University Daily Kansan, June 26, 1980
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Minor parties seek recognition in state and national campaigns
By IAN SIMPSON Staff Renorter
Kansas' minor parties are the grape notes in the fuse of state politics. Their opinions fashioned from arch-conservatism rashened liberalism to Community.
They all suffer from lack of recognition and organization. All but one of the parties join in a common government interference in daily life.
The Prohibition Party changed its name to the Statesman Party because it did not want to appear to be a single-issue organization, Sharon Scoggin, Statesman Party convention secretary pro-tem, said this week.
“To be a politician one thing, and to be a statesman is another.” Scoggin said. “He is more than a politician; he takes a stand on the issues.”
SCOGGIN SAID the party platform included planks opposing the Equal Rights Amendment, the sale of alcohol, and gun legislation. She said the party supported a return to the gold standard, the teaching of the biblical theory of creation, the schools, and mandatory sentencing for persons convicted of drunken driving.
Scoggin said the party had little national organization, and she was not sure of its size.
"It is very difficult for us to get registration," she said, "and it makes it very difficult to have an organization."
She thought the party was active in about 30 states.
Alvin Carvins, Pawnee Rock, was surprised to hear from a reporter he was on the Conservative ticket in Kansas as a presidential candidate. He said he had no plans to campaign, and said he would get little or no funds from the party.
"When we get our platform straightened out, and we have some literature, Carris said, "we might be an idea. The party's not strong, but we've got ideas."
CARRISE SAID his party, when he mailed list of about 2,000, called for a tax reduction of 50 percent, a limited inheritance tax, a stronger military, and less government intervention in the economy and in local government.
Social legislation, said the party's former chairman, Ray Hall, destroyed fundamental freedoms.
"When you give people things, they are no longer able to take care of themselves," he said.
- Hall said that "Please, I'd rather do it myself" summed up the Conservative platform.
Hall said American political opinion divided not on party lines, but on conservative-liberal issues. The canon of John Anderson showed that, he said.
Hall said Anderson was the choice for
president of the Trilateral Commission, a New York-based think tank whose members have included Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger.
"The Trilateral Commission is dedicated to the destruction of America as an individual nation," he said.
"WE CONSERVATIVES do not have to broaden our appeal, we have the appeal already. It is the matter of respecting what is which is Triatal-related, Hall said.
The ideas of the Conservative Party are in concert with those of the American Party. George Wallace formed the American Party to run for president in 1968. The party has two nominees on the state ballot in 1972, Frank Shelton, Independence, and John Davis, Tecumseh.
Shelton, who has what he calls "the most patriotic address in America": "Freedom Sentry Ranch, Liberty Township, PO Box 1775, Independence, Indiana, idolized not to run for the United States Senate because of its business."
HE SAID THE national party had broken into state parties, each able to nominate its own candidate for governor. He had nominated Rep. Phillip Crane of Illinois after Ronald Reagan requested his name be withdrawn from the party.
Crane's Washington office had no comment on the nomination.
Davis is running for a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives from the 51st District. He said he wanted greater morality in government.
"Moral decay is the main problem in the United States today," Davis said. "The devil's people have controlled our country too long. That is the problem."
Davis said the country needed more Christians in all levels of government. He said the states in both the major urban and the lower river for the past 50 years."
HE SAID HE was against the Panama Canal treaties, gun control, and government intervention in business and the family. He wanted less government spending and a 50 percent tax cut.
"We should get government off our backs and out of our pockets," Davis said.
The Libertarian Party candidate for president, Ed Clark, is on the Kansas ballot as an independent. His Kansas campaign chairman, George Pearson, said it was easier to file as an individual than a party.
Kansas requires 2,500 signatures to get on the ballot as an independent, or 3 percent of the total votes cast in the previous governor's election—23,000.
"We would love to have permanent status." Pearson said.
Pearson said—to be able to register as a party.
Pearson said the party had a platform based on civil libertarian principles and "18th-century liberalism." It also called for the Libertarians oppose government interference in the marketplace and in local governments, prosecution for vicious crimes, and government laws like mail service and public schools.
TOM PALMER, the national assistant communications director for Clark for President, said he was confident his party would be on all fifty-one ballots in November. He said it would have 960 candidates nationwide.
He said the party received 1.3 million votes in the general elections two years ago.
Pearson said support for the party was growing in the state.
“五 years ago people would say, 'You're Libertarian?', and I'd want to duck below the table. In the past year people are asking, 'Are you Libertarian?' or me about it? People are only interested in an alternative," Pearson said.
KANSA S STATUTES ban the Communist Party from appearing by phone or by mail at the political science instructor at Kansas State University, petitioned to get Gus Hall, the Communist presidential candidate on his behalf, an independent with no party affiliation.
Althoff said he wanted to have the Communist Party on the ballot by 1984. He said he either going to bring suit against the state, seek legislation that would repeal the statute, or a get-ruling court in the attorney general that would overturn it.
The fight to get the Communists on the ballot will be "a long, slow process," he said.
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