Evening star., 1948-06-22
BY fhs Assoeioted Press

note speech by Coz. DUtght II.
Green OF Illinois at the conuen-
tton.
Delegates. Republicans, my fellow
Americans:
We are here to nominate the 34tl
President Of the United States.
Here in Philadelphia. the Declara
ton Of Independence proclaimed tn
freedom of America. We in this con
vention reaffirm American freedom
and independence.
Here In Philadelphia wise mer
shaped the Constitution of th'
United States We in this conven.
ton hall once more that immorta
charter as the keystone Of our faith
In this sacred atmosphere of great
events we meet In solemn conven-
ton. This Is no place for narrow
partisansnip. This Is not an hour
for personal ambition. 1t is for us
to dedicate our common effort to
serve the republic which, long ago
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Peoples Convention
This is a peoples convention. 1t Is
OF the people. for the people and by
men and women In the service Of the
people This convention belongs to
the millions to whom radio and tele-
vision are carrying this message. 1t
belongs to the las ,000, 900 Americans
In the 48 States and the territories
Of this republic. We send our greet
ines to free men everywhere and to
men, though in bondage, who long
for freedom that is lost. To them
We say, We will keep the faith with
you wherever you are.
The republic here established has
learned that Government best serves
its high purpose through the COM
petition of two great political parties
One Of those parties has had the re-
sponsibilities of executive Govern
ment for 16 years. Our Republican
Party challenges a further grant oi
power to that party. 1t asserts thai
freedom, stability. justice and peace
demand a new leader for a greater
America.
The Republican Party, today as al.
ways, is the party of faith IN the
individual American-of faith in the
great destiny of our republic. We
are not going back to any yesterday
All our yesterdays have taught us
that we have q duty to tomorrow.
Charles Broken Promises.
The New Deal Party can have nc
real program, because it Is no longer
a real party. 1t mustered its ma
iorities from a fantastic partnership
of reaction and radicalism. For
wears, this strange alliance was held
together by bosses, Doodle, buncomoe
and blarney.
Such a party is all things to all
men. The New Deal was just that
Its offspring was the sorriest series
of broken promises in the history OF
our Nation.
It promised economy and gave us
unproductive spending, unbalanced
budgets, oppressive taxes and mas
.ive debt. It's deficit spending was
first used to build majorities. Then,
10 serve its majorities, 1t piled up
bigger deficits. In final desperation
its only hope is in promissory notes
payable in other peoples money;
It promised jobs. 1t gave us ou-
reaucracy. It promised prosperity
It paid In the regimentation OF asrl,
culture, labor, MANAGEMENT ano
business, large and small.
Assails "Bureaucrats.'
tt promised efficiency. Its Grecian
rtft was a Trojan donkey filled with
swarming bureaucrats turned loose
within our citadel.
It promised peace again and again
and again, when 1t knew war 10 De
inevitable.
Apparently, the only promises that
we're really kept were those 1t gave
to Joe Stain.
And now it promises to promise
again and again. .,
Az it's boat sinks. the skipper S
piano still pounds out Meet Me
Next Year in Dreamland.
Like a man. a political party Is
Judged by the company it keeps.
The New Deal Party invited tne
lunatic fringe to share its feast Oh
poyer. They stayed a long. long
men who came to dinner
The New Deal lived with those
radicals in unholy intimacy 1or
many wears. When Wallace departed,
1t begged him to return: Henry
come home and all will be forgiven.
The merry men of Wallace were not
fred, They quit. That the Ne"
Deal Party was never legitimate
majority is now proved by the fact
that it cannot win without them.
It's dying hope is. win without wal
lace. Our answer is, 1t couldn't win
with Wallace.
Calls Truman Trip Great Flop.
Indeed, the great flop OF the re-
cent Western invasion has made it
clear that the New Deal can't win
with Truman. Let me add that
they can't win If they drop Truman.
For whatever candidate Is nomi-
mated by the Democratic conven-
ton here next month must run on
the New Deal record, which now is
discredited by the American peo-
pie.
Human institutions have human
faults. The Republican Party is a
human institution. But it has never
harbored anything like the motley
collection OF embittered failures,
back alley revolutionaries. and par
lor anarchists with which the New
Deal has disgraced the party OF JET
ferson and Jackson.
That group Of crackpots was never
competent to hold responsible office
The lunatic fringe is neither compe-
tent to govern nor to let others
govern.
For 16 years the Republican Party
was out of the control of Congress
It earned the right to return to that
control two years ago.
For Is years 1t has been excluded
from the executive branch Of the
Government OF the United States
The Republican Party has earned
the right to return to the Presi-