The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-05
Fair Enough

Editors Nste.-Ths Star and the News accept no
fesponaoii'sy for the personal views Of Mr. PsgIer
and often disagree with them . much ~ many Of
bis readers. His articles the good purpose Of
making people think.
By wESTBROoK PEGLER
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 4-This contribution to
American literary treasure and political wis.
dom is being written under the same roof
which covers the deliberations of the 26 Re-
publican governors who are bordering a sup
Elementary party platform under Tom Dew
ey's general supervision. Serious men all, of
varying degrees of intelligence and statesman
ship, they are meeting in defensive spirit
handcuffed. as it were by the prestige that
Frank Roosevelt has assured for himself as
a personal elNlm and easy confidant of Stain
and Churchill, and hushed by their own awe
OF a native American politician certainly no
better than themselves.
This is political fight between two Ameri-
can candidates for one office If that office
were mayor, sheriff or coroner, the Republi-
cans would be at ease and ready to throw
the record at Roosevelt. If an incumbent
sheriff. elected on crime must-go platform,
had established q fragrant and hooking ALI
ance with the very same sordid gangs, COM
parable to Ed Kellys and Frank Hague's,
that he had affected to despise and promised
to destroy. the opposition would disgrace hint
with proof Of his own hypocrisy. If the sheriff.
had exploited his office to enrich his own
relatives and his political parasites through
by-products = his office, his opponent would
hound him day and night with proof of his
avarlce and his betrayal OF misplaced trust
II he had organized new underworld gang
of his own, levying tribute on every worker
in the country for his own political funds, as
Roosevelt has done in the pseudo-idealistic|
and humane American labor movement the
rival candidate would n t be calling him
mister but uglier names more appropriate
to their accusations.
Speak Softly
Yet these Republicans speak softly and with
respect for the presidential office which no
more belongs to Roosevelt as a candidate than
1t belongs to Dewey in the same status. They
have been SO daZzled, awed and humbled by
Roosevelts own propaganda that when Con-
gresham Ham Fish, Republican, states an
indisputable fact, Dewey and the rest of the
party disown him.
The truth is that it wasn't Ham Fish who
injected issues of clannshness, religion and
race into this campaign but Roosevelts own
communist auxiliary which went underground
a few months ago and emerged as the Po-
litical Action Committee OF the CO.
Poles, Irish Catholics, anti-Catholics, Jews,
Masons, Protestants and units of labor and
business all have voted as blocks in this coun-
try, off and on, according to the heat of the
for generations. Roosevelt, himself |
appointed to the United States Supreme court
a man of such miserable character that just
to win cheap, local job county prosecutor
in Birmingham, Ala, he joined an oath-bound
gang of night-riding terrorists whose guiding
creed was hatred and persecution of Jews,
Catholics and Negroes.
Yet, such is the power of the Roosevelt
cynicism, that today, there are even Republi-
cans who dsown Fish, not for his infallible
oafishness but merely because he remarked
that Roosevelt would command the Jewish
vote.
To the extent that there is a Jewish vote
this is a fact which all politicians, including
Roosevelts following, set down in their prac-
teal r ko n n g. Roosevelts organization
counts it as in the bag and Republican poll
ticians are writing it off.
Vote in Block
Similarly, the Polish vote in Buffalo, Chi
cago and other Polish centers, is regarded as
block which may 60 against Roosevelt and
for Dewey because Roosevelt has abandoned
the anti-communist Polish government-in-ex-
lie.
Every honest politician and political writer
in the United States knows that religious and
racial prejudice are political implements of
the communists as well as of the true bigots.
Where the bigots arouse such issues in plain
stupid hatred and superstition, the commu-
nists do it for the calculated purpose of caus-
ing bloody disorders. They do it by selecting
despicable characters to commit outrageous
attacks on the dignity and character Of hon
est tolerant Americans. For years the COM
1nunists of Roosevelt's own political auxiliary
have been trying the souls of exemplary pa
triotic men who shed their blood in France
in the purest devotion to American ideals, by
subjecting them to- 1oatheson1e abuse. They
call them Nazis and Fascists and, thus, trait
ors to their country and, for the delivery of
these trying provocations they have selected
migrate refugees who not only scuttled out of
the American draft in the last war but en-
ployed their time in soap-box exhortatons to-
other immigrants to make revolution here
in the absence Of the nations best fighting
men.
That is the communist way. The communists
all will vote for Roosevelt. Their agent in
the Political Action Committee Sidney Hill
man, has yen guest at the White House