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By EUGENE McCARTHY
A suitable format for testing and comparing the six candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination seems not to have been worked out at this stage of the campaign.
Experts in politics, without giving reasons, say that it is too early for debates, such as those in which Republican candidates participated in advance of the 1980 election. They do not say why it is too early. Meanwhile the candidates have been rushing about the country trying to appear before every group that invites them.
The July schedule included an appearance before the National Education Association in Philadelphia, then to Detroit to appear before the annual meeting of LULAC, The League of United Latin American Citizens, then to Aspen, Colorado for a forum sponsored by the Sierra Club and they had not yet reached mid July. On July 10, the candidates were expected, and most appeared, before the National Women’s Caucus in San Antonio, Texas. The following week, it was New Orleans for the meeting with The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; then to Detroit for a meeting of the Democratic National Committee.
On July 20, the candidates were scheduled to present their credentials to the National Council of Senior Citizens, presided over by Congressman Claude Pepper. Between these appearances, the candidates were scheduled to appear in pairs (whether in a round-robintournament-like arrangement or not has not been publicly indicated) before the House Democratic Caucus. No similar appearance before the Senate Democratic caucus has been scheduled, possibly because it might be difficult to get a quorum to attend unless the candidates were counted.
In pre-July skirmishing, the same candidates had appeared before the Georgia Democrats, with Bert Lance as the Master of Ceremonies, and before the Massachusetts Democrats, under the directorship of Senator Kennedy.
The candidates also found time to demonstrate their wit at a roast of Moe Udall, who had earlier announced that he would not be a candidate, thus reliev4
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