The Key West citizen., 1952-10-10
BY 60 cREAcH

ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN R-
President Truman headed his
whistle stop special through the
home state of New York's Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey today, angling
on behalf of AdIai Stevenson for
the biggest election day package
Of all--45 electoral votes.
Launched with an assault on the
Republicans civil rights record,
this next-to-last day Of the Presi-
dents coast-to-coast campaign
"trip promised to bring him into
conflict with the man he whipped
In The race for the White House
tnur years ago.
Truman started his New York
State swing with a Buffalo speech
lambasting "hotheads" mostly Re-
publican, he said, but including
some Democrats--who in "a wave
of hysteria" have tried to win
votes by hurting false charges of
communism.
This sort Of thing, Truman told
q far-from-capacity crowd in Mem
orial Auditorium last night, can
split the country and can lead to
similar attacks on Catholics, Jews,
people with foreign names or
any other minority.
More pressure against the Bill
of Rights, the President said, can
be expected in the next four years.
He said It's part Of the presidents
job to uphold the anti.discrimina-
ton sections Of the Constitution
and:
"Quite frankly, his is one part
Of the job of being president that
you better not turn over to pro-
tessional military general. "
Neither did Truman comment
on Dewey's statement--made in a
statewide radio and teleyision
hcokup Wednesday night--that the
''white supremacy" slogan on the
Alabama ballot convicts Stevenson
and his running mate, Sen. John
]. Sparkman Of Alabama, Of the
''rankest hypocrisy"
Dewey showed TV viewers a bal
lot with a rooster emblem and the
words "white supremacy" and "for
the right"
There 1t is" said Dewey, "the
rooster and the banner of white
supremacy-Ku Klux Klan-Jim
Grow banner--flying over the cleo
tors for Stevenson and Sparkman
in this year 1882"
The symbol and slogan, placed
on the Alabama ballot about 1901,
were adopted at the behest Of white
SUPREMACY leaders. They were a
pe-'od when mass Negro voting
w"s encouraged by opportunist
4 nr '',ers and many white voters
W a,d'efganchised.
--y was one of the foremost
bs s'cf Eisenhower for the COP
pr ontial nomination. Truman
. a, -'-s doubted the President
We" refrain from mentioning the
J NV York governor in today's full
scs s.duIe OF rear platform talks
across the Empire State and down
the Hudson River Valley to New
York City.
Truman has said in the past
that Negroes and other minority
groups have nothing to fear from
Sparkman, now an Alabama sen
atOr.
In his Buffalo speech the Prest
dent hit out particularly at the
immigration law passed over his
veto by the last session OF con.
gress. This law continues the inn
migration quota system that al
lows more people to come to this
country from Great Britain and
western European countries than
can come from such countries as
Maly, Poland and Hungary.
Speaking In city with many
residents Of Polish, Italian and
Hungarian ancestry, Truman said
this system was invented by Re-
puhllcans, and In 1851 was con-
tinued with the support Of . min
ority Of Democrats and Al ma.
jcrity Of the Republicans in Con-
gress.
Referring 10 Democratic Sen,
Pat McCarran Of Nevada, Truman
said:
'sThls Law bears the name Of
q Democratic senator. I'm sorry
that II does. But he Is not my
Kind Of Democrat :
Buffalo gave Truman q noisy
welcome - with skyrocket explo-
slons along bis route. Police Com
missioner Michael Noeppel esti.
mated $500 lined the streets In
spile Of . chilly wind.
Inside Memorial Auditorium.
however. there were good-sized
gaps In the 1900 seating capacity
which had been arranged. Noeppel.
Who isn't identified with either
party, said the house was only
{ little over half filled.