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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 1, 1962
Rightist Political Influence Significant in GOP Elections
By Dennis Branstiter
An assistant professor of political science said Wednesday night that the influence of right-wing splinter groups on the Republican Party in the coming Congressional elections is the "great imponderable."
This is how Prof. Earl A. Nehring, former adviser to the Republican National Committee, described the political influence of the John Birch Society and the Young Americans for Freedom. He spoke at the Young Republicans meeting Wednesday night.
He said right-wing influence would be of "considerable significance in the close elections." There is an "inevitable association between the two (right-wing organizations and the Republican Party) in the public mind," he said.
NEHRING SAID IT is the 'image of the Republican Party that suffers most . . . because of the antics of some of the leaders of these (right-wing) groups." He said he suspects the motives of some leaders and is glad the groups are not in the Republican Party.
State Sen. Donald Hults, R-Douglas County, another speaker at the meeting, said he does not think the John Birch Society and YAF harm the Republican Party. He said the two would like to use the Republican Party to implement their policies, but they will not become sufficiently influential unless party members become apathetic.
Nehring continued, saying that much of the money which would normally go into the Republican Party is going into right-wing organizations instead. He said for example that Richard Nixon is having difficulty raising campaign funds for the coming California
Nazi Leader Predicts Coup
LOS ANGELES — (UPI) —American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell, dressed in a tan uniform with gold swastika insignias on each collar, predicted yesterday that he would come to national power within 10 years.
Rockwell, here for a week, announced plans to appear locally on television and to address the local Black Muslim organization.
Rockwell, upon his arrival at Los Angeles International Airport, said he plans to organize about 300 Southern Californians who, he said, are active in the American Nazi Party.
He said he expects to achieve power in Virginia, where the party is headquartered, within five or six years, and national power within a decade.
He said YAF has taken control of the Young Republicans in Southern California. He said, "These groups and this kind of action are of no help to the Republican Party because they have their own ends beyond those of the party."
gubernatorial election because of opposition from such groups.
ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO official connection between YAF and the Young Republicans, Nehring said, YAF is trying to get control in some places in order to have an established party organization to implement YAF policies.
Nehring continued, saying: "I hope these efforts (to take over the Young Republicans) will fail because extremeties in either direction have no place in the practical operation of government, the real job of the parties."
Hults was more concerned about the effect of newspaper slogans and arbitrary labeling. He said, "If you do something the newspapers want, then you are a liberal, because that's good. If you do something the newspapers do not want, then you are a conservative, because that's bad."
HE SAID KANSAS Republicans are liberal in the sense that they have made many constructive changes. He said blanket labels of "liberal" and "conservative" for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively, are unfair.
Wine Shall Lead Them
JACKSON, Miss. — (UPI) — State Sen. T. M. Williams proposed yesterday that whisky and wine brought into legally dry Mississippi be taxed to provide funds for the treatment of alcoholics and the education of children concerning the "evils of alcohol."
He said the public is not sufficiently concerned with details. He said that "Newspapers have sold bills on slogans and on liberal and conservative labels."
Hults attributed much of the recent success of the Democratic Party to careful handling of minority groups.
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"Most of the money that the government is dolling out is to influence minority groups, teachers and the aged." He described the teachers' lobby as the most powerful in Washington at the present time.
He said that "The Democratic Party has been made up of an association of minority groups. We do not get out and promote our side of the picture. We are all lax.
"If you get enough minority groups you're going to win any election, and that is what the Democratic Party has done," he said.
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