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Spotlight on state elections-VI
New York: four-ring circus
By BARBARA PHILLIPS
The New York gubernatorial race is finally shaping up into a four-ring circus with the elephant and the donkey vying for top billing. Only one problem with the circus—each ring has a few too many stars.
The four major parties—Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, and Conservatives—are so involved in internal splits, money problems, and national ticket aspirations that it is difficult to determine whether the Nov. 8 elections will be a runaway or a tight squeeze.
Whichever it is, experts agree that Nelson Rockefeller, fighting for his third term as governor, has a very slight edge over Frank O'Connor, Democratic president of the New York City Council.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY in New York, headed ostensibly by Governor Rockefeller, is split internally by the national aspirations of Rockefeller and another of its leaders, Senator Jacob K. Javits. Rockefeller, if he wins this fall's election, will once again become a top candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination.
A small problem has arisen over the 1968 national ticket. Javits, who was preferred for the gubernatorial position by a few upstate businessmen, has mentioned to intimate friends that he would like the second position on the 1968 Republican national ticket. If Rockefeller does win this year's race, he also will probably be a top contender for the national nomination. And if he should win the nomination, Javits would be out, since no party would consider running two men from the same state on the presidential ticket.
Therefore, Javits has been noticeably cold in his support of Rockefeller. Another key person in the New York Republican party, New York City's promising young mayor, John Lindsay, is an unknown factor in the race. He won his own race without much help from the Republican party, per se, so he is doing little for Rockefeller's campaign.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S problems have been made more public and are a lot messier. The Democrats had a pretty good race before their nominee was even announced. O'Connor was definitely in the lead, but Howard Samuels, an upstate industrialist, had some very influential supporters. Senator Robert Kennedy had his own favorite for the position, Eugene Nickerson, a Nassau County executive, but
Nickerson was never seriously considered for the job by anyone outside the Kennedy camp.
O'Connor, who had been labeled a product of the machine and of bossism by his opponents even before the official announcement of his candidacy was made, fought a hard battle with Samuels, who was eventually given the second spot on the ticket.
O'Connor's campaign caused some leaders of both major parties to cry "bossism." The main complaint was that O'Connor had dropped out of the 1965 mayor's race which Lindsay won, after party leaders in the Bronx and Brooklyn promised him support for the '66 gubernatorial race.
ANOTHER TWIST IN the campaign has been the emergence of the two splinter parties.
The Liberal Party, traditionally Democratic candidate supporters, has chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. as its first candidate in 22 years. This is the first time the Liberals have not endorsed the Democratic candidate.
Roosevelt, who was in the running for the Democratic nomination, pulled out of the race and charged O'Connor with being a "machine man" and a product of bossism. The Liberals pleaded with him to be their candidate and are now hoping the Roosevelt name and the tradition of family service will pull in some of the more disillusioned liberal Democrats.
Roosevelt hits O'Connor with the bossism issue and Rockefeller with his broken promises, and is, in general, conducting a campaign which can really hurt Democratic hopes. The Liberal Party may take as many as 500,000 votes, most of which will be from the Democratic Party.
The Republicans' problems are not lessened by the Conservative Party campaign. Dr. Paul L. Adams, a Columbia University professor, is leading the fight for the third line on the ballot. Their main issue is the taxation policies formed under Rockefeller.
ONE OF THE BIG question marks in the race is labor. About 50 per cent of the labor unions in New York State have pledged support to Rockefeller, but the AFL-CIO has remained neutral after years of Democratic backing. Other smaller groups are withholding support from the major parties and the campaign is becoming a race for each individual vote rather than one for group support.
But the only sure thing about the New York race is that the gubernatorial fight will not be over until all the votes are in Nov. 8.
The people say...
To the editor:
Just for the record, there was positively no "gunfire" or "shotgun blasts" at the Phi Gam, Phil Delt rally last Tuesday. Either the UDK "reporter" involved was misinformed, or he was hard up for an exciting story to report.
There is no reason for a newspaper responsible to the students of this university to print such erroneous and misleading information. All this ever leads to is bad feelings and false images of college students in general.
Tom McLaughlin
Manhattan sophomore (Editor's note: information used in the story, including the reports of gunfire, was given to the UDK by Lawrence police and KU traffic and security officers.)
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University Open Meeting
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Kansas Camping Conf., All Day.
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New books
A curious kind of smorgasbord is the prospect for you in the new paperbacks.
Many of you will be drawn to something called Sex and the College Student (Crest, 75 cents), by the Committee on the College Student, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. That should make it sound good and respectable. No pornography here. This book gets to some significant questions. Does the word "normal" have any meaning in sexual relations? Does the word "meral"? Is what you do your business and nobody else's? Is it the college's, for example? To what extent, if at all, should the university regulate your private life?
SOMETHING QUITE different is Helen Hayes' A Gift of Joy (Crest, 75 cents). Pretty syrupy stuff, mainly. La Dame Helen has become more that way over the years, and she now sees herself almost as an outside observer, Maggie in "What Every Woman Knows" and Queen Victoria and the wife of Charlie and proud mother and all that. She even gives us examples of her favorite poetry. As a matter of fact, you come to wonder if this hodge-podge should even read "by Helen Hayes."
Playing bridge, or trying to learn? Well, have a go at Richard L. Frey's How to Win at Contract Bridge in 10 Easy Lessons (Crest, 75 cents). Nice plot and characters, 52 of them altogether.
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