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his letter is typed in red ink with all bold letters except for the mailing address for a calmer and the signature from Mr. Davis.<br /><br />
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The letter reads:<br /><br />
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Route one<br /><br />
Wayneboro, Mississippi<br /><br />
July 17, 1950<br /><br />
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Honorable Bill Colmer, congressman<br /><br />
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Washington, DC<br /><br />
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My dear Mr. Colmer,<br /><br />
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For heaven sake, what… What are you lawmakers in Washington waiting for???????? How many other tragedies must occur to hamper and threaten our security before you outlaw the damned communist party and have those on speakable thrown into prison where they should have been long, long before this????????<br /><br />
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Please...... please..... please..... Will you guys who can do some thing… Dot do something????????? stop bickering and talking and swing into action before it is actually too late……<br /><br />
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Outlaw the communist party…… Outlaw the communist party… outlaw the communist party… outlaw the communist party…… Jail the Reds…Jail them… Jail them… Jail them……… Please don’t wait any longer……… Please don’t wait any longer…… Please don’t wait any longer…………………<br /><br />
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Please pay attention to this and all other letters you receive on this grave matter……....... action! Action! For gods sake.... without delay...........<br /><br />
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Sincerely,<br /><br />
The signature of Otto Davis<br /><br />
Otto Davis

Letter to Congressman William Colmer from a Mississippi citizen encouraging Colmer to fight communism

A letter typed in red ink to Congressman William Colmer from Waynesboro, Mississippi, citizen Otto Davis. The letter, in all capital letters, asks…

Newspaper clipping from the Washington star that reads:<br /><br />
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Bilbo bless communist and reply to the man’s he quit DC post<br /><br />
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Senator Bilbo, Democrat, a Mississippi made his mom planned answer on the Senate floor late yesterday to some of those who have demanded his resignation as chairman of the Senate District committee, single out the communist party at Washington for an oratorical blast while engaging in the filibuster against the anti-poll tax bill.<br /><br />
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Scarfing at the “in sane, egotistical and pusillanimous” request that he resign as “ex officio mayor“ of Washington, Senator Bilbo read to the Senate a reply he said he had sent to James L. Branca and others in which he termed that “motley and mongrel“ communist party.<br /><br />
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“The clamoring of a handful of ignorant, un-American trouble breeders that largely make up the leaders and members of your communist party,“ he continued, “Will not be able to create a ripple on the Sea of serenity and unity and determination of the worthwhile American people.“<br /><br />
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Blaming the communist party for having inspired anti-poll tax bill, which he regarded as an interim wedge in a move to break up the dual system of government, the Mississippi and wound up his reply to the group with this:<br /><br />
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“Let me say to you and to every member of your incongruous gang: go straight and jump into the abyss of perdition, and may I add further that you bespatter your muddled, twisted, swiveled, infinitesimal suggestion of brains on the brim stones in the bottomless pits of perpetual hell, and that you’re seared, diseased and ill former carcasses fry and sizzle for trillions of years beyond doomsday in the eternal fires of a damned.“<br /><br />
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After adding “again and again my answer is no, 1000 times no!“ As to resign in his committee post, Senator Bilbo signed his reply to Branca “yours truly.“

Newspaper clipping from the Washington Star on Bilbo's address to the Senate about the call for his resignation and his stance on the anti-poll tax.

This article covers Bilbo's address on the senate floor and the call for him to resign. Bilbo, blaming interference from the Communist Party, states…

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