NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES

Gerde, Jerry

MCCARTHY KILLED ON convention floor Apparent Assassin Escapes in Turmoil Following Gunshots. Unruh Blames "Turn-the-Other-Cheek" Methods of Mayor Daley and Chicago Police. Chicago, Aug....

...The New Left admits that it cannot take over now, but it hopes to expose the "fascist" nature of our society, causing discontent to build up for an eventual takeover...
...These are the questions, but my prediction is that the FBI and CIA are not going to allow us to get the answers...
...Violence provokes violence...
...The probability of a Humphrey victory, to be wrought from the paradoxical elements of the Southern electorate, seems very real...
...Steadily, since 1941, Northerners have been appearing in growing encampments around the numerous military bases and newly-founded industrial complexes sprinkled throughout the Southland...
...And never again would the fair democracy threaten contemplative man with the swineocracy of George Wallace — for it would no longer be a democracy...
...How such an evolution would improve our stay on this globe of travail...
...this is now a sizable portion of the voters, amount— Continued on Page 9 NOTES FROM THE PROVINCES by Jerky Gerde Page 3 CIA Continued from Page 8 San Diego, is the apostle of the New Left in Europe...
...Threats of violence provoke threats of violence...
...The roots of the conspiracy run so deep that I do not have space to do more than touch upon them here...
...Horror — varying in degree according to the intensity of one's commitment to our republican form of government — grips the intellect and emotions of many responsible Southerners when viewing the forthcoming election...
...I shall treat this subject more extensively in a forthcoming expose from Grove Press...
...Run...
...Run...
...What is not known is that the old fox seems to have turned reactionary in his old age and has sold out to The Establishment...
...Asked to comment on the rioting, bloodshed, looting and arson that formed the background of the assassination, Prof...
...Warner Matson of MIT, noted authority on mob psychology, stated to the Associated Press: "What did the Chicago police expect when they turned the downtown streets over to the New Left operators, and let them assemble a mob and march toward the International Amphitheatre by way of the ghetto...
...Carrying a gun is an act or at least a threat of violence...
...In short and in sum, we see Wallace receiving thirty to thirty-five per cent of the vote, and Nixon accounting for a similar thirty to thirty-five per cent of the total...
...INCITES ry George Nathan Ever since the 1823 founding of the "Society for Distressed and Decayed Harbor Pilots," Americans have organized and participated in the most idiotic orders and clubs...
...How else could De Gaulle have won his last election so easily...
...Once again the pattern is repeated," he stated...
...It is also generally agreed that Hubert Humphrey will not carry any of the Southern states...
...I couldn't pay him too much notice because we were so short-handed on account of we had to send most of the convention guards to help in the trouble over in the black section that started when those Yippiepeaceniks marched there from Grant Park...
...Mark Lane, well known for his exposure of the holes in the Warren Commission report, was asked to comment...
...He waved what looked like a delegate's credential," testified a guard assigned to Gate 9, "so I naturally let him through...
...The guns of the campus police are instruments of fatal violence...
...See Dick run...
...Goldwater in 1964...
...Mr...
...We are worried about the atmosphere of violence on this campus...
...There are also the "Party" Democrats, today generally moderate on most issues, who will support the party ticket and Hubert Humphrey simply because they are accustomed to, and often depend on, the local monolithic Democratic Party structure...
...We are worried about the possibility of fatal violence on this campus...
...What it will do is put authoritarian demagogues on our necks for years to come, because the people could be driven to desperation by the violence loosed upon them...
...We think it is dangerous to live in a garrison university...
...NOTES Continued from Page 3 ing, for example, in our county to approximately 25 per cent of the total vote...
...Shapiro and the President are no less at fault for their refusal to call up the National Guard and enough federal troops to ensure that adequate means would be at hand to deal with the disorders which all informed observers knew were certain to be attempted in both the streets and the convention hall...
...How did it happen that it was the Texas delegation — repeat, Texas — that suddenly started the stretch drive for Senator McCarthy's rival...
...The Wallace candidacy, then, with its almost chimerical appeal to a long-frustrated middle-class citizenry, shall effectively enable the Minnesota Hustler to carry the bulk of the South...
...this element is comprised of re-located Yankees...
...You've got to stop an operation of that kind before it swells to a tidal wave...
...And I am not going to have anyone accuse Chicago of trying to turn a party convention into a concentration camp.' But Gov...
...THE NATIONAL MOBILIZATION FRONT TO IMMOBILIZE THE REPUBLIC STUDENT NON-VIOLENT GENOCIDAL COMMITTEE FRIENDS SOCIETY OF CICERO, ILLINOIS THE BOUND AND UNITED LEAGUE OF INDIVIDUALISTS NEW YORK CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Page 9...
...Down here, George Wallace is generally conceded the states of Alabama and Mississippi...
...WALLACE Continued from Page 5 make any decision whatsoever binding on their fellows...
...Shapiro and President Johnson must bear the moral responsibility...
...Our horror arises from the growing conviction that Hubert Humphrey will receive a plurality of the popular vote in every Southern state (other than Alabama and Mississippi), including bellwether states such as Florida, Texas and Virginia...
...Our apprehension is based in part on the Wallace support that approaches unanimity among the less sophisticated — and large — element of our electorate...
...It has become truistic that Humphrey will receive essentially a block vote from the colored electorate...
...Run...
...Today their mania is for ridiculous committees, and here I offer gratis, possible names for committees and clubs as yet unborn — at least until now...
...our apprehension is further based on the broad acceptance of the Wallace candidacy by the substantial portion of the somewhat more responsible sector of the local electorate...
...Run, Dick, run...
...His work has taken him on extensive travels through the South where his keen political eye was always open...
...The awful consequence reflects Humphrey carrying thirty to forty per cent of the electorate in the States across the South...
...In our own Bay County, Florida, for example, the 230 scientists and technicians working at the U. S. Navy Mine Defense Laboratory form a noticeably articulate segment of our community...
...The questions that urgently require investigation are, obviously: Who ordered Mayor Daby and his police to let agitators and criminals run loose in Chicago during convention week, after what happened in Dallas, Memphis, and Los Angeles...
...He must have had the gun wrapped up in the newspaper he was carrying...
...What do the Chicago police think they are being paid for...
...The international business interests here have teamed up with the German cartels and with De Gaulle to do the same to the students in Europe that they are doing here...
...The Mayor does so for his unrealistic decision against tight security measures for convention week, because according to his statement on 'Face the Nation' last week, 'I trust the good will of all our citizens, young and old, black and white, if they are given the chance to express their opinions freely...
...After journeying to your favorite pub for a cheap domestic pilsener, you would never again suffer the assaults of some slobbering barroom gargoyle intent on enlightening you to the cosmic significance of the Cubs, Norman Podhoretz or rabbit hunting...
...They would abjure from favoring Communism over sadism, Glenn Miller over the Beatles, caviar over peanut butter and jelly, or psychology over phrenology...
...In an editorial prepared for this morning's ediJerry Gerde, an alumnus of the Saturday Evening Club, is a leading young lawyer in Bay County, Florida...
...Finally, a third element — present now in every Southern state — will support Humphrey and the national Democratic ticket...
...29 The inconspicuous, sandyhaired man of medium height who, according to dozens of nearby witnesses, fired two shots in rapid succession from a sawed-off shotgun, got to the convention floor by posing as an alternate in the huge New York delegation...
...Indeed they would admit themselves virginally inadequate of holding any opinion on anything, no matter how elementary...
...POETRY One would never imagine which of the elements on campus distributed the following...
...Reprinted from the NATIONAL REVIEW BULLETIN by special permission of NATIONAL REVIEW...
...Further agreement finds Richard Nixon running well, but not as well as Barry tion, the New York Times declares: "Whatever the detailed facts about this new tragedy, Mayor Daley, Gov...

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