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i a 0 4 Regulars Out But Nobody In cGovern Has to Win EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE 22. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972. To' Take Over Party I Stop The Excuses, Stop The Hijackings By MAX LERNER tuners, both among the media peopled toe politicals, who haven't missed a.ton-vention since 1928, and who think this- is the VGHUUU BIUI-U end of toe world and the plunge into everlasting darkness. I dont. MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

This has been a provo convention, dominated by the irregulars of the Democratic insurgent army, provisional wing. Everything has been very orderly, very legal and endlessly parliamentary in the all-night vigil over the credential contests. Beginning of Contest THERE WERE so many hijackings in the last 35 hours that one radio newscaster was heard to say This is a brand new hijacking. Its not one of the others we were talking about earlier. One of these days someone will come up with the information that there have been more hijackings than stage coach holdups or ship piratings.

Thats because we havent found a way to deal with hijackings. were not trying to deal with them. Shooting hijackers doesnt stop hijackings. Its been tried. Nor does the possibility that a hijacker will be killed when he parachutes from a plane.

Nor do long prison terms. The courts have really been tough on hijackers. I see it as toe beginning of a contest for the control of the Democratic Party. the irregulars who control the party provisionally can beat Nixon in November, they will take it over after that. If they lose in November, the McGovern people themselves will be swept out and the regulars will come back.

But the party itself will be a transformed one, meeting more frequently and more openly, more responsive to the rank and file, more racked by turbulence, an arena in which toe natitons battles are fought put in party terms. The opening of the party, one way or another, could have been done around Tea Kennedy if he had decided that this was ms hour. He didnt. It happened to be McGoverns, in part because he saw- very early how essential the party reforms were, in part because the party revolution was in search of a symbol, and he was there. swrxiM But the revolution has been nonetheless real.

The provos have had their victory and have clinched the nomination for McGovern. They are provisionals only in the sense that they also aim to take over the Demo- Ctf cratic Party which they cant do unless they put the ll regulars to rout, and get their candidate elected in November. All along the hidden is- I sue has been who will con- 1 trol the Democratic Party 1 1 and whether indeed there will be a party. During the early phase of the primaries, when no one showed any command, there was a party without a candidate, a party with a vacuum. Then McGovern emerged, with enough primary victories to fill the vacuum.

Now there is a veritable candidate, but he is a candidate without a party. Question of Survival It comes down to this. So long as a man carrying a gun can walk on an airplane undetected and unchallenged, there will be hijackings. Democrats Under McGovern GOP Must Do Same Draw On New Constituency We think many, of the airlines are stalling. to install and use the hijacker detection methods that have reduced the number of sky piratings on some airlines.

We think theyre waiting for the federal government to step in and take full responsibility for a detection system. 1 Dissent In. Own Ranks since the New Deal coalition came to power in 1932. By KEVIN P. PHILLIPS MIAMI BEACH Something may be happening this week that hasnt happened in 112 years: the breaking-up of the Democratic Party.

Certainly the possibility lies heavy in the Florida air, and political quake-watchers are keeping a close watch on their seismographs. The record speaks for itself. In far too many recent hijackings we're heard the lame excuses that the detection system wasn't in operation. What detection system, people have a right to ask? Tho Wallace right doesnt like him, the Humphrey-Muskie Jackson center doesnt like him, labor doesnt like him, big blocs of toe other voters dont like him. One has felt at times that even among his own followers there was less passion for him than there has been passion against Humphrey and Muskie.

But that may in time be The workings of the federal government sometimes become incomprehensible. On one hand, we have thousands of safety inspectors running around the country harrassing small businessmen with petty regulations, while another branch of government permits airlines to operate with complete disregard for passenger safety. When Harry Truman faced 1948 revolt on both the Left and the Right, he represent ed a solid party center able to profit among ordinary voters from the ire of leftist and rightist splinters (each turned out to be just 2 per cent of the total vote). But todays Democratic Party, torn by the societal winds of the Sixties, is a very different group of people. As Muskie and Humphrey demonstrated, the 'Center shrank to 20-30 per cent and lost the game.

Now the successful Left wing of the. Democratic Party faces a certain bolt of the 20-30 per cent on the Right and a hard fight for the' 20-30 per cent Center. The Republicans will have to open their party, too, if not this year, then in 1976. For this is a pluralist, multiracial society, very aware of generational differences, long obsessed with the cult of youth and now close to a guilt-trip about the way it has treated women. Your people, sir, said Alexander Hamilton and he had the Jeffersonians in mind is a beast.

This has been echoed many times since. But the history of American democracy is a history of power groups who have grown rigid, who need to be revitalized by the constant influx of new political and social energies, from new classes and ethnic groups flowing into the mainstream of American life. The problem for the irregulars who control toe convention is whether they understand that they must enter that mainstream if they are to capture the party. The encounter with Daley on the Illinois credential fight was more than a power contest with the Chicago machine. It was a question of Whether the irregulars, in their zeal for enforcing a new quota system, would forget that there are other ethnic minorities than the blacks the Poles, Irish, Italians, Czechs, Hungarians, even the old-fashioned WASPs who now feel more and more like a minority.

Every minority has suffered from quotas in its past history. This is no time to build a new party on that system. It helped the irregulars in their drive to the convention. It cant win an election and it cant run a nation. This convnetion is like nothing you ever saw before, in the days when toe regulars ran things.

It reminds me partly of a community college graduation, partly of a civil rights meeting, partly of a womens rights rally. This reflects the three dominant caucuses here toe youth caucus, the black caucus, the womens caucus. One hundred twelve years ago, the-Democratic Party the successful coalition forged by Andrew Jackson divided against itself. Northern Democrats chose Stephen- a9 A. Douglas for President: I Southern Democrats rallied I around John C.

Breckin- fa ridge; and Border State The most dramatic of this weeks hijackings took place on a flight originating in Miami. major airport, a tourist center, and on a major airline. Passengers say there were no security measures. If this is true, it is inexcusable. Poor Are On Tho Outside middle-of-the-roaders tried to straddle the great issues of the day with Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.

The winner? Republican Abraham Lets Play Chess! Almost all of them are middle-class to affluent, certainly not proletarian. The welfare poor are on the outside, in Resurrection City II. The outside-the-system young nibble away at the edges of the convention, in Flamingo Park or wherever, but this is not their hour, either on TV or in the The convention and the party had to be opened up, and opened up they have been. It is easy to yield to the temptation to lament and chick over the changes. You meet old- Happened in 1932 Crumbling of this magnitude has not happened to a dominant party since 1932, when the Democrats won over the Progressive and Center elements of the Republican Party.

Although the Depression was the key factor, the Progressive split was apparent earlier in the LaFollette third-party race of 1924. Phillips His Statements On tlie Issues But learned skeptics will say, didnt the Democrats survive a three-way split in 1948? Just so, which suggests that there is more to fatality than mere splintering. What differentiates the cir cumstances of 1860 from those of 1948 is this: The confrontation of 1860 destroyed the cohesive center of the party while the imbroglio of 1948 actually strengthened the bulk of the Democratic coalition by showing that it was not dependant upon its fringes. Going back further, one finds the three-way race between Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in 1912. 3 Where McGovern Stands Wilson won because of the division in Republican ranks.

However, the GOP division was an earthquake, not an upheaval. Most of the party schism came from TRs personal pique and not from societal forces. FOR A FEW DAYS the shenanigans surrounding the championship chess match in Iceland made good reading. It was a press agents dream a natural way to drum up widespread interest in something that does not normally receive much attention. But now its getting a little tiresome.

Our appetite was wetted by the pre-game show. We went along with the antics. But now its time to play chess. The American contender, Bobby Fischer, however, doesnt want to play chess, and for oh so many reasons weve lost count. Bobby Fischer had become something of an American folk hero as his match with the Russian, Boris Spassky, approached.

But he has succeeded in the past two weeks in tarnishing, if not destroying that image. His fans, and were sure there are many and they are loyal, will probably not agree that his actions have been in poor taste. But we think the American public would much rather be represented by someone who is less greedy, less temperamental, less fickle and a little more couragous. New Forces Emerging (c) Now York Tim Nw Stnrico Following are excerpts from statements by Sen. George McGovern on a number of If that approach is unworkable, then we should be prepared to consider a commitment by the United States, (response to Congressional Quarterly questions.) issues: In some ways, the election of 1896 offers a possible parallel to this years contest.

The Democrats selected a winger as their nominee, narrowed their voter base, and lost. But even in 1896. the Democratic Party did not change its basic constituency; Dixie it had been since the Civil War. and Dixie it remained despite William Jennings Bryan. Welfare Vietnam Looking back over U.S.

history, the essential criterion of a major political upheav al is the exhaustion of the dominant coalitions Minor breakaways can be dismissed and labeled as tremors (i.e., the double tremor of 1948), splits that carve off one large chunk of the party can be likened to earthquakes (i.e., the Wallace earthquake of 1968). Full-fledged upheaval only comes when the centrifugal force of the old coalition is shattered by the emergence of new prevailing forces. Clearly, the Democrats of 1972 are shifting their basic constituency. Southerners, Catholics and blue-collar workers no longer shape up as the mainstays of party strength. Confronted with the, student-minority-affluent liberal takeover, many oldline Demo-crats will leave the party that is leaving them.

Here and There Let us not talk about Nixons war or Johnsons war or the Pentagons war or the C.I.A.s war. Let us take hold of this war as citizens and as elected representatives, and let us vote to end it Many years ago, the ancient Biblical prophet wrote: I have set before you life or death, blessing or cursing; therefore choose life that thou and thy seed may live. Let us choose not cursing but blessing, not death but life. (Senate speech. May 7, 1970.) North and South Korea are talking about harmony and renunciation of armed force.

Lets hope the idea spreads to neighboring countries. This could be the year. By coming apart in the spring primaries. Centrists Ed Muskie and Hubert Humphrey showed that the old institutional forces just dont work anv more. With the emergence of George McGovern, the Democrats appear to be nominating a winger for the first time There is a fundamental alternative to the Presidents family assitance proposal an alternative whose potential as an antipoverty strategy far exceeds toe poor peoples approach of the President a human security plan which looks toward insuring each of our citizens against the risk of poverty and doing so simply because we believe that this kind of minimal financial security should be a right oi citizenship in our country.

I will offer an amendment (comprising) four major components components which would protect each of us against the four major causes of poverty in America. First, it would include a childrens allowance to secure the future of our children. Second, it would guarantee a job at a decent wage for every able-bodied working-age citizen. Third, it would improve Social Security for the elderly and disabled. Finally, it would provide a small, federally administered special public assistance plan to protect the few who would remain in need for addititonal income maintenance.

(Speech to Citizens Committee for Children. New York' Citv Jan. 20, 1970.) a 5 Although McGovemite theorists say that the new youth vote makes old precedents meaningless, no majority coalition has ever driven off several major constituencies and survived. The last time the Democrats did this to themselves was in I860, and it could be happening again today An irate Tennesseean forces state tax agents to strip to the buff. Now that's symbolism! But how's he going to top it when the fellows from the Inter nal Revenue Service show up? Future Commitments In cases similar to whit we have seen in Theres a plan afoot to manufacture certain rare remedies space.

In addition, of course, to that rarest remedy of all, U.S.-Soviet This Day In History In 1853, U.S. Commodore On This Date Todays Talk Today is Friday, July 14th, the 196th day of 1972. There are 170 days left in the year. In 1690, seven French captured the New England islands of Marthas Vine- Crime And Justice Vietnam, we should examine any request for American involvement in the light of these points: 4 Are those asking our help the appropriate elements for us to be supporting, both terms of what they stand for and in terms of our national interest? If so, are they unable to bear the responsibility themselves for the protection of their position? If they are not, we should try to deter- mine if the international community, through the United Nations, can provide them the aid they need. If such a U.N.

role is not possible, then we should investigate the possibility of multilateral action. This Impossible World Today9 Highlight In History yard, Nantucket and Block Island. In 1798, the U.S. Congress passed a sedition act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous and malicious reports about the On this date in 1789, the citizens of Paris stormed and captured Bastille prison. It was the beginning of the French Revolution.

All these apparently hard-nosed proposals, which would actually result in mating reduction of crime harder to accomplish, are part of a great illusion that has been fostered ever since Richard Nixon began to campaign for the Presidency in 1968. It is the illusion that crime is ravaging the nation because the police, the prosecutors and the judges are too soft on the criminals I the administration hopes to blame Congress and the courts for striking down an alleged attempt to stop crime. This will be the administrations response to the inevitable demonstration that the Nixon promise to end the crime crisis is to be unfulfilled. The promise will be unfulfilled because the harder constructive task has been largely avoided. (Senate speech, July 21, 1970).

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty Thoughts Matthew Perry went ashore at Tokyo to present a letter from President Millard Fillmore to the Emperor of Japan. In 1879, the U.S. Congress provided a yearly pension oi $3,000 for President Abraham Lincolns widow. Mary Todd Lincoln. In 1965, Ambassador Adlal Stevenson died on a Tendon street of a heart attack.

In 1966, eight student nurses were found murdered in an apartment on Chicagos south side. TEN YEARS President Kennedy named Cleveland Mayor Anthony, Cele-brezze as Secretary of Welfare to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who resigned to run for the Senate. FIVE YEARS AGO Eleven deaths were counted in riots in Newark, N.J.; a cur few was imposed on tho city. ONE YEAR AGO A U.S. Air Force officer, Capt Thomas Culver, was reprimanded and fined $1,000 for an antiwar demonstration in London.

(From tho Collections of the Late George Matthew Adams) THIS WORLD will never be a perfect world. We might as well recognize this fact. But its a wonderful world at that the greatest of all impossible worlds. Its ugly in spots. Its wicked, good, beautiful, mixed-up, serene, blasphemous, inspiring, glorious everything.

Thats why its so wonderful. There probably must be vice and wickedness in the world for it reminds one of how magnificent real nobility is. Of course it would please the moralists more if everything were perfect But it wouldnt be a world then. It wouldnt be Life. Its the two natures struggling within us that make our greatest nature fine and strong.

And so when I see some majestic tree fallen, I imme- diately glance to its mates towering next to it When I see a wrecked life I lead my eyes to its counterpart a thing of standing form and substance a Man! We are unable really to hate Wrong, until we have learned how truly sound and splendid Right is. Let us tramp on. There is work to be done. If this were a possible world if good were everywhere you and I would be praying for the wings of a dove to take us to another place anywhere perhaps to a world not made with hands. By fhlt know that wo lovo tho children of God, whon wo lovo God and obey Hi commandments.

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