European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and Striks i dare toy Hal Hir set  Oil a Fri a Tuitt week Hod  a the Public in Thot unwillingness to Eloildo really How to Deal with Rote i the outrage to lavishly Dos played on television Woi Only one part ideological. Thro Are those who Are always against the cop on the Trade Onollie grounds that associate Pollee men with the repressive establishments of history. Iut even Whoie who have worked their Way out of that emotional Mare were horrified at what they Taw became what they a included the red Undari blow of the night stick at the head or shoulder or Rump of a victim already in capacitated included on one notorious occasion policemen calling for vacating of a Street at a Speed at which Ter literally in practice Springli could not comply. By then the police and their supporters counterattacked and their general Case was compell ing. They began by boldly challenging the terminological myths on the one hand the big Sadis tic Gestapo minded policemen on the other the Sun speckled gentle minded Young idealists Otto Preminger versus Harvey. That did t take too Long what with the belated revelation that the gentle Folk had taken in Tensive training in Kie arts of Public disturbance featuring among other select disciplines How to capture Public sympathy by provoking police into the use of unnecessary Force. The avowed intention of the High command of the rioters was to paralyse the convention. Most of those who expressed them ? j1 up its mind on rioters selves on the question dismissed the strategic objective As Palpa Bly idealistic and therefor unrelated to any justification for what the police did. Still the Confidence of the Antl s was shattered. At this Point the Conven Tion was adjourned leaving questions unanswered do we really desire to enforce police regulations adamantly or do too Many people suspect that such regulations promulgated under pressure Are arbitrary and constricting and therefore Lack ing in sufficient moral authority to justify automatic acceptance there were those in Chicago who were saying in effect was it Worth the bloodshed to hold the line at Avenue a when after All there Ware All those avenues in Between it and Avenue a ques Tion can the Public til persuaded to Grant the police the right to designate from of Tot command posts their own ver Duns beyond which rioters will not pass or must the police announce these boundaries Well in Advance in order to attempt to persuade the doubters i suggest that americans really Haven t made up their minds concerning aspects of the prob Lem which absolutely require at Tention before we can handle such Phenomena As the Chicago riots with any sense of self Assurance. But our minds Are not disposed to seek Resolution. What it comes Down to i think is that the opinion makers pre Fer a highly plastic line Between the Law and the defies of the Law believing As they do that salient struck across the line by file defies of it Are matters that require urgent democratic Atten Tion that if Young rioters in Chi Cago throw themselves into police tines they Are saying to us things which we ought to hear. I suspect that that is Why if Thomas a. Edison were to appear on the scene tomorrow with an anti riot weapon whih would totally immobilize rioters without causing them Ait much pain physical or intellectual As a minor sunburn or an editorial in the new York times or. Edison and his machine would be quickly proscribed by Law in the com Pany of that Long list of in popular riot controlling weapons which have Ben serially pounced upon from fire hoses to cattle prods to tear Gas to Mace. The initiative at this Point is with the intellectuals who should Tell us Folk How to Square off to these problems. C Washington Star Syndicate inc. Huh plays Mission impossible of you can fix him up til try some too Max Traer Hubert Humphrey s Victory in the convention Hall wot Over shadowed by the primitive Vio Lence on Chicago s streets. He had to deliver his remarkable acceptance speech to a disrupted convention of a fragment sized party in a nation stunned by what its peo ple had soon on their to screens. It is an almost impossible assign ment that Humphrey Mutt now take on with the Odds heavily against him and in Richard Nixon s favor. Perhaps the Only thought to console him in his agonized situation is the reflection mat he will now have a Chance to show his True Mettle As a political Man and As a human being and that a will be watched with some sympathy by a people who have always had a weakness for the underdog. Humphrey chose to speak about three commanding themes peace social order and National Unity. But the greatest of these summing up he others As Well is Unity caught Between the need to keep president John Ion s support and the need to bring the Mccarthy tet Back into the party Between the Southern governors and the big City Liber als Between the Force of Chica go mayor Richard Daley and the conscience of the party Humphrey Hod to hold a delicate balance Between them and yet give a driving vigor to is vision of a new Day the fact that to managed As Well As he did and got away with it was testimony to his tac local political skills As Well at to his oratory. Let it to told that he came through hit first big test. But Thore Are others ahead for which the Art of taking positions kill Folry will not be Toygh Humphrey will have to make the positions to Taffet pervasive by adding to them that extra personal dimension which oth Minem Wile Eer print Marks a Man capable of leading and governing. He has to win Over a Good share of the intellectual Community whom or. Johnson estranged and whom the Chicago events have now further embittered. Eugene Mccarthy s defection is in itself important but even More it is a Symbol of the pm bit Formont of a whole segment of the party. If Humphrey could bring Mccarthy Back into the democratic fold it would help him with the Young people. In turn if he could make himself credible to the Young he could have the leverage for bringing Mccarthy Back. Humphrey s plight is that he has to persuade mis group of something they Are determined not to believe that he is not tweedledee to Nixon s Tweedle Dum and that he is not puppet to or. Johnson s manipulation of Vietnam policy. Of the two it is the latter that is crucial. Humphrey it at a Dis Adavan Tage Hio because As vice pres ident he will be associated in the nation s mind with the presi Dent s policy whether or not he agree with h. Every move in that policy Between now and the election will raise questions about where Humphrey stands on it. If he fails to disengage himself from the president he will have Little or no Chance to win Back the disenchanted. If he does disengage himself he must Brave the anger of the sensitive and powerful Man who May today fee More concerned with his own place in history than with the political future of his vice president. If i were in Humphrey s place i think i should risk the break with the president when my con science could no longer carry me along with his policies. The Defeated minority Plank on Viet Nam had it been adopted at the convention would have Given Humphrey a place to stand from which he might have made such a break. Without it he will have a harder time to fashion a persuasive position for the break. But the break if and when it comes will be by that fact All the More dramatic and therefore the More credible to the nation As a whole. It would open a Gap Between Humphrey and Nixon on foreign policy As Well As the existing Gap on Domestic issues. C 198, to Angele time straws of Hope from a Windy City Saul Berman a chicagoan interviewed in a local Survey of what people think about events Here was quoted As saying mass demonstrations Are old communist tricks. There s a subversive element try ing to discredit our  Daley for president said Flora Lewis _. Bet mtg Trif Ctet ivern Nim mrs. Civ Ellina a housewife. & to Fichuk wrote to the editor suggest that Walter Cron Kate the demonstrators the hippies a apples and certainly Alt the Al apples be sent for an educational Courso to re to of. To trash of veral  spokesman for to cd Kano Tuce department Taw All the Houkje was Xiluo fat my re of  Ore communist among  a proved h with a extinguished ref he of to names. And on the third Day of the rally behind mayor Daley t Blue shirts in Grant Park h was True that some speakers were talking about the Campaign to smash capitalism and bring Down the Structure so we can put up our own  but it did t Start that Way. There was t even the flood tide of dissidents and militants and protester descending on Chicago that had been predicted. Re spending to appeals from sen. Eugene Mccarthy and their own student and ghetto Leaden Only a few thousand Cam instead of the 100,000 anticipated. Instead of several Hundred members of the Tough ghetto gangs around Tho cd until photo arrival had been feared there wore a few Down they wore aimed but they Lay Low. Uni the police charged and i troop marched out what won on was shouting Ami to gig erne booing and a couple of stink bombs that really did stink. It was t a bit Nice but nobody and nothing was Hurt. While the extreme fringes were growing into sides a group of men who Hod been instrumental in organizing the Campaign of sen. Mccarthy were meeting to talk about a fourth party. They weren t the same men who had been talking about that at the beginning of Conven Tion week. At that Point they wore men who were very proud of their achievements inside the democratic party and planned to keep going that Way oven though they already knew they could t win at this convention. They were oppose to the a of a fourth party when they com to face defeat thit time be cause m one Hod put a we re not interested in a head on fight we George Wallace while the democrats and republicans have an election. We want to make the regular process work  the Street scene in Chicago even More than the scenes on the convention floor had driven them to reconsider. Their Hurt for some did feel police clubs including a chaplain who was trying to help a Girt who had been beaten was pushing them to something More dangerous than clubs or even guns. The convention itself showed that while the democratic party May be deeply divided and unabashedly quarrelsome it is full of vitality with Rich reserves of Bright competent devoted new leaders. The very division showed How near Tho minority of new politics practitioners have come to winning Over the party through established democratic process. There is movement in me country and a Chance still to bring change in an orderly