University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 27, 1980
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Anderson visit nets crowds, applause, vote pledges
By SCOTT C. FAUST
Staff Renorter
At a steady growing rally at the Wagon Wheel Cafe yesterday afternoon after her candidate's efficient reception, Mary Lou Williams attended an annual Kansas campaign coordinator, was cescial.
"I'm just thrilled," Humphrey said, beer in hand. "I thought it was a wonderful speech, didn't you?"
She said she told Anderson just before they went on stage at Hoch Auditorium, "Listen, these kids in Kansas are really for you.
Anderson, who has been compared to Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern in igniting campus enthusiasm, was not disfigured.
"It's going to be a very supportive audience."
THE REPUBLICAN Illinois Congressman's audience began its procession down Jayhawk Boulevard about an hour before the speech. By the start of the speech, nearly 4,000 KU students and others had performed in line, seated the
Some would not be able to tell friends they
saw Anderson," only that they heard him, because many were unable to see the lectern.
But they listened and responded to Anderson's stands against sacrificing American lives for Persian Gulf oil and for individual choice on abortion.
The crowd included Anderson devotees—Anderson for President buttons adorned many a shirt—but the curious also attended.
Robert Francis, Wichita senior, said, "I figured that since he was coming, I might as well see him."
Gary Carafal, Westmont, Ill., junior,
said before the speech that he had supported
Anderson since his "60 Minutes" appearance last month.
"I like his views on abortion and the draft," Karafiat said. "He's smart. He's got more brains than any other candidate."
TINA WATKINS, Moline, Ill., junior, compared Anderson to President Woodrow Wilson.
"He's kind of philosophical — I like that," she said. "I think we need someone in there who thinks a little bit instead of just being told what to do."
She said she was trying to base her
"From what I've read," she said, "he's the best, definitely."
presidential choice on the issues, not on candidates' popularity.
At one point in his speech a somewhat annoyed Anderson stopped midstream to quicken a heckler who wanted to know how he would vote on a particular issue.
"And there will be a question period after the speech," Anderson said, with the crowd cheering him.
AT ANOTHER POINT in his address, Anderson said he would consider both men and women when choosing a running mate of the governor of loudest roars of the anglers of the area.
ABOUT 20 of these hard-core Anderson supporters greeted him when his chartered turboprop landed at Topeka's Billard airport around 11:30 a.m.
She said the approximately 200 KU student Anderson volunteers would be going door-to-door and phoning voters before the election. She said she was sending voting to polling places on election day.
After the speech, as Anderson shook scores of hands on the way to the waiting motorcade. KU Andersson co-ordinator had asked that he be allowed she had not expected the overflow crowd.
Shivering on the tarmac, the group held signs above their heads and shouted "All the way with JJA," as the smiling Anderson, tightly in the wind, stepped down the ramp.
"Thank you for coming out," Anderson told the group. "Now you all get back inside where it's warm."
Anderson's day in Kansas began with a luncheon and press conference at the downtown Topeka Ramada Inn. From Lawrence, he went to Kansas City for a travel trip to Cedar Creek Center and a rally at Shawnee Mission West High School in Overland Park.
IN HIS LUNCHEN speech, Anderson said he wanted to turn from criticism of "a totally unacceptable Jimmy Carter" to "a more respectful and fairer differences between himself and Ronald Reagan.
In contrast to Sten. Edward Kennedy's in arrival to Topka last month, when well-wishers got no more than a quick wave from the hotel, he has had a chance to shake his hand and chit chat.
dependence on foreign oil instead of shoring up the unsound position into which that dependence has led us."
Anderson said that he thought Reagan's proposed one-third tax cuts would boost inflation, that reducing government fraud was a bad idea, and that America "should get rid of its
At the press conference, Anderson refused to belittle the importance of the Kansas primary to his candidacy.
However, he said the April 1 Wisconsin primary "offers a somewhat more unique opportunity to address these issues" of complete party cross over, but that one of Kansas voters were independents so much that they lost.
As in previous interviews, Anderson refused to commit himself to a third party candidacy if he did not win the Republican nomination.
Anderson said voters were "profoundly unhappy about the lack of choice" a Reagan-Carter race would present.
Tonight Only Blondie's Debbie Harry in Two Amos Poe films Unmade Beds and The Foreigner
"We love you." one supporter said.
Doors open at 8 Film rolls at 9
But come down early for $1.50
pitches and $1.25 hiballs
from 8-9 pm
"If they want a choice," he said, "I'm here, available as that choice."
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