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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, January 13, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Hal party by Randolph e. Schmid associated Pressw Hen he joined the 1976 president Field As an Independent former Minnesota Sene gun cd Mccarthy like Rosl candidate Aisne cd he would Uund most of Nii Lin n an the Campaign  shaking hands ant id tag valid where he Synod on she Essuf of rhe Day h did i workout Hal Way Oslo our time and a Norry in Tho Campaign of irr7r, was spent on Couri princ dogs and in efforts la obtain ballot placement rather  in actual  he Mote alter Ard  says he found ihi1 Sia claws Federal Campaign unc Ling rules and Media attention aimed Al id map candidates All conspire to keep third Pirly and Independent Canei Dale a out of the running 1 today it s Petty Haid Lor a the party. Politically or  it s More  than in was in inc 1920s or 30s and in the last co Tui Teri amly to says. This quagmire of regulation is i air Jenl As the i9b3  looms in Trio Dearmi of Enous Inird party Civit Date i the tit dial   in Paris cd Only Tao third Pirly Wyndi Dalsas registered Hinr ton Liljan Tranan flon Fiji Andrj  Lenora q Fulani of  York City of Only of time remains Lor Oltof to appear before lha Cli i lion. Icon Rah. With Federal rules Only requiring them to re Jisei a Hon Lay have Raiser  in Campaign funds of Ccarthy a Hoad Rovics cd the campaigns of Lorimer Alabama gov George c Wallace in 1953 and or bin Imam Spock in 1972 before beginning his own bid. Said hoc Pecoud same problems Stilt to was surprised by their magnitude Al the outset he of peeled in be a candidate in a least -10 Stales we finally Mado it in Only 29, he says citing limited Money id organise petition drives comple stale Laws and the efforts of democratic parly officials to keep him Olliso ballot. The Liberal Mccarthy who May be bolted remembered of his unsuccessful 1963 Florl to Cap lure lha dam Coralic nomination received Aboul 756,000 Voles As an Independent in 1976 he wrote about the caper hence in a Book called thru ultimate tyranny Wallace a one time segregation. Also struggled to Gnu on the ballot in 1968. But thanks loan Early Start John Anderson faults Campaign finance Laws at making h very Titre to wage a third party Effort. And i Tensive organizing etl oils he managed to be Lis cd m every stale and to mount the biggest Vole gelling Campaign Lor a third parly candidate in the nation s history collecting nearly 10 million Voles. Four years later Wallace abandoned the Independent route to seek the democratic nomination a sound lactic Mccarthy says ii you were going to do a i hard party the Way to do it would Bolo run in a major party first in Tho primaries and so on and then if rejected to do the Independent parly Mccarthy says that s what George Wallace had in mind. I think old George had in figured out the year he was shot you be got to give the old boy credit Mccarthy adds. Wallace said through an aide that in he had known How successful the 1968 of Lorl would be he might have moved sooner into the democratic primaries and sought that party s nomination theoretically we could have  Wallace contended. It was a possibility but not a probability bul it made them talk the same Way i was talking in running or president on the various  he switched to the democratic primary Campaign in 1972. Scoring Well in some primaries bore being shot at a Campaign appearance in Maryland. The attack crippled him and ended his presi Donnial aspirations. I think it would be very Dill Tull Lor a third party movement to Slart again unless headed by someone like a wog known governor 01 member of Congress Wallace said. John Anderson another loading third party candidate concurs that today it s Loughr than Ever for in outsider to take on the two big parties. Anderson who compiled nearly s million votes in 19bd, says Campaign finance Laws make in extraordinarily difficult to Wago a third party Effort. Federal funding or third parly Ellerts comes Only alter the Campaign Anderson says. Bul anyone who s been in politics More than 30 seconds knows it s Tho front end Money that s Impi land " nonetheless Vitile this year s Bevy of presid Enlal aspirants is keeping attention Locuson on the major parties Eugene j. Mccarthy campaigning As a third party candidate in 196s. Page 14 the stars and stripes Torge Wallace  the 1972 demo Nice convention to Miami Beach. Wednesday  
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