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Grayson Mitchell McGovern promises blacks patronage plums J. C. COUNCIL Chairman of the Editorial Board SAM STICKNEY Editorial Page Editor 11. DOYLE HARVILL Editor THE TAMPA TIMES, Friday, July 14, 1972 8-A McGovern facing agreement was reached between McGovern and the black delegates here at the convention that the delegates would not mount a potentially explosive fight over the platform that was adopted Tuesday night to include relatively militant black social and economic demands. "Having it in the platform can't get it, but McGovern, when he becomes president, can," said Fauntroy.

The reason for the agreement not to push a platform fight, according to sources close to Fauntroy, was to spare McGovern tho possible embarrassment of publicly being associated with many of the controversial demands that msy have provoked a "backlash" from many white McGovern supporters. Fauntroy said McGovern also told them he planned to establish embassies in Peking and Cuba if elected, thus "keeping tho lines of communication open instead of closing them." gates' names and withdrawals by several blacks from the bloc, the 96 delegate count soon dwindled to 58, according to Fauntroy and political strategists in other presidential camps. But while the earlier count may have been off the mark, Fauntroy contended that the pro-McGovern movement among the delegates began snowballing several days prior to the start of tho convention on Monday. And the voting trend of black delegates on the crucial California challenge Monday night told resoundingly that a substantial number of the 458 black delegates were in tho McGovern corner. The congressman said when the vote on the California challenge reached 1,509, he was immediately called by the McGovern people and told, "The black delegates did it they put us over." In an interview, Fauntroy said an MIAMI BEACH Black politicians have been promised a substantial increase in federal patronage jobs, 40 per cent of Democratic voter registration funds, and more than one cabinet post in a McGovern administration, it was learned.

Waiter E. Fauntroy, the non-voting congressional representative from the District of Columbia, disclosed that Sen. George McGovern made the pledges to a group of blacks nearly a month ago. McGovern said that, if elected President, blacks in every state who supported his candidacy would be given a "piece of the action." Fauntroy, who was a seconder of McGovern's nomination, explained that the number of federal patronage jobs and executive appointments would be allocated according to the blacks' percentage of the total population in their state. Using this formula, blacks in Illinois, for Instance, would receive 11.3 per cent of all the state's federal patronage jobs, Indiana 6.2 per cent, South Carolina 27 per cent and Minnesota eight-tenths of 1 per cent.

The congressman said that McGovern also promised to earmark 40 per cent of Voice of the People protests lack of coverage at Miami Beach convention difficult task MIAMI BEACH With the Democratic nomination succesful-ly captured, Sen. George McGovern now faces a problem of delicacy about equal to the dilemma of a man embarking on a trip in company with his jealous bride and an angry mistress. He must stay wed to the coalition of youth politics, black militants, feminine libcrationists and gays who supplied the driving energy for his successful primary campaign and held together his convention battle. 1 But he must also woo, win and maintain an intimacy with the historic core of strength of the Democratic party. This includes the labor leaders and hard hats; the existing Democratic establishment on congressional, state, and courthouse levels; and such diverse forces in what was once known as Solid South" as Gov.

George "Wallace and Gov. Jimmy Carter. IT WILL BE a great drama to -watch. Particularly in view of the 'fact that McGovern will be waging 'an enormously difficult campaign against President Richard Nixon at the same time he is attempting keep his new bride and the party's old mistress from tearing jout each other's hair. The jealousy of the new bride a public spectacle in the jlobby of the Doral Hotel here on 'the eve of McGovern's nomination.

McGovern had earlier met Jwith a delegation of POW wives 'and promised them he would leave "residual force" in Southeast yAsia until all prisoners of war are Returned. I This statement was perceived "to be a political waffle by the forces of the new politics who have largely coalesced around McGov-tern because of his position as the jjuru of the "get-out-now" It was a screaming confrontation that shook the chandelier as the host of youths demanded "McGovern come down," and extracted another political waffle in the promise that all troops would be home in 90 days after his inauguration. WHILE THIS WAS going on, wounded and crippled Gov. George Wallace's camp still seethed with rumors of defection from the party, and Gov. Jimmy Carter worried about losses in Southern congressional power that might follow an anti-McGovern landslide in November.

Mayor Richard Daley and other historic fixtures in the party, such as top labor leaders, were sending out signals to their followers that they will support local and congressional Democrats this fall, but were silent on aid they might offer to McGovern. After all it was the McGovern forces who excluded them from a major role in the convention. The establishment Democrats have indicated they will be more preoccupied in getting their old power back than in electing the head of the faction' that tossed them into political discard. All this is transpiring at a time when Nixon is successfully winding down the war and stripping McGovern of his main campaign issue, and while Middle America is clearly indicating fears the McGovern redistribution of wealth program is going to hit them hard. If the senator from South Dakota can keep his bride and mistress happy until November, while he is battling Nixon he should find the presidency an easy task.

But from the July point of view, the chances don't look good. TOM INGLIS the Democratic party's funds for black voter registration. The drive will be conducted between August and the presidential election in November. In dollar terms, this percentage should equal about $2.9 million that would go into black communities across the country for massive voter registration drives, according to Fauntroy. Asked if a part of the negotiated package included McGovern's appointing one or more black cabinet members, Fauntroy said, "Yes it does.

How many? No exact number was given. But McGovern did say black cabinet members, and I emphasize the plural." Fauntroy said these concessions came out of a meeting of McGovern and a group of uncommitted black Democratic convention delegates held in Washington about six months ago. Fauntroy, who has nestled close to the McGovern camp since the start of the convention here, explained further that the arrangement hammered out between blacks and McGovern called for the black convention delegates to act as conduits of the patronage jobs and voter registration funds in their respective states. The exact number of delegates delivered to McGovern, however, came under question shortly after the announcement was made. Due to duplication of dele The Times welcomes views from its readers.

Letters should be kept as short as possible and signed with both the writer's name and address. Names will be withheld on request. Address all letters to Voice of the People, The Tampa Times, Tampa, Florida. everything gay except the derogatory things. This American censorship of our movement is as bad as the Nazis who put us in concentration camps.

J.R.B. gain that would make everybody happy and avoid a credentials struggle. The idea smacked of the old politics and almost certainly would have angered the delegates had it come off. But Sen. George McGovern refused to show up at such a session, where he would have been outvoted six to one.

The most naive soul should have been able to predict McGovern's reaction but Muskie was apparently surprised. The upshot of it all was that Muskie wound up looking politically inept. Muskie's brief attempt to play a power role at this convention came after three days here in which he could not even decide whether or not to remain an active candidate. His advisers were lobbying hard for him, but he kept telling the small society TAMPA Your newspaper of July 11 had an article headed, "Gays hasseled by other protesters at Flamingo." This is interesting because in all your other articles on the protest groups at Miami Beach you didn't even mention the gays as being there. One would have thought there was no gay protest at all because you described the other groups but didn't mention the gays.

However, now that you have found someone who objects to the gays, you bring it out in big headlines. In other words, you never publicize the gays unless it can be adverse publicity. I know this is true because I read all the gay newspapers and know that you leave out or remain silent almost Marianne Means Muslrie destroyed image at Demo 'The first two hundred delegates that he wanted to take the "moral" and "fair" course, if he could just figure out what it was. This is a fairly astonishing attitude for a presidential candidate whose goal is supposed to be the gathering of votes, and scarcely calculated to inspire supporters to hang in there. He felt "uncomfortable being part of a stop-somebody movement," Maine Gov.

Kenneth Curtis explained. "That's just the kind of guy he is." Another Muskie-pledged delegate was less kind. "He's just confused. He couldn't lead his way out of a paper bag," he said. To the other McGovern rivals, the California credentials problem was a purely political question of who got 151 delegate votes.

But not to Muskie. He by Brickman iThe governor demurs years are the hardest1 confab asked for a memorandum on the legal aspects of the challenge. He had advisers argue the legal case in front of him for five hours one afternoon, He fussed and fussed and could not make up his mind. Finally, at 1 a.m. the night before the convention, Muskie got into a table-pounding scene with campaign adviser Tom Finney and bowed to the argument that it was in hi" political interest to vote against McGovern on the California question.

"He's got a wishbone where his backbone ought to be," a disillusioned Muskie deputy muttered. If Muskie- had moved decisively against McGovern in the first place, he might have been able to assume some leadership here and enhance his own presidential prospects. Or, conversely, if he had joined McGovern at the proper moment, he might have earned a second vice presidential nomination and become a kingmaker. But he wound up irritating all sides and looking like a political amateur. It is probably just as well for the Democratic party that Muskie's vague approach to politics was discovered before the convention, as he blundered through the primaries.

Think of the fun Richard Nixon would have had if Muskie had actually won the nomination. 1968 hardly see the war damage," Freddy said. "There was a girl in Chicago I gave a candy bar and a pack of cigarettes to. I wonder whatever happened to her," Harry said. A group of young people came into the Boom Boom Room handing out McGovern stickers.

"Look at them," a veteran said scornfully. "When we were their age we were attacking the stockyards with stones and sticks, and throwing our bodies across the highway, all for the Democratic Party. And what are they doing? Handing out stickers in the Boom Boom Room. What's happened to the moral fiber of the Democratic Party?" "It's gone," said Freddy, "all gonei That's what happens when you make young kids delegates to a national convention." Governor Askew is risking Jerious problems by ignoring Attorney General Shevin's advice to tcall a special session immediately 2o deal with the recent Supreme ourt ruling which virtually out-Jaws the death penalty as cruel land unusual punishment. 4 The governor has delayed the Special session call until November 'l when the newly-elected lawmakers will meet to reorganize the 1972-73 Legislature.

But problems based on the issue of the death penalty could arise much earlier. last Legislature passed a Jill which would automatically $iace each individual on death row Jmder life imprisonment without Ihe possibility of parole if the jdeath penalty was eliminated by Jhe Supreme Court. But the law apes not go into effect until October. That leaves a gap during Jwhich it is possible some hardened 'criminals could, under one technicality or another, be released. The bill, itself, may be subject to attack.

If in future capital cases 'the defendant can receive no more 7.14- MIAMI BEACH The Democratic Party owes Sen. Edmund Muskie its thanks. For he took advantage of the national convention to prove what some people had come to suspect in the presidential primaries that he is a poor politician. He has fixed it so that no, sensible Democrat can now sit around and moan about how much better things might be in the contest against President Nixon if only good old Ed had been the nominee. A year ago, Ed Muskie was most politicians' idea of the perfect party unifier, the ideal candidate to bring together old and young, moderate and liberal.

But he became the classic example of how not to run for President. The self-destruct mechanism he displayed in the primaries was operating beautifully during the convention. He showed great talent for doing the right thing at the wrong moment and vice versa. On the eve of the convention, he completely misjudged the mood of the delegates to have it out in a good and fair open fight. He proposed that the major presidential candidates go into a back room, with or without cigar smoke, and wheel and deal until they reached a bar MIAMI BEACH A group of veterans had a reunion here in Miami this week to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Chicago Democratic war of 1968.

The veterans, many of whom brought their families, were a little older, a lot balder and many had a paunch. They ate too much, drank too much and told war stories about the great battles they had fought in '68. "Those were the days," one veteran said wistfully as he sipped a bourbon in the Boom Boom Room of the Fon-tainebleau Hotel. "I'll never forget trying to get back to my room at the Conrad Hilton. I was hit by four cops, maced by a state trooper and run over by a National Guard jeep." Another veteran sitting next to him said, "Remember, Harry, when we tried to raise the American Flag in Grant Park and a squad of mounted policemen Art Buchwald than life imprisonment with the possibility of parole, it can be argued that those convicted previously should not be denied parole because to do so would represent "cruel and unusual" punishment.

The Court did leave some loopholes in its ruling. These should be studied by lawmakers. Some states are listing certain crimes which may be punished by the death penalty. Florida may want to pursue this course. At least, the matter is serious enough to warrant immediate attention.

Governor Askew has walked a zig-zag line on the issue of capital punishment, voting for it as a legislator and being hesitant to enforce it as a governor. His reluctance to follow the attorney general's advice on this subject is a further bit of waffling. Meanwhile, no robber may fear additional punishment for killing his victim. How many people, we wonder, will be condemned to death by the governor's timidity in this field? mystery. He has complained about everything from the type of chess board to the closed circuit television system.

But his borishness has made headlines. Consequently, more people than ever are exposed to chess. And that's fine. It's an interesting game which is stimulating to thought processes. Maybe we'll even produce a chess champ who has good manners, too.

Remembering the Fischer scores point summer of "You can say that again," Freddy said. "Where would Hubert Humphrey be today if we hadn't fought for Chicago?" "Or Ed Muskie?" someone else added. "Chicago was the great one," Harry said. "It'll go down in history with Bei-leau Woods, and Midway and Iwo Jima. You know, I try to tell my kids what it was like in Chicago in 1968, but they don't want to hear anything about it." "Neither do my kids," a veteran said.

"To them it's history. But if we hadn't taken Chicago there wouldn't be a Democratic Party today. A party united, one for all and all for one. Another veteran said, "I'd like to go back to Chicago some day with my family and see it now. "I'd like to visit State Street and show them where we were cut off for three days by Mayor Daley's fire trucks." "I hear it's all built up and you can trampled us to the ground with their horses?" "Do I remember?" Harry said.

"You saved my -life, Freddy. You threw yourself on a tear gas grenade." Another veteran said, "Did I ever tell you what happened to me on Michigan Avenue? I was walking along the sidewalk and two motorcycle cops came zooming down on me. "I jumped out of the way of one, got hit by the second, knocked into the street and then was thrown into a paddy wagon and charged with disturbing the peace." Harry said, "They don't have Democratic conventions like that any more. The young kids just don't have the courage we did." A veteran named Charley agreed. "All the kids want to do these days is nominate someone.

They want the candidate handed to them on a silver platter. They don't know you have to fight for what you get in politics." About the only thing nice that lean be said about American chess 'whiz Bobby Fischer's conduct in the world's championship match with Russian Boris Spassky is that he has certainly renewed interest in chess. Never has the game received such wide publicity and, doubtlessly, there will be an increase in the sales of chess sets and books about the game. Spassky obviously came to play chess. Why Fischer showed up is a.