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The Daily Banner, Greencastle Indiana

Tuesday, July 9, 1968

On the Lighter Side

By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI)-One of the nicest things about this year’s presidential campaign has been the refusal of the candidates to engage in middle name calling. So far, at least. Injection of the middle name issue is not formally barred by the fair campaign practices code to which the Democratic and Republican national committees subscribe.

There appears, however, to be a tacit agreement among contenders in both parties to refrain from dragging an opponent’s middle name into the open and exposing it to the harsh glare of publicity. They apparently recognize that in this era of violence in American life, self-imposed retraint should be exercised to avoid further inflaming the voeters’ emotions.

Real Statesmanship This is political statesmanship of the highest order. For few things stir up the electorate more than demagogic middle name calling.

We all remember the campaign of 1960 when certain Democratic orators unfailingly

referred to the GOP candidate as Richard Milhous Nixon, bearing down on the Milhous

with mock sonority and stentoriousness. Feelings ran pretty high before that campaign was over. Then, in 1964, the GOP candidate Barry Morris Goldwater, incited his audiences to a fever pitch by reminding them that Hubert Humphrey’s middle name was Horatio. Humphrey, you may recall, was President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s running mate on the Democratic ticket at the time. It was the 1964 campaign that first produced signs of a “middle name backlash.” Male voters, many of whom use middle initials to cover up

second names that are odd, bizarre, comic or ridiculous, came to resent Goldwater’s tactics. Sympathy Backlash Thus the Democrats received a large sympathy vote. Republicans could pay it safe this year by nominating either Gov. George (Wilcken) Romney or Gov. Ronald (Wilson) Rea. gan. Both have dropped their middle names from “Who’s Who.” Nor would the nomination of Sen. Eugene Joseph McCarthy by the Democrats give rise to middle name calling. But if Nixon and Humphrey

are the nominees, the restraint shown thus far might vanish. Much depends on the vice presidential candidates. Should the GOP pick New York Mayor John Vliet Lindsay, or the Democrats give the nod to Sen. Edmund Sixtus Muskie, the temptation to resort to middle name calling may become irresistible.

No gun registration expected

Premiere of "Oliver" HOLLYWOOD ^UPD—“Oliver.” the musical movie version of the London and Broadway hit, will have its world premiere in London's Leicester Square Sept. 26.

WASHINGTON (UPI)-Pros-pects for gun registration and licensing appear dead for this congressional session, the result of a sacrifice play aimed at securing an overall ban on mail order arms sales. Facing the possibility of no legislation at all if it clung to the disputed registration.licensing proposals, the Johnsmn administration bowed to the opposition Monday and agreed not to try to add them to the separate mail order sales legislation.

The compromise, worked out between Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y.,and the House Rules Committee, opened the way for possible floor consideration of the mail order sales bill later this week. Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee and floor manager of the mail order sales bill, said he hoped to hold hearings on the registrationlicensing proposals this session, but that it probably was too late

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