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. .V. - iMBtineback Off-year elections boost Democrat Try as I might, there simply was no way I could interpret fast week's off-year elections as a mere standoff or mixed bag, let alone a Republican victory. No, the GOP fared disappointingly overall, and the Democrats have every right to claim, in National Chairman Robert Strauss' words, that the party is "back on the track." The biggest Democratic prize captured was the election of Brendan Byrne as New Jersey governor. Byrne, a former judge and political neophyte, had several things going for him in a landslide (66 per cent) victory which also brought Democratic control to both houses of the state legislature for only the third time this century. rapprochement with Republican moderates and liberals, spurned Cahill's endorsement of him and proceeded to throw complete contioi u tln stjie GOP apparatus into conservative hj'K He thus alienated many Republicans arid p. ovok.-d an irreparable party split, something j i-or ty party simply cannot afford. iohn vihstad cfiffffll drummer Byrne's Republican opponent, Charles Sandman, an abrasive ultraconservative Congressman from the rural southern part of the state, practically handed a potentially winnable gubernatorial election to the Democrats. The reactionary representative defeated progressive GOP Gov. William Cahill in a bitter June primary, largely on wild charges that the governor tolerated corruption and fraud in the statehouse at Trenton. In the end. Sandman himself was linked to shady financial dealings. Upon winning the primary, Sandman refused a H im .am wt&?;y. J"l! I j 4i ii jij j El !s j: a iis tAUi h a ion, of fail 'em suit, 'iche urse :rats "Mi Hitch Hiker Match Up Going somewhere for Thankspivin;!'.' Need a rideriders? Advertise in tht Daiiy Nchiaskan Want Ads Mitch Hilar Match Un. Nov. 16, 21. Special 3 for 2. l'ay for 2 days, get I lit' third free. Ads must he paid in advance. Deadline Thurs. Nov. 1 5, noun. Nov. 16, 19, 21 'Pat, it's raining on my p-u ;d P! !r ifr, "'; , 11377 4Tfi MtOit pubtiean no mirths unyieldingly .ibid riglttftlMttll taM tratf turn.-cj off crucial . 1 11 dependent voters. S. simplistic fiflinmi1 ' crime, corru bussing, IhwWftttt -Vvhhout any hi plausible solutiofts dr'arwrnatives) was bound in a heavily populated, highly unionized 1 industrial State SUCh at New Jersey. As a Sandman gavd th Dfcffibcratic nominee carte b to pursue the moderate, middle-of-the-road whereby most of the votes are won. Their win in the Garden State gave the Den a total of 32 of the 50 states, their highest number since 1958, and a complete reversal of the 22-18 balance in favor of the GOP in 1969. Virginia offered slightly more solace fn the Republicans, as Mills Godwin Jr., the Derrv . atic governor from 1966 to 1970, made a comeba this time won as a Republican. Since being seized last year by a n McGovernite faction, the once-dominant Democratic party has been in such a shambk for the first time in history it put up no cam; Instead, the party gave its tacit backing to ultra! Lieutenant Gov. Henry Howell, a Democrat wf as an Independent rather than risk certain under the Democratic banner. Still, Godwin's victory margin-14,000 vc or 1.4 out of over a million cast-was painfully s II in a state which twelve months ago went for Pn s lent Njxon wjth 70 of the votes. And even as C ;win held on to the governorship for the Reput ( cans (GOP Gov. Llnwood Holton was barred by lav. Jrom succeeding himself), his party was losing five sr -ts in the lower house of the state legislature. Next wtk: How dfd the cities vote? and rant tate hat ate. "iral ran i feat Rinii in A Merry Christmas BAN'JIIf 7 I f l)'hi;lit your low VMlli the s.nUmK splcudni 11I ,1 keep '..ilr 'lidilKHid (IIIK limisi' our oldi'ii .irr.i1, n( sv!cv ,A l,',tl,H,ltllCI'( I-. (-, 1 k inw st'iic KAUFMAN'S 1332 cr Si. 1 J pgvr I SCUPTURE j I How 20 - 40 Off '"I r! -,ivv.;; f 1 $150 $300 ; HURRY irJ F-OR BEST SELECTIONS Uj Open 8-5, Monday -Saturday J 1135 R 432-0111 M f: - ' 1 'li,l,,i,iplliiiii,wiiiniiM'i'.l'lirrin--IT-il I III I I'll ir I T T1 1 -fTTnTnTrTTTTI- wmmmi 'f ( f Mf f fW ; Mpff ' W" ' "' rtiiwwrttaiiiMM CJWifco i. if iii ititi aUjaiiwiiwwiMi iwmn i ' : '''I 1 v;ednesday, novembcr 14, 1973 daily