HENRY WALLACE HOWLED DOWN IN SOUTHERN STATES

Grey River Argus, 1 September 1948, Page 5

HENRY WALLACE HOWLED DOWN IN SOUTHERN STATES

Crowds Attack At Meetings (Rec. 10.0) NEW YORK, Aug. 30 Mr Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party Presidential candidate had to abandon street meetings in Greensboro and Burlington, in North Carolina, to-day, when crowds threw eggs and tomatoes and shouted him down. He was hit on the arm by an egg at Burlington, but the Greensboro crowd’s aim was inaccurate. At both places, the crowd roared “Why don’t you go back to Russia. Mr Wallace, at his Burlington meeting, got no farther than “I would like to take this opoprtunity—” when eggs and tomatoes were thrown. Becoming angry, Mr Wallace walked around, shook his finger in the face of several men and shouted “Are you in the United States?” At Greensboro, he spent five minutes trying to beat down the crowd s opposition, and then gave up. . Mr Wallace has declared that, in his campaign tour of the South, he will not enter hotels or other public places where Negroes are not permitted, or where unsegregated meetings are not permitted. . , Mr Wallace, by making race problems a major issue, seeks to wear at least some part of the mantle of Abraham Lincoln, whom he regards as an encouraging precedent for the formation of a third party. By emphasising Lincoln’s Liberalism, he seeks to distract attention from the deadly endorsement of the Communists.