In the wake of Georgia's primary, 60-year-old Editor J. B. Hardy sat down and penned a bitter editorial for his Thomaston Times:
". . . In the country counties, where ignorance and prejudice rule, and there is a Negro problem, Ole Gene [Talmadge] got his big votes; but in the city counties, where education and enlightenment reign, . [James] Carmichael piled up a huge vote."
That was strong talk in Hardy's own country county. The day after his paper came out, ten men called on Editor Hardy at his home. Unless he went down to...
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