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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1964

Some Cities Suffer Adjustment Pains

By BOYD-GILL United Press Internationa] VJDIANAPOLIS (U PI) — Some Indiana cities are suffering adjustment pains in the wake of the 1963 municipal elec-

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tions when a sharp political turnover occurred. Republicans won a 62-49 majority of mayor seats in the 111 cities, an about-face from the 1959 election when Democrats

won. control by a 73-35 margin. The end result was some significant changes in city government policies in cities where Republicans wrested control from Democrats and others where Democrats won traditionally GOP strongholds. But the changes in the mayor offices did not represent all the adjustment trouble which confronted city administrations. There were problems in some cities where the turnover was incomplete. Not in every case,

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by any means, did cities swing completely from control of one party to that of the other. 22 Split Administrations In 22 of the 111 cities, one party controls a majority of the city council and the opposite party holds the mayor office. This is true in Attica, Boonville, East Gary, Gas City, Jasper, Lawrenceburg and Whiting where the mayors are Republican and the council majority is Democratic, and in Beech Grove, Clinton, Frankfort, Gar-

rett, Greenscatle, Greensburg, Ligonier, Madison, Nappanee, North Vernon, Rushville, Wabash, Washington, West Lafayette and Winchester, where the mayors are Democrats and the council majority is Republican. In all fairness it must be said that the lack of word to the contrary, and positive reports in some instances, indicates that harmony reigns despite the political differences. The administrations even though divided are marching forward with the

progressive interests of the cities at heart. ’ .. t Conflicts In Pledges However, there are bound to be clashes dye to sharp conflicts in political philosophy and divisions of sentiment on hot local issues. Some of this perhaps is due to campaign platforms—one party promising to do something specific in the handling of an issue if elected, and- the other having pledged the opposite action. In those cases, the differenc-

ep'ot opinion might be considered sincere and not arbitrary efforts to block and embarrass the other party. At Beech Grove, a city on the southeast edge of Indianapolis, Mayor Elton H. Geshwiler, a Democrat who was reelected, vetoed this week a resolution passed by a 4-to-3 Republican city council asking the school board either to add classrooms to a present high school building or resign. Gehswiler called it a “partisan ultimatum to a bipartisan board.” The board’s plans to build a new school on a new site was the core of a bitter political campaign last fall. 2 Sets of Committees At Wabash, Mayor J. Robert Mitten, a Democrat who was reelected, criticized this week the action of the seven-member all-Republican city council for naming committees which he said usurped his power. Mitten named one set of committee, the council another. Each claimed legal authority for the action. While there are 22 cities with mayors of one party and council majorities of the other, there actually are 33 cities whose voters failed to elect a complete slate of candidates of one party. In some cases, the mayor and council majority are the same but the city clerktreasurer is of the other party. While Republican mayors outnumber Democrats 62-49, Republican city councilmen outnumber Democrats 404 to 267, and the margin for city clerks is 60-51.

Many Rumors On Johnson's Running Mate By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International The amateur politicians . and pollsters are wasting their time in trying to discover in advance who President Johnson wil choose next summer as vice presidential running mate. The only pros engaged in the vice presidential guessworks are a few local leaders scattered around the country and perhaps LBJ himself. It is the theory of the well-informed “In The Offing” columnists of the Washington (D.C.) Daily News that theßresident is floating some vice presidential trial balloons to discover the pockets of strength possessed fey the numerous veep aspirants. “In The Offing” cautioned some weeks ago: “Disregard those inside stories about President Johnson’s choice for vice president. Mr. Johnson won’t decide until the GOP convention in July. Meanwhile he’s floating trial balloons. White House aides are tripping over one another spreading rumors. There’ll be more of them.” Walt For GOP After the Republicans nominate their ticket in July, LBJ will know better how to bolster his own presidential ticket against the GOP. Efforts are under way to paint LBJ into a corner on a second place. New York state’s Erie County Democratic organization has started a vice presidential boom for Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy. That could embarrass Johnson if next sumrper he preferred some other man. LBJ might be placed in the position of rejecting Bobby Kennedy as a running mate. Johnson wouldn’t like that and

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neither would Kennedy’s friends. Local Democratic lead.ers with LBJ’s interests at heart will play down the second spot until the President is ready. The choice will be his. FDR compelled the 1940 Democratic National Convention to accept Henry Wallace. John F. Kennedy assured his own election in 1960 by tapping Johnson to hold the South. FDR’s 1940 political reasoning was fuzzy then and seems so now. His usually sound political judgment may have been impaired by the uneasy knowledge that in 1940 he was breaking the third term • tradition. However that may have been, FDR didn’t need Wallace on the ticket. Sought Minority Voters Not so with JFK and Johnson. Kennedy was going for minority voters, notably the groes and his -fellow Catholics. The Deep South, Henry L. Mencken’s Bible belt, was counted queasy on the matter of a Roman Catholic in the White House and absolutely opposed to the terms of Kennedy’s bid for Negro support. So JFK needed a No. 2 man who could front for him in the South. Kennedy probably had made up his mind to tap Johnson weeks before the 1960 convention. If he had then revealed his plans, Kennedy might not have been nominated. The Steven-son-Americans for Democratic Action - labor elements of the convention might have protest-, ed Johnson by stopping Kennedy. Johnson is too good a politician—better than JFK —to invite trouble by premature choice of a running mate. When the time comes, Johnson will pick his man to make the ticket look strong in areas where LBJ may be weak. Foreign affairs, for example, or among some minority group or geographical area.