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------------_.__ ._------- ..... Will Somebody Tell The PresideDt To Stop Bombing Tlte Parly? RIPON MARCH 1, 1974 Vol. X, No.5 ONE DOLLAR "HIS TRICK KNEE IS ACTING UP AGAIN!" , CONTENTS Commentary Features Weasel Words and Party Principle ............ 4 Politics: Reports .................................................. 8 In an age of political doublespeak, the ritqJallstic State Reports on Florida, New Mexico, Rhode Is­ compilation of party platforms seems ripe ~9r re­ land, New Jersey, and Ohio. form. Michigan State Rep. Michael DivelY (R) proposes that a "statement of the majority" be submitted for the quadrennial platforms. Dively served as the chairman of the Revision and Devel­ Politics: Profiles .................................................... 11 opment Committee of the Michigan GOP, which recommended a similar step for that state party. u.s. Rep. Albert Quie of Minnesota, ranking Re­ publican member of the House Education and Labor Committee: the profile was prepared by Paul Anderson of the Minnesota Chapter. Constitutional Imbalance ................................ 5 Sen. Charles McC. Mathias (R-Md.) has been c0- chairman, along with Sen. Frank Church (D­ Politics: People .................................................... 12 Idaho), of the Special Committee on the Termina­ tion of the National Emergency. According to Mathias, the laxity of controls over emergency presidential powers applies equally to other legis­ Letters ...................................................................... 14 lation, and he urges that the principles behind the forthcoming National Emergencies Act be applied to other congressional actions. 14a Eliot Street .................................................... 15 The Party's Neglect is Not Benign ............ 6 Editorial Board member Tanya Melich recalls Duly Noted: Politics ............................................ 16 that the Republican Party has traditionally had a strong civil rights stand .,. until 1964, that is. Ms. Melich contends that the Nixon Administra­ tion has neglected the Civil Rights Commission and that the time is ripe for a new Republican commitment to civil rights matters, particularly THE RIP.ON FORUM Is publlshed semi-monthly by the Ripon Society, Inc., 509 C Street the problems of women. In Washington. 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Edward Brooke and Elliot Richardson found the officc to be highly rewarding.) The aforementioned states do have problems. Or rather, the Democrats have trouble in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Idaho, Kansas, and Alabama. The newest syno­ nym for scandal is "mini-Watergate," and the Democratic governors in all the above states are afflicted with varying degrees of political turpitude in their administrations. It is enough to gladden the hearts of Republicans sorely in need of gladdening. As one Kansas Republican commented recently at a reception for Sen. Robert Dole, "It's amazing what a little misery in the other party can do for the spirit." THE JAWS OF VICTORY Republicans this year ought to seek out the telephone operator I ran into (telephonically) the other day. After by the Ripon Society, I gave her the necessary information regarding my call, edited by Clifford W. Brown, she countered with a complete non sequitur. "Have a good will be released this spring by day," she said. 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As the political parties seek to The platform has been the source of change the 142-year-old convention many bitter floor fights at past na­ system, maybe it is time for the plat­ POLITICS tional conventions. In several instances forms to go. The Michigan Republi­ the fights in writing the platform es­ can Party recently adopted a proposal tablished an image in the voters' minds to eliminate party platforms because that led to defeat at the polls in N 0- "the final party platform is a mean­ Weasel vember, and on a few occasions the ingless piece of paper, ignored by the fight divided a party so badly that the party, the candidates, and the public." losers left to hold their own conven­ The proposal goes on to say that tion and write their own platform. "the party platform, as we know it, Words No platform probably ever elected a is coupled with the misguided notion President, but some have insured a that the Republican Party must present candidate's defeat. a consensus policy to the public - a Certainly for the party in office, the compromise that makes our basic and platform is a way to praise what has philosophy meaningless." The propos­ already been done and to set forth al suggests that in place of the plat­ what more will be accomplished in form there be at the local, distriot, Party the coming term. For the party out of and state levels "statements of the ma­ power, it is a way to point out what jority" on major issues of concern. the incumbent has not done, and Following debate on a major issue what, if elected, the out-of-power par­ statement, a vote of the delegates Prinaiple ty would- accomplish. But surely we would be taken and recorded. This don't need platforms to do this - the would allow both sides to be heard as by Michael Dively individual candidates do this anyway, well as reflected in the vote.
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