The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-17

Philadelphia, Lets get on to some
thing important" But the Hears
papers and many others preferred tt
devote generous quantities of space
to the Guru letters while emitting i'm
iportant events at the convention.
The Chicago Daily News carried a
story July 22l headlined, Charges
Sd Party in Grip of Reds, which fea
tured an attack by James Loeb, Jr.
secretary of ADA, but which sup
pressed all mention of the reply made
by Rexford G. Tugwell, chairman OF
the platform committee before which
Loeb appeared. Tugwell told Leob
that the ADA. which had gone
through the motions of opposing Tru-
man and supporting Douglas at the
Democratic convention, had come to
the wrong place and should go to AL
bany. where Dewey was then hold
ing forth.
Rival Candidate "Reports"
To rehabilitate the defunct Socialist
party and put some money in its till,
several newspapers, including the ST
Louis Post-Dispatch and the Denver
Post, hired Norman Thomas, himself
a candidate on the Socialist ticket,
to report" the Wallace convention.
Although the arch-reactionary H. L.
Mencken admitted, IF the proceeding
were actually unanswered by the
goons of the Kremlin, there was GER
-ainly no sign of it." Norman Thomas
avowed, And. to an extent even
greater than I had anticipated, they
ire running this show"
Joseph and Stewart Alsop, in their
column of July 26. take the prize for
and djective-slinging, |
With their references to "the MALE |
BILE ambitious, self-deluding Wal |
ace" the "dreary Tugwell." and ''the
udicrous Taylor" Not only do they |
'ed-bait the Wallace movement but !
hey also had advance information, /
i've days before the event, that some
f Wallace's aides would be smeared
4 a spy plot.
Spy Plot "PoIitics"
Just as Hitler used his Reichstag
ire to carry out a fascist coup so on
he eve of the Wallace convention.
he FBI arrested the leaders of the
party and few days later
he papers began to ballyhoo the spy
care story of a beautiful blonde"
7ho turned out to be buxom bru-
ette, bent on smearing active New
Dealers and Wallace supporters.
In commenting on the spy-scare, the
lew York Star formerly PM) OBJ
erved editorially that a federal |,
rand jury -. failed to indict on any
harges whatsoever any of the gov
rnment workers or former workers
he now names" and added:
"A spy scare is a useful thing to
who are trying to
prove that New Dealers are red {
stooges; who think they won an
election in 1916 by calling liberals /;
Communists; and who still find it {
easier and more clever to worry l
about Communist plots than about t
nigh living COSTS IN Y. Star, '
Aug. 81
l. F. Stone, feature columnist for
lie N. Y. Star, pointed out that real I
)ies are not hunted to the accom- {
of a brass band and as S
,rted: i
"The resort to character assassi-
ration via the house un-American
committee is itself a con-
ession of failure" IN. Y. Star, =
August a.
Fantastic"-Mrs. F. D. r. I
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her col b
nm of August denounced the Wash "
gton spy scare as Republican pol il
cs" and condemned as Outrageous Il
this method of smearing people, F
sferring to Elizabeth Bentley's self 81
Mrs. Roosevelt branded it
fantastic story of this evidently
urotic LADY, and warned that the
tempt ito injure entirely innocent
dividuals' by congressional attack {
very much like "the methods we
ndemn under other forms of govern I
ent" 6
They're using this as a Red her +
lg," said President Truman of the I