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Surely your vast and literate reading public has more to think about than the feudalistic, reactionary statements of a few Southern Senators. While American troops are fighting for an equivalent world of four freedoms, certain Southern statesmen wage a ceaseless battle for their world of poll taxes, racial intolerance, lynchings and indiscriminate mockery of the Chief Executive. Why don't the Southern Senators secede from their party? If they did, at least they would no longer stigmatize the remaining Democrats with their cant, spurious oratory and hypocrisy...
Nationwide public-opinion polls (the Gallup poll, FORTUNE Survey, etc.) are plentiful. But until last week there has never been a poll limited by state boundaries. Then the Des Moines Register and Tribune started one, on the eve of a Presidential election year. Said the Register and Tribune's Publisher Gardner Cowles Jr.: "The Iowa Poll" will measure lowans' views on local issues as well as on questions of national importance...
...hatred now directed against the New Deal is clearly deep and sincere. The list of Southern grievances is long: "coddling" of the Negro, "coddling" of labor, attacks on the poll tax, upping of Southern pay scales, failure to redress discriminatory freight rates, the 1938 Purge. But the Southerners' anger is also compounded of resentment against long-continued rebuffs and slights. And their passion is fiercely personal, not only against the President but even more bitterly against the White House inner circle-Harry Hopkins, Dave Niles, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter-whose group tactlessness in dealing with Congress has long been...
...days the Senate gingerly held on to the dynamite-charged "soldier vote" bill. Many a Congressman sat down in a quiet corner and figured it all out on his thumbs. A Gallup poll last week said it simply: ten million soldier votes could certainly decide the 1944 Presidential elections-and very probably in favor of the New Deal...
...Invade States' Rights? Southern Congressmen bitterly and openly opposed what looked like a flank attack on the poll tax. Mississippi's James Eastland spoke for a large group: "The sole issue ... is whether we are to turn the election machinery of the country over to an aggregation of power-crazy bureaucrats in Washington...