What Are the Moderates Doing?

Michigan's Romney is not the only moderate Republican leader who is wrestling with the problem of what to do about Barry. Among others, several have decided to work actively for Goldwater, quite a few have chosen to pretend that Barry doesn't exist, and hardly anybody so far has actually come out against him.

Dwight Eisenhower, notably silent in recent weeks, has not yet firmed up plans to hit the stump for Goldwater. But he already is taping nationwide telecasts with Barry at Gettysburg, the first of which, on national defense and foreign policy, will be shown this week. Richard Nixon spoke out for Goldwater last week at the Michigan Republican Convention, will open a five-week 30-state national speaking tour for him early in October. Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton will plug the ticket in eight states besides his own in 31 days of speechmaking. Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton is swinging through at least a dozen states to proclaim his "wholehearted support of Goldwater and Miller."

"Top to Bottom." New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who gave 268 speeches for Nixon in 1960, has no plans as yet to speak outside New York. In New York, he avoids mentioning Goldwater whenever possible. Last week he was interrupted in the midst of a speech for Senator Keating by a woman who demanded: "Say something about Goldwater." Replied Rocky coolly: "We're here to elect Republicans from top to bottom." Rockefeller will introduce Goldwater for a speech in Albany this week, but Goldwater aides in New York have pretty much abandoned any hope of pressuring either Ken Keating or his liberal Republican colleague, Senator Jacob Javits, into endorsing Barry.

Henry Cabot Lodge, still busy explaining U.S. policies in Viet Nam to allies in Europe and Canada, plans to campaign for his brother John, who is trying to unseat Connecticut's Democratic Senator Tom Dodd, and for John Volpe, who is trying to win back the Massachusetts governorship he lost in 1962. But Lodge says he will not speak for Goldwater; for that matter, no one has asked him to.

Significant Silence. Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield, who keynoted the G.O.P. National Convention, has made no speeches for Goldwater, recently warned Republican candidates for state offices that they "could lose the whole state of Oregon" if they put too much emphasis on the presidential ticket. Ohio's Governor James Rhodes, who threw his delegation's support to Goldwater at San Francisco when it was clear that he could not otherwise control it, failed to mention Barry at all in a speech last week to the Ohio G.O.P. convention, is waiting to assess Goldwater's strength in the state before he decides whether to go to work for him.

New Jersey's Senator Clifford Case refuses to endorse Goldwater, this week accused him of "attempting to get victory through appeal to the white backlash." Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott has endorsed Barry, but never mentions him by name in a campaign speech. Other Senators who have thus far remained significantly silent about Goldwater include Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper and California's Tom Kuchel.

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