Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this day, the gut issues are discussed. Woody Jenkins of Louisiana reminds the audience of the four great American protections: "the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box. If you ever lose the cartridge box, the other three won't mean a thing." He recalls that the Japanese decided not to invade the West Coast in World War II because they knew the futility of doing battle with an armed citizenry...
...Illinois delegation, Harold Wilber, a real estate subdivider. Wilber fills me in on the split in the Illinois movement between the American Independent and the American Independence Parties. Both are here together today, however, even though their combined petitions are not enough to get a candidate on the Illinois ballot. Wilber looks forward to a court ruling on a ballot suit brought by Gene McCarthy and hopes the decision will help them too. Later in the week, a decision is handed down in favor of McCarthy but does not apply directly to the AIP. Nonetheless, Illinois delegates and others have...
...McCarthy's campaign has been mostly a struggle merely to get on the ballot in various states. About a dozen top-flight activists have collected nearly 500,000 signatures and have all but qualified McCarthy on 25 state ballots. McCarthy's lawyers expect to win challenges to election laws in seven states that bar independent presidential candidacies. They have already won legal battles in five other states that have prohibition statutes. By election time, McCarthy hopes to be on between 42 and 47 state ballots (the most troublesome are Arkansas, Georgia and North Carolina...
Four Boxes. Still, the two movements found more than enough to agree upon. One keynote speaker suggested that America's freedoms rest on four "boxes": the soapbox, the jury box, the ballot box and, most important, the cartridge box. The platform opposed drugs, gun control, busing, welfare, ERA, Washington, the United Nations and Communism, and endorsed police enforcement, America First and the family...
Maddox won on the first ballot-a victory that bitterly disappointed the intellectual faction. It also stirred talk among them to try to form yet another party, one divorced from Maddox and his segregationist image...