Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-05-26
Washington
Scene
BY Travis X. Hedrick

Those tureful SongSterS, the
Almanac Singers, had a verse
that ran like this:
Which side are you on
Which side are you on
Will you be goll durn scab
Or be a union man?
All of which is a means of
introducing today's theme on the
men in the leadership of parts OF
the Democratic party who are
scabbing it for the opposition
In the May issue of The Ma
tional Republican released May
16, there is some food for fruit
full thought
Who are the Republican pub
licity hacks using to demon
strate what they want to show
the country? Professed Demo-
Gratis, the men who are feeding in
the public trough by virtue of
their membership in the Demo
cratic party and who publicly ac-
cepted its program and policies.
THE BOYS
First there is old Sen. Ellison
d. Cotton Ed Smith ID. S. c.,
who is quoted on Page l of the
National COP organ as COM
menting that the initials FDR
have new cannotation Accord
ing to this Democrat, FDR means
Federal Debt Raiser"
Another juicy quote is pub
lished, also on Page l, from Rep.
Louis Ludlow ID. Ind.) who at
tackled bureaucracy and bureau
Gratis" for the part OF Hoover,
Dewey and Bricker.
Next in the lineup comes Rep.
j. F. O'Connor d. Mont who
takes sharp issue with the Demo
cratic farm policy in the Repup-
lican paper and says Il never
dreamed we would send needed
farm machinery to foreign coun-
tries and thus deny the needs of
our own farmers"
Rep. Ludlow's little contribu-
ton was used, by the national
paper of the Republican party to
support its big smear piece that
opened with this statement: THE
government of the u. S. has
ceased to be constitutional gov
ernment. The theory that the
government at Washington is a
government of the people, by
the people, has been aban-
doned. "
Nice going for a Democratic
congressman, heh? In this writ
er's lodge he'd be thrown out.
his large white can.
Of course there are other
quotes from Republicans and
from the trained seals of the Re-
publican party among the ma
tionally read columnists who
write for the daily press, 900
of which is standpat Republican
in viewpint and reactiOnary in
tone.
Which side are these gentry
on?
There is national political
campaign in full swing right
now. And here they are, aiding
and abetting the enemy.
Free speech? That might be
their word for it. In most other
vocabularies the term is treason
and back biting.
There are many others the
COP writer's have omitted for
lack of space who do an equally
efficient job for Republican
party promotion. But maybe
some of these are too close to be
publicly exposed in the party
organ.
REPUBLICANS
While on the subject of Re-
publicanS, perhaps it might not
be amiss to touch up Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey a little.
Arthur Sears Henning, who
serves as an intellectual barman
for Col. Robert r. Mccormick S
Chicago Tribune, has surveyed
Deweys opposition as an Ameri-
can Firster and Nationalist, and
reported him sound. In fact,
Henning recommends unanimous
support by the COP for the New
York governor as its candidate
against Pres. Roosevelt.
Although some of Dewey's re-
cent utterances didn't sit so we'll
on Col. McCormick's isolationist
stomach, Henning serves some
bicarbonate of soda with the
thought that many nationalists
are disposed to waive their OBJ
jections to the Dewey speech in
the interest of the most vital OBJ
lective: the defeat of the Roose-
welt regime, believing that their
views will prevail in the writing
OF the platform to which the
candidate will be bound"
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