Evening star., 1952-10-21
Stevenson Off Today
On Final 4,OOO-Mi|e
Whist|e-Stop Tour
By Crosby S. Noyes
StoT Stoff Coyrespondenf

StoT Sfof correspondent
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. Oct. al
Gov. Stevenson leaves today OF
his final 4.000-mile whistle
campaign tour which the Demo.
Gratis hope will swing the heav,
Eastern electoral vote into th'
Democratic column.
The special train which will b,
home to the candidate and hi
followers for the next IL day!
pulls out of Springfield at moor
bound for Chicago.
After whistle stops during thu
afternoon at Decatur. Champaign
and Kankakee. ILL.,, Gov. Steven.
son will make major address
tonight in a studio televiSion ap-
pearance in Chicago. This talk
will be rebroadcast by radio. The
Governor will be on the air waves
again later tonight for a radio
and television message to the New
York Herald Tribune Forum.
Optimism Expressed.
The trip. which later will in
clude New York and other i'm
portant Eastern States. gets under
way amid a furry Of optimistic
statements from the Governors S
campaign strategists and strong
appeal by the candidate to voters
in his home State.
Speaking to a State wide Dem
ocratic rally in Springfield last
night, Gov. Stevenson devoted
most of his time to the man he
hopes to succeed him in Illinois,
his present lieutenant governor,
Sherwood Dixon. But Illinois is
classed as one of the critical States
in the presidential election and
Gov. Stevenson also managed 70
squeeze in a few plugs for himself.
AS Governor. he said, he had
worked hard and long to put our
house in order here in Springfield,
and 1 pray to heaven that the
everlasting fighl for good govern
ment in Illinois will go on after
/ leave next January.
I'm not sure where I'm going
then" he added, hut 1 have an
idea the house will be white"
Cites Republicans Efforts.
Gen. Eisenhower, the Governor
remarked. says that the solution
of defense spending is to get the
best business brains of the coun-
try. Well. the man who super
vises it now. the Secretary of De-
fense. is Robert Loyett. not only
leading businessman, but an old
friend of the generals and also
q Republican.
"A large bite of the remainder
OF the budget is foreign aid and
that has been supervised by two
OF the country's leading business
men, Averell Hartman and Paul
Hoffman, the after also a Repub-
lican and one of the generals
most active original supporters.
He says our diplomats are in
competent, but formerly he
worked enthusiastically to carry
out the policies of those same dip
lomats with no hints that he re-
garded them as unfit"
On the matter of Communists
in Government. Gov. Stevenson
said the general has implied that
the Federal Government is de-
liberately concealing more Com
munists."
Points to Smiths Statement.
But he doesn't say anything
when Gen. Bedell Smith, the head
of the Central Intelligence Agency.
says that the country has nothing
to fear if the next President can
do as good a job of keeping Com
munists out of Government as
Harry Truman" the Governor
added. And who is Gen. Smith?
He was Gen. Eisenhower's chief
of staff
OF the Republican campaign,
the Governor observed that the
expediency of it all is showing
through-no policy, no program
and no real faith in America"
Il do not claim to be a political
prophet" Gov. Stevenson de-
clared." But / will say this: If
the people can clearly see and un-
derStand their choices, there will
be no doubt as to the result of
the election on November 4, and
the responsibility for leadership in
the next four critical years will