Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-14
Convention Stirred
BY Rayburn' S Blast
Al COP and Wallace
BY Don S. Worren
Stor Stoff Corre,pondent


evaporated today, after the once
nnoribund Democratic conven-
ton was stirred last night by
House Minority Leader Rayburn.
1t was rough, tough speech. He
, not only struck out at the record
and character of the Republican
leadership but gave full credit to
the Roosevelt Truman regime for
.all the progress and good things of
the past 16 years.
= Mr.. Rayburn not only called the
.Dewey-Warren Republican standard
!, bearer false front" for party of
privilege" and ridiculed Republican
claims of administrative efficiency,
but he took on Henry Wallace and
his new party labelling it mere
mask for the Communist Party.
But he called the Republican
Party the more dangerous of the
two.
Short of Campaign Fury.
As bitter as was his assault on the
Republicans, Mr.. Rayburn still did
not whip the hot and fretted dele
gates into anything like campaign
fury. He got some cheers and some
loud wells but no wholesale uprising
The convention bit earlier had been
stirred by a floor ruction over the
seating of Mississippi's white delega-
ton and still was noisy and dis
tracted as the conventions perm
snent chairman made his address.
There was nothing soft in either
his words or his voice. The gloves
were off his fists.
He tied high tariff "Grundyism"
to the Republican banner leader
and scoffed at Gov Dewey's pledge
that he was completely unfettered
by any promise to those who swept
his nomination to success.
Party Between False Fronts.
There is peculiar value" in the
Democratic Party today, he said,
in that it stands for the whole
American people between two false
fronts"
"One false front, Dewey and War;
rem he said, masks the Republl-
can Party as the continuing party
of privilege And the other equally
dangerous, is the front which masks
the Communist Party, the confused
Henry Wallace who leads some we'll
meaning idealistic Americans yearn-
ing for peace into the slaughter
house of war and Communism.
There is nothing more the Ameri-
can people want than peace. But
they will not let Henry Wallace ex-
plot their yearning for peace in
order to encourage an illusory iso-
lationism Communist aggression and
war
The American people will forgive
Henry Wallace for some of his
many mistakes of the heart. But
they will never forgive him his cruel
and heartless opposition to the Mar
shall Plan effort to restore health
to sick. a hungry and war-torn
world.
This attempt of the Wallace
party to kill the Marshall Plan has
made it Communist front, despite
the good faith and idealism OF some
of its supporters"
Calls COP Leadership Worse.
Those were sharp words, but Mr.
Rayburn said the Republican leader
ship as he sees it is worse,
The front of privilege, he con-
tinued. lis even more dangerous be-
cause it is the abuse of privilege
what Grover Cleveland called the
communism of self-upon which the
other communism grows and thrlVes'
Privilege, which divides people
and turns groups against group, is
the seed from which totalitarlanlsm
flowers"
Earlier, Mr.. Rayburn took special
SLABS at Gov Dewey and Gov.
Warren. Gov. Warren, he said OF
the Republican vice presidential
nominee, whom he called the ace OF
the new front" slipped in making
his acceptance speech when he said
I'VE must 60 back to Republican
principles
And Gov. Dewey. the Texan SAID
would have to be Houdlnl II ne
could escape his 'fetters.
As MIR, Rayburn put it:
He is fettered to High TarlH Joe
erlndy, who will insist on his pound
ef flesh to kill the reciprocal trace
agreements which the State Depart
roent 50 successfully fostered under
the leadership of Cordell Hull
Cites SCOTS Bills.
"His new national chairman
REPRESENTATIVE Hugh Scott OF
PENNSYLVANIA is 'fettered TO emas'
culate the Public Utility Holding co
Act because he introduced two ollls
for that when he was in Congress
He did not get them then. but no"
he is national chairman OF the he
publican Party.
And if that is done to the Securl-
ties and Exchange Commission, Wha'
will happen to all the public power
DEVELOPMENTS of the West-Grano
Coulee of Washington, BonneVllie
of oregon, Big Thomson. COLORADO;
the Hungry Horse of Montana, and
all the rest?"
And how can Gov. Dewey-even
If he really wants to-hreak the let
tiers of the high-cost housing LOBBY
the hlgh-cost food Hobbies, the
private utility lobby and all the
other countless special interest ioo-
bies which made such shamoies
of this last Republican Congress
Who, Mr.. Rayburn asked. are the
Republicans trying to fooi?'
Taking off at the Republican ira
ditional claim of administrative ell
ficiency, Mr.. Rayburn told his Demo
cratic partisans: 1T is the damnlns
history of American politics that the
Republican Party has never known
how to do big things well. 1t ha'
been penny-wise and pound-foollsf
long on money and short on hu'
man sense-ever since the party o.
Abraham Lincoln was hijacked tn
first time by Joe Grundy and TIT
PENNSYLVANIA Association of Manu-
facturers.
And history repeats itself by las
months hijacking when the Re