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Linwood H,Olton • RIPON DECEMBER, 1969 VOL. V, No. 12 ONE DOLLAR LINWOOD H,OLTON: Electoral Balancing Act in Virginia t • Down on the Farm, Again James L Guth Is Reprivatization Nixon's Answer? Josiah Lee Auspitz ,r--------------- SUMMARY OF CONTENTS THE RIPON SOCIETY INC is a Republican res8CI1'Ch and , • policy organization whose members are young business, academic and professional men and women. It has national head~uarters in CCrmbridge, MassClchu­ sells, chapters In eleven citles, National Associate members GUEST EDITORIAL throughout the fifty states, and several affiliated groups of sub­ chapter slatus. The Society Is supported by chapter dues, individ­ Senator Marlow W. Cook of Kentucky lists his ob­ ual contributions and revenues from its publications and contract work. The Society offers the following options for annual con­ jections to a GOP Southern strategy and counter-pro­ tribution: Contributor $25 or more; Sustalner $100 or more; poses ways for the Republican Party to make honest, Founder $1000 or more Inquiries about membership and chapter organization should De addressed to the National Executive non-exclusionary gains below the Mason-Dixon line. -S Director. NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD Officers POLITICAL NOTES "Josiah Lee Auspitz, President "J. Eugene Marans, Chairman of the Board Reports from Alabama, illinois, Minnesota, Ohio "Christopher T. Bayley, Chairmcm of the Executive Committee and Georgia. --4 "Howard F. Gillette, Jr., Vice President "Robert L. Beal, Treasurer "Frank E. Samuel, Jr., Secretary Boston Philadelphia: "Robert Gulick "Richard R. Block Martin A. Linsky Paul Niebanck PROFILE Michael W. Christian Roger Whittlesey A. Linwood Holton is the fence walker on this C~rI~Y;!rer Seatlle month's cover. He is the first Republican Governor in Howard L. Reiter *Thomas A. Alberg Marc Glass Camden Hall Virginia since the Civil War, and the voters he collected Chicago William Rodgers make up a unique but winning coalition. Holton won "Harold S. Russell John A. Bross, Jr. with the support of the blacks, labor, conservative busi­ Benjamin C. Duster Washington nessmen and anti-Byrd machiners. His running mates Dcxllas "Patrtcfa A. Goldman "Neil D. Anderson Stephen E. Herbits (Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General) lost, and Howard L. Abramson Linda K. Lee the Legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic. All he Robert A. Wilson has to do now is govern. --lJ Hartiord At Large "Nicholas Norton Christopher W. Beal Alvin Dozeman Richard E. Beeman William S. Glazier II Robert D. Behn LOB Angeles Thomas A. Brown "Melvin H. Bernstein Richard M. Conley AGRICULTURAL POLICY Edward H. McAniff Carter G. Ford Richard J. Ward, Jr. Emil H. Frankel New Haven **Lee W. Huebner Farmer's don't riot, supermarket-shopping house­ *William E Craig Philip C .. Johnson wives are a generally non-violent bunch; nevertheless, Paul C. Capra William J Kllberg the farm problem should be considered one of the most William H. Jeffress, Jr. Robert C: Kirkwood, Jr. N~w York W. Stuart Parsons pre'!sing domestic issues facing Mr. Nixon. James L. "Richard Zimmer Thomas E Petrt Guth explains how something practical can be done about Robert L. Musser **John R. Prlce, Jr. a tough issue that has been stewing for the past 25 years. Judah C. Sommer *oTohn S. Saloma III Why should we waste $4-6 billion in price supports, when Ex·Officio At Large the money could be spent solving not perpetuating the "Clair W. Rodgers, Jr., National Executive Director problem? -9 Michael S. Lottman, Editor of the Bipon FORUM Michael F. Brewer, Political Director Howard L. Reiter, Research Director *National Executive Committee Member **Past President or Chairmcm of the Board CONUNDRUM OF THE MONTH -17 THE RIPON FORUM is J?ublished monthly by the Ripon Soclety, Inc., 14a Eltot Street, Cam­ bridge, Massachusetts 02138. Second class p<?stage rates paid at Boston, Massachusetts. Contents are c02Yrlghted © 1969 by the Ripon Society, Inc. Correspondence addresser to the Editor is REPRIVATIZATION welcomed. In publishing this magazine the Ripon Society seeks to pro­ vide a forum for fresh ideas, well-researched proposals and for This one word, formulated as a coherent policy, a spirit of criticism, innovation, and Independent thinking within could save Mr. Nixon from being dumped on by future the Republican Party. Articles do not necessarily represent the ofInion of the Nalional Governing Board or the Editorial Board historians. Reprivatization is simply the contracting o the Ripon SOCiety, unless they are explicitly so labelled. out an:! devolution of governmental activities to non­ SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $10 a Jear, $5 for students, service­ governmental bodies. Read. and salute the abandonment men, and for Peace Corps, Vista an other volunteers. Overseas of New Deal statism. -18 air mail, $10 extra. Advertising rates on request. Editor: Michael S. Lottman Associate Editor: Evelyn Ellis ELECTION ANALYSIS Techniccxl Editor: John Woodman Contributors: Christopher W. Beal, Duncan K. Foley, Philip C. Johnson. John McClaughry, William D. Phelan, Jr., David Omar Reports on two losing races by GOP candidates: Ta­ White. bor in Pittsburgh and Perk in Cleveland, by James Self Circulation Dept.: Joanne Bing and Henri Pell Junod. More than post-mortems, they Correspondents are accounts of how to do a lot of things right and still Mrs. Barbara Mooney, Conn. James L. Robertson, M!ss!sslppl not win. Tabor was caught in a squeeze between the Maggi!, Nichols, Ca:\Hornia John Evans, Missouri Alex M. Hehmeyer, No. Ca:\H. Arthur F. McClure, II, Missouri Machine and a Reform Democrat; Perk tried to run a James F. McCollum, Jr., Florida: William Harding, Nebraska: honorable and anti-racist campaign against a moderate Cullen Hammond, CeOrgla Charles O. Ingraham, New York black. Michael McCrery, Ida:hO William K. Woods Ohio -22 Blaine Edwards, Idaho Stephen fones, Oklahoma: r. Kenneth Doka, Indfcma: Eric R. B ackledge, Oregon Burton Southard, IndfClna Richard Ober, Jr., Pennsylvania: Terrence Dwyer Iowa Donato Andre D'Andrea, R. I. Gary Scott Nuniey,.· lCcmsas Bruce M Selya, Rhode Island 14a ELIOT -27 He~ Bernste~1 LOuisicma William H. Linder So. Ca:rollnCII William A. Merrul, Ma:ss. Stanford M. Adeisteln, S. D. Don Fowler, Maine T. William Porter, TexCIIS Terrence Dwyer, Michigan Robert R. Murdoch, Virginia Douglas C. Walson, Minnesota W. Stuart Parsons, Wisconsin John R.Lazarek, The South PUBLICATIONS PAGE -28 GUEST EDITORIAL: Senator Marlow W. Cook I Instead of Exclusion A popular thesis for a Republican majority in which "write off" the young and the city dweller? the 70's has been the so-called "Southern strategy" The two greatest domestic problems facing us supposedly devised by Attorney General John Mitch­ in America today are our decaying cities and our ell during the Nixon campaign and codified by one disillusioned young. Can the political party which of Mitchell's assistants, Kevin Phillips, in The received a mandate from the people to govern ig­ Emerging Republican Majority. nore the most perplexing problems of our age simply There are some aspects of the Southern strategy because they did not vote for us? My answer is an with which I can agree. I certainly concur, for ex­ emphatic no. With ascension to power also comes ample, that the South is taking a decided turn in the the responsibility to govern effectively and no party direction of our party. As a Kentuckian I am very in power can govern effectively without a sincere proud of that fact. I happen to think, however, that commitment to solving the most pressing problems this was inevitable as we are the more conservative of our age. of the two major parties and that section of the Phillips continues with country certainly is the strongest bastion of conserva­ A CAVALIER the incredibly cavalier tism in the United States. REMARK remark: Phillips suggests, and I tend to agree that, One of the greatest political myths of the Generally speaking, the South is more real­ decade - a product of liberal self-interest istic than its critics believe, and nothing more - is that the Republican party cannot attain than an effective and responsibly conserva­ national dominance without mobilizing lib­ tive Nixon Administration is necessary to eral support in the big cities, appealing to bring most of the Southern Wallace elector­ "liberal" youth, empathizing with "liberal" ate into the fold against a Northeastern urbanization, gaining substantial Negro liberal Democratic Presidential nominee. support and courting the affluent young pro­ However, it is beyond this that I begin to have fessional classes of "suburbia." serious reservations about the implications of the I contend that if that feeling is a product of "Southern strategy" if actively pursued by a national liberal self-interest then Phillips' conclusion about party in power which is also charged with the future that feeling is a product of conservative self-inter­ direction of the nation. est. First, if the Wallace Another assertion which I must not allow to TO SEEK voter of 1968 comes to pass unrebutted is his claim that "Substantial Negro OR ACCEPT us because he considers support is not necessary to national Republican vic­ us the more conservative of the two major parties tory in light of the 1968 election returns." and in a sense the "lesser of two evils" then, of The black vote may not have secured our vic­ course, as a political organ seeking to perpetuate tory but I can only say in regard to the implications ourselves in office we should welcome his vote. of that remark that it is, in my opinion, morally However, the clear implication in The Emerging Re­ wrong to "write off" the black vote. The future of publican Majority is that we should pursue policies this country in the area of human relations demands aimed at "locking up" this vote to the exclusion of that there be no difference between the two major at least two major groups in the United States parties in the area of civil rights.
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