The Non-Candidates

Those Republican noncandidates were appearing all over and spending a lot of time telling people why they're not in the running.

> Michigan's Governor George Romney returned to Salt Lake City, where he had spent part of his youth, to address 1,300 Republicans at a $50-a-plate G.O.P. fund-raising dinner. Much of his speech was devoted to championing civil rights, partly to counter the notion that the Mormon church discriminates against Negroes. At a press conference he said: "There is no concept in the church that the Negro can't attain anything that I can attain in this life or the next." Then Romney said he was not a presidential candidate.

> Manhattan Attorney Richard Nixon put in a 17-hour day on a trip to Philadelphia, where he signed some 500 lithographed portraits of himself for Pennsylvania printers at a Printing Week dinner. He shook scores of hands, held a businesslike press conference, earned hearty applause in his dinner speech on foreign relations. Best received were his comments on the Panama crisis and Latin America. "We can negotiate our troubles with the Panamanians, but we cannot negotiate our right to be there. If we give in there, we invite attack on all our bases throughout the world. We have a sick situation. As long as Castro is in Cuba, this sickness will spread to all Latin America. We must bring Castro down." To the inevitable questions, Nixon said he was not a candidate.

> Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton traveled only from Harrisburg to Philadelphia to a lunch hosted by Scott Paper Board Chairman Tom McCabe and billed as an attempt to promote Pennsylvania industry. But with increasing talk that such influential Eastern Republicans as Leonard Hall and Meade Alcorn Jr. are urging Scranton to get more national exposure, the guest list was politically impressive. It included National G.O.P. Chairman William Miller, former Chairmen Hall and Alcorn, Massachusetts National Committeeman Richard Treadway, Maine's National Committeeman Bradford Hutchins, Maryland's National Committeeman Edward Miller, former Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, Eisenhower's Press Secretary James Hagerty, New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston and former Disarmament Negotiator Arthur Dean. Guests insisted politics were not discussed. But said one: "We're not young any more. We know why we were there." A "native son" movement was started for Scranton in Connecticut (he was born in Madison), a "Scranton Friends" movement was being organized in Philadelphia, and New Jersey Republicans were reported swinging away from Rockefeller and toward Scranton. One New Jersey leader said Scranton will have all 40 New Jersey delegates by convention time. As for Scranton, he said he was not a candidate.

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