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Show Percy Running Mate i . . . Mock Convention Tabs Rockefeller pwn ipwa - w - - -v--, ' '71 I - 'j i" ,' ;4 'J i 5"v - x W I, ' n i Hill I 11 Wumt&mn m inn iini-. I i. hi imiii M Activity was characteristically heavy in the G.O.P. Mock Conven- -tion held Saturday in the Union. Delegates chose a Rockefeller-Percy ticket. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller (R-ktf.Y.) (R-ktf.Y.) swept the Republican Mock Conventions Saturday to receive the jf." bid on the presidential ticket. Sen. j, Charles Percy (R-IU.) was named ( as Gov. Rockefeller's vice presi-' presi-' dential running mate, is After the convention in Kingsbury Kings-bury Hall closed, the Rockefeller camp, led by campaign manager Bill Stoddard, sent a telegram to the governor's mansion in Albany, t N.Y., congratulating Gov. Rocke-. Rocke-. feller on winning the convention and urging him to enter the race for the White House. ; Gov. Rockefeller clearly led the balloting throughout the morning ' and afternoon sessions. Victory J came on the second ballot when the New York Republican received i: 724 votes surpassing the needed 5 simple majority of 656. Gov. Rocke-i Rocke-i feller's closest contender was Gov. Ronald Reagan (R-Calif.) who tal-5 tal-5 lied 459 votes. Support for former ; vice president Richard M. Nixon never got off the ground, so after receiving only 65 vote's on the first I ballot Nixon backers threw their ' support to Gov. Reagan. Nixon Nets 3 Votes On the first ballot Gov. Rocke-t Rocke-t feller netted 393 votes, Sen. Percy - gained 214 votes, Gov. Percy re- ceived 191 votes and a number of " favorite sons, including keynote speaker Gov. Robert Smylie (R-Ida.), (R-Ida.), received a few votes. During the second ballot, Sen. Percy's followers threw their support sup-port to Gov. Rockefeller, while Mr. Nixon's backers changed their votes to Gov. Reagan. On the second sec-ond ballot, Mr. Nixon received only three votes. Gov. Rockefeller's support was strong from the beginning. The 1 Reagan group put on a hard campaign cam-paign at the end but could not to over take the Rockefeller machine. !' The Reagan "hospitality center" supplied delegates with free refreshments re-freshments while supporters instructed in-structed the students in G o v. Reagan's Rea-gan's merits. Rockefeller supporters heckled Jeff Swinton, Utah state chairman, as he nominated Gov. Reagan. Reagan Rea-gan backers in turn refused to accept ac-cept the nomination of Gov. Rockefeller Rocke-feller by acclamation. "It was 1964 all over again," remarked re-marked a prominent campus Republican. Re-publican. The Ohio delegation tried to use a favorite son nomination of Gov. Rhodes as a bloc to control the convention, con-vention, but it failed. "It was a Rockefeller convention from the beginning," said a Missouri Mis-souri delegate, "and it became evident evi-dent during the demonstrations." The demonstrations included signs, balloons, a rock group called the "Elastic Bands," yelling and all the other ballyhoo associated with a national convention. Gov. Smylie's address stressed the need for a Republican President Presi-dent while he told of the failures of the Democratic Party. "No party, under any President, has ever made such a mess of handling the nation's affairs, either at home or abroad," he said. "Never before in our history has our national government been the object of such massive disbelief by the very people who chose it to serve them," Gov. Smylie continued. con-tinued. He spoke on the rising cost of inflation in-flation and its problems saying you "can't fill a bread basket with inflated in-flated dollars." On the subject of today's politics, poli-tics, Gov. Smylie said, "The disunity disuni-ty of the Democratic Party is deeper deep-er now, and more threatening to the national welfare than Republican disunity of 1964. And the result is apt to be the same. A party so divided cannot summon the resolution resolu-tion to effectively govern America, and the people know it and they will vote that way." He stated America must have a change from the Democratic Party which is not meeting the world of turmoil of today. "A change from Hubert who will echo the same old tired ideas," said Gov. Smylie. New Ideas Needed "It takes a change too, from an imitation of the inimitable John F. Kennedy '. . . some brother might do well playing the part of King Richard but not this brother," he continued. "And it takes a change too, from the tired academics of a second class Stevenson. It is nice to sound rotund and scholarly, but that went out of style in 1956." The change, asserts Gov. Smylie, can be met with the Republicans. Friday night's convention debated the platform which included a reassessment re-assessment of American policy in Vietnam. 7 f V- ' 1U X i yyt , ij j ROBERT SMYLIE . . keynote speaker |