Attempted suicide is a misdemeanor in New Jersey, and last week New Jersey's Republican Party was looking somewhat misdemeanant. When Senatorial Candi date Clifford Case rose to speak at the Morris County Fair one night, sign-carrying pickets marched around the fringe of the crowd. "You're off base if you vote for Case," said one. Outside of New Jersey it would have been considered strange that signs attacking Republican Case were carried by Republicans.
The demonstration in Morris County was but another step in the New Jersey Republican Party's efforts toward self-destruction. In 1953 G.O.P. leaders threw away the governorship by putting up...
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