Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-11-03
On The
Beam
NO TEA PARTY


pressed by Emily Postian adj
monition to keep the political
discourse at a high level of
etiquette.
So far as l am concerned,
this political combat is far
from being a tea party.
1t has been apparent from
the beginning that the aristoc-
racy which bosses the Repub-
lican Party was out to win at
any cost, and that no holds
were barred. When Dewey
started putting himself on rec
ord in favor of New Deal
laws, and when he blamed the
depression on the Roosevelt
Administration, truth covered
her face with her hands and
fled to hide under the bed.
1t is a rough-apd-tumble
match, and no fooling.
BIG STAKES
The stakes are so big in this
brawl that it is impossible to
conduct it by fencing politely
and shouting "touche" when a
point is made.
To begin with, all this CUFF
about Dewey being a gentle
man of honor is enough to up
set the stomach of any honest
democrat.
Those who know Dewey's
record as prosecutor know
that there have been many
moments in his career when
he was anything but a gentle
man. He has made deals with
one kind of of racketeer to get
the dope on another kind of
racketeer-all for the purpose
of building up his reputation.
1t is said that violation of
civil liberties was a common
practice in his system of bust
ing rackets.
What's more, it is commonly
known that he rarely prose-
cuted any of the big business
men who dish out the dough
on which rackets thrive; and
so it is not strange that the
big cartels and monopolies-
which are more dangerous
rackets than any numbers
game-are really plugging for
Dewey in this critical cam
paign.
MURDER AND MAYHEM
And, as / said once before
in this column, the COP cam
paign possesses an undertone
of murder and mayhem.
Sure, these are strong
words.
But it takes strong words to
describe an ugly situation.
Remember the boys who
murdered on the picket line at
South Chicago in 1887 re-
member all the heads that
were busted by police clubs
all through the era of the sit
down strikes. remeber the
tear gas and the company
spies and the thugs. remem-
ber all the Republicans who
voted for the th-Connally j,
Act.
These things were all mani
festations of the kind of labor
policy that the money-bags of
the Republican Party really
believe in.
So, when 1 inject the words
murder and mayhem" into
my discourse on the Republi-
can campaign, l am simply
pointing out that the fight of
the n dustria a aristocracy
against organized labor has in
volved murder; and Dewey is
their favorite-and there you
are.
STOP THIEF
To me, the campaign is SIM
pie. On the one hand, we
have an aggregation of big
time thieves-the industrial
lists, bankers and big landlords
do not have enough
power to conduct their thieve-
ry in as thorough-going
fashion as they desire.
Deployed in resistance to
this aggregation of big thieves
is an administration which has
its little thieves, but which, on
the whole, has tried to protect
the common folks from the
big thieves who finance the
GOPi
The major issue is that
these big thieves take so much
in profits that the working
masses have too little left to
buy the things they make in
the factories, then the folks
are laid off, there are bread
lines and riots, and the big
thieves yell for a strong man
to protect private property
and restore order. That's how