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Thursday, Oct. 31, 1968 Griffin Daily News
BRUCE BIOSSAT
inside Reports of Gains
Spurring Humphrey On
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
W NEA Washington Correspondent
... „ .. x , PITTSBURGH (NEA)
Vice President Humphrey, at this final campaign stage,
is being tantalized with inside reports of good news that
even the most self-deluding candidate for president would
find hard to accept
He has been shown one poll that puts Illinois within 3%
percentage points of the 50-50 mark. It has long been re
garded as his most hopeless prospect among the big
states and once showed 48 to 32 for Richard Nixon in a re
spected private poll.
Again and again, the vice president has been advised
that California, too, was nearly hopeless and that his
stumping time could be spent more profitably elsewhere.
Yet one private pollster found him just two points behind
Nixon on the critical question of who the respondents
Would actually vote for on Nov. 5.
Humphrey’s leaders are telling him, furthermore, that
up to now the indicated fall-off in George Wallace’s poten
tial third-party vote is swinging almost wholly to him in
major northern industrial states.
The theory is the obvious one: That in the North much of
the Wallace vote has been coming from usually Demo
cratic blue-collar workers who are disgruntled over the
racial issue but, having briefly expressed their discontent,
are today returning to the familiar fold.
If Humphrey’s outlook in Illinois,- Michigan, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and New York has indeed improved
as much as some signs suggest, then his enlarged vote -po
tential must be coming heavily from Wallace and partly
'rom the recapture of “weak Democrats” who for a time
nay have gone over to Nixon.
Assuming the accuracy of poll indications of a 5 per cent
decline in Wallace’s vote prospect, Democratic experts
are concerned, nevertheless, that any further drop-off may
tend to benefit Nixon in the new South and border states.
It is not unreasonable to conclude, therefore, that the
Humphrey strategy board would not like to see Wallace
fade too far unless he is going to vanish altogether and
open the Deep South to Humphrey. No analyst appears to
regard this as even faintly likely.
The vice president himself may be taking more suste
nance from the fresh ration of good news than is the case
with some of his advisers. They have even had reports
that states like Washington and Colorado, which went
handily for Nixon in 1960, are moving toward a toss-up
condition.
They greet them, and much other evidence of improving
Humphrey fortunes,.with varying degrees of skepticism or
outright disbelief.
Newsmen and some other observers tend on the whole to
share or go beyond the advisers’ skepticism. They believe
they have found much contrary evidence in California,
Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
But they, too, are tantalized—by the unexplained differ
ences among the polls, the rare uncertainties that go with
a really strong third-party candidate, a feeling of unease
that they may somehow be seeing too little of the iceberg
of voter sentiment in 1968.
To The Voters Os Spalding County
We, The Undersigned Real Estate Brokers,
Would Like To Recommend Mr. Frank P. Lindsey
To You For Your Vote On November sth. As
Clerk Os The Superior Court.
Without going into a lot of flowery phrases about Mr.
Lindsey and the good job he has done in managing this
important County Office, we would like for you to con
sider this question: Why make a change in an office when
the job is being performed well?
Mr. Lindsey and his staff perform their duties in a court
eous and efficient manner, and you can always get friend
ly help from any of the people in the office. One of the
principal, every day, duties of the Clerk's Office is the
maintaining of an accurate and easily accessable record
of legal documents and court records. You need only ask
people who have an opportunity to inspect these records
to compare Mr. Lindsey's management with those of any
other Georgia county. We are confident you will be as
sured, and will hear no complaints.
We know, because of the duties of the office, that Mr.
Lindsey can't be put soliciting voter support, and for this
reason we ask you, for him, to re-elect Mr. Frank P.
Lindsey Clerk of the Spalding County Superior Court.
You will be a winner too.
Sincerely, .
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9
Five Weathervane Counties
S/ronr HHH Gaining On Nixon
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Five
counties in the United States
out of a total of 3,072, have
voted with the winner in every
presidential election this centu
ry. How are they leaning this
year? Here is a team report
from UPI newsmen in each
area.)
By LOUIS CASSELS
America’s five weathervane
counties are pointing toward a
Nixon victory.
But they aren’t too definite
about it. The wind seems to
have shifted toward Hubert
Humphrey recently, and the
outcome could be close.
The so-called weathervane
counties have voted with the
winner in every presidential
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A rare happy moment for
the exponent of the politics
of joy.
Nixon Says HHH Wants Election
To Go To House For Wheel-Deal
election in this century. Scat
tered widely across the nation,
they are Coos and Strafford
Counties, New Hampshire; Palo
Alto County, Iowa; Laramie
County, Wyoming, and Crook
County, Oregon.
Here are on-the-spot reports
from UPI correspondents on
how the election seems to be
going in each of these counties:
Coos County, New Hampshire
Looks fairly safe for Richard
M. Nixon. A straw poll
conducted by the Manchester
union leader showed Nixon with
a 2-1 lead over Humphrey in the
final week of the campaign,
chairman William Craig claims
that Humphrey is making a
strong late surge and “it’s
getting closer and closer all the
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Speaking forcefully, Wallace
finds an increasing number
of listeners.
By United Press International
Richard M. Nixon says
Hubert H. Humphrey wants
next week’s presidential election
to be thrown into the House so
the vice president can “wheel
and deal” his way into the
White House. Humphrey ex
pressed confidence he will beat
Nixon.
Nixon challenged the Demo
cratic nominee Wednesday to
support whichever candidate
gets the biggest popular vote if
no one gets an electoral vote
majority and the election goes
to the House.
Predicting a winning margin
of 3 to 5 million votes, Nixon
said, “I stand ready to pledge
to support for president the
man who receives the most
votes for that office, whoever
that man may be. I called upon
Hubert Humphrey to join with
me in making this pledge.”
Harking to the possibility that
the three-way race may result
in none of the candidates
getting enough electoral votes
to win outright, Nixon said:
“If Hubert Humphrey is to
enter the White House, it would
have to be through the back
door—through the help of a
third party to divide the
majority. I stand ready right
now to abide by the decision of
the American people.”
A top Humphrey campaign
aide meanwhile said Humphrey
was on the way to victory and it
appeared unlikely the election
would have to be decided in
Congress.
Humphrey himself said in
Baltimore that he was “abso
lutely sure” he would win the
election if loyal supporters keep
working as they have in recent
days.
Earlier, in New York City,
Humphrey campaigned in the
garment district and other
areas, confidently proclaiming
the tide had turned in his favor.
In other developments:
George C. Wallace—The for
mer Alabama governor’s third
party campaign met new
heckling Wednesday night in
Philadelphia. There were no
fights, as there were the night
before in Detroit, but Wallace
supporters and hecklers ex
changed angry shouts during his
appearance at a one-third filled
Spectrum Sports Arena.
Spiro T. Agnew—Agnew, also
faced with hecklers, shouted
down peace demonstrators in
St. Petersburg, Fla. Wednesday
night. Throwing away a pre
pared speech on Social Security,
the GOP vice presidential
candidate charged the Johnson-
Humphrey administration with
“encouraging this kind of
dissent” as 100 hecklers badg
ered him.
Curtis E. LeMay—Wallace’s
running mate accused the news
media of distorting his views on
nuclear weapons, saying be did
not advocate their use in
Vietnam. He said he saw "no
use” in the employment of
nuclear weapons there and said
the media were trying to
transform him into a "mon-
time.”
Strafford County
New Hampshire
“Nixon right now would carry
Strafford, but it would be
mighty darn close,” says Wayne
Chick, an astute political
reporter who covers the county
for Foster’s Dally Democrat In
Dover, N.H. A sidewalk poll
conducted Wednesday in Straf
ford’s principal city, Rochester,
showed Nixon and Humphrey
running neck and neck.
Palo Alto County, lowa
Most political observers rate
Nixon slightly ahead, but add
that it looks like a close contest.
Humphrey has gained ground in
the past 10 days, picking up
support from some supporters
of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy
ster.”
Edmund S. Muskie—Muskie,
speaking to about 2,500 suppor
ters in a 10,000-seat arena in
Lexington, Ky., accused Nixon
of making the same charges
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who previously had boycotted
the campaign. A straw poll
conducted this week by the
Emmetsburg Democrat-Repor
ter gave Nixon 47.9 per cent,
Humphrey 46.2 per cent, George
C. Wallace 5.9 per cent of the
vote in the county.
Republican County Chairman
John Doran admits “slippage”
in Nixon strength. “The pres
idential race now looks pretty
close, with Humphrey picking
up in the last couple of weeks,”
says Doran. “Nixon still has a
small lead, but not like it was
before.”
Laramie County, Wyoming
Republican Chairman Ed
Morrison claims Nixon will
carry the county easily. But
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against Humphrey that he made
against John F. Kennedy in
1960. “The country knew
Richard Nixon in 1960,” Muskie
said “and he hasn't changed a
bit.”
Democratic chairman Larry
Schleck Insists that “it’s going
to be close.” Schleck contends
Humphrey will carry the county
"if we get out a large vote."
Crook county, Oregon
Ron Bessonette, editor of the
county’s weekly newspaper, the
Central Oregonian, sees Nixon
winning “pretty strongly but
no landslide.” He thinks Hum
phrey has lately made some
Inroads on Nixon’s strength, but
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"It would be a real upset If
Humphrey won.”
Every election year, a mock
balloting is held at the high
school in Prineville, the county
seat. Over the years, returns
from the student voting have
proved an excellent barometer
of how the county’s adults will
vote. This year, Prineville high
cast 238 votes for Nixon, 147 for
Humphrey, 34 for George C.
Wallace.