THE WEEK

It is not known whether the evidence against the steel companies is solid, or whether the flashy suit filed against them is merely another chapter in the vendetta against Big Business that has been going on for several years. If the steel companies are guilty of monopoly practices, i.e., of doing the kind of thing Big Labor does every day, then they should be prosecuted, and convicted. And guilty or not, the steel companies should certainly be penalized for failing to get advance clearance for their maneuvers from Bobby Baker.

And it shall come to pass that the Republican Party in the State of Mississippi will be no more . . . Because Democratic Governor Paul Johnson has a series of bills before the legislature that would wipe out the opposition. There are provisions that disfranchise independents and make party switching nearly impossible (the Republican Party has had remarkable growth at Democratic expense in recent years); that disfranchise Republicans and bar a party organization and all candidacy in any county failing to be represented in a majority of its precincts (most Republican strength is in the cities, thus many rural counties will be disfranchised). There is even a provision making it impossible for an otherwise qualified Democrat to seek office unless he voted for Governor Paul Johnson! “What it amounts to,” said Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger (a Goldwater man), “is that [Gov.] Johnson and his cronies have worded the laws to include qualifications which the Democrats have already met and which the growing Republican Party has yet to obtain.” It is safe to speculate that President Lyndon B. Johnson is not about to send in the bayonet squads to desegregate Mississippi Republicans.

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It is not known whether the evidence against the steel companies is solid, or whether the flashy suit filed against them is merely another chapter in the vendetta against Big Business that has been going on for several years. If the steel companies are guilty of monopoly practices, i.e., of doing the kind of thing Big Labor does every day, then they should be prosecuted, and convicted. And guilty or not, the steel companies should certainly be penalized for failing to get advance clearance for their maneuvers from Bobby Baker.

And it shall come to pass that the Republican Party in the State of Mississippi will be no more . . . Because Democratic Governor Paul Johnson has a series of bills before the legislature that would wipe out the opposition. There are provisions that disfranchise independents and make party switching nearly impossible (the Republican Party has had remarkable growth at Democratic expense in recent years); that disfranchise Republicans and bar a party organization and all candidacy in any county failing to be represented in a majority of its precincts (most Republican strength is in the cities, thus many rural counties will be disfranchised). There is even a provision making it impossible for an otherwise qualified Democrat to seek office unless he voted for Governor Paul Johnson! “What it amounts to,” said Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger (a Goldwater man), “is that [Gov.] Johnson and his cronies have worded the laws to include qualifications which the Democrats have already met and which the growing Republican Party has yet to obtain.” It is safe to speculate that President Lyndon B. Johnson is not about to send in the bayonet squads to desegregate Mississippi Republicans.