& WhereDo We GoFrom Here?Where Do We Go From Here?By Roger BlackIT HAS BEEN a long time since LyndonJohnson announced he would not run forPresident, and yet it has been no timeat all.We all rushed into the streets that night(April fool’s eve), not knowing that in fourdays Martin Luther King would die a mar¬tyr’s death, knowing even less that in JuneRobert Kennedy would lie dead as well.No, we danced and sang that night. GeneMcCarthy had brought out in the peopletheir outrage at the war in Vietnam, theirrefusal to accept violence as the basis forAmerican policy there and at home.He had brought Johnson to the realiza¬tion that as the main proponent of thepolicy, he, too, was unacceptable, that hecould not again win. And so Johnson with¬drew, and came on television with thatsame sad rueful face and said he wouldnot seek nor accept the nomination of theparty.There were some of course who put twoand two together and said immediatelythat it would be a Humphrey-Nixon race.But the idea was impossible, as impossibleas, say, the idea that Barry Goldwaterannouncing in January 1964 that he wouldbe the nominee of his party. It was im¬possible, it seemed, with the country be¬ginning in New Hampshire to move againstthe war, with the movement toward a newkind of politics beginning there, that therewould be no choice on the war inNovember.And so we plunged into Wisconsin andIndiana and Oregon and California. Eightypercent of the voters in those primarieswanted a choice and a change. With eachprimary the media expressed their sur¬prise that McCarthy was still in the race;this continual surprise was their first cluethat the McCarthy campaign was different,that it was the beginning of a new kindof politics, a politics that would not actthe same way.It didn’t seem very new last Wednesdaynight. It didn’t seem very different. Therewas Pennsylvania, hardly able to containitself because it thought it was going tocast the de'ciding vote for Hubert Hum¬phrey, “the next President.” There wereall the HHH signs around the hall, myster¬iously cropping up when the “Stop theWar” signs had to be smuggled in, silk-screened on copies of the New York Times,all the Humphrey signs bearing some leg¬end to the effect that their man couldbring the country back together, carriedand waved by people wearing Mondaynight credentials, all the Humphrey peo¬ple crowding the floor, when Mayor Daleyhad stomped indignantly to the back ofthe curtain on sighting some McCarthysigns in the balcony.“This convention is held for the Demo¬cratic Party and not for anyone in anybalcony trying to take over the conven¬tion,” Daley shouted Tuesday night. “Theyare guests of the convention, and if theycan’t act like that then clear the galler¬ies.” “Guests, hell,” someone said in 1940.“We’re the people.”We’re the people. Sprawled out on Bal-bo Street, blood pouring from our scalps,dragged on the pavement to the paddywagon, beaten until we climb into it near¬ly insensate, sensing only that our brothersare dying in Vietnam, that our blackbrothers are dying in America. No, weweren’t dancing in the streets Wednesdaynight.Cover photo by John Tweedle, cour¬tesy Chicago Daily News. The Politics ofHappiness,The Politics of JoyThe one unalterable fact of the conven¬tion is that the war will continue. (TheRepublicans, among the plastic palm treesand concrete beaches in Miami, had takenthat for their part as a foregone con¬clusion.) But the final decision was notmade, as many thought, at the platformroll call Wednesday afternoon. It wasmade some time ago in Lyndon Johnson’smind, when he decided to continue thebombing, when he decided that gettingweekly peace talks going in Paris wasenough of a gesture toward peace. Hestated his position and then stayed there.Had Johnson instead established a generaltrend toward peace, Humphrey, knowingthe mood of the country, would have ex¬tended it. But he could never repudiateJohnson without repudiating himself. Andit seemed to all the other party men thatregardless of the mood of the country theycouldn’t throw out the party leader (Hum¬phrey, as the stand-in LBJ) without puttingthemselves in the jeopardy of being asked,well why did you put him in in the firstplace?The logic of the dilemma is clear toDemocrats, though it was not essentialfor most of the party beneficiaries to un¬derstand it before they got behind Hum¬phrey. Liberal Democrats were astoundedand repelled at the way Daley runs thistown. Abe Ribicoff attacks the police-stateatmosphere and Francis Lorenz, a Daleyman, laughs stupidly twenty feet in frontof him. Francis Lorenz does not readopinion polls. He does not think very muchabout “the mood of the people.” He looksat Daley (who, incidentally, was not laugh¬ing, in fact before he became angry, wasalmost at the point of tears, hearing hiscity, his city, maligned). But Lorenz is abig man in the party. There are lots of2 THE CHICAGO MAROON August 30, 1968,0,1 MS>;vM’.'av'.* S ycUrJJark Stmts mmHUMPHREY S PLASH ON VIETNAM IS ADOPTEDAS THE DEMOCRATS MOVE TO NOMINATE HIM < W Chicago’s AMERICAN ££Hubert May Choose Muskie;Threats of New Violence Mayor Daley convention's big 'casually'’w’ w*"' •" 4CHICAGO DAILY NEWS ini.-: r.]II. <1I l«»l.HHH faces shamblesDissident delegates plan marchpeople in the machine who do nothing with¬out looking at Daley, or without tryingto imagine what he would think. And theyare simply more frank, more crude, per¬haps, in their expression of party loyalty.They are a bare representation of the waythe whole party works. Promises Made,Promises KeptOne delegate interviewed on TV Wed¬nesday night said that the Democratic par¬ty had lost its soul. But the question isnot one of soul but one of mind. OnceJohnson had set the policy of the countryon the war (“We want peace, but we’llonly go so far to get it.”), all the aider-men, and committeemen, and assembly-men, and state legislators agreed with it.Not because it was intelligent, not becauseit was the best policy. But because theparty line. The party doesn’t mean ideas.It doesn’t mean issues. It doesn’t meanthe will of the people. It means power.And it means jobs for the faithful.The dilemma that the party had gottenitself into was a dilemma it created itself.The party, theoretically, could have ex¬ploded all of this. They could have simplysaid that the People did not want the warand we are the Party of the People. Theycould have let the Republicans defend thewar. And they could have thrown out thesham issue of “law and order” or “crime-in-the-streets”, which of course is just adisguise for “keep the niggers in theirplace”.Theoretically they could have suddenlybecome an issues-oriented party, but thethe whole, white upper-middle classstructure was too strong. In Miami it wasthe mentality of the Republicans that pre¬cluded the options for their platform. Itwas the same sense of party, the sameunderstanding of power that precluded thechoices of their nominee. The Democraticparty is bigger and broader. But it worksthe same way.August 30, 1968 THE CHICAGO MAROON 3A Party with a MindThe result of all this is that there is alarge segment of the population that hasbeen disregarded by both parties, in thewriting of their platforms and in the choiceof their candidates.The radicals (or at least the leaders whohave come to Chicago) have been busted.The clean Gene kids are wandering aroundin bitter confusion. People like Don Peter¬son, the leader of the Wisconsin delegationand the most eloquent delegate on thefloor of the convention, are reduced toholding vigils and silent marches that thepolice stop.Humphrey had the chance to make acompromise on the Vietnam plank, buthe, or Johnson, chose not to (“Extrem¬ism in the defense of liberty.And so we are left with a Humphrey-Nixon race, as one of the last and bestMcCarthy ads said, “Not exactly a con¬test of titans, is it?”And the question now is what do we dofor the next two months? Some, undoubt¬edly, will retire and attempt to becomenormal citizens, watching the campaignon TV, lying on a couch, perhaps with at can of beer.Most of the radicals will go on as theyhave, trying to acclimate the country tothe idea of peace. So far they have donevery well. But peace has been ruled out asan issue in the campaign. Law and order(read race) is the issue; Hippies, yippies,demonstrators, grass smokers — (read“youth”) are the issues.And the campaign will be determined bywhoever deplores crime the loudest, whocan blast sideburns and beards with themost vehemence, and who can exude the most pious encomiums of law and order.The person likely to do that the best isNixon.The Humphrey people at this point riseup and ask, as one man, “You don’t wantthat, do you?!!!”No, we don’t. But neither do we want tomake it the practice to endorse men whosepolicies have been so disastrous for thecountry.Working within the Democratic party forHumphrey would only help perpetuatethose policies.The party reformers have been able tochange the nature of the party somewhat;but it is too late to affect his election bychanges in the two regular parties. Andwhile it is possible that the parties maycome around to something like a one-man,one-vote system, until there are primariesin all states, until the national conven¬tions are done away with, the same oldpolitics will persist.When Mayor Daley came into the Am¬phitheatre last night, he had arranged asham demonstration to surround himselfwith cheers and American flags and “WeLove Daley” signs.With that final touch, the mayor becamethe perfect personification of the old pol¬itics, the machine, the closed convention.He has managed to touch off a rebellionwithin the party. People are rebelling, notsimply because they are bitter that theircandidate lost the nomination, but becauseboth parties have pushed themselves awayfrom the issues.The course for those caught betweenHumphrey and Nixon is not easy, but itis clear: and that is to start now to buildA n ft t n a /i a lr a h a A AT on iiioo i* •»,' MmBlack armbands are donned by Southe defeat of a peace plank propParty platform.a new kind of party, a party not foundedon personal power and patronage, but onthe issues, a party with a mind, a partythat can recognize the emergency situa¬tion in our cities, a party that can under¬stand that violence must not be the basisof all our policies.The Daleys are too well entrenched inthe Democratic party for anyone to ex¬pect a very rapid change toward this kindof party within the old one. The Daleys tendto perpetuate themselves. The alternativethat must be begun now, is a new party.If McCarthy will run on a fourth partyticket, the new party could make a fairlystrong showing this November. MarcusRaskin’s Committee for the Formation ofa New Party is now on the ballot in 15states, and could be put on the ballots ofabout six more. Combined with a write-incampaign, the new party could make avery significant start across the country.And the start must be made. The gov¬ernments and institutions in America arebecoming too stagnent to face the crisisthe nation is reaching. The political par¬ties are symptomatic of this. But in fouryears we may not be able to afford to letthe same old parties in the same old waydecide our future.SUMMERHUMPHREY’STHE MAN! 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