European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and strikes to sgt f c Mon cd till a Way hated them-4ets you an me 90 0$ was in i be taken Roarig of i�4?it in Greece Spain Germany by Oslavia Egypt India and Japan but when you got Lear gamed Chicago Grant pork if very Dlf Ferent. Arid the whole thing is of tragic that you just cannot to lev it u our country and that Henry j. Taylor m $ happening to you that those Are american around you and that you a there. Tear Gai my Friend if rough. It is one thing to tee if on to but it s another thing to got h. And hat first fight War vory rough Loo so let me Juet toll it at it to. For the to give Only a distortion and you have to be in the thing a Prience it to get the ten Ona the guts of . In the first Placiel f wot lit Grant pork for several hours a la those 3,000 so colled hippie be fore anything was happening at All and on through to the end which was the got and the teb bings. To my eyes some looked awful in their gel Ops. They re certainly Small credit to them selves they re insolent and they know just enough to reason wrongly but they Are by and Large not militant. If i seem to defend the hippie it is Only because nobody who any experience in life could feel anything except pity for such Watte for such tragic blindness to the Only values in life that can conceivably bring happiness Security and any real sense of contribution. When the Gas Cloud hits you feel it first in the terrible sting ing in your eyes and the Rush of water from your eyes and then the burning in your Mouth and Throat like fire. That s How you Start being helpless. In this first moment a frail Young girl about 18, Sandal footed and wearing a Blanket and beads rushed up to me. Don t rub your eyes i she shouted. I want that makes it How on Earth could you be resentful of that Girt you just Felt like putting your Arm around her and saying now look let me get you out of this mess. Come on let it and you Tome thing to eat and a roof for the night and take car of you where you la to Safe and away from All this there in t a responsible Par ent in this whole country who would t have the same feeling this is the sin the unforgivable in of the militant and totally unscrupulous Organ xer of the Plant that were sure to Load to fight and there were at boart so such organizers in Grant Park who manipulate Thorn. These Harangue it or to the Young people exactly what the dope peddle Are to the addicts and so far at i am concerned i d like to it every on of Mem locked up in the Penitentiary. The manipulator plan in Grant Park Wai to coat a diversion outside the ring of guards who were restricting the photo a Blage to the Park. You could walk out singly or in Small numbers but you could not got 0 by i Hundred to Tenn the streets. When the manipulator leafed enough people opposite the Conrad Hilton hotel they mad their move against the out Sid of the ring a guerrilla warfare tactic of which these manipulators Are past masters. To fax off the approaching column the police and soldiers in the ring had to turn around. That opened the Hole for those inside the ring. What then were the police and soldiers supposed to do then came the tear Gas. There were clubbing and i saw police brutality without any question whatever because some police men Are brutal and because other have been provoked beyond All conceivable ability to with stand the provocations. C United feature Syndicate inc. William f. Buckley or. Daley gave huh slap from president. _ m test. La , Al. � in Imi in the human drama involving Hubert Humphrey was unpretty to watch. When on the sunday before the convention in Chicago mayor Richard a Daley ostentatiously declined to commit the Illinois delegation at just the moment when it had been programmed that he should do so and supposed that this formality would provide the final confirmation of Humphrey s Nomina Tion suddenly mayor Daley pulled out offering the sickly excuse that to declare himself now would get in the Way of his impartial duties As Host at a big cocktail party later in the Day. Humphrey walked away from the meeting of the Illinois Dele Gates with a stiff upper lip and a shattered Pride. It was a week or so before election Day in 1965, and vice president Humphrey had come to new York City to speak at a banquet and it was generally supposed to announce president Johnson s official support for Abraham become who was running for mayor of new York on the democratic ticket. Humphrey spoke As usual unstinting by on every subject except to transmit the president s backing. New York democrats were dumbfounded. A few Days later just before the deadline press Secretary Bill Moyers routinely declared that Johnson preferred Beame As he prefers All demo the damage done May Well Hove Cost Beame the mayor Alty. No one of course considered the slow pitch game begins Clayton Fritchey with labor Day and the National political conventions out of the Way it is easier to get a line on the presidential finals which begin this week. There s a Long Way to go yet but it appears this is going to be a negative Type of Campaign. The Cue is the absence of now slogans new songs and new labels like the famous ones of yesteryear. In the past the democratic conventions have spawned the now Deal the fair Deal the new Frontier the great society. In the climate that prevailed last week at Chicago however no body dared to suggest a new Phat to celebrate the Advent of Tho Humphrey Era assuming the i some Chance of it be coming an Era. Democratic campaigns have Alto usually been enlivened by the emergence of unforgettable lab a ilk the forgotten Man ofom he Harry let s talks is to the american poop lot s get America moving maybe we now Logan will catch on later i Tho Campaign but Chicago turn a up Little mor than a Dis spirit a re prise of Richard Nixon Battle cry of a to Al Lon a port a ask a sen. Georgo Megohm hav you got a slogan Mcgovey laughed. I Haven t got any hug he told. Hwa too Modett. The South Dakotan Wai no of the Fow democrats who of reputation was Hanc a at the no nation. Mcgoom Inchon Kelty does t think much of Law and order As a slogan. Without Justice he says it is a mean ingless if there s going to be a new slogan this year Mcgovey favors a Square Deal primarily for the Amer ican consumer who a thinks is the current forgotten Man. This soon after such an unhappy convention it is Only natural for there to be consider Able pessimism among the democrats. No doubt things will look up As Humphrey sets about unit ing his party but it must be acknowledged that he has some problems that have not con fronted any other democratic nominee in recent times. The chief Handicap he has to overcome is the hostility he faces in the great Industrial states on which the democrats depend for Victory. Ordinarily it would be impossible for a Democrat to be nominated let alone elected without the Strong support of California and new York. It was possible this time Only because of an unprecedented coalition be tween an incumbent president commanding the party Machin Ery and the Southern and Bor Der states. The profound Alton option of the big Northern tates can Only be Opp Clat Daft a a careful examination of the balloting at Chicago. On the key Issue of the Vietnam peace Plank the Vot a 3 to 2 for the administration but an in pc dated 1,041 delegates voted to repudiate their own Tito opinion or mod in the column and cartoon on Thio a wit Thom of the author and an Hin by Tuth. Not Dorod Rop Montane the. Of the Ottara or in. It Likely that the delay in endorsing Humphrey could Cost him the nomination but it could con tribute to his loss of the White House. Because the deflation has terribly Hurt Humphrey s aspect in the Public Eye. It is difficult to build oneself up to presidential Eminence hav ing been so Long in Thrall to Lyndon Johnson just to begin with. To have made a Brave Effort to do so Over the past two months Only to be humiliated by the Host of the City you Are visit ing in your role As heir apparent is too much easily to Over come. It is the kind of thing that Queen Victoria used to do to me Prince of Wales but at least his succession was constitutionally assured though his prestige was permanently damaged not 1o say his psyche. Humphrey too is Hurt. Why did Johnson do it that is what All the speculation is now about. The simplest explanation May be the Best. It is that the president was angry with Humphrey for speaking less certainly about the Virtues of Johnson than say St. Paul spoke about the Virtues of Christ. It is known in certain quarters that in the Early Days of the convention Johnson had taken to wisecracking in conversations with his intimates about Hubert Humphrey his Way of retaliating against Humphrey s indecisive remarks of a few Days ago about Vietnam and the wis Dom of current policies. Presiden tial wisecracks Are Legal tender for City Bosses to decide that cocktail party protocol takes precedence Over the legitimization of the succession. All very wll they say. But How reconcile the humiliation perhaps Ven the destruction of Humphrey with the apparent alternatives surely Johnson did not prefer the forthright dovish Ness of Mccarthy or Mcgovey. Or a dark horse like sen. Edward Kennedy the combination of whom with a Dove ilk Mccarthy or Mcgovern would surely Hay driven Johnson into retirement in Hanoi. The cocktail party having passed the humiliation inflicted and Humphrey having Boen nominated Johnson and Daley will support Humphrey and the people Wilt then reject him
