Milford chronicle., 1948-07-23


plications for turns
at the incinerators,
maceraters and fathomless dumps
at sea.
Governor Dewey has said nothing
about vengeance, but he is a Biblical
man with singing memory Of the
ridicule and sneers shot at him
through the blow-guns Of Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Ickes, Morgenthau.
Eleanor the Great and many an
other during the long ordeal. ANY
WAY, HE is A STICKLER FOR
FIDELITY IN OFFICE AND A
FAMOUS PROSECUTOR.
All this while, and growing more
reckless by the day as it got away
with more and more outrageous
foutings Of civic decency and even
Of the criminal statutes, the Roose.
welt administration conducted itself
as though its only successors would
be its own friends bent on similar
felonies or worse.
Winston Churchill and the
London publisher, Lord Beaver
brook, were among the foreign
crew. WhOs under ROOsevelts
vain and cynical assurance,
ignored the leading politician
OF the American opposition,
treating him as though he never
could be more than a heCkIer.
The income tax returns Of the
Roosevelt family will be secrets no
longer unless the treasury should de-
strOy them or has done so in the past.
E.,. John Edgar Hoov-
S%b er, faithful though
of he has been in his
HooDer legal duties, viii be
invited to seek high
er honors elsewhere and the files
Of the F. B. I. win pass into new
hands. He was a New Deal COP and
his friends and haunts were polit-
ical. Before it is all over, Harold
Ickes may be asked to pay for his
vacation travel aboard the coast
guards vessels and adjusted COM
pensation in the government for his
rental Of the interior departments s
luxurious private love-bower for the
old curmudgeon.
The most spectacular fight OF
repudiated parasites in the sOr-
did and often IaFCenOus story OF
predatory politics in the Amer
lean republic is about TO start.
Now the cry Of the bleeding heart
is ITO THE HILLS, MEN. THE
DAM HAS BUSTl"
It would be arbitrary to say that
the Americans are at their un-
tidiest in the moods Of grim civic
exaitation at these quadrennial
bouts. But no other feast, from the
speedway race to the Kentucky
derby, puts them in a mind to walk.
sit and Wallow in the butts Of dead
cheroots and hot dog rolls, get stuck
to Slated chairs and to shuttle about
looking like station-house buns with
blue-mold. with so little complaint.
C1 One Of the most
"PssC" poignant events, spir.
IS itual as well as po-
POIGNANT litical, since the
Mountbank seduced
the rabble with his defiance Of fear
itself, on March 4, 1898, was the
speech Of Herbert Hoover.
This was not a harangue but
3 sermon, beautiful and sadly
FepFOachfuI, not because the
people had repudiated him but
because they had been bribed
and beguiled TO loose their grip
on liberty. Il probably was Her
bert HOOveF's farewell address.
The other hour Of dignity and
grace, saving the convention from
a dead level Of loud vulgarity, was
the program Of James Melton, the
singer, on opening night.
Most Of the delegates on such a
mission pass unrecognized into the
Oblivion whence they came. It falls
to a few, however, to answer to
their names for the networks when
delegations are poled. When this
happens all but the dullest of them
seize the chance to send their
names reverberating down the ages
and through the vastness Of space
by crying out quaint, witty or mag
nihcent sprigs Of cress to garnish
the plain statements Of their votes.
A lady from North Dakota.
asked how the delegation voted.
tore the flesh from the bones
Of thousands present with an
awful below that hers was the
honor and the privilege to cast
IL votes for Stassen.
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