The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-11
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at whistle-Stop speaking, prepared
today to assault the Republicans
In one of their favorite campaign
fields - the question of corruption
In government.
He says there are more impor-
tant issues to be fought out in
electing the next president.
However, he came into Los An
geles last night with the draft of
speech that will go into the issue.
His campaign manager, Wilson
Wyatt, said Stevenson will examine
the question in a Town Hall ap-
pearsnce today.
Governor Adlai Stevenson in
working on another key address
for Thursday night. Aides indicat-
ed it will deal with his views on
social security legislation.
Stevenson stirred storm Of ap-
plause - he looked a little sur
prised by it, himself - when he
merely brushed the corruption
charge in back-platform talk at
Bakersfield yesterday.
He said he was tired of i'll
tempered epithets, slogans about
crime, corruption, cronieS, thieves
and rascals." With a frown, he
added:
Surely there must be something
more important for us to talk
about in this year ~of grace, 1852,
when the whole world is precari-
ously balanced between war and
peace"
In an earlier stop at Modesto, he
whipped a tart rejoiner at his COP
opponent, Gen. Dwight Eisenhow-
er, for the accusations.
II think have had a little more
experience than he has," the gov
ernOr said, with throwing ras-
Gals out of government, because
have spent the last four years
cleaning up the state of Illinois
after eight years of the most mag
hificent rascality you ever saw, I'M
der a Republican administration in
that state"
Both times, the crowds respond
ed with cracking reaction. Men
and women alike shouted:
"Attaboy, Steve. . Give it to
'em. Give 'em hell, Adlai."
Stevenson did not exactly give
'em hell" on the trip. But he is
beginning to give 'em the dickens.
This was his first experience at
whistle-stop campaigning, the type
of carry-it-to-the-people battling
that has been credited to large
decree with President Truman's
election victory in 1948. He board
ed a train in San Francisco and
rolled through the Santa Clara and
San Joaquin Valleys 10 Los An
geles.
He made eight stops and usually
Over-stayed his 1O-minute schedule.
At the end of a grueling day, his
throat was full Of gravel and he
looked tired. But the crowd reac-
tons seemed to restore his energy
and he held the pace.
Gov. Stevenson was greeted with
crowds at $500 to 1000 at most
points. In Fresno, however, a SER
geant put the figure at 5000. The
city has a population of $4,000.
On more regional issues, he
spoke out for public reclamation
programs and water control pro-
jectS such as California's Central
Valley project. He said - repeat
ing parts of whole speech made
in Seattle -- that such works are
beyond the capacity Of private cap
ital, and that if the government
had not built them, they would not
have been built.
Stevenson commented on Eisen-
hower's backing of Sen. william
f. Jenner for reelection in Indi-
ana:
He (Eiscnhower) has included
on his team people who have called
Gen. George c. Marshall. one of
The crest patriots this country has
produced, a traitor to his country"
Jenner once called Marshall "a
living lie" and "a front for
traitors"
Correspondents asked for COM
ment on the election victory of Sen.
Joseph Mccarthy Of Wisconsin.
Aides reported the governor had
nothing to say.