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Show Other Campus A Meeting Of The Masses By SCOTT ROBERTSON When I arrived at the dimly lit house where my mass meeting was going to be held, there wasn't one other car. Kids were still playing in the front yard, and the woman who answered the door seemed to have just finished clearing the dinner table. "Come in," she said, "my husband is still out canvassing." What she said worried me a little. Her husband was also running as a McCarthy delegate, and if there were only eight people like the last time I attended a mass meeting, he might walk off with the office. Jennie and Diane had canvassed the district, and I had called or visited as many people as I could, but delivering them to the mass meeting is still another story. Finally Jennie and Diane arrived. "We have 25 votes for sure. I just finished calling them," Jennie explained. "I'll call them again after the nominations have been made." My mind rested for awhile until almost instantly the room filled with more than 40 people. The host turned on the T.V. and explained we were to watch a short program explaining mass meetings. "Politics is fun! Politics is colorful!" the-vice chairman began in a voice' tainted with a background of "earn" and "harses." The laughter -subsided. I looked up at Jennie and Diane who were busy trying to determine whether we would make it or not The program ended and the nominations began for district 84. Rodger Renolds, Jennie's husband and a McCarthy man, was nominated for district chairman. Another nomination was made but declined because of the person's intention to run for my spot, delegate. Diane and Jennie, along with Phil Hansen, were nominated with a barage of assorted Kennedy people. Nominations Nomina-tions finally began for district delegate. The Kennedy people nominated their candidate first followed by my nomination as a McCarthy candidate. Their was another candidate nominated who said he wished President Johnson would run again. There was laughter again as three more delegates, one Kennedy and two McCarthy, were nominated. "Who is the real McCarthy delegate?" a voice shouted from behind a beard in the back of the room. Before I was aware of what was happening, I had jumped up and shouted that I was the official McCarthy Mc-Carthy candidate. I sat down embarrassed, feeling very self conscious but feeling that somehow I had done the right thing. The voting began. Jennie voted and went to call' those people who hadn't showed up yet. I talked to Phil about his campaign, voted and went to drag two votes out of bed. I'm not sure, but I think the world's record for fast vote getting is mine. When I returned, they had already begun to count the votes. "Renolds, Reiter, Renolds, Olson, Robertson Renolds, Ren-olds, Reiter, Renolds, Robertson." That's how the majority of votes went. Local victories is how Senator Sen-ator Eugene McCarthy has been gaining support all over the country. |