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Show Majority ut une Mass Duplication; Signs crying out, "Salute To Wallace Wal-lace Bennett" were posted in any ;1.fa that stickum could be applied. The audience at the Terrace had the Republican spirit and looked as if they were Z. f, ready to capture the election this year. With an at- stm; f( tiude of win in .' V., '68 the Republi- "Z ' cans payed trib- V u I utetoaman whose positions Z , seemed the anti- y" thesis of the fu- V ture Repub-ican party. What is the future Republican party? If the Republican party points as it has, the answer may prove to be Sen. Charles Percy. Log Cabin Syrup Congressman Lloyd, making the typical Utah introduction, compared compar-ed Percy to Abraham Lincoln. "At the age of five he was ... at the age of six . . . by the time he was ..." and so on was the "moving way" that Lloyd prepared the audience. audi-ence. The comparison with Lincoln at the end made one think of a six foot five mammoth that had a sad look in his eyes. Instead, a man standing about five foot eight took the podium. He began to speak and I realized who this Republican senator really was. I had heard some like him speak the previous Wednesday. He was the Republican answer to the Bobby Kennedys of today. Percy began by lauding Senator Bennett. (Bennett is the man who told a University audience that he was neither a hawk or a dove but an American Eagle. In this day and age there is nothing more necessary than a battle on semantics seman-tics as to whether Bennett's views deserve one bird or the ether.) Vive la Difference? After the formalities, Charles Percy began to echo the cries that Kennedy made two days before. "We're buried in a war. We can't win and we can't negotiate." "It is not our job to police the world. It is not our job to help these who can help themselves or will not help themselves." Kennedy's earlier statement was that the Vietnamese would have to take a greater role in the war. Kennedy told the group "of teenagers," teen-agers," as Sherm Lloyd referred to them, that we needed to have a'lies in the war in Vietnam. Percy and Kennedy didn't sound too far apart. Percy then delved into domestic matters. "We know the power of our private priv-ate sector. Republicans place more reliance in the private sector." Kennedy two days before advocated advo-cated the use of tax incentives. "We have used everything but the private secter," Kennedy said. He continued by calling for tax incentives to encourage businessmen business-men to invest in poverty areas and by so doing stimulating economies. g 'to a;. Percy reminded ti, that the difference Z , publican andaDemnnj: "Republicans are X?U- giving a hand ' ut a hand ' Kennedy told his ,,. ' People that are unem want a handout "thPv P W' fnis area it w both speakers called jR' Percy stressed the , balanced budget Z T k-. government. Kemel e Ks fact that we couj ' yend $30 billion on V r ?' seemed to underline it il I "he RepublSn1 - win a victory because peo ,! '' satisfied with the Percy represents the now fo. hcan. A Republican that i i ' it-lly moderate could e : ered a liberal by today's t ;:: mg standards. The hearing Percy and BenL t ,' d c mg- each Qther jn : sements while Percy's mi,' Bennett..6 Wbute to S Bennett - was the paradox ot Republican party today. Throughout the audience a( Terrace Friday night there : full conviction that it would bo ;' other Republican year. Jud- from what Kennedy and Percy! to say, I guess it would all dope cm how you define Republican |