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THE BATTALION Page 5
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1977
United Press Internatiomil
AUSTIN -— Lyndon B. Johnson’s personal papers con
cerning his 1948 election to the U.S. Senate will be opened
for public inspection for the* first time today, the director of
the LBJ Library said yesterday.
A South Texas election official has contended in a series of
recent interviews Johnson stole the 1948 Democratic nomi
nation from former Gov. Coke Stevenson. Luis Salas of Jim
Wells County said he certified 202 fictitious votes for
Johnson at the instruction of George B. Parr. Johnson even
tually won the race by 87 votes, and the race became a
significant milestone in his rise to the presidency.
Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ Library, said the
news media will he permitted to inspect approximately
5,000 pages of Johnson’s personal papers beginning at 10
a.m. today.
He said the documents relate to the 1948 election.
"What we have are seven manuscript boxes that are iden
tifiable as documents relating to the 1948 election, and the
estimate I have been given is that they total something
around 5,000 pages ” Middleton said. “I don’t know what
they are. The archivists are going through them now. I
would guess they would range from memoranda to news
paper clippings.”
Middleton said materials relating to Johnson’s early polit
ical years have not been made public before because they
were on a lower priority than papers from his tenure as
senator and president.
“But because of the publicity we decided to go ahead and
make these public,” he said. “They’re being made available
just the way all our papers are.”
Salas said Johnson attended a meeting with Parr in San
Diego, Tex., on the Tuesday following the Saturday Demo
cratic primary runoff in August, 1948, and told Parr lie
needed 200 more votes.
Salas said Parr promised Johnson the votes, and had the
votes registered from lists of persons who had not voted in
the election.
Three former Johnson aides said Monday Johnson did not
leave Austin for the week following the election, and could
not have attended such a meeting with Parr.
“It would have been absolutely impossible for Mr.
Johnson to have been outside Austin for the length of time it
would have taken for him to go to Alice,” said Walter Jen
kins, Johnson’s administrative assistant in 1948.
Salas said he is sure Johnson participated in the meeting,
however. “I don’t recollect the day or the date, hut I know
he was there, Salas said. It was a nighttime meeting in
San Diego. The election was on the 24th. It was after the
election.”
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AUSTIN — Poll tax records un-
•overed by Comptroller Bob Bul-
ock contradict the story of a former
lenchman of George Parr who
laims Lyndon Johnson stole his
'948 Senate election.
Luis Salas made headlines Sun-
lay claiming Johnson personally
isked Parr to find him 200 more
otes three days after the poll closed
nd that the South Texas political
mss and his backers complied bv
ituffing 202 ballots into Box 13 in
lim Wells County.
Salas said the names were taken
n alphabetical order from poll tax
ists and named three Alice resi-
lents he said voted fraudulently —
in Texas had to pay a $1.75 poll tax
to the county tax assessor-collector
between Oct. 1 and Jan. 31 prior to
the election to be signed up to vote.
The only exceptions were for
people who were 60 years old at the
time and people who had paid their
poll tax in another county and
moved to a new area six months be
fore an election.
Salas, however, told interviewers
the names signed to fradulent bal
lots were taken directly from the
poll tax lists.
“They all came from the poll
taxes, I mean, from the poll tax
sheet, he said.
Salas said the poll lists vanished
after Coke Stevenson, a former
Texas governor and Johnson’s oppo
nent, lost a court challenge over the
change in vote totals from Box 13.
Unknown to Salas, copies of the
county records on poll tax receipts
were forwarded to the state comp
troller along with a portion of the
money.
A check of names entered during
each of the four months for Box 13 in
Alice shows none of the three indi
viduals Salas said were selected
from the poll tax lists had paid poll
taxes.
Tf they hadn’t paid their poll tax
they couldn’t do nothing,” Bullock
said. "They ain’t going to take any
body that didn’t even pay their poll
tax.”
Bullock said close associates of
Parr have told him the “Duke of
Duval ordered the ballot box stuf
fed on his own without Johnson’s
knowledge.
“They said he just did it voluntar
ily,” Bullock said. “He thought it
would make him a kingmaker with
Johnson.”
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Records maintained in the com-
itroller s office, however, include
complete poll tax lists for Jim W ells
bounty for 1947 and 1948, and none
ifthe three Salas named are on the
ist.
I really question what that man
aid," Bullock said.
Until a federal court declared the
irrangement unconstitutional in
966, a person who wanted to vote
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