October 18, 1968
The N. C. Essay
Page 2
AN ANALYSIS
VISIT TO A
REPUBLCA.N RALLY
by Terry Tickle
Tuesday was cloudy and driving
from Winston the gray of the High
way Fatrol cars made them barely
visible, as they guarded each over=
pass from the regional airport to
the Gi’eensboro Goliseiom, Along
the road and in the parkinp area
were a variety of station wagons
and chartered buBes carrying Card
nerj Mizellj Osteen and Nixon=Agnew
signs. High school girls distri=
buted buttonsj hats and wore white
dresses with red and blue *'Nixon>s
the one** letterings It was a well^
dressed, very white proup of middle
class people that nearly filled the
auditori'jiris On the floor there
were three bands, a row of cameras
and some press tablesj and another
we 11-located group of Nixon pom
pom girls holding signs clearly vis
ible to the cameras.
The first “highlight** of the
rally was the introduction of num
erous local candidates who are
' clinging to Nixon's coattails in
hopes of being elected-judge,
county commissioner, legislator,
prosecutor, farm^r-of-t h e-month,
etc., etc., etc. The master of
cermonies then disclosed in confi
dential whispers that Nixon was in
the bulling. A quiet murmur arose
from the audience. Nixon appeared
and received about three minutes of
not-too-enth»’siastic applause. Jim
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by Dennis Williamson
Hubert Horatio Huuipurey, Demo
cratic Presidential nominee, is a
prime example of what this country
neither wants nor needs as its Pres
ident » Since his dubious victory in
Chicago, Humphrey, becasue of the
lack of organization and money with
in his party, has felt his promi
nence as a Presidential candidate to
drop to an all-time low. The polls
consistently show that Humphrey now
trails Wallace in electoral vote
strength 5 a fact which indicates
that people want a change from Demo
cratic Party ruleo As an unfortu
nate victim of circumstance, Hum
phrey is taking the rap for his pre
decessors = Until Hubert executes a
break in affiliating with LBJ, be
stands little chance of being elect
ed.
The exponent of "Old Johnsonian
Politics* was born to a druggist of
South Dakota in 1911. He attended
The University of Minnesota and
L.SeUo before embarking on a teach
ing career. After being rejected
from the Army and Navy during World
Ward II for physical reasons, Hum
phrey entered politics as Mayor of
Minneapolis in 1945o He was elected
to Congress in 1948 as (believe it
or not) a hot-shot, big mouth liber
al. After being viturally ostrasiz-
ed for nearly two years by a conser
vative Congres, however, Hiomphrey
took on a more moderate tone. He
formed a friendship with LBJ which
paid off when JFK was assassinated
in 1963, as Humphrey received the
Vice-Presidency. HHH has up to the
present dutifully performed the
thankless task of being an expenent
of Johnsf'ri,
Whc is this unpopular man run
ning for President? Actually, be
cause of his profession, such an
enigmatic aura surrounds him that it
is very difficult to tell, Humphrey
stands as a moderate liberal, but
his views are so nebulous that no
one knows what to expect from him if
he were Presidento Here we see a
man who delivers speeches with
strong emotional overtones, and who
with virtue said that at the risk of
being called a hypocrite, he would
never break politically with LBJo
Yet HHH has run, to date, a bigger
two-faced, unethical campaign than
either Wallace or Nixon,
If there exists an enigma sur
rounding the man Huirsphrey, there'^
certainly is no mystery as to how he
operates. An astute politician
Humphrey is second to none in being
abel to accomplish such seemingly
Impossible tasks ass appeasing both
Liberal and Conservative Democrats
at the same time; gaining control of
the party machine| and unifying the
wildly split party. These accomp
lishments seem even more incredible
when one considers that a year ago,
Humprhey was the last person on the
list of possible cnadidates. How
did he win the nomination? W**!!,
here are two examples of Humphrey's
methods.
1. Since people listen to only
what they want to hear, Humphrey can
take contradictory stands on the is
sues and through good, ambiguous
speeches appeal to voters on the
left and right. Once Hubert gave a
war hawk speech to a supposedly
Foreign Wars convention, and on the
same night gave a dove speech to a
group of students. It is no small
coincidence therefore that Humphrey
became violently angrey when he dls-
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