Dear
Editor
When I read the BIGOTED re
port on the G. Harrold Carswell
nomination I was shocked that
an Editor would allow such a
slanderous and one sided report
to be printed. I assume that the
“little man” that wrote the
article is a Democrat, and a
Southern Democrat at that. I am
trying my best not to poison the
well against the “little man”
that wrote the article which I
find is impossible. I could not
let that article go by without re
plying in some way to it.
A Michigan Democrat Philip
Hart, a leading opponent, stat
ed that he was confident of the
Carswell nomination not because
the Senate did not have the
“stomach”, but because the
Senate just doesn’t have the
tools to stop the nomination.
Concerning the 1948 racist
political speech; the speech ex
tolled not only the then legal
Southern cause of segregation
but Carswell’s “vigorous belief
in the principles of white supre
macy.” The question now is not
whether the speech is unforgiv
able but whether Carswell has
really outgrown his youthful
convictions.
The treatment of out-of-state
lawyers in Carswell’s District
Court: Some lawyers have in
deed complained of rudeness,
bias, and harassment on the part
of Judge Carswell in many cases
touching on Civil Rights. In re
buttal, Carswell’s supporters off
er the testimony of black lawyer
Charles Wilson, who said he re
ceived “fair and courteous treat
ment” at all times, (an Uncle
Tom?)
None of the criticisms has
illicited any opponent second
thoughts the Nixon administrat
ion. A spokesman pointed out
that the candidate has the en
dorsement of the American Bar
Association, and most of all he
is qualified enough to satisfy
Mr. Nixon, whose right it is to
make Supreme Court appoint
ments in the first place. Assist
ant Attorney General William
H. Rehnquist echoed the admin
istrations point of view when he
noted last week that the stand
ards of competence now being
applied to Carswell “would have
excluded a good number of
Supreme Court Justices through
out our History”
Sincerely
—Peter Stack
Dr. Davis
The article appearing in the
last CAVALIER titled “HE IS
HERE” concerning the move of
the President’s office from the
Assembly Inn to Gaither Hall dis
turbed me. Disturbing was the
attitude which the article re
flected indicated by such seem
ingly sarcastic terminology as
“our illustrious President” and
“Welcome to the 20th century,”
and "the pulse of our campus
will at long last be felt by Dr.
Davis” and other statements.
I think such an article is
dangerous-more because of what
such language implies than by
it’s explicit statements.
When any of us have criticism
of the President or anybody else
associated with the college in
cluding fellow students, I be
lieve that in the interest of
forthrightness, good taste and
I'd Rather
Have
Haynsworth
Clement F. Haynsworth has
for five years been Chief Just
ice of the Fourth U. S. Circuit
of Appeals. A committee of the
American Bar Association ex
amined his record and declared
it “found no impropriety in his
conduct.” The ABA gave it’s
support of his nomination as an
Associate Justice of the Sup
reme Court. However, he was re
jected by the Senate.
Congress’ upper house pushed
aside the rule that a man is
innocent until proven guilty.
Not that it matters; but the F.
B. I. had examined his past with
excellent results. The Senate
ruined the reputation of a dis
tinguished jurist. And he was
ruined by suspicion, not facts.
Nobody has ever proven that
Judge Haynsworth was influenc
ed by his financial investments
in companies that were directly
or indirectly related to the cases
before his court. But as a dis
guise, ,the charges were raised
against him. Beneath the front,
many Senators simply feared
losing support of the unions and
civil rights if they did “fall in
Ine.” This is a sorry story to tell.
Had any proof been presented
to show how the Judge had
profited from his decisions, I
could understand his rejection.
Had any evidence been issued
that might even hint of him be
ing “unethical”, I could see
grounds for rejection. But the
facts remain that he did not
profit by his decisions nor has
he ever violated any “ethical”
standards.
A Senator ACCUSED him of
one charge while another SUS
PECTS him of still another
caper, but no one has ever pro
ven it. I am glad that Judge
Haynsworth did not base his
decisions as the fifty-five sena
tors did in rejecting him.
Should Judge Haynsworth low
er his standards to that of the
Senates, then he SHOULD be
removed from the Fourth Cir
cuit Court of Appeals.
—Allen Ross
good journalism, such opinions
should be expressed in direct
and objective language and not
in invidious language of innuen
do.
One of the questions that oc
curred to me was what difficulty
would a college president have
upon reading such an article, in
mustering enthusiasm to go on
the road to solicit funds for us,
the College.
—R. Paul Kercher
Continued from page 1
assult at th Conrad Hilton.
The statistics of the riots were
as follows: 700 civilians and 83
police were injured, 653 per
sons, ranging from raggedy rev
olutionaries waving Viet Cong
flags to bookish McCarthy soph-
mores were jailed. Miraculously,
no one was killed by Chicago
Mayor Daley’s beefy cops, who
went on a substained rampage
unprecedented outside the most
unreconstructed boondocks of
Dixie.
Perhaps more alarming still,
one nominee for President sup
ported the action of the police
and Daley. "We ought to quit
pretending that Mayor Daley did
something wrong,” said Hum
phrey. A Federal Bureau of In
vestigation inquiry into the riot
and police reacton to it was
ordered as the request of Vice-
president Humphrey.
Most of the marchers on the
Conrad Hilton Hotel were
gathered out of the idealistic
impulses of the Peace movement
They had come to express un
popular views and to protest
actions by their government and
their society. They were not
rioting. The difference is Fun
damental, for riot implies force
which calls for counter force.
These youths were expressing
an opinion; ;the need to disperse
crowds in periods of incipinate
and unsparing actions of the
Chicago Police which reflected
the encouragement of Mayor
Daley and others.
Following its tough line all
the way the city prohibited the
coalition for an open conven
tion, the relatively tame stop-
Humphrey group from holding a
rally at Soldiers Field.. It also
refused to give the Yippies per
mission to camp in Lincoln Park,
and told demonstrators they
could march nowhere near the
amphitheater itself. Appeals of
the bans were rejected by Fed
eral District Judge William
Lynch-Mayor Daley’s former law
partner.
Downtown, police were stat
ioned on every corner and in the
middle of every block. Federal
Agents were placed on top of
strategic buildings on and a-
round the amphitheater. Even
the airspace up to an altitude of
2,500 ft. above the convention
site was banned to all commer
cial or private flight.
To quote a line from the
Walker Report “To read dis
passionately the hundreds of
statements describing at first
hand the events of the conven
tion is to become convinced of
the presence of what can only
be called a police state.”
In an interview with Tom Hay
den (founder of SDS) with a
LOOK correspondent, Hayden
was asked what he had hoped
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to accomplish in Chicago. “It
was an attempt to unify large
numbers of Democrats around
the racial program. But from
the response of the authorities,
it was clear they didn’t want
this to happen. They picked out
a few statements made by Yip-
pie types that “we’d all smoke
pot together in Chicago.” They
made us out a band of terrorist.
That was their pretext tor talk
ing all this Mihtary security”....
Hayden cited what he regards
as another of estabhshments
many miscalculations” . . . They
continously understimated the
serious intentions and willing
ness to suffer of young people...
Many young people just felt
they wouia not be intimiaatea by
this set up. Not coming to
Chicago would be to submit to
military imtimation. This guarr-
anteed that those coming to
Chicago would be the most
Courageous and untimidated
demonstrators.”
“Humphrey once said he
would turn Asia into a great
society that he would take the
great society into Vietnam,”
Hayden continued. “Instead
Vietnam has come home. We
have a convention entirely rigg
ed and unrepresentative. We
have a country that uses bay
onets to protect itself against it’s
on force and violence to main
tain it’s position, instead of the
own people, that ralhes entirely
consent and participation of
the people.”
“Jhis means that the U. S. is
gradually on its way to a com
plete breakdown, because you
cannot expect people to submit
to military occupation. This is
tne sirategey they have tried on
the black people without suc
cess. Now its tne same strategy
they’re using against white
people students and dropouts.
Nobody escapes, even Humphrey
gets tear-gassed.” (He is referr
ing to an incident when Humph
rey was watching the pohce not
and a-cloud of tear gas came
through his window, forceing
Humphrey to leave his suite.)
Indeed some of the young pro
testors manifest a kind of mih-
tancy that is pathological if not
nibihstic. But the burden of
America is to nuture as many
of its youths as possible into
responsible citizens, and this
task cannot be accomphshed by
permitting police to determine
what is and what is not legiti
mate dissent.
In any case the police ought
to be the source of the last re
sort. Irrespective of the obnoxi
ousness of some of the demon
strators on hand in Chicago, the
blame for the dissorders hes
squarely with Mayor Daley-for
he made police action the source
of the first resort. And he is but
a, single powerful exponet of a
terrifying police-state Mentality
that grips many in our society.
The police have become the fist
of the establishment. If estab
lishment cannot learn to un
clinch it’s fist, it will one day
be ruled by it’s fist.
—Peter Stack
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