Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1963
University Daily Kansan
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Campus Politicos See JFK-Goldwater Race
Bv Rick Mabbutt
President John Kennedy and Sen. Barry Goldwater will meet in the 1964 presidential election, two campus political leaders agreed in separate interviews last night.
Talks with Kansas college political leaders and members of both parties have convinced Sam Evans, Salina junior and KU Young Republicans chairman, and Max Logan, Holliday senior and Young Democrats chairman, that Goldwater could win the election easily in Kansas.
"The general trend of most state officials is toward Goldwater. Goldwater has a big lead," Evans said.
LOGAN AGREED and added, "I would say Goldwater would carry this state by a terrific margin." Goldwater's popularity, is due to
the wave of "conservatism" that is moving across the country. The whole movement is a reaction to action in Washington. Even many Democrats in some states are leaning towards conservatism, Evans said.
The President's economic policies and the current civil rights battle have contributed to this movement, he said.
However, Logan viewed the "wave of conservatism as "superficial."
"It is a reaction setting in concerning the economic cycle. The people can see a change in the relationship between the government, business and society; they see a threat and react at it," he said.
"They (conservatives) are not strong but loud." he added.
BOTH EVANS and Logan expressed doubts about Goldwater's chances in a national election.
The Republicans feel the only way
Goldwater can win is to carry the South. If he were nominated he would carry some of the South, particularly Alabama and the other states where has been the most racial trouble. Evans said.
"Neither Jerry (Dickson, national collegiate YR chairman and a first-year law student) nor I believe he can do this (carry the South)," he said.
"Kennedy by a landslide," predicted Logan.
"I do hope they run Goldwater He is dead in the big cities and in the industrial north, and that is where the votes are," Logan said.
gested that Rep. William Avery of the 2nd Congressional District, will be the Republican nominee for governor.
"I would say, that through my contacts, Avery is in the minds of most people," Evans said.
GOLDWATER would run slightly ahead of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, but behind former vicepresident, Richard M. Nixon, he added.
There is a little jockeying for the Democratic nomination, but Jack Glaves of Wichita is the man out in front, Logan said.
The party in the state recognize this fact and as a consequence Glaves has forged a good deal of party support. Logan said.
GLAVES IS A young man, and very progressive and the perennial people in the party are too old; it is time for young blood to be added, he said.
The Democratic party in Kansas is trying to organize itself on all levels, to build up a core of good
On the state level, Evans sug-
workers, and to enter vigorously in the political campaigns, he said.
However, it would be difficult to have a liberal Democratic party in the state of Kansas due to the basic conservatism of the agricultural interest in the state. Logan said.
Research Center Reviews Kansas Legislators' Work
THE MAJOR controversies in the Kansas Republican party are (1) Goldwater versus Rockefeller and (2) who will run for governor, Evans said.
A 60-page section on "General Government" is the largest part of the book. It deals with decisions ranging from the civil code to salary increases for state officials to the Sunday closing law and fallout shelter liability.
In addition to Avery as a likely nominee for governor, Evans listed four other candidates which have been mentioned as possibilities: Attorney General William Ferguson, Lt. Gov. Harold Chase of Salina, Huck Boyd, who ran for governor against Gov. John Anderson in 1960 and Robert F. Ellsworth, representative of the 3rd Congressional District.
All major bills of the 500 passed by the Legislature are reviewed in the 158-page publication, and others are mentioned. James T. McDonald, senior analyst at the center, is author of the book, titled Decisions of the 163 Kansas Legislature.
What Kansas legislators did or did not do in their 1963 session is summarized in a KU Governmental Research Center book published this week.
The major share of a section on "Education and Libraries" discusses the Wichita University and school unification bills.
"It is not the intent of the author
to comment on the advisability of what the legislators did," said Ethan P. Allen, director of the center and chairman of the department of political science.
The summary was made with the hope that Kansas will become more familiar with the work of the 1963 legislature, he said.
"Our form of democracy is necessarily strengthened when the general public keeps informed of the actions of public officials," he continued. "Since the legislative decisions influence the long-range future of all of us, the citizen is entitled to know what his representatives did or did not do."
The new publication, to be received by 150 institutions, including public libraries, is available on request from the KU Governmental Research Center.
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