Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

Lincoln
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delegation to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention in 1913, commit
ted unequivocally and without COM
promise to your candidacy for
President.
I'VE further promise that we will
fight simultaneously to insure cleo
ton of bloc of progressive Demo-
Gratis pledged to back your program
for peace, jobs and democracy when
Congress convenes on January 8
1949."
Almost at the same time, Mr.
Kenny in a keynote speech to the
conference vigorously attacked the
Truman administration, charging
that it had sold.the Roosevelt New
Deal" down the river. He reached
his climax in his closing paragraph,
saying:
Henry Wallace can and must be
the champion of the people in 1913.
Events are rushing to climax in
! Europe, in Asia and here at home,
while the atom bomb hovers over
the world
'At such time we must remem-
Der that the Democratic Party is
not the party of Rankin and Bilbo.
1t is not the party Of Truman and
the Missouri gang. In California,
it is not the property of any group
or clique. The Democratic Party,
numerically, ideoiogically, and his
torically, is by vast majority the
party Of liberal voters. 1t is the
party of Claude Pepper and Glen
Taylor, or Franklin Roosevelt and
Henry Wallace. The strength of
our party-all of its strength-can
only be modified around a fighting
liberal program-for the sake of
America and of the world"
Drive Starts Smoothly.
Organization of the Wallace-for-
President drive started smoothly,
after Mr.. Kenny had completed his
address, with DR.. Carlton Goodlett
of San Francisco, a colored ply
sician and member of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, explaining the steps
necessary to be taken to get Mr..
Wallace's name on the June pri-
mary ballot next year.
But when q motion was made to
carry out the program suggested by
DR.. Goodlett, the smoothness van
ished temporarily. John Despol of
Los Angeles, who Is field worker
for the Steel Workers Union, CLIO,
demanded whether the report was
true that Mr.. Kenny had said Mr..
Wallace would run as an indie
pendent candidate in 1948 if he
failed to get the California delega-
ton and the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination.
! Before a vote is taken here" Mr.
Despoi continued, this conference
should go on record as opposing such
an independent ticket. To put an
! independent ticket in the field
would split the liberal vote and. re-
suit in the election of reactionary
isolationist Republican president.
Throw Him Out" Some Cry.
! With the temperature in Fresno
To-Day at lO4 degrees, IL was 8eLtlng
even hotter in the conference hall
There were cries of shut him up
throw him out" call the sergeant
alarms" and 7 demand the pre-
vious question
Nothing bothered the cool Mi,
Despol, however, and he began
/ again.
Kenny stabbed Wallace in the
back IN 1914 The was referring to
charge that Mr. Kenny, member
of the State delegation at the Demo-
cratic National Convention, had not
voted for Mr. Wallace for vice pres
ident, a report that Mr.. Kenny has
fatty denied) Immediately "boos"
came from all parts of the hall.
I'D like to know what steps we
can take to keep Kenny from being