Eugene McCarthy
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http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/library/findingaids/Carter-Mondale%20Campaign_1976.pdf M~~ARTHY'76 ° ... __ ----.____ . ___ _ EUGENE McCARTHY OF MINNESOTA, INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE"'30R THE PRESIDENCY , >MA-_, It\~ Ul"""'- 0 F THE UNITED :~~TES, IS S~PPORTED BY CITIZENS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY WHO ARE· TIRED OF TWO-P~~T¥__£AILURES A POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE IN '76, :\- . GENE McCARTHY SERVED FOR TEN YEARS 'I. IN THE Hous~OF REPRESENTATIVES AND FOR TWELVE YEARS IN THE U.S. SENATE, HE HAS BROAD EXPERIENCE IN ECONOMICS AND FOREIGN POLICY, THE TWO MOST CRITICAL SUBJECTS A PRESIDENT MUST DEAL WI TH, LONG BE,F0~7E IT WAS POPULAR TO DO SO, HE OPPOSED THE WAR IN , ; VIETNAM AND ABUSES OF POWER BY THE WHITE HOUSE, THE FBI, AND THE CIA. Mct'ARTHY HAS SPECIFIC PROPOSALS FOR JOB CREATION AND FOR FIGHTING INFLA~~· (_~)HAS LONG FAVORED REDUCTION OF MILITARY SPENDING, HE HAS A DE~P"'C~\r,1.ISMENT TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES\)..OF OUR POLITI.CAL LIBERTY, -·~ WE ARE;'WORKING TO PLACE EUGENE McCARTHY'S NAME ON THE BALLOT IN '\,~ -; -.. -·.~; !p ALL.~IFTY St~TES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, JOIN us+ I WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR GENE McCARTHY'S CAMPAIGN, ·" NAME 0 ADDRESS S) T~~~~~E~ L ___ , ' ' . . 0 Ef~E~~~;.1 ~~-"'lO~MceA'fffltY-.£76-;;~~omNEt:TTt:'OT-AVE-:-';-Mt;-W~A rRGTOR;- 0 --f)-:{~-£"603:6:;~€i1fr'ft)'ft-B,_Hc€A~TH¥--'16i-M'"'T-MON'ft0!7-f~!AStm'!ft~t----~-- ( PLEASB RETURN TO McCARTHY ''16, · 1440 N STREET, .,NW, WAS~INGTON, D.C. . .\ 1 1 20005. 202/737-4900. Patd for by McCarthy 76 1 . li!&ry Monroe, Treasurer.,) 0 • '·' OONTA TREAD ON ME THE INDEPENDENT WAY On January 12, 1975 Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota announced as an Independent candidate for the presidency of the United States. A GOOD PRECEDENT The Independent route to the presidency requires some explanation. This is true even though the citizens who wrote our Constitution intended the presidency to be free of parties and factions.· George Washington, our first President, was an Independent. In his Farewell Address, he warned "in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party ... " But Washington's warning was soon forgotten. Political parties gained control of the nominating process through cau cuses, conventions, and primaries. VOTERS ARE READY The failures of today's political parties have alienated large numbers of American voters. A 1974 survey commissioned by the Republican National Committee showed that 40\ of adult Americans consider themselves to be Independents. Many voters who still identify as Republicans or Democrats .are unhappy with their parties. Many are ticket splitters who are ready for another choice on the presidential level. A Phillips-Sindlinger poll of September, 1974 indica ted that 55\ of the American people want more than two choices in the 1976 presidential election. HOW TO DO IT Placing an Independent national ticket on the ballot requires no party structure. Nor does it involve candidates for offices other than President and Vice President. We ~ill qualify our ticket for the ballot by meeting requirements of the individual states from late 1975 through the summer of '76. Host states require the filing of a cer tain number of signatures on petitions; the number varies from 300 in North Dakota to 100,000 or more in a few states. Voters who sign our petitions will actually nominate our candi dates. This is a more direct form of voter participation than the party method of electing convention delegates. I -OVER- L .. -2- After the petitions are filed, all we have to do is win the general election. · THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING INDEPENDENT The Independent route' to the White House has great ad vantages over the party method of selecting candidates: --It assures voters of a genuine alternative in the 1976 election. Too often the major parties offer bland candidates who are close on the is~ues, or offer such extreme choices that voters do not want either one. We offer a third choice. -~It is more in keeping with the intent of the founding fathers, who wanted a nonpartisan President. It offers voters a chance to make the President what the founding fathers had in mind: a servant of the people and of the Constitution. --It will provide a President who is free to choose all Cabinet officers and administrators on the basis of skill and experience.. An Independent President can select the best persons for all jobs--including the best Republicans and the best Democrats. OUR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. Eugene McCarthy served for ten years in the U.S. House. of Representatives and for twelve years in the United States Senate. He has broad knowledge and experience in economics and foreign policy, the two most critical subjects a President must deal with. When others hesitate or try to evade a hard issue, Gene McCarthy steps forward and takes a stand. He recognizes problems before they become crises and proposes good solutions before the problems go beyond control. As President he will meet the hope that John Adams once expressed in the White House: I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. Paid for by McCarthy '76, 1440 N Street, NW, Washington, o.c. 20005 Mary Monroe, Treasurer 8-75 • · · Gene McCarthy: Off and Running "FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, BEFORE IT BECAME FASHIONABLE, McCARTHY WAS A RARE SPOKESMAN FOR CHANGING THE PACE OF AMERICA; HE TALKED THEN ABOUT THE NEED TO REDUCE FUEL CONSUMPTION AND THE USE OF FED ERAL POWER TO REQUIRE SMALLER CARS, HE ADVOCATED FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR MASS TRANSIT WHEN ALMOST EVERYBODY ELSE WANTED MORE MULTILANE HIGHWAYS,,,, MANY THINGS McCARTHY SAID BACK THEN WHEN AMERICA LIVED ON A GO-NOW-PAY-LATER PHILOSOPHY HAVE NOW COME TO PASS, AND HE BELIEVES THE NATION IS READY TO ACCEPT MORE CHANGES,,,," --LAWRENCE O'ROURKE, PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN, MAY 23, 1975 "LET GENE McCARTHY RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT FOR PRESIDENT IF THAT'S HIS BAG, BUT DON'T FORGET THAT IN THE PROCESS HE'S BECOMING A CHIEF SPOKESMAN F~B REMEDYING OUR NEGLECT OF THE NATION'S RE SOURCES,,,," --FORMER GOVERNOR· TOM McCALL, OREGONIAN, MAY 25, 1975 "IN CONTRAST WITH ALL THIS MEANINGLESS, AMORPHOUS, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN, ALL-THINGS-TO-EVERYBODY, ADVERTISING AGENCY KIND OF CENTRIST POLITICS, GENE McCARTHY STANDS OUT LIKE SITTING BULL AT A U.S. CAVALRY REUNION,,,," --MICHAEL KILIAN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MARCH 11, 1975 "THOUGHTFUL AMERICANS WILL APPLAUD EUGENE McCARTHY'S CALL FOR STRIPPING THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE MYSTIQUE AND TRAPPINGS THAT HAVE SURROUNDED IT IN RECENT YEARS,,,, McCARTHY, AS USUAL, HAS POINTED US AGAIN IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION," --MADISON CAPITAL TIMES EDITORIAL, APRIL 29, 1975 "McCARTHY, AN INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, CALLED FOR CREATION OF NEW JOBS BY SHORTENING THE WORK WEEK OR WORK YEAR AND FOR 'ASSURING AN ADEQUATE INCOME TO THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO WORK,' ,,,,McCARTHY'S NOTION IS PRACTICAL AND WORKABLE," --CHICAGO DAILY DEFENDER EDITORIAL, MAY 6, 1975 "DURING TWO DAYS OF CAMPAIGNING IN MIAMI THIS PAST WEEK, McCARTHY RECEIVED AN EXCEPTIONALLY WARM RECEPTION FROM COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THE VERY LIBERAL CONCERNED DEMOCRATS,,,, McCARTHY, WHOSE INDEPENDENT STATUS GIVES HIM A DETOUR AROUND THE PRIMARIES, IS CONFIDENT HE CAN GET ON FLORIDA'S BALLOT, HE SEES 'NO PROBLEM' IN MUSTERING THE NEEDED 36,QQO SIGNATURES," --JOHN McDERMOTT, MIAMI HERALD, JULY 20, 1975 "I THINK HE CAN·WJN,,,, 1 LIKE HIM AND I THINK HE WOULD MAKE A GOOD PRESIDENT, HE HAS ONE OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT AND ORIGINAL MINDS I'VE EVER SEEN IN POLITICS, CERTAINLY COMPARED TO ANYONE ELSE IN THE FIELD, THERE'S NO COMPARISON, THE DEMO CRATIC FIELD IS COMPLETELY EMPTY. HE KNEW MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE LAST TIME, YOU KNOW, 1 tHINK HE CAN DO IT," --RICHARD N. GOODWIN, QUOTED IN CRAWDADDY, JULY, 1975 Paid for by McCARTHY '76., 1440 N Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005 Mary Monroe, Treasurer secs as indications that the two-party I le c;1lls uneyuivocally for re.•;i1111mj11n system is rirc f(ir taking. or at least for of the war on povcrtv and a shortened CAMPA.IGNJNG· s.liaking. hy someone who ca:i ~all up work week to spread johs ;ind cut the helter nature of the country. as he unem loyment. He promises a foreign ·~ ; Eugene McCarthy himself did in 1968. ro icy t lat reflects rather than under In many ways. it's the same Gene "You make a judgment whether the mines American idealism. I-le has some McCarthy wc"ve always known who's test ought to he made." he told the new issues as well. such as the lack of out around the country now. working to hoys at Shattuck Academy in Faribault. resronsihility in the automobile industry build an indcrcndcnt candidacy for the_ Minnesot<1. at a later stor. "and if and the need to hold it to account: rrcsidency next year. He stands Oil the you're there. you do it." It was the kind "You could-have had the right wheel uf stage of a dark GJthic auditorium at of ohscrvatiun that one running more on every Chevrolet fall off and they would the University of Chicigo, and it seems rrinciple than on any determination to have said. 'It's a bad year,' like a blight exactly the right setting for him. the succeed might have made. But McCar . of had arrles .... If Karl Marx had mystic of American rolitics. A deer red thy is camraigning and organizing full known about the automobile. he would velvet curtain hangs high behind a timc-and enduring the considerable have written another chapter saying. F raised lectern that is more a rulrit. and rsychological discomfort of not hcing · 'Caritalism needs either war or the au ! as he rreachcs from it. bright sunlight taken seriously. He has yuit a rart-time tomobile.'·· streams through a scul rt ured wfodow teaching job in New York and is fund And as befits an indcrcndcnt candi and catches his ascetic rrofile. His hair ing his effort with the rrocccds of lec date. McCarthy twits Rcrublican Ger I is grayer and he is a bit heavier than in tures. for which he charges $1000. He is ald Ford and Democrat Henry Jackson . ' 1968. hut the aloofness. the sel(contain living in Washington with his son and alike-sraring the liberals who might be ment. the untouchahleness of the man trying to finish a hook on contemrori1ry expected to cut into his own vote. He remain unchanged, his most distinguish America: he\ a kind of homegrown. recalls Ford"s observation that "truth is ing characteristics. latterday Tocyueville. whom he yuotcs the glue of the American government." Like some cardinal of the medieval rereatcdly. then notes that the President comes church, who has come to have his ring from Grand Rapids. the furniture capi kissed and to administer absolution to Word Person tal of America. "You read a man·s ,1 ! the errant. he exrlains his challenge to metaphor." he says. "and you know the two-rarty system to several hundred Bcynnd the solit;1ry nature of his cur something about what he is." college students wlw listen respectfully rent undertaking. the major difference He says that Ford recalled Paul Re to the figure of history before them. between 196X and now is. of course. vere\ historic warning as "One if hy th;1t McCarth\' doesn't ha\'e the issue or day. two if hy night." and suggests that "Papal succession" a war with \\'hich t<> build ;1 political .Jackson would have said. "One if hv force. Still. at Oak ton Community College land. t,,-o if by sea: one and two is "I don't know when it ever became a outside Chicago. he told· a group that three. They"re also coming by air and ''' system," he says with that air of toler rrcssed him on the roint. "I hope there we"d better be read\' for them." And on ance others reserve for children. He re will he a rcsronse. I don"t think it will military rrerarcd ncss and the defense minds his audience that the rartics arc he the emotional thing it was in "68. budget. he sreculates: "If ,,-c told not mentioned in the Constitution. that You can't rrotest against inflation the 1lenry .Jackson we have no blowguns the Founding Fathers. in creating the way you can against a war." and ruison darts. he"d Sa\'. '\\'e"d better Electoral College. envisaged the selec In his sreeches. mostly Oil rnllegc tion of a President by a gathering of campuses. McCarthy relies on other is 'i wise men heholdl'n not to any rarty sues he raised in 1968. employing the structure hut to their own hcst judg same professorial style. flavored with an ment. He roints out the irrationality of undiminished cutting wit. that made blind rarty loyalty. whereby Democrats him the candidate of the erudite and who surrorted Lyndon Johnson on the rolitically irrC\'Crcnt SC\'en years Vietnam immediately turned around ago. He reminds his audiences of his ' \~ and orroscd his successor. Richard 1968 warnings against excessive rerson Nixon. who rursued essentially the iflcatiun of the presidency. now adding same rolicy. to his familiar jihes at Johnson refer "You can sec where this has become ences to Nixon's ornately costumed ral rart of the national inheritance." he acc guard. In 1%8. he said that he tells the students. "It's like raral succes-. would tear down the fence around the sinn." And he cites the inability of Rc White House and let people get closer ruhlicans. knowing that the otncc of the to the presidency: now he says he rrcsidency had hcen demeaned and would riow under the Rose Garden comrromiscd hy Nixon. to orrosc him and rlanl syuash and cabbage to keer actively until the v..:ry end. Finally. he the ollice in reasonable rersrective. He notes the ruhli\: clamor for an alterna asked one audience of students whether tive to the two major rarties. as re they could ricture a White House rress flected in the rublic orinion rolls. the release that read. "The President came rise in the independent vote. and the out into the cabbage patch and made a severe drop in all voting. All these he heroic statement." E11ge11c ,l/cCarrhr 12 get some. We're underprepared .. .' He'd put in a bill saying we ought to have parity with Brazil. After all. the Panama Canal is narrow." ·McCarthy remains. above all, a word person, amused by what others do with words. and even more so by what he docs with them. The Nixon "team's" equating the Vietnam war with a foot ball game particularly entertains him. He says former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird dealt with the ineffec tiveness of the South Vietnamese troops by explaining. "We look upon them as an expansion team." And he applauds Nixon's use of "incursion" to describe his invasion of Cambodia because. "You can't make a verb out of it. You can say to them, 'Stop invading,' but you can't say, 'Stop incursing.'" As in 1968, one often gels the impres sion that McCarthy is lalking to edify Venita himself as much as anyone else. At Oakton College. a sudden heavy rain has known began to pelt the tin roof over his head. making it impossible for his audience to follow what he was saying. "It's all alotof . right." he said when somebody sug gested he wait for the rain to stop, "I suffering. can hear." Slipping Not everyone who hears him is as impressed as people were in 1968. To some younger students. who remember him \'aguely or ha\'e read about his Venita is a shy little girl with big, dark challenge to Johnson. he is more a cu You may write to your sponsored child eyes. You can see by her wistful expres and your letter will be answered. You will rio, a political mliseum piece to be seen sion that she has known much suffering get the child's original letter and an when he comes to town. John Thor in her short life in India. English translation. (Children unable to beck, a twenty-three-year-old graduate She hardly remembers her parents. Her write are assisted by family members or of Carleton College in Northfield. l'vlin mother was in ill health when Venita was staff workers.) born. She died when Venita was only two nesota, told me: "He's lost his issue and Your love can make a big difference in years old. the life of a needy little child. Please fill that takes away much of his dynamism. Her father earned very little and lived out the coupon now . · .. He's older. He's professorial now. I in one room in a tenement in Delhi. He Sponsors urgently needed in Brazil, don't think he's a real viable candi was unable to support and care for the India, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya and date." frail little girl. He asked a children's Thailand. Home, affiliated with the Christian Chil But if McCarthy has lost something, dren's Fund, to take care of his daughter. Write today: Verent J. Mills he seems to have gained a measure of. There is still a sad, haunting look that CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND, Inc. forbearance that was often lacking in lingers in Venita's dark eyes. But she's Box 2651 I, Richmond, Va. 23261 1968. Traveling alone and unheralded, improving. Gradually she's losing her I wish to sponsor a D boy D girl in shyness, and she smiles and plays with he puts in long days marred by incon (Country) ______other children who share the same room veniences and what he would surelv D Choose any child who needs my at the Home. help. I will pay $15 a month. I enclose have treateu as intrusions seven years Venita now has the care she needs. Her first payment of$ . Send me CCF sponsor here in this country is help child's name, mailing address and ago. No stuuent group seems too. small picture. these days to warrant a long interview. ing give her a better chance for a useful, I cannot sponsor a child but want to happy life. give$ . He spends much time in open-ended But there are many other needy chil D Please send me more information. discussion with anyhouy who encoun dren still waiting for sponsors. Name. ______ters him. I-le is reaching out for Jis You can sponsor such a child for only Address. ______ciples one by one, with only the bart.:st $15 a month. Just fill out the coupon and City______send it with your first monthly check. staff and some local volunteers, and he State ______Zip ___ You will be sent the child's photo has to sell himself all over again. It's Member of lnlcrna1ional Union for Child graph, name and mailing address, plus a Welfare, Geneva. Gift5 arc lax deductible. not that he enjoys the grilling he faces, description of the project where the child Canadians: Wri1c 1407 Yonge, Toronto, 7. but he puts up with it with at leas! a receives assistance. AT2890 13 I • conceivable. And at a m1111mum, Gene who want to give more than lhe $ IOOO CAMPP.IGNING McCarthy would again he charting un per-ca nd i date limit of !heir l'irst known political waters, confirming his Amendment rights to freedom of' spccch show of cordiality. and that in itself is a place in history as an innovative maver and petition. Subsidi7.ing the two major change. ick, marching to his own drummer. He parties, he says. is like having two sup , Driving back from Oakton late at docs not share the fears of others. as ported religions in the country. 'Tm night, he sat hunched and tired in the expressed in a question from a Univer sure if it had been brought up at the front seat of a Volkswagen and restrain sity of Chicago student, that a multi Constitutional Convention." he told the edly responded to a string of questions candidate field would turn the election University of Chicago audience. "it from a Northwestern University student process over to the Congress. "They would have been thrown out in three who was considering active support hut couldn't do worse than the peopk did minutes." wanted assurances on where l'vlcCarthy the last time." f\lcCarthy responded. As a practical consideration. it makes stood. As the questions were posed, the "Congress has only elected the Presi his fund-raising immeasurably more dif answers came more testily. but they dent twice, and they picked Thomas ficult, since liberal fat cats traditionally came. until the student was taken to his Jefferson and one of the Adamses. That have been soft touches. "It's almost as residence in Evanston. Only then was wasn't too bad." easy to get $10.000 as it is to get McCarthy driven to his downtown Chi $ IOOO." he says. To fill the gap left hy cago hotel. In one sense the episode Aardvark Party the demise of the big contribution. he is was a measure of how far McCarthy considering seeking money in con has slipped politically. In another sense. So it's not surprising now to find junction with his petition effort for bal it seemed to say something about how McCarthy out in the country doing his lot position in each of the states. In committed he is to what he's trying to own thing. Those who dismiss him as a California. for instance. about 350.000 do-a question always raised by his old . kind of Democratic Harold Stassen do signatures are required to qualify for a backers who want to believe again but not begin to gauge the man's per place on the ballot. and McCarthy may feel that they were burned by him in spective on history. What can a politi ask everyone who signs to gi,·e a dollar. 1968. cian who has helped dump an in In some states. however. only a relative This time McCarthy is looking past cumbent President do for an encore? handful of signatures is needed. the presidential primaries that were his Well, how about creating an enduring As for the reimbursement if he wins undoing seven years ago at the hands of third party. seizing upon the national 5 percent of the vote. McCarthy says the brash Bobby Kennedy, past the ma mood of disenchantment with the estab now he won't ask for it, because he is jor party conventions. to the general lished parties? opposing the whole law on principle. election campaign. While Democrats Characteristically. McCarthy doesn't However. the situation could look dif and Republicans alike destroy each talk of any new party. preferring to re ferent to him in November. 1976. if his other in the primaries and at their con fer to a new "movement" that shuns effort has yielded any promise of build ventions. he predicts, he will be in party structur~. in keeping with the orig ing a continuing third party. exorably building another liberal army inal constitutional concept. But iron For now. though. McCarthy's eye is at the grass roots. at least 5000 strong. ically. the new campaign finance law on 1976 with no greater expectations The objective is to win ballot position against which he has filed suit (in con than testing the political establishment for McCarthy-committed electors in all cert with Conservative Senator James L. and its cliches about what is and is not fifty states in what he says will prove to Buckley of New York. a delicious . possible. At Oakto'n Community Col- be at least a four-candidate race-the McCarthy touch) could provide the fi lege. somebody asked him if his cam Democrat. the Republican. George nancial base for development of such a paign had a symbol. He thought for a Wallace. and himself. The result. he ac party. looking past 1976 toward 1980. minute. then said he had decided to use knowledges. will probably be a dead The law provides that any indepen the subject of one of his poems-"The lock, with no one candidate receiving a dent candidate who receives 5 percent Aardvark"-an African anteater. "The majority of the electoral votes. The or more of the total popular vote is en interesting thing about the aardvark," Constitution requires under such cir titled to federal reimbursement of cam he said. using lines from the poem. "is cumstances that the election go to the paign debts. at a rate based on his vote, that we've never been able to determine House of Representatives, with the next from the same income tax checkoff pool that it evolved from anything. or President presumably chosen by a that is· to provide the Democratic and evolved into anything. Also. it can't dis straight major-party vote. What good Republican nominees with $20 million tinguish colors; it sees gray both night will that do McCarthy. the fallen-away each. Also. a party that has received at and day. And it lives by eating termites. Democrat. the independent? least 5 percent of the vote in a previous which thri\·e on dead wood ... But I "You could negotiate a seulement in presidential election qualifies for federal wouldn't want to press this too far." the Electoral College so it wouldn't monev on a similar vote formula for The audience chuckled. Good old have to go to the House." McCarthy the next general election. Together. the Gene i\lcCarth,·. But of rnurse he can"t says. "If we had electors in the Elec provisions could gi,·e a McCarthy p:irty be taken seriouslv. Not twice. toral College. we might have a voice." se,·eral million dollars going into 1980. -J L'l_ES \\"ncO\'ER In any such negotiation. he himself "You could almost perpetuate it as a would not seem the likely beneficiary. political movement." he says. "It could REPORTS & ·COMMD•T Col'\TRIBUTORS so alienated is he now from regular be a revolving fund." Stanley Meisler is a correspondent for the Democrats. However, as a counter to But that's not his intent now. he says. Los Angeles Times. based in Mexico City. Wallace and an alternative to him. the Instead. he is fighting the new law on Jules Witcover reports on national politics for choice of McCarthy would not be in- the grounds that it deprives citizens the Washington Post. 14 C!IRJ S'l'.ll\N !iCIENCE MONITOR llJ;'·.~ ·.·. '• ' l ·j /{° ... f;;t·'., '' ~ .···' '·.·. :.-. ~- .. •• .J •• ·.1 :. :.. ·· , ... ' , . .· ·::,. ·.,- .-·· .,_.. · ... . .,. i,; ,·. ' ,; ~ ..:.=., •._ ~· . ,-; "'.'" ... )~~ ..~, .... 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He said both .,.. considering a possible merger major parties had become too . ..,,... of their efforts into a third- ideological to attract the new ..::~:. force campaign for· the breed of. independent voters,; ·;::_; presidency, it was learned whom he felt would soon begin c<',• yesterday. . asserting their power. . . Mathias said last night that He said last night that he: "there've been no agreements has been "going around the and I don't anticipate any country exploring the " statements .... It's very possibilities" and has not ,,. premature to talk about decided whether to run· :;_·~ choosing up sides with. any himself or with anyone. particular person." . ·. Mathias said that McCarthv "'· The two met in Mathias' has been talking with a: ~; Senate office in the Russell number of possible run- . Office Building yesterday, ningmates~ · " held a meeting about two Cocome said, however, that ,, weeks ago and have another the McCarthy campaign's ~c scheduled tentatively for a steering committee, which week from today. ·. has about 80 members, looks McCarthy could not be· more favorably on Mathias reached for comment last than any other possible , ./ night, but hisd Ccampai~n runTnhingmMatce. h ! ... manager, Rona 1 ocome, m e c art y-Mathias , .. . acknowledging the ongoing conversatiOJ1S, Cocome said, . talks between the two, said have focused on· "staff and · -~-- that "they both feel they can't procedure and issues. They · - · operate within the confines of have had differences on some "" . the two parties." . . substantial issues. Of course ;::, McCarthy, he said, is they're not trying to mimic .;: "becoming convinced there's each other. and we're not ~- · almost a real need for an anti- trying to write a platform, but , party party." I they don't know each other too ,;. McCarthy, a senator from well." " 1959 to 1971 and a Their. Senate terms .,, congressman for a decade overlapped for only two years, ..-.·. before that, is generally said Cocome, and "when ; ;~· credited with having forced you're gding to be together _.,,. President Johnson out of a re- that long, you have to know ,.. election campaign in 1968. . each other. Unlike the two · McCarthy sought ' the parties, they're going to have ,.,. presidency as a Democrat to ·work together a longer ., . again in 1972 and for the past .time." year has been seeking the If an arrangement between presidency as an independent..· the . two is worked out, the .,, Mathias recently made" current strategy would con :~" public statements about his tinue .of entering no primary displeasure with the trend in contests ·and focusing the ·.;;.-. which the Republican Party campaign~s en.ergies on has been moving, which he getting on general election sees as overly conservative. · · '" Mathias' disaffection with ba 11 ots in every state. _. 'i-< ;~~~~~. the GOP became clear sev~ral \ ri:~e . fJ,rst .. ,.~e~.dline . f~r. · :::", ..months ago. when he told . ~uahfyJn~. fo~ a-s.tate ballot JS -· Washington political writers ... m, · Nlatl'has home ;state, that he was strongly con- · Maryland;onMarch8. A-14 . Q!o[umbus Bispatr~: SUNDAY, JAN. 12. 1975. F : EUGENE l\ICCARTHY ·2-PartY3l Systflll:~-.-:.} Rapped J.ttcCarthy Says Independent ., ·. ·Likely in _1976 .· An assault on the esfab· fished two-party political sys~' tem in t)Je U.S. is· under way an(I former U.S. Sen. Eugene lllcCarthy said Saturday. he hclie\'es the public might be willing to shed party affilia· lions to support an independ· ent for president in 1976. l\lcC;irthy. 58. was in Co ·1umbus for a speech at the Center for Tomorrow spon sored by the Southern Ohio Episcopal Diocese. · r HE SAID flE ~as "pre" \ pared to run as an independ~ r cnt in 1976." and said per ) haps another half dozen inde. : pendent candidates will ~ surface over . the next 18 \,.months. · ·. ·.. · The strengths an independ· erit candidate could draw on. llicCarthy said. are the fail ures of either the. Democrats or Republicans: · ·· · "Neither party," he said," is racing µp to the real. problems facing America to- I day. ·· · ·· · "IT'S NOW evident that many of the things we talked . --..~'ll!t-trre'ffift.'trnrr . Service and · the FBI from· presidential influence. The former Minnesota sen :itor outlined the way he ·.rn11:rl ilke 10 ~ee future . ~'liiHJJ!1\ iJINft NEW~ n, ~.OIJO JAN 1 3 197S ~&'&.. ' . - - . - b:-.·1~"'"·'· -~:-·· , . ·:- ·w1Y((:{'.!}~'Y'F . .. ~-=~· ·:i. ::-_-,- .-~-"~~·.:~~-- --:~:-'11-_,--.- ': .. '.,! i···~-.. -···· ''"i : .. -,,..._- --· 1 Plans·to.,seek presidency .t· 1 •• :.: ··,: ...:·: .• • '' •. ··'.·:.-:.·.',,;t:; "· ..... , ,,; ::·1:'·::~.,,,,-.:·1 .. 1 ~ ., ',".> .'· ·:'.·· ·.,,:;;!;·.-.; ~'Jflli.GtOMEI ... · l':"·;:;,(!:.-.J·:;:.,1'./·_.,.'.!.' .. '.·,:'>''.;·-r::Y.·,-.·:.::'.· '·i'_.>f;","/.:.:.:·: .,.:,':'.· :'.::.··; f 1 M(:~artbMJ:;~ntg~~s.,~~l~~,;;;~·~;;i.n.Q.@·R~IS1P~.nt1 1 '. MADISON, Wis;. (AP) ..'....For-. came·' just one day after ariot.h-''1W7&J)>j'~.·,' .":'.;·\?:;, ·.::i~i iA'i.l',. ·' Leade~s' ·;o1 '. ihe' (. Wlscoilslii : hiS':doubts :about' the party in 'm~r S~n. Eugene J. M~Carthy, er· .f~rmer: senator( Fred R. · It:\vas in,New Hainpshit~ in Co~ittee:·:,fof ~· COnslittitional Cre~Se~ when he realized it was ·· declanng the Democratic party Harris of .Oklahoma, announced 1968. ·that McCarthy, speaking Presidency,:' which. encolJl'ag~ be~,,. "ta. h~g~ and com- has ~eg~ to "N; George F. Will ·. J~·;;'.··_ \illt;:t f~r<:, M~G~rJJ:!y: Looking Ahead to '76 . ~ ' ...... ·. .. -----On a table in his living. room rest t~o instruments of high art-a violin and a ·baseball. They symbolize the iPan, who is a' puzzling blend of seri ousness. and playfulness. Eugene Mc Carthy a baseball player who sank to th~ Se~ate, is a. former first-baseman, a constant poet, and a once and future presidential candidate . . McCarthy recently helped launch . the Committee for a Constitutional Presidency. Its first act was to virtu ally launch McCarthy's 1976 independ ent presidential campaign. He says it would be fine with him if someone else stepped·forward to run as the commit: tee's candidate. He compares himself to John the Baptist, noting that "if no cine else had showed up, he (John) might· have gone ahead with the move ment." The statement tells you who wilLhave to . show up to cause McC- arthy· to 5tep aside. '· · · · . · . But.politically (as well as sartorially -today he is wearing blue jeans and a white shirt with French cuffs) he does not .seem . to have thought with his usual Clarity about what he is doing. ·Regarding· substantive policies, as distinguished from "procedural" ques- · .. · . . · . · .. uon~ a-bout government, he seems un- eiectohte. lie sam~how thiclts bis ~ii~ 196a, ·but. may exemplify the iatter in. interested, perhaps because he is or-. did~cy will help .create a .system hi. 1976. . -. - . ~- thodox. He is just another liberal, which people will vote .for "electorS--' .· In 1968 the Vietnam war, President whose. policies regarding we! fare and people whom they. believe in:· : . ... J • 'Johnson's. high-handedness and,.# ·fi. regulation of the economy would ex-. McCarthy hopes these trusted arid · nally; the treatment McCarthy and' his pand the size and cost of government. presumably independent elector$ will supporters received at the Democratic He would make the government more assemble as the electoral college, Tea'. Convention in ·Chicago, ignited Mc- powerful in dealing with the American son together, and 'then select a Presi· earthy. Always controlled, never demo- people and less powerful in dealing dent from among the various .candi~ gogic, uniquely respectful of the elec- with the Soviet government. _ . dates. But it is bizarre to talk, as he torate, he burned with flames of ice. , Like every liberal reformer, he says does, a·bout making. the electoral col- His campaign posters accurately said: he wants to attract a constituency of lege into a deliberative body,: which it .· "He s.tood up alone and something hap. conscience rather than a coalition of certainly was not when twice electing pened." , iritere5ts. But reformers like McCarthy George Washington-unanimously: Mc· Today his principal passion seems to have helped make such a constituency earthy is carrying strict construction be cold disdain for Democratic Ji.Jberals especialfy hard to form. The govern- of the Constitution to the point of par- who did not stand with him. His candi- mcnt bloated by liberal policies of in· ody when he says that our presidential dacy is only apt to injure the Demo- terve~tion throughout American life, elections since 1796 have not been cratic Party. One can understand why has. become a servile state, at once constitutional ·because ele.ctoral votes _Democrats who used to support him dangerous ii.rid anxious to please. It have been cast to express party man- now censure him (as T.S. Eliot was serves. an electorate that increasingly dates. . -·· . . censured) as "a good writer and abad is organized into interest groups that The 1976 election is more than two influence." are simultaneously dependent and ag-. years away and already .McCarthy, is His current issues, like that playful gi;essively demanding. - using hyperbole of a-·sort that once stuff about a deliberative electoral col- ·Regarding what .he calls was beneath ·him. An-example: "l· do lege, seem suspiciously like mere ex- "procedure," ·the "due process" by not think we have had anything close cuses fOr· a campaign that will enable which high office is acquired and used, to a constitutional · preSidency . filJicec. him to punish Democrats for leaving McCarthy ;professes to believe that that of Harry Truman." · .;, - : ~~ ~·.. :;_·~ him,. a prophet, . without honor in his George Washington "probably was the McCarthy rightly insists that itihere own party;_ Until he finds issues wor- last President who was elect~d consti, is an honorable third party traditio:Q · thy of him;-discovering the political es- tutiOnally" because he was the -only . -in the. United States: But there also.Js . . sence of -the still-mysterious McCarthy President . elected before · parties ·a tradition of ·za~~JlUrs. Be . will seem more :Jike peeling an onion "intrude·d" between candidat~: and the. cxemplifi~ _the ...fo~, ::_t,r. . . !)~~~~,,~~-~king_ a clam. . ;·.:.. ,.~ '· .. ,-.(- ~ ~"'" :;/~-- .-r<1~:·!1f~}~,c'i~1%j~;.'ii:' ~"'::~::,~~if#-- _,,_,~ i.;._,:- ..... ~.--~ ....-'"""""1~',.;"~ ... ~-·~lii~~ .... - THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1973 .. !McCarthy T!ies Minnesota Comeback' "'j I 1' ; . / sµec1a1 to Th• New York Times Mr. Humph~ey until late in _the 1c!en.cy, but with a possible, MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 27 -:11968 Pres1dental . campaign, Iremedy. IFormer Senator Eugene J. Mc-; aft~r the col.lapse of his own i What he has. in_ mind. :'11:. J earthy has made a four-dayi ant1w:ar can~1dacy at the D~m-,McCar~hy told his listeners· t~1s 1t f M" t , · th C ; ocrat1c Nat10nal Convention, week· 1s to build "a more s1g-, / our? · m?es~ as six 0 ~-[cost Mr. Humphrey the elec- nificant role" for the House. to· 1 gress1onal D1stn~t to asses_s _h1s:,tion. !restore it to the place it occu- !chances of making a poht1cali This long-standing wound 1pied in Government in the era· icomeback next year in the!among the Democrats, especial- of John Q_uincy A~ams, who left i House of Representatives. : ly those intensely loyal to Mr. 1the Presidency in 1829 and He received a mixed recep-'Humphrey, appeared to be ex- went back to serve I7 years m tion this week from local offi-! acerbated by the fresh outbn~ak .the House. cials and rank-and-file mem-1of public rage at President The issue that overrides all of the Democrat-Farmer-iNixon over the Watergate case. of the others, Mr. McCarth\· Labor party. Critics attacked! In response, Mr. McCarthy said. is, "How do we make the Mr. McCarthy on two counts, 1told a student audience at Government operate properly?"' arguing that he spoiled Senator ISouthwest State College in! In his judgment, the House Hubert H. Humphrey's chancel Marshal! that the idea he had /might be reinvigorated by the to be elected President in 1968,icost Mr. Humphrey the Presi- election of. IO to 20 capable and that he was now threaten-ldency was "a washed out leaders "who have been around ing to spoil the prospects of proposition." for awhile," and who have a for.mer State Representative "I've never had· Senator broad objective. Richard Nolan, the nominee in Humphrey complain about Mt. McCarthy expressed sur- the Sixth District last year. that," he said. prise at the extent of the criti- Mr. Nolan, 29 years old, nar- The students responded icism directed at him from party rawly lost the I972 election to warmly to his remarks. members who were his allies Representative John :vr. Zwach, But Marshall's newspaper, for 22 years. a Republican, who has an-IThe Messenger Independent. He said that his message was nounced that ·the current term, greeted him the next morning not easy to grasp and that he his fourth, will be his last. 1with the · banner headline. did not expect people to listen As Mr. McCarthy, 57, · trav- 1"DFLers Don't Want McCarthy intently on his first trip. el led through the district - aJ to Rock the Boat." The paper However, by the time his trip 22-county region in central and! is edited by an admirer of Mr. Iended, he had __ made visible southwestern Minnesota - hej'Nolan's, and also carried a hos- progress. In an editorial. The \vas met by persistent criticism tile editorial under the head- St. Cloud Times, the biggest in local newspapers and at per-1line, "Senator McCarthy Is Liv- newspaper serving the north- sona1 appearances. ing in the Past." ern, most-populous part of the Endorsement Delay Scored Mr. McCarthy's message at /Sixth District, saluted Mr. Mc- Apparently the most damag-[this early stage of his campaign. earthy as "an elder statesman ing accusation was that Mr.tdeals not with the turmoil sur-Janxious to improve our political McCarthy's "delay in endors!ng irounding Mr. Nixon's Presi- system." . 7 POU Ti CS: cle11t, mounting pet1t1on an\'L'S in each state to get the candidates a place on The Nnn-?arty the ballot. Contributions are limited to Sl5,000 per person per year, but the \kCarthy for President? Agai11!' That group already has some gilt-edged back was the pros;:;<.:ct raised last week by a ers-notably William Clay Ford, brother 11cw political organization called the of Henry Ford II and owner of the Curnrniltcc for a Constitutional Prcsidcn D1~troit Lions, and Karl Gruhn, president cv. lts lionorarv c!tairm;:rn, former Miunc ol Tonka Mills. "We have enough money s~ta Sen. E~gcr.e .\1cCarthy, looked to see us through the next several cverv inch the c::indidate as he told a months," says McCarthy. pres.~ (;(mfcrcnu; in Chicago that his \1cCarthy carefully avoids calling his 11cw cornrniltec would buck the trend of committee a political party. But while ··11u-d10icc" elcc~io11s by u!fering a choice the non-party's non-candidate maintains or its O\Vll. '"There might he a better that the committee will not engage in ca11 ··- • ~ ••• : .~. ~·; • • ., ....._.."', :.i." .• ~ . • : • .:.·.:·, ' ... • -~ Buckley ·an£l'McCi1.rthy~1oining~·'. Lr To Fight Ca~poign_~~f9rm·A.ct f ' . .· .. "-..:. . . .. · .... ·-. . . :: • ... :·' . . I WASHINGTON. Dec. "ii.:_'·. ~"It i~· the' ~ame;" Mr; Mc Senator James· L._ Buckley· of Carthy· said of the reform ·act, I New York, a Conservative-Re- "as 0saying the country is going publican; and Eugene J ..- .. Mc- to have two :established reli• earthy, a forµier. Senator·'from g!ons, It makes it·a·lmost impos' Minnesota and a Jibe ra!Demo- s1ble to.have an effective-cha!- . crat, announced: today · that lenge tQ tile two established they would jointly cballerige parties.'~- .. : .· · ·•. , ...... •· . the. constitutionality of this The principal challenge, the • year's Campaign Reform:Act. . three:men said, will be made on Together with Ira Glasser, the the gi:ound that the new law vi executive director of the New olates First Amendment gua~ York Civil Liberties Union, they rantees of.· freedom of. expres" dsclosed at a Capital Hill news sion by__ "limiting political acti conference that they would file vity, circumscribing speech, ~in, suit in Federal court ·on Jan; 2; stitutionalizing- . advantages ·far : the ·day after the·acFtakes•'ef~ incumbents, authorizing unpie~ l feet. . '- . - :· cedented Gevemment surveil- Mr. Buckley called the group lance over ,political .association "an odd coalition." But Mr. and· establishing bl'.oad investi Buckley · ·arid ·· Mr:--McCarthy gative powers. of· doubtful· con- have in common an interest dn stitutionality.". .· . . ._. minor parties, which they say, The law.- which grew: out· of would stiffer under the statute. the -Watergate scandals, would Mr ... Buckley won election in limit campaign ·.contributions 1970 on th.e Conservativ_e line; and expenditures, provide pub~ Mr. McCarthy hopes to run fo lic:·f~:fcr:•Presioolitial carri~ President _as a third-pai:ty,nomi~ paigns ·dl~d cset up~·new .and I n.e~·-· . · · - -' '-~- ~ _stnc~~ ~~fOrcement-:machine- ·' . i~dependent cana1d!~ for~'76 --~:~ I . ::McCarthy: issues · :~-raised quietly ... .· By Louise Sweeney .··-'P-.. . .o:-~+-'.~~:::~lj -.· Staff correspondent of - - _ · .:,:;-:;c;:--; · · ·• . The ChristianScience Monitor ·, . ~ft~ 1.: :: · .- _ . . . . . · .. ·.. . Washington ');e•· ·1Gene McCarthy was eating scrambled eggs with a roomful of · i< · reporters one morning at a press breakfast, but leaving them ·· hllJ)gry for what they really wanted. · '· ... _ . . , . . =:_ _- . -;;_~.:~,They kept prodding him with questions that should havt; produced -~ · ~newsy answer, but former Senator Eugene McCarthy, who is an . . iildependent candidate for president, gently sidestepped most of ; :.~F~ly, after Mr. Mceriy had done a minuet aroiliJij:!.J!)_y_ ~ ·.. · /;~ut Secretary of State Henry A. Kimger, one e~~ _ ··- .. _.. ""'.',~· ... ~, .··:-··' Profile " ::c.~(~lumnist said, "Well, Gene, you realize, of course, that answer is ., absolutely headline-proof." Gene McCarthy jmt smiled his dry,. '_.·>,Whimsical smile. . :.:: ·.· 1 • -- ·-- • ., __,,_,,,.·Sy Barth J FalkenDerg staff photog~r - .. ::·:-~:.~:This man who meets the press as though he-were conducting a· · McCarthy ~-the·lli~d,~f aardv~rksls b~hlnd him :·~-;;,..);;. · '-.•,.--.~inaronAristotelianphilosophymaybethequietestcandidateof .. -~,. ~ .. _...... ·::>:-,<:"'~.,__.- · ·,-" ':\'- --~.t:::..11,':':~1 ~~'.~::·~~~.~~tx;:~=:i~~ce:;:!~~ ~~b~l!!~ft ~ewh~:J~~~-oifk~~,~~~ri~ Oii'.~e- is ~/~l _ ~-- ·. -~--.~.~metimes becomes confused with unflattering qualities. People . announces ~e'll ~ 81J in~~~(~di~_for presid~t_.&ii"Jt'- i · "· ~:.dcin't realize how deeply he feels and are 5urprised when he takes· · sort of 'so what,' you know?". ~5::-::.. ~:·~'.P~.:: >•T.:?> -· .·: ... ·:::.~,:t,:&i1·~~ <.such decisive action." She was speaking of the then-Democratic .· Mr. McCarthy still has some things to·say about politics mid' .· the tall : . ·.. senator's decision to run for presidency in 1968 on the antiwar government as he sits in blue shirt sleeves behind an almcist .. ,1 ·>~ ~ iis&ue· It was a decision that galvanized the peace movement into a bare desk at bis MCcarthy '76 headquarters here. He is miked llOW'~ ";,;: · ~potent force in the United States, eventually driving President ·· · the country would be differenfif be were president: ·.: · :· :~;, .. ~. ~#.;::\, •''..3£.~yndon B. Johnson to withdraw from the race. - . ·• . "I-don't know whetf!er·the president has that much p0wer '' ""':'_ liJve to listen hard to hear him: "We've got to get through to the . he started out .. tea.chi. ·ng. ·high· school. before.. __ getting. his master_ ·~ ·c_:. ::·country what they ought to be thinking about, get some attention. :.degreefro.mthe University of Minnesota. .. ~~r>. . .; . :. ·:·o;itj{:~ ·'";~ . _. And the press can do ~t if they set their minds to it, I think. I . In his book °"f pOeteyi '.'Other ThiDgs and th~ ~vark," he Writes:f ,· ·;.~~ !. · - annm:mced for th~ pr~adency th~ ~e day ZSa ZSa [Gabor] got .':~I am in tile· ~d-of :. the "aardvark w81king west while 8Il. th .,-_;;; c ;-.. - : ... . marned for the saxth time. I don t think I should have been on the .: aardvarks are going east; ·.~:As independent now, does he feel that _ !: ·.front page, necessarily, I wasn't a lieadline. But I.don't think she ·he's still in the ianct:c)tthe aardvarks? There iS a McCarthye5Que·· ·· · shouldhav.ebeeneither. _ · .· ·. - ·· pause, then, "I'don't"tbinkso. WesortOfinadethatcasebeforewe ' .i-~ had some things to say about policy and ·g~t in- ~""7ce1eeided U>do'tltisl'J:tlltlhere!a-a.... gcKid cballce.·afsuccess and there's-;,· -the announcement which probably should have been printed_~ -?~~~lor u.'"-:A-'':~;r:~~F ~, :-