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candidate to our 100 per cent
urban electorate" Republican
Chairman Carl Shipley said.
And he can win"
Mr.. Shipley said District Re-
publicans never would support
a segregationist. He likes po-
tential voters to remember
Democrats are a lot more over
loaded with them than are Re-
publicans. And that thousands
Of Republicans in the South
are loyal to the principles of
the party Of Lincoln.
At the same time, no Re-
publican should be ashamed Of
q million-vote gain through the
last four years in the South,
in the District chairman's view.
Washingtonians both in and
out of the party must be edu-
Gated to the need for a two
party system everywhere in the
country. he says.
A film cartoon put together
by Winthrop Rockefeller, the
Arkansas-based brother Of New
York's Governor, is being
shown to get across the mes
sage here. Two parties keep
government honest, it claims;
one invites fraud.
Hard Political Fact
Candidate Rockefeller him
self is the best possible answer
to segregationist pressure on
Southern Republicans" one
party worker said. THE record
of the Rockefellers is uncom-
promising"
In-party resistance to Rookie
Teller may swing behind a"pro-
gressive" candidate by 1864,
some Republicans said, under
the strong influence of men
like Edward Burling and Sam
uel Biddle. These party COM
mitteemen are civil rights lib
erals and economic conserva-
tives.
The Rockefeller consensus
rests on hard political fact. A
winning Republican candidate
will have to draw at least Is
per cent Of the independent or
lukewarm Democratic voters
here. At least that is what
sktechy past registrations, ad-
mittedly inadequate guides, in
dictate.
Factions with different ideas
about a Republican candidate
are bound to splinter off a.
Rockefeller movement.
Arizona's Senator Barry
Godwater, Cows. George ROM
ney and william Scranton of
Michigan and Pennsylvaia,
and even young Representative
Robert Taft Of Ohio are not
likely to be overlooked by Dis
trict Republicans. party in
siders say.
Backers of candidates other
than the New Yorker might
have to buck the local party
committee - q tightly knit,
we'll Financed unit. But a.
glamorous array Of Repub-
licans on q primary ballot
could give the party Just what
the organization wants most
q big Republican vote.
It's not too early to talk per-
sonalities. Republicans say.
Their new winners can wake
Washingtonians up to active
politics. they believe, better
than can premature precinct
work.
Unlike Democrats, they think
building q precinct organiza-
ton now may be wasted eff
fort. The main Republican
strategy Is TO arouse city-wide
interest. and afterwards, make
a surge In precincts nearer the
time registration opens q year
from January. Then too, Re-
publicans want party primary
precinct lines redrawn around
populations of comparable
number. Now, only $500 peo-
pie live In the smallest pre-
cinct and $4,000 populate the
largest, south OF st. Elizabeths
Hospital 10 the Maryland line.
Party workers. mostly Young
Republicans. are knocking on
doors. They check house,
holders party preferences.
Their records are building a
central file at District head
quarters at the Republican
National Committee.
But right now. Republicans
want primarily to show WASH
ingtonians their party cares
about and works TO solve prob
lens Of city jewellers. To shape
this image. the party has:
l. Enlarged It's central COM
mittee from SO TO 100. The
name, the State Committee,
confusing 10 new members,
was changed to the District OF
Columbia Republican Commit