Humphrey Has Close Guard

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31774, 3 September 1968, Page 15

Humphrey Has Close Guard

(N Z.P A.-Reuter —Copyright) NEW YORK, September 2. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey reviews a Labour Day parade through New York streets today to begin officially his campaign for the Presidency.

Mr Humphrey was hustled through a side door into the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last night to avoid about 350 demonstrators parading outside.

Security officers surrounded the building while Mr Humphrey was whisked in unnoticed. Strict security measures had also been taken at New York Airport when he flew in from his home in Waverly, Minnesota.

Watched by the police, the demonstrators, shouting slogans opposing the VicePresident, marched up and down behind barricades outside the hotel for some time after Mr Humphrey’s arrival. When, two weeks ago, he accepted the New York City Central Labour Council’s invitation to attend today’s parade of 100,000 trade unionists, Mr Humphrey said he intended to march with them. WALLACE’S CHANCE

From Washington, political observers report that the election outlook this year is clouded by the former Alabama Governor, Mr George Wallace, who is campaigning as a “third party” segregationist.

Mr W’allace is believed to stand a good chance of winning at least half a dozen

Southern States and of preventing either major candidate from gaining the required absolute majority of 270 votes in the electoral college. If Mr Wallace succeeds, the Presidential election will be thrown into the House of Representatives, w’here each State delegation has one vote The Republican candidate, Mr Richard Nixon, who was defeated for the Presidency in 1960 and for the Governorship of California in 1962, is serenly confident that he can make a dazzling come-back by winning the grand prize of United States politics. He believes he is being helped by disunity among the Democrats, weariness over the Vietnam war, and his own programme promising the return of law and order to violence-wracked Negro slums and crime-ridden city suburbs. Mr Nixon opens his campaign in Chicago on Wednesday.