European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August a j. Taylor the Sta a and stapes Page t armoured cars ready in fortress Chicago i4i Tottress Csc Hie dem vening Here or the gop ,�.�.i i i. In Fortis Chicago the erotic notional convention it be it com a with All Hie Charm it race of switchblade fight a T a j of tit in a barroom a fowl. Even it Brink i armoured car co. Remit m it has Boon alerted by a yer Richard j. Daley to have itt vehicles ready to be requisitioned by police at itt cart wore recently in Cleveland. The convention t Hilton hotel Headquarters looks like a miniature Saigon under siege. One Arta Here of nearly 350,000 peo ple is 97.9 per cent negro. Ordinarily these Are the demo cratic party s legions. But the assembling convention leaders re action to the practising negro demonstrators sounds like the emperor Augustus who Bomoong ing the loss of his Groa Tett roman army under publius Quinti lius varus screamed his Fameux lament Quint ill Vare Legi Enes Ruddi Quintillus varus give me Back my  it is merely an Ana Goge How Tver to Call the party that it con her the gop National political party. Both Are primarily federations of 50 mate parties. There it no real democratic or Republican party functioning philosophically effectively or recognizably As a National rallying Point. And the one meeting Here is As far from Jefferson As fortress Chicago is from Monticello. Moreover the Challenge to Day it to Tho entire Structure of our government its entire system of checks and balances not just to one party or the other or to the two party system. The presi Dency itself is becoming a party of itself autonomous and often even Anonymous in its self suf Fukien by. So it the supreme court. Its continued twisting of the Constitution and the statutes is making a shambles of government by Law the end product of that pro Cess pursued for welfare state purposes and civil rights within it can Only be anarchy with the consequent loss of Freedom which Are the supposed goal of judicial lawmaking. No wonder the present supreme court gets the lowest pub Lic approval rating since Gallup began his polls in 1932, much lower than last year and still sinking lower All the while. Thus in Modem practical effect today s american political system is not a system at All. It is an amorphous and diffuse arrangement of different Power centers within the parties and within the government itself accessible in varying degrees to the voter participation and pop ular opinion while officialdom of course rules the Roost. Only a fraction of this confusion is necessary. In fact sen. William e. Borah the great Idaho Liberal once observed that me Marvel of All history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily Laid upon them by their governments. What so Many politicians Are doing is to try to bypass the rational Side of Man and Appeal to the deep unconscious forces Bellow the surface. In a Way they Are making nonsense of democratic procedure which is based on conscious Choice on rational grounds. Preaching Freedom they emphasize personal rights instead of personal responsibility. Well Freedom is a natural result of a responsible society but the re verse is not necessarily True. Free Dom without responsibility is License and this too leads to Ward anarchy. Only As a popu lation learns self discipline can it become truly free. Only a Law Ful society can build a better society. Don t underestimate Wal lace say All arriving delegates who have an ear to the ground. They see in George c. Wallace s achievement of an identity As a Man dissatisfied and worried about the supreme court s decisions the lawlessness and government by Torch a threatening practitioner who is finding in this stance a vote getting Gold mine. No wonder the reaction of this great City to the practising negro demonstrators has curled not a few of the assembling convention leaders into a Ball of fear. What Chicago fears physically they fear politically. F o r they know that millions of every race color and Creed in our country bitterly resent Public officials who Lack enough Cour age to stand up to intimidation and courage enough to pass Laws that will protect the Public from anarchy. They know that the vast majority of every race color and Creed wants decency Law and order and the Protection of Good neighbourliness. And they know whoever avoids this Challenge in our country will be held responsible at the polls for the ghastly consequences. In Tea Humphrey Given no help the relationship Between former president Eisenhower and his vice president Richard Nix on May have been obscure at times but the attitude of Preti Dent Johnson toward Hubert Humphrey it far More baffling. It has been taken for granted that Humphrey was Johnson s Clavton Choice for his successor but it would be hard to prove it. From the time of his withdrawal on March 31 to the eve of the democratic National convention Johnson has not been known to lift a Finger publicly or privately for his vice president. If any thing he has Mode life increasingly strained for Humphrey As the fateful nomination week neared. Since he announced his candidacy several my Humphrey s problem hat been 1 the establish his Pernal in. Up Indence 2 to deprive rival democrats of sole Possession of peace Issue and 3 the Dit Nipote fears that a race Between himself and Nixon would to a a a of tweedledee is. Tweedle Dum. � no secret that Humphrey longed to do All these things and Long ago would Huv. Nth except for Johnson. It no Sec of Tho president. That i vice pres Den a recently been on the Brink a Keg a declaration of in m by 9oln� of Mccarthy  and Nedy b n by � m peace Pink. To Itofe up he has Little More to fear from his retiring Boss. It is Sim ply not very practical politics at this late Date to placate t h e president at the expense of the Large and determined peace fac Tion which has the Power to de feat Humphrey on election Day if not on nomination night. Tho Humphrey Campaign has Boon marked by limited communication Between the presi Dent and vice president and even that has been More polite than enthusiastic. After his withdrawal Johnson pointedly d i d not urge Humphrey to get in Tho race. He ordered other administration leaders who wanted to go All out for Humphrey to stay out of the Campaign. To could have quietly helped Humphrey in recruiting Dele Gates and raising Money but there it no evidence that he has. Other presidents including Eisenhower and Truman Felt no inhibitions Over backing their favorite for Tho succession Johnson s strange neutrality is All the More puzzling because it it hard to believe that he would prefer to be succeeded by such critics As Mccarthy or Mcgovern or by Nixon whom he detests. It is this Enigma that keeps alive the far fetched suspicion that the president has never put the idea of a deadlocked convention and a last minute John son draft wholly out of mind although there is no evidence to support this notion. Privately the president has Al ways regarded Humphrey As a cry Plo Dove despite his support of administration policy. This is what May have prompted John son to launch his recent crusade in behalf of the bombing culminating in his recent hard line speech to the veterans of foreign wars. When Humphrey was asked about ism s support he wistfully said it won t Hurt if he sprinkles a Little political water on  but in his speech to the veterans the president appears to have sprinkled a few bombs on him instead. This did not Dis please everybody Nixon for in stance said he thought the speech was great. Id 196,  -. Inc.  % Nixon adopts lbs for tactics Cal too son or of t for he k Ole Vic pal Deal tay�,h9 a he nomination  Pae of whither or. Nixon s Brilli ant strategy can succeed against on opponent of or. Humphrey s excellence can Only be decided by the november elections. Or. Humphrey i a slight favorite to win but he will be permit Tod few mistakes considering or. Chcon s dynamic combination of the victorious tactics of for and lbs. The Republican party a often Boon accused by its own Mem Ber of harbouring a death wish. Nixon who has no such lust for oblivion appears to to shrewdly and fully utilising these suicidal tendencies to his own advantage. The Eastern establishment of the Republican party has All but repudiated Nixon As it did sen. Goldwater. The Eastern republicans As much As the democratic party Defeated sen. Goldwater in 1964. However they overlooked in 1964, that for the first time in 52 years they fat fully lost control of the Republican party. Nixon again demonstrated that the South and West had wrested that control by defeat ing the easterners mighty array in 1968, even without the sup port of tremendous California. The Eastern establishment is now intent on defeating him As it Defeated Goldwater. Nixon however is a far shrewder politician than sen. Goldwater. While the Beautiful people have the Eastern mass Media be Hind them Richard Nixon has taken dead aim at the silent common people s vote. His addition of gov. Agnew of Maryland has tremendous a peal to the european descended citizens estimated at Well Over half of the Middle class Popula Tion. Even As the Eastern Republican establishment sulked in its tent even As the Eastern press opened up its guns on him even As the Eastern democrats sought to Pla Cate the disorganized Mccarthy Kennedy forces Richard Nixon went to see president Johnson. With nothing less than Brilliant insight or. Nixon thereupon issued a Strong statement Back ing president Johnson in his Viet Nam policy a policy backed wholeheartedly by president Eisenhower and president Truman. As president Roosevelt took the negroes out of their Trudi tonal Republican parly in 1932, Nixon is attempting to take the european descended Peoples out of their traditional democratic party. As president Johnson Success fully raided the Republican party for its Middle vote in 1964, Nixon is attempting to raid the democratic party of its Middle vote and its millions of Johnson sup porters in 1968. In this or. Nixon is Likely to fail. The Best information Avail Able at this time is that Hubert Humphrey will carry the demo cratic nomination by More than 1,600 votes not counting Florida Illinois or Texas and that if he faces Only or. Nixon he will carry the election by 54 per cent of the vote