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VOL. LXIII-NO. 12 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, October 9, 1972 I) Chisholm:A BY BETTY ANNE WILLIAMS Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, D-N. Y., admitted that George McGovern has failed to attract as much youthful support as he expected. "We can't always be dependent on what the polls indicate. However we are cognizant of the fact tha t there seems to be some sort of slippage," she said. She charged that the McGovern staff is not attuned to political realities. "You cannot elect a president by alienating people who were not for McGovern from the beginning." She * said the campaign staff had failed to reconcile the 'old line' and party regulars to the candidacy of one many of them found hard to accept. The congresswoman spoke to a crowd of about 400 people at the S. C. Young Democrats' voter registra tion rally and barbecue held at the National Guard Armory Friday night. She said, "The United States of America is a beautiful country, but manyonf usn do not menaure this cnountry m. Shirley Chisholm says she's not a AcGovern shoi by its beauty. We measure it by its as a r potential for becoming a haven for ment" people of all races colors and creeds." "I an Her race has given her a lot of un- becaus pleasant exposure, she said. "I could be fight. I a bitter woman. I could even be a structu hostile woman after what has happened "By to me in my 48 years " life sus However, she advised her audience, the vao "Don't let hate poison you, young countrj people. It only destroys." people, In their completing a massive voter who su registration drive and in her having prioriti been a candidate for the presidency With Chisholm said she and her young party- par ticil members shared a bond. "Both of us turn ar are breaking down barriers." she sai By their increasing participation in with 15 politics she said black people are longer gainig power and expertise. "Blacks congree have learned that the man doesn't pay in a Se attention to us unless we have She. something he wants." women White politicians desire for black Senate votes has given them group leverage. speakini "By playing the power game we are niot am spe selling out," she said. Speal Though some eople might take er sad, bitter woman. See below. ild reconcile' ppresentative of the "establish- coalition the congresswoman explained, and youth. i fighting within the system many form e there is no other place for us to When mii thetoric doesn't upset the power can be a fc re. She said n1 fighting for the values that are separately, taining black votes can become deal with t, iguard of votes that save this with those of women and young Fotue "she continued. "Those of us Foth ffer from America's perverted can make c es must protest." system frox more voter registration and breed of p ation, "I think it is possible to who worrie aund the priorities in Amrc,' hsidet d. "The blacks of this country sie"I per cent of the population can no Sne be satisfied with 12 black she said, "V smen of 435 and one black man out and cres nate of 100." not the kint also noted that there are 11 that they e in the House and one in the trol." but added, "I an:. not here She recoi g as another Women's Libber. I mitments" alking as a part of humanity." people of th ing again as a politician she (e Viv candidacy was based on a S oId line' of blacks, women The campaign brought out er non-participants. iorities unite, "Together we irce to be reckoned with. " linorities cannot be heard but the system will have to iem as a power bloc in the >resent, "The only way we hanges is to fill the political n top to bottom with a new >litician. We need a breed a less about having God on an about being on God's lower concedes nothing," Te the people are going to go ete our kind of politician and i others want us to have so an continue to subtly con nmended two "gut com ~or citizens to make to the e United States-a drastic Chisholm Page 2)