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Citizens' Council founder [[William Rainach]] accused Ned Touchstone and Courtney F. Smith, Jr. (1925-2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=courtney-f-smith&pid=166702791|title=Courtney Smith's obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 31, 2013|accessdate=August 25, 2019}}</ref> an official of the Shreveport Citizens Council, of grandstanding for public attention. Touchstone replied that Rainach, who ran third in the 1959 Democratic primary for governor, was known for "inaction." Additionally, the council fought over Rainach’s support for the unsuccessful Republican candidate, [[Charlton Lyons]], over Democrat [[John J. McKeithen]], in the Louisiana gubernatorial general election held on March 3, 1964. The council also quarreled over the direction of ''The Councilor.'' As a result, Touchstone and Smith were removed from the Citizens’ Council of Louisiana’s board of directors. Touchstone and Smith, however, continued the publication of ''The Councilor'' into the late 1960s and early 1970s. Increasingly, ''The Councilor'' stressed race, [[anti-Semitism]], and an assortment of conspiracy theories.<ref name=ejas>{{cite web|url=https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/14437|title=Citizens' Councils, Conservatism and White Supremacy in Louisiana, 1964-1972|author=Rebecca Bruckmann|publisher=''European Journal of American Studies" in journals.openedition.org|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref>

Citizens' Council founder [[William Rainach]] accused Ned Touchstone and Courtney F. Smith, Jr. (1925-2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=courtney-f-smith&pid=166702791|title=Courtney Smith's obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 31, 2013|accessdate=August 25, 2019}}</ref> an official of the Shreveport Citizens Council, of grandstanding for public attention. Touchstone replied that Rainach, who ran third in the 1959 Democratic primary for governor, was known for "inaction." Additionally, the council fought over Rainach’s support for the unsuccessful Republican candidate, [[Charlton Lyons]], over Democrat [[John J. McKeithen]], in the Louisiana gubernatorial general election held on March 3, 1964. The council also quarreled over the direction of ''The Councilor.'' As a result, Touchstone and Smith were removed from the Citizens’ Council of Louisiana’s board of directors. Touchstone and Smith, however, continued the publication of ''The Councilor'' into the late 1960s and early 1970s. Increasingly, ''The Councilor'' stressed race, [[anti-Semitism]], and an assortment of conspiracy theories.<ref name=ejas>{{cite web|url=https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/14437|title=Citizens' Councils, Conservatism and White Supremacy in Louisiana, 1964-1972|author=Rebecca Bruckmann|publisher=''European Journal of American Studies" in journals.openedition.org|accessdate=August 24, 2019}}</ref>

Touchstone was also affiliated with the ''[[American Mercury]],'' the former magazine of [[H. L. Mencken]] and George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), which fell under the control of anti-Semites in the 1960s. Touchstone was listed as a contributing editor of ''The American Mercury'' and for a time took over management of the publication. He appeared in the masthead as the "financial editor" before the publication closed in 1981. He held a seat on the board of Willis Allison Carto's Liberty Lobby, another anti-Semitic group which operated from 1958 to 2001. Touchstone called Carto (1926-2015) "one of the greatest living Americans."<ref name=thecouncilor/>​

Touchstone was also affiliated with the ''[[American Mercury]],'' the former magazine of [[H.L. Mencken]] and George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), which fell under the control of anti-Semites in the 1960s. Touchstone was listed as a contributing editor of ''The American Mercury'' and for a time took over management of the publication. He appeared in the masthead as the "financial editor" before the publication closed in 1981. He held a seat on the board of Willis Allison Carto's Liberty Lobby, another anti-Semitic group which operated from 1958 to 2001. Touchstone called Carto (1926-2015) "one of the greatest living Americans."<ref name=thecouncilor/>​

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