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JUNE 15, 1974 Vol. X, No. 12 50 CENTS POLITICS: REPORTS will oppose 30-year-old former State 20th ballot. After that defeat, Erdahl Rep. Rick Nolan. The Democratic announced he would seek reelection businessman came within 5,000 votes . and Stenvig bowed out .of the rac; of unseating Zwach in 1972. . U.S. Reps. Albert Quie (R-lst), In Minnesota, the Perpich family is for secretary of state. The GOP has its chance to win one Joseph E. Karth (D-4th), Donald a po~erful political institution. Just of Minnesota's three open seats in the M. Fraser (D-5th), and Bob Bergland how powerful was discovered by U.S. ( D-7th) should be able to win re Rep. Joseph Blatnik (D-8th) when he 2nd CD. The odds are against the Republicans in 30-year-old Jon Grun election, but U.S. Rep. William Fren tried to assist his administrative as zel may have trouble. sistant, James Oberstar, in the pursuit seth's effort to succeed u.s. Rep. John of ·the Democratic nomination to suc Zwach (R) in the 6th CD. Grunseth Part of Frenzel's difficulties result ceed him. Oberstar's backing, however, never matched Minnesota's most powerful trio of dentists: State Sen. A.J. "Tony" Perpich, Lt. Gov. Rudy Perpich, and State Sen. George Perpich. Winning the 8th CD. nomination for Tony may have been harder than pulling teeth; it took 30 ballots and the with drawal of three other candidates to nominate Perpich. (There is one Per pich brother who is a lawyer, but ~ony's wife is a nonpracticing physi Cian.) Oberstar has yet to decide whether he will contest Perpich in a primary. Perpich will probably face the dis trict Republican chairman, Jerry Ar nold, whose ideology is slanted in the same direction as ·that of fonner Min neapolis Mayor Glades Stenvig. The conservative Stenvig is still looking for a post to seek. He had been recruited by the GOP to run for secretary of state earlier this year when it appeared that the incumbent Re publican. Aden Erdahl, would win the GOP nomination to succeed U.S. Rep. Ancher Nelsen (R-2nd). Er dahl was edged out of the nomina tion by State Rep. Thomas Hagedorn, a young conservative, in what began as a four-way race and ended on the from his failure to file a 1973 in tions to GOP coffers have largely dried ison in 1973 by a .former student, has come tax return. Frenzel had applied up. Brown and State Rep. Ernest Lind a brilliant, evangelical speaking style for an extension, and indeed. was owed strom have attempted to destroy the which helped eclipse Devitt. about $10,000 by the government, but business-oriented GOod Government Citing money, Watergate, and par his' oversight will not aid an other Committee as a force within the par ty unity,. Devitt announced June 5 that wise tough campaign. Earlier it had ty. Brown tried to get ,.indstrom to he would not contest the convention appeared that State Sen.· Hubert Hum run for governor. Lindstrom instead endorsement in a primary - despite phrey III might oppose Frenzel, but is quitting even his legislative seat. some feeling among GOP observers the freshman legislator backed away GOP progressives have even worse that Devitt might well win such a pri from the race. Frenzel will be opposed problems. They must face not only mary. by Golden Valley Mayor Bob Riggs, the party's dilemmas but their own A slate of candidates put together a University of Minnesota professor. exile from the party's leadership posi by Devitt for statewide offices was de The gubernatorial situation for the tions. • feated in all but two races. Mrs. Nina Republicans is bleak. Lack of money, Weir, a housewife, was unopposed for the popularity of incumbent Gov. designation as the nominee for state Wendell R. Anderson CD), and the treasurer, and State Sen. Gerald Lorge insistence of the state party leadership WISCONSIN defeated a controversial district attor on true conservative candidacies has ney for the attorney general nomin~ discouraged several Republicans from tiDn. In other races, candidates pushed entering the race. The only two an Wisconsin Republicans are headed by the Young Republicans were suc nounced GOP candidates are State for a September gubernatorial primary cessful. A 24-year-old Marquette Uni Rep. John W. Johnson, a former Min after their May endorsement of for versity law student, Kent C. Jones, neapolis alderman, and businessman mer Madison Mayor William Dyke was nominated for secretary of state. Jim Hill, who unsuccessfully sought over State Sen. James Devitt. The GOP also unanimously nomi the 1972 Senate endorsement. Dyke won a surprisingly easy con nated 33-year-old State Sen. Thomas vention endorsement. vote behind the Petri to run against Sen. Gaylord Nel One candidate the GOP sought to tacit endorsement of State GOP Chair son. Petri, a former executive direc recruit decided to run instead as an in man David Sullivan and other party tor of the Ripon Society and a former dependent; James c. Mills,Ai 52-year leaders. Although Dyke was consider director of crime studies for the Pres old engineer-la wyer-businessman-f arm ed the more conservative candidate, ident's National Advisory Council on er, was a vice president and founder support for both Devitt and Dyke Executive Organization, expects to en of Control Data Corporation. crossed ideological lines. Devitt's.dose gage Nelson in a series of debates. The wretched position of Minne ties to labor and aspersions on his per Nelson, who has acknowledged Petri sota Republicans is compounded by sonal life were used to defeat him in as "a bright young man," has agreed the GOP's financial difficulties. GOP the convention, but Dyke might well to debate in principle. The GOP cam State Chairman Robert Brown has have a tougher time winning a pri paign is expected to stress inflation, strained relations with the Minnesota mary endorsement. Dyke, who was de unchecked government grDwth, and corporate conununity, whose contribu- feated for reelection as mayor of Mad- welfare reform. •

resentative of a long-standing party practice to elimi POLITICS: PEOPLE nate "carry-over debts." Sandman's primary defeat of former Gov. William Cahill (R) badly divided the state GOP - as had the debt controversy. • The decision of the New Jersey State Republi can Committee to assume the $247,000 gubernatorial • Attorney Douglas S. Harlan (R) will face busi campaign debt of U.S. Rep. Charres Sandman (R) was nessman Robert Krueger (D) in the open 21st C.D. race part of a "unity" effort, according to GOP State Exec in Texas. In 1972 Harlan compiled a respectable 43 utive Director Conover Spencer. The decision reversed percent of the vote against the retiring U.S. Rep. earlier assumptions that the party would not assume O.C. Fisher (0) and the 30-year-old Republican is the Sandman debt but, according to Spencer, was rep- given a good shot this year. Krueger won a Demo-

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2 cratic runoff after a five-man primary, while Harlan • The retirement announcement of Massachusett's defeated three other Republicans with 61 percent of sleeping solon, U.S. Rep. Harold D. Donahue (D-3rd), the vote. In this conservative district, who the voters may improve the campaign odds weighing against Re perceive as the true "conservative" .-may deterIJ:!.ine the publican State Rep.. David Lionett's uphill congressio~l outcome of the election. The campaign may 'be the bid. Donahue and former Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Phil "smartest" in the country; both candidates have doc Philbin are remembered as the House's slumbering seat torates. mates. Donahue regularly enters the House chamber early in the morning and proceeds to sleep soundly • The primary nomination of Nebraska Gov. John through the session; indeed, New Times honored Dona J. Exon's choice for a lieutenant governor is a tribute hue as one of the nine runners-up to Sen. William Scott to the Democratic governor's popularity. Exon's pick, (R-Va.) for "Dumbest Congressman." Recently, the attorney Gerald Whelan, received a clear majority in front pages of newspapers across the country carried a the five-man Democratic primary, gathering over twice picture of Donahue looking like Howdy Doody as he as many votes as his nearest rival, maverick State Sen. tried on the Judiciary Committee's special earphones for Terry Carpenter (D). Carpenter, as he promised, im listening to the presidential tapes. Consequently, many mediately submitted his resignation, commenting, "Peo Republicans thought Lionett, (29), who would have ple either don't know what I did or don't appreciate been the first vigorous GOP challenger in years, would it." Exon's emphasis on Whelan's victory was illter have stood an excellent chance to oust the 14-term in preted by some Republicans as an indication that Exon cumbent. With Donahue's retirement Lionett appears would run for the Senate in 1976, but Exon has de to be attracting serious support - particularly from nied such intentions. The Democratic ticket will be op progressive bi-partisan organizations from outside the posed by State Sen. Richard Marvel (R) for governor district. Further, Donahue's announcement is creating and Anne Batchelder (R) for lieutenant governor. Al a clutch of candidates in the Democratic primary, as though U.S. Rep. David Martin (R) recently has rack the resignation of former U.S. Rep. Bradford Morse ed up large victory margins in the state's 3rd C.D., the did in the 5th congressional district in 1972; and, Re GOP will be hard-pressed to retain his seat. Sunflower publicans hope the bitterness resulting from· the prima farmer and banker Wayne Ziebarth will be the Demo ry may help Lionett win, as it helped U.S. Rep. Paul cratic candidate against Mrs. Virginia Smith, a leader Cronin succeed Morse in 1972. of the American Farm Bureau Women and former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Rural De • "You'll find me to be the most honest politician velopment. Smith defeated McCook Mayor Don Blank in the state. I run an orderly house and I'd like to see on the strength of absentee ballots. The favored can a little dignity in Carson City," says Beverly Harrell, didate in the eight-person race came in third. Democratic candidate for the Nevada legislature. Har rell runs one of Nevada's legal houses of prostitution. • Vermont GOP Executive Secretary James Sand erson has been pressured out of office in a move re • The gubernatorial primary victory of former portedly led by Republican National Committeeman U.S. Rep. David Pryor (D) in Arkansas was a polit Roland Q. Seward. GOP State Chairman Stewart ical defeat for Sen. John L. McClellan (D) who work Smith had blocked an earlier move by Seward to oust ed hard for former Gov. Orval Faubus. McClellan was Sanderson, who had supported a different 1972 guber reportedly returning the support Faubus gave him in natorial candidate than did Seward. Sanderson is ex his 1972 Senate primary race against Pryor. The state pected to seek the GOP nomination for lieutenant gov of the Arkansas GOP was amply demonstrated by the ernor while Windsor County GOP Committee Chair voter turnout in the primary. More than 580,000 Dem man John Wu succeeds him as executive secretary. ocrats voted, but less than 6,000 Republicans did. • The White House sent copies of the transcript • Military Roundup: Former Navy POW David summary to its propaganda list of editors around the Rehmann, 32, will be the Republican nominee to suc country. The xerox letter from Ken Clawson reads, ceed retiring U.S. Rep. Richard T. Hanna (D) in "Not printed or mailed at government expense." So Orange County's 38th C.D. Rehmann will face Santa who paid? The Republican National Committee. Anna City Councilman Jerry M. Patterson (D) in a race that is rated the GOP's best chance to pick up a • Controversy over his role as a White House California Democratic seat. In New Mexico, former aide contributed to the defeat of John Robin West in Air Force POW James L. Hughes, 46, was trounced the Republican congressional primary in Pennsylvania's in his efforts to win the GOP gubernatorial nomina 5th C.D. on May 21. Indications that West overstated tion. Former State Sen. Joseph R. Skeen (R) easily his responsibilities at the White House created a press won the June 4 primary with 55 percent of the vote; furor in the month before the primary. The Philadelphia he will face State Sen. Jerry Apodaca, who won only Inquirer quoted West's former White House boss, Harry 31 percent of the vote in the six-man Democratic pri Flemming, as asserting that West was an unpaid clerical mary. In South Dakota, another retired Air Force POW, worker who was a "walking disaster" who was rather Leo K. Thorsness, 42, won a respectable 52 percent quickly fired for "immaturity." West temporarily found of the vote against two GOP opponents. Thorsness, another White House niche with Harry Dent, but his who built a strong organization in his primary cam inflation of his political stock was considered "abrasive" paign, will face Sen. George McGovern (D) this fall. by many. at the White House. Several months before Although critical of McGovern's Vietnam positions, the the primary, West rated a favorable TIME magazine GOP nominee said ,after his victory, "I hope we've column by Hugh Sidey. The victor in the 5th C.D. race learned our lesson. I hope we don't have to refight was State Rep. Richard T. Schulze, a highly regarded the war in this campaign." In Maine's June 11 pri state legislator. mary, former POW Markham Gartley won the Demo- 3 cratic nomination to oppose U.S. Rep. William Cohen • Ralph Nader has gone into the tourist business. (R). Gartley switched from piloting to politics when One of Nader's offshoots, the Public Citizen, has open he saw the layoffs of many fellow Eastern Airline pilots ed a Visitors Center in Washington at 1200 15th St., during the winter energy crisis. N.W. According to the Public Citizen, "the main thrust will be in arranging for tourists to call on their con • Two black Republicans are seeking the GOP gressmen and discuss pending legislation; attend con nomination against incumbent Democratic state treasur gressional and regulatory agency hearings; and visit ers in New England. In Massachusetts, Erna Ballantine, lesser known governmental and private attractions." fonner banker and former chairman of the Massachu No expletives, characterizations, or adjectives deleted setts Commission Against Discrimination, received the or omitted from this tour. GOP's unofficial endorsement at its June 1 convention (a few days before she received her doctorate from • Speaking at the annual governor's prayer break Harvard). In RhOde Island, John Daluz, the young fast in May, Gov. William G. Milliken (R-Mich.) told president of a South Providence credit union, hopes the participants: "Governments change, politicians come to oust a 28-year incumbent state treasurer. and go, but these principles survive. They are main tained in the documents and sacred writings of the re • Randolph Pross!ey, the 70-year-old Honolulu ligions, and in the hearts and collective memories of chairman of the Hawaii Corp. has announced his candi the people. Men leave office and new men take their dacy for governor of Hawaii. Hawaii GOP leaders have place, but the laws of human conduct endure and in been trying without success for the past year to in the end, prevail. There always is an accounting of terest top Republicans in the gubernatorial nomina human conduct. We must live our lives - our public tion. Crossley, who has a wide-ranging career in both lives and our private lives - with the knowledge that business and politics, came within 4,720 votes of de in the final transcript, nothing will be deleted. For all feating Gov. John A. Bums in 1966. He has been GOP of us - for you, and for me - there is no executive state chairman and national committeeman, a state privilege for the soul." senawr, arid a territorial representative in pre-state hood days. Hawaii Democrats are headed to~ard a • The GOP has a winner: U.S. Rep. Charles W. multicandidate primary, leading to speculation that the Whalen, Jr. Whalen became the first Republican re GOP would have a good chance at the governorship elected to Congress this year when Ohio's deadline for if they could find the right candidate. write-in candidacies passed without entries. No Demo crats filed in the race. • Philadelphia Democratic Chairman Peter J. Camiel easily won reelection June 17 as city Democratic • In Massachusetts, Middlesex County Sheriff chairman. Camiel, an archenemy of Mayor Frank Riz John J. Buckley (R) has despaired of any legislative zi had pressured into making the race. Rizzo and Cian effort to outlaw handguns. Buckley hopes to rally 3,000 frani, whom Rizzo had pressured into making the race. Massachusetts residents this fall to garner ep.ough sig Rizzo and Cianfrani worked desperately to elect ward natures to validate an anti-gun initiative petition for leaders who would vote to oust Carniel, but came far 1976. If Buckley raises the necessary signatures and his short of the needed votes. The results will hamper referendum is successful, all but police and military Rizzo's efforts to get Democratic Party backing for re handguns would be forbidden. Arguing against the nomination in 1975. "guns don't kill people, people kill people" premise, Buckley says, "Well, in Oregon, it was said bottles and • Nashville service station operator Johnny Elkins cans didn't litter, that people did. Yet, when Oregon is one of 23 Tennesseans who have filed for governor. passed a law banning nonreturnable bottles and cans, Elkins, an independent, says he has no platform, no or immediately there was a 60 percent drop in litter." ganization, and no money. Tennessee Republicans mean while have nominated the first woman to the State Su • The decision of Martin G. Hamberger, admin preme Court: Knoxville attorney Erma Greenwood, istrative assistant to Sen. Hugh Scott, (R-Pa.), not to who once was under consideration for a U.S. Supreme seek a congressional seat this year is interpreted by Court vacancy. . some observers as an indication that Scott will seek re election in 1976. That prospect does not enrapture • The turnout in Republican primaries this year some Pennsylvania Republicans who fear Scott may has been lousy. Although political apathy has also af become the 1976 version of Delaware Sen. Caleb Boggs fected the Democrats, the impact has been lighter than (R). Boggs was pressed to seek reelection in order to on Republicans. Recent primaries in California and avoid a fight between U.S. Rep. Pierre du Pont and Pennsylvania were notable for the unprecedented leth former Wilmington Mayor Henry Haskell. Boggs was argy of GOP voters. In New Jersey's Bergen County, mdy 63 in 1972; Scott will be 76 when his term ex a bellwether GOP area, only 16 percent of the voters p~s. But like Delaware, there are able, progressive went to the polls. Republicans who would like to sit in the Senate, e.g., • U.S. Rep. Robert Steele (R) has created a little U.S. Rep. H. John Heinz m. One indication of Scott's pamc in Connecticut's GOP leadership by his P!ogress vulnerability is his recent reelection margins: 52-46 in winning delegates to the state GOP convention. In percent in 1970 and 51-49 in 1964. an effort to head off Steele, Gov. Thomas Meskill (R) has publicly backed Steele's chief GOP opponent for the nomination, Bridgeport Mayor Nicholas Panuzio. The governor's action was particularly shocking to RENEW TODAY! House Speaker Francis Collins, also a GOP guberna torial candidate and a strong ally of Meskill in the past.

4 jection of the Hatch proposal "mass to go around apologizing for himself. hysteria." One major convention speak In 1976, however, John Lindsay and COMMENTARY: er, whose address like all others went other liberal Democrats may have a unnoticed by the delegates, summed lot of apologizing to do to their pro it up -as "one of the worst conventions gressive Republican friends when the TBE GOP I've attended." Democratic National Convention fails On the floor, progressive Repub to nominate a candidate on the first lican delegates were discouraged by ballot, as most of those party leaders the ugly mood. One wanted a roll familiar with the new rules now ex call vote on Hatch's "law-and-order" pect, and George Wallace holds a full No resolution - "they have the noise one-third of the delegates. The Dem makers, we have the votes," he de ocratic Party will have to deal with clared - but it was doubtful that George Wallace' then, or forfeit the even then the progressives' resolution election to his third party candidacy, More would have been adopted. Still, the and many liberal Democrats will be vote would have been closer and a hoping the Republican ticket will be tally printed in .Sunday's newspapers progressive enough for them to sup would have made the headlines less port. Apoiollies depressing. The next day, one liberal Until then, GOP progressives will Democratic friend triumphantly asked, have to convince themselves that they "Are you proud to be a Republican?" have a political philosophy for which by Robert D. Behn For some unknown reason, liberal it is worth fighting. If they cannot Democrats never ask themselves that convince themselves, they will be un same question when their party kills able to convince the press, or the elec It was depressing - like the Cow congressional committee reform in the torate - and certainly not their lib Palace ten years ago when Republi House Democratic Caucus - with the eral Democratic friends - that pro cans jeered Nelson Rockefeller's plat support of key "liberal" Representa gressive Republicans have a govern fonn plank condemning extremism. tives, mind you; when U. S. Rep. ing philosophy, and deserve to be This time, the hero was Massachu Wayne Hays bottles-up campaign re given a governing responsibility. As setts State Rep. Francis W. Hatch, Jr. form in his congressional commi,ttee; long as Republican conservatism and who was booed by the GOP delegates or when Mayor Richard Daley permits Democratic liberalism define the pub for suggesting that the President "is his 'police to beat up national conven lic debate on major policy issues, the subject to the law of the land." They tion delegates and presidential cam GOP progressives will be a political booed the "communications media" paign workers. Incredibly, progressive idiosyncrasy not worthy of serious con too; if someone '~ad made the mo Republicans never ask them either. sideration. tion, they would have repealed the First Amendment. The really discour To be taken seriously progressive aging jeers, however, were the ones Republicans need to begin articulating the law-and-order crowd at the Mas their policies and programs as both sachusetts State Convention had for progressive and Republican. They need "the law of the land." to explain to the electorate what they stand for and why - what they will In 1964, the boos came from the do if they are elected to run the gov gallery - Theodore H. White em ernment. Only when they develop and phasized "the contrast between the explain their political philosophy can Goldwater movement and the Gold they expect to win a governing ma water organization" - but in Massa jority. Only then, will they no longer chusetts this month, the boos came feel embarrassed. • from the delegates themselves. The The implicit assumption made by delegates seemed unconcerned about both progressive Republicans and lib the problems the GOP faces at the eral Democrats is that belonging to Contributor Notes polls next November, and so the six the Democratic Party is somehow Republicans nominated by the conven Robert Behn ("No More Apol more virtuous - as if one selects a tion for state-wide offices were un ogies") is an associate professor political party to demonstrate moral comfortable with ·the NixonjWater of public policy science at Duke superiority rather than to achieve some gate resolution adopted, as was State University and once served three Chainnan William Barnstead, who public policy improvements. months on the Massachusetts Re comes from the party's conservative John Lindsay told ·an interviewer publican State Committee. Dick wing. He had previously declared the recently that he had not changed his Behn ("Thinking (And Organ President to be "guilty as sin," and philosophy or policies when he switch izing) Ahead") is editor of the suggested he resign. After the con ed from the GOP to the Democratic FORUM and otherwise no good. vention Barnstead called the party's re- Party, but that now he did not have

5 piled a six-volume study for Percy on The Percy campaign is ahead of sched the mechanics and strategy of win ule on two counts. First, the Illinois ning the GOP presidential nomina senior senator has consistently main COMMENTARY: tion. tained a high - and generally favor Doug Bailey and John Deardourff able - media profile. While Nelson PERCY concluded that the 1976 nomination Rockefeller, Elliot Richardson, John could be won by a progressive, for Connally, and Howard Baker have two reasons. First, the delegate alloca faded from the front pages, Percy has tion formula added about 900 new not. The light from his political star delegates who, when added to the appears to have achieved a steady bril expected large turnover in holdovers liance. Second, Percy aides are en Thinkinll from the 1972 convention, would couraged by the positive reactions of theoretically constitute a sizable body GOP leaders to the senator's speak of potential Percy supporters. Second, ing tours. They consider Percy's per concluded the Percy planners, the del sonal magnetism to be his strongest (And egate selection process is itself more asset. He has visited about 25 states open to moderates than previously as in the course of his "exploration." sumed. (Percy strategists expect that Perhaps as important as the poten the defeat of delegate allocation re tial supporters and workers Percy has Orllanizinll) form at the 1972 convention did not attracted are the GOP regulars, whose make that much difference since Nixon skepticism of Percy's party credentials swept 49 states, narrowing the dis he has attempted to dispel. Former Il Ahead parities in the current allocation for linois Gov. Richard Ogilvie'S accep mula.) tance of a high post in the Explora The Percy study identified 32 states tion Committee structure may be sym and other jurisdictions (of the 54 bolic in this regard. Although never byDickBehn represented at the convention) which considered a strong Percy partisan in were "priority" targets for delegate the past, Ogilvie has the stature as recruitment. Percy's goal is to recruit a "regular" Republican which is need The nomination of a progressive Re about 80 percent of the delegates from ed in the Percy campaign. publican for President is much like these states. Percy's campaign vehicle, Many Republicans now assess the the weather. Everybody talks about it the Exploratory Committee, raised and Percy campaign as "impressive." GOP but seldom, if ever, does anyone do spent over $100,000 in 1973 and will progressives who often discuss the anything about it. spend $200,000 in 1974. The four presidential nomination with all the Although the conventional wisdom year campaign for the 1976 nomina enthusiasm and verve of a Wagnerian suggests that the nomination of a pro tion is expected to cost $11,000,000 opera express almost reluctant respect. gressive Republican for President is (based on the 8¢-per-voter limit re Percy is accomplishing an impressive as likely in 1976 as a snowstorm in cently passed by the Senate.) dual feat. He is showing progressive Key Biscayne, Sen. Charles Percy The "limited resources" of the Republicans that presidential nomina (R-Ill.) is attempting to change po Percy campaign would be utilized not tion politics is "do-able" and that the litical meteorology. only in the primary states where pro quadrennial campaign need not always Back in 1960, 1964, and 1968, gressive Republican candidates have be inept. Simultaneously, he is de when the Republican winds were more been conceived and aborted in the stroying his image among party reg favorable, progressive candidates - past, but also at the precinct level in ulars as a "donkey in elephant hide" e.g., Rockefeller, Romney, Scranton, GOP caucus decisions. Percy, in fact, who is unworthy of the GOP nomina and Lodge - were as fickle as the will not enter the New Hampshire tion. Percy repeatedly stresses the need New England weather. Critics of New or Florida primaries, since he hopes to expand the party's shrinking base England weather have suggested that to receive a "mandate" from his con and his sincerity in working toward if you don't like it, wait, because it stituents in the Illinois primary to the best interests of the party. His is sure to change. Progressive Repub pursue his presidential ambitions. censistent "Republican themes" em lican candidacies have been a lot like Much of the money will go for phasize the worth and sanctity of the that - too little, too changeable, and field staff for the organization effort, individual, the need to reinstate the likely to come on too strong too late which would be put together in late importance of state and local govern in the nominating process. Often such 1975. Meanwhile, the Pert;)' campaign ment, and the integrity of political candidacies have been "media events" will hit the next checkpoint in its and governmental processes. designed to substitute national charisma "fail-safe" system this December, at On tour, Percy tries to combine a for grass-roots organizing. which point campaign participants will public-speaking engagement, media By design, the presidential quest of analyze the progress of fund-raising, contact, and consultation with local Charles Percy takes quite a different the impact of Percy on GOP leaders party leaders. It is in these consul tack. In 1973, the political consult and rank-and-file, and the results of tative sessions that Percy turns on his ing firm of Bailey and Deardourff com- the November elections. magic. Apparently he is beginning to

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have the sort of success with GOP last year, Sen. Barry Goldwater ob Gov. Ed Reinecke demonstrated the leaders that he has cultivated with Il served that Percy had less than a "10 wisdom of that emphasis. As the dar linois voters. According to Percy's ad percent chance" because he is "too ling of conservatives, Gov. Reagan ministrative assistant, Joseph Farrell, inconsistent. He wanders all over hell's has long appeared to be numbe~ two in 16 polls taken in recent years for half acre. I don't even think he can on the GOP's list of 1976 presiden Percy he has consistently rated highest get the delegation from his own state." tial possibilities. Reinecke's indictment, in "independence and integrity." Percy's campaign, however is not however, may have quite accidentally Independence has not always been geared to any possible GOP contest provided a major boost for Percy. 'It a cardinal virtue among Republicans, ants or events. Obviously, Vice Pres resulted in an enormous major switch and the rabble-rousing stigma still ident Gerald Ford's elevation to the in GOP voter sentiment to the gu sticks to Percy. He still has to ex presidency would severely undermine bernatorial candidacy of ControLler plain his votes against Harrold Cars-. Percy. Such exigencies are not part of Houston Flournoy. The Reagan kitchen well and the SST, but when he fin the Percy math, which is concerned cabinet· saw the writing on the wall ishes, the "faithful" believe. In light with local contacts and caucuses rather even before the indictment and switch of Percy's own rocky history as a party than cosmic "happenings." ed en masse behind Flournoy. And al leader in Illinois, it is a sign of his po The indictment of California Lt. though Flournoy has arduously woo litical maturity. And it is a sign of the ed Reagan Republicans, there were no political maturity of Republican pro promises on presidential politics. In gressives, perhaps, that they have learn effect, if Flournoy is elected governor, ed that the GOP nominee cannot ex Reagan may not be able to count on the pect to be "annointed." solid backing in 1976 from the Cali Percy is not the only Republican fornia delegation. holding hands with GOP organizations The result could be crippling for this year. The rubber chicken circuit Reagan's presidential ambitions if mod has attracted a flock of would-be erate Republicans like Flournoy and "roosters." Percy's advance work, how Assemblyman William Bagley (who ever, has been better than his com won the GOP nomination for con petitors'. He has not simply flown in, troller) reassert progressive influence spoken his peace, and flown the coop. in the California GOP. Not all Republicans are enamored, 1976 is still a long Watergate away. of course. Mississippi GOP Chairman Many things can happen. But . like ac Clarke Reed has said, "When I start cident insurance on Charles Colson's to . think of (presidential aspirant) grandmother, a serious presidential Percy, I fall asleep." And comment campaign by a Republican progressive ing on Percy's presidential chances late Charles Percy is no longer an uninsurable risk. •

elections." Among the prinCiples espoused in the plat form were individual, economic, and political freedom; DULY NOTED: POLITICS equality of opportunity; economic and social progress; re sponsible government; and realism and idealism in government. . • "1974 Massachusetts RepobHcan Party Platform," adopted at the Massachusetts Republican Convention in • .. 'Dirty Trick' CaJIs for 'Dirty Trick,'" by David Boston, June I, 1974. The preamble to the platform is a Nordan. Atlanta JonrnaJ and Constitution, June 2, 1974. fitting Republican commentary on Watergate: "The Re Macon Mayor Ronnie Thompson (R) has filed for the publican Party of Massachusetts is today, as it has been Georgia gubernatorial nomination of both pa!l'ties. That since its founding, a party of principle. We. of the Re announcement was just a:bout enough to send Georgia Lt. publican Party believe that an enduring political follow Gov. Lester Maddox (D) bicycling backwards up the ing can only be achieved and maintained through a dec steps of the State Capitol. The erratic Macon mayor laration of and commitment to principles of government hopes to get the Republican nomination and deprive Mad which are shared by a broad segment of the public. We dox of enough conservative votes in the Democratic pri reject the emerging philosophy that the political process mary to deny that nomination to the erratic former gov is merely a strategy game in which the attainment of ernor. Maddox responded quickly to the Macon mayor, and maintenance of power are the only objectives. We "He's a spoiler. Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, and all likewise reject the concomitant notion that a political that crowd ought to be very happy with that fellow from party's sole function is to provide the resources and man Macon." power needed to win elections. Rather we believe that • "Conlan Foe, Stauffer, Ma.y Not WIn But HIs the political process should be a mechanism by which cit Jugula.r-Alm Poses Threat," by John Kolbe. Phoenix izens can decide the goals of government and how gov Gazette, June 3, 1974. When he announced his political ernment power is to be exercised as well as choose who plans, Richard Stauffer had just resigned as an aide to will wield that power. We believe that the political party Arizona U.S. Rep. John Conlan (R). Conlan's office says should be· not only a repository of resources for candi Stauffer was fired - as an aide to Conlan, whom Stauffer dates, but also a vehicle through which a large number is now opposing in the GOP primary. The ex-aide is of like-minded citizens can formulate (a set of sound prin basing his campaign on his "claims to have seen (Conlan) ciples of government, attract candidates who share these files with nasty little notations about people's personal principles, suggest which programs emanating from these lives." Conlan has scores of· enemies, in and out of the principles best serve the needs of society, present the GOP, who would love to cut short his congressional career. principles, candidates and programs to the public for ap Writes Kolbe, "He earned a goodly share of mortal ene proval, and continue to provide policy guidance between mies during eight years in the legislature, and not just

7 tor the usual ideological reasons; indeed, some of his most • ·~IIoIl·S 'Way' to Nowhere," by Larry Agran. The ardent detractors are philosophical carbon copies of the Progressive, June 1974. Nearing the end of his guberna conservative Conlan. Rather it is his personal ethics. in torial term and beginning' his 1976 presidential quest. tegrity and consuming ambition which are most often California Gov. Ronald Reagan "is dusting off some of citied by his enemies. Which is precisely why Stauffer; the old cliches. readying himself for a national antf-wel despite his total inexperience and staggering naivete. rep.. fare campaign calculated to win the Republican nomina resents such a threat to Conlan" tion and then the Presidency. To those familiar with the hard evidence regarding his welfare record in California, • "McLaugblln Controversy Aids Rotenberg vs. Dri· it seems incredible that Reagan could view welfare as nan," by David Farrell. Boston Globe, June 19. 1974. Mas 'his issue.' Because. as skilled as he Is at public rela sachusetts U.S. Rep. Robert Drinan (D) faces a stiff pri tions - and Reagan is one of the best around - the mary this September from State Rep. Jon Rotenberg record is replete with proof that he has been an ut~r (D) of Brookline. Although Drinan's 4th C.D. stretches failure at bringing about the promised wel1lare rollback." nearly halfway across the state. it is in the Boston suburb According to Agran. as a result of court and legislative of Brookline in the eastern tip where congressional can actions against Reagan's welfare plans. "the Reagan years didacies seem to develop. After Drinan's defeat of U.S. , have yielded the most signllficant economic advancement Rep. Phil Philbin in the 1970 primary. he won the general for California welfare recipients in history. Ironically. it election with only 38 percent of the vote. In 1972. a Re is Reagan himself who has supplied the necessary ingre publican .state representative from Brookline. Martin dients for that advancement: a penchant for confronta Linsky. challenged Drinan in the general election and nar tion; a belligerent attitude toward the legislature; and rowly lost a hard contest. Although the liberal Rotenberg a stubbornness that causes him to reject compromise while is given only an outside chance of ousting the liberal risking multi-million dollar setbacks in the courts." Drinan, he will be aided by the controversy over another • "Democrats Must Invent Better Ways to Govtlrn," politically active Jesuit, White House aide John McLaugh by John G. Stewart. Wa.sbIDgton Star·News, May 12. 1974. lin. Globe political columnist Farrell claims that Drinan "What the Democrats must devise is a governing ideo may be indirectly responsible for the Jesuit backdown logy that puts into actua:l practice much of the Repub on McLaughlin. "The gist of the opposition support for lican rhetoric about strengthening state and local govern Fr. McLaughlin was that, if it's okay for the former head ments. without abandoning the commitment of suing fed of the Boston College Law School to indulge himself in eral resources to the fullest." writes Stewart, a former the romance of sitting in the House of Representatives. aide to Hubert Humphrey. He argues that, the Democrats it would be permissible for another Jesuit to work and have to pay greater attention to mayors and governors shill for the President." Unfortunately for Drinan, the if they expect to win greater public support on' the "gov controversy' "sUlTounding the aborted efforts of Very ernihg issue." According to Stewart. "The longer-run pit Rev. Richard T. Cleary. S.J.. Jesuit provincial superior falls for the Democratic Party are obvious (at least to for New England, to discipline Fr. McLaughlin points up most governors and mayors); the electorate's antagonism the almost insolJuble difficulties created when priests de toward the GOP can rebound as soon as Nixon vacates vote their full time and energies to politics." Although the .presidency (by whatever route) or Is exonerated by Rotenberg stresses the economy as the campaign issue. Congress. unless Democrats are seen as coming to grips the irony of the p~ may be the impact of the Catho with sources of popular discontent unrelated to Water lic votel'S' attitudes about a priest in politics and the gate." Such a reaction will be "intensiIfled" by large Dem loyalty of Jewish voters toward a pro-Israel priest. ocratic congressional majorities in the next Congress. guilt feelings of Republicans and independents for voting Dem ocratic, and favorable re~tions to Gerald Ford's ascen • "The New Am.erIcaD Majority: Tbne for 110 PoUt sion to the presidency (if and when these events occur). faLl BeaJ4gmnentf" Speech by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) at the Clarence Manion Testimonial Dinner in Washing • "The End of Backlash PoHtics'l" by Joseph Kraft. ton, D.C.• May 15. 1974. "The majority of Americans lire The PhlJadelphia BuHetln, June 11. 1974. "Reaganism has locked into two major political parties - by geography. had it in California. That is the plain meaning of the by tradition. by sentiment, by other reasons which no primary election in (California June 4). Moreover. given doubt will come to mind when you think about it," said California's record as political pace-setter for the nation. Helms. "But what do you suppose would happen. ladies the primary here may be handwriting on the wall for and gentlemen. if a serious movement were launched to right-wing populism everywhere. By right-wing populism realign the political parties in our country - a movement I mean the backlash politics which emerged in reaction that offered the majority Of Americans. the conservative again Lyndon Johnson's Great Society ... Because it majority. an opportunity to unite. and to work together was so m'lolch a backlash against the Great Society. right· for the principles in which the majority of the people. wing populism not surprisingly found one of its chief ex according to the polls. believe?" Although Helms said ponents in the person of 'a renegade liberal-Democrat - he intended "to remain a Republican, unless there is a Gov. Ronald Reagan of California." Kraft cites the over general realignment into conservative and liberal par whelming victory for the campaign financing initiative. ties. by Whatever names." it Is clear that he relishes the Proposition 9. and the gubernatorial primary victories of thought of a conservative party. Said Helms: "Realign Edmund Brown. Jr.. and Houston Flournoy. "What all ment is not a new idea. Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota this means is that Watergate offers progressives the urged it for years. I ask you if it is not an idea whose chance to regain the political strength they lost through' time has come." overconfidence in the Kennedy-Johnson era," writes Kraft. FbRUM Published semi.monthly by the Ripon Society, 509 C Street N.E., Washing. too, D.C. 20002. Second class postage paid at Boston, Massachusetts.