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Show to 3 v I . Convention Hstudies '64 ICampaign if jiSS. , At the Western Political Sci-Convention, Sci-Convention, recently held ASES " Victoria, B.C., F. Clifton !h White, former National Director 7L Draft Goldwater Commit-u2 Commit-u2 read a lively paper on the ME not Goldwater campaign, nwu WHITE SAID that Goldwater -CJid not want to run for the presidency and appeared not to J f ant to be President. As director of Goldwater's nomination cam-orly cam-orly paign, White originally thought Goldwater would be a competi- ' i live man, since his life and ac-Tj ac-Tj complishments had demonstrated 1 ; to tendency. i i However, in the campaign, fo noted, Goldwater was not I A i competitive; he chose to explain, I rather than fight DR. FRANK H. Jonas, a mem- Mil to of our department of political politi-cal science, stated in his presi-dential presi-dential address that in light of He past presidential campaign, American politics are conservative. conserva-tive. . Conservatism of the American people led Goldwater to down- :D,0I( fall in his bid for the presidency. THE ONLY real issue in the iano campaign, noted Dr. Jonas, was . 4 in the role the federal government told play in the lives of in- Sym-1 dividual citizens and in local in A government affairs. "The increasing role of the rvite era' fovernment 'n local affairs af-fairs was an integral part of lMMI the consensus. Goldwater failed "j to evaluate correctly the con-Jsensus, con-Jsensus, or if he did, he chose to run against it, not with it," i commented Dr. Jonas. "GOLDWATER and his associates asso-ciates failed to note that he ap-I ap-I peared to large segments of voters as a radical reactionary one who wanted to uproot present pres-ent forms and return to old and I i worn out ones." "In doing so, he advocated an about face and a return to the fst. To reverse one's direction , is as much or more of a social ge than going forward," stated Dr. Jonas. GOLDWATER appeared to the electorate as a radical, and since to American people tend to be conservative, they voted for Lyn- i f011 hnson, who is a conserva- i we. , Carroll Hurd, head of the polit- science department, was j 'lKtl to membership of the I executive Council of the Western I; "lltical Science Aecnninrinn fnr 'o year term. ALSO, FOR the first time, the I ror of the "Western Political ' was made a member " me Council too. At Present, Dr. Ellsworth eaver of our political science Wrnent will fill the new tacity as he is the present f of the "Qaurterly." ! w. Frank Jonas is also a 1 Jwber of the Council by virtue ,,ein? we outgoing president f the Association. |
