In the Deep South last week, self-righteous bigotry made votes for Wallace. Barnstorming through Alabama, Senator Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's running mate, dropped in on a Birmingham meeting of the Communist-front Southern Negro Youth Congress. It was a small meeting—one hundred Negroes and whites gathered in a seedy little Negro church in the heart of the Negro district. But policemen guarded the doors; others prowled the darkness outside. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor had declared roundly: "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies."
When Taylor arrived, a burly patrolman blocked the main door, over which some...
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