Breakaways from Barry

In San Francisco, Barry Goldwater threw out a dare to his party's dissidents. "Anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome," said Goldwater in his acceptance speech. "Those who do not care for our cause we do not expect to enter our ranks in any case."

By last week there was a fair number of Republicans who obviously had mislaid their credentials of sincerity for Barry's cause. Among them:

>New York's Republican Senators Kenneth Keating, who is up for re-election this year, and Jacob Javits, whose term lasts until 1969. Warning of "ominous indications" that Goldwater would "exploit the 'white backlash' in the North and appeal to the dying old social order of segregation in the South," Javits said: "I am and will remain a Republican, and will not bolt the party, and will not support President Johnson--but I must in conscience withhold my support from the national Republican ticket." Keating, who is running scared even though the Democrats have not yet named his opponent, said: "I'm going to campaign on my own issues and avoid attacking other people on the ticket." But both Javits and Keating left the door open for supporting their party's nominee if he "satisfactorily" explains his views to them.

> Maryland's Senator J. Glenn Beall, 70, who is up for reelection, and Baltimore's Mayor Theodore McKeldin, whose term runs until 1967. Beall wants Goldwater's interpretation "from his own lips" of "our party's platform"; McKeldin wants him to do something "to modify the widespread interpretation of his stands."

> Maine's Governor John Reed, along with the state's second-term Representative Stanley Tupper who, after a denunciation of extremism, said: "I feel relieved I've taken this stand. At least I can live with myself."

> Pennsylvania's ten-term Representative James G. Fulton, who comes from a labor-heavy south Pittsburgh district, who said: "1 am taking my stand because I have to shave myself every morning."

Hearing of the dissidents, Goldwater himself reacted in casual fashion. Said he: "That's their own choice to make. 'm sorry they feel that way." Other Goldwater supporters seemed even less worried. Old Ev Dirksen, for one. talked about a "healing process," predicted that the breakaways would eventually "come to the milk pan." Concluded he: "These things have come and gone in our political history. You're bound to lose some, but I don't think it means much."

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