Tiemann means 'more'
Governor Norbert Tiemann is a very smooth
politician polished in performance and expert
in delivery.
J. J. Exon, his challenger, is more rough
hewn in his approach given to homilies and
earthy, homespun diction.
But more than a difference in sophistication
became evident at their debate Wednesday night.
Tiemann displayed a depth of understanding when
speaking about specific events at this University
and University-related matters that Exon lacked.
When questioned about his opinion of the
Spelts' Commission Report, Exon dealt solely with
legal aspects and complained that he had yet to
see action taken against the students who were in
volved. Tiemann, however, pointed out that tho
student strike was an indication of a greater prob
lem in society when he said, "We must turn our
attention to understand the reasons and treat the
causes."
Asked about the Scranton Commission Report,
Exon spoke to the issue of the proper use of force
to handle campus disruptions. Tiemann also spoke
on this point, delineating a plan for response that
calls for action by the city police, state police and
the national guard only when the campus police
cannot handle a matter and request help. But
Tiemann again continued where Exon did not, to
point out that the main emphasis of the Report is
a call for reconciliation between youth and adults.
Just after Exon finished talking about "mov
ing in with force" when there is "danger to the
person because of the use of knives, machine guns
or snipers," Tiemann struck a responsive chord
and drew the loudest applause of the evening by
stating, "The principle reason there was no vio
lence last spring was not because of any act of
the governor's. It was because of the responsible
student leadership you have here you are re
sponsible students who have come to the Univer
sity to learn, not to riot or loot."
Claiming to be a man who "lays it on the
line," Exon drew audible groans and gasps from
the audience with his frank and sometimes in
accurate statements. Perhaps calling Nebraska
University "one of the finest institutions in the
nation" is an approach that will work with tax
minded citizens who have little contact with the
University, but it set the student audience mur
muring. Likewise, Exon's comment that the strike pre
vented some students from attending class may be
a myth that is popular with those who don't under
stand the strike, but it drew an audible response
of disbelief and shock that the man was so ill-informed.
t
Tiemann enjoyed a greater rapport with the
audience than Exon, and it was one that improved
after each Exon faux pas. Tiemann displayed a
greater sensitivity to the problems of the Univer
sity than Exon did and he demonstrated a depth
of understanding and analysis that Exon could not
match.
Perhaps Exon summed it up best when he
said, "If Jim Exon is elected, you won't get as
much as you will if Governor Tiemann is re-elected."
THE NEBRASKAN
Telephones: Editor: 41-25M. Business: 471-lMf, Newt: 471-150. Second claM
pusiage paid el Lincoln. Neb.
Subscription retes ere 15 per semester or M.50 per year. Published Monday.
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday during the school year exceot during vaca
tions and eam periods. Member ol the Infercolleglafa Press National educa
tional Advertising Service.
The Nebraskan la a student publication. Independent of the University gf Neb
raska's administration, faculty and student government.
Address: The Nebraskan
34 Nebraska Union
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska HM
eltorlal Start
Editor: Kelley Baker: Managing Editor: Connie Winkler: News Editor: III
Smlthermani Sports Editors: Jim Johnston and Roger Rite: Nebreskan Start
Writers: Gary Seecrest, John Dvorak, Mick Morlerty, Dave Brink, Steve
Stressor. Sue Senator. Steve Kadel, Pat McTee. Carol Goetschlus Photogra
phers: Dan Ladoly. Mike Maymanj Entertainment Editor: Fred Eisenhart
Literary Editor: Alan ooye; News Assistant: Marsha Bangerti Copy Editors:
Laura Partsch, Jim Gray, Warren Obr, Blythe Erlcksont Night News Editor:
Tom Lansworth Night New Assistant: Leo Schleicher.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1970
(n M 09iea
Swing to the right? Wrong,
by FRANK MANKIEWICZ
and TOM BRADEN
DEFIANCE, Ohio - In the
flat farmland around here,
there is almost as much con
cern about the blight that has
caused a drop in corn produc
tion as there is about the elec
tion, and the talk turns political
slowly. But when it does, here
and elsewhere, it looks as
though Ohio like so many
other states is resisting the
heralded "turn to the right."
IT'S A FUNNY THING, this
shift to the right. Everyone
talks about it but in some
other state. The political
analysts have read or, more
likely, read about "The Real
Majority" by Richard Scam
mon and Ben Wattenberg and
have gresped that it h
Washington's chic book-of-the-season
and that conservative
candidates are the wave of the
70s.
The only thing wrong with
this theory is that the election
trends are the other way. Here
in Ohio, for example, Howard
Metzcnbaum, a virtual
unknown six months ago, is
gaining ground in his Senate
race against Republican Rep.
Robert A. Taft Jr., about as far
from an unknown as you can
get. As of this week, the
respected Columbus Dispatch
poll shows Metzcnbaum ahead
of Taft 48.4 to 43, with only
6 undecided.
OIUO. OF COURSE, is the
homi state of Scammon and
Wattenberg's Average Voter,
the mythical 47-year-old
THE NEBRASKAN
housewife from the Dayton
suburbs whose husband is a
machinist, whose brother-in-law
is a policeman and who is
worried about what the authors
call the Social Issue, shorthand
for violence, drugs, porno
graphy and, of course, race.
But in Ohio the collective
ladies from Dayton aren't
talking much about the Socini
Issue. What has preoccupied
them and their fellow.
Ohioans for some time is
another "social issue," cor
ruption. Ever since it was
revealed earlier this year that
a number of state officials in
Republican Gov. James
Rhodes' cabinet some of
whom are on the GOP ticket
had profited personally from
payoffs arising out of a state
loan program, the Republicans
here have been in trouble.
IN THE RACE for governor
the only question seems to be
the ultimate size of the ma
Jority to be run up by liberal
Democrat John J. Gilligen.
Another social issue un men
tioned by the political seers In
putting together the "real ma
jority" is unemployment. In
Ohio it is climbing with the
national total. In addition, the
decline in machine-toot orders
presages a gloomy winter in
Ohio's industrial centers.
CONGRESSMAN TAFT,
trying hard to remain aloof and
clean and free of the local
Republican scandal, is not
above a little social issue-ing of
his own. In a fit of work which
would have done credit to Son.
Joe McCarthy, if McCarthy had
had a good press secretary, the
Taft camp leaked to a few na
tional columnists that they had
"information locked in the
files" which would link
Metzenbaum with "left-wing"
activities in the '40s.
The columnists took the bait
and tried to convey the im
pression that straight old Bob
Taft wouldn't use the informa
tion. If true, Taft has a very
loose hold on his organization
because his men were leaking
the "secret information" all
over th3 state.
THE "LEFT-WING AC
TIVITY" finally turned out to
be something called the Ohio
School of Social Sciences.
Metzenbaum had indeed been
an incorporator in 1944, along
with Gov. Rhodes' present
director of industrial relations
and the executive director of
the Cleveland Baptist Assn.
The smear may have
damaged the Taft image of
rectitude more than Metzen
baum. On the same day,
Metzenbaum was endorsed by
the Cleveland Press and its
sister papers, the Columbus
Citizen-Journal and the Cin
cinnati Post and Times-Star.
Taft may yet win, but if he
squeaks by in normally
Republican Ohio it will hardly
confirm any conservative
trend. The com blight and a
depressed economy sound
familiar, and the voters don't
need theorists to help unders
tand them.
PAGE 3