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The Ripon Society IT >--~,. ,. :.. .. :,,:~:.~ ;. .. ' " J I ' THE RIPON NEWSLETTER OF THE RIPON SOCIETY , JUNE, 1965 VOL. 1, No.4 to work with repreSentatives of the clergy to put together The View From Here the comprehensive aray of evidence which completely exposed Dickinson's mendacity. At its April meeting LET'S GET THIS Criticisms of the President's the Council of Republican Organizations Beard testi­ foreign policy are coming largely mony from the Rev. Rodney Shaw of the Board of STRAIGHT from the college campuses. This Christian Social Concerns of the Methodist Church, who does not mean that the campuses are largely opposed to had participated in the entire march. The CRO agreed President's policy. to intercede with the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives. On the contrary, we are impressed with the degree Douglas Weller, 111, exe(utive dire(tor of Republi­ of support for many of these policies among students can Advan(e at Yale, and Frederick H. S0n11tag, a Public and professors. When sit-ins make headlines elsewhere, relations, alld researc/J (Otlsu/tal1t from Montclair, N.l., the talk on the campuses is of those who are sitting out. provided staff assistan(e for the. clergymen. Congress­ When full page ads appear in the New York Times, we man Dickinson and House RepubU(an leader Gerald notice immediately the conspicuous absence of the many Pord u1ere visited by the interfaith leaders. Pord attempt­ who refused to SIgn. With a few notable exceptions, ed to dissmule Dickinson privately, but later stated fnih­ those who are least ready to engage in dogmatic de­ U(ly, "As a member of the House, Congressman Dickin­ nunciation are those who are best informed: the pro­ son has the right to make any (omment. I believe the fessors and students of law and government, of history comments he mttde are his responsibility." and international affairs. , When Dickinson persist~a and took die floor, the In the absence of better information, some respon­ GOP leadership refused to speak in refutation despite sible observers have wisely suspended judgment. 'I'hese the fact that they had copies of the carefully prepared ,are not easy matters; the "teach ins" are all for the good. counterattack before Dickimon spoke. The FORUM has But we are sorry when the "knee-jerk radicalism" of a learned on good authority that the leadership had de­ few naive students is taken to represent the "campus 'cided not to interfere with the still lively Southern climate." Those who make this mistake in identi· strategy. A number of Republican liberals who could fication are misinformed. Nor is theirs a harmless error. not be there that day have spoken since, but the immedi­ For when the academic community is discredited, care­ ate answer came from Democrats and credit for. it must less and inaccurately, its effectiveness as an informed, go to dlem despite the fact that they were using materials tough. minded critic is also reduced. gathered in large part by concerned Re.!?ublicans. As of Neither blind support nor blind opposition can draw this writing the House GOP leaderShip has stilI said nothing; we would be remiss indeed if we failed to ask the needed distinctions for incisive criticism of our pol­ "Why is this?" and "How can this be?" ">-' • icy in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. Republi. cans should be aware of this and they should listen when responsible academic critics speak. UNSmUNG At a time when some conser- ' S vatives talk of third parties and NEW others withhold Patty money from the national treasury, it is ironic and distressing THE MOMENT When Alabama's new Repub- to see occasional complaints about so-called "moderate OF TRUTH: !ican Congres~man William' Dick- splinter groups." "GOP Splinter Groups Leaving Ma­ THE COLLAPSE lnson made hiS sad and shameful jor Wounds" said the N.Y. Times headline in mid-April attempt to discredit the Selma to over a story which listed eight moderate groups and did OF COURAGE Montgomety march, other Repub- not even mention right wing, organizations, like the licans did many of the important thin~s they had to do Conservative Union. ,Times spokesman Robert Whalen to disassociate themselves from this contemptible man­ explains they were dropped out in the editing process. euver. But when the chips were dowr.. the Republican Moreover, the explains, the story was designed to report leadership had a failure of nerve, their courage collapsed, the problem of multiple organizations "as Mr. Bliss sees and by their silence they allowed their party to be im­ it." . plicated in a disgusting exhibition. This is unsettling news, particularly when a St. Dickinson's charges of immorality on the march had Louis Post-Djspat(h story on the same day carried an gained publicity before he repeated them on the House analysis of the new Chairman's problems which referred floor. An alert group of Republicans promptly began to ~'splinter factions like the newly formed Republicans \ for Progress, the American Conservative Union and the A MISSED This newsletter goes to press John Birch and Ripon Societies." While it is flattering too soon to comment on the June to be viewed as the main stream counterpart of the John OPPORTUNITY 1 meeting of the Republican Co­ Birch Society, it is a sad thing for the party if its na­ ordinating Committee. We comment only on prepara­ tional chairman is represented by the press as seeing both tions for that long awaited session - particularly the groups in a similar light. Party leaders who have en­ appointment by Chairman Bliss of five task forces to thusiastically endorsed us (from Eisenhower and Nixon prepare recommendations for the RCC. to Romney and Scranton) certainly don't believe this. Some press reports have credited the Republican We don't think Mr. Bliss does either. Our relationships National Chairman with "delicate footwork" in choos­ wth him have always been pleasant and constructive. We ing panels which do not give prominent roles to top will comment when we think he has succeeded, as in the Goldwater supporters. Bliss has achieved an ideological encouragement and offer of strong National Committee balance of sorts; but let no one say that the Goldwater­ . support he gave to Congressman John Lindsay in his ites have been short changed. There are plenty of decision to run for Mayor of New York City. We will Kitchels and O'Donnels on the roster. (Denison Kitchel comment when we think he might have been more suc­ is Goldwater's closest advisor. Peter D'Donnel is GOP cessful (see item on task force appointments below.) We State Chairman in Texas and an early leader of Draft hope he will do the same for us. Goldwater forces. A number of Goldwater's academic brain trusters also are listed.) Our questions, bowever, concern the kind of person THE LIFE OF As for the splinter charge, we who u'as 110t appointed. Por these are prellJ' mucb the a ppend here excerpts from four same old names - wbether moderate or cOllservative. THE PARTY recent statements which handle it ManJ of them are very distillguished leaders. But there rather persuasively: are few new, young faces, few "reformers," fetu "ethnic­ Columnist Roscoe Drttmmond: "These separately interest" leaders, few of the young "academics" who surging Republican actiotl centers are going to be the hat'e produced exciting flew ideas in the last few years. life of the party, 110t its death • •• .it IS far better for A static balance has beetl struck, but there tire not many the GOP to have some untidy allima/ion bubbling up indications of a dynamic plunge into the Puture .. from the grass roots than to have orderly somnolence• ..• Moreover, the ten Congressmen appointed to the Eacb of tbe nine separate and self-startitlg GOP groups task forces include four southerners - three of them ;n is represented on a Council of Republica11 Organizations tbeir first term. Three of the eight state chairmen named which exists for the sole purpose of keeping everybody, are southerners. California, Michigan and Pennsylvania including Bliss, illformed about what everybody els~ is have seven appointees taken together; South Dakota and doing • •• •The Conservative Union ;s seeking 10 draw Kansas together have seven appointees! Perhaps all of this togetbeT the most ardent Goldwater supporters and is the natural product of recent party history. But that fact others of the far right, and it is they, not the moderates, 'speaks directly to our point. Republican still tend to think who in the long rttn will give Mr. Bliss his worst head­ in terms of where we have been, not where we are going. «bes." Senator Hugh Scott (R-Pa. and former National QUOTES OF Congressman Stanley R. Tup­ Chairman): "Republican citizens groups are the best THE MONTH per (R.Maine), in a letter to Na­ thing that has happened to the Republican Party in tional Chairman Bliss: "The Re­ years. (They) have become the "yeast of the Party". publican 'Party needs more angry young moderates to Academic groups. • .are not only doing valuable re­ prevent right-wing groups from again taking over the search for Republican legislators and leaders, but are GOP. If it is true that the right-wing learned nothing demonstrating that the Republican Party both wants from the 1964 fiasco, it is also abundantly clear· that the and needs the academic community in its ranks." .' moderates have not learned the necessity of protecting their party from control by a noisy and well-finance<! Dr. John S. Saloma, III, President of the Ripon minority. This detente with the far right has prevented Society in an unpublished letter to the N.Y.
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