Milford chronicle., 1948-08-13

@ ulaClng convention
because Wallace
and Taylor already
had become the candidates in many
speeches hither and yon across the
country and had collected az
enormous kitty.
The Progressive Dartv was
actually the Communist partv
of 1948 with an uncertain fringe
Of political neurOtics, privateers
and renegades from the Demo-
cratic household.
Except in the fact that it was q
third party convention and had
brought together most of the para.
sites from the European compounds
OF the City of New York, this one
had little in common with the con.
clave OF the nuts and bolts In
Cleveland in 1896.
FoLo The fakery Of this
FaReTy operation, meaning
Is the insulting dis
ADD0renf honesty so appar-
ent even to the
common man, was quite different
than the relatively innocent mockery
of the standard Republican and
Democratic meetings.
Everybody knew that President
Truman was to be the nominee be-
fore the Democra congress
opened and the formula was so cut
and dried that he was brought up
to the hall and stood in a corner
out Of sight long before they could
crowd the. details through the mic
rophones. BUT IN THIS CASE.
WALLACE AND TAYLOR PICKED
THEMSELVES AND THE KREM-
LIN TOOK THEM UP AND ALI.
THE AVOWED COMMUNISTS
AND THE MORE NOTORIOUS
SUSPECTS HAVE ACCLAIMED
THEM.
Even the little parasitic private
society Of old New Deal bureau
Gratis known as the Americans for
Democratic Action has denounced
the Wallace pa<ty as a Communist
front.
That is going pretty far, be-
cause in the big days of Frank
lin D., the bosses Of the A. D.. A.
were peered at and caves
dropped by congressional in
VestigatOrs who reported back
officially that most of them were
Fellow Travellers If not BOlshe-
wiki Of the most perniciOus kind.
The fact that the Americans for
Democratic Action could horn into
both the Truman and Wallace con-
ventions and get heard on proposi-
tions calculated to make publicity
and nuisance-power tends to prove
that the American system of parties
was designed to foster rackets.
Next thing anyone knows, like
the so-called American Labor party
in New York, the A. D. A. will be
able to make petty deals with major
parties and some of its displaced
will be back in Wash
ington with their feet on desks
again.
A. - The Democrats
w O still have a chance |
in of receiving Wal
Pr0sDecF lace's vote in some
II
SitiOn, but it seems unlikely that
Mr.. Truman would promise him a
job in trade. HE
JUST DOESN'T MATTER.
BY the time the Democrats and
R public ans have got through
in the big campaign they
Will have wooed away all the
Negroes Of the northern cities ex-
,ept the card-holding Communists
Who are few in number anyway, al
hough loud in the voice. The for
9ignerS in New York will stick with
because his letter to Stain
ome time ago and his platform as
'evealed in his speeches are a
Hearty Endorsement Of the Russian
old war against the United States.
The gritty old canopy Of steel and
lass which Overhangs Broad street
idewalk at the BeuevuesStratford
vas quitely adorned with whirling
igns mounted on broomsticks read
ng pectively PEACE"
ABUNDANCE" and ''FREE-
)OM." AS they whirled they Great
d a dizzying effect, perhaps not
by some saboteur in the
ankS. Around the rim of the can
py were the names of Wallace and
aylor in blue on white stripes and
t each end Of the hotel at the sec.
nd-story level hung limp, inoffen.
i've banners, white letters on blue.
Founding convention Of the Pro.
reSsive party"
These silent pOrtents of alien
mischief raised no apprehen-
sion in the citizens, weary Of
conventions, alarms, promises
and hot weather.
In one respect, as always, the
'auaceites excened. That was in
lelr press handouts.
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