Dublin Core
Title
Young Republicans, 1968-1969, p. 19.
Subject
The Activities of the Mary Washington College Young Republicans Club
Creator
MWC Young Republicans (1968-1969)
Source
Special Collections, Simpson Library, The University of Mary Washington
Publisher
History 428: Adventures in Digital History, 2014
Date
No date.
Format
JPEG
Language
English
Type
Scrapbook
Identifier
MWC Young Republicans 1967-1968
Coverage
1968-1969
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Transcription
Item 1: U. Va. Workshop / attended by / MWC Y.R.’s
Item 2: “Work is a many splendid thing” / “Joe” / “Yes” / “Isn’t there something wrong with the first / word?” / “Well, Republicans aren’t omniscient!” / “Oh, really.”
Article 1: GOP Calls Young Generation Most Misconstrued in History / By Tom Luce / Times-Dispatch News Bureau / CHARLOTTESVILLE / Young people between 21 and 30 are the “most misjudged and misconstrued generation in history,” the chairman of the National Young Republican Federation said here last night. / Jack McDonald said that through the news media the public sees the young generation as “hippes, rebels and bearcs. But ours is a crusading generation.” / McDonald spoke to some 150 young people at the fourth annual state campaign workshop of the Virginia College Young Republican Federation. The dinner meeting, capping a day-long program of activities, was sponsored by the University of Virginia Young Republican Club. / McDonald said the “quiet crusaders” are tanking (sic) back the campuses from the rioters and rebels and want to see the United States emerge victorious from the Vietnam war. / The young, McDonald said, “want to get out and do something together and get the problems solved” without waiting for a federal handout. / Looking at the presidential race, McDonald said third party candidate George C. Wallace “appeals in frustration and offers simple solutions which won’t solve the problems.” He asked if the young would be willing to die in the service of their country if Wallace were commander-in-chief. / Democrat Hubert Humphrey, McDonald said, operates from a base “built on patronage and will try to buy the friendship of the world.” / A vote for Humphrey would be a vote for a “government which is master of the people rather than the servant.” He added that under Democratic leadership Supreme Court decisions “offer increasing protection for criminals.” / During an interview McDonald said young Republicans were not the type of people found in Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s “children’s crusade.” The McCarthites, he said, “were the flamboyant, the sign carriers, the yellers, the screamers, the bearded ones. But they represent only a small segment of the young population.” / He characterized young Republicans “as people out doing the gut work of politics; registering new voters and campaigning. They’re working for change, not a revolution. / He said the GOP, under the leadership of Richard M. Nixon, offers the young a chance for “bold new ideas and real charge. There has been some reexaminations within the party since 1964, McDonald added. / Raymond V. Humphreys, director of the Republican National Committee’s division of education, blamed “the sorry spectacle of the year of the Wallace” on a weak two-party system and a lack of federal responsibility and response. / Speaking at the University of Virginia’s new chemistry building, Humphrey’s urged some 299 young Republicans to work and “stand for something believable and challenging” for voters. / An effective citizen must be “involved in the machinery of politics,” he said. “A political independent is as useless as a capon in a henhouse.” / The biggest problem facing campaign workers is voter apathy, he contended. Citing the 7th district as an example, he said in an average precinct of 795 voters, 598 did not vote in the 1964 congressional election. / In a district-by-district analysis, state GOP Chairman Samuel E. Carpenter predicted the Republicans would claim eight of the 10 congressional seats after Nov. 5. / The GOP did not field candidates in either the 1st or 4th congressional districts, which Carpenter called “hard-core Wallace territory.” / Virginia, with 12 electoral voters, is especially vital in the coming presidential races and this importance is underscored by the current statewide “Republican Blitz” he said. / He forecast that Richard M. Nixon would carry about half the state’s votes, with George C. Wallace and Hubert H. Humphrey dividing the rest. / A. R. “Pete” Giesen, GOP candidate for the 7th congressional district seat, said that U.S. supreme court decisions and federal permissiveness have caused much of the current unrest and disorder through the nation. / As a possible remedy Giesen advocated a reinvolvement of state and local authority in government though block grants instead of the current system of grants-in-aid. Geisen urged the group to “join a crusade to save America.” He received a standing ovation following his remarks. / On state issues, State Sen. H. D. “Buz” Dawbarn of Waynesboro warned that state taxes will have to be “radically increased” by at least 10 per cent to finance the budget of the coming biennium. / Dawarn rapped the “myth of pay as you go,” which he said “went out the window some 15 years ago.” If the state hopes to meet current obligations, the new budget will have to be increased by at least $400,000, he said. / Dawbarn said it is time the state revised its financial thinking and started putting its “full faith and credit” behind loans to public institutions. He advocated a constitutional amendment that would increase borrowing power from the current 1 per cent state assessed value.
Item 2: “Work is a many splendid thing” / “Joe” / “Yes” / “Isn’t there something wrong with the first / word?” / “Well, Republicans aren’t omniscient!” / “Oh, really.”
Article 1: GOP Calls Young Generation Most Misconstrued in History / By Tom Luce / Times-Dispatch News Bureau / CHARLOTTESVILLE / Young people between 21 and 30 are the “most misjudged and misconstrued generation in history,” the chairman of the National Young Republican Federation said here last night. / Jack McDonald said that through the news media the public sees the young generation as “hippes, rebels and bearcs. But ours is a crusading generation.” / McDonald spoke to some 150 young people at the fourth annual state campaign workshop of the Virginia College Young Republican Federation. The dinner meeting, capping a day-long program of activities, was sponsored by the University of Virginia Young Republican Club. / McDonald said the “quiet crusaders” are tanking (sic) back the campuses from the rioters and rebels and want to see the United States emerge victorious from the Vietnam war. / The young, McDonald said, “want to get out and do something together and get the problems solved” without waiting for a federal handout. / Looking at the presidential race, McDonald said third party candidate George C. Wallace “appeals in frustration and offers simple solutions which won’t solve the problems.” He asked if the young would be willing to die in the service of their country if Wallace were commander-in-chief. / Democrat Hubert Humphrey, McDonald said, operates from a base “built on patronage and will try to buy the friendship of the world.” / A vote for Humphrey would be a vote for a “government which is master of the people rather than the servant.” He added that under Democratic leadership Supreme Court decisions “offer increasing protection for criminals.” / During an interview McDonald said young Republicans were not the type of people found in Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s “children’s crusade.” The McCarthites, he said, “were the flamboyant, the sign carriers, the yellers, the screamers, the bearded ones. But they represent only a small segment of the young population.” / He characterized young Republicans “as people out doing the gut work of politics; registering new voters and campaigning. They’re working for change, not a revolution. / He said the GOP, under the leadership of Richard M. Nixon, offers the young a chance for “bold new ideas and real charge. There has been some reexaminations within the party since 1964, McDonald added. / Raymond V. Humphreys, director of the Republican National Committee’s division of education, blamed “the sorry spectacle of the year of the Wallace” on a weak two-party system and a lack of federal responsibility and response. / Speaking at the University of Virginia’s new chemistry building, Humphrey’s urged some 299 young Republicans to work and “stand for something believable and challenging” for voters. / An effective citizen must be “involved in the machinery of politics,” he said. “A political independent is as useless as a capon in a henhouse.” / The biggest problem facing campaign workers is voter apathy, he contended. Citing the 7th district as an example, he said in an average precinct of 795 voters, 598 did not vote in the 1964 congressional election. / In a district-by-district analysis, state GOP Chairman Samuel E. Carpenter predicted the Republicans would claim eight of the 10 congressional seats after Nov. 5. / The GOP did not field candidates in either the 1st or 4th congressional districts, which Carpenter called “hard-core Wallace territory.” / Virginia, with 12 electoral voters, is especially vital in the coming presidential races and this importance is underscored by the current statewide “Republican Blitz” he said. / He forecast that Richard M. Nixon would carry about half the state’s votes, with George C. Wallace and Hubert H. Humphrey dividing the rest. / A. R. “Pete” Giesen, GOP candidate for the 7th congressional district seat, said that U.S. supreme court decisions and federal permissiveness have caused much of the current unrest and disorder through the nation. / As a possible remedy Giesen advocated a reinvolvement of state and local authority in government though block grants instead of the current system of grants-in-aid. Geisen urged the group to “join a crusade to save America.” He received a standing ovation following his remarks. / On state issues, State Sen. H. D. “Buz” Dawbarn of Waynesboro warned that state taxes will have to be “radically increased” by at least 10 per cent to finance the budget of the coming biennium. / Dawarn rapped the “myth of pay as you go,” which he said “went out the window some 15 years ago.” If the state hopes to meet current obligations, the new budget will have to be increased by at least $400,000, he said. / Dawbarn said it is time the state revised its financial thinking and started putting its “full faith and credit” behind loans to public institutions. He advocated a constitutional amendment that would increase borrowing power from the current 1 per cent state assessed value.