In the basement of a church in Macon, Ga., officers of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference are holding their annual meeting in mid-June. Joseph Lowery, the organization's president, says, "The S.C.L.C. does not endorse candidates. But I does." Yet Lowery marks several points of disagreement with the man who would be Georgia's Governor -- for example, the candidate's newfound support for capital punishment. Even members of Dr. King's organization, for which Young worked in the glory days of the '60s, will give him only qualified support. The Rev. Mr. Lowery continues, "I support Andrew Young, not because he is colored --...
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