Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05

AS usual, the Republicans are
trying to scare us by saying that
the country is on the last mile to
socialism. What long last mile
lit must be! Private corporation
profits are now running at rate
Of more than $40 billion a year,
and there are more private bust
ness enterprises than ever before.
Nobody but a Republican would
call that socialism.
Some of the Republicans have
now got so desperate they are
saying that the Democratic Party
lis communistic. This is the
craziest idea yet.
It is our party-the Democratic
Party-that has done more to de-
feat communism in this country
than any other group, public or
private.
It is our party-the Democratic
Party-that saved free private
enterprise after 1882. when COM
munism was feeding on the misery
and respair created by IL years
of Republican misrule.
It is the Democratic Party that
has prosecuted Communism under
the law, and now has the Com
munist leaders on the way to jail.
It is "a Democratic administra-
ton that has strengthened and
united the free nations of the
world to stand up and fight
against Communism-to stand up
and fight in Korea, and to win a
smashing victory over Communist
aggression.
None of these plain facts has
any effect on certain vote-hungry
Republican politicians. They go
right on with their campaign Of
lies.
OF course, they don't believe it
themselves.
They are just trying to get
votes. But this effort of theirs to
get votes is being made at ter
rible cost to the country.
These Republican politicians
have maliciously and falsely made
charges of disloyalty against some
of our finest public servants-in
Congress and in the Executive
Branch of the Government. These
Republican politicians have been
willing. in their desperate pursuit
of this false issue, to undermine
their own Government at a time
of great national peril. They have
been willing to destroy the United
Nations. They have attacked the
bipartisan foreign policy. They
have lost all proportion, all sense
of restraint, all sense of patriotic
decency.
I say to you that politicians
who are willing to do that-politi-
clans who are willing even to
condone such disgraceful acts
are not to be trusted with high
public office.
There are in the Republican
Party many honorable men and
women who oppose this shameful
course. I honor them for that,
and l will continue in the future
as have in the past to work with
those Republicans who have the
best interests of their country at
heart.
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I believe the rank and file of
the Republican Party must be
ashamed of the reckless tactics
of some of their leaders, and will
repudIate them at the polls.
The American people are not
going to be fooled. The Ameri-
can people know the Republican
Party has been taken over by
the special interests. They know
the Democrats are the party OF
The people.
I promise you that the Demo-
cratic Party is going right on
working for the people-for all
the people.
We are going right on work.
ing for farm prosperity-and for
a system of marketing farm pro-
ducts that will stabilize farm in
come and give consumers the
benefit of abundant production,
without waste.
We are going right ahead work.
ing for a fair labor law.
We are going right ahead
working for better education and
better Notwithstanding a work.
able health insurance system to
help people pay their doctors
bills.
And we're going to work for
these things for all our citizens,
without discrimination on &C
count of race, creed, or color.
The American people will con-
tinue to move forward-a mighty
force-toward peace and progress.
No little group of special in
terests or selfish politicians is
going to be able to stop us.
This is a government for the
people, and we are going to keep
it that way.
To do that, every citizen has
to do his part.
And I say to you tonight: go
to the polls next Tuesday and
vote. Vote for yourselves; vote
| for your future. and your chill
dren's future. Vote for progress
and prosperity in the United
States and peace throughout the
whole world.
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