Electors intend to vote for Byrd
Jackson, Mississippi (UP) –
Announcement by three of Mississippi’s nine Democratic presidential electors that they intend to vote for Senator Harry F. Byrd (D-VA) instead of President Roosevelt today was expected to have wide repercussions throughout the state.
The electors, Frank E. Everett of Indianola, Clarence E. Morgan of Kosciusko and W. G. McLain of McComb, issued the statement yesterday, addressed to the Democratic voters of Mississippi, saying the Mississippi Democratic Convention last June had freed all electors of the obligation of voting for party nominees if the national convention failed to restore the two-thirds rule or if it adopted race platforms obnoxious to the South.
The Democratic National Convention passed obnoxious race planks and did not even consider restoration of the two-thirds rule, the statement said.