REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH 



several years ago by the state's much admired Tax 

 Commissioner, Alfred H. Stone, for having supported 

 the bill to enlarge the membership of the Supreme 

 Court. Stone had been a close friend of the youthful 

 Representative's father and he talked like a Dutch 

 uncle. 



"But, Mr. Alf," protested the lawmaker, "I didn't ap- 

 prove of packing the Supreme Court. I only voted for 

 it because I had to. After that bill was introduced Jim 

 Farley called all us Mississippi representatives to his 

 office. He told us that although he thought it was a 

 thoroughly bad business, nevertheless the President had 

 his heart set upon it, and that he had orders to tell us 

 to support it or lose federal patronage. The first thing 

 that will happen, he warned, will be that the C.C.C. 

 comes out of Mississippi. You see how it is. What could 

 I do?" 



"Boy, let me ask you just one question. If the likes 

 of Jim Farley put that kind of proposition up to Jef- 

 ferson Davis, or Governor John Marshall Stone, or Sen- 

 ator Roy Percy, or any of scores of honest Democrats, 

 born and bred in Mississippi, who have represented this 

 state in Washington, what do you think they would 

 have done?" 



"Oh, Good Lord! Jim Farley wouldn't dare talk that 

 way to those men." 



That shocked answer is a naive confession. Afraid 

 that an open break with the ascendant New Deal Dem- 



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