Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-16

BY The Assoeio4ed Press
CHICAGO, Nay f6.-The tert
OF President Trun1dn's address
last night at Jefferson jubilee
celebration and National Demo-
cratic Conference at the Chicago
Stadium:
This pageant we have just seen
shows the part that the Democratic
Party has played in the building of
our country.
The Democratic Party has helped
to make this country great, and I
am proud to be Democrat.
In Jefferson's time, the American
people created the Democratic Party
to free themselves from the control
of the privileged few. Since then,
from the time to time, the American
people have chosen our party as
their instrument to create the kind
of Nation that Jefferson dreamed
of, q land Of opportunity and JUS
tice for all.
The Democratic Party has always
been the servant of the American
people. 1t is still the servant Of the
people, working for equal oppor-
tunity and equal justice for all.
Since Jefferson's day, our country
has made great progress, We are
now one of the most powerful ma
tions of the world. We carry ire
mendous responsibility.
Still True 70 Principles.
The problems we face today are
different from those Of Jefferson's
time. But the Democratic Party is
still true to the great principles that
shine through all that Jefferson said
or wrote.
Thomas Jefferson had faith in
the people. s He believed that the
people could govern themselves
wisely, if they knew the facts.
The Democratic Party today still
believes that. We believe in giving
the facts to the people. That Is
what have been trying to do on
this trip to the Pacific Northwest.
think it is a good thing for the
President to get around the coun-
try, as often as possible. and let the
people know what he looks like and
what he stands for. The President
is elected by the people, and he
has a duty to report to them.
Some Republican politicians don't
seem to think the President should
visit with the people. I was fol-
lowed around on this trip by a rep
resentative of theirs. He had a
private plane, and he showed up to
see the crowds everywhere I
stopped. I understand he thought
the crowds were disappointing-that
is, disappointing to him.
Reminded of Poem.
The way he showed up everywhere
reminds me of little poem.
It goes like this:
III haze a little shado,D
THAT goes in and out Nth me,
"And Uhat can be the use OF him
rs more than / can see"
don't know what my little
shadow expected to find on this
trip. But I'll tell you what he did
find.
He found that the people like to
have their elected officials come out
and talk with them face to face.
And that is what I propose to keep
right on doing.
The Democrat Party believes to-
day, as it has believed for one hum
dred and fifty years, that if the peo-
pie know the facts, they will solve
their problems the right way.
Party of Liberalism.
The Democratic Party, today, is
the party of the main stream Of
American life. 1t is the party Of
progressive liberalism.
We do not share the decisions of
the extreme left. We reject the
Goddess theories of communism. We
believe in the free will of man, and
In the Democratic exercise of his
rights as human being.
We do not share the prejudices
of the extreme right We do not
share their fear of change, or their
delusion that we can go back to the
past. We believe in progress. We
know that you cannot get along in
the atomic age with the horse-and-
buggy ideas.
We are willing to tackle the prob
lens that confront our country on
the basis of the facts as they are
now-not as they used to be.
And. above all, we believe that our
country has before it, for all its
citizens, a glorious future.
I know there are some people who
do not agree with us. I wish all
those doubling Thomases could have
gone along with me on the trip I
have been making to the Pacific
Northwest and back That would
have convinced them-if anything
could-that this country has a WON
derful future ahead of it.
Points to Grand CouIee.
When that great dam-the Grand
Coulee Dan1-was started. some
people said there was no future in