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1 0-B FORT LAUDERDALE NEWS AND SUN-SEMLXEL, Sun Jay, July 31, 1960 Year il LOUM 11118 Mouse Choose 1 By ROULIIAC HAMILTON ASIUNGTON If Vice President Richard M. Nixon- is right in his estimate of the 1960 presidential election, this could be the year when the House of Representatives would wind up naming the next president. -t Such an outccme could result from failure of either Nixon or Brave Brendtrs Blows 071 11 ome Cheer his Democratic opponent, Sen. John F. Kennedy, to obtain a majority vote in the electoral college named by the November balloting.

Such an outcome has been a long-time dream of dissident Southern Democrats, distressed by the liberal. trend of the national party, and not entirely on the civil rights issue, but with no place much to go because of the liberal trend, including a pro-civil rights stand," of the modern Republican party. The Southern dissidents have felt that if there was some way the presidential election could be thrown into the House, where each state would have one vote under the constitutional provision governing such eventuality, the 11 Southern states would have the balance of power. They have felt, realistically, that they would have virtually no chance of electing a third-party candidate should the election be thrown into the house. But they have felt that if neither major party candidate obtained an electoral college majority, they could use their balance-of-power position for bargaining purposes.

They would then give their support to the candidate willing to make the most concessions to the Southern position. That has been a Southern dream since 1948, when South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, then governor and now senator, won 39 electoral votes as a third-party candidate, but failed to block election of Harry S. Truman. But it has been only a dream. UNPLEDGED ELECTIONS This year, if Sen.

Kennedy's crystal ball is correct, it will remain a dream. Kennedy has Said he "could" carry all 50 states, thinks he "may do so." But Vice President Nixon said, on the other hand, this year's presidential election will be the closest in this century. If the vice president's crystal bail is less cloudy- than the senator's, the Southern dream could come true. The closest presidential election in this century was in 1916," when the electoral vote of a single state California reelected Woodrow Wilson over the challenge of Charles Evans Hughes. Assuming an election closer than that, the mathematics which make possible the coming-true of the Southern dream are simple.

Six Southern states can legally place on their ballots electoral college candidates pledged to no candidate, pledged to no party. These states are Alabama. Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. They have a total of 57 electoral college votes votes which could be cast for anybody Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Gov.

Ross Barnett of Mississippi, op who-have-you, if the unpledged electors are named. The aim would not be to elect Goldwater, or Barnett, or "who-have-you." It would be to prevent either Vice President Nixon or Sen. Kennedy from getting an electoral college majority, thus throwing the election into the House and elevating the South into a bargaining position. If Nixon is correct in his estimate the I960 election will be closer than the 1916 vote, it wouldn't be necessary for dissident Southerners to elect all of the 57 potential independent electors. WOULD NEED ONLY 22 For in 1916, President Wilson received 277 electoral votes Mr.

Hughes, 254. The margin 23. Thus, if Mr. Nixon's estimate of closeness is correct, the Southern dissidents could make a dream come true by electing just 22 less than half of the potential independent electors. Those 22 electors, by refusing to vote for either Nixon or Kennedy, could prevent either from getting an electoral majority and throw the election of the president into the House.

BEVERLY, July 30 (LTD Henry Cabot Lodge returned home late Saturday to cheers of more than 5,000 persons, drenched by rain from a tropical storm that was spawned in the Democratic South. HENRY CABOT LODGE EE TURNS TO HIS HOME STATE arrives in Boston as GOP vice presidential hopeful Goldwater 'Let 'Em Down' Third Party Tees Off Points To The MtecertP Charge DALLAS, July 30 (LTD -Constitution party delegates voted Saturday to ask the radio networks for equal time to counter "liberal" ideas in scheduled debates between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The Constitution party also agreed to recess until Aug, 8 in Dallas to nominate its candidate; for president, and issued new; blasts at Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) 'I think it'll be dynamite said state chairman Bard A. gan of the Aug.

8 meeting, when the group will select its presidential nominee. Logan, a San Antonio criss-cross directory publisher, declined to speculate on who the nominee would be except, to say it will be "a Southerner." "We want to be a part of the conservative movement," Logan said, "and I think the shock of the two conventions (Democratic and Republican) hasn't been felt yet." "We will have candidates and acks Klein referred to a news dis-i patch in which Kennedy maintained he did say that "instead of the lie we were caught in, it might have been useful to express regret" if such an expression could have saved the summit meeting. Asked at his news conference today if Nixon had any comment, Klein referred to a transcript of Kennedy's Oregon remarks which Kennedy put in the Congressional Record on May 23 after 'he had come under ciriticism. In the excerpt, Klein quoted Kennedy as saying Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had irrevocably broken up the summit meeting.

Kennedy also said that Khrushchev had laid down two conditions for continuing. Then Klein read this from Kennedy's statement: "One, that we apologize, I think TOiK Lod the youngsters were raised here. "Now we have eight grandchil dren, the latest one (born five minutes before Lodge's nomina tion) was on television before he was a day old." i "It's a kind of life to live in an American community like Beverly," he said. "We want to keep the city like it is so we can continue leading the good life. "Eight years in the United Nations have convinced me this is a dangerous world.

America needs the ablest and most experienced leadership it can find." "To work for peace is eomoli-cated. With Communists in the world, we must be ready for violence and treachery at every turn," Lodge said. STORM SOAKS CROWD The rain from approaching storm Brenda was intermittent as Lodge addressed the welcoming crowd, some of whom held up children for him to see. During the drive from Boston along Highway 128, motorists halted at the side of the road to wave to the Lodge convoy. Scores shouted greetings from overpasses under which the convoy passed.

At a news conference, at his home following thef reception. Lodge said the crowds made him believe "We'll take Massachusetts from Kennedy." This was an allusion to Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Democratic presidential candidate. Storm Brenda spoiled Lodge's welcome at the airport at Boston.

His flight was delayed 45 minutes by stiff cross winds and heavy airline traffic, caused by diversion of overseas arrivals from New York to Boston. The downpour, whipped by 33 mile-per-hour winds, kept the airport crowd down to 500. A crowd of 13,000 had been expected for a huge non-partisan welcome equal to that accorded Kennedy when he flew home two weeks ago after winning the Democratic nomination. Kennedy, however, had perfect summer weather for his stop at Boston en route to his summer home at Hvannis Port, on Cape Cod. Kennedy generally is.

expected to carry his home state, but Lodge told the Boston crowd not to count the Republicans out. "It may be the party. I belong to is considered somewhat of an underdog. But I don't think we should leave Massachusetts out of the campaign." John A. Volpe, Republican can didate for governor, was among party leaders on the platform at the airport, but did not speak.

Boston Mayor John F. Collins issued orders Friday for the Lodge celebration. A fire department band blared a brave greeting to the smiling candidate as he alighted from the American Airlines plane and was escorted to a hangar. lWii 11 in-1 -frr 'if -HiUfcw ge Governors Predict: xon CHICAGO, July 30 tf Vice President Richard M. Nixon pointed to the Congressional record today to back up his charge that Sen.

John F. Kennedy, his Democratic opponent for the presidency said President Eisenhower could have apologized for the U-2 plane incident. Herbert G. Klein, Nixon's press secretary, said Kennedy quoted himself as saying as much in an excerpt Kennedy placed in the record. Nixon, in his speech accepting the Republican nomination Thursday night, had called this a "rash and impulsive" suggestion.

Kennedy has since contended his remarks about the U-2 episode, made while campaigning in the Oregon primary election, were misconstrued. At a news conference yesterday in Hyannis Port, Kennedy was quoted as saying he "did not state the word 'apologize'," which he said both Nixon and Former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey attributed to him in GOP convention speeches. COLLINS SEES TOUGH BATTLE NASHVILLE, JuTy 30 (J) Gov.

LeRoy Collins expressed optimism Saturday about a Democratic victory in November, but he said "wo ve got a real fight on our hands." Collins was here for the campaign-opener of Democratic vice presidential nominee Lyndon Johnson. He will attend a rally Sunday night with six other Southern governors. "The spirit of support for the ticket is growing," said Collins, who was permanent chairman of the Democratic convention, "and with it a kind of stimulation and organization that can win." Collins said Democratic prospects look "very good" in the South, but he added "never underestimate the opposition my calculation of victory is based on a tremendous" campaign effort." Russian, British Papers Roast Lodge's Selection South Will Go For Kennedy "If I live to be 100, I'll never forget this homecoming," the grinning Republican vice presidential candidate said when he stepped on to the canvas-covered speaker's platform on Beverly Common. The throng cheered as he said, several times, "You people don't seem to realize you're standing in the rain." Lodge's 100-car motorcade arrived here after an hour's drive from Boston, where he landed at Logan Airport on a flight from Chicago, where he was nominated by the GOP convention Thursday night. Lodge, noting he recognized persons from throughout Massachusetts and out of the state in the crowd, said, "I'm campaigning on the national ticket now, not like the days when I used to ring doorbells in Beverly." This was a reference to his campaign for the state legislature.

Lodge recalled his wife and children were born in Beverly and Chinese No Likee Tickee TOKYO, Julv 30 (LTD Com munist China's official news agency Saturday descried Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon and his running mate. Henry Cabot Lodge, as "cold war advocators." The New China News Agency said the GOP convention was held in Chicago "under the close ma-, nipulation of U.S. financial magnates and a handful of party props" and the party nominated the "notorious cold war advocator" Nixon and "another active advocator of the cold war," Lodge. Ah agency broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, also said that "before the opening of the convention, the monopoly capitalist, governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller, reached a behind the scenes agreement with Nixon who controlled the party machinery; Rockefeller agreed to support Nixon as the Republican presidential candidate this year, while Nixon promised to 'actively espouse' Rockefeller's views on the foreign and domestic policies." The Communist news agency said the Republican party platform "stressed that the United States would strengthen its aggressive military blocs 'at whatever cost or sacrifice and continue to provide its allies with military assistance." pleaded the American system and the American economy can itself no longer afford the very works which these nations must undertake." Thus, he said, Republican leadership has failed on both domestic and foreign fronts to face up to its problems.

Johnson said former President Herbert Hoover had promised "a chicken in every pot" in an election campaign. "But the young men with old fears in the Republican party today are afraid to promise the chicken and scared that American families ought not to buy the pot," he said. Johnson said America should not place its future in the hands of a party "afraid of new frontiers" which, he said "turned its back on some sections of the country because it decided that others were more vote-rich." Johnson praised his Tunning mate, Sen. John F. Kennedy, as a man with "an instinct for unity" and the type of man the nation needs.

I I I' cally opposed to his position." "It seems to me like he is in the wrong place," Logan said. The Constitution party official also said if Goldwater hadn't expressed support for the Republi can nominees and platform, he would have made a "highly desir able" Constitution party nominee for president. "We don't feel like we can get any expression of Goldwater's philosophy by voting 'or Nixon," he said. Logan expressed belief conservatives are "lost" as long as they stay in the Democratic and Republican parites. "If the conservatives would come out of those two parties and unite, then we would have the opposition split," he said.

Logan said the Constitution party presidential nominee would be carried on the ballot under different names in various states. For example, he said, A might be carried in Texas under the Constitution party, in Louisiana as the States Rights party, and in New Jersey as the Independent party. Nations, he played a disastrous part. He advised President Eisenhower to snub (Prime Minister Anthony) Eden. He was the author of the American policy for selling out Britain and France.

"Bitter is the price that the United States is paying for the disastrous Suez policy of Mr. Lodge. "The United States made excuses for Egyptian brigandage in stealing' the Suez canal. Now they reap the consequences in Cuba today and perhaps Panama tomorrow. "What a good day it will be when Mr.

Lodge either becomes vice-president, where he can do no more harm to his country, or is dismissed from public office altogether." represent them at home," Johnson said. Nor, he charged, has the GOP done its job on the home front. "We are paying a price for this a price freedom can not afford," he continued. "We are paying it in the erosion of America's effective leadership abroad." "Before a world of farmers scratching the soil for a bare living for their families," Johnson said, "this administration has shown hostility to the family farm. "Before a world of hungry men and hungry children, this administration has manifested an inability to distribute the abundance of America's agriculture.

"Before a world of men wracked by illness, this administration has clamped a brake on programs to assure better health for its own people. "Before a world of men crying for -enlightenment, this administration has held back on a commitment to education for this age. "Before leaders of young nations, this administration has there will be an independent nation-wide movement," Logan predicted. About 125 delegates attended the Constitution party's two-day meeting, which ended Saturday with a decision to ask national radio networks for equal time given to the debate between the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees. "With this impending debate," Logan said, "we feel there should be more than just the two ideas of liberalism expressed.

There should also be a conservative idea expressed." FLAY ENDORSEMENT "Our problem has just as much depth and just as much following as they have if we can find a medium of expression," he added. A Speakers at the meeting lambasted Goldwater for having endorsed the nominees of the Republican convention. "Our only objection is that he is leading conservatives to a dead end," Logan said. "If he has a conscience, I can see how he can support something diametri Komsomolskaya Official Communist youth newspaper, joined SovieJ Russia in accusing Lodge of dealing in "slander, falsehoods and hyprocrisy" as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

LONDON, July 30 The Daily Express delivered itself today of these remarks about Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate: "The vice presidency of the United States is usually a decorative but unimportant office. If this rule still prevails then certainly Mr. Cabot Lodge is an admirable candidate for the post. "At the time of Suez, when he was U.S.

Delegate to the United nors of six Southern stales, four of which voted Republican four years ago, and Farris Bryant, Democrat governor candidate of Florida, Rep. Hale Boggs (D-La) and former Sen. Earle Clements of Kentucky; Among those who accepted invitations were Governors John Patterson of Alabama, LeRoy Collins of Florida, Luther Hodges of North Carolina, J. Lindsay Almond of Yirginia, and Bert Combs of Kentucky. Virginia, Florida and Kentucky, along with Tennessee, went Republican in 1956.

Johnson accused the Eisenhower administration of failing to meet its responsibilities, and said the Republican standard bearers in the campaign would do no better. His text did not once mention Vice President Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, the GOP nominees for president and vice president, by name. However, he likened the Republican party to a withering tree. "America ha? not been served abroad by the party which Americans themselves have chosen to MOSCOW, July 30 ID The Soviet press, which already has roasted Sen. John F.

Kennedy, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, turned today to Henry Cabot Lodge. The newspapers called the Republican vice-presidential nominee a peddler of falsehood and slander.

The newspaper Soviet Russia said Lodge "differs from pickpockets in that he always is well dressed, sticks to a strict diet and exercises reguarly." "But a good appearance and a sporty behavior cannot mask his dirty profession of being political cheat," the newspaper added. that might have been possible to do, and that second, we try those responsible for the flight. We could not do that In view of that transcript, Klein said, if, Kennedy is not questioning the remark, "I find it difficult to understand why he placed this as part of the record." Klein said he wanted "to point out in fairness" that Kennedy had said "it might have been possible" to apologize. He also noted that Nixon had said Kennedy suggested Eisenhower have apologized or sent regrets." Klein gave the same meaning to the words "might" and "could." Further in the transcript read by Klein to his news conference, Kennedy was quoted as adding in his Oregon appearance that, if Khrushchev "had merely asked that the United States should express regrets, then that would have been a reasonable term. Carolina," said Gov.

Luther Hodges of North, Carolina. "If Eisenhower were running we'd probably have a tough time. But with Dick Nixon we won't have too much trouble in North Carolina ALABAMA DISAPPOLNTED "We are disappointed in Alabama about the civil rights plank of the Democratic platform," Gov. John Patterson of Alabama said. "However, looking at the platform as a whole it's a very good one especially the farm plank." Gov.

LeRoy Collins of Florida, permanent chairman of the Democratic convention, predicted his state would go for Kennedy with the proper "stimulation and organization." Florida voted Republican in 1956. Farris Bryant, the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida, was less optimistic. "It's hard to tell yet who will win," he said. "A lot depends on what happens in Congress, the campaign itself and the develop-ments in foreign policy between now and November. gone all the way from the Monroe Doctrine to the Khrushchev Doctrine in Latin America," the Oklahoma chief executive said.

He said the Kennedy-Johnson ticket would win in November. He said the Democratic standard bearers were leaders in whom "freedom loving people throughout the world can put their trust." Edmondson was about 45 minutes late because the plane in which he left Oklahoma City sprung a door en route, forcing a landing at Pueblo, Colo. From Pueblo he took a commercial airliner to Salt Lake. NASHVILLE, July 30 ID A group of Southern Democratic governors predicted -today the South would support Sen. John Kennedy for president despite the religious issue.

The governors, here fof 'a party rally, said civil rights would play little part, in the South because of the similarity of those planks in the platforms of the two parties. Kennedy is the first Roman Catholic presidential candidate since 1928, when Al Smith also a Democrat lost several states in the Protestant South. Gov. Bert Combs, whose state of Kentucky voted Republican four years ago, said it was too early to determine the depth of religious sentiment toward Kennedy in his state. "Certainly we are going to lose some votes because of this," he said, "but we'll make it up with the young people and the women particularly.

This is a Democratic year in Kentucky." "Naturally the religious factor will have some bearing in North Bemo Nominee Addresses Bidtn 'Young GOP With Old Fears' i Oklahoma Governor Says Ike Regime Of Failure I If NASHVILLE, July 30 "(ffUSen. Lyncion B. Johnson of Texas, the Democratic nominee for vice president, Saturday tore into what he called "the young men with old fears in the Republican Party." He charged they are too afraid to face up to the nation's needs at home or abroad, but he named no names in a speech at a Young Democrats rally. Johnson pledged a hard hitting campaign, but he said he would use neither his Southern origin, his Protestant religion, nor racial prejudice as arguments for luring votes. "Wherever I may go, I will never speak as a Southerner to Southerners, as a Protestant to Protestants, or as a White -to Whites," the nominee said.

Johnson's speech kicked off a Democratic drive to recapture Tennessee and other Southern tates the party lost in 1936. His visit was arranged by Gov. Bu-ford Ellington, an early support-tg of Johnson for the presidential nomination. Scheduled to attend were gover SALT IAKE CITY, July 30 ttPD Governor J. Howard Ed-mondson of Oklahoma labeled the record of the Eisenhower Administration in foreign affairs tonight as a "policy replete with failure and absolutely lacking in purpose." The governor leveled the ver-, bal blast in addressing a "victory dinner" which closed the Utah nominating convention in Salt Lake City.

The 34-year-old Edmondson, the nation's youngest governor, also disputed Vice President Nixon's claim of experience in foreign policy. "In seven and one-half years of Nixon 'experience we have GOV. LEROY COLLINS GETS HEARTY WELCOME from Tenn. Gov. Euford Ellington, left.