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"If you go out of this hall tonight and get knocked on the head, the person who knocked you on the head will be out of jail on a $50 bond before you get to the hospital . . . The tax structure threatens to destroy the middle class. There are billions of dollars in tax-free foundations, and there is no reason why the Carnegies and the Rockefellers and the Fords should go scot-free when you have to pay through the nose ... I know of one nation [India] that has received $10 billion of your hard-earned tax dollars and they stood up on the United Nations and spit in our faces and said I hope you lose that war in Viet Nam . . . Liberals are those folk who are overeducated for their brains and can't park their bicycles straight . . . Liberalism has brought us disaffected youth, violence in the streets. It brings permissiveness that allows people to chomp up and down the streets calling for a Communist victory in Viet Nam . . . you all have more brains in your little fingers than the editor of the New York Times has in his whole head."
Social Whim. Then comes his big pitch on busing. "This busin' business is the most callous, asinine thing I ever heard of, the whim of some social schemer in Washington who messed up the schools there and then moved out to Virginia or Maryland. I didn't bring this issue up, the people did. If the President can take over the economy by executive order, he can stop busing little schoolchildren. I'll bet him and Mao Tse-tung spent half their time talking about busing. I heard Mao told him, 'When we take a notion to bus, we just bus.' Nixon could have said, 'We do the same thing over here.' "
Across the state, the Wallace message was amplified by a staff of experienced organizers, many of whom have been working his campaigns since he first ran for Governor in 1958. Some wear sports shirts and raging red sports coats. They shun flow charts and modern political consulting firms; his staff artist is a Montgomery boy who works at home on his dining-room table. But they know their constituents, the strengths of their candidate and how to get out the vote. In Florida they produced smooth "newspapers" to reach special readers, including labor, the elderly, youth and even a Wallace Hoy in Spanish for Cubans (which will be adapted for Poles and other ethnic minorities elsewhere). They supplied volunteers with a 118-page organizational "manual for victory," with suggested approaches to all voters, from truck drivers to policemen. Sample advice: Don't junk up your displays. A junky display suggests a junky candidate.
Script. Why is Wallace running so hard? TIME's Wallace watcher, Joseph Kane, believes that he really wants the nomination. Wallace does not expect to be able to defeat Nixon, but he would love to reshape the Democratic Party to his way of thinking. If he fails to get the nomination, he wants to stamp his policy on the party platform—especially regarding ways to limit the power of federal judges. Yet Nixon has pre-empted that position with his antibusing proposals, giving Wallace the chance to boast that Nixon is stealing his script.