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Hope Still Found for Conservatism Newspaper Clipping, November 5, 1964
Nov.5,64
Control of the Party
HOPE STILL FOUND
Conservative Vote
FOR CONSERVATISM
Paolucci
New York City
120,075
Upstate
83,294
Spokesmen Feel Goldwater
Total
203,369
Was Diverted From Role
SENATOR
CITY SUMMARY
Manhattan
13.169
By MURRAY SEEGER
Bronx
22.885
Leading spokesmen for the
Brooklyn
33,954
political right declared yester-
Queens
42.617
Richmond
7.450
day that the American con-
Total
120,075
servative movement was bigger
than its candidate for President
and would survive Tuesday's
Senator Goldwater's campaign,
Mr. Kirk suggested.
election.
Another teacher who was
Most of the writers, teachers
concerned with the advice given
and philosophers spoken to in
the Senator is Prof. Harry
a national telephone survey ex-
Jaffa, on leave from the pó-
pressed dissatisfaction with the
litical science faculty at Clare-
direction taken by the campaign
mont (Calif.) Men's College. He
between Senator Barry Gold-
worked as a campaign adviser
water and President Johnson.
to Mr. Goldwater.
Their unhappiness rested
"This was a disaster which
mainly with Senator Goldwater.
was much graver than it needed
Most of them believed he was
to be," Professor Jaffa said.
diverted for various reasons
"There was a failure to sense
from the role as spokesman for
true conservatism.
the mood of the country and a
deliberate effort to isolate the
William F. Buckley Jr., editor
Senator from the mood of the
in chief of The National Re-
country.
view, a biweekly journal of con-
The "shock of defeat" may
servative opinion, wrote yester-
give the conservative movement
day that "the undertakers are
the impetus it needs to "recog-
premature." In an editorial for
nize that a strategy is needed
Monday's edition, he went on
to present new solutions to new
to say
problems," he said.
"One year's landslide loss, in
Raymond Moley, the one-time
other words, is not necessarily New Deal adviser who is now
a permanent thing in a dynamic a syndicated columnist, said it
society, and there is no reason would take some time for the
for American conservatives to conservatives who now control
believe either that their hearts the Republican party to get rid
deceived them in telling them of the followers who are ex-
he [Mr. Goldwater] was right, tremists.
or that the time will never come don't think the control of
again when the American the Republican party is going
people can correct our public back to the 'me-too' people of
policies."
the East,' he said. "They were
'Consoling Dogma'
just as badly defeated as any-
one, The party must appeal to
The conservatives should, Mr.
the great middle classes of this
Buckley continued, "finally and country, for that is where the
forever, put aside that consol-
true conservatives are, not in
ing dogma" that a true conser-
extremism."
vative could win the Presidency
Diversion Found
for Republicans just by getting
nominated.
Another well-known writer.
"They need to develop, if they
Henry Hazlitt. said the ideas of
can, a political idiom which will
conservatives in economics were
successfully communicate to the
never developed in the cam-
masses of the people the inex-
paign after Senator Goldwater
tricable relationship between
"got diverted into the whole
their political ideas and the
problem of whose hand should
best ideals of mankind,' he said.
be on the trigger.'
Another well-known writer
Prof. Gerhard Niemeyer of the
and a member of The National
University of Notre Dame gov-
Review editorial board, James
ernment department, a foreign
Burnham, said that two-fifths
policy adviser to Senator Gold-
of the American voting public
water. said the election was "a
showed Tuesday that they
defeat for the Republican par-
agreed that "modern liberalism
ty, a considerable portion of
has not and cannot meet the
which refused to go along with
great threats to the survival
the conservative movement.'
of our country and civili-
Despite the proportions of
zation.'
the President's victory, Profes-
President Johnson will have
sor Niemeyer said, the conser-
four years to prove that this
vative movement is "strong, in-
conclusion is false and make
tact and full of spirit.
the conservative movement
Avn Rand. the guiding spirit
of the philosophy of Objectivism
"fade away," he said,
and an advocate of "laissez
Russell A. Kirk, a writer.
faire capitalism." endorsed Sen-
teacher and lecturer, said: "I
ator Goldwater as the best of
don't think the election affects
what is available.'
the conservative movement one
"I think this campaign was
way or the other. The election
conducted very badly," she said.
was decided largely on the
"I believe that this is the end
personalities of the two candi-
of the old-fashioned, anti-intel-
dates.'
lectual conservatism, and that
'Movement Remains'
the advocates of capitalism
"The conservative movement
have to start from scratch, not
remains," he continued, "be-
in practical politics but in a
cause the challenge to America
cultural philosophical move-
remains the challenge of the
ment to lay an intellectual
S
power of the Soviet Union and
foundation for future political
movements.'
now the power of the Soviet
Union and China."
Mr. Kirk, who was in River-
Why McNamara Didn't Vote
side. Calif., to give a lecture.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI)
said he had found "great public
-The Pentagon today. blamed
interest" in the basic issue of
a slipup for a failure by De-
domestic conservatism. which
fense Secretary Robert S. Mc-
he defined as "the great con-
Namara to vote yesterday. The
centration of power in labor,
Defense Department informa-
business and industry and gov-
tion office said that Mr. Mc-
ernment."
Namara had "thought he was
"Too many cooks" spoiled
registered" but that he was not.
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