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EDITOR'S NOTE - J. Edgar Hoov-
er once called the Black Panther
party the greatest threatto the in-
*tertial security of the United States.
But Bobby Seale, who- helped found
the party, says Black Panthers have
traded the gun for the ballot box,.
and expect to change the system
that way. Seale himself is running
for mayor of Oakland. He gives his
views of the party and its new meth-
ods in the following.
OAKLAND, Calif. (IP) - Bobby
Seale, running for mayor of
Oakland, says his Black Panth-
ers are more of a threat to the
established order with ballots in
their hands than with guns.,
The same Seale who was
bound and gagged in a Chicago
courtroom and charged in New
Haven, Conn., with a torture
murder is talking to Rotary
Clubs these days about how the
Panthers are registering black
voters, testing for sickle cell
anemia and handing out bags
of free groceries.
"The party is more of a threat
to the system with what we're
doing now than it ever was be-
fore," Seale says.
Wearing a shirt and tie, the
35-year-old party chairman sat
in the Panthers' office for an in-
terview and peered out a second-
-story window over the Oakland
streets, where he and Huey P.
Newton started the Black Panth-
er party for self-defense six
years ago.
Seale's campaign for mayor
signals the move from militancy
and clashes with the police to a
morecpoliticalpush within the
system. He sees the party "re-
turning to its original vision.
'We've put the party back on
the right track . . . We look at
the party in the past and rea-
lize our mistakes."
The average white person of
the community has decent living
conditions. We don't want their
decent living conditions to stop.
We want to increase the living
conditions down here," he says.
Black Panthers, including
Seale's brother John, were elect-
ed last month to 6 of 18 seats on
a board that helps allocate $4.9
million a year in antipoverty
funds.
"This shows the party can
pull out the voters," Seale says.
"It shows people relate to us
Ifighting within the system."
Four other Panthers, including
Ericka Huggins, Seale's code-
fendant in Connecticut, have
been elected to an antipoverty
council in nearby Berkeley.
Three Panthers are running
for seats open on the Oakland
City Council. Like Seale, they
announced a year ahead for the
election next April.
One Panther goal is to register
black voters in Oakland, an in-
dustrial, city of 362,000-35 per
cent black - where the poor live
down on sprawling flatlands and
the rich live up in surrounding
hills.
"I have to bring these people
in contact with the bureaucra-
cy," Seale says. "It's about time
black people had some power
and representation."
Black Panthers working as
county registrars have signed, up
the majority of new voters in
Oakland since June, the regis-
-trar's office reports. Some 200
Panthers are county voter regis-
trars. They man supermarket
tables and go door to door eve-
nings, signing up an average of
2,000 voters a week, Seale says.
Another goal is the organiza-
tion of a "political machine" for
the first time In the black com-
munity, Seale says. "The or-
ganization of people behind a
mayoral campaign, behind a
person like myself, will give
some kind of community organiz-
ation that never existed before."
Seale explains his idea *of a
"machine" is handing out 22,000
bags of free groceries "with a
fat chicken in every one," test-
ing 15,000 people since March for
sickle cell disease, training 200
black volunteers to give the tests
and treating 200 to 300 people a
week in the Panthers' free health
clinic. The clinic in Berkeley and
other activities are financed by
revenue from the Panthers'
weekly national paper, "The
Black Panther," and contribu-
tions.
Atsfive "survival conferences"
since March, the party has hand-
ed out groceries, mainly donated
by businessmen. Seale and New-
ton spend much of their time
speaking, writing and meeting
with community groups and lead-
ers.
Dozens of Panthers are work-
ings on his campaign. Others
man the party business office.
Panthers also run a free shoe fac-
tory and a breakfast program for
school children. Seale is the
father of two sons.
Although it claims 38 chapters
nationally it is party policy never
to disclose membership num-
bers. The FBI estimates a na-
tional total membership of al-
most 1,000.
Seale says his campaign will
appear traditional, "butrit's go-
ing to be a very different kind-
of thing. People will see me in a
tie, getting on the radio and TV.
Posters? I'll have more posters
than the law'll allow." His cam-
paign may cost as much as $50,-
000 to $100,000, he says, depend-
ing on what other candidates do.
This contrasts with the man
who four years ago appeared, at
San Francisco State in the
Panthers' black leather jacket
and black beret uniform and said
the only answer blacks had to
Bobby Seale
campaign
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what he called white brutaliza-
tion was "guns and force." It
is the same Bobby Seale who was
bound to his chair in a Chicago
courtroom, screaming for his
constitutional rights through a
gag.
"I'm still yelling for my right,"
he says now. "I know what it
means to be falsely charged. All
this just makes me work harder
now."
Seale was accused with the
Chicago 7 of conspiring to incite
a riot at the 1968 Democratic Na-
tional Convention. Seale's case
was severed from the others aft-
er Judge Julius J. Hoffman or-
dered him bound and gagged in
the colrt room. A mistrial was
later declared and the govern-
ment has not moved for a retrial.
In New Haven, Seale and Mrs.
Huggins were codefendants in a
case growing out of the murder
of another Panther. Seale spent
almost two years in jail and
went through two stormy mis-
trials before the charges were
dropped and he and Mrs. Hug-
gins were freed in May, 1971.
"We had this idea for running
for office a long time ago. But
we had a lot of people who did-
n't exactly relate to breakfast
programs such as Eldridge Clea-
ver. He wanted to call breakfast
for children programs 'sissy
stuff.' I don't think feeding peo-
ple is sissy stuff."
"Then the press would print
what some lying politician would
say, 'Those guys are going to'
come up in the white community
and shoot up white people.' It
never was the case, never was."
"Now you don't see our guns.
But we still have a concept of
the right to have guns in our
homes by the Second Amend-
ment and if they shoot at us
we're going to shoot back, see?"
The party has been split since
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fugitive in Algeria.
"I don't think the party has
time to apologize for its mis-
takes, because everybody goes
through growing pains," Seale
says. "Huey Newton and I were
put in prison and the party got
off the track. Eldridge Cleaver
influenced the party, cussing out
preachers, not wanting to work
in the church. Well, every Sun-
day morning, 40 per cent of the
black nation is sitting in church."
Seale says he hope white vot-
ers will support him: "At least
their tax money, hopefully, will
get to something constructive. I
mean a lot of people, even if
they'r° racists, they . worry,
about w-v aren't those problems
sol-ed? You know, why aren't
those problems of blacks down
there solved?"
As a carpenter's son, Seale
says his "pet project" as mayor
would be organizing 3,000 to
4,000 black youth to work sum-
mers with carpenters to upgrade
housing in black areas. "You
hear about the youth in 1965
burninq down the community,
eh? Well if you get 3,000 or 4,000
of them working like this, would
they burn down their own cre-
ations? No."
The present mayor, John Read-
ing, says he has not decided whe-
ther to seek a third term but is
confident Seale "will not win any
substantial number of votes."
So far, no one but Seale has
announced for the mayor's job, a
part-time, policy-making post
that pays $7,500 a year. Oakland
government is run by the city
manager's office.
"I think he can win hands
down," says Charles Garry, the
Panthers' white lawyer. "The
party is registering- men and
women who have never voted in
their lives . . What they're
saying is that black people
should take over their own insti-
tutions."
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WASHINGTON (U) - The McGovern-Butz wrangle over
wheat dealings with the Soviet Union and alleged footsie
playing between the Agriqulture Department and the private
grain trade has turned into the most heated farm event in
this election year.
Four years ago, when Richard Nixon and Hubert Hum-
phrey were running, the Republicans were decrying low
farm prices, farm debt, the exodus of farmers to town and
rising costs of production.
Orville Freeman, then secretary of agriculture, accused
Nixon of "artful deception" in
not making his farm views
clear.
"It is unconscionable," Freeman ;> t'* -" : f.
said on Oct. 11, 1968, "to ask farm-
ers to vote for leadership for the
nex't four years on the basis of
which candidate has the widest
smile and the brightest shoe {
shine."'
Today while the old standard is-
sues of rural bread and butter are
still raised, the huge sales of U.S.
grain to the Soviet Union are
standing high on the' rhetorical :
scale for Republican and Demo- 5
crats alike.
Sen. George McGovern, Demo
craticecongressional inquisitors.-
and others raise questions whe- Se. Mc~overn
ther Agriculture Secretary Earl
Butz and aides have fully dis-
closed details about the Soviet
grai sale and the roles of USDA
among private export companies.
Suggestions by McGovern that
. secret deals were made and the
information purposely leaked to
some trading companies have been
denied by Butz as "bald-faced lies"
and attempts by the Democrats
to scuttle the Soviet deals.
Butz denies emphatically that
the McGovern charges will lessen
\Tixon's chances among farmers
in November.
lHe said they wouldn't "because
this Russian grain sale was a tre-
mendous thing for the American
farmer, the American maritime
unions. We estimate that for every
million tons of grain sold we create
between 3,000 and 5,000 additional
jobs."
That adds up to between 25,000 I
and 30,000 more jobs for an en-
tire year, Butz said.Se Bu
"You're not going to make the
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