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Warren Boroson, managing editor of Fact, the newest rag in the guttersnipe press, has circulated a questionnaire to “a group of respected psychologists and psychiatrists,” asking them to say whether they think Senator Goldwater is mentally sound. Is he reckless (i.e., driving 90 mph while lapping up beer) ? Is he callous (i.e., jerking the puppy’s ears to make him yelp) ? Is he indifferent to misery (i.e., allowing his tenants to live in tumbledown shacks with leaky roofs) ? Is he immoral (i.e., was Bobby Baker his protégé) ? Well, if Fact can find a way to affirm Mr. Goldwater’s insanity, it owes it to its readers to carry through boldly to the end of logic, and propose that the Republican Party be housed in a mental institution. Crazy, no?

Mr. J. Daniel Mahoney, state chairman of the Conservative Party of New York, has addressed an open letter to Fred Young, state chairman of the GOP, explaining the merits of Conservative Party support of Barry Goldwater (which can be arranged only if the GOP machine nominates a slate of electors that will also accept Conservative endorsement), and saying, in part: “There have been unconfirmed press reports that the state leadership of the Republican Party is opposed to a common slate of Republican-Conservative electors. . . . We cannot believe that your committee would adopt a position which might cost Senator Goldwater New York’s electoral votes, and the Presidential election. As you know, exactly this result occurred in 1960, when the loss of New York State cost the Republican national ticket the Presidential election.” The rule-or-ruin habit dies hard, but there is time yet for a change of mind before the New York GOP picks its electors (Sept. 1). Vice-Presidential nominee William Miller, of New York, is known to favor the joint Republican-Conservative slate, and the New York Daily News has editorially urged the GOP to come around.

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Warren Boroson, managing editor of Fact, the newest rag in the guttersnipe press, has circulated a questionnaire to “a group of respected psychologists and psychiatrists,” asking them to say whether they think Senator Goldwater is mentally sound. Is he reckless (i.e., driving 90 mph while lapping up beer) ? Is he callous (i.e., jerking the puppy’s ears to make him yelp) ? Is he indifferent to misery (i.e., allowing his tenants to live in tumbledown shacks with leaky roofs) ? Is he immoral (i.e., was Bobby Baker his protégé) ? Well, if Fact can find a way to affirm Mr. Goldwater’s insanity, it owes it to its readers to carry through boldly to the end of logic, and propose that the Republican Party be housed in a mental institution. Crazy, no?

Mr. J. Daniel Mahoney, state chairman of the Conservative Party of New York, has addressed an open letter to Fred Young, state chairman of the GOP, explaining the merits of Conservative Party support of Barry Goldwater (which can be arranged only if the GOP machine nominates a slate of electors that will also accept Conservative endorsement), and saying, in part: “There have been unconfirmed press reports that the state leadership of the Republican Party is opposed to a common slate of Republican-Conservative electors. . . . We cannot believe that your committee would adopt a position which might cost Senator Goldwater New York’s electoral votes, and the Presidential election. As you know, exactly this result occurred in 1960, when the loss of New York State cost the Republican national ticket the Presidential election.” The rule-or-ruin habit dies hard, but there is time yet for a change of mind before the New York GOP picks its electors (Sept. 1). Vice-Presidential nominee William Miller, of New York, is known to favor the joint Republican-Conservative slate, and the New York Daily News has editorially urged the GOP to come around.