New York, September 8—The passion play reaching its conclusion in New York State would have rocked the Republican Party nationwide if it had been more widely advertised. The scheduled victim is Richard Nixon. And the tragedy lies in his inability to fight for his own interests. Meanwhile his oppressors shield themselves by heavenly incantations to the axiomatic virtues of the two-party system.
What happened in New York is the Conservative Party. It was founded in 1962, and such was the rate of its growth that by 1966 it had captured Row C from the quarter-century old Liberal Party. In other words, the Conservatives amply demonstrated at the polls that their interests were not being asserted by top Republican officials: but the disposition, of course, is never to fret over disfranchised conservatives. Accordingly, Governor Rockefeller sent out word, upon the founding of the Conservative Party, that it was to be ignored by Republicans, and that on no account should any Republican accept the endorsement of the Conservatives.
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