The Nation: Taunting the Tiger

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One man with no fear of machines is Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris. A month ago, he quietly faded out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination after just 46 desultory days of campaigning. Now he plans to offer himself as a "symbolic" candidate in areas where Democratic primary voters lack a non machine alternative. New Jersey. New York and Ohio are on Harris' list; but it is headed, of course, by Dick Daley's Cook County. Unlike Ed Muskie and George McGovern, who plan to steer clear of Daley country in their search for delegates, Harris vows to show that Cook County "is something out of the dinosaur era, and Daley himself is a kind of sabertooth tiger." Possibly Harris means to prove his case by being eaten alive.