF GEORGIA, that we hereby respectfully petition the three-judge court assembled to try this case on the 27th day of April, 1962, that the Democratic Party in Georgia be given equal treatment with that of the Republican Party and that the Democratic Party be permitted to name its own candidates in such manner as it sees fit, without molestation, interference or dictation by the Federal Courts in Georgia.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we firmly believe that the Democratic Party in Georgia should be accorded the same rights, privileges and immunities as that enjoyed by the Republican Party, and that we believe the traditional method used by the Democratic Party of Georgia in selecting its candidates is more democratic, representative, and in the American tradition, than the traditional method employed by the Republican Party.