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Says Kirk Is Colorful, Daring my mum wJwmni. mm 1Q-A TIIE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Wednesday, December 6, 1967 Move Afoot To Put Wallace On State 3rd Party Ticket Kelly Calls State Demos 'Lackluster' George Wallace big victory seen "He called them dwarfs. They took it. They are discredited. If Kirk presses for a referendum and gets it, the elected cabinet system will be junked "Claude Kirk then gets more popular, daily, and Democrats get less popular because people prefer something to nothing." Kelly also took President Lyndon Johnson to task, saying he had become the tool of his own press agents.

"Politicians are made now the way matinee idols and movie sex symb61s art made by press agentry and promotional campaigns," Kelly said. often used to say, 'when you hear fire and brimstone a-poppin' op in the capital, that'll be ole Gene fighting for the common man. Claude Kirk keeps 'fire and brimstone' popping in Tallahassee. "The people love it." Then Kelly drew his picture of contrast. Besides being grey, lackluster, stodgy and inert, he said Democratic public figures in the state are "timid, cautious, scary, mediocre." They are no match for Kirk," he said.

"They say nothing because they have nothing to say." Kelly said Kirk made "laughingstocks" of the cabinet members. MIAMI (By Staff Writer) Democratic leaders in Florida are a "grey, lackluster, stodgy, inert mass," former State Sen. Scott Kelly of Lakeland said about his party here yesterday. But he gave Republican Gov. Claude Kirk credit for being one of the things that is happening to the state's Democratic Tarty.

"He may not be a good governor," said Kelly, who finished twice in the show position in the Democratic primary for governor. "But he is a colorful, picturesque, daring governor. "He has guts. "Old Gene Talmadge (the late governor of Georgia) with that kind of star-system in the movies, but there is in politics. Political stars made that way are hollow men.

"They strut and post and posture and talk big. "But when they are not on camera when they are not doing a carefully rehearsed scene, when they are on their own, when they have to make hard, tough decisions, then they have to be the kind of man whose roles they play, when they have to be leaders and not actors they collapse. "An example is Claude Kirk, in the school crisis," Kelly added. By PETE SCHMIDT Tribune Staff Writer SARASOTA Dr. William Campbell Douglass said yesterday a concerted effort will under way after the first of the year to have former Alabama Gov.

George Wallace head of a third party ticket in Florida. i I Douglass, founder and leader of the Constitution Party in lhe state, said 18,000 signatures of qualified voters are heeded to swing recognition to Wallace as a presidential candidate on the general election ballot. "We cannot start circulating the petitions until after Gov. Wallace declares his intentions and names a vice presidential nominee as his tunning mate," Douglass said, adding that the organi- Scott Kelly 'people love It Speaking to the Tiger Bay political club in Miami, Kelly made no specific mention of his own political future ex cept to say there may be poli-. tics in ths future.

He said he was in business in Miami nou, and hoped 'Til do better in business in Dade County than I did in politics." "There is 1 nothing wrong KTOnWATT RAX TRIUMPHS ON ALL SPECIAL PRICES! SPECIAL TERMS! tation backing the former governor is ready and waiting the word. Douglass is confident that Wallace can post a big victory in the backyard of Republican Gov. Claude Kirk. "We have a better organization than the Republicans have been able to muster in 100 years. We have a county committee in each of 52 counties and the only ones not organized now are the small ones," said Douglass.

"The question of getting a third party candidate on the ballot is a difficult one' Douglass said, "but we anticipate no problem." "Without a question of doubt Gov Wallace will take the state of Florida if he chooses to make the race," Douglass said. "As far as I know although it is not definite the governor would run on the Constitution Party ticket," Douglass said, adding, however, that he felt regardless of the party label the Alabama Democrat chooses he will lose no supporters. Douglass, who attended the second state executive committee meeting of the state's youngest and smallest political party last week in St. Augustine, said about 40 counties were represented at that session. "We are going through with the assumption that Wallace will run, but if he doesn't that is it," he said.

"The Constitution Party will field no other candidates in any other races in 1968 but if Wallace does run, we'll be ready to move." Douglass said that the machinery to push toward the Wallace ballot is being geared up statewide and nationally "most of the effort is now being devoted in California for that presidential primary" but that he "would not presume to speak" on whether Wallace would run nationally on the Constitution Party ticket. "Neither would I attempt to IN STOCK NOW: SPITFIRE ROADSTERS SPITFIRE HT COUPES TR-4 ROADSTERS GT-6 FASTBACKS Contact Lenses und Fashionable EyewetT ftafis Optical 6o. 616 TAMPA STREET 3027 "WEST KENNEDY BOULEVARD 320 FLORIDA AVENUEs TWO BLOCKS NORTH OF ITORTII GATE Free Parking at all ejfket Dr. Douglas awaiting word guess on a possible vice presidential running mate," he said. Douglass said the key issue in the Florida campaign will be "the racial revolution," but deferred to Wallace for elaboration on that point.

As for Kirk, said Douglass, "I frankly think he's creating more problems for himself, I think it's amusing to hear him say that the people who elected him and are now helping George Wallace are making a mistake. "Maybe they were wrong when they voted for him." Douglass identified Wallace-for-president leaders in the larger counties as: L. Hakes of Jacksonville, Duval; George Ponder of Tampa, Hillsborough; Curtis Deth-aride of St. Petersburg, Pinellas; T. J.

Jensen of Au-burndale, Polk; C. D. Stinnett of Sarasota, Sarasota; T. L. Broxton of Pensacola, Escambia; Carlton Lillie of Tallahassee, Leon; and former Rep.

Ben Kiassen, Palm Beach. State Police Chief Jailed In Arkansas i LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ynn A. Davis, director of the Arkansas State Police, went to Jail yesterday rather than re- veal the name of an informant Who figured in a series of jSept 9 gambling raids here. Circuit Judge William J.

Kirby cited Davis for contempt of court and ordered him to jail for refusing to answer questions put to him by the Pulaski County Grand Jury and by Kirby. "As far as I'm concerned, he's going to answer the questions or stay in jail until he makes up his mind to do it' Kirby said. Kirby would not reveal the nature of the questions Davis refused to answer, but Davis said he had refused to name his informant and he indicated that he would not. Davis said that requiring law enforcement officers to name confidential informants would put officers out of business. Gov.

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