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Editorial June 17, 1956

Atlanta Daily World

Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia

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Editorial criticizes one-party dominance in Georgia, noting only one candidate for the vacant U.S. Senate seat left by Walter F. George, contrasting with competitive races elsewhere, and warning of consequences for suppressing opposition.

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And So A One-Party Philosophy Awaits
Bandwagon Rides
Those who worshipped around the fires of one-partyism and imagined that a contribution was made in every effort to kill off any opposition party even if it was done by the vote-challenge route, awake to find another thought coming.
The nation and also the world are looking on at the condition in the offing in which a high United States Senate seat left vacant by Georgia's Senator Walter F. George is out begging literally for takers.
In striking contrast with another section of the country, some one a long time ago facetiously said that Ruth Hannah McCormick spent as much in the primary against the late senator Deneen of Illinois as she would have drawn in salary for some thirty years of service. Be that true or false, a senatorial prize is a valued offing in those sections of the country where one really has to run for the Senate.
Not only is this true in the primary, the election produces no mean interest.
Such a condition culls out the best in issues and the strength in material.
In the case of Georgia, so far only one candidate has announced for the seat held by one of the most celebrated men in Georgia history. Such a powerful contribution of non-partisanship and so far above the fogbelt of party-prattle, President Eisenhower himself was moved to make the greatest stroke of compliment of his whole career toward the able Georgia Senator.
Little did the one-party apostles think in the rigid restrictions set up to kill off opposing parties and to otherwise nullify their participants that the boot would slip on the other foot to render them incapable of running as of now a much needed race for the United States Senate.
Former Governor Herman Talmadge cannot be blamed for this condition nor on the same token, heckled for his good fortune to take leaves whose pages have long stiffened into tombstones and cross peacefully over on a sagging platform eroded by one-party weathering.

What sub-type of article is it?

Partisan Politics

What keywords are associated?

One Partyism Georgia Senate Walter F. George Herman Talmadge Senate Election Partisan Competition

What entities or persons were involved?

Walter F. George President Eisenhower Herman Talmadge Ruth Hannah Mccormick Senator Deneen

Editorial Details

Primary Topic

Critique Of One Party Dominance In Georgia Senate Race

Stance / Tone

Critical Of One Partyism

Key Figures

Walter F. George President Eisenhower Herman Talmadge Ruth Hannah Mccormick Senator Deneen

Key Arguments

One Partyism Efforts To Suppress Opposition Lead To Lack Of Candidates For Vacant Senate Seat Contrast With Competitive Senate Races In Other States Like Illinois Eisenhower's High Praise For George Highlights His Non Partisan Stature One Party Restrictions Now Hinder Filling The Senate Seat Talmadge Benefits From Eroded One Party Platform

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