The Cavalier daily :: Friday, October 30, 1970 :: University of Virginia Library

Amid balloons, bunting, and
placard-carrying Byrd girls and to the
tune of "Stars and Stripes Forever,"
Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. Tuesday night
called for a constitutional amendment to
limit the service of federal judges.

"Some judges don't interpret the
laws," the incumbent senatorial candidate
told the capacity crowd in the Lane High
School Auditorium. "They make the
laws."

'Artificial Balance'

He said that an example of this
judiciary tendency is the "busing of
children across towns to achieve an
artificial racial balance."

"Every man has the right to send his
child to the school nearest his home," he
added.

Singling out one of his opponents
without naming him, Mr. Byrd said, "His
solution for everything is to spend the
taxpayers' money...One thing our Senate does
not need is more free-spending liberals."

Concerning the third candidate, Mr. Byrd
stated that "he thinks I should support
President Nixon 100 per cent...Who needs a
legislative body which will just be a rubber
stamp for the administration's programs?" He
mentioned that he had supported the President
in sending a strict constructionalist to the
Supreme Court, his program for phasing out
the Vietnam War, and the ABM program.

Mr. Byrd called his campaign a "crusade for
the rights of the individual American citizen,"
adding that "the time has come to take the
handcuffs off the police and put them where
they belong."

"On the radical fringes of our society we
hear a lot about the right [of free expression],"
he stated. "Radicals seem to think they
invented it; but when the chips are down they
want that right only for themselves."

"When they start to interfere with our right
to speak our piece for our country," he added,
"then they must be stopped."

On the subject of campus unrest, Mr. Byrd
commented that "the great majority of
students want an education and want to go into
useful professions. They have aright to carry on
their studies in an atmosphere free of violence."
He said that he considers it the duty of college
administrators to "see that they can do so
without the interference of the violence of
others."

Blind Partisanship

He also denounced blind "political
partisanship" and claimed that he has voted
independent of party lines, saying that "the
only way to solve problems is to view them
from a common sense point of view...they will
stand the test of time."

Former Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin
Jr. introduced Mr. Byrd as a man who has
served "with fidelity and with constructive
ideas" and has "represented the collective
conscience of Virginia."

In Mr. Byrd's view the election will
determine whether Virginia will take a liberal
course by electing a "way-out liberal" or
whether it will choose a "forward-looking
conservative."

Mr. Byrd is the man "our Nation needs and
Virginia can offer in this critical time in our
nation's history," said Mr. Godwin He
concluded by saying, "It's not enough to elect
Harry Byrd by a narrow margin; we need to
elect him by a resounding majority! We need to
say to the nation that this is the political
philosophy that we want for our."

Mr. Godwin then introduced Mr. Byrd.
Early in his speech, the Senator remarked, "In
our democratic system, a candidate must tell
the people what he is for. My opponents day
after day tell us what they're against...It's very
simple, they're against me."