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•Other Editors Say
THE MONTGOMERY INDEPENDENT
Luck Is A Snarling Foe
Two Churls got hold of Wal
lace on network television Sun
day and demonstrated again that
they never learn. With their in
solent, insulting manner, these
two cutie-pie inquisitors succeed
•ed in gaming Wallace a vast
amount of sympathy if not sup
port, whereas their futile inten
tion was to grind him up. As
long as Wallace has been on
stage, many of hi* critics still
regard him as a boob who cab be
knocked; down by a loaded ques
tion and a snarling manner.
They boil and stew indignantly.
Wallace sits there calm, almost
bored, batting their easy fungoes
into the outfield. The only time
Wallace stumbles is wben his
adversaries succeed in getting
him as angry as they are.
It wasn’t the questions they
asked Sunday that caused the
blood to boil. After all, Wallace
dishes it out and let him take
it. But it was the supercilious,
accusing attitude. Wallace
should have jammed it in their
teeth with all knuckles.
Did Wallace believe in furnish
ing police protection to civil
rights leaders? Yes, said Wal
lace, any citizen threatened by
violence is entitled to protection.
He should have gone further
and related that the poor peo
ple’s great panjandrum, Ralph
Abernathy, was given police pro
tection in Montgomery, Ala.,
when he ran screaming down
Dexter Avenue with an angry,
hatchet-swinging husband in hot
pursuit. Not since the days of
the Keystone Cops has there
been such a race — Abernathy’s
short legs pumping like pistons,
his cuckolded pursuer closing in
with Apache hatchet swings. Ex
cept for the timely arrival of a
police squad car, Mr. Aberna
thy’s pudgy carcass would have
been severely rearranged.
• * *
Observing the attitude of ABC
TV’s two gorillas, it is possible
to see for the umpteenth time
the preconceptions about the
South that are held by a disturb
ingly large and influential ele
ment in this country — influen
tial because they slant the TV
networks and the large newspap
ers.
They regard Alabama as a
unique outpost of barbarism be
cause Viola Liuzzo — one wom
an — was shot here and because
a Birmingham church was bomb
ed. These were wrenching, rep
rehensible acts, absolutely sick
ening in their consequences. But
flier
•Cte. Thanks to
of both roes, the Sooth has
been spared the Inormous sav
agery that has tipped this coun
try in recent yean. But the hate
fid prejudice persists among an
influential few that the South,
with its Sporadic acts of individ
ual violence, is the blood-stained
land, whereas the riot-torn
North, littered with bodies and
debris, is chaste. This could be
seen in the manner of Wallace’s
questioners on Sunday.
At one point, they suggested
that Wallace’s stand in the
schoolhouse door was compara
ble with the explosion of vio
, lence elsewhere in the country.
'As Gleason say, har, har. It in
dicates an interesting brain
problem to suggest that Wal
lace’s politically contrived, poli
tically motivated act, which dis
solved as soon as Wallace got his
advertising, is comparabe with
the mobs that burned Washing
ton and other large cities.
In like manner, it is suggested
that Wallace — in fact, all of
us — are responsible for the oc
casional tragedies that stain the
South. All right, if Wallace is to
blame for the death of Mrs.
Liuzzo, then the Rev. Mr. Aber
nathy is to blame for the death
and injury of those Marine of
ficers and their dates at the
hands of the pistol-packing poor
people who mowed them down
in Washington the other night.
Would Alabama have been to
blame for the demise of Mr. Ab
ernathy if the hatchet man had
caught him?
* * *
It will sink in permanently
some day that the problems of
this country ate not geographic
ally compartmentalized. At that
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point, it may be recognized that
Alabama and the South bear no
special guilt and that in enough
ways to keep us living here it's
a damn sight better than what
passes for the rest of the
country.
Meanwhile, there stands little
Wallace, winning friends and in
fluencing people because he em
bodies this attitude. The hide
pendent Is sometimes skeptical
of him because what he Repre
sents In the electoral process is
new, daring and outside tradi
tion. But as somebody said,. Wal
lace has a lot of the right ene
mies, as representated by his
disrespectful TV tormentors, and
these enemies are converting a
lot of skeptics to Wallace’s
cause.
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