The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-11-12
MeKEAN'S ELECTION Interpretation
MAKES SENSE

pie did decide and the experts, VIII
know so little about all the importan
things and so much about little 0
moment, are red faced and apollo
getic. Now their problem is to saw
face and protect their Moloch mas
tiers, while at the same time discred
iting the people.
The Kaltenborns, and Fulton
Lewis and all the host of other mel
who know all and tell nothing, o,
vice versa, harped continually on the
theme that Mr. Truman won his vic
tory single-handed, by his strenuou.
and rather terrible campaign attacks
upon monopoly and special privilege
His almost superhuman endurance
race is supposed to have won the
election.
The work of Mr.. Wallace and
his party were far more important,
for them goes the credit, not only
of forcing the issues into the open,
but forcing MIR. Truman to espouse
the Progressive platform to a con-
siderable extent. The highly sig
nificant thing to note is the polar
ization trend that inevitably re-
suits under monopoly control of
public opinion. While these idea
experts and oPinion-makers be-
come extremely reactionary, the
people never follow at quite so
rapid a pace. They want most of
all, to remain rather neutral and
moderate in the battle royal be-
tween liberalism and conservative
ism. Because the third party ac-
cePted the left in its present most
extreme, even to the extent of
communist collaboration, the Dem
ocratic party became the middle
of-the-the-road choice as a simple
matter of course.
The Republicans might do well to
onder the political future of their
arty. 1t now seems reasonable to
oppose that the Democratic party
lay become the party of the right
nd the new Progressive party carry
ne peoples fight on the left. Much
the fate of the Republican party
nd the fate of the people as well.
IN Mr.. Truman's hands and the
ands of his party followers. Should
1ese newly elected men carry out
lie mandate of the people to even
reasonable extent, then the Repub-
can party may have another lease
4 life, but if they become the tools
selfish, interests so that the de-
and for a peoples party is undim-
ished, then exit, G. o. P.
Must Awaken
The probability of most severe
epression during Mr.. Truman's
ming term of office will become a |
unless the Democratic ad- |
Illustration awakes rather sharply
the needs of the people. Such a
epression can only accentuate the
ED for the peoples new party and
We it the vitality that inevitably
'mes from increased interest and
,tivity on the part of the common
an, when calamity strips off his
'ual lethargy.
Another lesson is still more i'm
has been shown by the
rength and vitality of our Demo
attic institutions of free speech,
zee assembly, and free elections.
ne monopoly of public opinion en-
yed by highly paid stooges of re-
ton in press and radio and by per-
.rted poll-takers, has been shaken
its very foundations by the spokes-
en- of the third party and other de-
nders of people against privilege.
, Early To Rejoice
This poses the question as to how
ng the economic royalists will con-
Tue to depend upon this method of
ling by fooling, if the fooling proc
turns out to be failing instead
fooling. 1t is too early to rejoice
er this leftist victory. The people
We yet to find out how far to the
It they really will be taken and the
opaganda machine has not lost it's
fectiveness simply because it lost
e little battle. When the monop-
masters of this nation become
asonably certain that they are los
the battle of ideas through own
shin and control Of ai,. ord ,,,occ