Word: bossism
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...Bossism & Boll Weevil!" The Democratic leadership knew that its only chance to beat Goodell's scheme was to win over or at least neutralize Southern Democrats, who had never much liked OEO and who could now, as a result of the riots, find a good excuse for voting their distaste. How could they be pried loose from the Republicans? The Administration forces decided that some "dramatic change" would be needed in the program itself...
With all this going on beneath the surface, the campaign itself is dully predictable. The usual charges of bossism against the Democrats have been made by the city liberals, FDR Jr., and the Republicans. But the course of the state party conventions reduced them to absurdity: while the Republican, Liberal, and Conservative conventions went docilely through the motions of nominating the unpopular and unknown candidates their party bosses had long since chosen, the Democrats got into a real fight over the Lieutenant-Governorship. They ended up nominating the genuinely attractive Howard Samuels, who was the original choice of none...
...prospering electorate. The politicians got the word soon after Gustavo Diaz Ordaz' inauguration as President last December. A stern moralist ap palled by mismanagement and corruption in the government, Diaz picked eloquent, hard-driving Carlos Madrazo, 49, to head P.R.I. and rid it of crookedness and caciquismo (bossism...
...promise" includes the assistance he gave Senator Joe McCarthy as counsel. Kennedy's legislative record might show "promise"; it does not show achievement. His pledge to reform away the bosses who handed him the Senatorial nomination portends "promise" but little action, especially considering how ineffectually his family has combated bossism and corruption in Massachusetts...
...mention Kennedy's intemperate pursuit of James Hoffa, and his sponsorship (now withdrawn) of a distasteful wiretapping bill: are these actions consonant with excellence? You gloss over his involvement with the New York City bosses: many other observers, however, have been very disappointed that no outright repudiation of bossism has been made. This situation smacks more of expediency than excellence. You state that "In no way has he (Kennedy) reneged... on his promise (to fight for reform)." Not reneging is no way to fight for reform. The positive action needed has not been forthcoming...