WAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1964 PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1964 U.S. Voters To End Strange, Bitter' '64 Campaign By J. W. DAVIS Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer WASHINGTON - Millions of Americans-perhaps over 70 mil- lion-will write an end Tuesday to 1964's strange and bitter pres- idential campaign. Their votes may set America's course for years to come, at home and in a world where troubles nev- er seem to end. They- will decide whether they want to go along with Big Gov- ernment programs backed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as vital to welfare and progress, or take up Barry Goldwater's call for a cutdown on Washington's direction and control of the af- fairs of individuals and business- es. The civil rights issue could be i a big factor. Here the question is whether Negroes are getting what they deserve, more than they deserve or less than they deserve. Dangerous? Much of the campaign has been given over to arguments on wheth- er Republican Goldwater is trig- ger-happy in a dangerous world, as the Democrats charge, or whether Democrat Johnson is the reckless one, and "soft" on Com- munism, as the Republicans say. Voters will carry into the bal- loting places concern about the endless fighting Viet Nam, the leadership overturn in Russia, and the fact that tough-talking Red China now has the A-bomb. Standing out among the do- mestic issues are Republican charges that scandal and immor- ality stain the government under Johnson, and Democratic state- ments that "Goldwaterism" would spread spiritual blight and physi- cal suffering across the country. Dems Favored Since the campaign began, the odds have favored Johnson and his Democrats. They have pros- perity going for them, for one big thing. Negro leaders and organized labor, plus some big businessmen, are in their corner. The pollsters have shown a constant, wide mar- gin for Johnson. In fact, the polls have been showing Johnson with a bigger lead than any presidential candi- date since Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. This can be a chilling thought for frontrunners; Dewey was beaten by Harry S. Truman. No Vice? One early peak was the storm son. He was secretary to the Dem- ocratic majority in the Senate when Johnson was majority lead- er, and he resigned under fire during inquiries into his money- making side deals. The Senate in- vestigation of his actions has been put off until after the election, despite Republican cries of "White House coverup." Explain!' Goldwater observed that the polls and pundits have missed something he saw as troubling the people. "Now we know what it is," he continued. "The people have look- ed at the White House and found it dark with scandal. The people have looked at the man who occu- pies the White House and found him shadowed by suspicions which no amount of handshaking and hurrahs can chase away." Johnson, condemning Goldwa- i i t i Governor-Hopefuls Evaluaie 'Coa ttails' s s l i By NEIL GILBRIDE Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Governor's mansions in 25 states are at stake in Tuesday's election, and many of the candidates are fretting over how the White House vote will affect their ambitions. Voters in 11 states will choose a brand new chief executive. In 14 other states, they'll either renew the present governor's lease or evict him. Eighteen of the 25 gov- ernorships are now held by Demo- crats. While state problems tend to dominate governorship campaign- ing, the candidates are keeping a wary eye on the presidential race. The coattails of President Lyndon B. Johnson or GOP candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz) could help furnish a ride into the gov- ernor's mansion for some. But for others, setting foot on the Johnson or Goldwater coat- tails might be disastrous. Knowles, Reynolds Republican Warren P. Knowles, running in Wisconsin against Democratic Gov. John P. Reynolds, summed up the coattail problem: mInma non-presidential year, I would swamp Reynolds. But if Johnson carries the state by 100,- 000 votes, I will be in trouble." The problem varies with every state. Some governorship candi- dates are riding the coattails of their party's presidential candi- date for all they're worth. Others ride with one foot on and one foot off. Some won't ride at all. Romney, Staebler Goldwater has some strong backers in Michigan, but Gov. George Romney is studiously ig- noring the presidentialdcandidate to run on the record of prosperity he says he has brought to the state.' But Romney's opponent, Demo- cratic Rep. Neil Staebler won't let the governor forget Goldwater. Staebler also contends it was the policies of the Kennedy-Johnson administration that made Michi- gan's economic upsurge possible. In a reverse example, Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas exhibits only lukewarm interest inethe Johnson candidacy 'in a state where the racial issue and antipathy to the administration's civil rights record ;'a strong factor. Faubus, Rockefeller i5aubus prefers to plug for his zixth term by claiming h~e brought prosperity to Arkansas and de- pecting his Republican opponent Winthrop Rockefeller as a kind of rich carpetbagger. Rockefeller criticizes the long# tenure of Faubus, who came to1 national attention by resisting federal integration efforts in 1957, and says Arkansas needs a two- party system.< But Rockefeller shows only, slightly more enthusiasm for Gold- water than Faubus does for John- son. Rockefeller backed the bid of his brother, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, against Goldwater at the GOP national convention. Percy, Kerner The political climate, and thus the coattail problem, is consider- ably different in big industrial Il- linois where Democratic Gov. Otto Kerner and GOP opponent Charles H. Percy are leaning on their re- spective national. party tickets-- Kerner to a greater degree than Percy. Kerner, pumping for votes on the basis of his claims for jobs and business gains, is closely dove- tailing his campaign with John- son's. Percy, protege of former Presi- dent Dwight D. Eisenhower, went along with the Illinois delegation's support for Goldwater at the na- tional convention and has cam- paigned with him at home. How- ever, Percy is stressing his own bid for the governorship over the national GOP ticket. 8 t 8 X C c f 1 t 7 i about what critics called Gol ter as "the new and frightening water's extremism on the far right, voice of the Republican party,, an issue whipped up by fellow Re- always referring to him as a sort publicans at the national party of temporary element in politics, convention, and carried along by avoided mentioning him by name. Democrats. Not Me A lately-arrived-at peak was the notheb disclosure on Oct. 14 that one of The Johnson theme has een Johnson's closest associates, Wal- responsibility, prosperity, peace ter Jenkins, had twice been ar- and justice. / rested on morals charges. Jenkins Nothing was clearer in this cam- was forced to resign his high White paign than Johnson's fervent de- House post after the arrests be- termination to win the presidency came known. He had been John- on his own. Yet he kept alive the son's confidante and devoted aide torch passed to him in the assassi- for 25 years. nation of President John F. Ken- The Jenkins case probably hurt nedy almost one year ago. Johnson politically, but how much This campaign, he declared in no one could tell. Its edge was mid-October, has become a cru- blunted by sensational foreign de- sade "for the ideals and values velopments which followed quick- which inspired John Fitzgerald ly-the dumping of Soviet Pre- Kennedy." mier Nikita S. Khrushchev and Johnson was reported months Communist China's first nuclear ago to be shooting for a better explosion, showing than Franklin D. Roose- Don't Rock the Boat velt made in 1936, when FDR won, Politicians usually figure that 46 states to 2. One Democrat close foreign crises help the man in of- to Johnson has said, only half- fice, since there is a reluctance jokingly, that what the Presi- to change in time of trouble. dent wants is to win by acclama- Goldwater didn't comment on tion. the Jenkins case when it broke. The LBJ strategy is to sweep However, he had already been the East, hold a possible South- hammering on scandals he said ern revolt in check and pick' up had darkened the White House. strength in the Midwest and West. At one point he said the Bobby Goldwater has been saying he Baker case was hurting Johnson can win if he can carry Califor- more than anything else. nia, Texas, Illinois, Ohio and In- Baker used to be close to John- diana plus Southern and Western' states he has counted on from the start. The importance of the vice-pres- idency has been upgraded in 1964, mainly because of the public's shocked realization last November that a President's life can be end- ed in an instant. Hand-Picked Both vice-presidential candi- dates-Rep. William E. Miller (R- NY) and Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn)-were hand-picked by the presidential nominees. Never before had anything hap- pened like Johnson's in-person "nomination" of Humphrey last August at the Democratic conven- tion in Atlantic City. Goldwater's choice of Miller, though less dramatic, was just as firm-handed. The Republican convention delegates at San Fran- cisco simply went along. The big Democratic charge against Goldwater is that he is top impulsive, trigger - happy, and might get the United States into a nuclear war. Goldwater, while calling it a lie, recognized it as "the most damaging thing I have run into." He's Changed In an effort to get this burden off Goldwater's back, former President Dwight D.. Eisenhower came out with a statement say- ing Goldwater has changed over the years. "For a long time he was a free- wheeling senator and could not be held accountable for everything he said. Today there is nothing flip, no impulsiveness about him." Goldwater has said that if he is elected, he'll ask Eisenhower to go to Viet Nam and see what can be done to end the fighting there. The war holds potentially great damage to the Johnson adminis- tration politically, aside from its broader effects. Johnson at one time set up the possibility of a conference with Khrushchev, if he won. With Khrushchev now sidelined, new steps were in order. Backlash? There is the great but hard-to- measure issue of "the white back- lash"-the question being wheth- er whites in large numbers might vote against Johnson because of his backing of the new federal civil rights law, and because ofa resentment against Negro demon- strations. Johnson has taken the stand that for every Democratic voter who turns against him on the civil rights issue, three Republicans will{ turn against Goldwater because of fear of what he might do with nuclear weapons if he is given the presidency. When Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama withdrew in July as an independent candidate for Presi- dent, it was taken as a boost for Goldwater, who voted against the civil rights law. Good Showing All four top candidates have pulled enthusiastic crowds, some of them huge. Johnson made full use of his unique advantages as President, too. He had more to tell the peo- ple than that they ought to vote Democratic. He was able to bul- wark his talks with sensational announcements of satellite-killing rockets and radar that can see around the curve of the earth. A Goldwater campaign feature was the obvious dedication of a solid core-men and women who cheered him even when they couldf not hear what he was saying. They clearly looked upon him as the country's saviour. Verbal Scalpels Goldwater also demonstrated a facility for saying sharp things about the opposition without sounding nearly as harsh as his words would look in print. Those who traveled with Gold- water often remarked on his cas- ual, almost carefree air. In the final weeks of the cam- paign Goldwater's strategists turn- ed more and more to television. They figured he had just the per- sonality for it-they said they wished they could afford to put him on more often. ADA Ties Miller time and again attacked Humphrey's longtime association with the organization Americans for Democratic Action. Miller said the ADA, which de- scribes itself as a liberal, inde- pendent political organization, is i trying to "transform our govern- ment into a foreign, socialistic to- talitarianism." To this, and similar thrusts, Humphrey replied. f "This puts Miller in strange company. I hope he'll take a good look at the enemies of ADA, such as Communists and Birchites. If Miller wants to associate with those groups, he may. I don't care to." The role of the John Birch So- ciety, and its right-wing views, came up importantly in the "ex- tremism" fight at the Republican national convention. Gov. William Scranton of Penn- sylvania, opposing Goldwater for the nomination, tried to get the convention to denounce the so- ciety by name, but the platform committee refused to do so. One big difference between this campaign and the 1960 Kennedy- Nixon contest is that four years ago there were four television de- bates between the presidential [candidates, watched by millions. 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