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— Griffin Daily News Monday, July 10,1972
Page 12
Bond tries to strip
Mrs. Chisholm of votes
By ED ROGERS
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-The
Hack leader of Sen. George Mc-
Govern’s supporters on the
Georgia delegation to the Demo
cratic National Convention is
trying to strip black congress
woman Shirley Chisholm of her
Georgia votes.
Julian Bond accuses the New
York representative of joining a
move to “steal” 153 votes Mc-
Govern won in the California
primary and of forming an “un
holy alliance with the bossed and
the bosses” to prevent McGov
ern from winning the Democrat
ic presidential nomination.
Bond predicted Mrs. Chisholm
might lose her five votes on the
Georgia delegation as a result
of her part in the “Stop Mc-
Govern” movement. The Geor
gia state representative says
McGovern will be a “natural
heir” to these votes, putting
him well ahead of any other
presidential candidate on the
Georgiadelegation. Bond claims
McGovern now has 15% Geor
gia votes.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey appar
ently is next with eight votes
and Alabama Gov. George C.
Wallace has five with a possible
extra half-vote. Sen. Henry
Jackson of Washington has one
committed vote. The other
Georgia votes are uncommitted.
58 Macon firemen
call in sick Sunday
MACON, Ga. (UPI) - Fifty
eight Macon firemen called in
sick Sunday in a continuing dis
pute over pay, and Mayor Ron
nie Thompson asked for auth
orities to begin hiring firemen
to replace 26 he has already
fired or suspended.
Thompson asked the Macon
city attorney to draft the neces
sary ordinance or resolution so
he could begin seeking replace
ments for the men he has fired.
The firemen are staying out
sick in protest to a wage hike
given policemen. The hike puts
the policemen one pay grade
over the firemen.
Macon fire stations were man-
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Gov. Jimmy Carter is be
lieved to control 10% votes, but
he has given few hints as to his
top choice for the nomination.
He was, however, one of the
first Southern protesters of Mc-
Govern’s “radicalism.”
Whether Carter has changed
his mind is uncertain. He said
over the weekend that McGov
ern gained more understanding
of Southern views during a re
cent quick visit to parts of
Dixie and “I think he has tak
en a substantial change of atti
tude on many issues.”
A compromise voting plan for
the Georgia delegation has been
reached and seems certain of ap
proval on the convention floor
tonight.
The plan increases the num
ber of at-large delegates from
13 to 14, but reduces them to
one-half vote each to make
room for four more full-vote
delegates—two of which were
added from the Ist District and
one each from the 4th and sth
districts.
Bond says the compromise
will cost McGovern at least two
votes and possibly more on the
delegation, but he said the “in
tangibles outweigh the votes.”
Bond explained that he wanted
to avoid making antagonists who
might oppose McGovern in the
California fight.
ned Sunday by a mixture of off
duty policemen and firemen.
At a city council meeting,
three members asked Thomp
son to meet with the firemen
who called in sick in an effort
to settle the dispute. Thompson
refused, however, saying that
asking for such a meeting would
put the city in the position of
“crawling and begging.”
“These men have abandoned
the public which pays their sal
aries and they have chosen to
disobey executive orders,” said
the mayor. “I don’t think the
public expects us to go crawling
to them under such circum
stances.”
The International Association
of Fire Fighters
suit in superior court of Bibb
County Friday in an effort to
block the police pay hike.
Sunday the wives of the fire
men picketed city hall carrying
signs calling for a pay raise for
their husbands and a restoration
of jobs for those men already
fired.
Thompson said the primary
objective of the court suit and
a reason behind the pay dispute
is an effort by the firemen’s
union to get the city to recog
nize them as the bargaining
agent for the firemen.
Union President Tony Cald
well issued a statement Sunday
saying those non-working fire
men would respond to a major
fire in order to protect the pub
lic interest.
Muskie
He could become kingmaker
By STEVE GERSTEL
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-Ed
mund S. Muskie, once almost
king, could become the kingma
ker at the Democratic National
Convention.
The man he might crown is
George S. McGovern.
Sometime today Muskie must
make a decision. It could be the
turning point at the convention.
Muskie has promised to
decide before nightfall whether
he backs McGovern’s claim to
271 delegate votes from Califor
nia, or whether he will merge
into the “stop McGovern”
movement.
Muskie’s decision could be
pivotal for McGovern’s chances
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of winning the nomination. The
vote is expected to be
extremely close, and Muskie
might be able to swing 200-300
votes.
“My delegation is less
controllable than those of any
other candidate,” Muskie says
of his ability to give or deny
McGovern votes. “I have
delegates who lean toward Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey and
delegates who lean toward Sen.
McGovern.
“I cannot presume that I can
lead them all in one direction
or another,” he idded. “I speak
for myself.”
The kind of a lift Muskie
could provide has in other
years led to rewards, including
the vice presidential nomina
tion. But Muskie seems less
than eager to run a second time
as second man and McGovern
has given no indication that
Muskie is on his list of
possibilities. ,
Despite the tarnish of prima
ry defeats, Muskie has a
reservoir of support among
many key people, including
governors, who are waiting for
him to take the lead in the
credentials fight—a potential
bloodletting which could make
the nomination worthless.
Among those pressuring Mus
kie to side with McGovern on
the California credentials chal-
lenge were Govs. John Gilligan
of Ohio and Frank Licht of
Rhode Island.
Over breakfast Sunday, after
attending Mass, the two gover
nors who endorsed Muskie
early in the campaign suggest
ed that he back a proposal
which would seat McGovern’s
271 delegates from California
and Mayor Richard J. Daley’s
59 from Chicago.
Muskie was noncommittal,
promising only a decision
today. Gilligan was reported as
encouraged.
Muskie is under intense
pressure. Humphrey called him
“solid as a rock” against
McGovern on the credentials
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fight. McGovern called him two
days ago and asked that he
meditate on the fairness of
taking away votes after Califor-
nia’s winner-take-all primary.
Should Muskie throw his
influence and the votes of his
delegates behind McGovern’s 1
California delegation, it could
be the edge the South Dakota
senator needs to win that ,
critical battle.
At the same time, should
Muskie finally decide against
McGovern, the decision could
deny McGovern 151 of Califor
nia’s 271 votes.
It is a strange position for
Muskie. Only four months ago '
he was the front-runner and an
almost prohibitive favorite for
the nomination, and McGovern
was a little-known, lightly
regarded fringe candidate from
the Democratic left.
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