European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse V the wisc Ibn primary by David smothers up staff writer Here is a Friendly Little place in the City of Wisconsin rapids called the Towne club and the other Day two women were peering out the front win Dow As Richard Nixon hand Shook his Way out of the labor Temple across the Street. One woman said. Now if that was Bobby Kennedy i d be right Over the other woman the one who was tending bar looked a Little dreamy and said i d Fly right through the that s the Way it goes in Wisconsin less than a week before primary time. Nixon is pressing a Campaign so polished and precise it has been called kind of political overkill. Reporters fight for a Chance to ride in the same plan with Eugene Mccarthy the courtly senator from the state next door who has found the place in the hearts of liberals where Adlai Stevenson used Tolive. But still the talk in Wisconsin these Days keeps turning to the Man who in there Robert f. Kennedy. There Are other men of note whore not Here and Are not Likely to be before election Day april 2. One is Lyn Don Johnson who is on the primary ballot. Another is Nelson Rockefeller who is not. They Are spoken of Rocke Feller in Wistful tones following his Bow ing out of the race. But the talk heats up when the conversation gets around to Bobby. He talk can be bitter. A few hours after the television set in Mccarthy s Headquarters in Madison carried his announcement of candidacy Volunteer worker Alice Twombley finned my re action was it can be calculated. A Kenne Ybrain Truster spooned onion soup in the restaurant of a hotel in Madison that Day and purred if Gene finds on april3 he has Tio per cent of the Wisconsin vote he s not going to complain if he got some of those votes because of the Kennedy it can be scornful. Mccarthy put his guts on the line a Man watching the fights on television in a Madison bar declared. Now Kennedy sees he s getting somewhere so he s getting or the talk can be warm and evocative of another Kennedy As in the Towne club at Wisconsin rapids. The talk is a reflection of the ambiguity of this second of the nation s great primary Sweepstake. B o b b y made it so March 16 when he rewrote Page 12 for president a 4""r r a Jyh Bah. Onyta Are offered Mccarthy at work in Racine he May look like a presidential candidate but refuse to act like i Nixon on the Campaign Trail in eau Claire he Sticks around to shake As Many Han s As Are o Ere the ground rules by tacking an uninvited Kennedy for president Tail to Mccarthy s Wisconsin Kite. Fresh from new Hampshire where he scored one of the few unquestioned moral victories in modern political his tory Mccarthy finds himself counting on help from a quite unwelcome source Bobby. Nixon relishing a record new Hampshire vote finds himself in the predicament of a Miler who has run out of decent Competition for the time being and has no one to race against except the clock and possibly. Bobby. Johnson s Wisconsin managers Are fight ing to keep the regular party apparatus together. Their trouble is that Many of those who have not defected already to Dene Are beginning to Tingle for Bobby. Nixon really has Little to worry about except perhaps the embarrassment of watching republicans Cross Over into the Peppy democratic scrap As they May under Wisconsin s primary election Law. Pragmatic pro that he is Nixon swell aware that he May not get All the votes going. The Wisconsin voters unpredictable he says. A 0 wants to be where he action yet All Nixon really has to fear in Wisconsin is Harold Stassen. The Ante is much higher in the democratic game. There will be 57 votes in the Wisconsin delegation at chicag Othis summer. Whoever carries the state in the primary will have 19 votes nailed Down. And he will pick four votes More for each of the 10 congressional districts he can win. By the Book most or All of these votes should be John son s. But Mccarthy has grown greedy since new Hampshire with Kennedy Shelp he s out to get them ail. Pics Asi in executive director of the Wisconsin i owns for Johnson things could be a lot belter we re running seared he said. We Don t like the look of Asp was doing his fretting in noisy suite you could Call it Sioke filled on the in to Holf to i Fis in hotel in Milwaukee. He Ami state democratic chairman id. Hard Ciu Tahy wer Busy briefing Advance men for Hubert Humphrey in town Over the weekend for some Johnson Ian politicking Humphrey is about the Best Asp and cud Aliy could Muster. Despite some Earnest pleas from National committeeman David Carley uie president staying out of Wisconsin for the tune Bung and of All of wis Consin s elected democratic officials note Only one Hep. Meat Zablud has declared himself Johnson a the rest including sen Daylord son and William 1 Rox Imirage in sitting or playing Foo e with Carthy and or Kennedy. It has become trite Inie to that Mccarthy May look like a Prea dental candidate but rentes to act one. At times in Wisdom in i Umich. Soft shot Campaign can to nine a to ing love in. That is what .1 at 1ie Mitchell Field in Milf. In moing. Mccarthy s Popi i f Val for him devoted stud."--. Dim in Han Haniph Rayitos a Youn a Ron carrying her baby like i Pai isi1, few Flower children pm Thiec us ers in Kilts. The plane from com i i Loi Entrance and t Ille � ready to yell lie a fir 1 Ujj of tiie plane. Or the " in third. Finally he was i and the bagpipes l1 the signs to a e i " 1 " Man was one. Mccarthy just i i " he gave a Little shin.1 l l passed smile like a n. N � " caught slipping off to bar after sunday Mas Linen i his grand gesture lie Ilu 1 ,. Up to shoulder Leel Pink i onlli1-11, Kirl air i and Mccarthy just stood there an Tioy loved it. He walked through the a Ruminal with an official entourage of Kie Deputy sheriff. At the foot of and Alator someone began to clap. Then pm Loxly was clapping. A car rental girl rushed Forward with we try harder Button. That s r Mccarthy said in Hiss t Public i pronouncement of the Day d took pains to shake hands with Coni in Iun s pretty car rental agent. The Flouer girl edged up and word ii no 1 a yellow Tulip upon us ked confused and k it it before him like a Olive Candle. The girl gave the Dep l y a red Tulip. "1 really Don t know Lio she is Mcc Arthy said to no one particular. I he had l Isi Osl i of his Tulip Byj it time lie Kot to Lawrence colleges " a Picton Jot Mccarthy s Home Williat Afulei ii a ii. Hut the script was same. La a loved him and he did to i in it. Care thu woman stood watching him and Fai a glowed. She was apparently of the Lau rence College faculty Community be cause she said. You know we use to have Nate Pusey As president Here. He s president of Harvard now. Mccarthy reminds us of Nate in appear Ance and this was just about the Lime Mccarthy was getting word from the that Kennedy would jump to the word became official the next morn ing and to some of the Young Volun Teers sometimes referred Loas Mcarthy s Flower Power gathered in mis Headquarters in Madison the word was like a slap in the face. Louise Hacker a no Cruty of wis Consin student mourned 1 used think anyone with the name of be. A i could do no wrong. They said Hobby was ruthless and i d say it s not d say he was opportunistic. 1 would t believe it. Hut now 1 gues it s hut we must not be i Isie. Mis Shelley co a housewife. Prou led we must realize that we May be work ing for him in precisely. A Man who is High in the Kennedy Camp had coolly remarked that his forces Are counting on just that. Of course there will be bitterness among the deep dyed Mccarthy ites by i think after two or three Days it win Wear off he said. The realists i the Mccarthy Camp will come to Riili a that Hubby can be noun ate and Gene n t and if they Beheye in this cause they will make their de Cimon for the Man who can time will come he said. After the Kennedy and Mel Arthy a held their delegations Long enough Oblock Johnson on the first baht. In he meantime he said. I m rounding a the old Kennedy uan. To work Mccarthy in Wisconsin scratch a Joh son for president committee Mem be m this state and full nil an Oul Jack Kennedy maybe so. Up m Eshk a. Count democratic chairman Hill in kit a Promie to Hack ., Ironi Johnson for Bobby s Sake. He resigned and joined his predecessor mrs. Diana Green in plugging Mccarthy. The zest Ness of democratic politics i Wisconsin sometimes leads outsiders to forget however that this is basically a Republican state. Dick Nixon does no forget he remembers Well for in stance that after John f. Kennedy too Humphrey 476,024 to 366.753, in the celebrated primary of i960, Nixon too Kennedy 895.174 to 830,805, in Wisconsin when it counted in november. This time out Nixon is getting read to do u again whether the Man he faces next november is named Lyndon Gene or Bobby. The Nixon primary Campaign was originally geared for George rom Ney Romney did t make it this far but Nixon s Campaign hums along As Power fully As u Romney were still hot on its heels. If Nixon has made mistakes along the Road to election Day before and nowadays he can bring himself to joke about some of them he does not intend to make any s a politician his professionalism i awesome. Take the simple matter of setting into a meeting Hall. A site six on it s an Dav around noon he was to min utes late arriving at the armory in a shield Home base of a valued airy. Rep Melv in r. Laird. The Crown was not Good it was were Only 300 seats but there were about 2.000 people packed into then ice one reason May be that schools had been let out and 10 busloads of students had shown up. The kids Cou in t vote but they were willing to Perch on window Sills Halfway up the Wall and veil their lungs out. I bar his Pimp in loved n squealed wearing i a Flower girl looked in 11 i"111 Al the stars and stripes a an seems to merely tolerate Llly f applause other politicians Wallow a Lair Julie Nice at the Lawrence col i a As made to his order i its Niem hers and students. When he i in do i the aisle they raised the falters for him. Mccarthy did t even a la just walked onto the platform la sat Down. When he was finished he ins speech everybody stood up and cd. Mccarthy bobbed his head and asked off. The smile stalk outside a mature Zmaich 28, 1968 \ in who was less of a Crft Cimon test would have gone through the Back door and Yot the nu-etm.4 inc. No Nixon he went unnoticed to the it the crowd and. When the Monu it a assist Ruht began working his a to the front a Small cheer went up thenh big one. Then people were Houtma. He s Here and jumping onto seals to of a look at that familiar grinning face Ute the ski jump nose Pusung in through the packed Sucu users of Loyal . Although to the my ii was not quite As Pucce in w in used it in is in a pm few hours later. In both cities. ins what the oin a we need More people on univ and us on the a Tare rolls1be ome Caes the . But 1 do not always i Rose of what the courts " and he got his applause were and when he aliud u ii my , 1u tunes in a a is ,. I pick in on does net Lea e w till tiie Ca Auer i1 a. He Slicks u Yas Many i aunts As Are a. He walks loins ear Aasu at the same uie l i Flem soil i Poitev s be e a v.,- in l the right . A us oae Lashu Inni of int a. La a. He does not in u i intend to. The stars and stripes Nie 13
