McCarthy attacks two-pa- rty system
By MIKE McLAIN
and
TODD JOHNSTONE
Of the Emerald
Independent presidential can
didate Eugene McCarthy denied
the role of "spoiler” in this year's
race Wednesday and also at
tacked the two party system which
he feels violates the spirit of the
First Amendment.
During a brief campaign stop in
Salem, which included a rally on
the steps of the Marion County
Courthouse before approximately
500 persons and a press confer
ence, McCarthy accused Pres.
Ford and Jimmy Carter of being
"spoilers to my campaign," not the
other way around.
"If Ford pulled out of the race,"
he said, "then I'd probably win,
and the same goes for Carter
At the rally, where there was a
noticeable absence of the local
dignitaries who usually surround a
presidential aspirant, McCarthy
rapped the Federal Campaign Fi
nance Act, saying "Our freedom is
threatened by the fact that the
Democrats and Republicans
voted $20 million apiece for their
own campaigns."
This, he said, "puts a limit on the
campaigns of independent candi
dates,” and could be a violation of
First Amendment guarantees, a
notion which he is pushing to a
Supreme Court test.
McCarthy said his candidacy of
fers an alternative to the “indistin
guishable differences' between
Ford and Carter. According to
him. their battle is a "non-debate
on the issue of defense spending
and our billigerenoe in foreign af
fairs.
On domestic affairs, he chided
both candidates for not recogniz
ing the structural changes neces
sary to solve inflation and unemp
loyment. Both men, he said, are
promising small reductions in both
— with the Democrats quicker to
offer “liniment and plaster cures,"
— while he envisions the elimina
tion of both problems with the
concept of "work distribution."
He cited the Ford Motor Co.
workers’ desire to shorten their
work year, in an effort to provide
jobs to more employes, as a policy
the whole country should emulate.
“In this case, he quipped, "what's
good for Ford Motors, is good for
the whole country”
"Both parties," he said, "have
become warped in an effort to get
the Wallace vote." In his opinion,
the Democrats have pursued it
outright while the Republicans
sought it in the Ford-Reagan
nomination battle.
McCarthy said his own cam
paign has not had significant ef
fect on the positions of either
major candidate, although it has
pushed the Democrats to try and
keep him off the ballot in a number
of states. At present, he has been
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successful in getting his name on
the ballot in 30 states, he said.
Contrary to a statement re
leased earlier by state campaign
workers, McCarthy said he has
not endorsed Oregon's Nuclear
Safeguards Act. "I think we are
Independent presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy called his
candidacy an alternative to the indistinguishable differences" bet
ween Pres. Ford and Jimmy Carter at a Wednesday campaign stop at
the Marion County Courthouse in Salem.
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