Brooke, Peabody clash in Massachusetts race
By JUDY FAUST
Historically a lively political showplace, a battleground for powerful personalities and strong families, Massachusetts is a good place to look at in primary time. National trends are consistently reflected there, and very often national leaders are produced there.
Besides its core of old-line political families and their strongmen, the Massachusetts population also contains more than twice the national average of people of foreign stock, especially
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Irish and Italian. The resultant political atmosphere is just the place for vivid figures and vivid issues. Everybody loves the great involved scramble of election year.
IN MASSACHUSETTS in 1966 two of the issues that months ago were forecast as vital in the national scene were set before the voters, and in Massachusetts, at least, the voters wouldn't have anything to do with either one. The candidates representing each issue were put down even before the primary in their own party's endorsement convention.
The issues, of course, were the white back-lash and the Viet Nam war.
Attorney General Edward Brooke ran unopposed for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Leverett Saltonstall after 22 years. Brooke is the highest-ranking Negro elected office holder in the country.
BROOKE WAS NEVER faced with serious opposition, although two groups of staunch conservatives tried to stir up a little. One was the Massachusetts Committee to Preserve the Two-Party System, and the other the Jefferson-Lincoln Union. The Union aimed its campaign at Brooke's approach to the poverty program, saying it was "based on the bureaucratic welfare check philosophy which penalizes the free enterprise system."
Liberal Republicans, however, crossed party lines to solicit campaign contributions for Brooke. A letter signed by Jacob Javits was widely circulated in Democratic circles. It mentioned the GOP once, and did not mention Brooke's race.
ON THE OTHER side of the ticket the Democrats came up with the kind of political free-for-all Massachusetts loves best. Boston's Mayor John Collins opposed former governor Endicott Peabody. A third candidate, Boston Brahmin Thomas Boylston Adams, ran on an anti-war campaign and mustered only 21,000 votes. Peabody won the nomination.
But Collins put up a good fight. The wheelchair-confined mayor relied heavily on television debates, trying to pin Peabody down on his stand on the capital punishment referendum. Peabody returned in kind, nailing Collins to the wall on Boston's shortcomings.
Even after losing his party's endorsement to Peabody, Collins continued his campaign. At least one part of it was directed toward the anticipated white backlash which failed to materialize. Collins pointedly rejected "civil disobedience as a means of obtaining democratic objectives."
Both Collins and Peabody made passing reference to the Viet Nam war. (Peabody lined up close to the Administration policy and asked that it "not become a partisan political issue.") Yet both candidates, as witness the sometimes ugly television debates, seemed more concerned with personal images.
WHO'LL WIN, Peabody or Brooke? Everybody's taking bets. The pendulum of public opinion, according to the polls, is describing a very small are that first favors Brooke, then gives Peabody a slight edge. It looks tight.
Edward J. McCormack, nephew of House Speaker John McCormack and former attorney general of the state, easily won the Democratic nomination for governor. McCormack has been out of the political scene since 1962 when he lost a bitterly contested race against Edward Kennedy for the Democratic nomination for the Senate.
ONE OF McCORMACK'S opponents for the nomination, Robert E. Bidwell, an industrial relations expert, was eased out of the race unable to compete with professional politicians. Another, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, a former Kennedy White House aide, secured the necessary petition with 10,000 names to allow him to run anyway when he lost the party's endorsement to McCormack 1,050 to 696. O'Donnell based his campaign on state-federal relations and a good name in Washington. That didn't prove to be enough to get the relatively unknown candidate past McCormack, who will face incumbent John Velpe in the upcoming election.
So, in Massachusetts the obvious emotional issues didn't fill their projected roles. There was no significant reaction to the much-shouted-about black power militancy. Anti-war feeling never really got stirred up. There wasn't even a whole lot of sentiment against the Administration. The issues were local, and personalities won contests.
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Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
"Theatre U.S.A."
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College Life, 9 p.m. p.m. the Greatest Trial" Cases: past, present & future Francis Hanna, KC Law firm, bachelor's Kappa Epsilon House, 1911 Stewart.
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Amer. Chem. Society, All Day. Union
Two Year College Chemistry Teachers meeting. All Day, Malott.
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Popular Film, 7 & 3:30 p.m. Black-
cock Theater, 6:30 p.m.
Foreign Film, 7.30 p.m. "La Notte."
Italian. Hoch Aud.
Hiliel Services, 7:30 p.m. Jewish Comm. Center, 917 Highland Dr.
African Club meeting. 7:39 p.m.
Subject: October Revolution in Sudan;
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Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
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Thursday, October 27, 1966
“...Continuing Cool And Considerably
STRONG STUFF
as seen by EMERY GOAD
We give the will power award this week to all those students who stayed in their rooms or the library and studied this exam week instead of going to Potter Lake.
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The funniest thing we've heard in years . . . that's the victory party scheduled following the Nebraska football game. Right Jack?
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This is spring, the sun is shining, the squirrels are active, the trees are colored, the leaves are on the ground . . . and so are the students at Potter Lake.
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The times of the "good ole days" are gone, the AKL's moved in a new house this week (it was uneventful), the Beta Tau's moved into a new house this week (it too was uneventful) . . we recall the time the Phi Psi's moved into their house two years ago . . . a large number of them went to the hospital for food poisoning.
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In Washington the CIA is the "big secret," in Italy the Mafia is the "big secret" . not to be outdone at KU we have the Council on Student Affairs, COSA, our own "big secret."
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Bombs in McCollum Hall last year, a car wreck by the Lambda Chi's last week on the way to Potter Lake, and shotgun blasts by the Phi Gam's and Phi Delt's . . . we think the "Sanitary Unit" placed on the sidewalk of the Theta house Friday was much more reasonable!
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It seems like the latest in money making projects is to shoot senior pictures. We've heard many seniors comment lately that one and only one local photographer is allowed "to take" the 2,000 seniors at a cost of $5 each.
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We hear it is no secret the administration did some "undercover" work on that panty raid on Oliver Hall a couple of weeks ago.
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They say practice makes perfect . . has anyone told Mitchell's Jayhawks?
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