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...Albert W. Johnston, owner of the Greenwich (Conn.) News-Graphic, who makes money from gold mines and doesn't like to lose it on newspapers, looked around for someone to put his paper on its feet. Johnston met Wythe Williams, and the Greenwich News-Graphic not only got a new editor but a new punning name, Greenwich Time. Wythe Williams set out to make his Connecticut suburban paper the Emporia Gazette of the East...
...plan - to create a national political machine for Roosevelt Liberalism to ride in 1940, ignoring the expense to Roosevelt prestige of a few de feats in 1938 - had so far got precisely nowhere. In the three prime Purge States, the machinery evolved to carry Mr. Camp in Georgia, Governor Johnston in South Carolina and Representative Lewis in Maryland, was proven ineffective. Against the machines of the Senators unPurged, and reinstalled for another six years, the Purge machinery can hardly be expected to nominate delegates to the Democratic national convention of 1940. To perpetuate his Liberal program, in person...
...poll tax receipt, but any white man can enter a primary by putting his name down in a book (often kept in a grocery store). This year some 20,000 Negroes were allowed to put their names down, a piece of official colorblindness far more advantageous to New Dealer Johnston than to unreconstructed "Cotton Ed" Smith...
...young moon had set, enough ballots had been counted to show that Governor Olin D. Johnston was beaten, but old Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith went right on campaigning. On the night of South Carolina's primary day last week, a contingent of his friends motored to Columbia from Orangeburg, 35 miles away. They wore flaming red shirts, in memory of oldtime General Wade Hamp ton, who drove the carpetbaggers back north and preserved "white supremacy." Senator Smith put on one of the shirts and. like a heavy-set Garibaldi, led the celebrants to the State House grounds...
Smith had a fat majority of votes, the widest margin of all his six races for the Senate. In the textile towns, millworkers had poured out to vote for Governor Johnston, aroused by President Roosevelt's promise of a better deal for labor. But many mill hands and most propertied people and almost all the cotton growers -sharecroppers as well as landlords- trooped to the polls to vote for Cotton Ed, the farmers' friend...