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Show r 4 Page ' The Utah Independent June 10, 1976 8 A Conserative HUMPHREYS By Washington: The campaign to line up delegates for Senator Hubert Humphrey (D. Minn.) as of the movement to the linch-pi- n stop former Governor Jimmy Carter is being seriously hampered by recent political decisions of the former Vice President. Most harmful to the Humphrey cause was his decision not to enter the June 8 New Jersey primary where his supporters claim that he had an excellent chance of capturing a majority of that states 108 delegates. That decision made immediately after Carter won the Pennsylvania primary late in April has apparently cost Humphrey the backing of Senator Henry Jackson and many of the. 249 delegates now committed to the Washington Senator, and who are now looking around for a second choice Presidential candidate. In private conversations with several of his delegates, Jackson has taken the position that the delegates to the Democratic National Convention would be making a serious mistake to nominate anyone as their Presidential candidate that failed to run in the primaries. This d view, in rules out Senator Humeffect, who decided phrey, against testing his popularity in the primaries, including the strategic New Jersey contest which he could have entered as late as April 27. hard-nose- Jacksons has Carter make to permitted great headway in the state and win the backing position of New Jerseys Democratic Governor Brendan T. Byrne and a majority of the states Democratic Congressional delegation. With this potent party support. Carter is expected to capture a majority of states delegates. As noted in an earlier column. Representative Peter Rodino, chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, is at the top of Carters list as possible running- - In making our decision, we must use the bruins t licit God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us." Fulton Oursler A DEHYDRATOR FOR EVERY NEED BIG Speaks Out PROBLEM Paul Scott in other states, toward the prcsent r. HUMPHREY FAILED Democratic That is why Senator HumJACKSON The other harmful Humphrey decision was the failure phreys decisions not to enter the of the former Vice President to New Jersey primary and his failure help Senator Jackson in the to help Senator Jackson at a crucial time in his campaign are Pennsylvania primary. By acting like and making now working to the advantage of noises as a potential candidate Jimmy Carter. POLITICAL FLASHES himself during the Pennsylvania primary, Humphrey hurt the Chicagos Mayor Richard Daley is Jackson bid in that key state since putting out feelers to Jimmy Carter backers in indicating he is ready to make a many the labor movement that would deal under which Daley would supnormally have supported Jackson port Carter in exchange for an sat out the campaign. They were agreement by Carter to take Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson as never encouraged to do otherwise. Jackson hasnt forgotten the his running-mat- e. Daley and former Vice Presidents lack of Stevenson now control between 86 support at a most crucial time and and 100 of the state's now is refusing to give Humphreys delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Carter is backers any support or encouragement in their efforts to pull not expected to act on Daleys feelers until after the final his delegates into the latters camp. If the still budding Humphrey primaries on June 8.. ..Former campaign is to flower in time to Speaker John McCormack (D. stop Carter, the former Vice Mass.) is saying that Jimmy President will have to line up a Carters string of primary victories large share of the Jackson entitles him to a place on the I cant see Democratic ticket. delegates or at least slow down their drift into the camp of the anyway that the delegates can deny former Georgia Governor. In the Carter a place on the ticket now, opinion of most veteran political contends McCormack, a supporter observers here, only Jackson can of Senator Humphrey. McCormack would like to see and do this. Several of Jacksons labor is working for a Humphrey-Cartticket. ...Democrats plandelegates report that they are waiting to see what AFICIO ning for their convention in New President George Meany does York City are worried about both large-scademonstrations and before committing themselves. Aides of Meany say he is still about bombings or other violence neutral but that he was impressed by Castro directed terrorists. The with Carter at their long private FBI is now scanning the city for an meeting recently, particularly the estimated 125 terrorists trained in Cuba and now believed to be in former Georgia Governors New York state and surrounding in New Jersey....A backstage areas Meanys aides quote Carter as telling the grand old man of labor move is underway among that I can beat Ford or Reagan Democratic House members to two to one in the South and border force Representative Wayne Hays states, and that means 1 78 electoral (D. Ohio) to give up his Chairmanvotes. A total of 270 are needed to ship of the Democratic Congreswin. sional Campaign Committee. His in a sex scandal is involvement of labor Jacksons Any swing delegates to Carter could in turn beginning to have an adverse imtouch off a chain reaction among pact in many of the lawmakers union members, who are delegates front-runne- pro-Humphr- ey 169-mem- er le ce. -- Decisions on the defense budget should be based on the simple question of and national survival - nothing more. .. It is true greatness which needs not the air of ornament and pomp. -Margaret Bayard Smith The only way to prevent the sword from being used is to have it ready. - Christopher Gadsden PLUG GAGES And each nation swept away was submerged by force of arms. Let us he prepared, lest we, too perish. - Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur HARDENED AND STABILIZED BLANKS IN STOCK FOR .750 TO 2.510 DIA. RANGE READY FOR GRINDING AND LAPPING WE ALSO MAKE WIRE AND RING GAGES ZERO! CHECK PB oTioiTcYjVB, N C bMft I THOMAtTQNJ C0) MTU Silver and Gold COINS Bountiful Harvest now makes a superior food dehydrator in three convenient sizes . 2140 South West Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Phone (801)487-757- 9 In December 1 974 a column of mine was published, the first paragraph of which read, "I offer $1,000 reward to anyone who can prove that I have ever been a published by Church League of American, on and on he goes. the John Birch Society. The same reward for proof that I have ever been affiliated with Communists or any of their fronts." Nobody came forward to claim the reward. Well, WHAT DO YOU KNOW? On Monday, May 17, 1976 there appeared in the Knight chain newspaper, Charlotte, N.C. Observer an Associated Press (AP) release by Daniel O. Haney. On the FRONT PAGE a quite long three column article under big type heading, BIRCH SOCIETY IS A ENJOYING SUDDENLY NEW POPULARITY". I will assume that many readers of this column take a newspaper using AP wire service, and may have read the article. If not I will send a Xerox of it on request so you may relate it to what I am writing. Will include a copy of my old 1974 column on the Birchers if you want it. (E.P. Thornton, F Arcadian No. I, Murtie Beach, S.C. 29577.) If my slim supply holds out, I will send you an astonishing 31 page booklet dated Dec. 1968, authored by one Reese Cleghorn. It was commissioned by the has taken or now takes a strong stand AGAINST COMMUNISM, socialism or big bureaucracy. Cleghorn includes in his violent vilification the celebrated Paul Harvey. A flea harassing a lion. I wonder if Cleghorn would swap his newspaper job for the popularity, prestige and pelf" enjoyed by one of the favorite newscasters of 6-- Southern Regional Council (declared staffed by Communists) and the American Jewish Committee, 165 E. 56th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. The title is Radicalism, Southern Style. How did Geghorn, born in Lyerly, Georgia, get so rabid against GOOD QUESTION!! Geghorn for years was associate editor of the Atlanta ANTI-Communis- Journal-Constitutio- an n. He is now with the editorial wheel For the Charlotte Observer. duration of his job with the Atlanta paper he was subject to the influence of its editor, deceased Ralph McGill. It is said of McGill, who started out covering sports, that whatever he wrote about he would more likely than not twist the material around to prove that are the real scourge of America. "Like father, like son? Like editor, like associate editor! Geghorns booklet, now 8 years old, names nearly every sts ANTI-Commun- ist person and movement, and pot only berates them (as did his teacher Ralph McGill) but associates them mostly with what he sees as the misguided, paranoid SOUTH. I guess he includes his Georgia forebears andor relatives in the n SOUTH. Geghoms propaganda pamphlet blasts the John Birch Society with flaming (and myopic) He berates Fred rhetoric. Schwarzs Christian red-neck- ed, low-dow- Anti-Communi- Crusade. Liberty Lobby, Courtneys Independent American newspaper, Human Events weekly. Dean Manion, News & Views Any Quantity COIN CORPORATION 211 East 3900 South Phone 4 Salt Lake City, Utah The rotten is plank in that he finds Geghorns platform NOTHING honest or honorable in member or financial supporter of ANY person or publication that ANTI-Communi- Mendel Rivers TRILOCK BOUNTIFUL HARVEST FOOD DEHYDRATORS N E. P. THORNTON mate. pro-Americ- Geghorn was crossed up by Wallace and his 1972 run for the Presidency. Geghorn said Wallace had only an appeal to the backward Paranoic south. It would be interesting to see if the now historic 1972 showing of Wallace in some of the big northern and western states made a dent in the fixations of Geghorn. Just as he was dead wrong on Wallace (who had to be shot to stop him) it would appear from the recent Associated Press article S IN OWN PAPER, that he as was just wrong about the Birch APPEARING CLEG-HORN- Notwithstanding Society. everything thrown at them for years by the Communists and Geghorns of the press, they are not only alive, but reported thriving. Most of the other fanatical clubbed by Geghorn are still around. Also most of the left-wibig-cit- y newspapers are still around which can be attributed in large part not to the excellence of their staffs but to the fact that the monied media monopolists have seen to it that where there were once in many cities separately owned and rival newspapers, now such papers are in the grip of the same men and money. Cleghorn and his teacher and boss, leftist Ralph McGill, had their influence for years on Atlanta, Ga. (where I was born) and look at it now, with its demagogic black mayor, soaring, crime, hellish public schools and white flight to the suburbs. far-righti- sts ng Back to Birch. I couldnt get along without its four volume BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE LEFT, which gives me unrefuted facts about McGill, M.L. McGovern, Abernathy, King, Frank Church, Ramsey Gark, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jane Fonda and about ,000 others who might be high on the totem pole with Geghorn, but who are NOT popular with the mass of Geghorn has not yet made the listings in the Dictionary of the Left. Give him time. I have studied the Birch group and see nothing wrong with it at all. I will sign off with a repetition of the newspaper headline I used early in this column: BIRCH SOCIETY IS SUDDENLY ENJOYING A NEW 1 pro-America- ns. MONARCH 262-587- a? All the flowers of all the tomorrows are found in the seeds of today. |
