Evening star., 1946-11-02
'House-Divided'
Theme Stressed
By Democrats
COP Orators Rest
AS Compoign Goes
Into Home Stretch
By the Assoeioied Press

The campaign Tor control OF
the Eightieth Congress turned
into the home stretch today with
Democrats pounding on a theme
once expourded by Republican
Abraham Lincoln-"A house di-
vided against itself cannot
stand"
While Republicans for the most
part took an oratorical breather and
President Truman maintained his
silence, Democratic party leaders
urged voters from coast to coast to
go to the polls Tuesday and elect
a House and Senate which will up
hold the Chief Executive on inter-
national and domestic issues.
In Kansas City, House Speaker
Rayburn declared in a broadcast
that the election of q COP majority
in Congress could bring only CON
fusion which would lead to chaos"
Mr.. Rayburn said the Nations
voters have the choice of two roads:
"One leads to the greatest pros
perity this country and the world
have ever known; the other will
bring only confusion in a house
divided against itself"
Barkley Appeals to Voters.
On the same general theme, SEN
ate Majority Leader Barkley said in
a radio speech that if the Repub-
licans gained control of Congress
'the Nation could say good-by to
any bipartisan foreign policy"
Senator Barkley accused the COP
of being "shot through with the old
|isolationist virus" despite "the lip
service it pays to international CO.
operation"
Senator Barkley acknowledged
that some of the Republicans in
Congress are undoubtedly sincere in
their desire for world cooperation. -
But he added that many of the
leaders-and these include the most
influential men in the party-would
quickly turn America back on the
road to isolationism If their party
should come into power"
He also conceded that some Re-
publicans voted on the right side"
on final passage of various interna-
tional measures.
But before the final vote was
reached" he continued, many of
them sought to scuttle or cripple the
measures with every parliamentary
device at their maneuver and COM
mand. Most of these attempts
were defeated only with the over
whelming majority of the votes of
the Democrats.
Wallace Backs "Progressives."
In Chicago, Henry A. Wallace, who
was fired as Secretary Of Commerce
by President Truman last month
in row over United States foreign
policy, urged the election of PRO
gressiye Democrats" saying:
THE century of the common man
is here. - =" Not even a Republican
victory at this time would delay
the trend for long.
I'VE know that the forces of re-
action composed of the traditional
unholy alliance of the Republican
Party and vested interests are on
the march"
Mr. Wallace, cheered throughout
his address at the Chicago stadium,
proposed that the United States
accept Soviet Foreign Minister Mol
otov's daring challenge" for world
disarmament program, "if we really
want peace.
Daniels AssaiIs Republicans.
On the southern Democratic
front Woodrow wilson's old Secre-
tary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels,
told party rally at Smithfield,
N. c., that election of a COP Con-
gress would Invite a repetition of
the betrayal of peace which shamed
America" after the first world con-
f1ict.
Charging that the Republicans
"submarined" the League of Ma
tions in 1919-21, Mr.. Daniels asked
will the American people again
trust their hearts desire for world
peace to the Republican Party
which scuttled the peace after
World War ~"
In WEIGH. w. Va. Senator Pepper,
Democrat, of Florida told a party
rally that the Republicans are lin
tent on bringing about imitation
and asserted that COP leaders had
destroyed effective price control
and prevented the orderly distri-
button of meat and other necessi-
ties"
Philip Murray, CIO president,
urged workers to repudiate every
old guard Republican, y
and added In a Washington broad
cast:
eff reaction wins on November 5
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