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Hays, Brooks

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Speech reflecting on recent Congressional election defeat -4- to pay. A majority of the more than 3,000 messages I have received since November 4, expressing regrets, have come from the South, and these people are willing to stand up and be counted on the side of moderation. They are representative of the millions of Southerners who deplore bigotry and intolerance and are anxious to do everything they can to restore conditions of race harmony. While it might be said that the moderates are now in a minority in the South, this minority is beginning to be heard as it has not been heard before. Reasonable people, who were intimated by the intensity of the outbursts of the extremists, are at last coming to believe that they must speak out if the values they cherish, the finest traditions in the Southern way of life, are to be preserved. Newspapers throughout the South have deplored extremism and expressed hope that I would continue to help supply leadership for the South’s moderates. I was reassured by the Nashville Tennessean of November 11, 1958 “It is no disgrace at all for Representative Hays to be deprived by Governor Faubus of something he had honorably won in the Democratic primary, and by highly questionable methods; instead, this may have been one of the most significant developments in an unfinished career based on respect for law and a devotion to the moderation which is in need of unwavering champions.” The November 6 Memphis Press-Scimitar prophesied that
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1958
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