Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-10-27
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OPINION

)PlNlON
The following is a letter
we received from Mr.. Alfred
Benesch which should interest
members of both political
parties. Benesch is promin-
ent Cleveland attorney and
lifelong Democrat. A MEM
lei Oh the Cleveland School
Board for Is years, Mr.. Ben
esch was Director of Com
merce under Martin L. Davey.
l, Alfred Benesch, life
long Democrat of Cleveland,
Ohio, today declare that
I will cast my vote for Rob-
ert A. Taft in the Ohio
Senatorial race in order that
Ohio may remain in the
ranks OF those states that
still might retain the two
party system.
call on all other DEM
ocrats, If they have the best
interests of the Party and all
the people at heart, to do the
same.
have always tried to work
and act to the best of my
ability for the welfare of all
the people and believe that
my record Of long public SER
vice, in many capacities, will
show this to be true. Among
other posts in which have
served, should like to point
to my past service as men,
Der Of CleveIand's City Coun-
Gil, as Director Of Public
Safety, as Director Of Conn.,
merce and as a member of
the Board Of Education, on
which am now completing
my 25th year.
Along with other forward
thinking Democrats, ! bitter
iy resent the infiltration of
the !CIO-PAc into the DEM
ocratic Party Of Ohio. ! charge
that the PAc has sent its
Washington and New York
operators into this state to
work under the guise Of Ohio
Democrats.
All Ohio Democrats are
now being. charged with re-
sponsibility for the nefarious
tactics of these invaders. We
Democrats want no Lee
Pressmans', nor men Of fiis
kind, who ran or are rum
ming the cIO-Political Action
Committee, to bring their
communistic campaign tech
niques into the Buckeye State.
We know full we'll that
II they are successful, it
will mean the death Of the
Democratic Party as we know
it. Once they have accomplish
ed their infiltration, they and
they alone will dominate the
political scene.
We have seen this happen
in other places. II oan hap
pen here. 1t is up to US DEM
ocrats to unmask these in
vaders who are posing as
true Democrats.
We know Joe Ferguson.
We have supported him at
the polls. But il is not Joe
Ferguson who is running now,
but the cIO-PAc masquer-
aiding under his name. We
know that the words coming
from Ferguson's lips are pre-
pared in the PAc councils.
We know that the false lit
erature that is flooding Ohio
would never be prepared by
any loyal Ohio Democrat.
don't believe that there
is any one who thinks that
Ferguson, it successful, could
for one minute, as ohio's
representative, practice tra-
ditionaI Ohio Democratic
principles in the United
State Senate. His every action
would be dictated by the
Washington office Of the PAc
even as it is now during this
campaign.
Every Democrat going to
the polls on November 7th
should be warned that by
casting his vote for Fer
. ouson, he is casting a vote
against the continuance Of the
Democratic Party as a true
party Of the people. l have
come to the conclusion that,
by supporting Senator Robert
A. Taft for reelection, am
supporting a man who more
sincerely lives up to the
principles Of our American
system than does his oppon-
ent. II we are to escape the
complete domination of these
un-Democratic and un-Ameri-
can infiltrators, every gen.
uine and independent-think-
ing Democrat In Ohio will
cast his ballot for Senator
Taft.
(SiQned)