'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."
