The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-09-29

] The politicians are degrading that iideal by their manipulations among ancestral nationalities and in their stimulation of religious bigotry and i hatred. They have made consider able capital out of this.
 I The Republican party has alto gether disappeared in New York City, undoubtedly because of it's lack of skill in such manipulations Its place has been taken, perhaps temporarily, by the Liberal party, an offshoot of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The Liberal party is controlled by Dave Dubinsky, who also runs the union. His authority in the union rests upon competent management and personal decency beyond any thing expected of men similarly ! occupied. His political power rests upon his ability to produce block of about 100000 votes and the treas ury of his union when needed. So ne nominated the Republican, Liberal-Fusion candidate for mayor, Newbold Morris, nice man who made speeches for LaGuardia when the Little Flower regarded the oc- casion of not sufficient importance for his personal attention. Morris is so unsure of himself that he dares not decide whether he is for John Foster Dulles, the Republican candidate for United States Sena- tor, or Herbert Lehman, the Dem- ccrat running for that office on the Liberal party ticket. So Nor ris runs with Dulles and also with Lehman which would be ridiculous were it not also an index to a serious national disease, namely, that men run for office without principle only because they want public office
 Into this campaign has crept the issue of the Barden Bill. The issue {, is raised because when Cardinal Spellman was fighting that bill, Herbert Lehman attacked the Cardinal. That was supposed to kill his political chances, until it was conceived that he could attack l the Cardinal but be against the Barden Bill By this means, he would get the Jewish vote and also i the Irish Catholic vote which he needs, if he is to win. Of course, neither the Jews nor the Catholics,
 nor the Protestants, nor Italians nor Puerto Ricans, should vote on any such group basis But they do and it is very bad for the United States of America.
 Newbold Morris would not sup
 port the opposition to the Bar
 den Bill So here is his position:
 Lehman, on the Liberal party
 ticket, opposes the Barden Bill; Morris, on the same ticket, supports
 it; but Bill O'Dwyer is also a run ning-mate of Lehman on the Demo-
 cratic ticket and he opposes the
 Barden Bill Did you ever see such mix-up?
 It is about the same on all
 issues. Morris runs as the heir to Filorello LaGuardia, the famed Little Flower, who, after he ceased
 to be mayor of New York, ran UNRRA which became a great refuge for Communists and served
 Soviet Russia better than it did
 the United States. And as any
 body who knows New York must
 know, LaGuardia's favorite was not Morris but Vito Marcantonio, who
 is also running for mayor on the
 American Labor party ticket, which
 is the political arm of the Com
 munist party in New York Ii
 anyone can claim to be the ideo-
 logical as well as personal heir of
 the Little Flower, Vito Marcantonio
 can establish such a claim.
 As matter of fact, Vito's great
 political power was organized ori-
 ginally by LaGuardia to get him.
 self elected to Congress. It was
 based upon a Negro and Italian
 vote. To that Marcantonio added
 the Puerto Ricans whom he i'm ported by airplane and put on the
 relief rclls with LaGuardias con
 nivance. These Puerto Ricans now
 number about 25O,000 in New York.
 Where is the United States in
 all this? It is easy to say, as some
 do, that this country starts west
 of the Hudson River, but that is a
 wisecrack and answers nothing
 The same pattern appears in the
 cities of those who make the wise crack. The United States cannot
 survive as congeries of so-called
 minorities, as nation of groups l Copyright, 1949, King Features