The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1968 Page: 3 of 12
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THE ASPERMONT STAR
Aspermont, Texas Thursday, August 22, 1968
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AUSTIN, — Texas Demo-
cratic party politics are in
the national spotlight again —
this time at Chicago during
the national Demo convention.
Hearings were scheduled
Wednesday (Aug. 21) before
the convention credentials
committee on a liberal group's
demand that the Texas dele-
gation lorl by Gov. John Con-
nolly bo reconstituted to in-
sure proportional represen-
tation of ethnic groups.
Texas Democrats for An
Open Convention also asked
for scrapping of the unit rule
under which all the state's
delegates are bound to vote as
the majority determines. Dele-
gates were instructed at the
state convention in Dallas
June 11 to vote for Connally
as favorite son candidate for
president until he releases
them. After release, all 104
votes under unit rule probably
will go to Hubert Humphrey.
TDOC, in a brief filed with
the credentials commit tcce, de-
mands 50 seats 18 per cent
of the delegation. Pi-op artional
representation is asked for
Negroes, Mexican- American
and non-conservative loyal
Democrats who have always
: 'imported the party. Delegation
n >w includes ;;ix Negro dele-
gates and 11 alternates and
five Mexican-American dele-
gates and five alternates, but
TDOC claim ; they are "un-
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Phone 2741 Aspermont, Texas
representative of their com-
munities."
Most active TDOC members
are supporters of Sen. Eugene
McCarthy for president. Mc-
Carthy backers also have filed
challenges in Alabama, Con-
necticut, Indiana, Louisiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, North
Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsyl-
vania, Tennsessee, Georgia and
Washington.
Decision of the committee
will not be known until next
week, and challenges likely
will go to the convention floor.
Connally forces maintain the
Texas delegation is represen-
tative and was selected at a
fair state convention which
they controlled 2,835 votes to
499.
T E X A 8 REPUBLICAN
PARTY POLITICS — Despite
the fact that only two Repub-
lican presidential nominees
have < er carried Texas, Rich-
ard Nixon's ch inces appear to
i -• a high a 50-59 depend-
ing largely on 'iom the Demo-
crats nominate.
first sucx.es- ful Republican
in Texas was Herbert Hoover
in 1928, ca:vying the state by
367,000 voles t 341,000.
Dwight Eisenhower was the
only other GOPer to win a
majority of Tea: as. in 1952
and 1956.
Ilowever, MiCi'e are several
factors which could shake up
Texas' habit o' g ;in~ with the
Democrat. One i; the f.,c:. that,
in 1960, Nixon missed r-i.ig
the state by a slim 46,000 voles
and with T.yndon Johnson
the Den r.ratic vice-presi-
dent ial nominee.
■Anri - ivK'o Hubert Humphrey
almost ccrtain to be the
'• ati - it.mince Js
kaown as brin" even more
;-rn! in John F. Kenned/
a.' I J-hn .on,
'csa ■' tradi-
candidacy. as an r gtromc
right-winger, Wallace will
probably draw considerably
more votes away from Nixon
than from Humphrey, and
some estimates of Wallace's
vote are as high as 50 per
cent in West and Ejs- . Texas
and 30 percent in Central Tex-
as.
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'nic ince Ni ion picked Mary-
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the two appear to bi> runnin ;
a "law and order campaign"
to oflse! the influence of
American Party Candidate
George? Wallace.
Also of course, Nixon will
have the challenger's .advant-
age of being able to attack the
incumbent administration on
touchy issues in this ca c,
the ■ ,11* i;i Vietnam, the mone-
tary cri ,i • and the racial situ-
ation in big citie -.
' >:i the "the:' '.'and, Humph-
rey wil! h o 11 pj isse;-, a
!'.i- o.Iumn when Texans go 1>
vote in No\- ■ nber. On-1 could
be his vice-presidential pick,
who many people think Gover-
nor Connally has a good shot
at.
Another will be Wallace's
The top thrill rid® of the l!'d8 State fair of lexas,
Oct. 5-20 in Dallas, won't be on the Midway. It will be
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Rale, and
you can see it at 11 Stnfe Fair Itorse Show perf u mances
in the Livestock Coli.?•.aim during the i..n's tirst nine
days. The MounticS — w( ardig dress sc . let, carrying
lan'cs, riding rrcO'died h ■ !c h-«i '-s t. •* a,rh complex
maneuvers — will i ' ' > .o i;--.ne ox tht-lr triumphant
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The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1968, newspaper, August 22, 1968; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200430/m1/3/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.