European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 6, 1988 the stars and stripes Campaign 88 election Day certain to produce change Washington if far longer than it had 10 be and too Nasty As Well the 1988 presidential Campaign is As certain to trigger Calls for Reform Asil is to elect inc 41st president of the United slates. The Money he Lone and inc Liming Are Ripe for Examina Inri whether Republican go orc Bush or Democrat Michael Dukakis it the Winner tuesday. A Bush Victory would Send the democrats into another agonizing mum of internal debate. This was analysis inc Guy the democrats wanted a run against the wimp who could t win. Republicans arc less inclined to try to reinvent inc wheel after every defeat. But a Dukakis Victor would accelerate the conservative drive to purge moderates and create a More ideologically oriented parly. A Bush Victory would revive Lalk by republicans of a political realignment in their favor and would Force democrats to confront new evidence that americans like divided government Republican presidents and democratic congresses. Whichever candidate wins. Inc big loser could be Iowa. Politicians arc growing weary of the stale whose caucuses dominate the first two months of the Nomi nation Campaign. Bush finished an embarrassing third in the 1988 Ichih caucuses reason enough for him to support any move to diminish the state s influence. On inc democratic Side inc slate often seems Lohe a collection of special interest groups intent on demanding that candidates take positions they la re Gret during the general election Campaign. New Hampshire docs its Best to diminish Iowa s Impact by consistently reversing the results of the caucuses. Bui the Early new Hampshire primary does t have much More support than the Iowa caucuses beyond the purely political consequences of tues Day s outcome the sheer ugliness of this Campaign ought to prompt Calls for change. A familiar figure returned to prominence in i9b8 the fat cat. Through much of the Campaign the candidates disappeared from Public View after dark. They weren t getting some rest or Curling up with position papers. They were Schmo own with is 00,000 contributors. Dukakis liked to say he was More interested in the lathe operators and the machine operators thanin inc Sharp operators on Wall Street. But his Campaign spent a lot of time gelling the candidate together with the operators wiping to write big checks toward a $50 million fund raising goal the democrats were Only trying to catch up with what the republicans had been doing for years raising big Bucks for party building political activity not covered by Federal limits on contributions. That soft Money was a Campaign Assacl above the $46.1 million in Public funds Given to each can diddle lol of the Money went Tor such Good causes As voter registration drives but in also returned the panics and inc candidates la an uncomfortable de Pend no upon fat cais. Maybe $100 contributors will have the same Access to a president Bush or president Dukakis As 1100,000 contributors. Maybe not. A common saying during much of this As Well a past campaigns was that voters Haven t started pay ing attention  for months and months an months it was said that voters were ignoring the whole  Why in heaven s name will the 1992 Percsi Dontia Campaign begin nov. 9,1 s 8the answer is the need to raise millions of  Only solution probably is to have a late Starling candidate win hit party s nomination and go on to be elected president. Politicians arc like television programmers they always try to duplicate the most recent i show. The most disturbing aspect of the 198s Campaign was the negative Lone can that be changed not so lung As it  politician who knows inc Road to election is the Low one won t hesitate to Lake it. Dukakis take heart in 1888, the Winner lost Washington apr the election of 100 years ago was one of strangest . History the candidate who won the popular Vole lost the election. Graver give land the incumbent presi Dent won a narrow Poplar Victory against challenger Benjamin  had 5,540,309 votes and Harri son 5,439,853. Bui Harrison took new York Ohio and Indiana by narrow margins for an electoral vote total of 233 to the president s 16s,that has not happened since but new York and Ohio arc among the Pivotal Stales this Lime too both Cleveland and his wife look the defeat As a temporary Solback. On leaving inc while House prances Cleveland Lold the staff " want you to Lake Good care of All the furniture and ornaments in the House for i want to find even thing just As it is now when we come Back again four  they did come Back Loo. In. 1892, Cleveland Defeated Harrison winning both inc popular and electoral Vole to be come the Only president Ever to serve two terms that were nol consecutive unknown practitioners of dirty Irick started a Rumor in the i bus Campaign that Cleveland abused his Young wife whom he married in 1886. There apparently we Reno grounds for the Mior which seemed to have done him lilt a harm any More than the Story that he was supporting an encyclopedia Graver Cleveland illegitimate child. That one was True and he admitted in at once. The Story gave Rise to a celebrated Street song. Maw maw where s my Paw gone to inc White House Haw Haw.   a Benjamin Harrison there was some doubt whether the child was his. He had known the Mother a widow named Maria. Mai pin during his Early political career in Buffalo . She named her son Oscar Folsom give land. In the ibr4 election which Cleveland won Over James 0. Blair a supporter suggested we arc Loid that or. Blaine has been delinquent in office but blameless in Pri vate life while or. Cleveland has been a Model of official integrity bul culpable in his personal relations. We should therefore elect or. Oev Cland to the Public office which he is so Well qualified to fill and remand or. Elaine to the private station he is admirably filled to  the voters took the  to scandal Ras not the Onty thing that made campaigns different then. Cleveland ran into trouble in 1888 because he had a budget surplus thu Federal government s Revenue amounted to 1371 Mil lion $103 million More than its  of the embarrassing surplus came from tariffs on imported goods. Cleveland a Democrat wanted lower tariffs. That was partly befit us he wanted to import More cheap manufactured goods for the Benefit of Farmers who were important supporters of his , a Republican got support from industrialists who w an led a High tar Iff to protect their products from foreign Competition. After the 1888 election har Rison and inc 51 is Congress got rid of in surplus. It was called the billion Dollar Congress because it was the first that Ever spent that  was some help from Harrison. A civil War hero himself he appointed As commissioner of pensions Corporal James Tanner whose policy was to help every old Comrade thai needs  Atlanta papers controversial editor abruptly resigns Washington at Atlanta journal and Constitution editor Bill Kovach a former new York times official whose attempts to change inc influential Southern newspapers gained National attention abruptly resigned Friday saying in had become Clear no relationship of Trust could be built with the manage ment of the Cox Media Chain. More than 100 reporters and editors at the papers contributed to Purchase a full Page and in saturday s editions expressing their sadness and anger Over Kovach s leaving. Friday night icy carried a petition to the White columned mansion of Anne Cox Chambers one of the two major owners of Cox enterprises inc. Asking the company la reconsider and convince Kovach to  ". " in announcing the news of Kovach s departure to other editors assistant managing editor Wendall Rawls or. Who was one of Many journalists hired by Kovach said the dream is Over.". -. Kovach s two year tenure in Allan la seemed to reflect some of the larger tensions afflicting the growing Southern capital itself. According to sources within the paper manage ment. Cox officials had on several occasions warned Kovach formerly the new York times Washington Bureau chief that members of Atlanta s downtown business establishment were up Sci with his aggressive style of journalism. The papers recently published a multiparty series exposing the local financial Community s systematic Refu Sal of Loans to residents of poor Black neighbourhoods. The papers recent business coverage also has been critical of coca cola co., the Atlanta company whose Clift Irnan Sili on the Board of Cox enterprises. In recent months Kovach also has been locked in confrontation with Cox management Over budgets. It was one confrontation and crisis after another said one highly placed source Kovach said in a prepared statement hat he had tried to build shared values and Mutual Irussi with management but in  no such relationship existed.". Journal and Constitution publisher Jay Smith said irreconcilable differ acc in Triana Ireni styles sur faced in a discussion Friday  he said that those differences led him to accept the editor s Resig nation