Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-01
Calls Wallace
Campaign Very
Frightening
PEGLER
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER


rally of the Communists at the
Yankee Stadium or the night
of Sept. 10 was the official be-
ginning of the presidential cam
paign of Bubblehead Wallace in
New York. The entire folly curl
ed up and died just eleven DAYS
later when Ell Stupo got up at
dinner at the Commodore Hotel
and announced that he and Mrs
wallace were planning to
be Just plain bourgeois" after
election day.
The Wallace episode Of 1913
has been amusing and brighten
ing, both. But on the profit
side we find the fact firmly e.
tablished at last that in 1910
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the
sordid gang of political buns
around him knowingly exposed
the trustful people of the United
States to the risk of mourning
by his death a President who
had secretly mingled with a dan
gerous cult of adventures in
black magic, stuff & cos
mic confusion. Until 10 months
ago, all the survivors of this
bad crowd of common selfish
professionals and PREACHER
Gus schemes in Roosevelt's cir
Gle were able to keep this truth
quiet. But Charlie Nicholson,
the press agent for the Demo
cratic Party, in his memoirs
couldn't resist the temptation to
ridicule both Wallace and Harry
Hopkins. He had been jealous
of Hopkins and took occasion
to deride Hopkins alarm over
the private circulation of the goo
fly Guru letters in 1910. He said
they were of doubtful authenti
city but he knew there was alb
solutely no doubt as to whether
or not they were authentic, and
he knew that Hopkins had good
reason to be jumpy.
In failing to publish the infor
nation Nicholson died loyal to
an evil political force which
may yet prove to have destroyed
the integrity of the United Sta
ties. We don't know yet whether
the cement has crumbled. The
same accusation of prior loyalty
to Roosevelt's party lies agai Istn
all the famous men and womenly
official and unofficial, some of
them posing as silent wise guys
and elders of the nation, who
knew of this terrible situation
but kept quiet. If all the evi
dence against Henry Wallace is
true and am prepared to prove
that most of it is, these people
had a patriotic duty to dare the
wrath of Roosevelt and warn
the voters.
1t was the worst default Of
civic and patriotic duty in the
history of the United States. His
tory will take note of the episde
but perhaps without sufficient
adherence of the conduct of the
people apparently at least
hundred of them. The soldier
little notes nor long remembers
the shell that didn't hit him.
Although Wallace speaks OF
building a PARTY" around him
self for 1852, the danger from
him expired after the four final
years when the vain Roosevelt
was hurrying to his doom. The
danger ended in the 1914 con
vention. Wallace will not be
useful even to the Communist
In 1852. He is a sucked egg.
Rebecca West, the English
writer, took chance that Amer
lean journalists avoided when
she described the ugly piople
who formed the Wallace crowd
at his Convention" in Phila-
delphia. have no idea whether
she is beauty or less than such
But, however that may be she
was courageous and correct.
The retorts that beauty is only
skin-deep and that Miss West
amt no orchid had nothing to do
with the fact that there was in
this wanton, licentious mob of
unsightly European continental
SUM creatures, and parroting
oumptious American Negroes,
These cuddling neurotic way.
ward American campus girls,
loathesome mass personality. So
many of the white or sallow bro
thers and sisters were so dis.
tlnctly European, their conduct
SO reminiscent of political wolf
packs IN the streets of European
cities before fascism, that one
wondered whether Wallace was
cfa1tliy trying to foment riots.
such was the character of
many OF the crowd at his rally
IN the Yankee Stadium. A large
proportion of these nasty Jue-
venille Delinquents were not vo
'eTS az all. Wallace a most mo
aal iellow' may shrug off pei A.
sonai responsibility for the mis-
chie1 obviously in the making
among these bad young girls
anu men. 1t was the dirtiest
S vo that ever befouled the
Y ankee Stadium. The manage
rhent had exacted $1,000 for ex