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Three Republican Leaders Challenge Rockefeller's Claim Of LeadershipLITTLE ROCK (AP) —Three leading Arkansas Republicans, strong backers of Sen. Barry Goldwater for president, chal-1 e n g e d Thursday Winthrop Rockefeller’s claim that he heads Goldwater’s Arkansascampaign.E. E. Barber Jr. of Fort Smith, one of the challengers, said he could not support Rockefeller’s candidacy for governor. Barber said he would vote for Gov. Orval E. Faubus, the Democratic candidate, in the Nov. 3 general election.Mrs. Bryant Pake of Little Rock and William L. Spicer of Fort Smith said they did not see how they could support Rockefeller.All three issued statements critical of Rockefeller.The dispute flared anew after the disclosure Wednesday that Barber and Mrs. Pake, chairman and co-chairman of the Draft Goldwater for Arkansas Organization, resigned last May amid an intra-party battle with Rockefeller.Since that time Rockefeller had appeared to have control of the party, despite frequent rifts with GOP state chairman Spicer.At issue was a telegram received by Rockefeller from Dean Burch, whom Goldwater hand-picked for national GOP chairman after winning the presidential nomination at the party convention in San Francisco.Burch’s telegram asked Rockefeller to make no announcements without consultation with Burch and Goldwater’s Southern regional campaign director.This, Rockefeller said, established him as leader of Goldwater’s campaign in Arkansas.Not true, Spicer charged Thursday. He claimed to have received a telegram from Burch to the same effect. The wording of the telegrams was identical.Mrs. Pake said she resigned May 22 when “it became clear that Sen. Goldwater had been placed at the mercy of Winthrop Rockefeller In Arkansas.”“I have been a lifelong Republican but I will not support any member of the Rockefellerfamily for election to public office, she said.“I don’t know whether I can vote this year. I have never supported a Democrat,” she said.Barber called Rockefeller “Nelson Rockefeller’s ambassador to the South.” Nelson Rockefeller, Wlnthrop’s brother, is governor of New York, and fought for the nomination Goldwater won.With my conservative principles I cannot support Winthrop Rockefeller in any way for governor of this great state,” Barber said.Mrs. Pake and Barber resigned after John Grenier, Goldwater’s Southern campaign diRockefeller Says Rights Issue Usedrector before the nomination, sided with Rockefeller in a dispute which outsiders believed broke the back of his opposition in the state GOP.The dispute was with Spicer, who declined to say definitely whether he would vote for Rockefeller in November. He said, however, that his sentiments “could be interpreted to mean” that he would not support Rockefeller unless Rockefeller sought his support.“The time is long overdue for Mr. Rockefeller to stop his double-talk and start levelling with the people of Arkansas,” Spicer said.DENVER, Colo. (AP) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Winthrop Rockefeller said Thursday at Denver, Colo., that Gov. Orval E. Faubus is attempting to capitalize on the civil rights issue.Rockefeller was in Denver attending a Republican training course for gubernatorial candidates.Rockefeller said civil rights is an active issue in Arkansas and said Faubus has capitalized on it “term after term after term.“I believe that if the issue is dealt with fairly and squarely, Rockefeller said, “we are going to find that it is not as much of an issue as he would like to make it.”Rockefeller said he was a moderate in the field of race relations and said he has been active in the field for a number of years.He added: “I do not believe that the inflamatory rumors that what would happen if I were elected governor will hold water as the people get to know me better and have had a chance to ask me specific questions ”
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El Dorado Times
El Dorado, Arkansas, US
Fri, Aug 21, 1964
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