Pepper warns of Democratic split
Birmingham, Alabama (AP) –
Warning that a split in the Democratic Party would mean “the certain election of a Republic,” Senator Claude Pepper (D-FL), charging here last night that “the South is being made the football of selfish and sinister forces.”
The Senator spoke at the 16th annual banquet of the Association of County Commissioners and Probate Judges of Alabama.
Pepper declared that the “Texas revolt… is merely an attempt to disenfranchise a large number of voters” and that:
One of the leading forces in the attempt to defile the Democratic traditions in Texas is an ex-Congressman, a defeated Republican from the North… working closely with a group of Northern capitalists within the Republican Party.