Evening star., 1938-07-17
ATTACKS
ACTIVITY OF clio.
They're Not Going to Run
Me- He Says, Hitting
John |. Lewis,
BY the Associated Press.

CRISFIELD, Md. July 16-Senatol
Millard E. Tydings, in the second
of two addresses marking the formal
opening of his campaign for re-
election, tonight flayed the c. 1. O.'s
Endorsement of his opponent, Repre-
sentative David J. Lewis.
Coming here from Princess Anne
where he had spoken earlier, Tydings
said:
Il find this morning that Mr.. John
l.. Lewis. head of the c. /. O.,
wants David J. Lewis in the United
States Senate. John L. Lewis doesn't
live in Maryland and he wants David
Lewis"
He added:
If you want c. I. o. Senator,
don't vote for me. They're not going
to run me as long as I am in the
Senate. We want no c. I. O.. no
John L. Lewis, no Mauritz Hallgren.
I'VE want no boring from within.
The influences behind my opponent
are not the influences of Maryland
democracy"
i Won't Vote for Everything.
Earlier. at Princess Anne, Tydings
had asserted eff you want a fellow
who is going to vote for everything,
you don't want me-"
In that address he reiterated his
accusation Of Communism against
Mr.. Hallgren, who withdrew from the
senatorial primary campaign to aid
Mr.. Lewis in his fight to beat Senator
Iydings for the Democratic nomina-
ton
Replying to Senator Tydings, Repre-
sentative Lewis accused the Senator of
making "a frantic effort to drag the
red flag across the senatorial trail"
An opponent of Mr.. Tydings for the
Democratic senatorial nomination on
a New Deal versus Tydings" stand,
Mr.. Lewis issued the statement in de-
fense of Mr.. Hallgren.
Senator Tydings headquarters is
sued today what it called documen-
tary evidence as proof of the Sena-
tors radio speech in which he called
Mr.. Hallgren an "out-and-out Com
munist." 1t purportedly was a photo
graphic reproduction of the cover of
Mr.. Hallgren's book called Seeds of
Revolt and subtitled "A Study of
American Life and the Temper of the
American People During the Depres-
sion."
Quotation on Communists.
Also reproduced was a portion from
one of the pages with parenthesis
drawn around two sentences which
read:
THE only hope lies with the Com
munists. Their theology prepares
them, or should prepare them for in
surrection, and in this they also have
the rich experience of the Russian
Bolsheviks to draw upon"
Mr.. Hallgren said Senator Tydings
had made distorted version of a
discussion of radical activities in this
country" and denied he had ever been
a member of the Communist party.
Mr.. Lewis said Mr.. Tydings' open
ing campaign speech reminded me of
the famous Red hunt conducted by
Representative Ham Fish. Mr. Fish
scurried breathlessly over to Baltimore
and to the tune of clicking news
paper cameras opened a trunk in an
old warehouse which contained four
heads of cabbage"
What is really significant about Mr.
Tydings' strategy is that he did not
attack Mr.. Hallgren when Mr.. Hall
gren was running alone But the min
ute Mr.. Hallgren retired from his own
senatorial race, Mr. Hallgren then
became Communist.
=, Claims Innuendoes.
Does this mean that Mr. Tydings
also calls me a Communist?
And since he has mentioned it, I
should like to point out that some of