The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 November 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Friday, November 1, 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL (Reprinted from the October issue of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States) A single vote often has shaped the course of American history. For example, three Presidents were elected by one vote. The year 1801; Thomas Jefferson was elected President over Aaron Burr by one vote in the House of Representatives, following a tie in electoral votes. The year 1825; John Quincy Adams gained the presidency by one vote when the contest was decided in the House of Representatives. The year 1876: Rutherford B. Hayes won election by one electoral vote over his opponent , Samuel J. Tilden. And a single vote saved a President from removal from office—Andrew Johnson. The only President ever impeached would have been removed but for just one vote in the Senate. The fact is, your vote does count. Among the tales of comic, hairline elections is that of the man who will never again tell his wife not to vote. He was running for his third term in the Georgia House of Representatives. Feeling sure that he would have no opposition, he assured his wife that it was unnecessary to go to the polls. But little did he bargain for a spur-of-the-moment, write-in vote in his district. His opponent fared so well the final results showed a surprising 254-to-254 tie. In 1963, a candidate for council in a Cincinnati suburb was hospitalized for an emergency appendectomy, and so unable to go to the polls. He lost by one vote. No better illustration of the “one-vote-vour vote-counts" theme exists than in John F. Kennedy’s triumph over Richard Nixon in 1960. About one half of 1 per cent of the votes cast in two states, Illinois and New Jersey, swung 43 electoral votes to Mr. Kennedy. If that tiny percentage of the votes in those two states had been reversed, it would have been enough to throw the election into the House of Representatives. By less than one vote per precinct in two states, Ohio and California, President Truman defeated Thomas Dewey in 1948. In 1916, Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes went to bed thinking himself the winner. But Woodrow Wilson defeated him by carrying one state, California, by less than one vote per precinct. Wilson took California by 3,806 votes out of nearly one million cast. W. Averell Harri.nan won the New York governorship over his GOP rival, Sen. Irving Ives, in 1954 by slightly more than one vote per election district. Clifford Case, Republican of New Jersey, was elected to the U.S. Senate that year by a margin of less than one'vote per precinct. The 1928 New York gubernatorial elections saw Franklin D. Roosevelt defeat his Republican opponent by 25,000 votes out of four million cast— a margin of about two votes per precinct. A new era in history was launched with FDR’s win. In more recent times, in 1948, a young Texas congressman won a Senate seat by 87 votes out of more than two million votes cast. His name; Lyndon B. Johnson. Five states were admitted to the Union by a one-vote margin in Congress: Texas (1845), California (1850), Oregon (1859), Idaho (1890), and Washington (1899). In 1941, one vote in the House saved the Draft Act just 12 weeks before Pearl Harbor, and in 1918 one vote helped kill the League of Nations. The close governorship races in 1962 no doubt reflected poor voter turnout. Less than half of the eligible voters in the United States voted in ’62 elections. The governor of Minnesota was elected by only 91 votes. The governor of Rhode Island was elected by 398 votes. The governor of Maine was elected by 483 votes. The governor of Vermont was elected by 1,348 votes. The governor of North Dakota was elected by 1,007 votes. The importance of the get-out-and-vote drive is being pushed with urgency this year. If you and others stay away from the polls on November 5, your absence could change the results in hundreds of important elections. In fact, it could change history.

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In regard to a short campaign speech sponsoring the Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey and Sen. Muskie, the narrator refers to ‘‘Mr. Nixon being against Medicare," end of quote on this subject. This is a very broad statement and one which if the people remember Mr. Nixon’s question and answer session in Pennsylvania recently, which has been repeated several times, in part, they will recall Mr. Nixon’s answer to panel members question on his position on medicare which proves this charge by the Democrats is wrong. Mr. Nixon’s answer was that he is for increasing medicare and that he is also for living. This televised statement which I have heard several times certainly explains his position and is contray to the Democrat charge that he is against medicare. This is another case where the Democrats are willing to twist other statements by other candidates in hopes it will win a few votes. Is this the kind of party you want running our country? Mr. Humphrey himself has been inconsistent in his position on an unconditional bombing halt which changed to a conditional bombing halt several hours later in another position. If the people of this country cannot see that Mr. Nixon’s integrity is above namecalling and false charges they are not looking at the candidate intelligently. Mr. Humphrey has bragged about what he has done in medicare, disarmament, etc. Does Mr. H.H.H. have the basic integrity that a President should have? I think he does not. The American people had better awake to the fact that President John F. Kennedy and his Attorney General brother started the programs which have led this country to the point where the more militant negroes in Continued on Page 3

The campaign, thankfully, is almost over. The assault on the ears of the nation will reach a crescendo of vilification and abuse within the next few days and an uneasy silence will fall on the land. The last brass tongue will be heard on Sunday and, before any of us know the result of the Presidential election, we may be certain of one thing— we are in a milieu of secondraters. 1 It was not a textbook campaign. From start to finish, it was a war of lost opportunities. On all sides, the strategic moves and counter-moves were about as statesmanlike as a kick in the shins. George Wallace may go down in history as the only man who went from coast to coast on one speech. He was crude, defiant, insolent and fatigued. Spiro Agnew cost votes. He is, beyond argument, the president of the Foot-in-Mouth Club. His gaffes caused shudders to run through the Nixon Laboratory of Applied Political Science. When asked his opinion of Wallace, Agnew said: ‘I wouldn’t want my daughter to marry him’. The governor evoked in millions of Negro voters a recollection of bitterness. On the plane, he called a Nisei photographer ‘A fat Jap’ and the remark made the newspapers in Hawaii and California. His boss wasn’t much better. Richard Nixon spoke out boldly in favor of American Motherhood, with a few added equivocations in case the tide was running toward fatherhood. He ran on the Republican platform as though he was aware that the train had already pulled out. From start to finish, he acted like a winner in a poker game who keeps looking at the clock. Under the blue-jowled grin lies a tempestuous temperament which causes Mr. Nixon to lose his head in blind anger. Of all the candidates, he worked harder

A writer’s niche by Fred Ashcraft

for a longer period to attain the Presidency that he and Pat have tasted for eight years. Few’ of their friends like to think of the 1960 election, wlien Mr. Nixon blazed with venom and Mrs. Nixon wept in hysterics and, at Key Biscayne, Florida, refused the consolation of the Reverend Billy Graham, who waited outside the villa door. George Romney was a nice clean-looking Christian candidate until he conceded that he had been “brain-washed” by President Lyndon Johnson. He killed his candidacy with one remark. The sad-smiling professor, Eugene McCarthy, spoke in the abstract and seemed to want more to be loved than voted for. He had a good thing going, but he couldn’t find second gear. The pugnacious ferret, Bobby Kennedy, announced that Lyndon Johnson was indeed a good President “perhaps a great one,” the week before McCarthy proved that Johnson could be knocked off in a New England primary. Bobby, as the bumper stickers proclaimed so accurately, was not Jack. I still think he could not have won the Democratic nomination over the machine choice. Kennedy’s tragic demise is a dark stain on the soul of America, and we will never know what might have happened. The only comical candidate was Nelson Rockefeller. He had the intellect, the experience, the perContinued on Page 3

These are the steely days pf approaching winter, the time of year when matters like summer vacations must assume one of two forms—speculative or contemplative. With me, the contemplative aspect of vacations is so grisly that the only speculation it inspires is how to avoid any vacation whatsoever come next summer. Vacation time. The joyous invitation to get out there on the highways and make a wreck of yourself, savoring every grim moment of it. When you finally escape the highways, matters can be even worse. For instance, a few years ago, we went camping—me, my wife, three kids and my mother-in-law — all bundled rapturously together in one of Montgomery Ward’s nifty nine.by-12 umbrella tents (with side extension). We camped in the Thousand Islands State Park in the St. Lawrence River, sharing the hospitality of the state of New York with 1,000 other wretched families. It began raining about the time I finished erecting the tent, a trifling two-hour wrestle with one of those aluminum frames, during which I suffered a dislocated pelvis and shin splints. It rained steadily. We became famished. The bananas disappeared, then the Fritos and the Kool Aid. The rain continued. We ate two onions and a raw potato, sliced six ways. Finally, giddy with starvation, I tried starting a charcoal fire inside the tent. No charcoal ever smoked like that. It was Pittsburgh trapped in a pickle barrel. About midnight we cooked supper outside with my mother-in-law holding an umbrellaover the charcoal burner while I squatted in the cold downpour, cooking sodden hamburgers. “If I survive this vacation,’’ I gritted, “I am going home and work night and day for the rest of my life.” Of course, not everyone goes camping on vacations. There are many other forms of this national masochism. One variant is the Chinese Standoff. In this version, the husband and wife disagree with the gentility of two 10-ton trucks meeting on a one-lane road. She wants to go to Los Angeles, dress up, and drive around looking at movie stars’ houses. He wants to go down on the river, grow a beard, get dirty and get drunk. Next the kids chime in— one wants to go to Six Flags over Texas and the other to the World’s Fair. The situation waxes and wanes until vacation time arrives. Then, still stalemated.they all load in the car and drive to Nebraska to visit the wife’s sister, the one with the husband who raises nasturtiums and regards Calvin Coolidge as a blabber-mouth. On the way up there, the car throws a rod at 6 a.m. Sunday, three miles south of East Overshoe, Kansas. The family spends three days in East Overshoe watching dust devils out on the prairie. There’s a flurry of excitement on the second day when a fire breaks out in the town dump. Otherwise, it’s tedious. So it goes, one happy thing atop another until finally the luckless vacationer staggers back to work. Alas, even then his troubles aren’t over. Before he departed, he drew his final week’s pay, plus two weeks’ vacation pay in advance. All that money was spent on the rod job at East Overshoe. Now he has to get through a full week back on the job before he can draw another paycheck. When all other vacation ideas fail, the determined pleasure seeker can climb in the car, set his jaw resolutely and head down the Interstate. By unrelenting driving he can make 700 miles a day, provided he doesn’t stop for lunch or any such nonsense. A really experienced vacationer can make 5,000 miles in a week’s vacation time, provided he drives all night the final night of the homeward leg. He can even take movies out of the car windows without losing time. Yes, sir, there’s nothing like a vacation. Fortunately.

Campaign race nears end of road By DE VAN L. SHUMWAY SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) — The race toward the White House that started with the bitter cold of the New Hampshire primary last March is drawing to a close in the glitter of sunny, unpredictable California. And like a saga of the Old West, the 1968 presidential campaigns of Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey and Republican Richard M. Nixon reach the end of the trail on the shores of the Pacific. Then it was gold-rich. Now it’s vote-rich. Both candidates plan to spend the final days of ihe campaign trying to mine the votes of the nation’s most populous state. The winner gets 40 electoral college votes. Nixon Leads If the public opinion polls are correct, Nixon’s the one. But Humphrey has promised “one helluva fight’’ for the state. In his 1960 bid for the presidency, Nixon won California by 35,623 votes out of nearly 6.5 million cast. Then, two years later, he lost it by 300,000 votes when he tried for the governorship. With Humphrey as his vice presidential nominee, President Johnson overwhelmed Barry M. Goldwater by 1.3 million votes in 1964. But the vice president has never been on the ballot alone. Humphrey F inished Third The late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York won the June Democratic primary in a contest with Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota and a group of third party regulars generally backing Humphrey finished a poor third. Nixon didn’t enter the GOP primary. Gov. Ronald Reagan ran unopposed, became a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and lost at the GOP National Convention to Nixon. With this background, the state’s 8.5 million registered Continued on Page 3

New Maysville J.D. Malicoat visited with his sister and her husband Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Moscoe Drake. Donna Bell had a Halloween Party which was well attended. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leak Sr. have been caring for their grandchildren while Mr. and Mrs. Bob Leak Jr. make a business trip to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Woodall and family attended church at Roachdale Sunday and took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dickerson at Bainbridge. Gale Woodall spent Saturday night and Sunday with Carroll Walls. Grace, Kathy and Mary Leak of near North Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Leak, Roy Weller the Woodall children visited with Mr. and

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