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...Hampshire would improve, the past two weeks have shown that little remains now. Close to 85 per cent of the electorate turned out to give reactionary Governor Wesley Powell the greatest margin he has ever received, and while the feud between Powell and previously elected Attorney-General Louis Wyman might induce the stalwart investigator to resign, Wyman will probably return to continue his persecution of dissent. And to furnish a further indication that this atmosphere will not change, the Attorney-General's chief target, pacifist Willard Uphaus, failed last week to obtain review of his latest appeal to the Supreme...
...unjustness with which the state investigated Uphaus is manifest. After the legislature made Wyman a one-man committee to inquire into subversion in 1953, the Attorney-General demanded that the New Haven minister hand over the names of guests who visited the summer camp where he directed conferences on peace. Uphaus refused, and in 1956 the state Superior Court cited him for civil contempt by a close 3-2 decision, with a minority which objected that "on a record such as this so slim a semblance of pertinency is not enough to justify inquisition violative of the First Amendment...
...series of appeals ensued, in which Wyman's view of liberty became blatantly clear, as in his statement to the Supreme Court that "those who knowingly and voluntarily appear with, consult with, confer with, attend functions with and otherwise act in concert with communists or former communists in America cannot possibly have any reasonable right of privacy in regard to such activities...
...again this year in a pair of battles that have left no trace of harmony in the party. With the backing of the vituperative, reactionary Loeb newspapers, he is trying to usurp complete control of the party and the Executive Department. He is feuding bitterly with Attorney General Louis Wyman and the 450-member Republican legislature and has even alienated the national party. In the primary last March he demanded that he be Nixon's campaign manager, then said Kennedy was "soft on communism," and did not back down when Nixon repudiated the charge...
...issue that this election will affect immediately is the Willard Uphaus case. Wyman has indicated that he may reopen investigations of the New Haven pacifist who was jailed for refusing to divulge names of people who attended his summer conferences in North Conway. Boutin does not think Uphaus's conviction was unjust, but says that the Subversion Act under which Wyman operated "isn't a good law."; Boutin's backers will probably influence him to forget the case. Uphaus may return unharassed to New Haven if Boutin wins on Tuesday, but there won't be a revolution in New Hampshire...