Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-05
Shift Due To
Backing OF
Communists
SoKoLSKY
BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Last Spring, the betting was
that Henry Wallace would get al
least 5,000,00 votes. No one ex.
perienced with American politics
would bet that way today. It
is now calculated that Henry
might get at most 5000, 900.
Many competent men would es-
innate that that is high because
Wallace is definitely slipping as
the campaign proceeds.
The shift in judgment is due
to the growing certainty that
Henry Wallace's Progressive
Party is a Communist front; that
those who control the Communist
apparatus in the United States
control the Progressive Party.
Wallace's speeches read as
though they were written in the
Kremlin. If it is false that Wal
lace has become a slave of the
Communists; if it is false that
he closely follows the Kremlin
line, it is his own fault that his.
own countrymen have come to
think that way about him. That
is the picture he now paints of
himself, just as at another period
he liked to be thought mystic
and queer.
The Communists do not believe
in the two-party system. To
them it seems a ridiculous in
stitution, outworn and outmoded.
They believe in one-party sys-
tenn. Their idea is that whoever
takes the power holds it as long
as he can for whatever purpose =
he chooses. They do no speak of
being elected to office, the
phrase they employ is "seizing
power.
Thus the Communist Party
Platform says:
Millions of American work.
ing people have come to realize
the futility of any further sup
port for the bankrupt two-party
system of big business. Both
major parties are committed to
the bipartisan war program,
reflected in both the Truman
Doctrine and its New Look YER
sion, the Marshall PPlan. Both
major parties are committed to
1.-THE bipartisan war program, re-
Elected in both the Truman Doc
trine and its New Look version,
the Marshall Plan. Both major
parties are united in this pro-
gram of fattening he billionaires
and bleeding the taxpayers"
Then this same platform says:
Millions Of Americans. disil-
1usioned with the two-party sys-
TEN, have given birth to q new
peoples party.
"The new Progressive party is
an unacceptable historic necessity
for millions who want a real
choice between peace and war,
democracy or fascism, security
or poverty.
"The Communists, who sup
port every popular progressive
movement, naturally welcome
this new prople's party. We
supported the progressive fea
lures of Roosevelt's New Deal.
We helped organize the c. /. o.
in the 1905, We have supported
every democratic movement
since the Communists of Lincoln
generation fought in the Union
during the Civil War"
We can skip that part about
the Civil War because the Com
munists of 1848 and thereafter
were not even remotely the an
cestors' of the Stalnist appara-
tus for world conquest. Karl
Marx, as a correspondent of
Horace Greeley's New York
Tribune, was even friendly to the
Republican Party-but what diff
ference does that make? Other
wise, the Communist boast is
true. They did support the New
Deal and they did organize the
c. I. o. And Wallace has accept
ed it as good in spite Of the ir-
REPUTABLE evidence with which he
must be familiar, that while he.
was Secretary of Agriculture,
Secretary of Commerce, head Of
BEW, and Vice President of the
United States, these same Com
munists were sabotaging and be-
traying his country in. the in.
terest of a foreign power-for a
time, 1t is true, an awkward and
sullen ally, now an open enemy.
The Communists Say:
We Communists are dedicat-
ed to the proposition that the
great American dream of life.
liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness will be realized only under
socialism, system of society in
which the major means of pro-
duction will be collectively
owned and operated under a 10.
vernment based on the working
Glass;"
Henry Wallace has never re-
pudiated the support of those
who hold such views. There
fore, he has been repudiated by
most of labor and even
by the Negroes whom he sought