Liberal Education

Liberal Educations

The dream of the Republican Party's conservative wing is a campaign where a clear-cut conservative candidate can match issues with a purebred Republican liberal. Few elections seem to break that way (e.g., Conservative Bob Taft was up against a glamorous general in 1952). but this year's New Jersey Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seemed the classic test.

Arch-Conservative Robert Morris, 45. onetime counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, was a good-looking, vigorous campaigner who for 17 months made the rounds of nearlv all of New Jersey's counties. His primary opponent was Clifford Case, 56. a freshman Senator favored by organized labor, who stood staunchly on his record as an Eisenhower liberal, stuck so staunchly to his work in Washington that he put in only token campaign appearances at home.

Last week, when the votes were counted, the dream became a nightmare: Cliff Case won his renomination by a 2-1 vote over Morris. Said Diehard Morris, without offering Case specific support in the November runoff. "We fought a campaign on principles."

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