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Monday, September 30,1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
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Kennedy leaves race open
By bowing out of the 1976 presidential race, Sen. Edward Kennedy made the right decision to troubled family and for a nation that has had quite enough of ugility. But his decision leaves room for someone untitled just topped by a tractor. Behold the beautiful scramble!
spared; as a prospective first lady, her medical record would have had the Eagleton treatment. Such a campaign would have cost the patient battered and bruised. This we are thankfully spared.
If the senator had decided to seek the nomination, he would have invited one of the most bitter campaigns in American political history. It would have been worse than Cleveland-Blaire in 1884 or Smith-Hover in 1928.
By 1980 or 1984, Kennedy still
No observer would deny that Kennedy is widely admired. He could have had his party's nomination for the asking. It may not be so well understood if he is not so bad to loot. If he is an object of fervent adulation, he is also an object of passionate invective. His bid for the White House, had he formally announced, would have burst a boil of martial hostility. Kennedy would flood forth, from Papa Joe Chappaquiddick. Kennedy's wife couldn't possibly have been
With Kennedy's withdrawal, the Democrats' dilemma becomes glaringly apparent. Where could they find a winner?
By James Kilpatrick
They have one man, Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, who might give Gerald Ford a good run for the money in 1976.
will be in a position to seek the presidency, and by that time the passions may have subsided. Meanwhile, he can afford to bide his time as an active voter and potent fund raser.
What, now, for the Democrats? Within the party, the senator has stood like a Caesar. He bestrode the party when it was him, but petty men walked under his huge legs and peeped about.
Jackson's difficulties became evident in the Florida primary of 1927. He worked doggedly in the campaign, and his presence of George Wallace
made his effort vain. Wallace is still around. The governor of Alabama lives, eats and breathes on the excitement of running for office. Under the 1976 convention rules, which he passed, Wallace will take all, Wallace will wind up with plenty of delegates. If by some bizarre stroke of fate, Wallace just won just delegates to claim the conference party would collapse. It would go the way of the one horse shay.
warrior, Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, is out of it. Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, on a trip to the nation, such leftovers from 1972 as Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa and Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma have made their exit from the stage. What ever became of John F. Kennedy's great gift to New York City? There were boomlets in 1972 for Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York, Sam Yorty, former mayor of La Rue, who was Governor Reubin Askew. There isn't much boon left in any of them.
Are there fresh figures? Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota would like the nomination, but Mondale's record of ultra liberalism would cast him as an outspoken critic. Benton of Texas is an attractive possibility, but he has no national recognition. Such junior senators as Lawton Chiles of Florida, Sam Nunn of Georgia and Kenny Illinois and William Hathaway of Maine are vice presidential saplings, not presidential timber. Birch Bay of Indiana is a 100-to-one shot. Could the party make peace with Clean Energy leaders or the peerless first baseman? It seems exceedingly doubtful.
Kennedy was the Democratic party's greatest asset and greatest liability, too. Within a national convention, he could have produced the same unity among party workers that is shared by suckers on the back of a bank. With his departure, President Obama left with the school of small fish, and in the prospect of Governor Wallace, with a small but uncomfortable whale.
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Wallace should emulate Kennedy
Some of my colleagues are saying Sen. Edward Kennedy, and others are saying presidential race, has cleared the way for a united Democratic party to offer a fresh face and voice to the American people.
They exaggerate the healing
'God, please save Linda Lovelace'
Dear Brother Bill Glass:
Have you heard the news? Linda LoveLace is in town. Hah! Imagine that. The star of "Deep Throat" drops right into the heartland of America without so much as a by-your-leave. Here she comes, strutting her stuff down Jayhawk Boulevard. She stars in X-rated movies, she swallows bananas whole, she crawls on her belly like a reptile. And students turn out like frantic lemmings to see her. Hot stuff, huh Brother Glass?
I, too think it's disgraceful, Brother Glass. So I was pleased to hear that you invited her to come to the Crusade and be saved. It's especially indecent that she came during your week of holy redemption and grabbed all the headlines. But don't worry, Brother Glass, she can't upstage you. You're in your own house. House. Nobody can match your swivel-hipped wigling. You have the best show in town.
white. Linda is a minion of Satan, a fungus spreading on our nation's manhood. You are an envoy from God, the sparkling water from a Rocky Mountain stream. I think perhaps the two of you aren't so different as you seem. You're both hucksters, minor league Evel Knievels.
Yet you insist on painting things in black and
Please don't misunderstand me, Brother Glass. I have nothing against Christianity. God knows I don't know enough to be an atheist. Christianity is at least as appealing as, say, Krishna Consciousness. At the same time I have nothing against Linda Loveelia. I don't go to see a movie with Linda Loveelia. I don't surround, that's all right. I doubt she'll commit any natural acts in public while she's here.
But at least Linda is an honest huckster. She knows we're laughing at her and she doesn't mind. She isn't here to push any beliefs. She's just here to make a buck.
What are you here for, Brother Glass?
effects of Kennedy's announcement on the Democrats
Only if Alabama Governor George Wallace were to match Kennedy's act of statesmanship and disavow candidacy for either president or vice president, he would have about a united Democratic party. so far Wallace remains trapped in the illusion that Americans want him as president. The prospect is that if he cannot rule the Democratic Party, he will do his utmost to wreck it.
party success in 1976. A wealthy woman in Wisconsin recently mailed me a copy of a private appeal for money sent out by the Wallace people. It was dripping with rhetoric attacking welfare recipients, assaults on school busing—all the pandering to bigotry, greed, meanness that has charac-
Contributing writer
The presidential nomination may well have been Kennedy's for the asking, Perhaps Kennedy could have beaten President Ford or any other GOP candidate in 1978. But he was not a good candidate, sparked an ugly campaign, and for him a very dangerous one.
portant than possible abuse over Chappaquiddick in convincing Kennedy not to seek the presidency.
Kennedy was on a tennis court recently when a car passing behind him fired the. Senator swiftly hit the dirt. It was tragic evidence of his knowledge that there areounds around him. Kennedy-haters out there who would try to make him the third Kennedy wiped out in an assassination.
He knew, also, that numerous powerful Democrats have long resented the notion that a Kennedy dynasty held some power over all of America. White House. So Kennedy served his family, his party and
This danger is one reason his family urged him not to run. That, I think, was more im-
his country well by taking himself out of the presidential race at this early date.
But Wallace is still there, holding hostage the dreams of Senators Walter Wondale, D-Dinn., Henry Jackson, D-Wash, Lloyd Belsen, D-Tex., other Democratic hopefuls.
If a Kennedy campaign would have been divisive, a Wallace campaign would be catastrophic. Nikonixon won a landmark in 1972 by outlawing rape, by race, crime, welfare, job quotas and busing. And although Watergate has taught millions of Americans a lesson, there still are millions more outraged to be suckered again by appeals to the same emotions.
Despite a modestly successful campaign to wipe away Wallace's image as a racist demagogue, the Alabama governor remains the single biggest threat to Democratic
terized previous Wallace campaigns.
It would be quite a blessing for this nation if Wallace allowed Kennedy's example of a candidate under any circumstance. That just might open the way to a presidential election in which the people get to choose who is more decent intents prevail.
No one reading this private appeal for funds could remotely conclude that Wallace has metamorphosis, the startling metamorphosis.
But somehow, I am burdened by the feeling that Wallace lacks both the selflessness and the ability to make that kind of declaration.
To the Editor:
Religious references evoke retorts
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I must applaude Lance Reppert's letter to the editor (Kansas, Sept. 24) in which he took issue with "a rather
disgusting parody of the department of special collections by Steve Lewis."
In the same issue, on the same page, was another one of
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Lewis' commentaries,
"Supernatural hocus-pocus
useless," to be followed by its
sequel, "Choose your judge:
Vern or God."
In the first of these works, Lewis warned his audience against those who "preatch popular mythology" and "disregard an objective search for any consideration of facts". Following Lewis's advice, I think everything he said.
Pam Gibson Prairie Village senior
Steve Lewis' article was titled "Supernatural hocus-pocus useless." I agree; it is. Its author, a trainee in the Lord Jesus Christ as the son of God isn't hocus-pocus. Lewis doesn't make this discrimination in his article but, in fact, moves the two as being the same.
We as people can never bale ourselves out of complex ideas, and we won't do it for us, either. The only way to solve life's problems is through God, and I someday Lewis realizes this.
Geri Geivett Independence Mo. junior
To the Editor:
world. I simply asked Jesus Christ to be my Savior and forgive my sins. He didn't promise that my problems would be solved. He did give me the patience to try to solve these problems.
Steve Lewis states that "a growing number of people are fleeing the real world for a supernatural security blanket." He is a secular Christian, but when I became a Christian, I didn't flee the real
To the Editors:
Linda W. Amerman
Belleville, Mich. freshman
I have to thank Steve Lewis for another sample of the excellent logic of the practical people of today. I plan to use his type of logic he is talking about logic when I start teaching. It is interesting that one who claims others "disagree an objective fact" can ignore facts and make unsound presumptions himself.
In reply to the article by Steven Lewis, any passage from the Bible must be interpreted by the Holy Spirit in light of the Bible as a whole, not in terms of "modern scholarship."
To the Editor:
Mark Finger
Larned graduate student
To the Editor:
Thus, we read in Romans 13 that the Bible is consistent in teaching that people should pay their taxes. Clearly, ordinance to God includes obedience to governing authorities.
Mark Finger
Second, Lewis asserts that evangelists rely on myths derived from the Bible. In fact, the Bible has shown itself to be the best source of objective truth we possess. No scientific or historical evidence has ever disproved the Bible.
The Bible isn't meant to be a textbook on religion but a sourced resource. Don't rely on the way one the way to get into vital contact with Jesus Christ.
To the Editor:
Leon Netham
Lawrence graduate student
Leon Neumann
It is hard for me to believe that something like Steve Lewis' article would be said without having looked into what was being criticized. Religion doesn't exist to be a supernatural security blanket for fleeing from the real world.
Jesus gives man the power to love his fellow man and handle his own problems, his own. Problems don't disappear, but Jesus gives you the patience to cope with a more abundant life.
To the Editor:
The Bible has much to say about the world's troubles. James 4, for example, says wars and personal feuds result from greed and passions, and its fruits to submit one's will to God.
In response to the column by Steve Lewis, I believe that, for publication in a newspaper, he should provide factual and consistent. He cautions us of those who "rip the Bible out of its context" and later makes a point by taking two verses with no context at all.
Leslie Scherer Wichita sophomore
Lennie Schwerdtfeger Bushton senior
Lewis calls "black-and-white, either-or logic" dangerous. Rather, the presence of no absolutes in this country has led us into almost complete moral decay.
Bob Mendelsohn 1538 Tennessee St
Steve Lewis calls us to "deal directly with the real world." His last statement calling for human solutions to the problem almost as absurd as the claims of religion he refutes. Where did the real world come from, anyway, if it wasn't man choosing his own way, his own life, listening to his originator.
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