The education bloc
Outside of the farm vote, there really hasn't been much evidence of bloc voting in Kansas politics. And willingness to elect someone from the minority party really cannot be considered to be a bloc vote nor does following the staunch Republican line indicate such, if we mean by a bloc vote, consensus to support a candidate or issue by an interest group.
However, in 1966, charges and countercharges over the tax program initiated during the tenure of Gov. William H. Avery has put back into the spotlight the financing of the education system through the foundation plan.
From this issue may come a bloc vote. Teachers and educators already have been aroused by the idea that a vote against Avery will be taken as a public referendum against education financing and therefore will mean curtailment of financing programs in the future.
Two periodicals concerned with education. The Kansas Teacher, published by the Kansas
State Teachers Association, and the Kansas School Board Journal of the Kansas Association of School Boards, have editorially indicated the public referendum idea and have announced support of Avery.
How much work will be done to organize educators into a bloe would be hard to say. But one significant factor is this: Kansas teachers will meet in a two-day convention of the KSTA on Nov. 3 and 4—only four days before the Nov. 8 elections.
You can be sure that with education financing such a big issue in the Kansas elections, the topic will be greatly discussed in or out of caucus at the convention centers. And organized campaigning will receive much attention at the convention.
If a pro-Avery bloc is organized in those last few days before the polls open—and the situation is ideal—it may swing or insure the governorship for the Republicans.
By GERALD DEMEL
Spotlight on state elections-VII
Carolina Demos dump Russell
By IRVANA KEAGY Here is a rib tickler.
A man serving a term as governor of a state tried to pull a fast one on his subjects. The story goes that one of his friends, a United States senator representing that state, died leaving an empty post.
BUT A FEW hours after the kindly senator passed away, the good governor, feeling (we can assume) indebted to the state and sensing the voice of the people calling him to his duty, resigned his state position. The lieutenant governor, also a true servant of the people, became governor. His first duty as the new governor was (you guessed it) to appoint the bereaved ex-governor to the vacant senatorial post. (Now laugh.)
The anecdote is not merely a funny story--it's South Carolina politics. And the joke was on the citizens of that sun-kissed state.
The governor, a Democrat named Donald S. Russell, 59, was appointed to the senatorial post in April of 1965. His predecessor was Sen. Olin D. Johnston.
BUT THE citizens of that state got their word in edgewise when
they cast their votes in the 1966 state primary June 14. They elected an energetic, 44-year-old lawyer from the coastal city of Charleston, Fred Hollings, as the Democratic nominee. He won over Russell with a plurality of about 60,000 votes.
Russell should not feel too bad, because the same thing has happened to six other persons who in the past 25 years have been defeated in a special election following a resignation as governor and appointment to a senate seat
Hollings, a strapping, energetic political campaigner, also served as governor of the state from 1959 to 1963. The Democrats are confident that his popularity and youthful fervor will carry him to victory over his Republican opponent, State Sen. Marshall J. Parker, 45.
Winner of the election will serve out the remaining two years of Johnston's term.
THE REPUBLICANS of South Carolina may be apprehensive about Parker's prospects, but they are more than confident with their other senatorial nominee, Sen. Stom Thurmond.
Thurmond, a Democrat turned
Republican, is considered the state's strongest vote getter.
His opponent, who calls himself a "progressive conservative," is State Sen. P. Bradley Morrall, 50, who hails from the textile city of Greenville, and in the primary defeated John Bolt Culbertson, 58, a liberal pro-civil rightist, and "Hummrey Democrat."
In line for the governorship is either the incumbent Robert E. McNair (lieutenant governor when Russell resigned), who ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination, or State Rep. Joseph O. Rogers Jr., 45, the GOP nominee.
TO FURTHER confuse the voters, 26 Negroes ran in the primary election, two of whom were nominated for magistrate posts in Richland County. Failure to obtain a majority vote in the Democratic race for the South Carolina legislature resulted in a Democratic primary runoff.
In the first primary, four Negro candidates on the Democratic ticket for the state legislature, have led their opponents but failed to receive majorities.
No Negro has served in the legislature since 1901, and white voters in the two rural counties concerned turned out in strength to keep the tradition unbroken.
"Shorty — You Still With Me?"
Official Bulletin
Concert: Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi,
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per will perform in Hoch Aud. Tuesday
will be at the University of Kansas,
recently presented a performance at
UN. Tickets available now at Infor-
mation Counter, Kansas Union.
Comp. Center Short Courses:
COROB, 8:30-9:20 a.m., MWF, 406
Su., starting Nov. 7; FORTRAN 1V,
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M. Theatre/Athropology Lecture.
3:30 p.m. Balwart Gargi, Indian playwright & author. Forum Rm., Union.
Kansas Camping Conf., All Day. Union.
TODAY
Ph.D. Research Skill Exam in Comp-
pression on Fortran IV 3 39 p.m.
10a. Siu
Alpha Chi Sigma, 7:30 p.m. Kansas Union
Amer. Inst. of Aero- & Astronautics
Meeting 7:30 p.m. Speaker—James
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202. Leapard. Coffee & donuts served after.
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TOMORROW
Pratt & Whitney Alcraft Engineering Exhibit, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Parking and Learnard Hall. Display designed for all engineering & science students
Kansas State Teachers Assoc. Meeting.
All Day.
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Daily Kansan
editorial page Tuesday, November 1, 1965
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"BY THE WAY, THAT SILLY WORTHAL CALLED ME FOR A DATE AGAIN."
DECLARATION!
--which could come forth. Today, then, we call upon Kansas to move out of the Dark Ages of scholasticism and join the Great Society of Intellectuals by hiring the politically handicapped. —Pyrrhus & Cineas
COMMUNISTS ON THE FACULTY! There aren't any. That's a shame.KU should go cut and hire some.
Perhaps you are surprised to hear such a statement from Pyrrhus and Cineas. Perhaps you were one of those persons who used his imagination in reading our first "Declaration." Perhaps you, too, read a defense of the Kansas Loyalty Oath somewhere between the lines in that first article.
ACTUALLY WE OPPOSE the oath not so much on "the principle of the thing," but on the simple fact that KU would be a better place with some Communists on the faculty.
To emphasize our point, we think the University should undertake a communist recruitment program. The object of this program should be to secure the services of a dedicated, highly trained, intellectual communist to teach at KU.
TO THOSE WHO WOULD oppose the hiring of Communists, we ask, "What harm could come of it?" Should a Communist prof make an ass of himself (as we suspect he might), his place on the faculty would amount to giving him enough rope with which to hang himself and his ideology.
Such a lesson would make stronger anti-communists of the students than the present method of "we won't let you look because it's bad." If, on the other hand, such a prof were to be a major influence on the campus, this would tend to accentuate any positive attributes of the Communist doctrine and serve to point out any faults with "the American way." If the latter should be the case, society would also benefit by the free expression of the man's ideas.
For these reasons we say, "Hire a Communist." In fact, we would add, "Hire a fascist; hire an avowed racist; hire a few intellectual fanatics of every shade of belief." While this still might not succeed in improving KU's social climate or football team, it might stimulate a little intellectual inquiry.
ONLY BY STATING their case in concrete terms—by demanding the hiring of intellectual fanatics—can the plaintiffs of the loyalty cath suit make their point meaningful. It is very easy, but also meaningless, to talk only of the "principle" involved. It is not difficult to point out the stupidity of the State of Kansas commissioning KU to "search for truth . . . but don't look here."
In confining ourselves, however, to abstract civil liberties arguments, the whole state may miss the intellectual potential which could come from the repeal of the oath.
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