NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN WOMEN 795

comparable to no other political product but still recognizable by the
label.

Well, to a degree he's right. I owe my victory to Bob Goodman
and to hundreds of dedicated Republican women like you; to hard
work and the good luck that a great issue came along to split the
heavy Maryland Democratic majority.

This year we're seeing on the national level many of the same
forces and factors which brought success to Maryland's Republican
Party. Never before has our cause been more clear, our prospect more
promising.

Ever since Bobby Kennedy threw his hair in the ring, the Demo-
cratic Party has been straining to split. The President backs the Vice
President, and I've heard he plans to campaign for him as soon as he
can remember his name; Senator McCarthy has considerable support
and most of his supporters will be old enough to vote for him by 1972.
Meanwhile, rank-and-file Democratic politicians seem to agree that
Bobby Kennedy is their second choice for President — with anyone
else as their first choice.

The only winner from Democratic infighting will be the Republican
Party. This year, as Democrats struggle for power, Republicans must
battle for principle.

Principle — like patriotism — is an old-fashioned word that seemed
destined for the graveyard under a succession of Democratic adminis-
trations whose policies were shaped by expedience. Who needed to
bother with means or methods as long as the ends were achieved?
Who needed to condemn civil disobedience until it led to civil dis-
order? Who needed to worry about rising taxes or rising spending
until we reached the heights of inflation and stared down into the
volcano of dollar devaluation? Who needed to question the conduct
of a foreign war until the callous daily "body count" began to include
bodies close to so many of us?

The American dream is turning into a nightmare. The heroic
American has turned into the anxious American. The bread and
circus programs of the Great Society, like those of the once great
Roman Republic, seem to drain the vigor from our spirit.

The hue and cry over America's direction in recent years has been
heard from the conservative critic in general and the Republican
Party in particular. But some of the most eloquent voices of disap-
proval have come from the Liberal Establishment. It is not Barry