It Will Be Johnson Hy a Landslide by WILLIAM HENDERSON and 14 Per Cent Supported Goldwater
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The survey was the last of a dozen ordered the U.S. into a conflict with the Communists. Up to last week, GOP National Committee last May by Democratic National chairman John For his peace and prosperity campaign John- Chairman Dean Burch discounted polls showing Bailey, the Register learned. son was given an overwhelming rating of 97 per Johnson in a/funaway race with Goldwater. The figures show the President making tremen- cent of the polled vote to the GOP candidate's 3 per Although [Burch never did say his candidate was dous gains in the large cities with Republican cent. ahead, he didv state only last night that the Arizon- candidate Barry Goldwater's strength concentrated The large increase in registration in many ian had made tremendous strides the past three in many suburban areas throughout the country. states was also given as a reason for the predicted weeks. According to the report, made by a large re- large majority for the President at the polls next Republican leaders are certain the Independent search firm which handles such political jobs, the Tuesday. and "silent voters" will help Goldwater. score a mir- President's lead over Goldwater has steadily in- The White House informant said that Johnson acle win on Election Day. creased since August, is so elated over the poll results and the enthusias- They cite the 1948 election when Harry^Truman Civil rights is the big issue which boosted John- tic crowds which have greeted him along the cam- upset Thomas E. Dewey. But figures show there son into such a commanding advantage over his paign trail that he has ordered a switch in tactics never was the wide poll spread between the two GOP opponent. The poll also revealed that split with the election but six days away. men that many persons believed there was. voters were flocking to the President's side. The source said the President feels the cam- Various Democratic chairmen may continue to In the survey, voters who were questioned pre- paign issues have been well rehashed and explained take polls but the national committee is satisfied ferred Johnson, 67 to 33 per cent as the man best by this time. wilh the one now on the President's White House suited to keep America out of war. He ordered Chairman Bailey to instruct all desk. • Because of his stand on civil rights 86 per cent Democratic State Chairmen to spend the remaining His aide said: "The President has stopped run- of the voters polled said Johnson was their man campaign days in urging party workers to get every ning scared." LB J Cites Voter Stakes, Issues LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) start of a day-long tour through Going on to stress issues "That is pure, dirty racism we are outnumbered. — President Johnson, who the West that actually was which he says find him and and propaganda that is being throughout the world." claims he is wrapping election aimed primarily at voters in Goldwater far apart, Johnson passed around. There is not any He said no one ought ever issues around Barry Gold- Southern California. concluded, in his stiffest lan- bill that Congress ever passed "choose to fight it out on the water's neck, said today he will The President's strongest guage: "We cannot and we will that takes any job away from basis of color" because if they "not play the war game of bluff language was prepared for the not play the war game of bluff anybody." did, "the white folks are in trou- HELLO THERE — President Johnson leant over anfljsfrabi hold of arm of one of and bluster." New Mexico crowd. and bluster. That risk is too Johnson said some people ble, I will tell you that." many thousands who turned out to greet him in Boston last night on the first leg of a Johnson bore down on ques- He said: "The stakes in the great." "put out a lot of words to try to Today, in a text readied for «rois-country campaign trip. Johnson addressed a crowd in Post Office Square. tions of war and peace in a election are success and survi- Before swinging into the West, smear and fear and scare peo- delivery from, the steps of the speech prepared for an outdoor val. The issues are recklessness Johnson made a quickie tour of ple who are working by saying Los Angeies City Hall, Johnson IAP Wirephoto) audience at Albuquerque, N.M.J or responsibility." the Northeast Tuesday night. In that some other man is going to satdhis election would mean the Pittsburgh's ultra- modern Civic get his job." nation wilt "go forward to a Auditorium, he delivered one of He went on to relate that his future of horizons unlimited." the most surprising speeches of wife Lady Bird had told him "We are going full speed his campaign. that an Alabama worker ap- ahead. We are not going back to Ticking off a series of major proached her on her Southern a past of muddling and make- Barry Aims Attack at Humphrey policy questions, including the whistle- stop tour and said: "I believe, mudslinging politics civil rights law, Johnson said have been thinking about this and mildewed policy." CEDATt RAPIDS. Iowa (AP) "I charge," the Arizona sena- Johnson, he said, "has failed as his successor he has kid- bert, I really get the trembles." with direct reference to Gold- problem a lot, and they have Johnson said his first horizon — Sen. Barry Goldwater said tor said, "that the Johnson ma- to arouse real grass roots sup- naped the Democratic party — Goldwater complained that water: "These are all issues in put out a lot of stories about was to: seek "unlimited oppor- today President Johnson "kid- chine is driven by lust for pow- port for his candidacy." tied it up in a neat bundle for Johnson has "the support of this campaign, and we are what has happened. But I be- tunity for everyone of our peo- naped the Democratic party" er, by fear of the exposure of Goldwater declared Republi- eventual delivery to the Ameri- many good and honest people wrapping them right around his lieve that I would rather have a ple, regardless of race or creed for eventual, delivery to Social- wrongdoing in high places, by cans have that kind support, cans for Democratic Action, the who, even though they are neck." Negro stand beside me on an or language or origin." Uts when he chose Sen. Hubert fear of punishment and by hope and said the backing of small most effective radical socialist heartsick at the moral blackout The President later, speaking assembly line than to stand He went on to speak of every H. Humphrey as his running of special privilege." newspapers and of "close to one organization in the land." in the Johnson administration, off the cuff, cited a newspaper behind me in a soup line." child absorbing the best educa- Bate. Cites Contributors million" small contributors Raps Humphrey nevertheless have been swayed advertisement — repudiated by The President said, "We are tion in his grasp, "the horizon of The Republican nominee for Goldwater alternated between demonstrate it. Goldwater had been chopping by one of the most immoral Goldwater — which he said not going to say that the good personal security," which he the White House hammered defense and attack in a speech The senator said of Johnson: away at Humphrey all week. actions of all — the big lies of claims that his administration Lord Intended that the tall men said would include medical care •way at his charge that Johnson prepared for a rally at Cedar "He has the support of many "Every time I think of the small the administration." seeks laws that would make should be treated different than for the aged under .Social Secu- It hungry for power, and ac- Rapids, Iowa. It kicks off a day traditional Democrats who possibility that the President He "said Johnson misrep- Negroes happy, jobwise, and the short men or that the white rity, a horizon-of discovery in cused the President of trying to of Midwestern vote-hunting that cept his party label, without might be re-elected, I shake," resents his positions, and will white, people glum. men should be treated different- space and pn earth and, finally, frighten people into voting for will take him also to Oshkosh, looking beyond it to see that' in he said in London, Ky., Tues- not debate campaign questions "I want to meet that one head ly from the black men or the "the unlimited horizon of uni- him.