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1 The Sumter Daily Item Late Stocks On Page 2 VOL 77 SUMTER SC TUESDAY AFTERNOON JULY 11 1972 NO 229 FOUNDED OCT 15 1894 TEN CENTS A COPY 26 PAGES 2 SECTIONS Humphrey Out McGovern Well Off No Endorsement 'nf MIAMI BEACH Fla (API A tearful Hubert Humphrey today abandoned his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination virtually assuring a first-ballot victory for frontrunner George McGovern The stepped down with a pledge to keep fighting for "social He did not endorse McGovern however withdrawal from the presidential race is a withdrawal of candidacy said the Minnesota senator who first began running for the White House more than a decade ago His move was almost dictated by sweeping recapture Monday night of 151 disputed California delegates putting him within about 25 votes for a first-ballot nohnination Gov George Wallace of Alabama and Sens Edmund Muskie of Maine and Henry Jackson of Washington remained in the race as the second session of the convention approached But they trailed far behind McGovern Meanwhile the South campaign manager said Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts was one of the two or three leading possibilities Bulletins MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) Sen George McGovern went over the top with more than enough delegate voteo for a Democratic presidential nomination within minutes after chief rival Sen Hubert Humphrey said today he was getting out of the race MIAMI BEACH (AP) Sen Edmund Muskie is withdrawing as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination sources said today Planning rous McNair's law partner A challenge to the South Carolina delegation was defeated by a small margin (UPI) (left-right) Gov John West Chairhnan Robert McNair former governor State Sen James Harrelson and James Kondu- South Carolina delegates hold one of the first convention floor caucuses before start of Democratic convention Monday They The same Kennedy and were offered as possibilities by wife Eleanor at her own news conference Labor leaders have been backing Humphrey and opposing McGovern but the UAW has stood apart from this partisanship Meanwhile Wallace he said he was of to learn of withdrawal from the presidential race has a right to the governor said "and I just hope some of his delegates support me I am still in the Party leaders had feared the opening night session would run into the daylight hours But the showdown votes on California and Illinois were followed by a series of compromises that quickly brought the opening session to a close a few minutes before 5 am EDT In terms of the presidential fight the California test was crucial perhaps decisive According to an Associated Press count addition of the 151 California votes brought McGovern within about 25 votes of a first-ballot nomination with other uncommitted delegates expected to move his way It took two votes both decided by larger than expected margins to settle the California credentials dispute First the McGovern forces overturned by a vote of 161828 to 123822 the Credentials decision which had been engineered by backers of Humphrey Sen Edmund Muskie and Gov George Wallace to deny McGovern all the California votes Then by an even broader margin of-168952 to 116223 the McGovern forces defeated an attempt by a Florida backer of Wallace to challenge the parliamentary ground rules set by the presiding officer Democratic National Chairman Lawrence In the Chicago case too there were two votes as the McGovern side sought at the last moment to compromise even though side said compromise was impossible State Challenge Defeated MIAMI BEACH Fla (AP) The women have lost a hardfought battle to increase their number on the South Carolina delegation to the Democratic National Convention The defeat came Monday night when the convention rejected a National Political Caucus challenge seeking to add seven women to the delegation and reduce the vote of male members The vote was 1555 to 1429 A roll call vote was requested by Congresswoman Bella Abzug of New York who helped engineer the challenge Wearing a bright red floppybrimmed hat she said that by sustaining the challenge the convention could strike a blow for rights that would help the party at the polls in November "The party must stand behind its nominee with a full strength of she said A voice vote that preceded the roll call seemed to favor the South Carolinians heavily But during a delay caused by slow tallying in the Ohio delegation the challengers gained considerable strength in about a dozen other delegations Local Demos i Care For McGovern for choice as vice-presidential candidate Kewretly has remained aloof from the convention itself He was at his home in Hyannis Port Mass and planned an afternoon sail to Nantucket after working on some papers sent to him from Washington Gary Hart campaign manager said Leonard Woodcock head of the United Auto Workers Union was also on the list Tht lUmiAe Mm Column DIAL 775-4923 iniwtrt to your quotient and cut rod tap By YANKING ITEM Staff Writer Some of Democratic Party leaders are casting anxious glances toward Miami Beach this week-they like George McGovern They like Scoop Jackson At the National Democratic Convention now underway most political observers admit that Sen George McGovern D-South Dakota is the odds-on favorite to win the presidential nomination And they say Sen Henry Jackson D-Washington stand a chance as near Miami as I want to yesterday declared Sumter REP On The Inside Classifieds 1213 Comics 11 Editorials 6 Farm Page 7 Obituaries 2 Sports 89 TV Guide 10 Weather 2 News 45 not mind missing the Miami Beach affair this year "I see how in the world South Carolina people generally can support the Democratic Party if McGovern is the Hodge declared no way to justify it I think if I had to make a choice it would be Wilbur Mills and then a liberal but got his feet on the ground "Apparently going to be a sad day if McGovern wins I do think the National Democratic Party has become a dictatorship trying to tell the local parties who they can and send to the Sumter MAYOR ROBERT GRAHAM know whether or not he could support McGovern if he is the nominee kind of hard to say at this time always stayed with the Democratic Party put it that way The man I would like to see get it have a chance---Jackson It looks like McGovern will get it on the first ballot but if he get it on the first two he EDWARD ERVIN chairman of the Sumter County Democratic Party had this to say "About the only ones I would support are running way in the background I even think be a factor Ervin says it looks like McGovern will win but he know if he can support him until he looks at the party platform AYCOCK a veteran at the State House and chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee think going to be the biggest mess ever see going to a knock-down drag-out before over with And if McGovern gets the nomination I think have to start over with another Democratic Aycock defiantly declared he could "absolutely support McGovern always been for Scoop Jackson myself but I think he has a chance my type of CREECH former Sumter mayor and long-time executive committeeman of the local Democratic Party also said he could not support McGovern looks like going to be nominated but you know until the first he said "I got a candidate but I think if I leaned any way Jackson would be my man a man of Creech has been to one national convention but he says no pleasure in today "A convention is pretty hard and you learn all you want to know after one trip Nowadays all the protesting and stuff I know what will happen but I imagine the same old leaders will still be in charge when the over because the others know anything about HODGE Sumter County Commission chairman has been to four national conventions but he does There is a traffic problem on Highway 76 in the Cherryvale area There is no space available in the median for traffic making left-hand turns "Keep Right" signs be placed for through traffic in the residential and business area of the community to keep the left lane safer for turning traffic? ES A Considerable improvements are going to be made on Highway 76 shortly and this will alleviate conditions considerably according to the highway department Fischer Missing REYKJAVIK ICELAND (AP)-The World Chess Championship began today without Bobby Fischer the American challenger Partly cloudy with a chance of mainly afternoon and evening showers and thundershowers through Wednesday Weather details are on page 2 No Heroes At Miami Beach By Bruce Biossat Demo Bigwigs iWalking Wounded and none was really impressive He never came close to getting even half 'the delegates he needed for nomination Worse still he turned mean-spirited and destructive of good faith in his last efforts to block McGovern by trying to take some of the California delegates away from him made more than tiny token payment on her promise to put together an influential block of 300 to 400 delegates at the convention A very nice man former Gov Terry Sanford of North Carolina picked up some delegates in his own primary but was virtually blanked out in his futile efforts to do more The saddest thing to see was the joining together of all these people (except Lindsay) to attempt the blocking of McGovern at the final in-fighting stage With Humphrey they cynically abandoned their rules encouraged their lawyers and others to make phony argument in the name of reform generally disgraced themselves And of course they were always hacking at torn flesh They may have made bandwagon into an ambulance And they most certainly-I 've made their convention hall into a field hospital sheltering a pitiful collection of crippled Democrats His late-season 12-state campaign was a flop He ate a lot of McGovern bandwagon dust and picked up only a few leavings tor himself Most of the other 1972 candidates were bound from the start to be chewed up The Democratic party was boastful of its big roster proclaiming it was proof of the new openness But in fact the multiplicity of candidates was an iron guarantee that most would look terrible in the vote even the winners New York Mayor John Lindsay who tried to make walking the streets of his city a gauge of his presidential caliber failed pathetically and quickly Sen Henry Jackson of Washington an able senator well seasoned in the ways of the capital found his face hopelessly lost in the crowd when he toured the country seeking votes Rep Shirley Chisholm the first black and first woman to make a steady presidential bid never MIAMI BEACH NEA The reformed presidential selection process may have the appealing virtues of openness and balance But it has ground up candidates so badly that the party has almost no whole-bodied heroes left Nearly every Democrat of prominence is a member of the walking wounded here at this convention The betting favorite for the 1972 nomination Sen George McGovern has the words "disaster for the plastered across his chest The rival Democrats who put it there have been bad-mouthing like crazy for weeks As for the rivals a sorrier bunch of losers seldom has been collected under one roof Sen Hubert Humphrey who bravely tilted against a whole convention on the civil rights issue in 1948 never really cut it at all with the Democratic voters of 1972 He won just four primaries to McGovern's 10 Opinion Sen Edmund Muskie once the Lin- colnesque front-runner who seemed almost above battle was brought down in primary combat almost before he could get his sword out of the scabbard His name today calls up visions of low percentage the 9 per cent he got in Florida and the 10 per cent he made in Wisconsin.