European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse If of flu w d n Nii in aft Don t try to persuade the eggheads by Randolph Pendleton up staff writer Pei Nee Corley Wallace s j presidential Campaign is a Well oiled i multimillion Dollar operation that seemingly knows where it is going and How to get there. Wallice is counting on an army of Blue Collar workers to put him or a Man of his choosing in the White House and flu a he Speaks it is with the simplicity of a Drill sergeant if i it to be president and an anarchist lies Down in front of my car it la be the last car he lies Down in front , he says should be shot on sight during riots and persons Advocat ing a communist Victory in Vietnam should he tried for treason. Foreign Ai should lie Cut off from nations trading with North Vietnam he contends an they should be forced to pay Back past he finds audiences in a lighter mood he tears into professors wit pointed Heads who Don t have enough souse to Park their bicycles straight but want to write guidelines to govern others. I m going to see that some of these Federal judges Are transferred All the Way to the Moon Wallace told a cheer ing crowd of supporters after finally formally announcing his candidacy feb.8. I was going to say Alaska he added but i want to carry that lieutenants also the Folksy t try to persuade the eggheads a Wallace campaigner told the Gover nor s backers in a Northern City. Go out to the Street Corner to a carnival Barker the Little Wallace believes he now has wider Appeal than Barry Goldwater did in 19lil. Although the Odds against him be coming president Are extremely Long his third party Effort already is being called the most potent such Force since Teddy Roosevelt s Bull Moose party which helped throw the 1912 election to Wood Row Wilson. Wallace s chief threat to the major parties lies in possibly being Able to keep either the democratic or Republican nominee from getting a majority of the is electoral votes. If this should happen the House of representatives would choose the win Ner with each state delegation casting one vote. Wallace then could conceivably control the balance of Power and be Able to bargain with the other candidates. The Bantam former Alabama governor Points to his previous efforts in the 1904 democratic presidential primaries Lien he polled n.8 per cent of the vote Wallace is counting on an army of Blue ? Foliar workers to put him. W the w i � House and ii he Speaks it is the simplicity f a Drill sergeant. George Wallace on the Campaign Trail in new 26, 1968 his running mate on american Independent party ticket is Marvin in tin. The stars and stripes in Wisconsin 29.9 per cent in Indian and 42.8 per cent in Maryland. He reasons that this was achieve with a minimum of campaigning where As this year he is putting on a full fledged nationwide drive. Releases from his Campaign Headquarters con stantly refer to the fact that he could carry a state with 34 per cent of the vote if the other two candidates split the other 66 per cent evenly. To compete with the far Riche National parties Wallace has recruited a Homegrown Campaign staff from the Alabama state Capitol. He says he is financing the Campaign with contributions from the Man on the Street and not through Texas millionaires As som have suggested. Florida gov. Claude Kirk a Republican and an Arch foe of w Allace has said Wallace expects to spend $9 million on his Campaign but Wallace forces refused to discuss specific expenditures saying it depends on How much is Trammell the Campaign chairman who gave up an $18,000 year Job As state finance director to help Wallace concedes however that it will take several million dollars to run a winning Campaign and that s the kind we intend to those millions have got to come from the people Trammell said. It has been estimated that Wallace spent a half million dollars getting in stalled on the ballot in California where he persuaded 107,000 persons to Register in his new american Independent costly the California Effort went a Long Way toward establishing Wallace As a serious threat in the minds of the professionals. Here is no sign of any financial Pinch at his Headquarters spread out Over the first and fourth floors of modern office building in downtown Montgomery and overflowing into an other nearby building. Some 35 full time employees plus Many volunteers Are kept Busy answering mail and keeping the Campaign machinery says his Campaign activities will be limited somewhat for awhile be cause of his wife s illness and because he is not running in the primaries. His wife. Gov. Lurleen Wallace recently underwent another cancer operation her he says he feels Honor bound to his wife and to Alabama voters to Pushon with his Campaign. At the time he announced his candidacy for the presi Dency he explained we made the announcement at this time for several reasons and one of the main ones was that my wife Hadron on a platform that i would run for president unless the other parties picked suitable candidate. She was very concerned about " if i get to be president and an anarchist lies Down i i front of a car it la be � the last car he lies Down in front of " Page 11
