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Show Other Campus It's Anybody's. Year By SCOTT ROBERTSON Democrats seem to be having more than their share of problems this year. We use to be able to confine controversy to the University's Young Democrats Demo-crats but under great state and national leadership party members have been forced to reevaluate the directions the party was being channeled. First we have President Lyndon leading liberal political po-litical science professors off like rats to drown by themselves in Johnsonian war statements. I can't w :;:: until election time when these same people, who c;;:npromised ideals in efforts to get convention support sup-port for their nomination, return to the Universities, their base of support, only to find students all voting by absentee ballots. It is almost like a man who is really- behind a meek convention learning for the first time how politics really work. Secondly we have a rather strange form of political leadership on Utah's capitol hill. Here we are with a "Democratic" governor (please take note of the quotation marks) ; a democratic governor that truly represents how western Democrats think who have lived in Alabama since birth. A western Democratic governor who is truly looking out for the people of Jtah and his party in his own pumpkin way. Take for instance the governor's handling of Rob ert Kennedy's telegram asking for his support in the Democratic national convention. The telegram was answered with a public "no" by old Cal. That really took courage, considering old Cal didn't even know if Johnson was going to run. What To Do Now Now our governor finds himself in a kind of strange position of waiting for Johnson to suggest another hawk for Utah to support. The situation really gets exciting when we see Robert Kennedy in a large ballroom, ball-room, surrounded by people who might have offered the same political and financial support to old Cals campaign they did before, and an audience of young people the kind of people who go out and work. And a week later we see another liberal intellectual gathering for Senator McCarthy the audience is not the same as Kennedy's or as large but just as willing to work. Until old Cal or George Milligan or J D Williams or George Wallace get a "Draft a Hawk" movement going I guess the other side won't have a chance to make any mistakes, unless of course they are waiting for Nixon to say something. If, by chance, conservative conserva-tive Democrats are waiting for Nixon to say something, some-thing, it may not be until after the elections are over before they find a candidate. |