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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 24, 1968
Candidates on campaign trail
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)—Vice President Hubert Humphrey accused his Republican presidential opponent, Richard Nixon, today of playing "fast and loose" with the security of the nation.
"Who can the American people trust to lead this country for the next four years?"
He said Nixon has made two decisions in the campaign "which speak directly to this crucial issue of trust."
"First, he decided who should be his vice presidential running mate—the man who would be a heartbeat from the presidency itself in this nuclear age," Humphrey said.
Humphrey made the accusation in a speech while campaigning for votes at the historical Alamo, Texas' most sacred shrine.
The vice president's noontime audience was composed largely of Mexican-Americans, who in turn make up a significant, and perhaps crucial, portion of the Texas electorate.
With only two weeks left in the campaign, Humphrey said it was time to ask the central question:
And Mr. Nixon chose Spiro T. Agnew—a so-called urban expert who says, 'When you have seen one slum, you have seen them all,' a man who says he cannot wait to try out his new-found experience in foreign policy.
"I think my Republican opponent played fast and loose with the security of this nation," Humphrey said.
Humphrey then chided Nixon for his second decision:
"He decided to say nothing else for the rest of the campaign."
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Humphrey was quick with the quip as he stumped across President Johnson's home state, and he had a right to be happy. Gov. John Connally, leader of the conservative wing of the party, joined his long time political foe, Sen. Ralph Yarborough, leader of the liberal wing, in public stumping.
The vice president had succeeded where Johnson himself, and President John F. Kennedy before him, had failed.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (UPI)—George C. Wallace attacked Hubert H. Humphrey and hecklers sought to attack him with a barrage of sticks and stones in a hectic Youngstown campaign stop vesterday.
It was the third consecutive day that Wallace was met by shouts and abuse.
A shower of missiles was thrown as Wallace attacked Humphrey with charges of substituting "the politics of fear, frustration and misrepresentation" for "the politics of joy."
Wallace was apparently not hit
and he taunted the hecklers in characteristic fashion.
When the first missile was thrown, Wallace said, "Throw something else. Better throw it now because you're not going to throw anything after Nov. 5.
"I can take anything you anarchists can dish out."
At one point during the speech a group of about two dozen Negroes pushed to the front of the throng at Stambaugh Auditorium and shook their fists in black power salutes.
Wallace has been attacking Richard M. Nixon in his recent speeches, but his prime target today way Humphrey.
Wallace said Humphrey had maligned the people of his home state with statements implying Alabama has the highest crime rate in the nation.
Minnesota, Humphrey's state, ranks well above Alabama in total crime rate, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics, Wallace said.
Though admitting the Southern state ranked high in murder and manslaughter, Wallace said in the other categories of crime it was well below its sister states.
He particularly bore down on Humphrey's statements dealing with Wallace's labor record. Wallace said Humphrey had been quoted as saying Alabama had the lowest industrial wage scale and the lowest workman's and unemployment compensation benefits in the nation. The former governor denied this.
Nixon—
SAGINAW, Mich. (UPI)—Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon yesterday opened an intensive one-day swing through Michigan by heaping new criticism on Hubert Humphrey for a shifty position on Vietnam and for indiscreet public comments on the Paris peace talks.
Nixon flew to Saginaw from Toledo, Ohio, where he spent the night. He was greeted at his first stop, an airport rally, by several thousand persons and was met by Gov. George Romney and other Michigan Republican officials.
In statements issued at Saginaw, Nixon added to his overall criticism of the Johnson administration record on Vietnam and new personal jabs at Humphrey for his responsibility and
involvement in the Johnson administration war record.
"Mr. Humphrey has shown a constitutional inability to treat the Vietnam War and the peace negotiations discreetly, or for that matter, understandingly, ever since he started campaigning.
"I think the American people will question the peace-keeping capabilities of a candidate who from week to week shows on every issue he would rather switch than fight, rather spend than save, rather talk than mind his tongue on sensitive international matters," Nixon said.
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