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TITLES Some New/Some Old Titles listed below, and all others stocked by the Texas Observer Bookstore, are offered to Observer subscribers at a 20% discount. The Texas Observer Bookstore pays for the postage and handling. Amounts shown are the discounted prices, plus the 5% sales tax. To Order with your name, address and remittance to the Texas Observer Bookstore. Are you interested in receiving a more complete list of titles available from the Texas Observer Bookstore? A POPULIST MANIFESTO: THE MAKING OF A NEW MAJORITY $5.00 $5.84 THE PARTY’S OVER: THE FAILURE OF POLITICS IN $6.68 *BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED $1.64 $1.64 *REJECTS: POETRY $1.26 *HOW TO SURVIVE IN YOUR $1.05 *A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN-AMERICANS $1.05 *REGULATING THE POOR: THE FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC WEL $2.06 ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO $6.30 THE WATER HUSTLERS: AN EXAMI-NATION OF WATER RESOURCES MANIPULATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENTS OF TEXAS, ALIENATION AND ECONOMICS $6.68 THE TOWER AND THE DOME: “A FREE UNIVERSITY VERSUS A *#1 SOURCE CATALOG: COMMUNICATIONS $1.26 *THE MAKING OF A RADICAL: A POLITICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY $2.06 *LIVING THE GOOD LIFE: HOW TO LIVE SANELY AND SIMPLY IN A $1.89 *QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG $1.05 * Paperback \(Non-Texas addressees exempt from THE TEXAS OBSERVER BOOKSTORE 600 W. 7, Austin, Texas 78701 1 But darling . . enough to qualify as a computer salesman for Ross Perot. But when he was the only Republican in the Texas Senate, he couldn’t evey carry off a convincing filibuster. After a short while, he would be taking long gulps from a glass of water and repeating the same words in varied orders until he trailed off into inarticulate blather and slumped back into his red leather chair. Grover is not once mentioned in the Observer’s cumulative index, which should give some indication of his negligible impact on legislative concerns. He’s not as obscure as some recent statewide GOP candidates \(Anybody remember Millard Neptune or Sproesser Wynn or E. G. Albert Fay is best known for his generous financial contributions to the party. He was a national Republican committeeman for a while, until the Dallas people forced him to resign. Fay had hoped Nixon would appoint him ambassador to Denmark, but he didn’t and so Fay is running for governor instead. His p.r. people have shortened his first name to Al, presumably because it’s more macho than Albert. It wasn’t Grover’s or Fay’s fault that the Republicans didn’t vote in their own primaries. They each spent approximately a quarter of a million dollars on their campaigns. Grover’s 37,118 votes cost him almost $7 a head and Fay’s 24,044 votes cost more than $10 each. Hank Grover or Al Fay, whichever, the Republican nominee should do much better in the fall. He’ll be running on the same ticket as Nixon and Tower. The Republicans who voted Democratic in May will vote Republican in the fall and so will many Democrats. It may be that John Connally will be leading conservative Democrats to the Republican polls. And then, too, if Dolph Briscoe wins the Democratic runoff, many liberal Democrats may be voting Republican in November. Every two years since 1966, the Republicans have funded the Rebuilding Committee, an organization of Texas liberals that urges fellow Democrats who support the national party to vote Republican in statewide contests. The strategy is that liberals will inherit the Texas Democratic Party only when Texas becomes a genuine two-party state, when the conservatives become Republicans. And that will happen only when the Republicans start winning some state-wide races. FROM TIME TO TIME, the Observer has encouraged its readers to vote Republican, but even the editorial heft of this journal could not make a Republican winner. And even if the Republicans did win, conservative Democrats would not Hank Grover surrender the keys to the party machinery without a mammoth struggle. Joel Coolidge, a Harris County Democrat, summed up the situation back in nineteen and sixty-two, when he told the Observer, “There’s not enough of us conservatives to dominate two parties in Texas. We’d better stick together with the one we have or we’ll lose both.” Conservative Democrats continue to vote for Democratic , governors and for Republican presidents. The Republicans vote the very same way. And the liberals keep stomping their feet and saying it just isn’t fair. But the Month of May Democrats might get theirs yet. Hordes of McGovernites and Wallaceites are descending on the state Democratic convention in June and they may depose Tory Democratic leaders. If they are kept out of office long enough, some of them might eventually decide to become year-round Republicans, at which point liberals could start voting like year round Democrats. K.N. June 9, 1972 3